has anyone heard about mushroom extract called maitake to help cancer?

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Permalink Reply by RachelA on July 20, 2008 at 1:45am

I've heard that some mushrooms can help with the immune system. Maybe this has something to do with it perhaps?

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Permalink Reply by Wayne D on July 24, 2008 at 11:47pm

Maitake isone of several mushrooms (Reiki is another) that have effects on stimulating your immune system which in turn stimulates the NK cells that destroy cancer cells in the body. There are many brands and they all have various claims. Note that they all use rice bran or yeast in their formulas which act as stimulents to the immune system.
From what I have researched, the better brands are MGN 3 (Peak Immune 4) and one that gets really high ratings although not stricttly a mushroom formula is Transfer Point's Beta - 1.3D Glucan. Keep in mind that tthey all work in conjunction with diet for most effectiveness and if one is suffering from cancer then this type of supplement would just be a part of an altenative protocol.

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Permalink Reply by KnowNow on July 25, 2008 at 12:19am

The amanita mushroom is also a good mushroom.

Other things that help against cancer are apricot seeds (high in B17), MMS, Robert Beck machines (watch suppressed medicine video on google\youtube), dr max gerson diet (therapy), hart diet, hallelujah diet, essiac tea, hoxey cure and I'm sure there are many more.

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Permalink Reply by Gabe on August 16, 2008 at 2:18pm

All mushrooms are the highest plant source of vitamin D, shitake being highest. As we all know D is essential to life and prevention of disease. It could be the D in all these mushroom extraxts that makes them so benificial

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