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TOP 5 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

 

1. How much should I have and how often?
Before we talk about how much you should have, it is important you understand we sell food and not standardised medicinal products.
What is the difference? At a high level, medicinal products have been not only researched for potential benefits - they have been clinically tested in multiple people in different conditions at different dosages to monitor for side effects and health outcomes. At the end of multiple trials, the manufacturer is able to confidently state: "If you have, let’s say, 1ml of a product every day for one month, you will have achieved a specific outcome (for example, got rid of an infection) and possible side effects are [--list of side effects---]".
That’s not how food works - how many oranges do you need to have to help with a flu? How many cups of chamomile tea do you need to drink to put you to sleep? 
Ultimately, nobody can tell you categorically how much mushrooms (powders or liquids) you should have to achieve an outcome - Though there is plenty of research suggesting potential benefits, there are no clinical trials establishing dosage x outcome. Any manufacturer saying “1ml is enough”, for example, is just doing marketing, unless they can produce a report of clinical trials performed using their product.
How did we come up with our recommended serving suggestions? Based on how much we usually have and customer feedback that we circle back to other customers.
LIQUIDS - Start using approx. 1ml once a day up to 4x a day
POWDERS - Around 1 tsp daily 
CAPSULES - Around 1 capsules daily for Lion's Mane, 2 daily for RSH/TKT

 

2. What is the concentration of your liquids?

Before we go through this data, you must read our blog "Why Beta glucans matter" to have a better understanding of how to assess quality of mushroom tinctures. After the glorification of rice to mushroom, the newest marketing stunt we are seeing around is the downplaying of the importance of fungal beta-glucan concentration in a mushroom based product. Regardless if you want the benefits associated with fungal beta-glucans, they are the only affordable commercially available test offered by third party labs that can work as quality indicator of mushroom based products, ultimately enabling customers to compare quality and value across different products. 

Lion's Mane
- 2000 mg of bio-available fungal beta-glucans per 100ml of extract (tested by third party labs). The highest seen in similar products in the market.
- Approx. $0.02 per mg of bio available 3rd party lab tested active compounds (fungal beta-glucans) when purchasing a 100ml bottle for $39.9. The best value for similar products you can find in the market.
- This is achieved by processing the equivalent of 321 mg of mushroom fruiting body per ml of final tincture.

Reishi
- 1400 mg of bio-available fungal beta-glucans per 100ml of extract (tested by third party labs). The highest seen in similar products in the market.
-  Approx. $0.03 per mg of bio available 3rd party lab tested active compounds (fungal beta-glucans) when purchasing a 100ml bottle for $39.9. The best value for similar products you can find in the market.
- This is achieved by processing the equivalent of 71.4 mg of mushroom fruiting body per ml of final tincture
Turkey Tail
- 2000 mg of bio-available fungal beta-glucans per 100ml of extract (tested by third party labs). The highest seen in similar products in the market.
- Approx. $0.02 per mg of bio available 3rd party lab tested active compounds  (fungal beta-glucans) when purchasing a 100ml bottle for $39.9. The best value for similar products you can find in the market.
- This is achieved by processing the equivalent of 71.4 mg of mushroom fruiting body per ml of final tincture

3. How do I use your products?

We would recommend you check the our blog "How to use our Supplements"

 

4. Which product is strongest? Powder, Capsules or Liquids?

There is no black and white answer to this question... Powders have all the compounds a mushroom can offer you but we don't know exactly how much your body will be able to pull out of them by its own means. The same goes to capsules as they are just a convenient way to use the powders. Liquid Extracts, on the other hand, have lower concentration of compounds when compared to powders, but they are 100% available to your body.  Our customers report satisfaction using either so, it seems the most important thing is how you are planning to embed mushrooms in your daily routine. 

 

5. Why you don't have mycelium available for all mushrooms?

What is called "mycelium" in the market is brown rice colonised by mushroom culture. Like a tempeh, but using mushroom culture instead of the tempeh culture and rice instead of soy beans. It is mostly rice. Not a mushrooms at all.

The alcohol extract of myceliated grains is very weak (their colour is almost clear when compared to the alcohol extract of real mushrooms) and the water extract has a lot starches (you can see all the foam forming as you cook them).  So, we don't think this is a worthwhile product to be offered to our customers particularly when independent scientific evidence about how myceliated rice can be of any benefit is very limited. 

The only exception is our "lion's mane fruiting body & mycelium dual extract" that combines lion's mane mycelium alcohol extract (only alcohol extract, no starchy water extract used) with our lion's mane fruiting body dual extract. That combination yielded a liquid extract with the highest concentration of beta glucans amongst our products, a unique / pioneer mycelium based starch free product.