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Medicinal mushrooms & AI disease
Any specific type of mushrooms are not recommended for those with autoimmune disease? I remember reading something about Chaga but not sure. -
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Almost all medicinal mushrooms play a role in either strengthening, regulating or modulating immunity. And autoimmunity is a diagnosis based on a collection of symptoms so it’s hard to generalize because even the same diagnosis can be caused by very different factors. If one of the root causes of a person’s autoimmune disease is mold & mycotoxin toxicity, then no, I wouldn’t recommend medicinal mushrooms until the person’s symptoms/AI status improve.
However, there are 2 schools of thought on this subject, so you might get a very different answer from someone who follows Dr. Neil Nathan or Dr. Shoemaker’s teachings about mold. Personally, I’ve witnessed a mold-afflicted client regress when S Boulardii (a beneficial type of yeast) was introduced. So again, bottom line, it’s very individual and hard to generalize.
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if no mold issue, any specific mushroom should be avoided to those with hyperactive immune system and those with for example Graves’ disease or RA etc..
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not that I’ve come across… majority have immunomodulating potential so they are in fact beneficial.
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