After knowing your experience with fungi in integrative oncology, In the video that we present below Dr. Pere Gascón explains in detail the security criteria required to the adjuvant treatment of fungus cancer and what are the general guidelines to follow in this type of treatments. Likewise, it makes us known the evidence in prevention treatments with 1 g of fungal extract per day, results of an article published in 2009 in the International Journal of Cancer.
What security criteria should fungus extracts have in the adjuvant cancer treatment?
The compatibility with other treatments that I am giving, that there are no interactions ... but, fundamentally, I would want to be mixed with other herbs, etc. Because all mycotherapy products are metabolized in the liver, so it is very important that they be alone. If the extracts are contaminated or mixed with other plants, I do not know if they can affect. As a doctor there are two things: security, not toxic to themselves (fungi are not) and interactions. We always have to be sure of the companies that produce the mushrooms fulfill these two things.
When we talk about fungi, why is the ecological issue important?
Knowing that they are the ones of all the impurities and toxic of the land, the ecological issue would look a lot, which are really cultivated in virgin terrain, that there is no factory next to it and that by the rain they will fall toxic products ... because in the long run, instead of benefiting us, it is a type of chronic toxicity. Therefore, sí is important the origin and where the mushrooms grow: that it is a virgin place and as ecological as possible.
In general, what would be the guideline to follow in the adjuvant treatment with fungi?
On the treatment of mushrooms in cancer patients there is no consensus. We are talking about integrative oncology, there is no consensus, there is a bit of regulation. Therefore, what I am going to tell you is more or less what results from talking to colleagues and people who use fungi before me. I would say that there is a shock treatment where we might, according to what I have seen, according to preclinical and sick data, take about 3 g of fungi per day. This would be optimal. I would give a shock treatment with high doses because we are in full treatment and since there are no interference, provided they are extracts and pure (without contaminants with other plants).
When the shock treatment ends, a maintenance treatment like the one I am taking, one or two capsules. For example of Ganoderma lucidum, which is the Reishi, or Shiitake. With this I am a little more convinced, quieter, that I am doing something good for my body.
In Oncology, is there also evidence in prevention?
I am frequently asked, sometimes about my family or colleagues ... "" Hey, if they go, according to you, the mushrooms for cancer patients (For the reasons that I have explained before) Why don't we take something at a preventive level? - Contrary to what we think, there are many written things. Now a publication occurs to me, because it comes out in 2009 in the International Journal of Cancer where is given to 1900 Chinese women 4 g of dry shiitake (which is the equivalent of 1 g of extract) daily and there is a Reduction of breast cancer number by 89 % And this is something spectacular, right?