{"id":208440,"date":"2025-03-12T07:27:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T12:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/ingredient-found-in-all-mushrooms-can-reprogram-immune-cells-to-fight-deadly-flu-infections"},"modified":"2025-03-12T07:27:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T12:27:23","slug":"ingredient-found-in-all-mushrooms-can-reprogram-immune-cells-to-fight-deadly-flu-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/ingredient-found-in-all-mushrooms-can-reprogram-immune-cells-to-fight-deadly-flu-infections","title":{"rendered":"Ingredient Found in All Mushrooms Can Reprogram Immune Cells to Fight Deadly Flu Infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ingredient-found-in-all-mushrooms-can-reprogram-immune-cells-to-fight-deadly-flu-infections.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A component found in all fungi may provide a shield that prevents flu-related lung damage, according to a new Canadian study.<\/p>\n<p>The preclinical trial uncovered how beta-glucan\u2014which is found in all mushrooms, and also yeast, oats, and barley\u2014can \u2018reprogram\u2019 immune cells to prevent lung inflammation.<\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, demonstrated that administering the compound to mice before their exposure to influenza, reduced lung damage, improve lung function and lowered the risk of illness and death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A component found in all fungi may provide a shield that prevents flu-related lung damage, according to a new Canadian study. The preclinical trial uncovered how beta-glucan\u2014which is found in all mushrooms, and also yeast, oats, and barley\u2014can \u2018reprogram\u2019 immune cells to prevent lung inflammation. A team of scientists at the Research Institute of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}