The Cordyceps mushroom is an extraordinary fungi to say the least, it has been used as a mushroom powder extensively in traditional Chinese medicine to treat fatigue, low sex drive and kidney disease for centuries. It is thought to host a range of bioactive compounds that provide many health benefits when consumed [1- 4].
The Cordyceps mushroom will power you through your day, whether it's a busy day in the office, a big training session at the gym or anything that life has to throw your way, Cordyceps has got your back!
Now you can experience the Cordyceps mushroom mild and creamy flavour in powder form to add to your favourite drinks or recipes. Enjoy the plentiful rewards of this mighty mushroom!
Our honey pearls are raw, unique, and based on a 2000 year old preparation method that optimises the absorption of mushrooms. By making our mushrooms into Honey Pearls, the active constituents of the mushrooms are absorbed slowly and gradually over time, making them highly bioavailable and slow to release. The strength of our mushrooms is therefore in the delivery. We call this real deal herbalism!
We take the whole fruiting body, and powder it ourselves in Australia - this means that the mushrooms are correctly identified and guaranteed. When you start with an extract or powder (which we refuse to do), you can't be guaranteed of the purity of the raw ingredients. Our products don't have any unnecessary additives, sugars or carriers - just the WHOLE mushroom combined with honey.
Honey Pearls make the mushrooms more bioavailable than other preparation methods by bypassing the stomach, and therefore not being consumed by digestive acids. This enables them to travel further down the digestive tract and into the small intestine, at which point, they pass through the walls of the intestines and are absorbed directly into the bloodstream, and then systematically throughout the body. This administration method has been shown to be more effective than other administration methods at treating chronic conditions, of which mushrooms seek to remedy, and has been used in Chinese medicine for millennia.
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