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the health benefits of certain mushrooms

are quite mind-blowing so today I’m

going to take some of the confusions

that people have about mushrooms and

just make it really really simple so if

you have a very specific health problem

you’ll know exactly what to take now I’m

going to primarily focus on four

different types of mushrooms okay

but they’re in the family of fungus okay

or fungi and fungi is very interesting

because there’s more related DNA wise to

a fungus than there is to plants in

other words like plants have

photosynthesis so they actually breathe

in CO2 and they make oxygen well

mushrooms which is a type of fungus

don’t do that they breathe in oxygen and

release CO2 very similar to humans they

actually share 50 of their DNA which

basically means they have certain

blueprints that make certain chemicals

that we can use for the benefit of our

own health fungi is the largest and

oldest organism on planet Earth in fact

in just one handful of soil from the

forest you have literally 26 miles

of a certain type of fungi called

mycelium so there is a tremendous amount

of fungus working in the soil with the

roots of plants exchanging different

nutrients to make sure that plant has

the nutrients that it needs and getting

certain sugars from the plants as their

food and so really it’s a fungus that

mobilize the minerals in the soil and so

without this fungus the plant really has

a hard time getting nutrition fungus is

also responsible for breaking things

down like organic matter trees wood

leaves Etc so they are the great

recyclers but today we’re going to talk

about four key mushrooms that you need

to know about and I want to make it

really really simple for you the first

one is the reishi mushroom okay this

mushroom could be thought of as a

natural Xanax now of course I’m not

promoting medication but this is the

natural version without the side effects

and what does that medication do it’s

purported to help you with anxiety and

helping you calm down therefore it’s

also good for sleep if you want to

increase your tolerance to stress if you

want to counter stress and cortisol this

mushroom might be a good one to add to

your diet the next one is lion’s mane

okay

because it looks like a lion’s mane this

one could be considered like a natural

Adderall but without the side effects

what is that drug well it’s used for

people with cognitive problems attention

deficit issues and a lot of college

students take it to increase their uh

their learning abilities because it kind

of speeds up the central nervous system

to a certain degree of course it has a

lot of side effects but lion’s mane is

specifically good for cognitive function

improving Focus concentration

memory a lot of people take it as a

coffee replacement in the morning but it

has some really interesting benefits in

repairing and regenerating nerve tissue

in myelin sheath around the nerve it has

something called the neurotrophic factor

which just helps support nerve growth in

general specifically in the area of the

brain called a hippocampus which is

involved with cognitive function to a

certain grade this mushroom also has

been known to increase something called

bdnf brain derived neurotrophic Factor

that’s kind of like Miracle Grow but for

your brain so it helps the nerves grow

so when you think about lion’s mane

think cognitive improvements and

anything related to a breakdown in your

brain like neurodegenerative conditions

like Alzheimer’s Parkinson’s

dementia then we have the shiitake

mushroom that mushroom is good for blood

pressure it’s really beneficial for your

gut microbiome a good portion of our

immune system is in the gut and shiitake

mushroom can actually increase the

killer T cells which are responsible for

killing viruses and the last one which I

think is the most interesting is the

turkey tail mushroom this one has been

researched the most when you think of

turkey tail you want to think of

anti-cancer properties but as far as

turkey tail goes I would recommend

anyone who has cancer to start taking it

immediately it has a non-specific immune

modulating action which basically

strengthen the immune system overall so

if someone is on chemo or radiation

uh turkey tail is great to take against

cancer the white blood cells actually

eat

certain compounds in this mushroom like

beta-glucans and consume it carry it

into the lymphatic system to help cause

the cancer cell to commit suicide that’s

called apoptosis a normal cell would

basically kill itself as a kind of a

greater good for the body but a cancer

cell basically lives forever now turkey

tail also reduces inflammation in your

gut which is also related to your immune

system as well because if you think

about cancer cancer tends to spread into

areas of inflammation all right so Rishi

is good as a natural Xanax for calming

down the flatter fight mechanism or

cortisol then we have lion’s mane which

is everything to do with cognitive

function helping you concentrate helping

you focus and we have shiitake which is

three things cholesterol blood pressure

and your immune system and then we have

turkey tail which it has a potent

anti-cancer effect all right so I hope I

gave you some clarity on what these

mushrooms are good for and so the next

time you have a certain problem you’ll

know exactly what mushroom to take or

eat since I mentioned Cancer and a good

remedy for that if you have not seen

this video on cancer it would be very

very smart to watch it and I put that

video up right here