Dr Weil on Health Benefits of Medicinal Mushrooms
Dr. Weil speaks on the health benefits of medicinal mushrooms. Andrew Weil, MD is well known in both allopathic medicine and alternative medicine circles as an authority on human health issues. He is...
View ArticleShiitake Dermatitis – Rash from Raw Mushrooms in Brazil
It was the very first case that was reported publicly in Brazil… shiitake dermatitis (rash) on a man’s body. Shiitake is a common medicinal mushroom, but the problem was not that he consumed the...
View ArticleShiitake Mushroom Nutrition and Health Benefits
Shiitake mushroom has been used in Asia for over 6,000 years due to its amazing health benefits. This mushroom, although it can be eaten raw, should actually be cooked or dried first before eaten....
View ArticleHedgehog Mushroom – Amazing Healing Properties!
Hedgehog mushroom (Hericium erinaceus) is also known as Lion’s mane mushroom. The hedgehog mushroom, with its many long thick needle-like or hair-like extensions appear like a cascading waterfall, a...
View ArticleMedical Uses of Medicinal Mushrooms
Medical uses of medicinal mushrooms often overlap, but different mushrooms have different purposes. For instance, to help the heart reishi is often suggested as a mushroom supplement. For lung issues,...
View ArticleMost Common Mushroom in the World: Agaricus Bisporus (White...
A little known fact to most Americans is that the most commonly eaten mushroom in the world is Agaricus bisporus. But what in the world is that?! Well, it’s the common white button mushroom, and in...
View ArticleAmino Acids in Mushrooms
So many types of medicinal mushrooms exist, including reishi (Ganoderma lucidum), shiitake (Lintenula edodes), turkey tail (Trametes versicolor), Lion’s mane (Hericium erinaceus), cordyceps (Cordyceps...
View ArticleWild and Edible Rare Medicinal Mushrooms: Lactarius Salmonicolor
There is a plethora of rare medicinal mushrooms that exist that have a number of health benefits. Some of these not-as-rare medicinal mushrooms include edible fungi such as reishi mushroom (good for...
View ArticleLower Glucose Levels with Beta-Glucan
With interest growing in using soluble fiber to treat the symptoms of type-2 diabetes, researchers at the University of Auckland in New Zealand set out to examine the protective effect of beta-glucan...
View ArticleShiitake Could Prevent Obesity, But…
An animal study has found that high doses of the medicinal mushroom shiitake prevents obesity. Body weight gain was prevented by shiitake, but how? Researchers from Indonesia and Australia published...
View ArticleShiitake and Cancer — A Healing Stir Fry?
More evidence to show the potential cancer-killing properties of the popular shiitake medicinal mushroom. But should we add shiitake to our stir-fry on a regular basis? Is shiitake and cancer a healing...
View ArticleShiitake, Breast Cancer and Chemotherapy
Breast cancer, characterized by a cancerous growth originating from the breast, is estimated to affect one in nine Canadian women in their lifetime. Since cancer patients often include dietary...
View ArticlePrevent Colon Cancer with Shiitake?
Colon cancer is believed to be the fourth most common cause of cancer death in the world, with over a million individuals being diagnosed every year. Also known as colorectal or bowel cancer, colon...
View ArticleMedicinal Mushrooms: a Treasure Chest
Medicinal mushrooms, which have been used in traditional medicines for centuries, are now being scrutinized for their potential cancer-killing properties. Could medicinal mushrooms become a weapon in...
View ArticleEBOLA Protection with Medicinal Mushrooms?
The Ebola virus, which kills up to 90% of those who are infected with it, has now entered the United States of America. The Ebola pandemic, which has been followed and quarantined since 1976 in Central...
View ArticleLyme Disease Cure? Medicinal Mushrooms for Broad Spectrum Healing
Lyme disease is named after Old Lyme, Connecticut where this malady was identified back in the 1970’s, but it is also found in parts of Austalia and Eurasia. It comes from infected ticks, which if the...
View ArticleBeta Glucan Has Anti-Cancer Properties in Three Medicinal Mushrooms
Beta-glucan, a fiber in mushrooms, has been found to have anti-cancer properties, including in shiitake, maitake, and reishi mushrooms. There are two types of beta-glucan: soluble and insoluble fiber....
View ArticleCan Beta Glucan Enhance Probiotics?
With the recent increasing interest in probiotic products, researchers at the University of Foggia in Italy set out to examine the potential of beta glucan to enhance probiotic performance. Probiotics...
View ArticleInhibit Tumor Cell Growth with Shiitake
Cancer is the leading cause of death in Canada, responsible for an estimated 30% of all deaths. Characterized by unregulated, abnormal cell growth, cancer cells form lumps and tumors and can spread to...
View ArticleHow Paul Stamets’ Mother Beat Breast Cancer Using Medicinal Mushrooms
Cancer is a scary word, especially if you are diagnosed with it. Most people turn to their doctors and specialists for traditional cancer therapies, but some people do not prefer this route, or else do...
View ArticleBeta-Glucan for Colds and Flu in Medicinal Mushrooms
Beta-glucan, which is found in mushrooms, is a quick way to stop from getting the seasonal flu and colds; not just slow their incidence, but to stop it in its tracks by reducing the symptoms completely...
View ArticleBulgarians Study Anti-Cancer Effects of Medicinal Mushrooms
The study of fungi is called mycology. Mycologists worldwide know about the vast array of health benefits from consuming mushrooms, but now the Bulgarian Mycological Society has also studied the newest...
View ArticleFree Amino Acids and Health Benefits in Chaga Medicinal Mushroom
Chaga medicinal mushroom has well known health benefits. Edible mushrooms are studied in ethnobotany, but health outside of traditional medicinal purposes for special herbs is not always in the...
View ArticleHealth Effects of Volatiles in Medicinal Mushrooms
What makes edible mushrooms, such as medicinal mushrooms Pleurotus ostreatus (oyster mushroom), Reishi, Maitake, Shiitake, or others, so alluring for their taste as well as being used as a medicine?...
View ArticleMedicinal Mushrooms Are Nature’s Nutritional Pharmaceuticals
Nutritional pharmaceuticals? There are a few words that, when put together, have the potential to pack power into our understanding of the body’s health regarding foods. These foods are usually natural...
View ArticlePart 4: Medical Civil War against Doctors for Vaccinations? – Medicinal Mushroom
In Part 3: Medical Civil War against Doctors for Vaccinations? I talked about federal sentencing guidelines that could be used against doctors who vaccinate children who wind up with brain damage or...
View ArticlePart 1: Fukushima-Radioactive Food May be in Your Grocery Store
There have been multiple accidental “green light” approvals given by authorities for the importing of radioactive food from Japan. There is an exclusion zone due to radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi...
View ArticlePart 2: Fukushima-Radioactive Food May be in Your Grocery Store
In Part 1: Fukushima-Radioactive Food May be in Your Grocery Store I covered the 2011 earthquake and tsunami at Fukushima, Japan, where the Daiichi nuclear power plant was damaged. The radiation that...
View ArticlePart 3: Fukushima-Radioactive Food May be in Your Grocery Store – Medicinal...
In Part 2: Fukushima-Radioactive Food May be in Your Grocery Store I covered the mislabelling and outright fraudulent aspects of why and how the contaminated radioactive food has been sneaking out into...
View ArticleNutrition Facts and Comparison of Raw Medicinal Mushrooms
Which mushrooms are best? What mushrooms, such as oyster, shiitake, enoki, white, brown/crimini, or portabella (Portobello), or even maitake or straw mushrooms have the most nutrition or health...
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