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Has anyone tried lion’s mane mushrooms or supplements to combat ADT fatigue and brain fog? Was it helpful?

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Andy1569

Look at this site. Dr Weil is an advocate for Mushroom supplements/treatments.

drweil.com/health-wellness/...

Fight On!

Andy

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GJ65 in reply toAndy1569

This looks like the supplement may be helpful! Thank you for the information.

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London441

Take whatever you think will help if it’s safe. More exercise works much better than anything else.

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Gl448 in reply toLondon441

Agreed.

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Iscetic7 in reply toLondon441

How can you say this, if you haven’t tried it?

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London441 in reply toIscetic7

I’ve tried it every day for years. Including throughout my treatments. It increased my lean muscle mass, lowered body fat, kept my mitochondria healthy, increased strength and endurance dramatically, helped keep blood pressure normal, blood sugar low, metabolism high, brain function optimal, prevented or shortened the duration of colds, covid and other viruses, helped prevent a host of other diseases, induced better sleep, elevated mood, took years off my biological age, made me much better looking and too many other benefits to count.

Oh, you mean mushrooms. Sorry, no you’re right, haven’t tried those. Great luck to you with them though!

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Iscetic7 in reply toLondon441

Oh yeah! Haha. Exercise is a given, everybody says that. I also exercise daily, but the cognitive and memory side effects of the drugs are still unbearable for me, so I’m looking for options. Your comment was not helpful.

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London441 in reply toIscetic7

Sorry to appear snide, but the problem is that exercise for most is only a ‘given’ conceptually. ‘Everybody says’ that it’s beneficial, and everyone agreees it’s important. Yet few actually do much of it at all, and so often the wrong kind, not enough or not with enough frequency or intensity. This is especially true as we age and have a disease such as ours.

Men tend to oversell and lie about what and how much they exercise, knowing it matters but not doing it. Statistically less than 15% do it regularly with any diligence.

You state that ‘I exercise daily’. That is too vague to be of any value. How much exercise you actually do and what kind goes a long way toward preserving and improving cognition and memory.

Exercise is not ‘the answer’ to better cognitive function, but it can make much more of a difference than most of who you refer to as ‘everybody’ knows, and is a definitely a catalyst for every other solution you can throw at it.

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Iscetic7 in reply toLondon441

Good for you. Sounds like you’ve got it figured out. Thanks. I’m still looking for input on high strength mushroom extract use and especially experience. Perhaps I’m on the wrong forum.

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London441 in reply toIscetic7

Not the wrong forum at all, people try lots of things. I encourage it.

At the same time, I’m admittedly known to advocate strongly for exercise here. Always take what you want and leave the rest.

However, consider that ADT is obviously the prime culprit when it comes to side effects of treatment. Exercise is by far the most effective remedy for them, but it requires more effort and consistency than any other intervention.

This is exactly why supplements and exotic dietary choices are so popular. Most don’t do anything and some are toxic, especially in large doses. So often the only upside in taking these things is that it requires no effort, which makes them very appealing indeed.

I’m not saying taking mushroom extract is wrong. I am saying that more attention to exercise first would be a vastly better idea, especially for those who do none, or the wide variety of bare minimum that is common.

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tayninhtom

yes, and it seems to work well, especially in combination with a Microdosing regimen.

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SteveTheJ

Yes and no. But everyone is different. I stopped taking them.

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GJ65 in reply toSteveTheJ

Why did you stop taking them?

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SteveTheJ in reply toGJ65

Made no difference, tasted kinda bad.

j-o-h-n profile image
j-o-h-n

Not if I have to wake up the lion....

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Monday 03/27/2023 1:28 PM DST

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Tony666

I saw the videos and tried it. Didn’t taste very good so I will stick to other shiitake, portobello, button shrooms.

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Boywonder56

A little bit of silly cybin shrooms make the pain go away......🍄

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treedown

I eat them regularly. My first round of ADT/Zytiga I had neither. This new round of ADT/Xtandi I just started and nothing yet but too early to say. I also eat Maitake, Bunashameji, Oyster, White Button, shitake, on a regular basis. I eat them for culinary enjoyment and if they serve a higher purpose than lucky me.

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Iscetic7

I have been struggling hard with the side effects. I just started taking the strongest lion’s mane extract I could find. As with most mushroom and plant based remedies, an extract is the way to go. It seems most on this forum stick to allopathic medicine almost exclusively.

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Iscetic7 in reply toIscetic7

I’m happy to report that the double extract has helped a lot. I’m dosing about 3-4x the recommended dosage, so I’m going through a 2 ounce bottle about every week and a half. If you’re struggling with memory and cognitive function issues I can’t recommend it enough. Now to tackle the constant fatigue!!!

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