Health Benefits Of Mushrooms Diet And Supplements Explored
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As the world comes around to healthy eating the growing interest in plant based diets have surged. I want to share with you some of the benefits and insights relating to mushrooms specifically.
The Idea
As more people are exposed to the world of plant based nutrition the tide is beginning to shift on functional medicine. Functional medicine attempts to identify and treat under lying health conditions using food. We have all been taught to believe that our nutrition is vital to a healthy life, however it’s only in the last several years that medical professionals have been vocal about how we eat and what we eat to stay healthy or regain our good health.
The truth is that yes nutrition plays a big role in how your health is determined over time. Unfortunately, if your health is already on the decline it’s tough to make changes in your diet that would immediately yield results. Often if your health issues are food related then what took years to develop those health conditions may take years to fix.
Lets face it, eating handfuls of a variety of mushrooms won’t necessarily yield instant results but gradually over time can aid in optimizing your health. If your not a vegan it maybe even harder to change your diet to incorporate mushrooms in large varieties with every meal to observe the benefits of mushrooms first hand..
The Data
Benefits of mushrooms are lengthy, from gut support to cognitive support you can find almost any mushroom that does one or more. The question of which ones are best for what and how to have the proper combinations to target the areas of concern are up for debate. There’s 2 sets of mushroom and some offer more than one benefit to the human body here is the break down
- Nutritional Mushrooms
- Nootropic Mushrooms
One provides the desperately needed nutrients the human body craves while the other provides more cognitive support functions such as focus, energy, improved memory and more.
Here is a list of mushrooms that offer one or more of these benefits
For Immune Support:
- Turkey Tail
- Maitake
- Shitake
- Chaga
Over Health:
- Reishi
- Oyster
- Wood Ear
Nootropic Cognitive Functions:
- Lion’s Mane
Energy Or Endurance:
- Cordyceps
Cell Regeneration:
- Phellinus Linteus
Read more on this article here Using Mushrooms For Better Health
Finally we also have the specific data on important proteins and other naturally occurring chemicals found in mushrooms that aid the human body in various ways. For example you have Polysaccharides and Selenium both are found in mushrooms and both play an important role in how your body can maintain homeostasis including the many other benefits of mushrooms.
Why The Human Body Needs Polysaccharides
Polysaccharides are critical when it comes to proper nutrition because they comprise the complex carbohydrates that, for many, serve as the body’s primary energy source. Every bodily function relies on carbohydrates for energy.
Why The Human Body Needs Selenium
Selenium is an essential component of various enzymes and proteins, called selenoproteins, that help to make DNA and protect against cell damage and infections; these proteins are also involved in reproduction and the metabolism of thyroid hormones.
Conclusion On Benefits Of Mushrooms For Health
As you may have seen there numerous benefits of mushrooms but I can say it’s difficult to add all of these to meals on a daily basis in order to get the nutritional value out of them, so if your like and want to add this into your life but don’t want to eat pounds of mushrooms daily in varying varieties consider mushroom complex extracts, they come in powder or capsules.
Best ones to observe the benefits of mushrooms and that have the most nutritional value are atleast 10 to 1 extracts if you can get 20 to 1 even better though the cost is high on those.
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