Wholydrops Functional Fungamentals

“What causes disease? Why does it come to some people who seem perfectly healthy, despite their best efforts to take care of themselves? Is good health just the absence of disease, or something greater?”
-Christopher Hobbs Ph.D

Our interest in alternative medicine and natural health led us to begin researching how people have used fungi for healing and health in different cultures around the world. We also started combing the scientific literature for studies that show the ways in which fungi affect our nutrition, metabolism, and immunity. This latter idea really struck us.

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Fungi are medicinal because they affect our nutrition, metabolism, and immunity. Mushrooms and fungi could activate many aspects of our immune response, whose fundamental purpose is to protect us from pathogenic types of viruses and bacteria.

Fungi interact with our body to activate global immune responses, help calm our nervous system, benefit our cardiovascular system, and protect us from toxins and stresses in our environment, all the while supplying important nutrients.

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Medicinal fungi are NOT magic bullets, even though their benefits can read like that. Fungi can be powerful allies when used as part of a total program for health. Because medicinal fungi are so safe, they are well worth adding to any healing program; they are extremely helpful for increasing and activating the immune response against pathogens, perhaps even fighting cancer, as well as relieving the side effects of conventional cancer treatments such as chemotherapy.

BETAGLUCANS

Some of the components that make up the fiber in fungi help modulate the immune system — the fiber in the cell walls of all fungi is partly composed of glucans, which are long chains of glucose molecules (and a type of polysaccharide) that are often indigestible to humans. This includes insoluble and soluble branched beta-glucans, branched alpha-glucans, and chitin; these are “prebiotics” that are not digested and absorbed from the upper digestive tract but make it down mostly intact to the colon to feed beneficial bacteria.
The ­sediment in our tinctures contains some beta-­glucans and chitin, so shake the tincture before using.

Immunomodulation

Research over the last few decades, and especially in the past 5 to 10 years, has clearly shown the significant effect fungal beta-­glucans have on the immune system — for cancer treatment; to increase our resistance to viral, bacterial, and even fungal infections; and for restoration of damaged bone marrow, where immune stem cells that can replenish and “reboot” our immune system are produced.

A tremendous worldwide research effort has demonstrated that fungal beta-glucans work as an immunomodulating agent through the activation of innate immune cells such as macrophages, dendritic cells, granulocytes, and natural killer cells.

A mushroom tincture is a concentrated liquid extract that's made by soaking dried mushrooms, from a variety of mushroom species, such as reishi, lion's mane, and chaga in a solvent—typically alcohol and/or water. This process unlocks the active ingredients in the mushrooms, leaving you with a potent liquid that can be dosed with a pipette.

The beneficial compounds from the mushrooms such as beta-glucans, polysaccharides, and triterpenoids that support immune function, cognitive health, and overall wellbeing are concentrated into the tincture.

Hot Water to Release the Active Compounds + Alcohol to capture the non-water soluble compounds(terpenes & triterpenes)

In order to access the active compounds in fungal cell walls, we must heat mushrooms before consuming them. Alcohol is a great solvent for extracting and preserving the low-molecular-weight compounds such as the diterpenes in lion’s mane and the triterpenes in reishi.

We understand that sourcing functional mushrooms can be difficult, which is why we prioritize quality in every step of our process. We only use the lab-tested mushrooms and follow strict standards for extraction to ensure our products are effective and potent.

For over five thousand years, mushrooms have been used as an effective medicine. Now, researchers are rediscovering the amazing value of these traditional medicinals as well as uncovering new benefits--benefits that can safely and naturally improve your health and well-being.

Tinctures are handy to carry and have a long shelf life. And because tincturing is a cold-extraction process, it captures somewhat more of the low-molecular-­weight active molecules — diterpenes, triterpenes, and phenolic compounds such as antioxidants.

Our goal is to make a portable, shelf-stable product that captures the diterpenes in lion’s mane for nervous system and mood benefits, or the triterpenes to support the respiratory tract and nervous system.

Medicinal mushrooms can be consumed regularly for a very long time — up to two years or more. Although there is no clinical research to support the idea that the immune system “habituates” or adjusts to mushrooms (thereby reducing their efficacy), common sense dictates that it could be beneficial to switch species every few months so the body is exposed to beta-glucans with varying structures — especially if the original supplement appears to be less effective over time. For example, if you use turkey tails or reishi, switch to shiitake, maitake, chaga, lion’s mane, agaricus because they offer different immunologically active compounds, such as structurally different beta-glucans, that could affect your immune response in different ways.

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Taking tinctures is an efficient & convenient way of getting mushroom medicine. We encourage our customers in developing a regular regimen of consuming the tinctures in order to quickly start reaping the benefits.

Considering all the many factors outside of our control that influence our health and the progression of disease, it’s unwise to think of any remedy as a magic bullet. Taking a variety of different treatments, undergoing counseling, and following new health habits create a series of complex interactions that would be difficult for any single therapy to address completely. Cancer, for example, is a set of complex metabolic diseases, and the response by our immune system to any disease is equally complex. The information shared here is not meant to be medical advice.

The following recommendations are for educational and health-promoting use only and not meant to be a prescription for any disease or medical advice. If you are experiencing symptoms, we always recommend contacting a qualified health practitioner or holistic physician for a diagnosis and total health program.

We encourage the use of natural products and whole herbal extracts as the most effective way to support the long clinical use and history of use of many mushroom medicines.

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