For thousands of years, traditional Chinese medicine has revered mushrooms as essential ingredients for wellness. While mushrooms have many curative and preventative properties, some of the most studied is their effect on being anti-inflammatory agents, supporting the immune system, enhancing mood, and increasing energy, just to name a few.
Cordyceps are a group of fungi that have amazing compounds that support immunity and fight fatigue. One of these compounds is called adenosine, and it helps with adrenal fatigue.
The Growing Problem Of Fatigue, Tiredness, And Burnout
Physical fatigue, overwhelming tiredness, and depletion of energy can be caused by many factors, including injury, disease, and anxiety or depression. In today’s modern society, our emphasis on work and staying busy can cause prolonged or even chronic mental fatigue. Poor diet or unfortunate illnesses can also cause extended periods of fatigue.
Except for extreme cases of illness, most physical and mental fatigue is reversible with a combination of healthy food, exercise, and quality sleep. Medical mushrooms such as Cordyceps, Maitake, and Lion’s Mane are all great ways to naturally boost your energy levels while supporting good sleep.
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Revitalize Your Body With ENERGY, A Tincture To Improve Recovery
We tend to live our lives at an accelerated pace, days packed to the brim with activities. It’s no wonder that we often walk around exhausted, drained of energy in both body and mind. To combat that tiredness, Empyrean’s ENERGY tincture is a blend of Cordyceps mushrooms and other plants that will restore balance and energy throughout your body.
How Medicinal Mushrooms Restore Energy
Mushrooms have been used by ancient civilizations and cultures around the world to heal the body from disease, stress, fatigue, and more. The Western world is starting to embrace these botanical blends to help ease symptoms of our stressful modern lives.
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Healing Inflammation with Chaga Mushrooms, Turmeric, and Green Tea
Inflammation is one of the leading factors underlying numerous mental and physical health issues worldwide. It is normal for our bodies to go through inflammatory processes from physical activity, injury, or disease throughout life. But when this inflammation goes overboard or takes too long to heal, it can lead to severe consequences. Recent research has revealed that some plants and mushrooms act as anti-inflammatories in the body, helping to reduce the effects of inflammation on the body and mind.
Empyrean’s carefully crafted Anti-Inflammation blend includes three of the most potent plants and mushrooms for this purpose: chaga mushrooms, green tea, and turmeric. Read more
SLEEP, a restorative blend to promote relaxation and a high-quality sleep
Do you struggle with getting consistent, high-quality sleep? You’re not alone. Almost 70 million people in the United States suffer from sleep disorders. High-quality sleep is essential for many reasons, including avoiding sickness, maintaining physical health, improving mental ability, and a sharper focus. Without sleep, our bodies are not able to restore and heal from our daily routines. Our sleep quality is often affected by external and internal factors, creating disorders that subsequently affect our nervous system and our health.
To achieve a deeper sleep and induce a relaxed state of mind, Empyrean has developed SLEEP, a product that integrates the calming properties of Reishi mushroom, valerian root, and passionflower to create a smooth transition for sleeping. These super ingredients formed by plants and mushrooms make up a product that’s high-quality and good for your body. Let’s dive deeper into the health benefits of each component.
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The Best Plant And Mushrooms Therapies to Improve Your Mood
With our modern stressful lifestyles, mental health issues are on the rise worldwide. But through the power of adaptogens, you can combat mental health issues in your own life and improve your mood. Plants and mushrooms are a natural way to enhance the wellness of your mind, body, and soul all at the same time. So, see below to discover the right adaptogens for you!
What are Adaptogenic Myco Botanicals?
Myco botanicals are herbal medicines made from mushrooms or fungi, and adaptogens are a group of plant medicines directly targeted at reducing the effects of stress on the body. When people hear about medicinal mushrooms, they often envision psilocybin, commonly known as magic mushrooms, famous for its hallucinogenic effects. But there are innumerable different species of mushrooms in existence, each with its own unique medicinal effects.
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How Lion’s Mane Mushroom Supports Neurogenesis In Your Brain
Neuroscientists used to believe that “adult neurogenesis”—an adult brain’s ability to grow new neurons—was impossible. The old belief was that once the brain reached maturity around age 25, the number of neurons was fixed. It wasn’t until 1998, when researchers found new brain cells growing in an adult hippocampus, that they discovered that neurogenesis continues throughout our lifetime.
Since the initial discovery of neurogenesis in adult brains, researchers have made a number of other fascinating discoveries—one of the most notable being that an edible mushroom called lion’s mane can actually stimulate neurogenesis. Today we’re going to break down this fascinating topic into more bite-sized pieces and explore how one of the world’s most unique mushrooms can play a part in brain wellness and growth.
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7 Mushrooms That Act As Turbo-Shots For Your Immune System
As far back as 3,000 BC, mushrooms have been a venerated ingredient for curative and preventative medicine in many parts of the world. They have been known to support cellular health and contain certain polysaccharides that support the immune system.
Many of the most immune-boosting mushrooms, however, have extremely tough cell walls, meaning that if you merely eat them raw you will be consuming mostly fiber. To get the medicinal benefits you need to heat and extract the novel compounds. That is why elixirs made from a blend of mushrooms and herbs, have grown in popularity.
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Heal Your Body And Reduce Inflammation With Plant+Mushroom Synergist
There are countless things in our environment and lifestyle that can cause us harm due to injury and illness. The human body is susceptible to catching viruses, falling prey to stress, having allergies, or getting injuries from physical activity. Often, a key symptom that our bodies are in distress is the appearance of inflammation and swelling. Prolonged inflammation in the body can lead to chronic pain and other more complicated illnesses. Luckily, some medicinal plants and mushrooms previously unknown to western cultures can help reduce inflammation and increase our general wellness.
Inflammation is our body’s natural response to toxins and other pathogens. Inflammation inside our bodies can manifest in many physical symptoms, including joint pain, headaches, indigestion, and chronic illness. In fact, inflammation is a symptom of many chronic diseases. If you’ve noticed swelling or any inflammation-related symptoms, then a plant and mushroom blend might be beneficial to your health.
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3 Ways Lion’s Mane Nutrients Can Elevate Your Mental Strength
There’s no denying we live in a busy world. Between working, caring for family, maintaining our homes, and keeping up with friends and family, it’s easy to feel unfocused, moody, and scatterbrained at times. Many people lean on unhealthy habits, such as alcohol or prescription drugs, to try to remedy their mental struggles—but what if we told you that there’s a completely natural remedy that has been shown to improve mental focus, memory, and even slow cognitive decline?
Meet Lion’s Mane—an edible mushroom known for its extraordinary brain-boosting power and incredible ability to stimulate nerve growth factor (NGF) within the brain. The nutrients found in Lion’s Mane make it one of the world’s most unique medicinal mushrooms, able to support and elevate your mental strength. Let’s dive in!
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How Reishi Gold Can Help Counter Sleep Deprivation
If you struggle with getting sound, restful sleep, you’re certainly not alone. With an estimated 50 to 70 million Americans struggling with sleeping disorders, it’s clear that many people are in need of a safe, effective solution to tackle their sleeping woes. Thankfully, such aid exists in the form of Reishi Gold mushrooms. Today, we’re going to discuss how this powerful medicinal fungus can aid in supporting your body and mind in getting a deep, restorative night’s sleep. Let’s get started!
Why Is Sleep So Important?
First things first, let’s quickly review why sleep is so vital to our physical and mental well-being. Sleep is when your body tends to a wide variety of biological upkeep. Getting adequate sleep (eight to ten hours a night for adults) is necessary to stay alert, retain memories, fight infections, maintain energy levels, and repair damage in your body. Regular sleep deprivation is much more than just a nuisance—it’s a risk factor for accidents, psychiatric conditions, stroke, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, decreased immune system function, obesity, and other serious conditions.
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Increasing Your Energy Levels With Medicinal Mushrooms
For thousands of years, traditional Chinese medicine has revered mushrooms as essential ingredients for wellness. While mushrooms have many curative and preventative properties, some of the most studied is their effect on being anti-inflammatory agents, supporting the immune system, enhancing mood, and increasing energy, just to name a few.
The Growing Problem Of Fatigue, Tiredness, And Burnout
Physical fatigue, overwhelming tiredness, and depletion of energy can be caused by many factors, including injury, disease, and anxiety or depression. In today’s modern society, our emphasis on work and staying busy can cause prolonged or even chronic mental fatigue. Poor diet or unfortunate illnesses can also cause extended periods of fatigue.
Except for extreme cases of illness, most physical and mental fatigue is reversible with a combination of healthy food, exercise, and quality sleep. Medical mushrooms such as Cordyceps, Maitake, and Lion’s Mane are all great ways to naturally boost your energy levels while supporting good sleep.
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