Six Weeks of Ryze Coffee

 

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Before you jump to a conclusion

Nope, I haven’t given up the daily consumption of one of my most favorite beverages, regular leaded coffee. I’m just mixing it with ½ teaspoon of Ryze mushroom coffee and it’s impressed enough to continue with it. 

What interested me in Ryze?

After my cancer challenge, I wanted to increase my overall health, especially, my gut-health, as organically as possible. Due to a colon resection with a permanent colostomy, gradually, my digestion ability slowed in some areas, causing obstructions. 

Before getting a colostomy, I was able to eat a wider variety of high-fiber, low carb foods. About a year into recovery, that changed. Now, two-and-a-half years later, I’ve eliminated most of them from my diet due to an increased gut-reaction. 

This isn’t the case for all ostomates. Some of us can eat whatever we want without any ill effects.

In researching mushroom coffees, I found Ryze to be affordable and great positive feedback and reviews from customers. It also plays well with low-carb diets.

What’s in it?

Ryze is a coffee made of a variety of mushrooms blended into a smooth powder. 

It has 1 gram of total carbohydrates per teaspoon, 1 gram of total fat, 0 milligrams of cholesterol, 0 milligrams of sodium, 0 grams of dietary fiber, and 0 grams of protein. 

Ingredients

☙ Arabica coffee

☙ Organic mushrooms: cordyceps, lion's mane, reishi, shiitake, turkey tail, and king trumpet. The mushrooms are sustainably grown in California.

☙ Organic MCT (medium chain triglycerides) oil

☙ Organic coconut milk

Benefits

☙ Ryze is BIG on antioxidants: Medicinal mushrooms boast an ungodly amount of antioxidants. Decades of scientific research show how antioxidants help protect you from all kinds of harmful problems including premature aging.

☙ Immunity boosts:  Wards off infections and harmful bacteria. Medicinal mushrooms can help stimulate the immune system in such a way that they strengthen immune response and have been found to exert anti-tumor and anti-cancer activity against harmful cells in the body.

☙ Increased brain health: Improves focus and is beneficial for brain health. Most mushroom coffee has less caffeine than coffee but focuses your brain in a different, better way. Some medicinal mushrooms have been found to repair and regenerate neurons and improve cognitive function.  

☙ Increased energy levels without the jitters: Caffeine can improve focus, but in excess can cause jitters and elevated anxiety. Thus, adding in stress-regulating adaptogenic mushrooms mitigates the energy spikes and leaves a jitter-free no crash feeling of awesome steady focus and energy.

☙ Keeps digestion calm as a low-acidity coffee alternative: Special compounds in medicinal mushrooms act as prebiotics in the digestive system and directly help improve digestive health. They patrol the gut and help keep the gut microbiome free of bad bacteria.  

☙ Improves organ health because it's rich in antioxidants and essential vitamins

Additional info...

Medicinal mushrooms, especially Reishi, contain vital nutrients that can prevent liver toxicity and lower glucose levels, directly affecting heart health. Medicinal mushrooms are also antivirals, antimicrobials, and contain antioxidants that pump up the body’s natural defenses to fight disease.

My overall experience with Ryze

One of my friends asked me what Ryze tastes like. Although many reviewers said it tasted exactly like coffee to them, that wasn’t the case for me. 

My own experience is that it has a very mild, earthy flavor that doesn’t take away from the flavor of my coffee. They  consistently pair well together.

I also found it to be a healthy addition to soups and salads. Its fine-powder consistency made it easy to blend into everything I’ve tried it with and hasn’t clashed with any recipes.

I’ve had a decrease in fatigue and an increase in energy. That’s been a huge help due to the challenge of chronic fatigue worsening after getting an ostomy. In order to decrease symptoms of GI disorder, exercise has been essential. Before Ryze, I was losing ground in the fatigue battle. Within the time I’ve been using Ryze, I’ve been more able to maintain therapeutic workouts, at least most days.

Where to get it

Amazon carries it for a few dollars less than what I purchased it on eBay. Click here to check it out for yourself.

"Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for medicine". Ezekiel 47:12

 The wrap!

Thanks for visiting! If you’ve had your own experience with Ryze, or other types of mushroom coffees and teas, I encourage you to share it with us in the comments! Your interest and input is always appreciated and other readers may find it very helpful.

Shalom

 

Spring Quarter Status 2024: Maintaining cancer-free

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Happily wrapping up another healthy quarter!

One check-up left to go, but the quarterly test results are in. Still cancer free,  for one year, six months and holding.

Woohoo! I’m thankful and celebrating!

Reasons for the quarterly schedule

About six months after finishing chemotherapy and radiation, a CT scan showed new masses had developed. One on my intestinal wall, the other in my lung. 

I was already getting scanned quarterly to keep an eye on two previously existing masses–one my right lung, the other on my right adrenal gland. 

No one was happy to see two brand new masses showing up, one of them sitting next to the older one in my lung.

We were all relieved that they were small enough to not have to do any major intervention. 

Yup, still celebrating that, too!

And so, my care team scheduled me for quarterly CT scans, to ensure if one of these masses gets up to any funny business, it gets caught early enough (hopefully) to wipe it out before it can do any damage.

The following quarter, CT scan showed no changes in the older masses, but there were changes in the new ones.

They were smaller! Bet you can tell I'm smiling... 😁

Clarification

There’s been no biopsies on any of these.

One is known to be a lipoma (the one in the intestines), and won’t be messed with unless it gets large enough to cause trouble. They’re vascular, bleed a lot and are a pain to remove, especially through a colostomy. 

I’d provide a vid for an example, but don’t wanna get anyone wigged out over a surgical procedure. 

The other masses, including the new one in the lung, we don’t know what they are, only that the two older ones have been stable since their discovery. The newer one, because it shrank and didn’t grow, was enough to not disturb it. 

Something akin to stepping away softly and not waking the lion. 

I’m sooo good with that!

I’m also good with not having to go through another colonoscopy for at least another six months and maybe another year, since I’m maintaining good results with the CT scans.

Looking for the good is sometimes like sifting through dirt for diamonds. But, when you find one, it’s always worth the effort.

Word up!

28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Romans 8:28 (World Messianic Bible Translation)

The wrap   

This is definitely a brag post. Not for bragging on myself, but definitely to brag on my gracious, loving Messiah, who consistently drenches His people’s lives in mercy.

From our perspective, doesn’t always seem like that, but He remains tried and true, not just in my life but in the lives of millions! As we walk by faith, He holds us tight, navigating us through treacherous circumstances.

If you don’t have that sort of relationship with Him, I encourage you to just try Him... He is the best thing that’ll ever happen to you.

8 Oh taste and see that the LORD is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. Psalm 34:8 (World Messianic Translation)

‘Til next time,

Shalom