Scientific name: Hericium erinaceus

Other names: Lions mane, monkey head mushroom, bearded tooth mushroom, satyr's beard, bearded hedgehog mushroom, pom pom mushroom, or bearded tooth fungus

Family: Hericiaceae

Parts used: Fruiting body and mycelium.

AKA “The Student Mushroom”, is believed to work with the central nervous system and support healthy brain functions, like memory and focus.  Some studies have identified a Nerve Growth Factor in Lions Mane leading to an interest in its potential for promoting neurogenesis.

Benefits of Lion's Mane:

Antidiabetic
Anti-inflammatory
Antioxidant
Cognitive enhancement
Immunomodulatory
Neuroprotective

Our farm partners have been growing and extracting mushrooms for 40+ years and mushroom powders simply do not get any better then this. In addition to taking steps to ensure purity and a high constituent content, we are also concerned about providing mushroom products in which the constituents are in a bioavailable form. The main constituents of mushrooms, the 1,3-Beta Glucans, are tightly bound to the cell walls and have a low degree of bioavailability in raw mushrooms.

To overcome this and increase the bioavailability of the constituents, all of our mushrooms undergo a steam activation process that breaks down the cell walls and frees the 1,3-Beta Glucans from the chitin.

Our mushroom tinctures are triple extracted. First the mushrooms are fermented to make the Polysaccharides, Triterpenoids, and Alkaloids, more bio-available. Second,  a hot water extraction, because Polysaccharides are only water soluble. And third, 90 days in alcohol, because Triterpenoids are only alcohol soluble.

Studies on Lion's Mane:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5987239/
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2020.00155/full
https://academic.oup.com/cdn/article/3/Supplement_1/nzz052.P14-021- 19/5518278

References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hericium_erinaceus