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These powerful nutrients boost your fight against cancer: whether you want to prevent or treat tumors.

Women's Health Letter

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While pharmaceutical companies search for the next cancer-fighting drug, scientists in Japan and China may have already found it. They have developed extracts made from natural substances that have no side effects, help prevent cancer, and are beneficial in both conventional and integrative therapies. One Japanese extract is so effective against various tumors that it's considered to be a drug covered by the Japanese healthcare plan.

The raw materials used to make these extracts are whole foods with a great many cancer-fighting properties. Although they've been used successfully for thousands of years, scientists have only recently been studying them.

I first talked about their ability to strengthen immunity and detoxify pharmaceutical drugs six years ago. Later, I explained how they improve athletic performance and enhance recovery from exercising. Now I want you to know about their benefits as part of a cancer prevention or treatment program.

Their nutrients increase immunity, have anti-tumor properties, and interrupt the food supply to cancerous tumors. In addition, they have antifungal, antibacterial, antiviral, antiinflammatory, and anti-diabetic properties.

I'm talking about medicinal mushrooms.

While there are around 140,000 different mushrooms in the world, only a scant few dozen are grown commercially for nutritional supplements or medications. If you think mushrooms are popular now, just wait. I predict that they will continue to…

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