Top TrendingA Mushroom Powder for the Morning Coffee: 500 Milligrams of Lion's Mane per Scoop Against the 3.2 Grams of the Trial, Five More Lines Read the Same Way, and a Return Policy That Only Takes Unopened Bags
Focus Mushroom Blend is a two-gram scoop of organic powder from Four Sigmatic, a company in Santa Monica, California: lion's mane, cordyceps, cacao, bacopa, rhodiola and a large dose of vitamin B12, stirred into coffee, tea or a smoothie, with no caffeine of its own. I read every line of the panel beside the trial it comes from, read the return page twice, looked for reviews that name this bag, and wrote down what a scoop is honestly worth.
This is a paid advertisement. Sponsored by Four Sigma Foods, Inc. (Four Sigmatic).
Raymond Pike is the pen name of this desk.
This page quotes no customers, because the reviews shown on the seller's product page belong to the whole store and none of the ones I could read names this powder.
Everything about the bag, from the six lines on the panel to the return terms, comes from the seller's own label and pages, read on September 9, 2026.
I've made the same cup of coffee at the same counter for thirty years, and I'm suspicious of anything that wants to get into it.
So when a brown pouch of mushroom powder turned up beside the coffee in three different places in one month, an advertisement, a shelf at the grocery store and a neighbor's kitchen, I bought a bag and read it the way I'd read a contract.
The short version: six lines on the panel, no caffeine, one line at a sixth of its trial dose, one at two thirds, one at a dose from a study of clinicians on night duty, one at two hundred times a day's need, and two with no memory trial at all.
That isn't a verdict.
It's an inventory.
The verdict takes the rest of this page, and it includes the part most pages about mushroom powders skip: what you can and can't send back.
Three-quarters of a tablespoon, two grams, once a day, stirred into whatever you already drink. Every number on this page is for that scoop.
Here's what the bag is.
Focus Mushroom Blend, from Four Sigmatic, the trade name of Four Sigma Foods, Inc., a company with its office in Santa Monica, California.
A resealable pouch of thirty scoops, thirty days if you take one a day.
The panel, in the seller's order: vitamin B12, organic lion's mane extract, organic cordyceps extract, organic cacao powder, organic bacopa extract, organic rhodiola extract.
Then one "other ingredient": organic blueberry powder.
Five calories.
Two grams of carbohydrate.
No caffeine.
I did what I always do.
I read the label before the listing.
I read the trials behind each line, at the doses they actually used, in people as old as I am when such trials exist.
I read the return page twice, because it says something the listing doesn't.
And I went looking for reviews of this bag on the seller's page and found reviews of the seller's coffee instead.
What I found is a well-made powder from a company with an address and a phone number, six lines that are all real, none of them at the dose of the trial that made it famous, and a return policy that only wants the bag back if you never opened it.
One more thing before the first line, because most of you got here from one of our own advertisements.
Those ads talk about a boxed cereal, three foods, three drinks, and three words or phrases a man is supposed to be able to say.
None of that is in the pouch, and I won't pretend it is.
It's on this page, in its place: the cereal, the drinks and the word test are the eighth line, and the honest version of every headline we run is in the guide linked at the foot.
Line one · The scoopA Brown Pouch, a Two-Gram Scoop, and a Panel With Six Lines
This is what's on the counter.
A matte brown pouch with a zip seal, about the size of a paperback, and a small scoop inside.
The front says Focus and lists the six ingredients in a ring.
The back is the panel, and I'll read it to you per scoop, three-quarters of a tablespoon, two grams:
Vitamin B12, as cyanocobalamin, 500 micrograms, which the panel itself prints as 20,833 percent of the Daily Value.
Organic lion's mane extract, from the fruiting body, 500 milligrams.
Organic cordyceps extract, from the fruiting body, 250 milligrams.
Organic cacao powder, 300 milligrams.
Organic bacopa extract, from the leaf, 200 milligrams.
Organic rhodiola extract, from the root, 250 milligrams.
Other ingredient: organic blueberry powder.
The directions are one sentence: add a scoop to your coffee, tea or smoothie.
The seller says the flavor is light and smooth, and I'd agree; in black coffee it tastes faintly of cocoa and of nothing else.
There's no caffeine in the scoop.
Whatever wakes you up in that cup was in the cup before the scoop went in.
Line two · Lion's maneFive Hundred Milligrams, and the Trial That Used Three Point Two Grams
The line the whole pouch is named for, and the line with the best trial in people my age.
Lion's mane is an edible mushroom with long white spines that grows on old beech and oak trees, and it's eaten as food in East Asia and, increasingly, here.
The trial worth reading is small and old enough to have been read many times.
Thirty-one Japanese adults over 50 took a daily preparation of the dried fruiting body, 3.2 grams a day, or a placebo, for twelve weeks.
The lion's mane group scored higher on a standard mental-status test than the placebo group, and the difference faded in the weeks after they stopped. [1]
Three point two grams a day.
The scoop holds 500 milligrams of extract, from the fruiting body, which is the right part.
That's a sixth of the trial's daily amount, in a cup, and the trial was in people who took tablets three times a day for twelve weeks.
There's a second study, in younger people, that's honest to mention.
Forty-one healthy adults aged 18 to 45 took a single 1.8-gram dose or a placebo, and the lion's mane group was faster on an attention task an hour later; after 28 days at that dose there was a trend on one questionnaire and nothing clear on the other tests. [2]
One point eight grams, once.
The scoop is a little over a quarter of that.
Lion's mane at 500 milligrams is a real amount of a real mushroom, and it sits at a sixth of the dose that produced the only twelve-week result in people over 50.
Line three · BacopaTwo Hundred Milligrams, and Three Trials That Used Three Hundred
The line with the most trials in people over 55, and a dose that falls just short of them.
Bacopa monnieri is a small creeping plant of wet ground in India, used there for centuries, and it's the one herb on this panel whose trials were done in people my age.
Fifty-four healthy adults aged 65 and older took 300 milligrams a day of a standardized extract, or a placebo, for twelve weeks, and the bacopa group did better on delayed word recall. [3]
Ninety-eight healthy adults over 55 took the same 300 milligrams for twelve weeks, and the bacopa group did better on verbal learning and retention. [4]
A 2014 meta-analysis pooled nine trials of standardized extracts, 518 people, taken for at least twelve weeks, and found faster performance on two measures of attention and processing. [5]
Three hundred milligrams, of a standardized extract, for twelve weeks.
The scoop holds 200 milligrams of an organic extract, and the panel doesn't say what it's standardized to.
Two thirds of the trial dose, of an extract whose strength isn't printed, in a cup.
Closer than the mushroom, and still not the trial.
Bacopa is the line I'd have put first. At 200 milligrams it's two thirds of the way to the trials in people over 55, and the trials took twelve weeks to show anything.
Line four · RhodiolaTwo Hundred and Fifty Milligrams of a Root Studied in Clinicians on Night Duty
The line with the most famous trial, and the trial least like your morning.
Rhodiola rosea is a root from cold mountains and the Arctic, with a rose smell when you cut it.
Its best-known trial gave 56 healthy young clinicians on night duty one tablet a day of a standardized extract called SHR-5, or a placebo, for two weeks each, and measured them at the end of the shift.
The rhodiola group did better on a set of tests of attention, short-term memory and speed than the placebo group, during the first two weeks. [6]
Young clinicians, at the end of a night shift, after two weeks.
The scoop holds 250 milligrams of an organic extract, and the trial extract was a standardized one with a name.
I'm not a young clinician and my coffee isn't a night shift.
The trial says what rhodiola did for tired people under pressure, and nothing about a man at his own counter at seven.
Rhodiola: one real trial, in the wrong people at the wrong hour for most of us. It's a tiredness result, not a memory result.
Line five · Vitamin B12Five Hundred Micrograms, Twenty Thousand Percent of a Day's Need, and What Cochrane Found
The first line on the panel, the biggest number on it, and the shortest section.
Five hundred micrograms of B12 is a lot.
The Daily Value printed on American labels is 2.4 micrograms, so the panel itself prints 20,833 percent. [7]
B12 is a real thing to watch after 60, because the stomach absorbs it less well with age, and a low level is one of the things a clinician checks when memory is the complaint.
But a supplement for people who aren't low is a different question, and it has been asked.
A 2018 Cochrane review of 14 trials in 27,882 cognitively healthy adults concluded that B-vitamin supplements, alone or combined, probably have little or no effect on overall thinking for up to five years, and may have none at five to ten. [8]
Twenty-eight thousand people, and no effect in those who weren't deficient. If you're low in B12, and it's common after 60, that's a blood test and a clinician, not a scoop in your coffee.
Two hundred times a day's need, in a form the body mostly passes, is a number for the front of a pouch. It isn't a memory ingredient.
Line six · Cordyceps and cacaoTwo Real Foods, and No Memory Trial for Either
Two lines I'd have left off a panel with "Focus" on the front, and the reason they're there.
Cordyceps militaris, 250 milligrams, is an orange club-shaped fungus grown commercially as a stand-in for the wild caterpillar fungus of Tibet, which is far too rare for a pouch.
The human studies I could find were about exercise, small and mixed, and I registered no trial of cordyceps on memory or attention in healthy adults.
The seller lists it under "energy and endurance," which is at least the right shelf.
Cacao, 300 milligrams, is the ground seed of the cocoa tree, and it's the reason the scoop tastes of anything.
It carries flavanols, which have their own line of research, but 300 milligrams of powder is a fraction of a square of dark chocolate, and I found no trial of cacao at anything like this amount on memory.
Cordyceps: an exercise ingredient with no memory trial.
Cacao: flavor, and a fraction of a square of chocolate.
Two honest foods, neither of them a reason to buy a pouch that says Focus.
And the blueberry, which is on the panel as an "other ingredient" with no amount.
In one small study, 26 healthy older adults with an average age of 68 drank a daily blueberry concentrate providing 387 milligrams of anthocyanidins, the berry's purple pigments, for twelve weeks, and showed more blood flow on a brain scan and a borderline change on one working-memory test. [9]
A blueberry powder with no printed amount, in a two-gram scoop, isn't a daily concentrate of 387 milligrams of pigments.
It's a color and a name.
Count the lines that meet their trial at their own dose, in people your age, and you get none.
Bacopa comes closest, at two thirds.
Everything else is a fraction, a different population, or no trial.
Line seven · The reviewsFive Thousand Reviews on the Page, and None That Name the Bag
The seller's product page shows a review counter with more than five thousand reviews on it.
I read the ones the page showed me, and they were about the seller's coffee, its creamer and its probiotic blend: one customer looking forward to a cup of a different product at dinner, another adding "this" to her morning coffee without saying which "this."
That counter belongs to the store, not to the bag.
I looked for a review that names Focus Mushroom Blend or its six ingredients and didn't find one in what the page loaded.
So this page quotes nobody.
I'd rather have no customers than borrow the coffee's.
If you want to know what people think of this powder, ask the neighbor who has it. The seller's page won't tell you, whatever the counter says.
Line eight · The bowl and the cupThe Cereal, the Three Drinks, the Three Foods and the Word Test From Our Own Advertisements
Our advertisements have been saying, in one version or another, that a boxed cereal, three foods and three drinks have something to do with memory, and that there are three words or phrases a man ought to be able to say.
You're owed the honest version, on one line, so here it is.
Start with the bowl.
A frosted, honey-coated or chocolate cereal is mostly refined starch and added sugar, and a serving can carry more sugar than a cookie.
No cereal "ages the brain faster than time."
Nobody has measured any such thing, and that phrase was written to be clicked.
What the studies do say is duller, and worth more.
In the Framingham Heart Study, adults who drank more sugary beverages scored lower on tests of memory, and daily fruit juice went the same way. [10]
In a Brazilian study of 10,775 adults followed for eight years, the ones who ate the most ultra-processed food, and the sweet cereal shelf is part of that, lost ground on tests of thinking about a quarter faster than the ones who ate the least. [11]
Both are associations across a population, not a sentence on your bowl.
And a quarter faster than slow is still slow.
This scoop has no added sugar and five calories, which I mention because that's the one place the pouch and the cereal part ways.
The three drinks.
The "evening drink" in our advertisement is alcohol, and it's the one with the strongest case behind it: in 550 British civil servants followed for thirty years, the more a person drank, the faster their scores fell on a word-fluency test, and light drinkers had no edge over those who didn't drink at all. [12]
The second is sugar in a glass: soda, sweetened tea, the tall flavored coffee from the counter, which is a soft drink with coffee in it.
The Framingham finding above is about sugary drinks, and those are sugary drinks. [10]
The third, in one of our headlines, was coffee.
That was our worst headline.
Plain black coffee and plain tea aren't the drinks any of those studies were about.
Keep your coffee.
This pouch was made to go in it, and adds nothing to the caffeine you already count.
The three foods.
Processed meat, fried food, and the white-flour shelf: pastries, packaged cakes, white bread.
Our advertisement says "just stop eating these three."
The research says something slower.
In 960 older adults followed for nearly five years, the ones whose meals looked most like the MIND pattern, vegetables, berries, nuts, whole grains, beans, fish and olive oil, held their thinking scores better, and the gap between the top and bottom thirds worked out to about seven and a half years of age. [13]
That's a pattern over years, not a list of three, and it can't be sold in a headline.
Which is exactly why our headline doesn't say it.
Berries are on that list, and I'd rather you ate a bowl of them than trusted a pinch of blueberry powder in a scoop.
Less sugar in the bowl and the glass.
Less alcohol in the evening.
Keep the coffee.
Eat more like the Mediterranean shelf and less like the vending machine.
Every one of those costs nothing, and none of them is in the pouch.
The three words, or the three phrases.
There's no such list.
What our advertisement borrowed from is the short, scored mental-status test clinicians have given at the bedside since the 1970s: the date and the place, a few words to hold in mind and give back a minute later, a sum, naming, repeating one sentence, copying a drawing.
It's given in person and read against your age and your schooling by someone trained to do it, and a low score is a reason for a proper look, not a verdict.
Stumbling on a word when you're tired or being timed means nothing on its own.
Nothing begins at a word.
If the worry behind the click is real, that's fifteen minutes with your own clinician, and it costs you nothing from me.
And the advertisement about the things some men take every day.
That one sits closest to real research, and it's the one an advertisement has no business acting on.
Some kinds of daily medicine, including a few sold over the counter for allergies and for the night, are on the lists pharmacists check for people over 65.
Don't stop or change any of it because of an advertisement, ours included. Put everything you take in one bag, this pouch included, take it to the pharmacist, and ask one question: is anything here a poor choice at my age?
Bacopa and rhodiola belong in that bag.
The guide at the foot of this page has that section written out, with the studies.
So if you clicked on the cereal, here's where the cereal went: onto the counter next to a pouch that has nothing to do with it, where the real answer was always a plainer bowl and the coffee you already drink.
Line nine · What it isn'tSix Things a Scoop Won't Do
- It won't wake you up. There's no caffeine in it; the coffee does that, with or without the scoop.
- It won't give you the lion's mane of the trial. Five hundred milligrams is a sixth of the 3.2 grams a day that produced the twelve-week result.
- It won't give you the bacopa of the trials either, though it comes closest: 200 milligrams against 300, of an extract whose strength isn't printed.
- It won't act on any condition a clinician has named. It's a dietary supplement, and its own listing carries the sentence that says so.
- It won't correct a low B12. Two hundred times a day's need in a scoop isn't a substitute for a blood test, and the Cochrane review found nothing in people who weren't low.
- It won't go back once it's open. The seller refunds unopened bags only, within 45 days, minus a 3 percent fee and the original shipping, and you pay the postage back.
If that list annoys you, I'd rather you were annoyed now than when the bag arrives from California with the seal you're about to break.
Line ten · The routineIf You Do Buy It: One Bag, the Same Cup, Bacopa's Twelve Weeks, One Notebook
If you're going to spend the money, spend it as a test with a date on it, and test the line that can actually work.
- Buy one bag, not the three-bag bundle. Thirty scoops is the test, and the return window only covers a bag you haven't opened, so the bundle is a bet on a taste you haven't tried.
- Put the scoop in the same cup at the same hour every morning. Bacopa's trials took twelve weeks; a scoop on the days you remember won't test it.
- Keep the coffee exactly as it was. There's no caffeine in the scoop, so nothing about your morning should change except the color of the cup.
- Write one line a day in a notebook. Not "sharper" or "foggier." What you were doing at ten, and how it went.
- Take the pouch to the pharmacist before day one if you take anything daily. Bacopa and rhodiola are worth a minute at the counter.
- On day thirty, read the thirty lines, and decide whether you'll buy the second and third bags that bacopa's trials would need. If you won't, you've saved the bundle.
Look at that list the way I do.
Four of the six things cost nothing.
The bag is the one you'll pay for, and the notebook and the same cup at the same hour are the ones that will do the work.
Line eleven · Who it's forWho It Suits, and Who It Doesn't
This is worth a look if:
- You already drink coffee or tea every morning and want a two-gram scoop of organic mushroom and herb powder in it, with no caffeine of its own, and you've now read what each of the six lines is.
- You want bacopa at two thirds of its trial dose in a form you'll actually take every day, because it's in a cup you were going to drink anyway.
- You want a company with a street address in California, a toll-free number and an email. You have all three now.
- You can hold two ideas at once: six real lines, none at the dose of the trial that made it famous.
- You'll run it as a twelve-week test with a notebook, not as a hope.
Give it a miss if:
- You want lion's mane at its trial dose. A scoop is a sixth of it; you'd need six scoops a day, and the bag would last five days.
- You want something that acts on a condition a clinician has named. This is a dietary supplement.
- You want a refund if you don't like the taste. Opened bags don't go back.
- You want customer reviews of this bag before you buy. The seller's page doesn't have any I could find.
- You take anything daily and haven't asked a pharmacist about bacopa and rhodiola. Ask first.
Line twelve · Where it's soldFrom Santa Monica, California, With a Return That Only Takes Unopened Bags
The pouch is sold by Four Sigmatic on its own website, and that's the only place this page links to.
The company is easy to find.
Four Sigma Foods, Inc., trading as Four Sigmatic, with an office on Second Street in Santa Monica, a registered address in Delaware on its contact page, a toll-free number and a support email.
The pouch says the mushrooms are certified organic and grown on logs rather than on grain, which is more than most say.
The current price is shown on its page, not here.
The day I read it, one bag of thirty scoops cost about what a month of decent coffee beans costs, and the two-, three- and four-bag bundles were a little cheaper per bag.
Buy one bag.
Thirty scoops is a test.
Three bags of something you haven't tasted is a bet, and an opened bag doesn't go back.
Now the two things that matter more than the price.
First, shipping.
Four Sigmatic ships within the United States from its own store; the shipping cost and any free-shipping line are shown at checkout, and the seller's product page doesn't print them, so I won't either.
Second, the return policy.
Read this twice.
If you want to return a bag, you email the seller first, at the address on its return page, and wait for instructions.
The bag has to be unopened with the seal intact, and back at the seller's warehouse within 45 days of the purchase date.
The refund is the price of the bag minus a 3 percent processing fee and minus the original shipping, and you pay the postage to send it back.
There's no satisfaction promise: if you open it and don't like it, that's your bag.
It's a real refund with real conditions, and the biggest condition is the seal.
I'd rather say so than call it a refund with no strings.
Everything in a scoop
| Ingredient | Amount per serving |
|---|---|
| Vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin) | 500 mcg |
| Organic lion's mane (Hericium erinaceus) extract, fruiting body | 500 mg |
| Organic cordyceps (Cordyceps militaris) extract, fruiting body | 250 mg |
| Organic cacao (Theobroma cacao) powder, seed | 300 mg |
| Organic bacopa (Bacopa monnieri) extract, leaf | 200 mg |
| Organic rhodiola (Rhodiola rosea) extract, root | 250 mg |
| Other ingredients: organic blueberry powder | — |
Full details on each ingredient are in the guide linked at the bottom of this page.
The ingredient notes and scientific references at the foot of this page (Kitchen notes) cover the everyday foods discussed in memory research; the six lines of this pouch and the blueberry are gone through above.
What each ingredient is.
What the research does and doesn't show, at what dose.
What to be careful about, bacopa and rhodiola first.
And which of our own headlines it does and doesn't support.
Print it and take it to the pharmacist if you take anything daily.
It's written for that.
See the current price on the seller's site
Three-quarters of a tablespoon of mushroom, cacao and herb powder stirred into your coffee, with no caffeine of its own, from a company in Santa Monica.
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QuestionsWhat Readers Ask Me Before Their First Bag
Questions readers ask
Is this medicine?
No. It's a dietary supplement, an organic powder of mushrooms, herbs, cacao and vitamin B12 sold in a resealable pouch by a company in California.
The listing carries the standard sentence every American supplement carries, the one that says the FDA hasn't evaluated its claims.
Does it have caffeine?
No. The scoop has none of its own.
Whatever wakes you up is the coffee or tea you stir it into, and this powder doesn't change that.
Which of the six lines actually does something?
Bacopa comes closest: 200 milligrams against the 300 that three twelve-week trials in people over 55 used. Lion's mane is at a sixth of its trial dose, rhodiola's trial was in young clinicians on night duty, B12 does nothing in people who aren't low, and cordyceps and cacao have no memory trial.
It's all on this page, line by line.
What does it taste like?
Faintly of cocoa, and of nothing else, in black coffee. The seller says light and smooth.
It doesn't dissolve completely; a few specks settle at the bottom of the cup.
Will it help my memory?
I can't tell you that, and you should be wary of any page that does. No line on the panel meets a memory trial in people your age at its own dose.
The honest use is a twelve-week bacopa test in a cup you already drink, with a notebook.
Can I take it alongside what I already take?
Ask your clinician or pharmacist and take the ingredient guide with you. Bacopa and rhodiola are worth naming if you take anything daily, and 500 micrograms of B12 is a number to mention if a clinician is already watching your level.
Two minutes at the pharmacy counter answers all of that.
Why are there no customer reviews on this page?
Because the review counter on the seller's product page belongs to the whole store, and the reviews I could read were about its coffee and creamer, not this pouch. I don't quote reviews of a different product.
Does it ship to me?
Within the United States, from the seller's own store. The shipping cost, and whether any order qualifies for shipping at no charge, is shown at checkout; the product page doesn't print it.
What if it arrives and I don't like it?
If the bag is unopened, email the seller within 45 days of purchase, wait for instructions, send it back at your own cost, and get the price minus a 3 percent fee and the original shipping. If you've opened it, it doesn't go back.
Your advertisement was about a cereal, or three foods, or three drinks. Where is that on this page?
On line eight, in full, with the studies. The short version: less sugar in the bowl and the glass, less alcohol in the evening, keep your plain coffee, and eat more like the Mediterranean shelf.
None of it is in the pouch, and the ingredient and advertising guide at the foot goes through every headline we run and says which ones overstate.
Your advertisement said something about three phrases, or spelling three words. Is there a test I can take?
Not on a screen. The words and phrases come from the short mental-status test clinicians give in person, and it's read against your age and schooling by someone trained to do it.
Nothing begins at a word. If the worry behind the click is real, ask your clinician for the proper test.
It's fifteen minutes.
The short versionEverything Above, in Sixty Seconds
- A pouch of thirty two-gram scoops from Four Sigmatic of Santa Monica, California: lion's mane 500 milligrams, cordyceps 250, cacao 300, bacopa 200, rhodiola 250, vitamin B12 500 micrograms, and a pinch of blueberry, stirred into coffee, tea or a smoothie. Five calories, no caffeine.
- Lion's mane: a sixth of the 3.2 grams a day of the twelve-week trial in adults over 50. [1] Bacopa: two thirds of the 300 milligrams of the trials in adults over 55. [3] [4] [5] Rhodiola: a trial in young clinicians on night duty. [6] B12: Cochrane found nothing in people who aren't deficient. [8] Cordyceps and cacao: no memory trial.
- No customer reviews of this bag on the seller's page; the counter there belongs to the store.
- Ships within the United States; shipping shown at checkout; returns only of unopened bags within 45 days, minus a 3 percent fee and the original shipping, postage on you.
- The cereal, three drinks, three foods and the word test from our own advertisements, on line eight: less sugar, less alcohol, keep the coffee, more like the Mediterranean shelf, and no test on a screen. None of it is in the pouch.
- The honest use: the same cup at the same hour for twelve weeks, a notebook, and bacopa as the line you're actually testing.
The last lineWhat a Scoop Is Actually Worth
Here's the whole thing in one breath.
Six real lines in a well-made pouch, from a company that prints every one of them and grows its mushrooms on logs.
None at the dose of the trial that made it famous.
Bacopa the closest, at two thirds.
No caffeine, five calories, and a taste of cocoa in a cup you were going to drink anyway.
And a return page that only wants the bag back with the seal on.
If you're a man who drinks coffee every morning and wants a daily two-gram scoop of bacopa and lion's mane in it, tested honestly over twelve weeks, that's worth one bag.
Not because of the front of the pouch.
Because you'll know exactly what's in the cup and what isn't.
Buy one bag, not the bundle, put the scoop in the same cup at the same hour, and write one line a day for thirty days. The notebook is a better judge than I am.
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Three-quarters of a tablespoon of mushroom, cacao and herb powder stirred into your coffee, with no caffeine of its own, from a company in Santa Monica.
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P.S. If you take one thing from this page, take the two numbers.
Five hundred milligrams of lion's mane, a sixth of the trial.
Two hundred milligrams of bacopa, two thirds of it.
Everything else about this pouch sits between those two.
P.P.S. If the afternoon fog has been with you for a year, and it's there before the coffee too, talk to your own clinician before you buy anything.
A scoop in the morning cup is a small habit.
It was never going to answer a question a clinician answers in fifteen minutes and a blood test.
P.P.P.S. And if you do order it, keep the notebook, and keep the coffee exactly as it was.
When the bag is empty, you'll have thirty lines about your own mornings, and that's worth more than the bag, whichever way the lines turn out.