Reishi mushroom anyone?

I had some kind of mushroom supplement in my Amazon cart once due to things I had read about it but I never actually bought it or tried it. I'm curious as to your responses.

Like to hear if anyone is experimenting with these lately?? I do know medicinal mushrooms have tremendous benefits, and am wondering if it might not be a helpful addition... especially mixed with psyllium seed powder.

My latest craze is mixing psyllium seed with various ingredients, powdered freeze dried blueberries chief among them (all together in a processor to make a homogenized powder), but sometimes also garlic powder, electrolytes, and even potato starch.

My rationale is that the psyllium slows motility (spends more time in the colon), is beneficial in cultivating correct, fermentation-encouraging bacteria there, and seems to "cling" to whatever you mix and drink it with; mix it with wheatgrass powder and you poo green, "formed" stool, mix with blueberry and you poo blue, etc... So the "glueing" properties of the psyllium seem to retain what you mix all the way through the tract at least to some extent, and I can't help but wonder if a medicinal mushroom powder wouldn't be a good addition.

I additionally thought that mixing in a good probiotic (can be hit and miss per individual) would be smart- and recently posted a query about this asking whether anyone had good info on what bacteria we are generally, across the board, low in... Of course I got no response, rather just static.

Anyway, without this concoction once or twice daily I go south asap- I think this is a really valuable tool, but I guess I haven't relayed that clearly enough to get others experimenting. Theres something to it though. Psyllium seed is well known, but the combination of it and other ingredients is, I think, a potentially very very useful tool that is not being utilized.

Sorry to hear you bought whole seed. Try herbs direct. Im buying a few lbs at a time now. Not sure if I already mentioned this, but the taste is greatly improved if you add some electrolyte powder with Stevia (no sugar) to taste. Its not cheap either but worth it... Ive been using Ultima brand. You cant taste a decent amount of garlic powder with it in there (which has allicin).

Sounds like you've never taken payllium before, heres a few tips...
It is time sensitive when you mix it with water (gels fairly fast) so best to mix and drink immediately.

In a small food processor, put maybe 8-10 spoon fulls of psyllium seed powder, several heavy dashes of garlic powder, and maybe half the volume of freeze dried organic blueberries as psyllium (eperiment). Add the electrolye too, maybe 4-5 of the small spoons that come in the container (otherwise its not too tasty, even revolting).

In a 12 oz ball jar, fill it first with maybe 5-6 oz water, then say two heaping tablespoons of the blended mix deacribed above (or, your own version). Put the lid on and shake vigorously for a few seconds then gulp it, then wash the jar asap as it will stick if you dont.

See what you think, good luck.

I'd beware of anything touted as a cure all. It's marketing at it's worst, that only preys on the desperate.