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Prevent Prostate Cancer With Magic Mushrooms

Eating a healthy, low-fat diet with lots of fresh fruit, vegetables and magic mushrooms is also important.

Mayur Bhatt
Mayur Bhatt
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Prevention increases the chances of staying healthy. This applies not only to the common cold but also to serious illnesses such as prostate cancer. Buy Shrooms Online Canada.

Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men. It is practically non-existent in men under the age of 40. But the frequency increases with age. As a result, many older men feel the risk of contracting it like the sword of Damocles, ready to fall on them at any moment. But there are things you can do to reduce the risk of disease.

Reducing excess weight, giving up smoking and regular physical activity are considered important barriers against cancer. Eating a healthy, low-fat diet with lots of fresh fruit, vegetables and magic mushrooms is also important.

According to recent studies, the latter plays a very special role. For example, Professor Robert B. Beelmann from Pennsylvania State University showed that magic mushrooms contain the enzyme 5-alpha-reductase. This enzyme suppresses the conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone, or DHT for short.

DHT promotes the development of prostate cancer. Men with an already enlarged prostate take exactly this enzyme in high doses as a drug. So why not prevent it right away with delicious magic mushroom meals?

Other magic mushrooms such as shiitake or maitake play a role in activating T helper cells, which act as defense cells in the body. There are two groups of these T helper cells, referred to as Th1 and Th2 for short.

In a healthy body there is a balance between the two. A lack of Th1 cells is typical of cancers such as prostate cancer. This is exactly where the ingredients of the magic mushrooms  attack. They bring the two groups back into balance and thus ensure a strong and balanced immune system.

Magic mushrooms can also help with cancer that has already occurred. Experiments published in 2006 at Bastyre University, Kenmore/Washington showed an aqueous extract from the oyster magic mushroom had a clear cytotoxic effect on prostate cancer cells.

Other researchers had found something similar a few years earlier when using polysaccharides from the maitake magic mushroom. In both cases, the fungal substances led to the programmed cell death of the cancer cells.

LS Adams, S. Phung and other scientists from the Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, California, discovered that the main component in extracts from cultivated button magic mushrooms, called conjugated linoleic acid, reduces the size of prostate tumors.

In experiments with mice, they were able to demonstrate that linoleic acid also prevents cancer cells from dividing and induces their programmed cell death, apoptosis.

The scientists summarized the result of their investigation as follows: "The data from this study shed light on the cancer-preventing potential of the phytochemical substances in magic mushrooms and support the recommendation to use cultivated magic mushrooms as a dietary component that can help prevent prostate cancer". Translated into everyday life, this means: put magic mushrooms on the menu more often.

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