When we get into the herbal category, we immediately want to focus on medicinal mushrooms

— mushrooms that

grow on trees.

That's what I am here to talk to you about is the king of the

mushrooms: chaga.

We have heard about the queen, reishi.

Now it's time for the king, chaga.

I got so into reishi and chaga that I actually bought a house way up in the woods in the middle of

nowhere so I can hunt medicinal mushrooms and make that part of my lifestyle, part of my diet.

Are you guys ready to explore the magic of the King of the Mushrooms and what that means?

We are going to look at the science; we are going to look at where the stuff grows; we are going

to talk a little about the history of this food in the West. We are going to talk about what it can

do for you, and we are going to talk about

using chaga for cancer, because chaga is

the number one herb in the world against

cancer that we know of.

Chaga is the king of the polypores. You are

going to see some imagery here that is

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extra-terrestrial. It's beyond-this-planetary.

This is to give the topic a little bit of an

angle — that chaga is not quite from here.

It's from a cold planet somewhere. It grows

in the circumpolar region of the world. It

grows in deciduous forests at the very

brink of where they can survive.

There is a book, The Cancer Ward, which I will be referencing later that says, "Man is provided

with all he needs in every corner of the Earth. He only has to know where to look." That's why

we came here. You have everything you need. It's all around you. It's always been around you

always. You live in Los Angeles; do you think there are no springs here in Los Angeles? Thereare. You think in Los Angeles there is not enough food? There is tons of food here. There is pine

pollen in the Thousand Oaks Whole Foods parking lot. It's here.

A polypore is a woody pore fungus that sometimes forms large, brightly colored shelf-like

growths on trees — either dead trees or living trees. The polypores are the ennobled

representatives of the mushroom kingdom. All these years of doing nutrition I found out — and

you do find things out if you have been in it as long as I have — that the main part of our diet

should be plants, and some of our diet actually has to be mushrooms. That is actually what we

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require.

Some of our diet has to come from the insect

kingdom. That is also what we require. Now I'm not

going to recommend you eat a cockroach or a

grasshopper; however, honey is good. Let's say you

don't believe me. Let's say you go, "Nope. I don't do

honey, I don't do grasshoppers, I don't eat cockroaches, I don't eat ants, I don't eat any of that

stuff." Then you actually lose years of your life. Let's

say you do believe me. You say, "I'll eat the honey." Then you will add years to your life. And

that has been shown.

Honey is a super longevity food. It's number two, right behind chocolate. Chocolate and honey.

That's it. That's what the research indicates. That's the basis of all candy. The entire candy

industry began with raw cacao beans and honey. And that is kind of interesting because it

means that having a good time, eating what you enjoy, creating little concoctions with

chocolate and honey is associated with a long life. It's an interesting thing. Any child will tell you

that.

The polypores come from "up there," as we are going to see. Of

the polypores, Inonotus obliquus, otherwise known as chaga, is

king. I have seen this in so many different ways. It is always a

magical experience when you find a chaga, and it's always an

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incredible experience when you dry it, when you crush it to a

powder, when you eat it, when you make teas out of it, when

you are adding it to your smoothie, when you are making

extracts of it — everything about it, in every way, is true magic.

We live in a disenchanted world most of the time. In this little

cubbyhole, in this hotel, for this weekend, we are in natural

magic. However, when we get out there in that world, and we

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get on freeways and the two guys cut us off, we start sensing the disenchantment of our world.

We all have heard that there is a lost, enchanted world close by. We are inspired by books that

hint at that alternate reality, that dimension that is near, but far. J.R.R. Tolkien. Harry Potter. If

we look into those archetypes a little more deeply, we find that there are certain iconic

representatives of those kingdoms — the magical kingdom — such as fairies, elves, dwarves,

gnomes, toads and mushrooms.

Is it possible that if we take in something from the mushroom kingdom — not number 8, not

number 4,000, not number 10,802, but number 1 — that we could invite in some of the

enchantment of the mushroom world; of a dimension that is near, of a dimension that brings

inspiration, that invites in creativity? And the

answer is: yes.

The word chaga is a Russian word. The Russians

brought it to us. It was originally a Siberian

medicine — although it is present across the

entire circumpolar region of the world, usually

growing on birch trees. Sometimes it grows on

alder, ash, beech and elm trees. Sometimes, even

apple trees. This particular image is the growing

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region of chaga, which is the circumpolar region

of the Northern Hemisphere of our Earth.

Wherever deciduous forests can survive —

Canada, Siberia, Scandinavia, some of Northern

Europe, and you can even see some of Iceland —

are ideal growing environments for chaga.

What the heck is a deciduous forest? At the very northern regions where it is minus 70 degrees

Fahrenheit, pine trees can survive. As it warms up and gets to about minus 40, birch can

survive. Where birch is found, you also find chaga. Chaga, according to the lore, grows best

where it is minus 40 in the winter. I use minus 40 for a particular reason, because some people

are on Celsius and some people are on Fahrenheit. But there is one place where they are the

same: minus 40.

Russian dissident and Nobel Laureate, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, brought chaga to the attention

of the West in his book The Cancer Ward. He described a group of cancer patients in Siberia —

political prisoners who were being irradiated with chemotherapy — who were hoping that

something would come down the pipeline. And in the book, that thing was chaga.

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This is actually an autobiographical story.

He is telling us the story of how he was

healed of cancer. Alexander Solzhenitsyn

was going down with cancer. He chose

chemotherapy with chaga and survived,

and this is his story about how that

happened. The Cancer Ward was

published in the English language in 1968

and became a sensation all across Europe,

all across America, and all across the UK.

It's still available in used book stores today. One day I was sitting at home reading about this

book online. I got up, drove into town, went to the used book store, asked about the book, and

they had it. I pulled it off the shelf and read it. Fascinating book.

A doctor in the book worked for dozens of years in the same hospital, and he discovered a

strange thing: the peasants in his district saved money on their tea and instead of tea brewed

up a thing called chaga — birch fungus. He noticed that the peasants never got cancer, and they

would live to be over 100. That is in the chaga lore: people who drink chaga tea live to be over

100. The doctor decided to bring chaga into his treatments for cancer based on what he had

observed with the peasants. They found in Russia, as early as the 1940s, that chaga has these

properties: it's an herbal adaptogen; a cancer fighter; an immune modulator; antiviral and

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antifungal.

And some of you are going to go, "Wait a second. I read Dr. Young's book, The pH Miracle." Did

you know that when Dr. Young wrote that book, he didn't even know what reishi mushroom

was? No idea. And he had absolutely no idea what chaga mushroom was. I think it's a great

book, but we can't really say that a button mushroom is the same as an ennobled

representative of that magical kingdom that we call the mushrooms.

What is the best way to get rid of a rat? Say you have a rat in your house. Let's say I am over at

David Wilcock's house. There's a rat in the basement. What do we do about it?

Audience member: Cat.

DW: But who gets the cat? You. The best way to get rid of a rat, you get a human on the case.

Right? A human is going to figure out how to get that rat. That's like chaga versus candida.

Chaga is an ennobled representation of the mushroom world and it knows how to get rid of

candida. That's easy. That's a no-brainer, all-hearter. That will be a rewind later. It will be like,

"No-brainer, all what? Rewind."

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Here is what is in chaga that makes the

magic. The first thing is betulin. Out of

2,500 botanical substances reviewed for

their power to fight cancer, betulin is

number one.

What is betulin? Betulin is the white

powdery stuff that is in birch. Some people

have a birch tree right in front of their

house, right here in Los Angeles. Betulin is

that white stuff in the birch bark. If you

strip the bark around, and you break it up

— the white powder that comes out is

betulin. Betulin, betulinic acid and lupeol—

which are all, basically, the same kind of

compound — are concentrated by chaga.

Chaga takes those substances and leverages it against the cancer.

I don't know about you, but I'm all for the natural stuff. We have found that we don't need herb

number 1,111 anymore. That's over. That game ended. We don't need herb number 400. It's

over. Herb number 333, we're not going there. We need herb number 1, and then we need to

megadose on that one. Because what makes it herb number one is that you can live on it. You

can blast it down all day.

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Frank Giglio was up here earlier. His wife has been drinking chaga tea every day of her

pregnancy. There is no threat to any kind of life. It's for life — all for life — and that's why chaga

is number one, and that's why reishi is number two, and that's why astragalus is number three

— because they are for life. And that's why we go to them. They are the most powerful

medicines.

Melanin. This is appropriate for the situation that we are in currently — radioactive debris in

the environment.

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The Russian research since 1955 found that radioactive isotopes that are

present in chemotherapy degrade in the presence of melanin.

Melanin is a substance you have in your skin. It takes radiation from the Sun, and it absorbs it

and deactivates it. That is basically what our skin is doing. So it's like chlorophyll, isn't it?

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Melanin is a very nutrient-dense substance and it has tremendous draw of resources and

minerals wherever it is found. Whenever we find little white spots on us — maybe vitiligo, or

something like that — that shows our body is not able to push out all the nutrients to the skin.

The skin is furthest away. I'll say that again. It's an interesting idea. Your skin is furthest away.

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Let's say you were dealing with something going on with your skin. I would really recommend

that you start looking at chaga tea, that you start taking chaga and cooking it in oil, like cacao

butter. I've been doing this. You take cacao butter and you do a double boiler method, and you

put chaga in there. You extract fat-soluble substances out of there, then you take the whole

darned thing, the chaga, the oil, everything, and rub it into your skin so you come at it from the

outside in, instead of from the inside out. This is especially important with advancing age, so

that we can get a little of nutrition coming into our skin this way.

There is a strong relationship between chaga and reversing melanomas that has been well-

documented. There is nothing better against melanoma than chaga. It's number one. In a

minute we’ll go through the list of all the different cancers chaga has been noted to be

beneficial for.

Let's talk a little bit about melanin and the pigments that are in chaga. About 25 percent of the

pigments in chaga are actually melanin. That is really a high amount; whereas with reishi it is

2 percent. There is no other mushroom that even comes close.

David Wilcock: It is very important for the pineal gland.

DW: We have Mr. Pineal himself. Stand up,

David Wilcock. This guy had the number one

video on Google on December 1st, 2008. And

what was it about? It was about the pineal

gland. And what does the pineal gland require?

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David Wilcock: You see, the pineal gland is

actually a physiological connection to being

psychic. In my new book, I did all the homework.

It turns out that the pineal gland is in the

geometric center of your brain. It's wired up like

an eye. It has what they call a focal transduction

cascade. It takes photons that are coming from

somewhere in there and shoots them into the

visual cortex of your brain.

All different cultures around the world have legends of the pine cone, which is associated with

the pineal gland. It appears that this gland is the key to your psychic awareness. I have talked

with a lot of people who have worked in Black Ops programs for the government, Uncle Sam, or

Uncle as they call it sometimes; and this one guy was telling me that melanin is the big thing for

the pineal gland, which is all about being psychic and switching on your awareness. And I'm like,

(Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2009, 2:25 doi:10.1186/1756-8722-2-25)

"Well, where am I going to get melanin?" And then you just told me this, so that's part of why

it's number one, bro!

DW: Turn on your psychic powers with chaga. Thank you, David Wilcock! So melanin is a very

interesting compound, and there are all different kinds of philosophies and theories about it,

this latest being a very interesting angle on it: it activates the pineal gland, and that's that third

eye that David was just talking about. It's wired up like an eye in your brain, and in reptiles, in

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some cases, it actually is an eye, isn't it?

Let's jump to the next thing: beta-glucans. In the last ten years, there have been tremendous

breakthroughs in understanding how beta-glucans work with the immune system. In fact, there

was an article that came out just a few months ago, a fascinating article about how

macrophages, your white blood cells, actually dice up the beta-glucans, which are found in

almost all medicinal mushrooms, and use those as weapons against viruses, against cancer,

against bad bacteria, and against harmful fungi like candida.

Beta-glucans are immune modulators. In cancer, what we are looking to do is to sharpen up the

intelligence of our immune system. Beta-glucans are modulatory in that if your immune system

needs to come up it will come up; if your immune system is overactive and missing something

down here, the beta-glucans will turn it back down so you can see where the cancer is. So beta-

glucans are not like a very strong garlic hit that shoots your immune system up. Beta-glucans

have been well-studied in cancer research, and they are found in many different medicinal

mushrooms.

Activated barley that is out now that has beta-glucans in it. This is one of the super nutrients of

the future. It's a polysaccharide. I want to digress for a second to talk about polysaccharides.

There are eight essential sugars. Glucose is one of them; fucose is another; arabano-galactose is

another. And there are five more. These essential sugars are found in medicinal mushrooms, in

seaweeds, and in certain superherbs — like goji berry and astragalus — but they are rarely

achieved just by eating food. We rarely get enough of them to activate all the essential sugars

that we require. And this is an area to look into.

My feeling is that the future of medicine is all about the essential sugars, because that

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polysaccharide — unlike glucose, which is a simple sugar — has a bunch of different twists and

turns and bells and whistles on it. And your immune system will cleave pieces of it off to use to

fight different invaders and to modulate your immune system.

That’s where the ormus is, for those of you who are tuned in to that. It's in the polysaccharide.

That is what David Hudson discovered all those years ago. I have been researching this for 17

years, and I think he's right. I think the aloe vera gel, where those polysaccharides are, can have

this much ormus mineral in it, or that much.

If you are really clever and you are really tuning in to this whole thing about polysaccharides,

you are probably thinking, "Wait a second. We could grow medicinal mushrooms in such a way

to increase the amount of ormus — the strange matter, the weird minerals — that are in the

polysaccharides that modulate our immune system." That's where I'm at, too. That's actually

where my research is at, and that's what I like to do in my spare time. I don't know what other

people do for fun, but that's what I do.

Antioxidants. Chaga is number one for

antioxidants in the mushroom kingdom.

It has the most pigments of color. What

do we know about those pigments of

color? Melanin is part of that complex;

there are lanostane triterpenes that are

part of that complex; there are beta-

glucans that are part of that complex.

Beta-glucans are usually red, and that's

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what gives that fiery red to reishi

mushroom, if you have seen that before.

Now we have access to greater, deeper, more beautiful, richer pigments of color than we have

ever had before. Look at chlorella. Look at chaga. Look at what is going on with the red

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pigments in astaxanthin. I mean, you can't even bite into that stuff. It will stain your teeth red

for two days.

It's folding over and over: the worse it gets, the better it gets. It was the best of times, it was

the worst of times, it’s the best time ever and it's the worst time ever, all at the same time. So

with these disasters that we are seeing, we have got to know that on the other side of that is

magic; impossible possibilities. Right? Unlimited potential becomes available to us. All the

people who have gone down with cancer, and all the people who have survived cancer have

brought a new addition to our herbal pharmacopeia. Boom: chaga.

Here are the different cancers that chaga is known to be beneficial for, if not curative of: brain,

breast, cervical, colon, Ewing's sarcoma, leukemia. Leukemia is associated with radiation

poisoning, isn't it? And what does chaga do? It deactivates radioactive isotopes. It will take

radioactive cesium and break it down; it will take radioactive iodine and break it down; it will

take radioactive strontium and break it down.

Liver, lung, medulloblastoma, melanoma. Melanoma is the big one — skin cancer. Chaga is

number one. That's the research. Neuroblastomas, ovarian cancer, squamous cell. A very dear

friend of mine right here in Orange County died of squamous cell cancer, which is a cancer of

the neck or the head. Stomach and uterine cancer. Brain, breast, cervical, colon cancer.

And on top of helping with all that, the thing that really amazes me — and another reason why

chaga is number one — is it tastes good. It's not like you are chewing down something that is

awful; it's not like some bitter medicine. It's nothing like that. You want to eat it. What a

difference. What an amazing aspect of all this.

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Betulinic acid. You'll see it as betulin in

some of the literature and you will see it as

lupeol in some of the literature. Once

again, it's that white stuff. Chaga has taken

that out of the tree and it is concentrating

it. Chaga is a white rot fungus. That means

it does not corrode the cellulose of the

tree, so it can live and does live in living

trees. It is able to go into a living tree and

the cellulose, the fiber of that tree, is not

affected at all. If you see mushrooms

rotting a log, the log is going to melt four or

five years later, because of black rot fungus that gets a hold of the cellulose and starts breaking

it down. But chaga is not like that. It's a white rot fungus, so it can live in a living tree.

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If you look at a birch forest, you will see

that chaga may be present in one out of

every two or three hundred trees. But

those chagas are all in communication

with each other; and it has been shown

that there is chaga DNA present in the soil.

In fact, it is possible that there may be one

chaga organism dominating an entire

forest. That is possible. The same

organism.

There have been various insights in the literature stating that chaga is actually eating the tree,

and the tree is dying. But I have seen chagas in trees that are 50 years old. There is no way it is

killing the tree, even though some people say, "In four to six years it kills the tree." I have seen

disparity in books on medicinal mushrooms and tree mushrooms.

Some scientists have taken the betulin from chaga, and they have concentrated it and sprayed

it on trees with diseases to see what was really going on. "Is that stuff really killing the tree or is

it actually good?" They found that it actually helps other trees fight off their diseases. So it's a

medicine — a true medicine. It's a medicine for us; it's a medicine for other plants.

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