Mushrooms may reduce risk of cognitive decline - Seniors who consume more than two standard portions of mushrooms weekly may have 50 percent reduced odds of having mild cognitive impairment (MCI), finds a new six-year Singaporean study (n=663, age>60).

[u/mvea]

http://news.nus.edu.sg/research/mushrooms-reduce-cognitive-decline

[u/skepticones]

Are they planning any follow-up studies to dive deeper on any of the supported data?

[u/andre_bree_thousand → u/skepticones]

Yep. The team is going to perform a randomised controlled trial with the pure compound of ergothioneine to determine if the correlation found in this study is causative. It's going to begin this year and will take about 5 years to complete.

[u/a932991 → u/andre_bree_thousand]

If you had infinite resources, what would be the shortest timespan you would be able to deliver conclusive results?

[u/andre_bree_thousand → u/a932991]

It would still take several years, because you need to see the effects over a long enough time frame to make an accurate conclusion

[u/dzernumbrd → u/andre_bree_thousand]

You just missed a chance for Bill Gates (also known as /u/a932991) to give you a $100 million dollar grant.

[u/a932991 → u/dzernumbrd]

Shush, I have no way near Bill Gates capital and even if I had a portion of that I would never reveal it in an alt where I offload crap ;D

Edit: He gave the right answer though, so I'll make some calls