REISHI

Because mushrooms aren’t just for pizza anymore! The Reishi mushroom is an edible fungus that falls under a class of medicinal mushrooms that have been historically used in Chinese, Japanese and Eastern European medicine practices as adaptogens. They’re just starting to gain popularity in western medicine, and can be seen popping up everywhere from your favorite local juice bar or coffee shop, to the snack aisle of health food stores. 

These mushrooms are classified as “adaptogens”, meaning they can respond to stress in any way the body needs, either by up-regulating or down-regulating cortisol and other hormones involved in your adrenal stress response.  Reishi’s primary claim to fame is its ability to help support the immune system. But rather than stimulating the immune system like other “immune boosters” do, mushrooms work by normalizing immune function in whatever direction the body requires. It can also support the nervous, cardiovascular and hepatic systems, as well as playing a role in detoxification. 

Reishi is used most often as a “general wellness tonic” and has effects on both the innate (short term) and adaptive (longer term) immune response.

If the following resonates with you, then you may benefit from supplementing with Reishi:

• I need to sleep better and deeper
• I want to boost my immune system
• I am getting colds and infections more often than I think I should be
• I need help detoxifying my body
• I usually feel overwhelmed