User:Herb5902/Reishi
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Ganoderma lucidum
β-glucan and arabinogalactan
Benefits:
- can increase the ratio of CD4+ to CD8+ T cells
- diarrhea
- Cancer
- Blood Sugar (possibly by inhibiting an enzyme that produces glucose)
- protects pancreatic beta-cells apoptosis
- Ganoderma lucidum polysaccharides improve insulin sensitivity
- may prevent or halt kidney complications
- stimulates natural killer cells
- increase the number of lymphocytes
- allergy-fighting potential
- Antibacterial
- staph
- strep
- possible antiviral:
- herpes,
- influenza,
- EpsteinBarr,
- (HIV)-1 protease activity
- reduces the severity of colitis
- significant suppression of IL-6
- May increase the relative abundance of the beneficial bacteria such as:
- Lactobacillales,
- Roseburia and
- Lachnospiraceae.
- Bones
Side Effects:
- may be hepatotoxic