Helps alleviate troublesome diabetes symptoms
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This simple natural food can help regulate blood sugar
Mushrooms have been used in food and medicine for thousands of years.
There are many exotic mushrooms believed to have amazing healing effects.
But one of the most common edible mushrooms seems to have its own benefits.
A new study shows that the common white button mushroom can improve glucose sensitivity.
These animal experiments were performed at the Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Pennsylvania State University. The results are published in the Journal of Functional Foods.
These experiments were designed to find out if and how white button mushrooms can help manage blood sugar.
Scientists experimented on standard lab mice and on the same mice which had sterile guts.
They used these sterile mice because they suspected that some of the effect of white button mushrooms was through gut bacteria.
These two types of mice were split into two groups.
One group was fed a normal diet and the other group was supplemented with white button mushrooms.
The scientists found that the mice fed white button mushrooms had a lower production of sugar (glucose) in the liver.
“White button mushrooms feeling reduced liver glucose production.”
Some scientists believe that one of the main problems in type II diabetes is the excessive production of sugar in the liver.
“Suppression of liver glucose production is one of the strategies being targeted for diabetes therapies.”
If that theory is true, then this could be a very helpful effect of white button mushrooms.
The mushrooms were also associated with more glucose production in the intestines.
This is also believed to help regulate blood sugar.
“Mushrooms improved glucose homeostasis via intestinal glucose production.”
Feeding the mice white button mushrooms was associated with an improvement in glucose sensitivity.
“White button fed lean mice had a small but significant improvement in glucose sensitivity.”
The improvements in glucose metabolism were associated with changes in gut bacteria from white button mushrooms supplementation.
“White button mushroom feeding resulted in changes in the composition of microbiota in mice.”
Mice with no gut bacteria did not benefit from white button mushrooms.
This further supports the idea that their benefit is mediated through changing gut bacteria.
“In the absence of gut bacteria or in mice with disruptions in the ability to sense microbiota there was no mushroom mediated effect.”
This study supports a lot of the newer theories about type II diabetes.
Theories that the liver is centrally involved in producing too much sugar and that diabetes is largely a problem of gut bacteria.
Previous population data gave clues to these beneficial effects of mushrooms.
“Surveys showed that consuming mushroom-enriched diets reduced the risk of being overweight or obese and having metabolic syndrome.”
A recent human study showed that adding mushrooms to the diet led to lower caloric intake of the day.
Mushrooms can also help people eat less.
“People that consumed mushrooms were less hungry and the mushrooms improved the efficacy of weight loss intervention.”
This study used raw white button mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus).
These mushrooms contain a substance called agaratine which is toxic to the human liver in high amounts.
You should never eat raw mushrooms.
Agaratine is evaporated by cooking.
Boiling mushrooms in an open pot for 1 hour in a well ventilated area will remove almost all of the agaratine.
The scientists believe that the benefits of white button mushrooms are not destroyed by cooking.
They believe much of the benefit is had by mushroom fibre and a sugar called mannitol.
(Which are not destroyed by cooking.)
“The fermentation of mannitol and fiber by the microbiota within the mushrooms should not be affected by cooking.”
The researchers believe the amount of mushrooms used in this study would be equivalent to 3 ounces per day in the human diet.
You should always consult a healthcare practitioner by treating and diagnosing health-related problems.
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