Button Mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus)

Mushrooms have been eaten as food and used as a healing aid since prehistory starting

in the Neolithic period. They were first found in in the prehistoric lake dwellings in
Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. Truffles were found in Greece and Rome where
they cultivated the small Agrocybeaegerita on pieces of poplar trunks. In China and
Japan, shitake mushrooms were grown on rotting logs. In 1678, a French botanist
demonstrated the cultivation of mushrooms by transplanting their mycelia.
While mushrooms enjoyed a long history in Europe and Asia, they did not become
popular as a fad food in America until the late 19th century, though they were used in
recipes for making condiments and sauces up until then. The advancement in
cultivating and identifying mushrooms was the catalyst for the growing interest just
before the turn of the century. Mycological clubs began forming and members would
forage and identify the mushrooms in their area.

Button mushrooms just don’t get the respect they deserve—maybe because we are so used
to seeing them at the grocery store. Buttons are a great addition to the diet as long as you
buy them organically produced and cook them. Simply eating them daily may be enough to
reduce diabetes risk by reducing two of the multiple contributors to metabolic imbalances,
inflammation and oxidative stress (“rust”).
Buttons may also help with blood sugar and insulin regulation by supporting pancreatic
health. A study found that a button mushroom component stimulated regeneration of
pancreatic beta-cells. Beta-cells are the cells in the pancreas that make insulin. They are
also the cells that the immune system destroys in type 1 diabetes. Button mushrooms may
even stimulate insulin production directly, though this was tested in cells in a dish, which may
or may not have relevance to what happens in us humans.

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Blood Sugar Busters

Blood sugar is key to keeping our cells alive and fueled to do their thing, whether they’re

muscle cells or cells in the brain. Small amounts of blood sugar come from proteins and fats
that we eat, but most comes from carbohydrates in the diet. Insulin is produced in the
pancreas in response to blood sugar being released from the digestive tract after meals.
Insulin acts like a key that opens the cellular door to let blood sugar inside where the cells
can use it.
When there isn’t enough insulin, as with type 1 diabetes, not enough doors open to let blood
sugar into the cells, a dangerous situation that can lead to diabetic coma and death if not
dealt with by taking insulin. In type 2 diabetes, cells become less responsive to insulin;
essentially, the key stops working to open the cellular door to blood sugar. The body tries to
fix it by making higher and higher levels of insulin. This can cause increased inflammation in
the body as well as weight gain. In both types of diabetes, high blood sugar levels cause
stickiness and blockages in the blood vessels, from which the complications of diabetes
arise, like kidney failure, blindness, and other issues.
Mushrooms may be one way to improve blood sugar and insulin regulation in the
background of a healthy diet and lifestyle. For instance, mushrooms and certain plants
contain beta-glucans, a form of soluble dietary fiber. Beta-glucans have been found to
reduce blood sugar levels in clinical trials.

Cortesia de Mushroom of medicine,Ebook.page 17.
De: Basmati.

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