FAQs

1. Where are our ingredients sourced?

Our mushrooms are all grown in China. They were the first to start mushroom cultivation (after ants and termites) over a thousand years ago and the have a very mycophilic culture. They love mushrooms and they grow 80% of the worlds cultivated mushrooms. Our mushrooms come directly from their original growing source, the pristine high mountain ranges, far from any cities or industrial pollution. The main reason we chose to go with our suppliers though is because it is the most potent extract that we were able to find. We test all our extracts for levels of active compounds, heavy metals, the presence of pesticide residuals, and microbiological assays to screen for E. coli, salmonella and various other possible bio-contaminants such as moulds or yeasts. You can find the quantities of active ingredients on the individual products.

We source our Cacao from a cooperative in the Brazilian amazon that works with local families that have grown indigenous cacao varieties in agroforestry for centuries. This allows them to earn a decent living and not have to work as illegal loggers or on soy plantations.

Most of our herbs we source from the UK, part of which are hand picked by ourselves. A few exceptions, namely aromatic herbs that are most potent in the Mediterranean weather, come from Greece.

Our palmyra blossom nectar comes from India.

2. What’s a Dual- Extract

A dual extract means that our extract has used two different methods of extraction. Some constituents are better extracted using hot-water and some are better extracted using alcohol. Some are damaged by alcohol and some our damaged by heat. Depending on the mushroom and their active constituents we often combine a hot-water and alcohol extract making them dual-extracts.

3. Do you use mycelium?

We do use mycelium in our Lion’s Mane, cordyceps and turkey tail extracts. There is a lot of propaganda on the internet against mycelium. Mycelium is the growing part of the fungus that grows in the substrate while mushrooms are the fruiting bodies. The reason why mycelium has a bad reputation is because certain growers grow their mushrooms on grain and then use everything to make the extract including the grain with the mycelium growing on it. This makes a really inferior product full of starch.

When we use mycelium we grow it in submersed fermentation. It is grown in a big tank with liquid. Later the mycelium is filtered out to make sure you only get the mycelium.

We grow lions mane mycelium because on of the constituents that is most promising for nerve growth factor the Erinacines are mainly found in the mycelium. We use 50% mycelium extract and 50% fruiting body extract so you also get the Hericenones that are mainly found in the fruiting bodies

Wild cordyceps sinensis is very expensive and endangered. People have been trying to cultivate them for a long time. The have managed to isolate a strain from it that can grow in submersed fermentation. They haven’t been able to make it fruit though. We combine 66.7 % Cordyceps CS-4 mycelium extract with 33.3% cordyceps militaris fruiting bodies to make sure you get the most amount benefits from these amazing mushrooms

With turkey tail mushrooms they have found that it works especially well against cancer and for the immune system where there are large amounts of PSP or proteo-glycans present. The strain we use called COV-1 is developed to produce a much higher concentration of PSP and it’s preferred method of cultivation is submersed fermentation. Virtually all the studies that produce all the amazing results with turkey tail use either this COV-1 strain or a similar CM-101 strain.