Stop to kidney failure thanks to Medicinal Mushrooms

Dear Doctor,

I am writing to try to resolve a doubt. I have a rather old dog that some time ago was unwell. The tests performed by the vet to understand what the matter was revealed that he had a very high level of creatinine in the blood and initial kidney failure. The vet suggested that I start a treatment with specific drugs. So I did, but there was little improvement. A friend of mine then advised me to try using medicinal mushrooms, thanks to which his cat had managed to resolve the situation very well. In fact, after a few weeks of treatment, my dog started to feel much better. Today, his problems have totally resolved and he seems to be the dog he used to be. I have recently discovered that I too suffer from a mild form of kidney failure, with high creatinine levels. So I wonder if, like my dog, I too could benefit from the use of mushrooms. What do you think?

Mattia, 65 years old

Dear Mattia,

definitely yes.
Mycotherapy can be of great help also to you. To demonstrate this, I want to tell you the story of a patient of mine, a 77-year-old university professor retired, who suffered from chronic kidney failure. He asked for my help a few years ago, following a worsening of kidney function that seemed to make the start of dialysis imminent.
At the first visit, the two renal reference parameters, creatinine and GFR (glomerular filtration rate), were altered. Creatinine exceeded its normal level only slightly, but it must be remembered that when it goes beyond the threshold limit, usually the kidney has already lost 50% of its purifying function.
GFR was at 47 ml/min: a worrying result, because halfway between the normal level of an elderly person (60 ml/min) and a level that requires kidney dialysis. I prescribed him Reishi, Auricularia, Polyporus and Pleurotus. After three months there was a first improvement, slight but significant: creatinine for the first time had fallen from 1.47 to 1.36, and  GFR had increased from 46 to 51. But the extraordinary thing happened a further three months later when, for the first time, both values were normal: creatinine was 1.19, and GFR had increased to 62.

Kidney failure is a serious disease in which the kidneys undergo progressive impairment and can no longer perform their blood filtering function. It is almost always a complication of other diseases, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, lupus and other chronic degenerative kidney diseases.
The usual situation in such patients is the thickening of the vascular walls which reduces the permeability of the renal capillaries. In this situation, the kidney vessels retain water, salts and nitrogenous substances and are unable to purify the blood. One of the main symptoms of the illness, which can affect both humans and animals, is an increase in creatinine levels in the blood. Unfortunately, there are no really effective drugs that can resolve the situation. Mushrooms, on the other hand, play a very valuable role from this point of view: Reishi, Auricularia, Polyporus and Pleurotus are able to strengthen the kidney and have neither side effects nor contraindications.

Reishi, in particular, having an anti-inflammatory and anti-degenerative action on the walls of the renal capillaries, significantly reduces progressive damage to the kidney. Together with Pleurotus, it protects the vessels from thickening and arteriosclerosis. For this reason, the two remedies are useful in maintaining and restoring the walls of the renal capillaries to normal or nearly normal, ensuring sufficient permeability. Auricularia, on the other hand, promotes vasodilation (important for increasing the passage of toxins from the blood to the kidney) and increases the production of urine. Finally, Polyporus is very useful in enhancing the filter mechanism. In addition, it effectively reduces creatinine in the blood.

See you next week
Dr Walter Ardigò