Comment · Sat, March 21, 2020
Red Reishi Extract & Covid-19
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imelemi · 7 points
Would this specific mushrooms extract (Red Reishi) help with overcoming/recovering from Covid-19?
I don’t know much about Reishi in general, and I have personally never tried it before... but from what I’ve read so far, it sounds like it has amazing benefits and can help support a healthy immune system by “boosting” white blood cells, and creating the “good killer cells”?
Some studies have been conducted on animals (and possibly humans as well?) regarding the potential benefits of boosting our immune systems.
I have also read some speculation on Reishi having anti-cancer properties?
I ordered some Red Reishi extract from nootropics depot in hopes to aid with my bodies ability to recover from Covid-19, unfortunately me and my girlfriend have been dealing with the terrible symptoms of this nasty virus.
I understand it’s not going to be a cure-all to this virus, but from what I’ve learned so far Reishi has shown some ability to help strengthen our immune system and in return fight off infections (such as the flu), cancer, and improve our well-being overall.
I have some concerns regarding the safety & side effects of using Reishi daily, and if any notable interactions occur…
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Rogermcfarley · 1 points
What I can say is that COVID-19 is a beautiful piece of natural art, no human could design this complexity, it's far beyond our capabilities. It has a near perfect way of entering our cells. It's natural perfection, life at its utmost creativity. It is self perpetuating life, seeking it replicate itself and evolve. It is hurting human society but there can be no doubt this is nature at its most finest and fearsome. Humans job is to learn from this and we will in turn evolve and we also seek to survive. We will gain valuable data and insights from this pandemic. We must look at the positive for all our weaknesses we have great ingenuity and creativity and we will overcome this. We will pay a heavy price for our invasion of natural eco systems and this will become a common occurrence if we don't learn quickly. Just look at how powerless we are at the hands of the natural world.
I don't subscribe to Gaia theory or conspiracy, this is nature at work and we must marvel at its genius.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
Not to stoke conspiracies, but the evidence for its natural origin is not as solid as people are claiming.
https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/fmaj92/harvard_educated_criminal_justice_blogger_writes/
SARS-CoV-2 invades human cells through a novel spike protein CD147, which binds VERY efficiently to a site on the ACE2 receptor. This did not exist in nature before this outbreak. Obviously the base virus was of zoonotic origin. However, there is not yet enough evidence for us to conclusively say it was not modified in a lab at some point. If you were to take a coronavirus from say a bat, and modify the spike protein enough to make it such a good binding candidate to ACE2, it would still show the DNA fingerprint with it being of zoonotic origin. However, the final step that made it so virulent could have been man-made. Just read that blog I linked, and see what you think after reading it. I am not saying we should say for sure one way or another right now, but I am saying the evidence that it is for sure not man-made is not strong enough for me to believe at this point in time.