Champignons pour la respiration et l'endurance

Le Cordyceps militaris arrive en tête pour une raison précise : lors d'un essai clinique sur l'homme, trois semaines de consommation d'un mélange en contenant ont été associées à un seuil ventilatoire plus élevé, soit le moment de l'effort où la respiration s'accélère brusquement. L'Agarikon arrive en deuxième position, avec le plus long historique écrit de tous les champignons que nous vendons, décrit par Dioscoride au premier siècle. Il s'agit dans les deux cas d'extraits à l'eau chaude 10:1, titrés à au moins 30 % de bêta-glucanes.

Notre sélection

CordycepsCordyceps militaris

the one with a measured breathing finding

Start here. Cordyceps militaris is the only mushroom we sell with a human result that is genuinely about breathing rather than about immunity.

Extraction
Eau chaude 10:1
Bêta-D-glucanes
≥30%

AgarikonLaricifomes officinalis

the old one, on tradition

Second, and honestly ranked. Agarikon has the longest written record of any mushroom we sell and no modern human trials whatsoever.

Extraction
Eau chaude 10:1
Bêta-D-glucanes
≥30%

Comment ils se comparent

#ChampignonComposé principalIdéal pourÀ partir de
1 Cordyceps Cordycepin, adenosine Exercise tolerance$29.99
2 Agarikon Lanostane triterpenoids Immune resilience$29.99

Cordyceps: the one with a measured breathing finding

Cordyceps militaris

Start here. Cordyceps militaris is the only mushroom we sell with a human result that is genuinely about breathing rather than about immunity.

Cordyceps militaris is farmed and orange, harvested as a fruiting body. It is not the wild caterpillar fungus, Cordyceps sinensis, which is collected by hand in the Himalaya and priced accordingly.

Ours is a 10:1 hot water extract from fruiting bodies, tested to 30% beta-glucans. Take it in the morning: nothing about it is sedating and most people find it wasted late in the day.

If you are taking it around training, note that the trial used three weeks of daily supplementation rather than a dose before the session. It is a habit, not a pre-workout.

Extraction
Eau chaude 10:1
Bêta-D-glucanes
≥30%
Idéal pour
Exercise tolerance
Ce que dit la recherche

Three weeks of daily supplementation was associated with a longer time to exhaustion and a higher ventilatory threshold, the point at which breathing rate climbs sharply during effort (Hirsch 2017). A single dose produced nothing.

Two caveats. It tested a six-mushroom blend, so it points at a direction rather than at one species. And the trial most often quoted against Cordyceps tested Cs-4, which is Cordyceps sinensis, a different species, and found no endurance benefit (Parcell 2004). We keep that paper on the page with the species labelled.

Découvrir Cordyceps

Tous les extraits de Cordyceps →
Organic Cordyceps Mushroom Powder 10:1 Extract
-13%
Abonnement
Organic Cordyceps Capsules Mushroom 10:1 Extract
-14%
Abonnement
Organic Bulk Cordyceps Powder Mushroom 10:1 Extract
-27%

Agarikon: the old one, on tradition

Laricifomes officinalis

Second, and honestly ranked. Agarikon has the longest written record of any mushroom we sell and no modern human trials whatsoever.

Agarikon is a chalky white bracket that grows high on old conifers, slowly, over decades. It depends on genuinely old forest and has largely disappeared where that forest has been logged.

It is wildcrafted rather than certified organic, because it cannot be farmed. Ours is a 10:1 hot water extract tested to 30% beta-D glucans, which for a scarce mushroom is the number that matters most, because scarcity is exactly when products get padded.

Extraction
Eau chaude 10:1
Bêta-D-glucanes
≥30%
Idéal pour
Immune resilience
Ce que dit la recherche

Agarikon has a chemistry unlike anything else in the range: a distinctive family of lanostane triterpenoids and chlorinated coumarins that researchers have taken a serious interest in.

It is also the longest documented mushroom in the Western record. Dioscorides catalogued it in the first century and it stayed in European apothecary practice for fifteen hundred years, prized above all for the chest and the breath.

Découvrir Agarikon

Tous les extraits de Agarikon →
Wildcrafted Agarikon Capsules Mushroom 10:1 Extract
-14%
Abonnement
Wildcrafted Agarikon Mushroom Powder 10:1 Extract
-13%
Abonnement
Wildcrafted Bulk Agarikon Powder Mushroom 10:1 Extract
-27%

Combien de temps avant que ça fonctionne ?

  1. Week 1 Cordyceps in the morning with food. A single dose does nothing, so week one is groundwork.
  2. Weeks 2 to 3 The trial that found an effect ran three weeks. This is the earliest sensible checkpoint.
  3. Weeks 4 to 8 If it suits you, this is where people report it most consistently, usually as less of a dip rather than more of a peak.
  4. Ongoing Daily rather than before sessions.

What customers report. Individual experience varies; none of this is a clinical claim.

Découvrir tous les champignons pour le système respiratoire

Wildcrafted Agarikon Mushroom Powder 10:1 Extract
-13%
Abonnement
Organic Cordyceps Mushroom Powder 10:1 Extract
-13%
Abonnement
Wildcrafted Agarikon Capsules Mushroom 10:1 Extract
-14%
Abonnement
Organic Cordyceps Capsules Mushroom 10:1 Extract
-14%
Abonnement
Organic Bulk Cordyceps Powder Mushroom 10:1 Extract
-27%
Wildcrafted Bulk Agarikon Powder Mushroom 10:1 Extract
-27%

Foire aux questions

What does ventilatory threshold mean?

It is the point during exercise where your breathing rate stops rising gradually and starts climbing sharply. A higher threshold means you can work harder before that happens. In the Hirsch 2017 trial, three weeks of daily supplementation containing Cordyceps militaris was associated with a higher one, along with a longer time to exhaustion.

Will this help with a lung condition?

No, and this page is not about that. These are foods taken for exercise tolerance and general wellbeing. If you have a diagnosed respiratory condition, the people to speak to are your doctors, and nothing here should factor into that.

Is Cordyceps a pre-workout?

Not really. In the trial, a single dose before exercise did nothing at all; the effect came after three weeks of daily use. Treat it as a habit rather than something you take thirty minutes before training.

Is this the caterpillar fungus?

No. We sell Cordyceps militaris, which is farmed and harvested as a fruiting body. The caterpillar fungus is Cordyceps sinensis, a different species that costs more per gram than gold. That distinction matters on this page, because the trial most often cited against Cordyceps was run on sinensis.

Why is Agarikon on this page if it has no research?

Because it has the longest documented record of any mushroom we sell for exactly this use. Dioscorides catalogued it in the first century and it held its place in European apothecary practice for fifteen hundred years, prized above all for the chest and the breath.

When should I take Cordyceps?

In the morning. Nothing about it is sedating and most people find it does nothing useful taken late.

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