This is why Medicinal Mushrooms protect our pets' livers

You may be surprised to know that Mycotherapy, that is the science that studies and uses the biological properties of mushrooms to improve health, is not useful and effective only in humans. It can be used with equal success also in animals, in many different situations and pathologies. Starting from the liver: as it is useful to treat liver diseases in humans, it can also be used to improve liver health in dogs and cats.

Very common diseases

In fact, our four-legged friends often have altered values of transaminases. Known as ALT/AST or GPT/GOT and measurable in the blood, these enzymes are important indicators of liver health. This is why, when their levels are very different from threshold values, it probably means that the liver is suffering. In most cases, this occurs due to age: the liver also ages and, therefore, over time it is likely that it will develop a condition of fatigue, which can result in liver failure. The fact that nutrition is increasingly manipulated by the animal food industry only makes things worse.

The most suitable remedies

When blood tests reveal that a dog or cat is suffering from hepatic insufficiency and/or high transaminases, the best thing is to turn to the combined use of four Mycotherapy Mushrooms, which make up the recipe "Super Liver": Reishi, Cordyceps, Maitake and Agaricus. As I explained in my latest book "Healing with Medicinal Mushrooms", in fact, these four remedies, taken simultaneously, are very effective in bringing high values of transaminases back to normal, often in a very short time, a month or two. In addition, they support the complex purifying and productive actions of the liver, because they strengthen every single cell in the organ and improve its functions. Finally, these four remedies facilitate digestion, generating energy savings (when the liver is malfunctioning it wastes a lot of energy).

If there is also an accumulation of fat in the liver, the mushroom Pleurotus can also be associated, since it helps to eliminate fat accumulated in the liver.

The benefits go much further because they significantly increase well-being in many other body areas, such as the kidney, heart, circulation, hair and general energy.

How to use them

They can be taken in powder or tablets. In this case I recommend using 2 g. of each mushroom per day. It is the same dosage that I also recommend in humans, but is equally useful for animals because it produces the desired results in a shorter time, without ever causing side effects.

On Sunday 11th October in Rome, in the splendid setting of Villa Borghese there will be a meeting on this topic, and I hope many of you will take part

Dr Walter Ardigò