Last spring an email showed up in the Foxfire Mushrooms inbox from a woman in …
- Scott Brenton
- July 25, 2026
- 10 min read
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Last spring an email showed up in the Foxfire Mushrooms inbox from a woman in …
The first time I actually stuck with a lion’s mane habit longer than two weeks, it was because I moved my gummy from the kitchen
I noticed it about three weeks into taking Lion’s Mane every morning: my stomach stopped feeling unsettled after coffee. A grower at Foxfire Mushrooms laughed
I had two bottles of Lion’s Mane capsules sitting on my kitchen counter last winter, one from a supplier I couldn’t place and one that
I still remember standing in my kitchen with three different mushroom tinctures lined up on the counter, none of them labeled clearly enough for me
I reordered the Brain Bears shelf three times in about ten weeks this spring, which has never happened in the five years I have worked
A reishi mushroom tea recipe starts simply: dried Ganoderma lucidum slices simmered in 190–200°F water for 25–35 minutes, then strained into a mug. What comes
Functional mushrooms — a category of fungi including Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum), Lion’s Mane (Hericium erinaceus), Turkey Tail (Trametes versicolor), Chaga (Inonotus obliquus), and Cordyceps (Cordyceps
Hericium erinaceus — Lion’s Mane mushroom — contains two unique families of compounds found in no other fungus: hericenones (in the fruiting body) and erinacines
Functional mushroom supplements come in five main forms — tinctures, capsules, gummies, dried mushroom/tea, and infused honey — each with different bioavailability, onset time, taste
Ganoderma lucidum — Reishi mushroom — is one of the most extensively studied adaptogenic fungi in the world, containing over 100 identified triterpenes (particularly ganoderic
Turkey tail mushroom (Trametes versicolor) contains two beta-glucan-derived compounds — PSK (polysaccharide-K) and PSP (polysaccharopeptide) — that have been the subject of more published clinical