Medicinal Mushroom Review exists to give the medicinal mushroom consumer all the knowledge needed to make an informed decision. The world of medicinal mushrooms is rife with companies boasting bogus claims. Our goal is to thoroughly review the practices and methodologies of all the medicinal mushroom providers in the marketplace so that the good can be sorted from the bad. There is no doubt that medicinal mushrooms offer an effective treatment for the ails and ills of the modern world. We want to equip the consumer with the needed education to choose a company that operates with integrity, so that you reap the true benefits and power of medicinal mushrooms.

There is no doubt that medicinal mushrooms offer an effective treatment for the ails and ills of the modern world, just as they have for centuries in Asian medicine. In recent years, these mushrooms have undergone extensive research, revealing the science that makes the remarkable compounds they contain available for therapeutic use.

While the clinically validated health benefits of medicinal mushroom supplements are exciting, “mushroom supplements” as found in the marketplace refers to an extremely diverse and confusing group of products.  Our studies of commercially available mushroom supplements uncovered an astonishing range of product forms and manufacturing methods.

If you think you already know which type of supplement is the best, consider this:  there are various combinations containing ground up mushrooms, un-extracted mycelium, and dehydrated hot water extracts, marketed as “full spectrum” supplements. There are the liquid alcohol tinctures of mushrooms and/or mycelium, and dehydrated hot water extracts of mushrooms and mycelium fermented in a liquid medium. There is freeze-dried mycelium, heat-treated mycelium, alcohol “extracts” of living mycelium, mycelium cultured with pro-biotic organisms, and proprietary strains of mycelium containing “heat sensitive” compounds.  There are even mushroom supplements with labels claiming superior quality specifically because they contain none of this mycelium, and contain only ground-up mushrooms mixed with dehydrated water extracts.  To add to the confusion are multiple claims of technological superiority surrounding “new and improved” manufacturing techniques to produce supplements that are “state of the art”, purportedly surpassing the quality of not only their competitors, but the original Asian formulations as well.

All of these different supplement forms claim to be the best. The fact remains that, to date, the research providing evidence of medicinal mushrooms’ therapeutic benefits is specific to manufacturing processes that yield a measurable product with sufficient potency in a form that the body is able to absorb (bioavailability).  In other words, there is a lot of research supporting the benefits of medicinal mushrooms – so long as they are prepared in a very specific way.  Any deviation from the prescribed preparation methods will yield a product with questionable efficacy.

Fortunately, while manufacturers may plaster claims and approval seals on their packaging, the truth is evident in the supplement facts label, and our reviews are based entirely on this valuable information.