🍄🍄MEDICINAL MUSHROOMS UNIFY THE BODY
One of the key, yet underrated, benefits of medicinal mushrooms is their ability to unify the systems, organs, cells and tissue of the physical body so we feel more connected.
Why is this so critical?
When the body is disconnected, when chemical (especially immune-based) and electrical communications can’t land where they need to with the sophistication that the body is capable of, then blockages and deficiencies arise. These blockages and deficiencies lead to increased stress, illness and degeneration (like we don’t already have enough of that in the West, right?). One of the easiest ways to understand how mushies can help with this is based on their ability to feed and nourish the extracellular matrix and fascial system of the body. Although this area still needs greater study, what we know is that the unique polysaccharides within various medicinal mushrooms contribute to increasing the health of the fluid space that surrounds the cells and flows through the body’s tissues. It would appear that polysaccharides are an effective medium for regulating cell-to-cell communication and transfer, and ensuring pathogens are not able to pass through this space freely and disrupt cell metabolism. This allows the matrix of the body to maintain unity.
Another awesome demonstration of this unity is in the way medicinal mushies bring the entire power and intelligence of the immune system up a notch via their effect on this intracellular network. This is especially evident in the way that the polysaccharides (specifically in mushrooms such as chaga and reishi) are able to increase the effects of the cell that act as messengers between the innate (deep, constitutional) and adaptive (outer, surface) immune systems. When these two branches of our immune systems aren’t in communication, our health takes a hell of a beating, but exciting things happen within the immune system when they are in harmony via our fascial network. This is one of the main reasons we love mushies as much as we do.
Have you had your mushies yet today?
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