Cordyceps (Cordyceps militaris)

Scientific name: Cordyceps militaris

Other names: Caterpillar fungus

Family: Cordycipitaceae

Parts used: Fruiting body and mycelium.

Cordyceps AKA “The Athletes Mushroom” has been known to help with energy support, lower stress levels, increase endurance and stamina by increasing oxygen uptake, and may also help with sex drive and libido after prolonged use.

Benefits of Cordyceps 

• Antidiabetic
• Anti-inflammatory
• Antioxidant
• Athletic Performance
• Hepatoprotective
• Immunomodulatory
• Promotes respiratory function

Our farm partners have been growing and extracting mushrooms for 40+ years and mushroom powders simply do not get any better then this. In addition to taking steps to ensure purity and a high constituent content, we are also concerned about providing mushroom products in which the constituents are in a bioavailable form. The main constituents of mushrooms, the 1,3-Beta Glucans, are tightly bound to the cell walls and have a low degree of bioavailability in raw mushrooms.

To overcome this and increase the bioavailability of the constituents, all of our mushrooms undergo a steam activation process that breaks down the cell walls and frees the 1,3-Beta Glucans from the chitin.

Studies on Cordyceps


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3121254/
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/acm.1998.4.3-289

References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordyceps