Fruiting bodies are what most people think of when they hear “mushroom” — this includes the cap, stem and gills (all the parts that grow above ground). Mycelium is considered to be a mushroom’s “roots,” since we cannot see these below-ground parts that extend down and out into the earth. Both of these parts of the mushroom contain active compounds. However, most of the high-quality mushroom supplements don’t use mycelium.* Ours use both fruiting bodies and mycelium.

Why? Sometimes “mycelium” is synonymous with “shortcut.” However, the farmers we work with cultivate their mushrooms slowly, as nature intended. They let the mycelium grow as long as is needed, until it almost entirely consumes the growth material. By the time the mushrooms are harvested, under 5% of substrate is left. You get mushrooms not fillers — and high quality extracts with the helpful constituents from the mycelium and the fruiting bodies. When other companies or farms take shortcuts or try to speed up nature’s process (harvesting the mycelium after a few weeks), their products are mostly mycelial biomass filled with grains. Not ours!

We start with mushrooms grown slowly, then extract them the same way — and we can share the third-party lab test results as proof. Trust us and our full-spectrum, functional whole mushroom powders and extracts.