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In America, I fell in love with white bread and ate a lot of starchy things, cakes and doughnuts from the bakery, and, later when we had some money, loved to visit Baskin-Robbins 31 flavors. I mean, I went to town. When my daughter married my son-in-law, who was both a chiropractor and, a naturopathic doctor, he started talking about healthy eating. I changed my diet some, but not entirely - and, I'm sure, the forty plus years of junk food greatly increased my risk of cancer.
By this time, I had gotten over my own illness, I was a devout student of nutrition and health and I began studying the body's immune system components and natural methods of improving immune function, especially increasing the body's macrophage, natural killer cell, and cytokine activity. My grandma needed her white blood cells and messenger chemicals (the cytokines) not only at optimal populations but to be highly activated. Sometimes our immune cells are numerous but inactivated. The key was to activate them. That research led me to studying chains of long complex sugars that scientists call polysaccharides or glyconutrients (nutrients from sugar).
I learned that certain compounds, found in greatest abundance in edible fungi, enhance macrophage and natural killer cell production. This in turn enhances production of cytokines, which are immune cell secretions that facilitate cell-cell communications and fully optimize immune function. I also learned that our primitive diet used to contain a lot of these compounds, but now due to our modern refined diets our bodies are highly deficient in them. The richest source for these compounds is edible mushrooms-but, unfortunately, not the button mushrooms most of us buy at supermarkets. Also, the complexity and variations in glyconutrients are truly mind-boggling. Each specific mushroom offers different combinations, involving far more complex and varied molecular structures than science has been able to identify or characterize. I also learned that various portions of the mushroom had different amounts of glyconutrients. For example, the mycelium of the mushroom (not the fruiting body which we see above ground) is a particularly rich source of protein bound polysaccharides (glycoproteins). The way mushrooms are cultivated, the various grains and seeds used, also influences mycelium glyconutrient content. Some mushrooms, like cordyceps, when found in the wild actually use caterpillars as a growth medium. But mushrooms alone do not supply what we once had in our diet.
Aloe vera contains polysaccharides known as acemannan, but many aloe vera products go through so much processing their nutrient content is severely damaged. The aloe vera I wanted for grandma would have to be non-heated, non-pasteurized and non-preserved to deliver the most active components to her body. When properly harvested and processed, Cat's Claw (Uncaria tomentosa) from Peru provides special alkaloids, which are extremely potent immune modulators. So I sought the raw materials that contained only high amounts of beneficial bioactive alkaloids and were without undesirable constituents. In fact, there is only one source for this rare form of cat's claw in the world.
But there was more, something I learned from my illness. I realized people used to get much more reliable results from herbal medicines because their digestive tracts, at one time, were far more able to utilize herbs than today. Like our bodies, our digestive tracts need exercise. Today, for most of us, our digestive tracts are soft due to our highly refined diets. Many herbs, on the other hand, are fibrous and difficult for the body to break down. Cat's claw, for example, is as much as 90 percent fiber. Grandma's diet had changed so much since moving from Poland, she needed a delivery system that would enable her to utilize the herbs. We took the fermentation process that helped heal me-what we today call the PotenZyme process with 14 strains of homeostatic soil organisms and other lactic-acid producing bacteria - and used it to predigest the 10 mushrooms, aloe vera and cat's claw in the formula and thus "unlock" the active ingredients. Grandma began using the prototype immediately following her surgery.