Comments by Dr. Sahelian: For the time being, limit your intake of agaricus supplement to maximum 3 times a week and a full week off each month. It is not clear at this time whether the problem was with the particular agaricus supplement these patient were using, i.e, Himematsutake as it is called in Japan, or whether the problem of liver harm applies to all agaricus extract brands. Was the Himematsutake product these Japanese cancer patients were taking contaminated with something else? It is also not clear whether the liver problem is dose dependent. Sometimes patients with cancer will take a very high amount of a supplement thinking more is better. It is also not clear whether the liver damage occurred due to the fact that these patients may have been on chemotherapy drugs which weakened their liver and immune system.
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i get mine from" new chapter "....all organic and tested for contaminates,,you also have to watch the companies that make them,jusy like anything else,all kinds of ripp off health products on the market
Those are what i eat,but they cultivate them now on food,rice in particular,ive taken them before i strated my TX and am now back to taking the" killer shroom"they kill 2 birds with one stone...they are excellent at raising the Killer T cell in the human body and fight viruses ,the wild cordyceps are $5000/lb
Hi Ev,
Always nice to hear from you.
I hope you and Joe are doing well. Always hoping for the best.
MikeH
I had not seen that study about cordyceps. I'd seen another using cordycep senesis and astragalus along with interferon/riba. The results were impressive.
I have been getting the cordyceps from Swanson vitamin. They have an almost good smell to me. I bought them from another source that smelled very bad. A little worrisome as to why they didn't smell the same. Needless to say, I stuck to the Swanson brand.
Joe's enzymes have been really good on Tx.
Ev
By the way,
Have you ever seen the natural variety of cordyceps? In the Himalayas around 13,000 feet caterpillars burrow through the ground. They eat the spores of cordyceps, the spores eventually kill the caterpillar and gestate inside the corpse, using the caterpillars guts as nutrients. Eventually the mushroom head blooms out of the mouth of the caterpillar! I have one in a bottle, very weird looking indeed!
In China they sell the whole caterpillar/mushrooms in the market by weight. You have to be careful because sometimes they stuff bee-bees in the caterpillar's *** to bump the weight and the price up.
Watch out for the bee-bees!
Mike H