Maine Chaga Extract

Product of The Week: Maine Chaga Extract (My Berry Organics)

What is Chaga?

Chaga (chemical name is Inonotus Obliquus) is a slow growing wild mushroom that is found mainly on birch trees in select cold regions of the world, including our Western Maine Mountain region of North America near the Canadian border.

The mushroom absorbs nutrients from the birch for many years. When the tree eventually dies the fungus then falls off and the spores are released into the air. The airborne spores then land on another host tree that has a deep bark injury to begin the process again. Chaga is wild harvested after it has sustained a growth of 10-35 plus years. Laboratory cultivating of this mushroom is being done by a handful of companies world wide. However, the entire broad spectrum of the nutrient’s composition has not been able to be replicated in a lab setting.

What Are The Health Benefits of Chaga?

Due to its extremely high level of phytonutrients (an astounding 200+ types of antioxidants), scientific research of chaga demonstrates an amazing host of health benefits:

• Anticancer
• Anti-inflammatory
• Antiviral
• Analgesic (pain relieving)
• Immune stimulating
• Anti-diabetic
• Cytotoxic ( ability to kill off harmful cells)

Break Down of Nutrients:

Chaga contains all of the following nutrients:

Antioxidants: Chaga Protects the body from “free radical” damage which destroys cells and damages tissue, leading to the effects of aging and associated diseases. Chaga contains the highest known amount of antioxidant in nature. Its ORAC value (a measure of antioxidant potency) is off the chart, even in comparison to other known high antioxidants.

Betulin and betulinic acid: Chaga is the ONLY mushroom to have this highly prized nutrient that has such strong medicinal properties. Betulin is not present in cultivated chaga.

Superoxide Dismutase (SOD) Chaga contains up to 50 times more enzymes than CoQ10, vitamins, juices, fruits etc. This highly acclaimed enzyme helps keep cell membranes healthy and supple, making it highly effective for skin health and in skin preparations.

Vitamin B1, B2, and B3: Helps convert carbohydrates into energy

Polysaccharides: Includes beta glucans that help maintain a healthy immune system. These are complex carbohydrates which are being utilized as anticancer drugs in Japan.

Amino acids: Contains 15 types including glycine, aspartic, and glutamic acids predominantly, plus 12 others in lesser amounts

Ergosterol: A precursor of Vitamin D2

Flavonoids: Powerful antioxidants Including flavones, flavonols, anthocyanins, catechols, triterpene, sterols, lignin, plus others

Melanin: The black pigment of the chaga helps maintain and repair DNA. It Also helps protect against free radical damage that ages bodies. Melanins are known scientifically as “protectors against carcinogenic factors”. 

Elements: The breakdown of elements in chaga in order of highest to lowest; carbon, potassium, hydrogen, nitrogen (is of a protein nature in chaga), magnesium, calcium, chlorine, phosphorus, sodium, rubidium, sulfur, and manganese

Trace minerals: iron, copper, zinc, selenium, iodine, plus others

*High in dietary fiber

*Low in calories

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