Health Benefits of Mushrooms for Your Pets
Are Functional Mushrooms Good for Animals? Learn About the Health Benefits of Mushrooms for Pets
Functional mushrooms are not just for people, but can also be for pets. Maintain the health of your animals with natural, functional mushrooms, grown and cultivated on USDA-certified organic farms. Find out the health benefits of mushrooms for pets at Eversio Wellness!
Healthy Benefits of Mushrooms for Pets: What Is Best for Them?
Just like in humans, not all functional mushrooms work for every pet. You need to find the right healthy mushrooms that work for your pets. Contact your veterinarian to learn more:
- Cordyceps: Cordyceps mushroom benefits include maintaining healthy liver and kidney functions, supporting energy, and helping to maintain proper immune function
- Tremella: Tremella mushroom benefits include supporting healthy brain function and maintaining proper cardiovascular function
- Turkey Tail: Turkey tail mushroom benefits include maintaining healthy immune function, and supporting a healthy microbiome
- Lion’s Mane: Lion's mane mushroom benefits include supporting optimal digestive health and maintaining cognitive function of senior pets
- Reishi: Reishi mushroom benefits include maintaining healthy immune system function and supporting stress
- Chaga: Chaga mushroom benefits include supporting a healthy immune system
Therapeutic Health Benefits of Mushrooms for Your Pets
Functional mushrooms are rich in antioxidants, beta-d-glucans, terpenoids, and sterols. Many holistic veterinarians use functional mushrooms to maintain the health of their furry patients.
Adding mushroom supplements to your pets' daily diet can maintain their healthy immune and digestive systems, joint and respiratory health, and support them from stress.
There are several ways to administer functional mushrooms to your pets. You can serve mushroom extract powders sprinkled onto or stirred into their food, or offer mushroom extract capsules if your pet will take them.
Remember, not all mushrooms are beneficial for pets. Offering fresh mushrooms isn't recommended. Before introducing any functional mushrooms into your pet's diet, always consult a holistic veterinarian.
The Health Benefits of Offering the Correct Dose
Mushroom extracts are more potent and effective than products that contain a lot of grain and aren’t extracted. A little goes a long way with a concentrated extract. They are easy to add to your pets' food. Just sprinkle some of our mushroom extracts on top of their food, and mix well. For dry pet food, add water to ensure the mushroom extract is mixed and incorporated into the pet food properly.
Holistic vets may recommend sprinkling mushroom extract powder onto a pet’s food up to two times daily according to their approximate weight in the following serving sizes, but we always recommend starting small, making careful observations, and consulting your own veterinarian for dosing guidelines:
- Small: 1 – 30 lbs = 1/8 tsp (250mg)
- Medium: 31 – 75 lbs = 1/4 tsp (500mg)
- Large: 76+ lbs = 1/2 tsp (1000mg)
Although there is research demonstrating the natural health benefits of prolonged functional mushroom use for human beings, we often have animals to thank for being the original subjects of most of these scientific studies. Thank you, animals. For decades animals have been used as test subjects so that we can benefit from the findings of their trials.
Healthy Benefits of Mushrooms for Pets: Turkey Tail, the Best Functional Mushroom for Cats and Dogs
Maintaining a Healthy Immune System Turkey Tail Functional Mushrooms
Pets, especially dogs, are very curious creatures. They tend to lick, drink, and eat anything that piques their interests, including dirty and unsanitary items. We can't always keep an eye on our pets and make sure they don't eat something dangerous.
Maintaining your pet's immune system is essential to their health. Turkey Tail extracts contain beta-glucans which may help maintain a healthy immune system.
Turkey Tail Functional Mushrooms as an Adaptogen
Adaptogen mushrooms are functional mushrooms that can support your pets' stress levels. Adaptogens, such as turkey tail functional mushrooms, can maintain your pet's healthy immune system from environmental stressors. Environmental stresses can be caused by a variety of factors, including
■ Loud noises
■ Unfamiliar scents
■ New places
■ Separation
■ Meeting new people
■ Physical discomfort
■ Confusion or memory loss (common in older pets)
Turkey tail can help to support "positive" stress to your pets' bodies. As a result, your pets can adapt to the environmental stressors without becoming aggressive, restless, or anxious.