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happy life. How about the three best mushrooms to eat or to take as a compound?

Chitaki. I'm going to talk about mushrooms that you probably can find in your grocery store either fresh or

in dried forms and the good news is it doesn't matter whether they're dried or fresh.

They both have the same properties.

You'll obviously going to have to soak the dried mushrooms before you use them but we're seeing even in plain old

everyday grocery stores a lot of these mushrooms appearing.

Chitaki are rich in minerals and vitamins.

They're full of Vitamin E.

Interestingly enough,

Chitaki mushrooms when they're exposed to ultraviolet light, which they are with sunlight, produce

Vitamin D. So mushrooms in general are actually one of the only foods that you can eat that do deliver vitamin D to you.

Now, the nice thing about Chitaki mushrooms and mushrooms in general.

Mushrooms are full of what are called polysaccharides.

Now polysaccharides, as the name implies,

is many sugar molecules.

And we're beginning to learn that these chains of sugar molecules are nearly impossible for us to digest with our

digestive enzymes, which means that these long-chain sugar molecules are delivered to our

gut bacteria who happen to think they're the best thing since excuse the expression sliced bread.

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