Comment · Wed, January 28, 2026 · ND Owner
Where did your best product go, Shiitake extract, and will you ever standardize to ergothioneine and /or spermidine, my favorite friends?!
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BrownTown666666 · 14 points
Other than Gingko, your Shiitake extract was markedly nootropic and changed me in a matter of months. It worked so well I decided to buy again but realized you were out.
I found a company, I don't know if I should name them (n-a-m-m-e-x mushrooms) that sells a 1:1 extract and you can purchase from various distributors in bulk for a very good price, but there's a problem, while I feel the impact, it's not the same as yours.
First and foremost, your extract is significantly darker and sweeter to the taste, whereas there's is lighter in color and more flowery. Yours feels more potent but I could be wrong.
Bring back this extract or I'm going to join a mushroom cult and devour every ahiitake mushroom on earth.
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BrownTown666666 · 2 points
I mean, nammex isn't that bad. I know they're organic and I've spoken to the guys there, but yes, your product was better. I don't think it was marketed that well, and I feel if somehow ergothioneine and/or spermidine was standardized (I'm sure that's expensive to do), detailing the benefits, more people would have purchased it. I feel a 1:1 is just standard and when people hear shiitake, they think, "well I can buy those mushrooms in the store, I'd rather get Cordyceps for energy or Reishi for immunity.
Have you ever thought about posting information on which products will be made obsolete due to low demand?
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
That's exactly what people think. They don't see shiitake as anything special, because they see it at the grocery store.
We don't have a hard and set list of products. I honestly try to keep things up as long as possible, hoping it will catch on. We leave things available for longer than I probably should many times. I will say that I brought on a great new marketing director that is going to be spearheading a major shift in our marketing efforts. You are right. Many times we just don't market our products well enough. My main focus is the R&D, lab, and science. This means I bring cool shit out, then move on to the next cool project, rather than trying to market the stuff we already put out. That is going to change... not with me. I am still going to focus on the science shit, because that is what I like. However we are building out a larger experienced marketing team that has massively grown other supplement brands that are going to be focusing on that. I think this team is going to really get our marketing standards up to the same standards as our science and lab side of things. So hopefully that means slow sellers won't be as big of a deal.