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Mycelium: the Earth’s Living Internet
The pure healing force of the mushroom lies in its mycelium. Mycelia are the delicate life threads growing unseen in rainforest soil and wood, culturing organic matter and delivering probiotics nutrients to all trees and plants. Mycelia make up a living internet, connecting the ancient intelligence in the mushroom to all life on earth. It is through the activity of the mycelium that traditional mushrooms confer their maximum healing benefits on our physiologies, and each New Chapter® Activated Organic Mushroom formula delivers proprietary strains of mycelium, hand selected and grown by Paul Stamets, in their organic culturing media.
New Chapter Activated Organic Mushrooms are the supreme expression of mushrooms’ protective and healing intelligence and are rich in Glycoproteins, Arabinoxylanes, Ergosterols, and Broad Spectrum 1,3 1,4 & 1,6 B-Glucans. For maximum benefit, take with New Chapter’s Gingerforce™ formulation to increase bioavalability and activity.
Host Defense® contains multiple mushrooms shown to increase human Natural Killer (NK) Cell activity by up to 300%. The immune enhancing power of Host Defense® comes from two sources: the unsurpassed quality of the New Chapter Activated Organic Mushrooms, and the synergistic combination of species. Each of the Host Defense species has, on its own, an ability to support human immune functioning, but the combination of these 16 mushroom sources creates synergies, waves of reinforcement, that bathe us in immune support. There is glory in each mushroom, but greater glory in the whole.
It All Starts with Certified P-Value
New Chapter Activated Organic Mushrooms from Paul Stamets are the finest traditional mushrooms grown anywhere in the world, and are the only commercially available mushrooms with a Certified P-Value. P-Value is a scientific term for the genetic integrity of the mushroom. When Paul Stamets, one of the world’s leading mushroom experts, selects a mushroom from the rainforest, he cultures it in rigorously controlled conditions in his laboratories. The growing mushroom mycelium is absolutely genetically identical with the rainforest mushroom that gave it birth, carrying all of its genetic energy and healing force. Mushrooms not grown in such a rigorous potency-assured manner may be hundreds of generations distant from the purity of their genetic heritage, and thus suffer genetic degeneration and a lack of vitality. We ensure that all New Chapter® Activated Organic Mushrooms have the lowest possible P-Value closest to the genetic origins of the nature-born specimens or the wild genome.
| Amount Per Serving | % Daily Value | |
| Organic Maitake (Grifola frondosa) | 142 mg | * |
| Organic Enokitake (Flammulina vilutipes) | 120 mg | * |
| Organic Chaga (Inonotus obliquus) | 116 mg | * |
| Organic Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum) | 110 mg | * |
| Organic Cordyceps (Cordyceps sinensis) | 100 mg | * |
| Organic Mesima (Phellinus linteus) | 76 mg | * |
| Organic Yun Zhi (Trametes versicolor) | 48 mg | * |
| Organic Zhu Ling (Polyporus umbellatus) | 48 mg | |
| Organic Lion's Mane (Hericum erinaceus) | 48 mg | * |
| Organic Maitake Fruitbodies (Grifola frondosa) | 48 mg | * |
| Organic Artists' Conk (Ganoderma applanatum) | 30 mg | * |
| Organic Oregon Polypore (Ganoderma oregonense) | 30 mg | * |
| Organic Agarikon (Fomitopsis officinalis) | 20 mg | * |
| Organic Ice Man Fungus (Fomes fomentarius) | 20 mg | * |
| Organic Shiitake (Lentinula edodes) | 20 mg | * |
| Organic Birch Polypore (Piptoporus betulinus) | 12 mg | * |
| Organic Suehirotake (Schizophyllum commune) | 12 mg | * |
Contains fish.