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While simple carbs such as those in white sugar, pasta, and refined flour break down quickly—causing that “spike and crash” of energy—more complex polysaccharide chains like those found in whole grains, legumes, and mushrooms provide the lasting energy your body requires to function at optimal levels.

Beta-Glucans

These are a type of polysaccharide, so-classified due to the particular way the sugar molecules are connected in the polysaccharide chain. Just as all mushrooms are fungi but not all fungi are mushrooms, all beta-glucans are polysaccharides, but not all polysaccharides are beta-glucans. Beta-glucans are perhaps most instrumental in their potential to reduce cancerous cells that have invaded the body

Beta-glucans also stimulate the creation of immune stem cells in bone marrow and stimulate other white blood cells (such as NK cells) to release anticancer molecules throughout the body, so the immune system is equipped to ward off and reduce cancerous invasions as well as mitigate the effects of chemotherapy and radiation...For these reasons, scientists have classified beta-glucans as “biological response modifiers” and have praised them because they are perhaps the only identified substance that boosts immunity without ever pushing the immune system to overreact.