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This Mushroom Is Now Linked to Lou Gehrig’s Disease: Should You Be Worried?

This Mushroom Is Now Linked to Lou Gehrig’s Disease: Should You Be Worried?

In a snug Alpine village near La Plagne, locals were stunned to learn that more than a dozen residents had developed amyotrophic lateral sclerosis—better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease—over the span of just twenty years. None of the sufferers shared family ties, yet all were regular foragers of wild mushrooms. A decade-long probe by French and American scientists traced the …

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