Posts Tagged ‘nutrition’

If you discover a black, cancerous mass on a birch, you may be looking at a Siberian chaga mushroom. It can also, less commonly, be found growing ash, beech, elm or hornbeam.

The market is now full of products to say they can relieve joint apin and arthritis and there is a new supplement drink called supple which claims that the drink if taken every day will help to relieve joint pain. The drink will show best results when taken with a balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle.

Medicinal mushrooms have been immensely popular in Asia for millennia. Today, Americans are waking up to these powerful nutraceuticals. In the wake of this new awareness follow issues of product quality claims made by competing brands.

Recently, polyDNA conducted a study with users of Gene-Eden, a natural antiviral supplement. The objective was to get a better understanding of the effectiveness of the supplement for different indications. After analyzing the data, the researchers were surprised to discover that people who were taking the supplement for a few weeks report better, more refreshing sleep, relative to the time before starting to take the supplement.

Agarikon (Fomes officinalis) is one of the largest and longest living mushrooms in the world, some individual specimens known to be as old as 50 years. This needs to be seen in perspective of the fact that Agarikon starts out growing on already mature trees. It requires old growth forests to survive.