Mushroom Tinctures - Are Alcohol-based Tinctures Effective?

Dr. Klaper shares his thoughts on the benefits of mushrooms and medicinal mushrooms such as reishi, cordyceps, turkey tail, lion's mane, chaga, shiitake, and maitake. He says that making alcohol-based tinctures with mushrooms is not an effective way to extract the nutrients and medicinal compounds. He prefers to use them in cooking as part of your plant based diet.
Question: What is your opinion on mushroom tinctures like Reishi and Lion’s Mane?
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[@FlyingSoloSV]

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[@daskispot]

But what about a duel extract of alcohol & hot water? That's the most common tincture on the market.

[@etownKeystoned]

He seems to be speaking in gourmet varieties and referencing strict alcohol tinctures. Using just hot water or just alcohol leaves behind many beneficial compounds. If you are going for immune boosting properties, hot water only is okay. But a dual extraction gets the largest array of beneficial compounds out & for mushrooms like turkey tail, reishi (polypors in general) that taste like feet & are very tough, eating them is not reasonable

[@etownKeystoned]

"Dual Extraction Tincture" is the only way to get the full spectrum of benefits, thats alcohol extraction, followed by a hot water decoction, which is combined at 25-30% ABV for shelf stability. This is best for medicinal Variety such as Red Reishi which tastes like Sour tree bark otherwise.

[@briangswaldrip6392]

Sir, Lion's Mane is quite soft in comparison to reishi and is effective in alcohol prior to water pressure cooking. For reishi, I slice fresh fruiting bodies and soak them in alcohol. The alcohol solubles definitely release into the solution. Then that is also strained to water pressure cook the remaining mushroom slices for the water solubles still bound by chitin. I hope this clears up any misunderstanding.

[@CharGC123]

They are woody and not particularly appetizing, so powdering them is the best bet.

[@lizzzarduh]

What about Ashwaganda tincture?

[@hdcoletti]

Tea is best way

[@doveseye.4666]

No fertilizer in mushroom farming and its soil is coconut husks fibre.

[@karemjeriamorales63]

Por favor Doctor en español🙏🌻💚

[@bbg1757]

What about tinctures that have been double distilled i think it is called. Like reshi you would soak peices in alcohol for a while then strain. Take the peices and boil them and strain and mix the water and alcohol. That or the other way around boil then soak in alcohol? I am wanting to know the best way to take reshi mushrooms.

[@goodboi4939]

I didn’t know tinctures were a thing until a couple days ago, I just stir the powder into hot/boiling water as tea

[@octapulse2906]

You're basically getting the benefit of the compounds released by the hot water while the alcohol adds nothing of value

[@kyrie26]

If he can't even spell "chitin", I'm not sure he knows what he's talking about.

[@seeshell6440]

He’s partially, correct, alcohol alone, will not break it down. Alcohol is used as a second step after hot water extraction.

[@DrLauraRPalmer]

I’m so interested in this theory. It just seems to make so much sense. But im still wondering why there so many mushroom tinctures. Is there any way possible they could have used a different process? I was going to tincture my own simply bc I don’t always trust companies ...but What if I tincture up mushroom powder?? Is there anyway at all to tincture it abd have it be 100% bio available That you know of??

[@cocis911]

This video doesn't really represent the subject well. Any mushroom tincture of any quality will be a DUAL extracted tincture. This means it has gone through a hot water decoction process AND an alcohol extraction process. There definitely are compounds that only come out by dissolving in alcohol. But a key important point about such a dual extract tincture is that the alcohol present (25% to 35%) ensures the liquid is shelf stable. The alcohol will prevent bacteria etc from growing. So you have a valuable tincture you can use in super convenient form for many weeks or months.

[@DrLauraRPalmer]

Wow this was helpful. This is exactly what I wanted to know Bc I was just about to make my own. But I was going to use organic freeze dried powder mushrooms. I was just about to give up maybe on the idea until he said pressure boil if it’s at least a powder version. So now I’m wondering if putting a soupy powder mushroom concoction into my pressure cooker for a few minutes then adding alcohol afterwards would be most effective?

[@HellGod67]

Funny how he thinks that tinctures are made to dissolve chitin, we can't digest it too.

[@dailydoseofmedicinee]

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[@emmawatson9593]

Thank you ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@MemoryPallace]

Coming from a guy that sees no medical properties in meat I can’t trust him all food is medicine