Chaga Mushroom Supplement 1000mg Per Serving Organic Mycelium Powder Vegan Capsules - 30 Servings, Non-GMO

Because the word chaga on a label can describe two materials that have almost nothing in common. One is the black conk that grows on a living birch tree over years and gets cut off it. The other is the fungus's root network, grown quickly in a tank or on a bed of grain and dried. Both are legally chaga. They are not the same product and they do not contain the same compounds.

Almost no brand on this shelf will tell you which one they are selling you. That is the actual problem with buying chaga, and it is a labelling problem rather than a chaga problem.

So, plainly, what is in two capsules:

• Organic chaga mycelium powder, 1,000 mg – mycelium, which is the root network rather than the birch conk. Stated here, in the title, and on the label
• Standardised to 40% polysaccharides, 400 mg – a measured fraction rather than an estimated one, which is what makes one batch comparable to the next
• An organic pullulan capsule and silica – the whole of the rest of the label, and both of them vegan

CORTEX Chaga Mushroom is two capsules a day, with or without food, 30 servings to a bottle. What you get for that:

• A gram a day of a plant most people take an unknown quantity of
• A measured fraction, so the bottle you reorder matches the one you finished
• A page that tells you which material you are buying and what the evidence for it actually is

🧪 Set your expectations from the evidence, not the marketing

Chaga has almost no controlled human research behind it. That is stated plainly further down this page. It means nobody, including us, can tell you what to expect or when, and any page that does is telling you something it does not know.

🍵 It was always a long, slow habit

Every traditional use of chaga was daily and unhurried, brewed as a tea across seasons rather than taken in a moment. If you are going to run this, run it the way it has always been run and judge it over months rather than over a fortnight.

💧 It is worth drinking water with it

Chaga carries a meaningful oxalate load, and oxalate is handled by your kidneys. Staying properly hydrated is sensible with any oxalate-rich food or supplement, and it matters more if you have ever had a kidney stone.

🙋 Nothing in this is stimulating

There is no caffeine and nothing with a stimulant effect anywhere in this bottle, so there is no window to hit and nothing to feel coming on. It sits alongside whatever else you run without competing with it for a slot in the day.

This is the section other chaga pages do not have. Read it before you buy rather than after.

• On the human evidence, plainly – there is almost none. Chaga's entire clinical record in people amounts to one uncontrolled case series published in the early nineteen seventies. Everything else you will read about it comes from laboratory dishes and animal studies. That is why this page makes no claim at all about what chaga does for you, and why you should be suspicious of any page that does
• On mycelium versus the birch conk – they are chemically different materials. Analytical work on cultured mycelium has found the triterpenoids and the melanin that wild chaga is known for to be absent from it. If those compounds are specifically what you are after, this is not the product for that and you want a wild-harvested conk extract instead
• On what 40% polysaccharides does and does not tell you – polysaccharide is a broad category that includes beta-glucans, which the research is interested in, and also includes starches, which it is not. A polysaccharide percentage does not separate the two. We are reporting the measurement that exists, and we are telling you what it cannot distinguish rather than letting the number imply more than it holds
• On what we cannot tell you – the growing substrate is not stated on the label, so we cannot confirm whether this mycelium was grown in liquid culture or on grain. We have asked. Until we have an answer we are not going to imply one
• On the kidneys – chaga is high in oxalates and there are published cases of serious kidney injury following long-term heavy intake, in one instance after five years at double a recommended amount. A gram a day is roughly a quarter of the ceiling health regulators have set. If you have any kidney condition or a history of stones, this is a conversation for your doctor first
• It is not a medicine – nothing here diagnoses, treats or cures anything

What is left is a gram of standardised chaga, three ingredients, and every one of the awkward facts in the same place as the flattering ones. If you want chaga, this is chaga with the lights on.

This was made for people who have decided they want chaga specifically and want to know exactly what they are getting.

It's especially for you if:

• You have already read about the mycelium question and want a brand that raises it before you do
• You would rather be told the human evidence is thin than sold a paragraph of laboratory findings
• You want one species at a stated gram rather than ten species at an unstated fraction
• You are stimulant-sensitive, or you already run enough of them, and want something that adds nothing to that
• A three-item ingredient list is a feature rather than an absence to you

One gram of standardised organic chaga mycelium, 60 vegan capsules to a bottle and two a day. Gluten free, lactose free, non-GMO, vegetarian and vegan friendly. Made in the USA.

Chances are, this is the chaga you have been looking for.

It is not for you if you specifically want wild-harvested birch chaga, because this is mycelium. It is also not for you if you have a kidney condition or a history of stones, if you are pregnant or nursing, or if you are under 18, until you have spoken to your doctor.

Your order today is backed by our 90-day guarantee. If CORTEX isn't right for you, return it within 90 days of delivery for a full refund. Simple as that.