Being diagnosed with cancer can be one of the most frightening experiences of your life. Thousands of studies have proven that traditional treatments for cancer; chemotherapy and radiation, can be absolutely devastating to your health. These conventional treatments not only attack cancer cells but your healthy cells, leaving you weak and vulnerable to a recurrence and even encouraging the growth of even more cancer.Medicinal mushrooms have been shown to treat cancer naturally and can be used in conjunction with traditional cancer treatments to ease their effects and protect your immune system. The powerful antioxidant properties of medicinal mushrooms make it the ideal natural treatment for cancer.
How Medicinal Mushrooms Work to Treat Cancer
Medicinal mushrooms have a remarkable ability to stimulate your immune system so your body is better able to fight cancer by itself. They are adaptogens, meaning they naturally improve the way your body copes with everyday challenges and stress. Adding medicinal mushrooms to your supplement regimen not only helps protect you from the effects of chemotherapy but from everyday carcinogens such as pesticides and mercury.
Reishi medicinal mushrooms, for example, have been shown in clinical studies to increase plasma antioxidant activity. In addition, its triterpene compounds have been shown to inhibit tumor invasion and prevent metastases by limiting attachment to endothelial cells.
In addition to stimulating your immune system, medicinal mushrooms are highly anti-inflammatory, which means it helps prevent your immune system from attacking your body’s own healthy tissues.
Medicinal mushrooms are also filled with essential nutrients to help put your cancer into remission and keep it from coming back.
These nutrients include:
- Polysaccharides
Polysaccharides are polymeric carbohydrate molecules with potent antiviral, antimicrobial, and immune-boosting benefits.
- Triterpenes
These isoprenoids have been shown to prolong life and play a strong role in chemoprevention and apoptosis (spontaneous death) of cancer cells.
- Lipids
Lipids are essential fats responsible for hormone production, digestion, and absorption of nutrients.
- Fatty Acids
Omega-3 fatty acids boost your immune system, fight inflammation, and have been clinically-proven to prevent death from both breast and prostate cancer.
- Vitamins and Minerals
Medicinal mushrooms are loaded with healing vitamins and minerals such as vitamin D, B vitamins, and magnesium.
The Best Medicinal Mushrooms to Use to Treat Cancer
- Shiitake
Shiitake medicinal mushrooms contain polysaccharides that have been shown to inhibit the growth of colon and breast cancer cells. It has also been shown to assist in easing the nausea, vomiting, lethargy, and discomfort of chemotherapy treatments.
- Maitake
Maitake medicinal mushrooms contain beta glucans, which has been shown to slow the growth of cancer cells in laboratory mice. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute is now conducting a cancer study on the healing properties of this incredible mushroom.
- Reishi
Reishi medicinal mushrooms are highly anti-inflammatory and antiviral. They’re often one of the preferred natural cancer treatment choices because they increase your production of natural interleukin 1 and 2, which has been shown to suppress tumor growth.
- Cordyceps
Cordyceps medicinal mushrooms are your ideal ally if you’re undergoing chemotherapy or radiation treatments. Studies have shown they go through the body “picking up” on and destroying tumors that these traditional treatments may have missed. Cordyceps also helps support your immune system and help encourage your cancer to go and stay in remission.
If you are currently undergoing chemotherapy or radiation treatments, consider adding medicinal mushrooms to your treatment regimen. Hundreds of scientific studies have proven they can work in conjunction with the treatments you’re already using so you can ensure your best chances of remission, survival, and a better life.
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There Are Many Nutritional Cancer Cures and Treatments
Don’t get sucked into believing that chemotherapy, radiation and surgery are your only options for cancer treatments. I’ve just explained how medicinal mushrooms are used to treat cancer. However, there is even more that you can do through nutrition to treat and prevent cancer.
The best part is you can do all of this without stepping a foot into a hospital, doctor’s office or treatment facility. In fact, you can cure yourself from the comfort of your very own home!
I know it sounds too good to be true, but in fact, there are six over-the-counter remedies that have the power to fix your body. I can’t go into too much detail here, but you can read about the other ways to heal cancer naturally here:
Resources:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22339703
http://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/herb/reishi-mushroom
http://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/2/4/452
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3271404/
