Re: UPDATE: Mushroom - kidney failure - end stage - improvement of 51% after only one month with Cordyceps

amn

glad to hear of your improvement. I wanted my mom to go on this but she didn't.

I was happy to find out that it lowered blood sugar. Most of my mom's fellow dialysis patients were diabetics and two relatives went blind and knowing what she went through I do not want to go through this. In fact I have some codyceps at home..It was just sitting here with lots of other supplement and just today someone was saying I need to lower my blood Sugar and pressure and these two mushrooms apparently do both so that was so great to here

I am completely shocked that asparigus bisporis is portabella mushrooms. I thought it was some asian variety.

I eat them raw quite a bit I loved raw and cooked mushrooms..be sure you are using organic..it in u, meijers sells them pretty cheap..sometimes same price as button which one site said was the same but hey added some brown spores or something to make them look different.

I had always heard these common mushrooms were not that great and you needed ones like shitake and such.

I would though wonder if they have the same properties as the extract used in the experiments that showed improvement in kidney patients.

I know on the site promoting quantum kidney complex which is what I would recommend

(see next post) it says that the best cordeceps is "low temperature extracted form mycelia which has been specially fermented not just whole mushroom powder"

..that is why I did not just buy the bulk powder. Not sure if they are saying the powder does not work as it is not effective but if you make an extract from the dry powdered or home-dried mushrooms it would work as the alcohol would extract the potent phytochemcials (that cure/prevent disease) or if they do something to their extracts that only they can do..they call their formula a proprietary blend.

So I am not sure if just eating the mushrooms would work (to me that seems like way too small a dose as it is a food not an herb, if home made tinctures from fresh or dried portabella mushrooms would work (which would be rally cheap) or if you need a special kind.

Quantum Kidney Complex Ingredients & Benefits
http://www.drtrudipratt.com/Kidney.pdf


see this page for more..

this is what it says about agaricys bisporus

Grade A Japanese Agaricus Bisporus Extract

* low temperature, patented process, concentrated mushroom extract
* Famous for cleansing and strengthening the kidneys
* Helps dramatically clear foul breath and Body Odor
* Helps clear putrid odors in the digestive tract
* Not solvent-extracted, highly heated or pesticided


and this is what it says about coryceps

Grade A Chinese Cordyceps Extract

* Specially fermented mycelial mushroom extract
* Contains a minimum of 15% adenosine (a key highly active compound), up to 100 times more potent than other extracts
* Famous kidney, lung and liver tonic
* Using this herb, women runners shattered 9 world records (1993).
* For superior results, this extract is made from mycelia (a special part of the mushroom) which has been specially fermented, not just whole mushroom powder

notice it says two things about this product as compared with regular codycep[s in a capsule sold at health food store

1.It is specially fermented ( I wonder if I tried to ferment it in the harsche sauerkraut crock if that would work or could that make it toxic..anyone know?)

2 * Contains a minimum of 15% adenosine (a key highly active compound), up to 100 times more potent than other extracts..it sounds like they standardized it to contain more of this phytochemical, adenosine..it does say this is 100 times more potent. I had thought this was the kind they used in the testing.

It certainly may help to eat or made a tincture from the mushroom but if someone is very ill or dying, I might recommend that they get this brand which to me seemed the best bet.

(see next post for links)