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Mushrooms can be quite medicinal and are pretty underrated.
This supplement is pretty awesome and so far, I'm a fan of The Genius Brand. Besides this product, I also recently tried Genius Sleep Aid and would give that one 4/5 stars. This supplement contains 3 of some of the most known medicinal mushrooms that are out there: Lion's Mane, Cordyceps and Reishi. For me personally, I feel like the supplement has helped me adapt to stress (like how an adaptogen feels), gives me more energy (but not like in a stimulant like way, like caffeine), and has also helped me cognition and focus, especially when it comes to things like college work. I also have anxiety disorders - primarily social anxiety and OCD and I feel like the supplement has definitely calmed these issues down and helped me work through them lately for sure.
Here's some medicinal qualities of the 3 mushrooms, based of what studies have shown:
Lion's Mane - May help alleviate mild symptoms of depression and anxiety, could protect against dementia, reduces heart disease risk, may help fight Cancer, reduces inflammation and can boost the immune system.
Cordyceps - May boost exercise performance (mostly through increasing oxygen utilization), increases the body's production of ATP (the main source of energy in every human's body), has potential anti-tumor effects, decreases "bad" cholesterol (LDL cholesterol), may also help fight inflammation.
Reishi - Acts an an antioxidant and also helps with inflammation, reduces anxiety and depression, helps prevent Cancer, can be helpful for people with sleeping problems, aids gut health, helpful in relieving symptoms due to allergies.
I hope this helps anyone interested in this supplement or looking to try mushrooms as medicine. I've been taking supplements for a little over a decade now of various types and I only recently became interested in trying and researching medicinal types of mushrooms and it's safe to say, I will keep continuing to try these types of natural medicines and research more of them. I'm a Pharmacology major so maybe even one day, I will add this into the types of medicines that I want to study in the future...
July 2018 · Health and Household · verified purchase