NEW METHOD FOR 'GROWING' DRUGS/MEDICINE

Background on Medicinal Mushrooms

Only recently has Western society found what Eastern cultures have long known for centuries, that fungi, especially mushrooms have within them some of the most potent nutritional substances and medicine found in nature. Their cellular constituents can profoundly improve the quality of human health. Differing from most pharmaceuticals, these healing agents have extraordinarily low toxicity, even at high doses. Acupuncture and the use of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) are examples of East-West merger of medical treatments.

Fungi and animals share a more recent common ancestry than with plants, protozoan, and bacteria. Fungal medicine are therefore active against many diseases that afflict humans. Many scientists believe this relationship occurs because we are more closely related to fungi than to any other kingdom, having shared a common ancestor more than 460 million years ago, and thus developed defenses against mutual microbial enemies.

The healing properties of mushrooms has been widely documented in Western scientific research. For example, Cordyceps have anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-tumor properties and help regulate cholesterol and blood pressure. Maitakes have strong anti-candida properties and they greatly enhance the immune system. Reishi mushrooms have a wide variety of therapeutic effects, including but not limited to supporting liver and cardiovascular function as well as moderating blood sugar levels.

New Method For 'Growing' Medicine

Metabolic Research has developed a new proprietary technology that it believes could revolutionize the pharmaceutical industry by perfecting its method of growing non-toxic, safe and effective drugs using fungi vs. manufacturing them

Fungi have developed a unique capability to utilize their environment exclusively to adapt to survive in a total parasite-like form in nature. Fungi do this by taking in all of their required nutrients from their host environment. In other words, whatever nutrients are fed to fungi, that's what fungi will build upon and produce more of. For example, if you wanted fungi to produce fatty acids, you would simply feed various liposterols to them.

Metabolic Research, Inc. has recently acquired a license for North America to a method that describes how various fungal products in their natural state could be induced to uptake the proper exogenous food materials into their metabolic processes. Through metabolization of these products, fungi could then produce a vast array of metabolic end-products with pharmaceutical-grade healing properties.

The details of these techniques and processes are proprietary. However, the process is called "submerged fermentation", which greatly accelerates the growth of fungi. For example, growing mushrooms in a controlled environment such as hot houses requires approximately six weeks to grow Agaricus Blazei Murrill mushrooms to full maturity. Using submerged fermentation and the company's newly developed method of "agitated propagation", MRI can complete the process within 14 days.