The Italian cuisine is rich in appetizing dishes based on mushrooms, despite this in all the West they often fear their possible toxicity. In fact, each mushroom has an intrinsic toxic potential and an extrinsic toxicity, the latter originated from the environment in which it is found and which provides contamination from: chemical principles, radioactive agents and heavy metals. Among the 140,000 existing species of mushrooms, very few are edible.
In the East, for centuries now, some mushrooms have been used daily in cooking and are even part of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tibetan and Japanese Medicine. But what are these mushrooms that are considered real medicinal remedies and elixirs of long life and above all, what do they contain?
Shiitake, Maitake, Cordyceps, Reishi and Agaricus blazei
are among the best-known mushrooms with scientifically proven therapeutic properties. Although each of them has its own characteristics, they all share the same functional substances called Beta-glucans. Several recent scientific studies have highlighted how these polysaccharides are useful for the health of the body, acting favorably on the intestinal microbiota and on the immune system, modulating it and making it more reactive based on the response against attacks from external viruses and bacteria.
But what are beta-glucans?
They are complex sugars (polysaccharides) located in the cell walls of mushrooms. They are also commonly found in algae, whole grains especially oats and barley. However, beta-glucans present in mushrooms have a particular structure that makes them unique and much more powerful for immune defenses than those present in barley and oats. Think that the action of a few grams of beta-glucans contained in medicinal mushrooms is equivalent to an abundant plate of barley and oats.
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The peculiarity lies in the fact that they are able to activate the immune system in a gentle and balanced way, stimulating the production of T lymphocytes and NK cells (natural killer) and promoting apoptosis, i.e. the death, of tumor cells. For this reason, mushrooms can be defined as immunomodulatory and antioxidant remedies with antitumor action. However, we have said that beta-glucans are beneficial for the intestinal microbiota and this is true in the sense that they also have a “prebiotic” effect, i.e. they are nourishment for our intestinal bacteria, whose balance is fundamental for the entire homeostasis or for the balance of our body. There is another important characteristic of mushrooms that we have not yet mentioned, which is their content of micronutrients such as vitamins, minerals and trace elements that make them an excellent support for integrating nutritional deficiencies that modern nutrition entails. We at Spezierie Palazzo Vecchio, referring to numerous studies over the last 30 years, have formulated MICOCOMPLEX – BIO a product based on 5 MEDICINAL MUSHROOMS: SHITAKE ,MAITAKE ,CORDYCEPS,REISHI and ABM (AGARICUS BLAZEI MULLER). The extracts of the mushrooms present in this supplement are declared and standardized in beta-glucan content; they are also organic to avoid any risk of contamination from heavy metals. This risk actually exists in uncontrolled cultivations because mushrooms, as we said, are real soil sweepers.
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FRANCESCA MAESTRELLI
ERBORISTA, IRIDOLOGA e AROMATERAPEUTA
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