Lion's Mane Extract

Hello Everyone,I can't compare Wild Foods' #4 Lion's Mane 10:1 Extract with any other product because this is the only lion's mane powder I have experimented with. I am giving it 5 stars though, because after taking it for about 1.5 months, I have felt a noticeable change for the better. I have struggled with mental illness for a long time, but things took a turn for the worse after a moderately severe head injury I sustained in college about 10 years ago. I have generally improved with time, but after a recent, frightening down-cycle, I committed to doing what I can to change my trajectory. Pharmaceuticals have never worked for me (and in a couple cases made things MUCH worse), and the placebo effect no longer affects my experience, so I knew I'd need a more holistic approach. I decided to try a lion's mane extract powder after reading a few abstracts from studies on the beneficial effects of the neurotrophic factors contained in lion's mane mushrooms, and based on the reviews weighed with the price/oz and company reputation, I went with Wild Foods. The product itself is a fine powder that needs coaxing to get it to mix well into a liquid, and it has a malty flavor that isn't offensive. I mix it into a daily "vitamin" shake with a greens powder, berry powder, maca, pine pollen, and raw cacao powder. Over the course of about a month and a half of use, I have noticed an incremental trend towards decreased anxiety, slightly better mental acuity and focus, slightly better memory, and a slight filling-in of color, like things just don't seem as bleak and drab as they did a month ago. Taking this powder isn't the only thing I'm doing for self improvement (I am also implementing diet and behavioral changes, with mindfulness meditation and supplementation), but I know the effects belong to it because I started taking the powder months after beginning the other changes, and as I said before, I am too jaded for the placebo effect to be a factor. I can't prove it without clinical testing, so by all means do your own research, but I think that the neurotrophic chemicals in the lion's mane extract are improving my brain's plasticity, making the mindfulness training and the other changes easier and more effective. Nothing is magic, and while none of the effects are as yet spectacular, my improvement has accelerated greatly since beginning Wild Foods' extract, and I feel hope for the first time in a while that I have the ability, with effort, to radically change my life's trajectory. Wild Foods has a repeat customer here, and I have gotten my family interested in trying the lion's mane powder as well. Wild Foods sent me a sample of their cocoa butter with my second order, which I will review separately after I've ordered some and have tested it out. I appreciated the gesture, and at first blush the cocoa butter seems like a quality product as well, with a strong chocolate smell, and a subtly-sweet chocolatey taste and creamy mouthfeel. I hope this review has been helpful.

This is only my second brand that I've tried of Lion's Mane. The first brand I tried was not as concentrated yet I did still experience results.Let me first provide a little background. I am a woman in my late 40's and for more than a decade I have had some memory problems that stemmed from extreme stress in my job. It was about 12 years ago that I had an anxiety attack and checked myself into the ER thinking I might be having a heart attack. Turns out it was an anxiety attack. But the worst part was that my short-term memory was shot!! In my job at that time of year, it was very stressful and I had to keep on top of a lot of details for the product we were shipping during the Christmas season. In my attempt to keep it all at the front of my mind, I guess, it just destroyed my brain. This was in December and my short-term memory did not begin to function much until almost April. When I knew I should be able to remember something, my mind simply couldn't. People would say, "remember I told you about this on Thursday?" and I had zero recollection of the conversation. It forced me to take incessant notes and set reminders to keep track of tasks that were due.While my memory had improved due to dietary changes like reducing carbs, I still had a hard time recalling information more often that I wanted. Have you ever experienced problems like remembering a person's name, the name of characters in a TV show, keeping track of plot lines in a movie/tv series? Or try telling someone about an instance or situation and going blank in the middle of the discussion. This was a constant problem for me and I searched for solutions for over 10 years!Insert Lion's Mane. It was maybe a fluke that I discovered this supplement. But I am really glad that I did!! I've been taking Lion's Mane since July 2018. It's really improved my memory recall! I talked to someone else who said he's been giving it to his mom who is a stroke victim for about 2 years and it's really helped her, too.How to take it - I put a 1/2 teaspoon in a cup of my morning coffee most of the time. Sometimes I make a keto type of coffee that includes collagen peptides, coconut oil, cacao powder, and a couple of drops of liquid stevia. It's pretty flavorless.Wild Foods brand - as mentioned, my first introduction to LM was a different brand which was less concentrated. Then I found Wild Foods, compared the nutrition and discovered that Wild Foods turns out to be cheaper as I can take half the amount I was taking before. When it arrived, I noticed immediately that it was much darker in color than the other brand. So now it's part of my Ship & Save orders that come every 4 months. I highly recommend this brand. Compare it to the others out there and you'll see that this is a better value for the price.Hope this helps you with your decision!

Great taste. The only reason I am not giving 5 stars is because it is not organic. I thought it was, but that was my mistake.

I just thought this was going to be healthy. Then strange things were happening and i had to tead more about it. The first night i made a smooty and used two large teaspoons instead of a half of a tea spoon. I was up most of the night. Also in one part of my sleep i slapped my wifes back because of a dream i had about a baby with a bee on its but. Crystal clear dream. And why i would slap a baby in live never. Then in the dream. ??? But in real life is cause me to slap her back really hard? I woke up in shock and so did she. They there is just feeling really on top of things and very sharp. No a boy of fatigue. Its one am. The wofe is sleeping. Im writong this silly review. They i thought the dog hair in the house was getting to me because i was itchy. And i read its because brain neurons are growing. So its been a few days. Im getting so mich done. Not like cafenne. But like im smarter and making better choices. So. Im glad i descoveres this stuff. Im making it in a smoothy i make in the am. I also have added the cocoa mix. Dont tememeber the name. Its the two things new in my smooty of lots of vitamins and fruits digestives, aoy milk honey cinnamon aple sider and a bumch of other healthy stuff. It has helped with my stomic. Lost a bit of weight but sdding this teally made a differne. Again i had no real idea what the stuff was till after the effects.