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RDN<p>A mouse study finds that dietary beta-glucan provides protection against Influenza A by bolstering the immune system through an increase in the number of neutrophils in the lungs and other organs.</p><p>Summary: <a href="https://scitechdaily.com/common-fungal-compound-may-be-the-key-to-fighting-deadly-flu-infections/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">scitechdaily.com/common-fungal</span><span class="invisible">-compound-may-be-the-key-to-fighting-deadly-flu-infections/</span></a></p><p>Original paper: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-024-02041-2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s41590-024</span><span class="invisible">-02041-2</span></a></p><p>Correction to paper: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-025-02099-6" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s41590-025</span><span class="invisible">-02099-6</span></a></p><p><a href="https://floss.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Health</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Influenza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Influenza</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/BetaGlucan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BetaGlucan</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/diabetes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diabetes</span></a></p>
–modo ⚛️ 🧬 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇺🇦<p>While unreplicated studies are a dime-a-dozen imagine the impact on big pharma if it turned out that eating oatmeal or barley fiber every day was an end-run around the ludicrously high cost of GLP-1 treatments in the US. Muesli anyone?</p><p>Checking butyrate I found this paper about it's effect on obesity:</p><p><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S216183132200833X" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedirect.com/science/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle/pii/S216183132200833X</span></a></p><p>It concludes "The effect of endogenous butyrate on the gut-brain axis warrants further investigations." </p><p>I'm curious to see where this goes!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/butyrate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>butyrate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/glp1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glp1</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BetaGlucan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BetaGlucan</span></a></p>
Ms. Que Banh<p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/CauliflowerMushroom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CauliflowerMushroom</span></a> - <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SparassisCrispa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SparassisCrispa</span></a>.<br>One of my fave <a href="https://beige.party/tags/edible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>edible</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://beige.party/tags/medicinal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medicinal</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WildMushrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WildMushrooms</span></a>. It's found in many places around the world, including forests on <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VancouverIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VancouverIsland</span></a>.<br>We <a href="https://beige.party/tags/forage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>forage</span></a> for these wild <a href="https://beige.party/tags/mushrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mushrooms</span></a> &amp; use it in making some soups &amp; stir fry dishes.</p><p>It's used often in&nbsp;<a href="https://beige.party/tags/traditional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>traditional</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Chinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chinese</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://beige.party/tags/TCM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TCM</span></a> because it contains active <a href="https://beige.party/tags/pharmacological" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pharmacological</span></a> ingredients. In order to study its medicinal value better, the&nbsp;genomic sequence&nbsp;of&nbsp;S. crispa&nbsp;was published in Oct 2018.<br><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6207663" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/</span><span class="invisible">PMC6207663</span></a></p><p>Dry weight of the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/basidiocarp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>basidiocarp</span></a> was found to contain up to 43.6%&nbsp;<a href="https://beige.party/tags/BetaGlucan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BetaGlucan</span></a>, which was approved for the treatment of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a>&nbsp;in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> &amp; recommended for&nbsp;<a href="https://beige.party/tags/COVID19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID19</span></a>&nbsp;patients to overcome&nbsp;<a href="https://beige.party/tags/inflammation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inflammation</span></a>.</p><p>Experiments suggest that S. crispa contains chemicals that may stimulate the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ImmuneSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ImmuneSystem</span></a> &amp; has many <a href="https://beige.party/tags/biological" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biological</span></a> properties including: <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AntiTumor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiTumor</span></a>, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/antiviral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antiviral</span></a> activity (reverse transcriptase inhibitory activity), <a href="https://beige.party/tags/neuroprotection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neuroprotection</span></a>, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/cardioprotection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cardioprotection</span></a>, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AntiInflammation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiInflammation</span></a>, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/hyperlipidemia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hyperlipidemia</span></a>, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AntiDiabetic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiDiabetic</span></a> medication, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/antimicrobial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antimicrobial</span></a> compounds, &amp; methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus <a href="https://beige.party/tags/MRSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MRSA</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/ForestForaging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForestForaging</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/MushroomsMedicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MushroomsMedicine</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FoodFromTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodFromTheForest</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WildFoods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WildFoods</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VanIsle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VanIsle</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Wsanec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wsanec</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Saanich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Saanich</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PacificNorthwest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PacificNorthwest</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Cascadia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cascadia</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PNW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PNW</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/MushroomsMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MushroomsMonday</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/LookReadLearn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LookReadLearn</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AsianMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsianMastodon</span></a></p>
Garidin<p>Less snacking, more satisfaction: Some foods boost levels of an Ozempic-like hormone | Georgia Public Broadcasting</p><p>I'd never heard of beta-glucan before.</p><p><a href="https://www.gpb.org/news/shots-health-news/2023/10/30/less-snacking-more-satisfaction-some-foods-boost-levels-of" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gpb.org/news/shots-health-news</span><span class="invisible">/2023/10/30/less-snacking-more-satisfaction-some-foods-boost-levels-of</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ozempic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ozempic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wegovy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wegovy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fiber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiber</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/betaglucan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>betaglucan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/diet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diet</span></a></p>