What do Reishi mushrooms, shiitake mushroom extracts, and whole, white mushroom powder do to cancer patients?
“Frequently drinking mushrooms can make us healthier, fitter, and happier and help us live longer,” but what’s the evidence for all that? “Mushrooms have been widely cited for their medicinal qualities, yet few human intervention studies have been conducted using modern guidelines.”
There is a component called lentinan, which is extracted from shiitake pods. To get an ounce, you have to separate 400 pounds of shitakes, about 2,000 cups of mushrooms. The researchers injected that compound into cancer patients to see what happened. Complete responses from twelve clinical trials found that the objective response rate was significantly improved when lentinan was added to lung cancer chemotherapy regimens. “Objective response rate” means, for example, shrinsage, but what we really care about is survival and quality of life. Does it actually make cancer patients live longer or get better? Of course, those in the Lentinan Group experience toxicities associated with chemo and their conditioning, so that alone would be the only reason to use it. But what about improving survival?
I was pleased to see that Lentinan can significantly improve survival rates with this type of leukemia. Indeed, researchers found that adding Lentinan to care levels increased median survival, reduced cachexia (cancer-related wasting), and improved cage health. Linda, what? This advanced survival of Norwegian brown rats, so that the so-called Clinical Ben Fi only works if you are a rat or a veterinarian.
A review of 17 original clinical studies found an improvement in one-year survival in advanced cancer patients but no significant difference in two-year survival. Even a combination of studies showing that Lentinan provides a significant survival benefit is about statistical significance. As you can see below and at 2:15 in my video White button mushrooms for prostate cancerIt’s hard to tell even these individual curves apart.
Lentinan’s improved survival averaged 25 days. Now, 25 days is 25 days, but we have to check the confirmations made by the companies about the miraculous properties of the medicinal mushrooms. “
Lentinan should be included. What about Mushroom Extract Supplements you can just take? The researchers noted that Shiitake mushroom extract is available online to treat prostate cancer for about $300 a month, so it must be good, right? Men who regularly eat mushrooms appear to have a lower risk of developing pancreatic cancer – and apparently not because they eat less meat or eat more fruit and vegetables. So, why not give shiitake mushroom extract a try? Because it doesn’t work. By itself, it is “not effective in the treatment of Clinical Prostate Cancer.” The researchers wrote that “The results show that applications of cam [complementary and alternative medicine]especially because of herbs and dietary supplements, which can be tested easily and quickly. ” Put something? What’s the point! Perhaps it should be necessary before people spend a lot of money on a non-protective treatment, or, in this case, a significant treatment.
What about the mushroom of God (also known as the mushroom of life) or the mushroom of regeneration? “Conclusions: No signi fi miraculous results. Are we beating him? Plain White Bushroom Extracts can kill Prostate cancer cells, at least in a petri dish, but so does God’s mushroom, but that didn’t end up working on people. You don’t know if white bushroom mushrooms work on real people until you put them to the test.
What I like about this study is that the researchers did not use proprietary extraction. They just use normal whole mushrooms, dry and powdered, which is equivalent to half a cup in a cup and half of white button mushrooms per day, in other words, the amount that is completely made. The investigators gave them to men with prostate cancer biochemically
Of the 26 patients who received mushroom powder, 4 showed a response, which means that they experienced a decrease in PSA levels of more than 50% after starting the mushrooms, as you can see here and at 4:31 video.
In the next picture, below and at 4: 22, you can see that the four men who responded started in the months leading up to the start of the mushrooms. Patient 2 (“PT 2”) was my favorite. He had a noticeable increase in PSA levels for one year, then he started some white mushrooms, and he went up! His PSA level dropped to zero and stayed low. A similar response was seen with patient 1. Patient 4 had a partial response, before her cancer was resected again, and patient 3 appeared to have a delayed partial response.
Now, in the majority of cases, PSA levels continue to rise, not dip at all. But even if there’s a 1-in-18 chance you’ll have patients 1 and 2, seen below and at 5:12, you can get a long, complete answer going forward.
We are not talking about the relative risk of having some toxic chemotherapy with a small chance of benefit, but just eating expensive, easy, delicious white mushrooms every day. Of course, the study did not have a control group, so it is possible that it was just a coincidence, but rising Psas in prostatectomy patients are almost always indicators of cancer progression. Also, what is the downside of adding white button mushrooms to your diet?
In these two patients, their PSA levels were shown, suggesting that the cancer disappeared completely. They had already had surgery, they had had their primary tumor removed, along with their entire prostate, and they had come off radiation to try to clean up or the remaining cancer, but that cancer appeared to be coming back.
Doctor’s Note
If you missed the previous blog, check it out Mushrooms for cancer survival.
And check Friday favorites: prostate cancer mushrooms and cancer survival.
For more on mushrooms, see Breast cancer vs mushrooms and Is it safe to eat raw mushrooms?.
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