eat more

[Guest fiznuthian]

medicinal mushrooms.

 

i'm 1 and 1/2 months in and enjoying a new life. :)

 

[Guest hahathhat]

so will this make me hear colors or what

[Capsaicin]

it will make you see smells

[Guest fiznuthian]

 

i was a skeptic before i tried them, and five months ago would have told you eastern medicine is full of shit.

they've done all of these things for me, minus the anti-cancer ofcourse. but i don't forsee getting cancer easily

considering how incredible my body and mind feels my entire waking day. i was bitten four times by mosquitos, all four

of them were nuked in less than 8-10 hours and seeped back gently back into my skin. no itching.

my skin condition that i haven't been able to find a doctor who could treat, has vanished with near 80% improvement.

i can not tire myself or fatigue myself anymore. i wake with an incredible energy that carries with me on minimal sleep and minimal food intake.

no joint pain, and almost non-existent muscle aches, even after running many miles per day and stairclimbing consistently in the hotel i work at.

i couldn't run a half mile without almost puking two months ago? it's getting very surreal to feel this strong. my pain tolerance is very high for some reason.

i don't get munchies from pot anymore, nor do i crave pot at all because my anxiety, social anxiety, and stress is gone. any stress is do encounter in my day

is easy to control with deep breathing (thanks to cordyceps and reishi). focusing my mind on activities is much, much easier.

my motivation to do things every day is through the ROOF. working my body on a task feels rewarding again.

my body maintains a constant internal heat, similar to the feeling of the flu's hot flashes (immune system at work) but i'm neither sick nor uncomfortable. i don't mind a hot house or cold room, feels the same now for some reason.

i usually struggle with depression quite a bit, but i'll be damned i haven't had a depressed thought in over a month.

 

following the first month of taking these i investigated other immunomodulating, adaptogenic substances and began taking high doses of astragalus root. there's nowhere near as much research behind astragalus as there is the many medicinal mushrooms, but i tried it anyway. this seems to have magnified the trend the mushroom supplements had already began, significantly so. i feel like a fucking tank every day. i just started taking omega 3 supplements a couple days ago, i suppose they can't hurt. i'm ordering new chapter organic's wholemega supplements and ditching the kroger brand generics.

 

i'm telling you guys, and i do love watmm, that this is beyond any drug i have ever taken or been prescribed my doctors. wish i knew this 20 years ago and started when i was 3.

[dr lopez]

how immediate is it and what brand are you using and where do you get them

[Guest abusivegeorge]

so will this make me hear colors or what

 

 

it will make you see smells

 

Lols indeed.

[pcock]

im all for eating more special mushrooms.

[Guest fiznuthian]

joint and muscle pain went away after a week or so, i noticed it happening quickly. i felt the heat in my body early on when i started too.

everything else just cascaded in over time during the past 1 1/2 months.

 

i eat:

four fungi perfect mycommunity capsules, two AM and two PM, both on empty stomach if possible.

i eat two fungi perfecti cordychi cordyceps/reishi capsules per day, one in AM one at PM. empty stomach.

i eat two fungi perfecti lion's mane capsules per day, same as above AM/PM. empty stomach.

i eat 8 astragalus capsules per day, four AM and four PM. empty stomach if possible, just like the rest.

 

from what i've read and experienced early on you do not need these kind of dosages to experience the effects,

even just four mycommunity capsules a day you would absolutely feel it over time.

i love cordyceps, it can feel like a coffee rush from hell with no jitters and 100% clear mind. i suppose everyone's body is different,

so if you feel very little keep taking them and you will know when it's all happening. i sure as fuck did.

if i had nothing to do at work i would walk in circles endlesssly thinking about my day or clean random shit for hours.. my coworkers think i'm insane.

 

 

 

oh yeah, i ordered them originally from fungi.com, but to get discounts i get my supplements all from iherb.com and local hippie stores.

funny story, i didnt know anything about these before i walked into harvest moon foods store, a local organic/whole foods/etc place in a local rural town.

i picked up some mushroom capsules thinking it was funny people were offering a fuckton of mushrooms in a capsule as some kind of wonder medicine.. my carpel tunnel pain in my hand went away within hours and well, hasn't seem to come back in the slightest.

[Guest fiznuthian]

another interesting thing to note: the notorious mycologist paul stamets (the guy who is in that TED Talk video called "6 Ways Mushrooms Can Save The World", also owns Fungi Perfecti) cured his own mother of her type IV melanoma cancer and is healthy to this day. shortly following the clinical trial his research team did on his mother, the FDA sent letters essentially telling him, his family, and his team of scientists to shut the fuck up and say nothing about their formula's effectiveness. true story.

[Guest GrandPopPoplock]

medicinal mushrooms.

 

i'm 1 and 1/2 months in and enjoying a new life. :)

 

 

 

''G.I. JOOOOOOOE !''

[Guest nene multiple assgasms]

eat more of da poo poo!

[Q27]

If this stuff works I should definitely get some. :I

[Guest Coalbucket PI]

I'd be very skeptical about eating a whole bunch of wacky mushrooms on a daily basis considering some of the drugs that have been isolated from mushrooms over the years

[pcock]

when you really get down to it, its absolutely incredible how interesting and fantastic a few mushrooms can make you feel. the human brain works in a very, very strange way.

[Guest ms-dos]

whenever i see 'cordyceps' i'll always flash to the image of that otherworldly fungus taking over the ant's brain and killing it, then guiding his infected brain to climb to the top of the stalk and bomb the community of ants below, exposing them to that very infection, and so on, so forth, until the entire colony has been lain to waste.

 

so... it's not that stuff, i take it.

[Guest Blanket Fort Collapse]

eat more of da poo poo!

[Guest esquimaw]

another interesting thing to note: the notorious mycologist paul stamets (the guy who is in that TED Talk video called "6 Ways Mushrooms Can Save The World", also owns Fungi Perfecti) cured his own mother of her type IV melanoma cancer and is healthy to this day. shortly following the clinical trial his research team did on his mother, the FDA sent letters essentially telling him, his family, and his team of scientists to shut the fuck up and say nothing about their formula's effectiveness. true story.

 

Oh do please shut the fuck up.

[Guest soundbwoy]

reminds me of this next walk through the jungle i did in madeira, similar story with loads of mushroom/plant related shit curing all sorts of cancers and ting

inspired me to do absolutely jack shit doe

[Guest 277: 930-933]

So how about some scientific research to back up all these claims?

Maybe a paper written by someone not somehow involved in the manufacturing of these capsules?

[Guest fiznuthian]

you don't believe me, but i know it worked for me. :(

 

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Also check out http://www.ahccresearch.com/

they compiled a lot of the japanese, korean, european, and a few american studies on AHCC, derived from the shiitake alone.

 

 

 

 

look, if you don't believe me look for youself. search for every species on pubmed, webmd, or any other public research database and read the hundreds of study abstracts you're going to come accross. or you can buy the International Journal for Medicinal Mushrooms for published research.

there is a reason that these are part of the japanese national cancer treatment and used in every japanese hospital, let alone many, many other nations all over the world. they slow infection rates in hospitals during hospital intake (AHCC is widely used for this).

 

 

here's more info from sloan kettering and the ACS:

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/eto/content/eto_5_3x_maitake_mushroom.asp

http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/69353.cfm

http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/69377.cfm

http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/97957.cfm

http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/69294.cfm

 

and there's a shit ton more.

[Guest fiznuthian]

another interesting thing to note: the notorious mycologist paul stamets (the guy who is in that TED Talk video called "6 Ways Mushrooms Can Save The World", also owns Fungi Perfecti) cured his own mother of her type IV melanoma cancer and is healthy to this day. shortly following the clinical trial his research team did on his mother, the FDA sent letters essentially telling him, his family, and his team of scientists to shut the fuck up and say nothing about their formula's effectiveness. true story.

 

Oh do please shut the fuck up.

 

why are you acting like this? am i asking for your money?

i'm telling you this because these mushrooms supplements 100% changed my life for the better.

i am no longer sad on a daily basis nor do i look like a piece of shit.

 

paul stamets is a passionate mycologist who STUDIES FUNGI, and has done so for 35 years, not just a medicinal mushroom fanatic selling supplements. he graduated from Evergreen Washington State University. he's an advisor for the integrative medical board at the University of Arizona, and his studies were NIH funded. so please refrain from dismissing me immediately and read.

[Guest fiznuthian]

whenever i see 'cordyceps' i'll always flash to the image of that otherworldly fungus taking over the ant's brain and killing it, then guiding his infected brain to climb to the top of the stalk and bomb the community of ants below, exposing them to that very infection, and so on, so forth, until the entire colony has been lain to waste.

 

so... it's not that stuff, i take it.

 

actually, it is. and the stamets blends im eating contain cordyceps replicated in an organic lab environment replicating the genetic makeup of the wild species, the one you saw in Planet Earth wiping insect colonies.

it does not infect and consume humans or animals, and hasn't for the past 1000 years of use in Asian nations.

my cordyceps supplements make watching people i work with suffer from fatigue laughable. coffee sucks compared to this.

[Guest ruiagnelo]

That is all bulshit.

[Guest fiznuthian]

That is all bulshit.

 

you really think i'm just proselytizing for no reason?

i refrained from telling anyone about these shrooms until after i tried them, and god damnit it worked for me 100%.

i can't even come close to denying it from myself. i was not in this good of condition, not anywhere close before i started eating them. i barely changed my diet, and only in the past week have i truly started running and giving my body the exercise it needs.

[Guest 277: 930-933]

Hey Fiznuthian, I didn't mean to attack you, it's great that this is working for you.

Just weary of miracle cures.

Thanks for the host of references, will check some out.