Our journey to pure, potent mushroom wellness
Longevity Botanicals started with a question that turned out to be surprisingly hard to answer: why is it so difficult to buy a mushroom supplement that is actually made of mushroom? This is how we got here, what we hold to, and who you are buying from.
Three decades before the first order shipped
Hugh Hale founded Longevity Botanicals in 2015, but the work behind it started in the early 1990s. He spent three years studying herbology under Master Herbalist Gerhart Hanswell, and went on to qualify as a Registered Holistic Nutritional Consultant, a Certified Flower Essence Practitioner and an Expert Level EFT Practitioner, with longevity research running through all of it.
He met functional mushrooms in China, inside a tradition of natural medicine that had been growing and using them for centuries. He has been studying them ever since.
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Years studying mushrooms
Hugh began studying herbology and functional mushrooms in the early 1990s. Longevity Botanicals opened in 2015.
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Fruiting bodies, never grain
Every extract we sell is made from the mushroom itself, so nothing in the bag is there to pad the weight.
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Customers served
Rated 4.7 stars across 1,256 reviews, including reviews carried over from our Amazon listings.
Most of what is sold as mushroom is not mushroom
When Hugh started sourcing extracts to work with, most of what he could buy was mycelium grown on grain and sold as the mushroom itself. Mycelium grows through its grain substrate and cannot be separated from it, so the powder ends up part fungus and part starch, and the label has no honest way to tell you the split. Closing that gap is the reason this company exists.
100% fruiting bodies
We buy the mushroom, not the substrate it grew on. It is the only way to know what is in the bag, and the only way to print a number you can hold us to.
Extract ratios you can check
Every product states its extract ratio and its beta-D-glucan percentage. If a label shows neither, you have no way of knowing how concentrated it really is.
Screened for what matters
Our extracts are tested for heavy metals, pesticides and microbial contamination. It is the least you should expect from something you take every day.
"No fillers, no grains, no mycelium sold as mushroom. Just the fruiting body, extracted, with the strength printed on the label."
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We buy where the growing knowledge is
China has been cultivating these mushrooms since the 12th century and now grows more than 90% of the world's supply. The deepest growing expertise sits there, so that is where we buy. We work with a small group of growers who will show us what they grow and how they grow it, rather than taking whatever is cheapest in a given month.
What we check before it reaches you
Our extracts are tested for heavy metals, pesticides and microbial contamination, and assayed for beta-D-glucans, the compounds most of the published research is actually interested in. That number goes on the label next to the extract ratio, so you can compare what we sell against anything else on the shelf.
A team driven by nature, grounded in purpose
Longevity Botanicals is run by a small team. These are the people behind the brand, and the ones who answer when you get in touch.
Miguel Muñoz
A mountain and snowboarding enthusiast who finds clarity outdoors, and brings the same grounded focus to how the company is run.
Borja Lázaro
A lifelong enthusiast of natural health and sport, Borja brings a personal connection to wellness into every part of the brand.
Mohit Gulati
Fuelled by travel and exploration, Mohit runs our support team with patience and precision.
High quality, high value, honestly labelled
Mushroom products worth taking every day, described accurately. The fruiting body, the stated extract ratio, the stated glucan percentage, and nothing padding the weight.
