Comment · Wed, April 1, 2020
Difference between lion’s mane extract powder and 8:1 dual extract
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juice_made · 5 points
So I am going through your website and I am trying to figure what is the difference between the lion’s mane powder extract with >25% bglucans and the 8:1 dual extract powder which is only >15% bglucans.
From this percentage I am guessing that the >25% is better than the >15% although the price says otherwise.
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Jeoshua · 1 points
If the page on the difference didn't sell me on the 8:1, this did.
I had read that the mycelium and fruiting body contained different compounds and that the mycelium was used for most of the studies which showed cognitive benefits. Does the 8:1 contain these same compounds due to the ethanolic portion or no?
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
You were likely reading propaganda. A whole other subreddit was made to spread that propaganda around. The ONLY human clinical studies on lion's mane have used the fruiting bodies. Not a single human study has been run on lion's mane mycelium. Not one. This attempt to rewrite history is a huge propaganda push by some of our competitors. The science doesn't lie, though.
You can read all sorts of things I have posted in the past. The gist of it is that fruiting bodies are where all the human research is currently. There do seem to be some cool things in the mycelium, and we are working on a quality product made from that. However, we have to solve the science first. I am not going to bring out a product without any human clinical research unless I have a scientifically-valid standardization. We are getting close on that now, though! This year!