Comment · Sat, June 27, 2026
Is ErinaMax really the only standardized erinacine A Lion's Mane?
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Prestigious-Mall3348 · 0 points
I've been researching Lion's Mane that actually standardizes for erinacine A, and I kept landing on two brands:
1. Nootropics Depot (ErinaMax)
2. Oriveda
From what I can tell, both standardize to a similar level (\~0.5% erinacine A in the mycelium). ND lists 2.5 mg per cap (5 mg per 2-cap serving); Oriveda lists ≥4 mg per serving. ND publishes its own in-house lab reports, and from what I've read here the in-house analytical work is seriously rigorous — arguably stricter than a lot of standard third-party testing. Oriveda publishes third-party reports. One thing I found neat: Oriveda's erinacine A content was reportedly verified through Omnient Labs, which I understand is ND's lab. So a number on a competing product was validated by ND's own analytical setup — which honestly just reinforced for me how respected ND's testing capability is. I thought that was a cool detail.
The part I'm trying to understand: I've seen both brands described as the only one standardizing for erinacine A. Reading closely, the wording seems different — ND emphasizes "world's first" and the only one standardized to a clinically meaningful dose (their Q2 2025 market testing showed \~32x competitors), w…
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u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
We launched Erinamax over 3 years ago. Oriveda just did theirs a couple months ago. Also, it's still the same raw material as ours. It's ErinaPrime, made by our partners in Taiwan Grape King Bio, who we co-developed the ingredient with. Look up the trademark on the USPTO. We came up with the name and filed it under our Supplement Holdings company, and we distribute it under our company Novelara. Oriveda is just selling ErinaPrime now, but they aren't disclosing that to customers. They're buying it through a Polish company... who we actually worked with early on to optimize the process and create the first erinacine A reference standard. So they are still selling the same world's first erinacine A standardized lion's mane. They are just selling it many years after we helped develop it and release it.
And no, Oriveda's lion's mane they sold earlier, and claimed to have erinacine A in it, actually did not. They were using the fake dry lab International RINP, and it had ZERO erinacine A in it. It was just a fake Chinese product that had a fake lab report showing it had erinacine A. If you don't believe us, look at the current COA posted on Oriveda's site. That's from Omnient Labs, my lab. So they are now selling our ErinaPrime, sold through a Polish company who's chief scientist we collaborated with and brought to my lab in Arizona, and are using my ISO accredited analytical lab to test. Even Oriveda's product is there because of us and our sister companies.
Almost every brand and supplier you can think of is sending samples to Omnient Labs now. We're the premier fungal bioactive analytical lab in the world, and there are a lot of people in the race to catch up on erinacine A. Nobody has yet, so everyone out there currently is still selling our same material we helped develop years ago.