*Chaga and Diabetes : Chaga shows promise as a treatment for diabetes, suggests a 2008 study from the Journal of Ethnopharmacology. In experiments on diabetic mice, researchers found that chaga helped reduce blood sugar levels and lower cholesterol.
*Chaga and Cancer : A 2008 study from the World Journal of Gastroenterology indicates that chaga may offer some anti-cancer benefits. In tests on cells taken from human liver tumors, researchers observed that chaga extract inhibited cancer cell growth. According to the study's authors, this finding suggests that chaga shows promise in the treatment of liver cancer.
* chaga has shown much promise as an immune system modulator.
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