Comment · Tue, June 30, 2020 · Natrium Health & Nootropics Depot
Lion's Mane has been a godsend
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___Rand___ · 342 points
Lion's mane has been a godsend. It is nothing short of a small miracle. I've had cognitive issues and pain issues for 11 years since my last major TBI. I was improving due to a stack of nootropics.
Adding Lion's Mane to my stack has vastly improved my intellectual capacity. Today is my one month anniversary on Lion's Mane. My mental capacity has improved to a level I could only have dreamnt of! It has improved my cognition, vastly improved my short term memory, and mental stamina. I would no longer be exhausted after reading a few pages of books. I no longer gets headaches when encountering difficult scientific words (which I often do reading this sub or the scientific papers attached to articles). It has greatly improved my ability to learn and remember. I am recovering bits and fragments of lost long-term memories. Am I all the way back to my former intellect? No, but I am increasingly confident I will.
Many years ago doctors couldn't help me. I asked the universe for help. My prayers are being answered. I am ever so grateful. Thank you universe.
What they were answering
C0ffeeface · 3 points
Nammex is by far the most reputable brand out there, so I'd be curious to know the new supplier?
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Natrium Health & Nootropics Depot
We go direct to the farms growing them now, and have them extract them to our specs. We are doing that with plant extracts now as well. We have a few trusted extraction labs that we use for customs projects for us. They either grow the raw plants/fungi themselves and extract it, or they source the raw plants/fungi from specific farms that are good at growing them. Then they do the extraction to exactly our specs. The best farm for cordyceps is not the best farm for lion's mane, or resihi. They all have their specialties. Trying to get one supplier for all the different types means you have to accept trade-offs. We prefer to go with the best farm/extractor for each specific mushroom type. We are also growing our own mushrooms now, along with doing our own culturing of mycelium for some future projects. So at some point we are going to bring all of it in-house. We are also in the process of building our own automated growing machines that will significantly improve yields and scalability.
We also could not find a lab out there properly testing mushrooms. You would have to piecemeal individual tests from labs all over the world to get good data. So we built our own in-house mushroom testing lab, and are actually developing our own reference standards for multiple things in mushrooms that we want to standardize to. I made a couple posts about it on our subreddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NootropicsDepot/comments/esfye6/lab_update_waters_uplcms_and_thermo_gas/
On top of all that, we are starting to do our own syntheses as well. A couple people we hired to the team are working on that in the EU. They just completed our first successful synth! So that's super exciting! Then we are preparing for the possibility of setting up a production lab here in Arizona, and bringing our chemists over from the EU once travel restrictions are lifted. So that is the ultimate goal: to bring as much of the process in-house here in Arizona. Mushroom growing/extraction and compound synthesis are steps one and two of that.