Shiitake Mushroom

Functional effect: Can help liver health

Daily Intake: 350mg/day

What is Shiitake mycelium extract?

Mushroom white soft hair-shaped ‘mycelia’ that takes root of an oak tree and edible ‘fruit body’ part. The key nutrients of a mushroom are much contained in mycelia where there is 4 times much more nutrients than in the fruit body. 

Mycelia has very high reproduction rate and absorption ability enough to fall down a big and old oak tree. As it absorbs the entire wood part of a tree, mycelia contains even much more nutrients than the edible part of a mushroom. 

The mycelia of a shiitake mushroom has variety of physiological bioactive substance including phenol compound and protein polysaccharide. Among them, β-glucan generated as the self-defensive means by mushroom mycelia during the proliferation provides excellent protection of liver and increase the immune function. 

Effect of Shiitake mycelium extract

1. Helpful for liver health
The HK Shiitake mycelium extract powder is the ingredient for health functional food individually certified as helpful for liver health, by the Korean Food and Drugs Administration. A human subject research showed the improvement of the indicators of liver health, GOT and GPT.

2. Enhancing immune system of the human body
It is reported on the inhibited process and development of tumor and the reduced adverse effect of cancer treatment. These effects occur because β-glucan contained in a shiitake mushroom makes bioactive macrophagocyte cells, T- cells and natural killer cells that attack cancer cells, by stimulating the immune system.

3. Creates interferon, virus infection inhibitor in the human body, helping the treatment of infection diseases such as hepatitis.

4. The material called eritadenine among the extract from a shiitake mushroom declines the blood pressure.

5. Much content of quality fiber inhibits cholesterol from being absorbed to the human body.

Related Articles

1. Optimal level for the protection of carbon Tetrachloride-induced Sprague dawley rat liver damage by mycelial cultures of Letinus edodes (Wook J. Jang, Young S. Kim, et al., Journal of Life Science 2010 Vol. 20. No. 5. 782-788)

: The shiitake mushroom mycelia and cultures have liver protective function, which is mainly caused by polysaccharide called β-glucan that boosts immune system and protects liver.

2. Mushrooms, tumors, and immunity. (Borchers AT, Stern JS, et al., Proc Soc Exp Biol Med. 1999;221:281-293.)

3. Antitumor and metastasis-inhibitory activities of lentinan as an immunomodulator: an overview. (Chihara G, Hamuro J, et al., Cancer Detect Prev Suppl. 1987;1:423-443)

4. Inhibition of growth and induction of apoptosis in human cancer cell lines by an ethyl acetate fraction from shiitake mushrooms. (Fang N, Li Q, et al., J Altern Complement Med. 2006;12:125-132.)

5. Antitumor activity of aqueous extracts of edible mushrooms. (Ikekawa T, Uehara N, et al., Cancer Res. 1969;29:734-735.)

: A study of bioactive and high anti-tumour effects of the extract from various edible mushrooms including shiitake mushroom