"In vivo and in vitro evidence has shown that mushrooms have the potential to prevent prostate cancer. However, the relationship between mushroom consumption and incident prostate cancer in humans has never been investigated. In the present study, a total of 36,499 men, aged 40-79 years, who participated in the Miyagi Cohort Study in 1990 and in the Ohsaki Cohort Study in 1994 were followed for a median of 13.2 years. Data on mushroom consumption (categorized as <1, 1-2 and ≥3 times/week) was collected using a validated food frequency questionnaire. Cox proportional hazards regression analysis was used to estimate multivariate hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for prostate cancer incidence. During 574,397 person-years of follow-up, 1,204 (3.3%) cases of prostate cancer were identified. Compared to participants with mushroom consumption <1 time/week, frequent mushroom intake was associated with a decreased risk of prostate cancer (1-2 times/week: HRs [95% CIs] = 0.92 [0.81, 1.05]; ≥3 times/week: HRs [95% CIs] = 0.83 [0.70, 0.98]; p-trend = 0.023). This inverse relationship was especially obvious among participants aged ≥50 years and did not differ by clinical stage of cancer and intake of vegetables, fruit, meat and dairy products. The present study showed an inverse relationship between mushroom consumption and incident prostate cancer among middle-aged and elderly Japanese men, suggesting that habitual mushroom intake might help to prevent prostate cancer."
For more on mushrooms (particularly after diagnosis): Intro. [2], Oyster [3], Maitake [4], Turkey Tail [5], Chaga [6], Shitake [7], Reishi [8], Agaricus blazei [9], Cordyceps militaris [10], Button [11]
We eat a lot of mushrooms in Bombay. Have been doing so for decades. Does not seem to have helped one bit in either preventing me from getting cancer or now in helping mitigate the cancer that I already have.
However, I will continue to eat mushrooms because I like them
As I will with all other foods I like whether supposedly good, bad or indifferent to cancer.
I too eat a lot of mushrooms. The study only indicates a slight statistical advantage in consuming mushrooms. The study does not indicate that consuming mushrooms prevents PCa to a high degree.
I know from personal consumption of mushrooms over 5 decades that the consumption of mushrooms neither prevents MPca nor reduces the ferocity/intensity of MPca. Even if the study had indicated otherwise, I would not have given it any credence.
When I visited Japan in 2010 I got the chance to speak and meet attendees of the International Integrative Medicine conference. Many talked about their use of mushrooms - a very much accepted method in Asian countries, particularly Japan. Our Annie Appleseed Project website has some information about mushrooms. In a lecture I heard that if you chose a specific mushroom to supplement, then after 3 months you need a one-month change to a multi-mushroom tablet, capsule or tincture. Good luck.
I have in the past posted a link to a study, have spoken of a study, referred to a practice of Japanese medicine, where they prescribe PSK, for patients who are having chemo, since I believe, the 1980's. It was found that PSK strengthens a patient's immune system undergoing chemo. Chemo kills cancer cells but not cancer stem cells. Chemo also suppresses the patient's immune system. PSK is prescribed to offset chemo's damage to the patient's immune system. Several years ago my neighbor was diagnosed with lung cancer. Radiation and the platinum chemo at a hospital in Boston "cured" the lung cancer. At his first post treatment scan he was free of cancer. At his second scan he told me that his head had "lit up". He had brain cancer. Within 15 months he was dead. Sounds like Valerie Harper, lung cancer to brain cancer. I have a friend who has had the same experience, her cancer was "cured" to be followed by brain cancer. Chemo kills cancer cells but leaves the cancer stem cells alive which have the ability to cross the blood brain barrier. PSK, Polysaccharide K, is Turkey Tail mushroom. Host Defense grows and markets organic mushroom supplements, Turkey Tail being one. They also have a mushroom supplement named, "My Community", which is a blend of 18 different mushrooms one of which is Turkey Tail. I take both thinking that maybe a little synergy from the other 17 mushrooms will be good.
To be used medicinally as support for immune systems they have to be prepared, powdered, dried. I believe that Dr. Fuhrman mentioned that raw mushrooms are slightly carcinogenic but that cooking reverses that.
A little reading--it seems that reishi mushroom has something going for it too. That is after the PSK so continue scrolling.
Just remember that Dr. Furman said raw mushrooms are slightly carcinogenic. Cooking them flips that making them quite the cancer killers that he suggests adding to one's diet.
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Does anyone have any experience with Maitake Mushrooms?
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