Lion’s Mane Mushroom

Monterey Mushrooms’ Full Spectrum Lion's Mane Powder includes all stages of the mushroom's growth cycle including the fruiting bodies, primordia, mycelium and extracellular compounds, which means the complete catalog of bioactive compounds can be taken advantage of. Choosing just the fruiting body, or just the mycelium, would meaning missing out on the health benefits that each can individually offer. Creating an extract of either part would also mean only singling out the water-soluble bioactive compounds and leaving behind the rest. This is why Monterey Mushrooms' offers Full Spectrum Lion's Mane powder, which follows their holistic approach centering on the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of a food’s parts. By consuming the whole mushroom, we are taking advantage of all the health benefits a mushroom has to offer. 

It is good to also note that according to the FDA, the isolation and concentration of a single active ingredient from a mushroom may label it as a pharmaceutical versus using the mushroom and mycelium as a whole is considered a functional food.