No Fungi - No Future! Vital mushrooms – QIDOSHA

No Fungi - No Future! Vital mushrooms

November 11/18/21, 2021from admin

In Asia, mushrooms have been used therapeutically for several millennia, and they are also used as medicinal remedies in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Folk medicine in our culture was influenced and changed in the Middle Ages by the Church's prohibitions and the Chernobyl disaster. In contrast, the use of mushrooms in medicine has remained alive throughout Asia to this day.

We've made it our mission to reintroduce mushrooms into our culture. Ötzi, the Iceman, carried medicinal mushrooms with him when crossing the Alps, and Hildegard von Bingen also mentioned the power of mushrooms in her writings.

So, essentially, it's nothing new: Mushrooms were once an integral part of our culture and were used for medicinal purposes. Unfortunately, things have gotten a bit out of hand.

Our mushroom products have just been launched and are therefore completely new to the market. Certain ingredients, such as beta-glucans or triterpenes, dissolve through different extraction processes. Some ingredients are water-soluble, others only dissolve with alcohol. Our products are extracts, so they contain high concentrations of the polysaccharides and glucans relevant to the body. Mushrooms often have a bitter taste, which is why we decided to sell them in capsule form.

Mushrooms have a chitin shell that must be cracked to make the mushroom's ingredients bioavailable. This is done using the so-called shell-broken process: The polysaccharides/beta-glucans cannot be utilized in powder form because they are protected by chitin cell walls in the mushroom powder, and the human body does not have chitinase to break down the chitin. During extraction, the aforementioned cell connections are dissolved or broken down with hot water, releasing and concentrating the mushroom-typical polysaccharides. The indigestible fiber portion (z.B. parts of the chitin) were strained out and disposed of.

This ensures that our products have the best possible bioavailability.

Medicinal mushrooms

We always talk about a "natural balance"; this also applies to fungi, because on the one hand there are lower fungi (molds or yeasts), and on the other hand there are higher fungi.

Fungi were the first species to live on land. Plants didn't arrive until millions of years later. Fungi are, in this sense, the foundation of Earth's formation. Every other species depends on them.

The fungi kingdom is often associated with negative connotations—poisonous mushrooms, athlete's foot, mold, and so on... all of them have negative connotations. Yet of the 14,000 mushrooms known today, about 2,000 are edible, and around 700 of them contain pharmacologically active substances. Therefore, fungi can certainly do more than just harm us. It's worth taking a closer look. In fungi, we find all the active substances we find in a plant, animal, or insect.

Roots, stem, branches, leaves, and flowers belong to the fungal mycelium—the fungal body is the fruit of the fungus. Fungi are familiar with viruses, bacteria, and molds or yeasts. Higher fungi have evolved substances over countless years to protect themselves from all of these. Thus, we can expect something good from this, because as "mammals," we have the same enemies as fungi.

Among the “higher fungi” there are

Saprobiotics - The "Garbage collection" ensure a closed material cycle in an ecosystem. They break down the accumulating organic material and use the resulting organic molecules for their own energy and building metabolism. Since they themselves are part of the ecosystem's food web, these organic substances are fed into the biogenic material cycle.These include mushrooms, oyster mushrooms and reishi.
Parasites - The "Health police", which primarily attacks previously damaged organisms and thus fulfills a similar function to that of the pike in a carp pond. The pike ensures a healthy population of its prey by selectively eating sick and weak ones. For example, the honey fungus (the largest living creature in the world – larger than the blue whale).
Symbionts/ Mycorrhizal fungi - The "Partner mushroom" thrives on give and take. The fungus spins its mycelium like a network around the root tips of its partner tree. These fine branches of the mycelium can absorb the soil minerals better than the tree's roots. Symbionts can therefore be used very effectively in agriculture. The fungi then pass the minerals on to the tree, which needs them for its growth. In return, the tree supplies the fungus with carbohydrates, which the tree cannot produce itself. Approximately 90-95% of all plants on the planet form underground symbioses with fungi. The chanterelle, for example, is one of these fungi.

1g of forest soil contains about 1000m of mushroom mycelium