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Mushroom - Protect Against Cancer
Most of the growth of a fungus goes
unnoticed because it occurs underground. The underground body of
a fungus, called the mycelium, is made of humid thread-like
filaments called hyphae. When growing conditions are good,
little knots of hyphae called primordia are produced. As
individual primordia grow larger, the hyphae within them
classify into two parts. One part will become a mushroom’s cap,
and the other, its stem. The oldest illustration of
hallucinogenic mushrooms in the world are in The Sahara Desert.
They were produced 7000-9000 years ago. Humanity\'\'s use of
mushrooms extends back to Paleolithic times. Mushroom have been used of both as food and for medicinal purposes. Mushrooms are helpful health food - low in calories, high in vegetable proteins, chitin, iron, zinc, fiber, essential amino acids, vitamins & minerals.
Mushroom are probiotic, they help
our body make stronger itself and fight off illness by
maintaining physiological homeostasis, restoring our bodies
balance and natural fight to disease. The compounds they enclose
have been classified as Host Defense Potentiators (HDP) which
can have immune system enhancement properties. That is one of
the reasons they are currently used as adjuncts to cancer
treatments. Several different polysaccharides anti tumor agents
have been developed from the fruiting body, mycelia, and culture
medium of various medicinal mushrooms.
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Mushroom
is the prominent fleshy fungus fruiting body. Fungus is an
organism which is growing on wood chips or mulch. When the
fungus feels that it's grown enough and needs to reproduce, it
sends up a mushroom, which functions for the fungus the way a
fruit does for a plant. Mushrooms are the fruiting bodies
produced by some fungi. While mushrooms may seem to develop all
night, it actually takes days or weeks for one to develop.