This page is the plain version. It says what Lion's Mane, Turkey Tail, Reishi and Chaga are, where ours come from, how we make them, and how people who train take them. It does not tell you what they will do for your performance, because nothing we have read so far would let us say that honestly.
What the four mushrooms are
Lion's Mane (Hericium erinaceus) is the white, shaggy one. We grow it ourselves in New Smyrna, on wood, and we extract it from fresh fruiting bodies rather than from dried material.
Turkey Tail (Trametes versicolor) is the banded bracket that grows on hardwood. Ours is wild-foraged in Michigan by the partner who does our wildcrafting.
Reishi is the lacquered shelf fungus. Half of ours is wild-foraged in Michigan by that same partner. The other half we grow here from a wild Florida clone.
Chaga (Inonotus obliquus) is the dark sterile mass that grows on birch in cold northern forests. Ours is wild-foraged in Michigan. It is not part of the Athletic Stack.
How we make them
We extract whole fruiting bodies. The process is a triple-fraction, multi-phase exhaustive extraction using ultrasound, with a high-pressure hot-water fraction, and the base is pure water with no alcohol in it. Lion's Mane also goes through cryo-extraction. The finished extract is nano-encapsulated.
We grow and extract our own Lion's Mane, so for that one there is nobody between the farm and the bottle. There is more on the extraction itself in our write-up on ultrasound extraction.
How the Athletic Stack is taken
The Athletic Shroom Stack is three of the four: Lion's Mane in the morning, Turkey Tail during the day, Reishi at night. One 1ml serving in cold water. It is built around the shape of a training day.
You can also take any of them on their own: Lion's Mane, Turkey Tail, Reishi and Chaga.
What this page does not claim
This page makes no claim about endurance, recovery, soreness, oxygen use or fatigue. When we find published human research in healthy or trained people that we can stand behind, we will write it up here and say plainly what the study measured and what it did not. If you take medication or have a health condition, talk to your doctor before adding anything new.
Where to find us
We are at three farmers markets every week, and you can meet whoever made your bottle. The days and places are on our farmers markets page. Some of the athletes we work with are on the sponsored athletes page.
More on each mushroom: Lion's Mane, Turkey Tail, Reishi, Chaga.
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