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BY DR. FRANCESCA ARDIGÒ
Medicinal mushrooms for athletes
What if, running the New York Marathon were no longer just a dream but could actually happen?
What if, during your next game, race or training session, your performance could improve a lot? What if, you could finally start winning all your competitions and push your own limits? Today I'm here to talk to you about Medicinal Mushrooms and their incredible powers in the world of sport.
Medicinal mushrooms to boost your energy
More and more sportspeople, both amateurs and professionals, find that Cordyceps, Agaricus Blazei and Reishi are excellent natural supplements to recuperate the physical and mental energy they need. Let's see how they act.
Cordyceps and world records
The best remedy for athletes is Cordyceps, which is not surprisingly used by athletes to optimize sports performance. In fact, it is able to significantly increase energy and facilitate recovery from fatigue.
Thanks to its ability to oxygenate the blood, it gives about two hours a day of extra energy in everyday life and improves sports performance by about 10%.
Cordyceps became known to most people in 1991 in Germany when, during the World Athletics Championships, Chinese women won almost all the races, breaking several records. Following the results achieved, their coach attributed their success to "a lot of training and a diet particularly rich in Cordyceps. "Track & Field News” magazine wrote: "Chinese female athletes have made the biggest leap forward in the history of human performance."
In fact, for more than a thousand years, Medicinal Mushrooms, and in particular Cordyceps, have been the most popular tonics in the East.
The first traditional class 1 treatment approved by the Chinese Ministry of Health dates back to 1987. Studies and clinical examinations conducted on 1800 patients suffering from different diseases have shown improvements in numerous parameters. In particular, the action of Cordyceps has been proven to be particularly useful because it:
- reduces oxidative damage by trapping oxygenated free radicals
- increases the amount of SOD, which eliminates free radicals (37 patients);
- increases the intracellular energy rate (ATP) and the use of oxygen;
- reduces fatigue (117 patients);
- increases the aerobic capacity of elderly patients in good health (30 subjects);
- promotes healthy lung function;
- relieves the symptoms of patients suffering from respiratory diseases and in particular asthmatics;
- reduces the production of lactic acid and the risk of inflammation, also making it more effective at the end of exercise that causes fatigue because it eliminates residual muscle pain more quickly;
- reduces anaerobic metabolism and consequently guarantees 30% more oxygen;
- is rich in anti-inflammatory substances, which allow the joints, tendons and muscles to reduce inflammation and promote the healing of inflamed or bruised tissues;
- increases blood oxygenation by 4.8% and strength by 8.3% (Yi, 2004);
- has an invigorating and antidepressant action, in fact it acts on both physical and mental energy.
It is important to emphasize that Cordyceps, just like all medicinal mushrooms, is not a doping substance, and is allowed in all competitions around the world.
Agaricus, pure energy
Agaricus significantly increases physical and mental strength as it raises the levels of brain mediators (noradrenaline and dopamine) involved in the production of psychophysical energy.
This is why combining the two remedies is ideal. Moreover, in synergy, they promote and amplify the psychological and emotional skills necessary for any demanding task, such as preparation for a marathon and the race itself.
Finally, they protect against injuries and the production of free radicals - harmful molecules, and help to rapidly eliminate lactic acid, which forms in the phase of maximum intensity of physical effort.
Agaricus attracted the interest of scientists in the early sixties, when Dr. W.J. Cinden and his team of researchers from Pennsylvania State University found that people living in one area of Brazil (the mountainous region of Piedade) were longer-lived. The experts discovered that the secret was none other than the Agaricus present in their daily diet.
In particular, Agaricus:
- increases psychophysical energy;
- increases the production of dopamine and noradrenaline, two neurological mediators that act on both the nervous system and muscles;
- is a powerful antioxidant;
- slows down aging processes, rejuvenates and gives vitality;
- promotes the metabolism of carbohydrates;
- counteracts the production of free radicals
Reishi and the highest peaks
I like to define Reishi as "the mushroom of immortality", given its incredible wealth of precious properties.
Reishi, for example, allowed Asian mountaineers to reach the roof of the world, the summit of Everest at 8848m, without oxygen cylinders.
In particular, Reishi:
- improves physical and mental energy;
- has a powerful anti-inflammatory effect,
- prevents microtrauma and inflammation
- reduces tiredness in general;
- has an anti-inflammatory effect comparable in strength to that of cortisone, but without the side effects of this drug;
- facilitates the production of healthy and clean energy;
- improves blood oxygenation;
- is a powerful adjuvant of the body's defenses;
- promotes the vasodilation of blood vessels thanks to its adenosine content and improves blood distribution throughout the body, so that the muscles, receiving more nourishment and oxygen with the blood, respond with more powerful performance under effort.
Energy and sport kit
The Energy and Sport Kit provides efficient help to recharge your batteries and is the ideal ally for all sportspeople.
Designed to improve your physical performance in a natural way.
Daily dosage, can be taken all at once or divided throughout the day:
- Cordyceps Plus: 3 tablets per day
- Agaricus blazei Plus: 3 tablets per day
- Reishi Plus: 3 tablets per day
- Rosa Canina Vita C: 2 tablets per day
- Magnesium Citrate: 2 tablets per day
We remind you that Mycotherapy is accepted by the IOC (International Olympic Committee) and by the whole world of sport, since it consists in non-doping substances.
The "Energy and Sport Kit" is practical and effective, does not contain gluten or lactose, is safe, does not cause side effects and is compatible with any conventional medicine you may be taking.
