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Natural. Elevated. Mastered. Premium functional mushroom extracts, third-party tested and fully traceable. Discover more👇

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21/10/2026

Most functional foods are limited to water-only extracts because ethanol extraction isn't clearly Novel Food compliant for food use. That means your mushroom coffee is missing the compounds that actually matter: ganoderic acids in Reishi, hericenones in Lion's Mane, betulinic acid in Chaga. Species like Chaga and Cordyceps aren't even clearly authorised for f&b use in the EU at all. Food supplements cab use dual extraction, deliver a researched dose, and can publish the lab results to prove it.

This is one of the reasons we focus on mushroom supplements over functions foods.

14/10/2026

Does Reishi lower cortisol?

Here's what we know.

Your body produces cortisol to deal with stress. Short term, that's useful. Long term, chronically elevated cortisol can become a problem.

Reishi contains ganoderic acids, a class of triterpenes found almost exclusively in Ganoderma lucidum. Research suggests these compounds interact with the GABAergic system, the same pathway targeted by many pharmaceutical calming agents.

Cui et al. (2012) demonstrated anxiolytic effects in animal models through this exact mechanism. It's not a human clinical trial, but the pathway is well-characterised and the research is ongoing.

Reishi has been used for over 2,000 years in traditional Chinese medicine specifically for "calming the spirit" (安神).

08/10/2026

Chaga doesn't grow like other mushrooms.

It forms slowly over years as a dense, dark mass on living birch trees. The birch produces betulin in its bark. Chaga converts that betulin into betulinic acid, concentrating it at levels far higher than the bark itself.

Chaga sclerotium is roughly 90% lignin - the same structural compound found in wood. Without extraction, most of what you're consuming is indigestible plant fibre, not bioactives.

An ethanol purification process separates the lignin from the compounds that matter - betulinic acid, polyphenols, beta-glucans - concentrating them to levels raw Chaga powder can't touch.

I recently had the pleasure of wild harvesting Chaga in Sweden myself, thanks to the MyceliumHub

02/10/2026

How to spot a bad mushroom supplement in 30 seconds.

No Certificate of Analysis? No proof of what's inside. Walk away.

"Proprietary blend"? That's legal code for hiding how little of each ingredient is actually in there.

"Polysaccharides" instead of "beta-glucans"? Starch is a polysaccharide. They're padding the numbers.

No species name? No extraction method?

Health claims like "focus" or "better sleep"? They're breaking the law in the EU, If they'll cut corners on regulations, they'll cut corners on what's in the bottle.

We publish every COA, every batch. Link in bio.

29/09/2026

How much Lion's Mane should you actually take? Let's look at what the research used.

The most cited clinical trial, Mori 2009, used 750mg daily and got measurable cognitive improvements over 16 weeks. Other studies have gone up to 3 grams a day with no safety concerns.

Our standard dose is 900mg. Two capsules, 450mg each. That puts you right in the proven range.

But plenty of our customers take four capsules instead of two, and consistently report better results. Is 1,800mg backed by a specific trial? Not at that exact dose. But it's well within the range the research considers safe.

Start with two. Give it four to six weeks. If you feel like more, go to four. What matters more than dose is consistency. Every study that showed real results required daily use over many weeks.

One capsule a day isn't enough. That's below any dose used in published research. Two minimum. Four if you want to push it.

24/09/2026

Not all mushroom supplements are created equal. Every species has its own quality markers - and "beta-glucans" alone doesn't tell the full story.

If a brand only reports "polysaccharides" or "beta-glucans" without species-specific quality markers, they're giving you half the picture.

Every Mycogenius batch is tested for the compounds that actually matter for each species.

What do you check for when buying mushroom supplements? 👇

18/09/2026

We went through the 101 most frequently asked questions about functional mushrooms online.

We're picking 25 of them to answer here, clarifying what the research actually says.

Follow along for an in-depth dive into functional mushrooms.

First one drops next week.

Full Q&As in the blog post - link in bio.

28/08/2026

End of summer sale on Cordyceps. Buy any 2, get 1 free.

Our Cordyceps CS-4 won the Cordy Cup in the extracts category for cordycepin content (1.5%, standardized and independently verified). Liquid-fermented, no grain substrate, full COA published for every batch.

Mix capsules and powder however you like. The discount applies automatically at checkout, no code needed.

Runs until 28th September

19/08/2026

Speaking at the World Mushroom Forum, August 21-23.

Three day, first ever forum, ill be on a panel focused on evidence, bioactives and human health. We will be discussing, what species-specific quality testing actually looks like, why beta-glucans alone don't tell the full story, and what I've learned about the gap between labels and reality through running both a consumer brand and a B2B supply operation.

I have 3 tickets to give away. DM me if you want one.

15/07/2026

We commissioned an independent scientist to test 30 lion's mane supplements sold across Europe and the UK.

The results were just published in Vitafoods Insights, one of the largest trade publications in the nutraceutical industry.

Here's what the lab found.

Beta-glucan content ranged from below 5% to 82%. Some products contained almost no detectable bioactive compounds at all. Hericenones, the compounds most associated with lion's mane's reputation, were undetectable in every single sample.

The testing was carried out by Emma Murphy at the Technological University of the Shannon, with funding from Enterprise Ireland. Not our lab. Not our results to spin. Independent testing.

We share this because you deserve to know what's actually in the products you're buying. Not to scare anyone, but because transparency is the only thing that will really move this industry forward.

Full article linked in bio.

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