The Fungus Among Us: How Eating Mushrooms Can Help Your Body Maintain Healthy Blood Sugar

What food item has gills, spores, stems, comes in multiple colors, and is eaten by people all over the world every day?   It is not a plant, nor does it undergo photosynthesis, but it is grown outside typically and can often be found growing on another food source.  Mushrooms of course!  This food is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus and it can be used in your daily food menu to help maintain healthy blood sugar and glucose metabolism. 

Mushrooms are used throughout many cultures and cuisines usually served as a side dish, as a veggie or as a topping. They are a low-calorie food usually eaten raw or cooked to provide garnish to a meal.  Grown in both wild and cultivated environments, these yummy-fungi are loaded with healthy blood sugar benefits. Mushrooms are a good source of fiber, powerful phytonutrients, beta glucans, minerals, antioxidants and even some protein.   Raw mushrooms are even a great source of B vitamins. 

In fact, there is a highly public royal family that eats a very specific type of mushroom daily to help maintain healthy blood sugar.  The specific mushroom they eat is called the Agaricus Blazei or Murrill mushroom.  It is known in the Far East as “God’s Mushroom” because it is rich in beta glucans and vegetable fiber.  Murrill mushrooms naturally promote intellectual capacity, healthy blood sugar, memory, and mental agility as well! That’s a whole lot of positives from a tiny little mushroom!

Reishi mushrooms are another great food to add to your diet and a great liver and immune tonic.  As well as this mushroom, the Maitake variety is also another positive ingredient for your daily diet and healthy blood sugar.  Incorporating these two as well as the Murrill mushroom in your diet can also help to lower glucose levels and help the body assimilate beta glucans which can support healthy blood sugar.   Adding this trio of healthy and delicious mushrooms to your daily diet will provide you a rich natural source of beta glucans that have been clinically proven to be beneficial to assist the body in maintaining healthy blood sugar.

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