Taking Reishi helps to build up endurance.

Have you noticed that more and more people are taking part in the bicycle long march, marathon and triathlon? “Keeping fit” or “losing weight” is no longer the only reason for their exercise. “Challenging themselves” or “exploring the limit” through the distance, speed and difficulty during exercise has become another ultimate pursuit in life.

However, people often ignore that intense exercise will produce a lot of free radicals. When the body’s antioxidant enzymes such as superoxide dismutase SOD that scavenges free radicals are not enough to deal with free radicals, it will cause harm to the body. These oxidative damages may not be seen or felt in a short period of time, but if they are not stopped or reduced in time, they will accumulate over time. In addition to causing excessive fatigue and affecting sports performance, it may also cause the immune system function to decline, or even It’s easy for people to overwork their body at a certain age earlier than you expected. It will manifest itself as some form of the disease, the decline in organ function or aging of appearance or physical fitness.

Therefore, no matter what kind of extreme sports practice you want to pass through is your dream, in addition to maintaining good physical fitness, you must also take into account long-term physical health. At the same time, Ganoderma lucidum, which can resist oxidation, reduce fatigue, reduce hypoxia, enhance endurance and boost the immune system, can be your good helper.

In order to understand the effect of Ganoderma lucidum on long-term high-intensity exercise, scientists designed the so-called “depletion exercise” experiment, that is, feeding mice with Ganoderma lucidum for about a month, and then keeping them running or swimming until they can’t run or swim at all, and draw ing their blood to check the relevant indicators in the blood to assess the degree of their fatigue.

Several experiments found that compared with mice who did not eat Ganoderma lucidum, those mice fed with Reishi mushroom in advance had better free radical scavenging ability, which significantly reduced damage to liver and muscles, endowed them with better fatigue resistance and better endurance – these mice fed with Reishi mushroom can continue to exercise for a long time before they give up.

The mice that ate Ganoderma lucidum had better endurance. Taking reishi helps to improve the mice’s physical fitness because of their ability to resist oxidation and fatigue. Lingzhi may also be related to “the good ability to withstand acute hypoxia”. Experiments have found that feeding mice with ganoderma triterpenes or polysaccharide extracts, and then exposing them to anoxic conditions (equivalent to an altitude of 11,000 meters), can significantly improve the anti-hypoxia ability of mice and prolong their survival.

Another clinical study pointed out that from the flat ground into the high altitude mountain area (more than 4,000 meters), giving 469 subjects oral ganoderma preparations daily can avoid oxygen deficiency caused by the “acute altitude reaction” with the effective rate of up to 97.5%.

Obviously, with the help of Lingzhi, the body can use less oxygen to maintain normal operation, and it is more resistant to temporary hypoxia. Using these abilities in long-term high-intensity exhaustion exercises can certainly help “endure longer.”

Taking Ganoderma promotes endurance in sports

Whether in terms of anti-oxidation, anti-fatigue or anti-hypoxia, the most specific performance is “sustained exercise endurance.” As early as 1992, Professor Takashi Mizuno, a senior researcher on Ganoderma lucidum in Japan, had done research on Lingzhi’s ability to improve endurance in sports: during a 30-day experiment, mice were allowed to run freely on rollers, and the total distance they ran during this period was calculated.

The longer the mouse runs, the better the endurance of the mouse. As a result, the mice fed with Ganoderma lucidum extract every day during the experiment, whether male or female, ran a longer distance than the mice without eating Ganoderma, that is, about 20% more on average.

If eating Ganoderma lucidum to increase endurance is feasible for mice, so are people. Some scholars in mainland China have conducted experiments with male middle-distance race athletes and found that after taking Ganoderma lucidum for one month, athletes have a better physical ability to withstand “longer time” and “larger load” exercise.