You have an epic vacation lined up. You’re working hours around the clock to get a project done. You have a household full of kids running around getting into all kinds of mischief. Or you’re just living and loving life. Whatever phase you’re currently in, nobody has the time or wants to get knocked down by the flu, cold, or any type of pathogen.
This homemade vegan acai bowl recipe with immune-supporting functional mushrooms will ensure you don’t.
The good news is that your body is incredibly intelligent and knows how to fight off infections and pathogens and heal itself. You just have to provide it with the proper homemade acai bowl ingredients. Ingredients that manifest through your approach to life—your lifestyle, habits, and nutrition—play a critical role in letting your immune system do its flu and cold-busting job efficiently.
Real Mushrooms’ Immune-Boosting Mushroom Acai Bowl is vegan, paleo, and nutrient-loaded with probiotic-rich yogurt, vitamin-rich fruit, chlorophyll powdered greens, and two amazing stand-out superhero mushrooms: Chaga and Turkey Tail.
Overall, functional mushrooms are great for your gut health. With their rich content of fibers like chitin, hemicellulose, and beta-glucans, these mushrooms can act as prebiotics. Prebiotics are foods that nurture the growth of beneficial bacteria and help fight off pathogens within the GI tract, allowing your immune system to thrive.
Chaga is especially rich in these gut-friendly prebiotic melano-glucan complexes, amping up the healthy bacterial profile in your gut microbiota. Traditionally, Chaga was boiled down as tea to help treat stomach ailments and other gastrointestinal disorders, which you can read more about in our 7 Mushroom Benefits for Health article.
Housing around 80% of your entire immune system and absorbing about 90% of your nutrients through your intestinal wall, your digestive system, and the health of your microbiome play a critical role in immunity.
A strong digestive system and a healthy, balanced microbiome lead to a strong immune system. That’s where ingredients like the probiotic-rich yogurt and the digestive-enzyme-rich papaya help out. But, what people might not always jump to for digestive health is the amazing “mushroom that’s not a mushroom”—Chaga!
Chaga is an all-star player in supporting immunity and digestion. Its main health benefit is the boost it gives to digestion. It also has the wonderful side effect of clearing your skin; healthy skin reflects healthy digestion!
And then there’s the “the mushroom of multiple colors”—Turkey Tail! Turkey Tail boosts immunity by stimulating cytokine production and increasing your natural killer cells. It’s an incredibly powerful ally to have on your immune support team.
The other "immune support team" players in this acai bowl recipe are the healthy fats, vitamin-rich fruit, and chlorophyll-loaded greens. All-powerful raw materials your immune system needs to thrive.
Everything in the homemade acai bowl works synergistically, paving the way to good digestion; good digestion leads to proper absorption of all the beneficial foods you eat, and proper absorption then leads to keeping your immunity strong and healthy.
Just remember the powerful combination is nutrient-loaded raw materials, good digestion, and a healthy gut microbiome. These work together synergistically to support a healthy immune system.
Lastly, a quick note to remember—these “raw materials” are most efficiently utilized when they’re incorporated into a healthy, low-stress lifestyle.
At Real Mushrooms, we’re passionate about delivering the highest functional mushroom quality and potency. We will only deliver 100% pure and organic extracts backed by scientific verification, so you know you are getting the very best.
Ok, spoons up. Let’s dive into the details of your own homemade acai bowls!
Servings: 1
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 0
Smoothies and smoothie bowls are wonderful because you can easily substitute ingredients. For example, you can substitute coconut yogurt with your favorite yogurt or half a small avocado.
Alternatively, you can use almond milk or oat milk as non-dairy-free milk options, swap it for your favorite protein powder or collagen, or leave it out altogether. Also, if you’d like to make your smoothie bowl sweeter, swap the frozen cucumber for 1/2 a frozen banana.
Your immune system does much more than keep you from getting the cold and flu. It also keeps all toxins, pathogens, and bacteria you naturally consume from passing through your one-cell thick stomach lining and entering your bloodstream.
In other words, it stops all of the toxic, disease-producing junk on the outside of you from entering your insides. If your immune system isn’t in tip-top shape, those pathogens can make it through your gut barrier and contribute to inflammation, disease, pain, depression, anxiety, and an inability to thrive and enjoy life fully!
We at Real Mushrooms want you to thrive fully.
And it’s not about having this immune-boosting homemade acai bowl just once. Certainly, this acai bowl won’t stop you from ever getting sick. Rather, it’s more about adopting a preventative lifestyle with a solid foundation in basic self-care practices that allow your natural defense system to shine.
Self-care practices like creating space for laughter, quality sleep, deep relationships, gratitude, meditation, movement, time outside in the sun, hydration, and quality food are vital to a well-lived, healthy life.
If you don’t make time for such self-care practices, chronic stress will inevitably take over, slowly weakening your immune system. However, approaching life from a non-stressed, parasympathetic state is truly easier said than done. It’s also very achievable through intention, practice, and habits.
Try setting this intention when you wake up every single morning:
“I let go of what I cannot control and choose to love and support my body in ways I can control.”
Then move and eat in ways that align with it!
We love seeing what you create in your kitchen at Real Mushrooms! If you’re looking for a different benefit from our line of functional mushroom extracts, you can easily swap the Chaga and Turkey Tail for another mushroom of your choosing.
Have fun, get creative, and show off your work!
We would love to see all your different Real Mushrooms creations! Join the mushroom recipe challenge! Get creative in the kitchen with different ways to get more mushrooms in your diet. Invent your recipe and share it via Instagram @realmushrooms.
We will feature the winner’s recipe on the blog & give you a coupon for a Real Mushrooms product of your choice!
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