I hope Ditte’s positive story can help spread the awareness and knowledge of medicinal mushrooms.
Of course, one can’t know for sure, whether it is Ditte’s intake of medicinal mushrooms, etc., which has resulted in her still living now 8 years after, she was close to being put down due to tumors in the abdomen, etc. But I find it thought-provoking that her illness has not progressed more than it has, while she has received medicinal mushrooms, which, existing research suggests, have anti-tumor and life-prolonging effect. And, not least, considering her relatively old age (16 years of September 4, 2024).
Throughout the whole course has Ditte not received any other treatment such as chemotherapy, radiation therapy or Prednisone, etc. but has only been given the described products – see dose.
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Assuming there is a correlation between Ditte’s good condition today and her intake of medicinal mushrooms, it could be interesting to investigate whether the result can be verified in other similar cases.
My hope is that there will be looked closely at the results of existing research into the effect of medicinal mushrooms, and that further research will be initiated to investigate the ability of medicinal mushrooms to alleviate/cure diseases in animals as well as in human beings, since animals and humans have the immune system in common. And not least because it seems that medicinal mushrooms generally are well tolerated with none or few side effects.
My own observations of Ditte, compared with the veterinarian’s findings on scans, etc., make me convinced that Ditte has no side effects from the medicinal mushrooms. Rather, on the contrary, as she is a vital, happy and playful dog with good appetite and a constant body weight.
Ditte has received a considerably high dose of medicinal mushroom extract, as she daily has got a total of 1366 mg per kg she weighs (2.8 kg) which she apparently has tolerated very well and has been doing well with.
I hope there will be more research into the effect of medicinal mushroom extract given at a sufficiently high dose in relation to body weight and of longer duration in animals (with naturally occurring cancer), respectively female and male, and both neutralized and non-neutralized animals, in order to detect whether medicinal mushrooms work equally well on both sexes, and whether hormone production may also play a role in the effect of medicinal mushrooms.
Dorthe Øfeldt
Denmark
As mentioned in the case history, samples of two different tumors in Ditte’s abdomen were taken with a needle (July 2017), which could not be analyzed, because the samples were of not intact/dead material. 9 months later (April 2018) there were no longer tumors present in Ditte’s abdomen, when she was sterilized.
According to the veterinary hospital, conducting the needle samples (July 2017), non-analyzable cell material may be due to the cell material either being destroyed during cell extraction, or a tumor growing so fast that the core of the tumor can’t keep up.
In the period from January 2017, when Ditte was diagnosed with extensive metastases to both organs and the structures of the abdominal cavity, and until April 2018, when tumors were no longer present in her abdominal cavity, Ditte was given the medicinal mushroom Coriolus Versicolor added vitamin C.
In the period from when Ditte’s liver tumor was detected (June 20, 2019) until the scan July 2, 2020, where the tumor had grown steadily, but still, on the ultrasound scans, seemed to have “gathered” and encapsulated itself, Ditte did not get vitamin C together with the mushroom extracts.
But she received this in the period from the scan July 2, 2020 until the scan May 27, 2021, which showed a considerable reduction in the size of the liver tumor, as the tumor (which in June 2019 measured: 1.5 x 2 cm, in October 2019: 2.5 x 2.5 cm, and which in July 2020 had grown further to: 2.8 x 3.5 cm) now only measured: 1.6 x 1 cm.
During the same period, the liver-supporting medicinal mushroom Antrodia Camphorata was added, which, together with Reishi and Coriolus Versicolor, may have influenced the positive development of Ditte’s liver tumor.
I continued to give the unchanged dose until the scan on May 30, 2022, which showed an even more surprising result, as the liver tumor had then changed into just a fluid-filled cyst of: 0.4 cm in diameter. At the control scan on August 17, 2023, the cyst measured: 0.4 x 0.3 cm, and at the latest scan on May 30, 2024, the cyst was now completely gone.
