Magic Medicinal Mushrooms

Consuming shiitake mushrooms daily improves immunity. Giving people just 1 or 2 dried shiitake mushrooms a day, about the weight equivalent of 5-10 fresh ones, for 4 weeks resulted in an increase in proliferation of gamma-delta-t-lymphocytes and doubled the proliferation of natural killer cells.

A meta analysis of 5 randomized controlled trials showed that patients who had been given reishi mushroom supplements along with chemo and radiation were more likely to respond positively compared to just chemo and radiation alone.