3 mushrooms in my Lyme healing kit earn their spot every day. They are in the front row. Supplements need to earn their place in my medicine cabinet. You can end up taking oh so many pills trying to contain and recover from Lyme disease.
Lyme and inflammation did a lot of damage. I need to tap into the power of mushrooms to help restore and balance the systems in my body that are still out of whack. Rebuild my health and regain strength as I design my life.
I have studied mushrooms and taken wild foraging classes, just to get outside and have some fun. Not to eat, because many wild mushrooms are powerful toxins or poisons but just to look and learn. No one should collect harvest or consume wild mushrooms without proper training and expertise.
Why I Put Mushrooms In My Lyme Healing Kit
A subset of mushrooms have been studied and show amazing healing and restorative properties. It took a while for me to learn this and engage with the healing power of mushrooms. Mushrooms for healing are not the ones in the canned cream of mushroom soup. Medicinal mushrooms are wild fungi chock full of active functional compounds.
“Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health. ” – Paul Stamets
3 Mushrooms in My Lyme Healing Kit
Cordecyps – supports healthy blood sugar, lung capacity and improved muscle strength. I use it in combination with exercise and pranayama to breath and move with ease.
Reishi – helps my biome to improve digestion and metabolism. Years of antibiotics take the gut a little while to recover from. Reishi are also anti inflammatory and support the liver to help detox activities.
Chaga helps my immune system and is antiviral and super anti inflammatory. I am always working to cool things off.
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Individual mushrooms are attracted to and work in different systems of the body. This group of fungi are medicinally active and powerful. So I worked with my health care team and learned what to use for specific healing in Lyme disease and stimulate repair and rebuilding. We decided mushrooms in my Lyme healing kit was a good move.
Read up on or take a course that teaches on mushrooms to have an active discussion with your health care team. There is some learning associated with mushrooms. Then work with them to see if mushrooms are a good fit for you.
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