Everyday Acupuncture Podcast

How Medicinal Mushrooms Help Immune Function? I’m Dr. Mason Bresett Chief Science Advisor and Naturopathic Doctor from Real Mushrooms in British Columbia, Canada. I’m here today to answer the common question I hear about how mushrooms help the immune system? Firstly, mushrooms have been used as medicine for thousands of years and our understanding of them has grown exponentially with modern research and paired with traditional knowledge. Mushrooms have the unique ability to inform our immune system to increase our defence system. Mushrooms have this impact due to their nutritional components, complex sugars called beta-d-glucans and their adaptogenic actions. These immune supporting compounds can even be found in your local market mushrooms, in the produce aisle. Mushrooms can help your immune system by fortifying how the 2 parts of our immune system The first is called the innate immune system. It is our immune systems first response to an invader like a cold virus sort of like first responders, who ever ca