Adaptogens are herbs, roots, and mushrooms used in Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine. They are thought to help your body “adapt” to physical, chemical, and biological stressors (exercise, pollution, anxiety).

It is one of the main components responsible for making a medicinal mushroom medicinal. As known biological response modifiers, they have the ability to up-regulate and down-regulate the response of our biological systems.

The ability of a drug or other substance to be absorbed and used by the body. Orally bioavailable means that a drug or other substance that is taken by mouth can be absorbed and used by the body.

A reasonable minimum dose is 750 mg of mushroom extract per serving. Anything less is probably not worth your money.

A preparation method that results from taking raw mushroom material and applying a solvent to it, such as water or alcohol. The solvent causes the dissolvable compounds to be separated from the structural part of the mushoom.

Commonly known as the mushroom. The part of the mushroom that is visible and that produces spores.

it's a type of fungi that are heralded for health benefits beyond its nutritional compositions. The exact benefits depend on the species of mushroom used. However, functional mushrooms are often categorized into two main groups: medicinal mushrooms and adaptogenic mushrooms.

The mycelium (plural) is the part of a fungus that is usually underground. It is composed of hyphae, which look like threads or rootlets. The mat of hyphae may be very thickly woven. It’s primary function is to extract nutrients.  Fungal colonies composed of mycelium are found in and on soil and many other natural materials (called substrates)

The study of fungi, their relationships to each other and other organisms, and the unique biochemistry that sets them apart from other groups. 

Microscopic, single-celled units produced by mushrooms in the process of sexual reproduction—roughly analogous to seeds.