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Hey, folks, it's Ben Greenfield and if you dig medicine, healing your body and using

cutting edge tools and technology to do so, you're going to dig today's episode.

But speaking of healing the body, I want to start by telling you about this stuff called

chaga.

Chaga is a mushroom that actually contains nature's highest amounts of what's called super

oxide dismutase.

That's the most potent antioxidant enzyme that your body makes.

So because of that, it increases things like cancer cell activity or anti-cancer cell

activity, rather what's called NK cell activity.

And that's a major component of your innate immune system and it increases that by up to

300%.

It fights bacteria, it fights viruses, it fights inflammatory disease.

You can chop this stuff off of a tree or you can order it in this little packet.

You can get wild crafted chaga combined with aloeuvra, which is this adaptogenic herb that

helps your body with hormone balance, mint, which makes it oh so tasty and rose hip, which

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