Medicinal mushrooms for animals? Equine Matrix, which provides all-natural supplements for horses, rocked the equestrian racing world when in 2007 the champion, Street Sense, a Kentucky Derby winner, was shown to have used their product—medicinal mushrooms! Rumors turned to reality when the horse’s power and speed were thought to have been boosted by the mushrooms.
Medicinal mushrooms aren’t just for horses
The whole food horse product is 100% organic and all 10 types of medicinal mushrooms are grown in California. Olympians and Team Matrix Riders from around the world have since recognized the success of both the medicinal mushroom proprietary blend, as well as the horse that used it to win. Jockeys were so excited that they started using the horse product themselves, but noted that it tasted “earthy and musty.”
Equine Matrix became so popular for its ability to promote energy and enhancing the immune system for horses, that Matrix Healthwerks, who was behind the product, worked to make a better tasting blend for people. However, a little like reinventing the wheel, it is well known that medicinal mushrooms have been used in the east Asia, and more specifically in Japan, Korea, and also for thousands of years in Traditional Chinese Medicine, and are already commonly sold as medicinal mushroom supplements in the U.S. and Canada. After redeveloping the horse complex for human consumption and tastes, NRGmatrix now makes a citrus-flavored energy drink that includes a medicinal mushrooms and herb blend specifically for humans.
Benefits of medicinal mushrooms for multiple species
Other products containing many types of medicinal mushrooms now flood the markets in the western world, with benefits to health reaching potentially millions of people who otherwise would get sick every time winter weather hits, but now stay immune to common colds, viruses, and infections. Energy production, vitamins and minerals, high levels of antioxidants, as well as the immune boosting effects, are well known from human clinical trials that have been studied for decades.
It is great to know that horses are now benefiting from these edible fungi too, and are increasing their performance and health by being given medicinal mushrooms, especially to the point of becoming Olympic champion race horses. Some of the mushrooms used for both animal and human use include Reishi, Cordyceps, Maitake, Androdia, Agaricus Blazei, Coriolus Versicolor, and the well-known mushroom Shiitake.
Sources for the article included:
http://www.mushroommatrix.com/equine-home/
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