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When we get into the herbal category, we immediately want to focus on medicinal mushrooms
— mushrooms that
grow on trees.
That's what I am here to talk to you about is the king of the
mushrooms: chaga.
We have heard about the queen, reishi.
Now it's time for the king, chaga.
I got so into reishi and chaga that I actually bought a house way up in the woods in the middle of
nowhere so I can hunt medicinal mushrooms and make that part of my lifestyle, part of my diet.
Are you guys ready to explore the magic of the King of the Mushrooms and what that means?
We are going to look at the science; we are going to look at where the stuff grows; we are going
to talk a little about the history of this food in the West. We are going to talk about what it can
do for you, and we are going to talk about
using chaga for cancer, because chaga is
the number one herb in the world against
cancer that we know of.
Chaga is the king of the polypores. You are
going to see some imagery here that is
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extra-terrestrial. It's beyond-this-planetary.
This is to give the topic a little bit of an
angle — that chaga is not quite from here.
It's from a cold planet somewhere. It grows
in the circumpolar region of the world. It
grows in deciduous forests at the very
brink of where they can survive.
There is a book, The Cancer Ward, which I will be referencing later that says, "Man is provided
with all he needs in every corner of the Earth. He only has to know where to look." That's why
we came here. You have everything you need. It's all around you. It's always been around you
always. You live in Los Angeles; do you think there are no springs here in Los Angeles? Thereare. You think in Los Angeles there is not enough food? There is tons of food here. There is pine
pollen in the Thousand Oaks Whole Foods parking lot. It's here.
A polypore is a woody pore fungus that sometimes forms large, brightly colored shelf-like
growths on trees — either dead trees or living trees. The polypores are the ennobled
representatives of the mushroom kingdom. All these years of doing nutrition I found out — and
you do find things out if you have been in it as long as I have — that the main part of our diet
should be plants, and some of our diet actually has to be mushrooms. That is actually what we
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require.
Some of our diet has to come from the insect
kingdom. That is also what we require. Now I'm not
going to recommend you eat a cockroach or a
grasshopper; however, honey is good. Let's say you
don't believe me. Let's say you go, "Nope. I don't do
honey, I don't do grasshoppers, I don't eat cockroaches, I don't eat ants, I don't eat any of that
stuff." Then you actually lose years of your life. Let's
say you do believe me. You say, "I'll eat the honey." Then you will add years to your life. And
that has been shown.
Honey is a super longevity food. It's number two, right behind chocolate. Chocolate and honey.
That's it. That's what the research indicates. That's the basis of all candy. The entire candy
industry began with raw cacao beans and honey. And that is kind of interesting because it
means that having a good time, eating what you enjoy, creating little concoctions with
chocolate and honey is associated with a long life. It's an interesting thing. Any child will tell you
that.
The polypores come from "up there," as we are going to see. Of
the polypores, Inonotus obliquus, otherwise known as chaga, is
king. I have seen this in so many different ways. It is always a
magical experience when you find a chaga, and it's always an
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incredible experience when you dry it, when you crush it to a
powder, when you eat it, when you make teas out of it, when
you are adding it to your smoothie, when you are making
extracts of it — everything about it, in every way, is true magic.
We live in a disenchanted world most of the time. In this little
cubbyhole, in this hotel, for this weekend, we are in natural
magic. However, when we get out there in that world, and we
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get on freeways and the two guys cut us off, we start sensing the disenchantment of our world.
We all have heard that there is a lost, enchanted world close by. We are inspired by books that
hint at that alternate reality, that dimension that is near, but far. J.R.R. Tolkien. Harry Potter. If
we look into those archetypes a little more deeply, we find that there are certain iconic
representatives of those kingdoms — the magical kingdom — such as fairies, elves, dwarves,
gnomes, toads and mushrooms.
Is it possible that if we take in something from the mushroom kingdom — not number 8, not
number 4,000, not number 10,802, but number 1 — that we could invite in some of the
enchantment of the mushroom world; of a dimension that is near, of a dimension that brings
inspiration, that invites in creativity? And the
answer is: yes.
The word chaga is a Russian word. The Russians
brought it to us. It was originally a Siberian
medicine — although it is present across the
entire circumpolar region of the world, usually
growing on birch trees. Sometimes it grows on
alder, ash, beech and elm trees. Sometimes, even
apple trees. This particular image is the growing
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region of chaga, which is the circumpolar region
of the Northern Hemisphere of our Earth.
Wherever deciduous forests can survive —
Canada, Siberia, Scandinavia, some of Northern
Europe, and you can even see some of Iceland —
are ideal growing environments for chaga.
What the heck is a deciduous forest? At the very northern regions where it is minus 70 degrees
Fahrenheit, pine trees can survive. As it warms up and gets to about minus 40, birch can
survive. Where birch is found, you also find chaga. Chaga, according to the lore, grows best
where it is minus 40 in the winter. I use minus 40 for a particular reason, because some people
are on Celsius and some people are on Fahrenheit. But there is one place where they are the
same: minus 40.
Russian dissident and Nobel Laureate, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, brought chaga to the attention
of the West in his book The Cancer Ward. He described a group of cancer patients in Siberia —
political prisoners who were being irradiated with chemotherapy — who were hoping that
something would come down the pipeline. And in the book, that thing was chaga.
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This is actually an autobiographical story.
He is telling us the story of how he was
healed of cancer. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
was going down with cancer. He chose
chemotherapy with chaga and survived,
and this is his story about how that
happened. The Cancer Ward was
published in the English language in 1968
and became a sensation all across Europe,
all across America, and all across the UK.
It's still available in used book stores today. One day I was sitting at home reading about this
book online. I got up, drove into town, went to the used book store, asked about the book, and
they had it. I pulled it off the shelf and read it. Fascinating book.
A doctor in the book worked for dozens of years in the same hospital, and he discovered a
strange thing: the peasants in his district saved money on their tea and instead of tea brewed
up a thing called chaga — birch fungus. He noticed that the peasants never got cancer, and they
would live to be over 100. That is in the chaga lore: people who drink chaga tea live to be over
100. The doctor decided to bring chaga into his treatments for cancer based on what he had
observed with the peasants. They found in Russia, as early as the 1940s, that chaga has these
properties: it's an herbal adaptogen; a cancer fighter; an immune modulator; antiviral and
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antifungal.
And some of you are going to go, "Wait a second. I read Dr. Young's book, The pH Miracle." Did
you know that when Dr. Young wrote that book, he didn't even know what reishi mushroom
was? No idea. And he had absolutely no idea what chaga mushroom was. I think it's a great
book, but we can't really say that a button mushroom is the same as an ennobled
representative of that magical kingdom that we call the mushrooms.
What is the best way to get rid of a rat? Say you have a rat in your house. Let's say I am over at
David Wilcock's house. There's a rat in the basement. What do we do about it?
Audience member: Cat.
DW: But who gets the cat? You. The best way to get rid of a rat, you get a human on the case.
Right? A human is going to figure out how to get that rat. That's like chaga versus candida.
Chaga is an ennobled representation of the mushroom world and it knows how to get rid of
candida. That's easy. That's a no-brainer, all-hearter. That will be a rewind later. It will be like,
"No-brainer, all what? Rewind."
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Here is what is in chaga that makes the
magic. The first thing is betulin. Out of
2,500 botanical substances reviewed for
their power to fight cancer, betulin is
number one.
What is betulin? Betulin is the white
powdery stuff that is in birch. Some people
have a birch tree right in front of their
house, right here in Los Angeles. Betulin is
that white stuff in the birch bark. If you
strip the bark around, and you break it up
— the white powder that comes out is
betulin. Betulin, betulinic acid and lupeol—
which are all, basically, the same kind of
compound — are concentrated by chaga.
Chaga takes those substances and leverages it against the cancer.
I don't know about you, but I'm all for the natural stuff. We have found that we don't need herb
number 1,111 anymore. That's over. That game ended. We don't need herb number 400. It's
over. Herb number 333, we're not going there. We need herb number 1, and then we need to
megadose on that one. Because what makes it herb number one is that you can live on it. You
can blast it down all day.
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Frank Giglio was up here earlier. His wife has been drinking chaga tea every day of her
pregnancy. There is no threat to any kind of life. It's for life — all for life — and that's why chaga
is number one, and that's why reishi is number two, and that's why astragalus is number three
— because they are for life. And that's why we go to them. They are the most powerful
medicines.
Melanin. This is appropriate for the situation that we are in currently — radioactive debris in
the environment.
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The Russian research since 1955 found that radioactive isotopes that are
present in chemotherapy degrade in the presence of melanin.
Melanin is a substance you have in your skin. It takes radiation from the Sun, and it absorbs it
and deactivates it. That is basically what our skin is doing. So it's like chlorophyll, isn't it?
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Melanin is a very nutrient-dense substance and it has tremendous draw of resources and
minerals wherever it is found. Whenever we find little white spots on us — maybe vitiligo, or
something like that — that shows our body is not able to push out all the nutrients to the skin.
The skin is furthest away. I'll say that again. It's an interesting idea. Your skin is furthest away.
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Let's say you were dealing with something going on with your skin. I would really recommend
that you start looking at chaga tea, that you start taking chaga and cooking it in oil, like cacao
butter. I've been doing this. You take cacao butter and you do a double boiler method, and you
put chaga in there. You extract fat-soluble substances out of there, then you take the whole
darned thing, the chaga, the oil, everything, and rub it into your skin so you come at it from the
outside in, instead of from the inside out. This is especially important with advancing age, so
that we can get a little of nutrition coming into our skin this way.
There is a strong relationship between chaga and reversing melanomas that has been well-
documented. There is nothing better against melanoma than chaga. It's number one. In a
minute we’ll go through the list of all the different cancers chaga has been noted to be
beneficial for.
Let's talk a little bit about melanin and the pigments that are in chaga. About 25 percent of the
pigments in chaga are actually melanin. That is really a high amount; whereas with reishi it is
2 percent. There is no other mushroom that even comes close.
David Wilcock: It is very important for the pineal gland.
DW: We have Mr. Pineal himself. Stand up,
David Wilcock. This guy had the number one
video on Google on December 1st, 2008. And
what was it about? It was about the pineal
gland. And what does the pineal gland require?
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David Wilcock: You see, the pineal gland is
actually a physiological connection to being
psychic. In my new book, I did all the homework.
It turns out that the pineal gland is in the
geometric center of your brain. It's wired up like
an eye. It has what they call a focal transduction
cascade. It takes photons that are coming from
somewhere in there and shoots them into the
visual cortex of your brain.
All different cultures around the world have legends of the pine cone, which is associated with
the pineal gland. It appears that this gland is the key to your psychic awareness. I have talked
with a lot of people who have worked in Black Ops programs for the government, Uncle Sam, or
Uncle as they call it sometimes; and this one guy was telling me that melanin is the big thing for
the pineal gland, which is all about being psychic and switching on your awareness. And I'm like,
(Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2009, 2:25 doi:10.1186/1756-8722-2-25)
"Well, where am I going to get melanin?" And then you just told me this, so that's part of why
it's number one, bro!
DW: Turn on your psychic powers with chaga. Thank you, David Wilcock! So melanin is a very
interesting compound, and there are all different kinds of philosophies and theories about it,
this latest being a very interesting angle on it: it activates the pineal gland, and that's that third
eye that David was just talking about. It's wired up like an eye in your brain, and in reptiles, in
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some cases, it actually is an eye, isn't it?
Let's jump to the next thing: beta-glucans. In the last ten years, there have been tremendous
breakthroughs in understanding how beta-glucans work with the immune system. In fact, there
was an article that came out just a few months ago, a fascinating article about how
macrophages, your white blood cells, actually dice up the beta-glucans, which are found in
almost all medicinal mushrooms, and use those as weapons against viruses, against cancer,
against bad bacteria, and against harmful fungi like candida.
Beta-glucans are immune modulators. In cancer, what we are looking to do is to sharpen up the
intelligence of our immune system. Beta-glucans are modulatory in that if your immune system
needs to come up it will come up; if your immune system is overactive and missing something
down here, the beta-glucans will turn it back down so you can see where the cancer is. So beta-
glucans are not like a very strong garlic hit that shoots your immune system up. Beta-glucans
have been well-studied in cancer research, and they are found in many different medicinal
mushrooms.
Activated barley that is out now that has beta-glucans in it. This is one of the super nutrients of
the future. It's a polysaccharide. I want to digress for a second to talk about polysaccharides.
There are eight essential sugars. Glucose is one of them; fucose is another; arabano-galactose is
another. And there are five more. These essential sugars are found in medicinal mushrooms, in
seaweeds, and in certain superherbs — like goji berry and astragalus — but they are rarely
achieved just by eating food. We rarely get enough of them to activate all the essential sugars
that we require. And this is an area to look into.
My feeling is that the future of medicine is all about the essential sugars, because that
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polysaccharide — unlike glucose, which is a simple sugar — has a bunch of different twists and
turns and bells and whistles on it. And your immune system will cleave pieces of it off to use to
fight different invaders and to modulate your immune system.
That’s where the ormus is, for those of you who are tuned in to that. It's in the polysaccharide.
That is what David Hudson discovered all those years ago. I have been researching this for 17
years, and I think he's right. I think the aloe vera gel, where those polysaccharides are, can have
this much ormus mineral in it, or that much.
If you are really clever and you are really tuning in to this whole thing about polysaccharides,
you are probably thinking, "Wait a second. We could grow medicinal mushrooms in such a way
to increase the amount of ormus — the strange matter, the weird minerals — that are in the
polysaccharides that modulate our immune system." That's where I'm at, too. That's actually
where my research is at, and that's what I like to do in my spare time. I don't know what other
people do for fun, but that's what I do.
Antioxidants. Chaga is number one for
antioxidants in the mushroom kingdom.
It has the most pigments of color. What
do we know about those pigments of
color? Melanin is part of that complex;
there are lanostane triterpenes that are
part of that complex; there are beta-
glucans that are part of that complex.
Beta-glucans are usually red, and that's
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what gives that fiery red to reishi
mushroom, if you have seen that before.
Now we have access to greater, deeper, more beautiful, richer pigments of color than we have
ever had before. Look at chlorella. Look at chaga. Look at what is going on with the red
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pigments in astaxanthin. I mean, you can't even bite into that stuff. It will stain your teeth red
for two days.
It's folding over and over: the worse it gets, the better it gets. It was the best of times, it was
the worst of times, it’s the best time ever and it's the worst time ever, all at the same time. So
with these disasters that we are seeing, we have got to know that on the other side of that is
magic; impossible possibilities. Right? Unlimited potential becomes available to us. All the
people who have gone down with cancer, and all the people who have survived cancer have
brought a new addition to our herbal pharmacopeia. Boom: chaga.
Here are the different cancers that chaga is known to be beneficial for, if not curative of: brain,
breast, cervical, colon, Ewing's sarcoma, leukemia. Leukemia is associated with radiation
poisoning, isn't it? And what does chaga do? It deactivates radioactive isotopes. It will take
radioactive cesium and break it down; it will take radioactive iodine and break it down; it will
take radioactive strontium and break it down.
Liver, lung, medulloblastoma, melanoma. Melanoma is the big one — skin cancer. Chaga is
number one. That's the research. Neuroblastomas, ovarian cancer, squamous cell. A very dear
friend of mine right here in Orange County died of squamous cell cancer, which is a cancer of
the neck or the head. Stomach and uterine cancer. Brain, breast, cervical, colon cancer.
And on top of helping with all that, the thing that really amazes me — and another reason why
chaga is number one — is it tastes good. It's not like you are chewing down something that is
awful; it's not like some bitter medicine. It's nothing like that. You want to eat it. What a
difference. What an amazing aspect of all this.
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Betulinic acid. You'll see it as betulin in
some of the literature and you will see it as
lupeol in some of the literature. Once
again, it's that white stuff. Chaga has taken
that out of the tree and it is concentrating
it. Chaga is a white rot fungus. That means
it does not corrode the cellulose of the
tree, so it can live and does live in living
trees. It is able to go into a living tree and
the cellulose, the fiber of that tree, is not
affected at all. If you see mushrooms
rotting a log, the log is going to melt four or
five years later, because of black rot fungus that gets a hold of the cellulose and starts breaking
it down. But chaga is not like that. It's a white rot fungus, so it can live in a living tree.
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If you look at a birch forest, you will see
that chaga may be present in one out of
every two or three hundred trees. But
those chagas are all in communication
with each other; and it has been shown
that there is chaga DNA present in the soil.
In fact, it is possible that there may be one
chaga organism dominating an entire
forest. That is possible. The same
organism.
There have been various insights in the literature stating that chaga is actually eating the tree,
and the tree is dying. But I have seen chagas in trees that are 50 years old. There is no way it is
killing the tree, even though some people say, "In four to six years it kills the tree." I have seen
disparity in books on medicinal mushrooms and tree mushrooms.
Some scientists have taken the betulin from chaga, and they have concentrated it and sprayed
it on trees with diseases to see what was really going on. "Is that stuff really killing the tree or is
it actually good?" They found that it actually helps other trees fight off their diseases. So it's a
medicine — a true medicine. It's a medicine for us; it's a medicine for other plants.
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