Traditional medicine has long utilized mushrooms and their extracts for a variety of health advantages. Mushrooms can regulate the immune system, which can prevent and treat a variety of ailments, according to recent studies.

Reishi is one type of mushroom that can stimulate the adaptive immune system's T regulatory pathway. This pathway directs the immune response between the acute response (T H1) required to destroy cancerous and virally infected cells and the tolerogenic Chronic response to T H2 seen in people with chronic conditions. Mushrooms can restore the immune system's balance and free up resources that might otherwise be used to combat pathogens or sickness.

Additionally, by slowing down the T H1 pathway, this immune-rebalancing impact can assist in preventing collateral harm to our own cells during infections like COVID-19. The T regulatory pathway tends to deteriorate with age, which makes cytokine storms more harmful. Therefore, eating mushrooms can be a prophylactic step to raise the immune response profile's general baseline.

Mushrooms can aid in the immune system's ongoing process of monitoring and memorizing the results of its actions. The immune system can respond differently when exposed to varied mixtures of branching polysaccharides and glycans, adding more pages to its "telephone directory" of immune responses. Memory T and B cells, which may live for 70 to 80 years and respond to an antigen swiftly without the requirement for substantial amounts of antibodies to be present in the blood, help to enhance this cataloguing effect.

High antibody concentrations can have very inflammatory reactions that harm our blood vessels and circulatory system. By enabling us to get rid of the antibodies when we don't need them, the memory cell system helps avoid this, lowering the constant elevated state of inflammation in our bodies.

The immune system can be balanced, and infections can be avoided with the help of mushrooms. It is possible to strengthen the immune system's responsiveness to antigens and lessen the need for large levels of antibodies in circulation by exposing it to various polysaccharide and glycan combinations.