Comment · Mon, December 28, 2020 · Natrium Health & Nootropics Depot
BEWARE! Dr Emil Lion's Mane is a Scam
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SnooSmart · 268 points
They're selling capsules of Cocoa Powder and black pepper and calling it Lions Mane.
https://www.amazon.com/Organic-Lions-Mane-Mushroom-Capsules/dp/B07Q5DZJTK
Tons of recent reviews are reporting it. This brand has a lot of purchases/ratings so just beware, buy from another brand.
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Arylcyclosexy · 26 points
I prefer Oriveda because they've done 3rd party testing and have mycelium alcohol extract and fruiting body extract separately which gives you more freedom when it comes to dosing.
ND doesn't seem to sell mycelium extracts at all which is kinda shame since fruiting body doesn't help much if your goal is improved brain functioning (almost all the NGF inducing contents are only found in mycelium and the studies done with Lion's mane were pretty much all done using mycelium, not the fruiting body).
e. It seems ND has some kind of dictatorship over this sub if you can't even criticise them or talk positively about their "opponents". I find this a lot more questionable than oriveda's "dishonest" marketing practices.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Natrium Health & Nootropics Depot
LOL, dictatorship... I am barely even posting on /r/Nootropics anymore, and it took me 2 days to even see this post. We have a lot of loyal support on Reddit, but that's all organic. People have claimed I am a puppet master pulling some metaphorical strings for almost a decade here. It's just as ridiculous when said today as it was way back then.
almost all the NGF inducing contents are only found in mycelium
One study said that. There are conflicting studies showing NGF effects from the fruiting bodies.
the studies done with Lion's mane were pretty much all done using mycelium, not the fruiting body
There were ZERO lion's mane mycelium clinical studies till 6 months ago. Now there are two, by the same Taiwanese team. All the human clinical research was on fruiting bodies till 6 months ago.
I have personally taken the lion's mane mycelium extract from those two studies. I have taken it a few times now. I actually don't like it. It makes my dysphoric. We are still running testing on it, though.