There are many benefits of reishi mushroom powder, such as anti-cancer, it has two weapons to fight against cancers:

  • ganoderma lucidum polysaccharides,
  • ganoderma lucidum triterpenoids.

What is the difference ganoderma triterpenoids and polysaccharides?
Ganoderma triterpenoids can kill cancer cells directly, But how?

Induce apoptosis of cancer cells

The cytotoxic effect of triterpenoids can inhibit the activity of “topoisomerase”. By inhibiting the activity of this enzyme, the DNA of cancer cells can be destroyed, thereby inducing apoptosis of cancer cells, that is, directly killing cancer cells.

Here comes a new question question: Is the cytotoxicity of ganoderma triterpene a threat to normal human cells?

Also, what is a “topoisomerase” and why cancer cells can be killed by inhibiting it?

Answer: the cytotoxicity of triterpenoids only targets cancer cells and has no effect on normal human cells.

Topoisomerase is an enzyme in the nucleus of cells that catalyzes the breaking and binding of DNA strands. In other words, this enzyme helps cancer cells to divide and multiply, generating new cancer cells.

However, triterpenoids can inhibit the activity of this enzyme, so it can only accelerate the break of the DNA strands of cancer cells, but will not help the DNA strands to recombine, no more new cancer cells are produced, the DNA of old cancer cells will also be destroyed. Then, the cancer cells are dead.

Inhibiting the spread of cancer cells

Ganoderma triterpenoids in reishi mushroom can inhibit tumor angiogenesis and prevent tumor spread.
Tumor vessels are one of the most important channels for tumor spread. In the early stage of tumor formation, there are no blood vessels inside, it cannot spread.benefits of reishi mushroom powder

But when blood vessels develop inside the tumor, cancer cells can quickly spread to the liver, lung, brain, bone and other organs through these blood vessels. 90% of cancer patients die from this vascular spread.

Triterpenoids can inhibit the angiogenesis of tumor, which stops one of the most important channels for tumor metastasis.

But how do ganoderma triterpenoids prevent blood vessels growing inside tumor?

First, we need to learn two factors: “angiogenesis-promoting factors” and “angiogenesis-inhibiting factors”. The first factor is responsible for generating new blood vessels, and the second factor is to prevent the generation of new blood vessels too quickly.

If the two factors are out of balance, new blood vessels will be created or cause blood vessels to degenerate.

If the body becomes cancerous, the “angiogenesis promoting factor” will become very active, and the balance between the two factors is broken.

When the tumor volume exceeds 2 square millimeters, the “angiogenesis promoting factor” will stimulate the growth of blood vessels inside the tumor.

Triterpenes is to inhibit the activity of this factor, get the two factors back to balance, and prevent new blood vessels from growing inside the tumor.

So what is the difference between tumor blood vessels and ordinary blood vessels?

Tumor blood vessels refer to blood vessels inside the tumor. This blood vessel is different from the normal blood vessels of human body.

First, it has a spiral structure. As a result, it will become very long, so that the blood flow will be large, and it will deliver more nutrition to the tumor, causing the patient to lose weight, Weakness;

Secondly, it grows very fast and can produce hundreds in a short period of time. These blood vessels can cause damage to human organs and bring unbearable pain to patients.

The vessels are relatively “thin”, and there are extremely small holes, blood can easily flow out or bleed out, leading to pleural effusion and ascites, which will shorten the patient’s survival time.

Ganoderma triterpenoids can prevent or delay tumor blood vessel formation to a certain extent.

Inhibit tumor cell growth

Ganoderma triterpenoids in reishi mushroom can slow the growth of cancer cells and make cancer cells grow more slowly.

Ganoderma triterpenoids did this by inhibiting the activity of “protein kinases”. As the activity of this enzyme decreases, the growth rate of cancer cells decreases.

Alas, another term, what is “protein kinase”?

Protein kinase, in short, is an enzyme that promotes the growth of cancer cells.

By inhibiting the activity of protein kinase, the growth rate of cancer cells will slow down, the growth of cancer cells will slow down, the speed of tumor volume increase will also slow down.

Regarding the anticancer effects of ganoderma triterpenoids, researchers have done a lot of work. In many medical literature, you will find related articles. Now we know more about the benefits of reishi mushroom powder.