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Key Benefits of this Mushroom Blend
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This anti-inflammatory medicinal mushroom nourishes and protects the immune system, digestive system, pancreas, and liver. Agaricus blazei benefits include:(1)
Immune system activation
Weight loss
Potential diabetes treatment
Toxic metal cleansing
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Experts refer to Chaga as the King of the Medicinal Mushrooms. Chaga is rich in several nutrients, including:(2)
B-complex vitamins
Vitamin D
Potassium
Rubidium
Cesium
Fiber
Zinc
Iron
Manganese
Magnesium
Calcium
These nutrients prevent oxidative damage (which is responsible for aging), lower cholesterol, reduce blood pressure, and support the immune system.
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Reishi, the Queen of the Medicinal Mushrooms, is a super adaptogen that nourishes white blood cells, providing them more tools to get their job done. Reishi is highly regarded for improving beauty, charisma and glow.
Like Chaga, Reishi mushrooms contain several molecules, such as triterpenoids, polysaccharides, and peptidoglycans that provide tremendous health benefits.(3)
These include:
Increased immune function
Potential relief from fatigue and depression symptoms
Improved heart health
Blood sugar control
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Cordyceps mushrooms help the body produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the energy currency of the cells. Greater oxygen uptake and increased ATP production translates to more energy to your muscles and brain. As a result, cordyceps increases exercise performance and helps with recovery.(4)
Cordyceps also possesses antioxidant capabilities, which reduces the effects of aging. Specifically, cordyceps helps promote collagen production, which improves the skin.(5)
Cordyceps also possesses antioxidant capabilities, which reduces the effects of aging. Specifically, cordyceps helps promote collagen production, which improves the skin.
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This noble representative of the Pleurotus group of medicinal mushrooms is renowned for nourishing the immune system and neutralizing toxic forms of cholesterol.(6)
The main health benefit of King Trumpet mushrooms lies in their nutritional profile. They are a good source of essential nutrients, including vitamins, minerals, and dietary fiber, which is fantastic for supporting gut health.
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Studies have suggested that this mushroom may possess hepatoprotective effects, which could help protect and support liver health.(7)
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This medicinal mushroom is an adaptogen that helps the body adapt to all forms of stress (physical, mental, emotional) and is often recommended to nourish the immune system.(8)
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This mushroom has been used since China's Ming Dynasty for many purposes. Among them is to nourish the immune system, help with digestion, aid circulation, and help reduce inflammation.(9)
Shiitake is notably high in both copper and selenium, nutrients often found lacking in modern diets.
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The most common woodland wood mushroom gives rise to polysaccharide K, a well-researched cancer-fighter and a friend of the immune system. Thus, turkey tail mushroom is a powerful immune-modulating fungi that has been used around the world for centuries as medicine.(10)
For one, turkey tail mushroom is packed with antioxidants. These compounds combat oxidative stress damage, which is often associated with cognitive decline.(11)
Reminder: These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Medicinal Mushroom Mycelium (this product is Mycelium)
versus
Mushroom Fruiting Bodies (such as our Wild Medicinal Mushroom Tinctures: North American Reishi Tincture, Tartarian Blend Tincture)
versus
Herniated Mycelium (such as Wild Chaga Tincture)
“For the maximum coverage of Medicinal Mushroom activity, I prefer taking a wide range of Medicinal Mushroom products: some are mycelium and some are wild fruit bodies and some are wild herniated mycelium such as Chaga. Whether it is powder, tincture, capsule or tea each form carries with it a piece of the overall complete immunological picture.” — David Avocado Wolfe
Mycelium: Properties and Activities
1. Asexual, enduring stage of the mushroom life cycle must survive in highly competitive environments, protect itself against pathogens and competitors, and produce enzymes to digest organic substrates to assimilate sufficient nutrient and energy reserves to produce the fruiting body stage when environmental conditions are right.
2. In Solid State Fermentation systems, mycelium can be grown on organic substrates with a high degree of control and hygiene to produce very consistent batches of product. Environmental toxins and insect activity are more easily excluded/filtered.
3. Mycelial biomass grown in bioreactor units with air exchange filters in indoor, controlled and filtered indoor farms can be produced with very low levels of microbial contamination and do not require high temperature microbial reduction processing steps.
4. The cell walls of the mycelium do not have to be thick and strong to support the above ground weight of the mushroom stem and cap. Mycelial cell walls must be porous to allow the flow of enzymes and protective metabolites into the environment and the flow of enzymatically-digested nutrients into the mycelial cells. Thus, mycelial tissue is easier to digest and assimilate than fruiting body tissue.
5. Mycelium of some species develop more of some compounds not as richly contained in the fruiting body. For example, Trametes “Turkey Tail” mycelium contains additional nutrients and polysaccharides that activate more human lymphocytes than wild Trametes fruiting bodies in experimental models.
6. Mycelial biomass products produced by Solid State Fermentation processes (such as this Organic Mushroom Blend) contain extra-cellular compounds including enzymes, polysaccharides, and protective secondary metabolites that provide therapeutic benefits when consumed.
Wild Fruiting Bodies: Properties and Activities
1. Sexual, reproduction function only—must produce and disseminate spores to ensure survival of the species. Lacks much in the way of enzymatic or immune systems—generally survives only a few weeks after spore release.
2. Fruiting bodies can vary significantly in quality and consistency as per many variables including season, environmental conditions, harvest “flush” maturity and also post-harvest handling, storage and transport. Subject to environmental toxins, snail, slug and insect activity so must come from pure environments and remain unmolested.
3. The moist and exposed surfaces of the mushroom fruit bodies harbor high levels of microbial contamination that require high temperature microbial kill steps (i.e. hot water), an extraction process and/or alcohol extraction to reduce contamination levels to specifications suitable for nutraceutical applications.
4. The cell walls of fruiting body tissue must be thick and strong to support the above-ground weight of the mushroom stem and cap. Fruiting body tissue is thus harder to digest and assimilate than mycelial tissue. With our wild fruiting body tinctures and with wild Chaga, we expose as much surface area as possible to the alcohol and water for maximum nutrient extraction.
5. Fruiting bodies contain higher levels of some active ingredients as compared to mycelium. Example: the fruiting bodies of Reishi contain higher levels of triterpene compounds than the mycelium.
6. Fruiting body products do not contain the powerful extra-cellular compounds produced by mycelium or herniated wild mycelium (such as Chaga).
Organic Mushroom Blend is grown in an environmentally controlled, GMP certified facility in the USA. Our product is: Non-GMO verified, USDA Certified Organic, Gluten-free, Vegan, Keto, Sugar-free, Kosher & Paleo-friendly.
Additional Research on Medicinal Mushrooms
Potentiation of immunity with mushroom fruit bodies and mycelia by Paul Stamets
Neurodegeneration and Medicinal Mushrooms Robert Rogers Fungi Fall 2017
Use of mushroom derived dietary supplements as immunomodulating agents
Mushroom immunomodulators unique molecules with unlimited applications
Medicinal Mushrooms-Brain Food for the Mitigation of Neurodegenerative Diseases
Impact of Mushroom Nutrition on Microbiota and Potential for Preventative Health
Review Health Promoting Benefits of Mushrooms through Gut Micrbiota