The doctor Ricardo Sánchez, of the biomedical department of Hifas da Terra, presents in Vigo lighthouse (FDV) The talk that will give this Thursday at the headquarters of Refoundation From Pontevedra about how mycotherapy can help in diseases such as Alzheimer's.
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Hifas da Terra, will offer this Thursday in Pontevedra (raising headquarters, 20 hours). The day is organized by the Association of Family members of Alzheimer's patients in Pontevedra, AFOPO.
The relationship between food and health will focus the informative talk Mycotherapy as help in Alzheimer's disease That Dr. Ricardo Sánchez Luz, of the Biomedic Department of Hifas da Terra.
The treatment of dementias in the preclinical phase can be complemented with mycotherapy. In this sense, fungi Ganoderma lucidum and Hericium Erinaceus"They have the ability to regenerate nervous tissue," which helps in diseases such as Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative. These are fungi with high antioxidant power that slows cell aging.
Fungi Ganoderma lucidum and the Hericium Erinaceus They have "a specific action and can be used in diseases such as Alzheimer's." "We work on the ability to regenerate nervous tissue, fundamentally myelin, a substance that appears surrounding nerve fibers."
"What is about acting in that preclinical phase of dementia in which the first alterations appear, the first mild cognitive deterioration, to delay it," since, specifies, both in the moderate phase and in the severe "there are no longer drugs that act."
"In Hifas da Terra we grow fungi in an ecological and controlled way and, from them, we obtain components with which the recommended products are designed."
Alzheimer's is just one of the many health areas that mycology touches. Bora's Pontevedra company is essentially focused on oncology. "We work a lot of nutritional supplements such as adjuvant in the treatment of cancer to improve and help reinforce the immune system, but there are other applications: digestive, vascular, metabolic pathologies, cholesterolemia, etc."