This page is about the hour before bed. Reishi is the extract for it, taken an hour or two before sleep, and the most studied mushroom we sell. Chaga is the drink to make while you do: dark, smooth and faintly vanilla, with no caffeine. Both are 10:1 hot water extracts. Reishi is bitter, so most people take it as capsules. If stress itself is what you want help with, start with our stress page.
The one with the trial literature, and the only extract we sell with a time of day attached to it. Take it an hour or two before bed.
Here because the ritual matters more than the pharmacology. Chaga is the extract people actually look forward to, which is why they keep taking it.
Ganoderma lucidum
The one with the trial literature, and the only extract we sell with a time of day attached to it. Take it an hour or two before bed.
Inonotus obliquus
Here because the ritual matters more than the pharmacology. Chaga is the extract people actually look forward to, which is why they keep taking it.
What customers report. Individual experience varies; none of this is a clinical claim.
The widest survey of the Reishi literature: 17 clinical trials covering 971 participants, at doses from 200 to 11,200 mg a day. Pooled analysis found significant improvements in BMI, serum creatinine, glutathione peroxidase and resting heart rate. Many other markers did not move, and the reviewers rate the certainty of the underlying trials as low and call for better-designed studies, which is the usual state of a field this active and this young.
Food Science & Nutrition · 2025A review pulling together the modern research on Chaga: antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory activity, traced to the melanin, polysaccharides and triterpenes the conk accumulates from the birch it grows on. A consistent laboratory picture, and human trials are the natural next step.
Mycology · 2024The other picks
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