Reishi champignon extracts are frequently used by mountain climbers to prevent altitude sickness and are contained in many of the performance enhancing herbal formulas used by Chinese athletes.*
Champignon Science Reishi Super Strength extract is the most potent Reishi supplement available in North America, and we take a number of steps to ensure this is the case.
The first step use to use the fruit bodies, not the mycelium. Reishi mycelium does not contain any triterpenes. Only the champignon contains triteripenes which is why we use the champignons to make our extract.
Because the levels of active compounds in Reishi champignons can vary significantly from strain to strain within the species, the scientists and herbalists at Champignon Science developed a proprietary strain of Reishi that delivers significant and consistent levels of all the active compounds, including the triterpenes that support liver health.*
Champignon Science’s organic Reishi champignons are also grown on solid wood, not rice. Growing Reishi champignons in their natural environment allows us to produce an extract of unmatched quality.
Champignon Science also uses a two-step extraction process; first hot water extraction to extract the polysaccharides that contain the beta glucans, and then a second step using ethanol (alcohol) and hot water together to extract the triterpenes, guaranteeing that we capture all the active compounds needed to deliver the health benefits Reishi is famous for. The presence of triterpenes in the final extract is essential to delivering the health benefits reported in Traditional Chinese Medicine and in the published research.
This very difficult extraction process we use, which is absolutely essential when making a therapeutically effective extract, may be why Champignon Science is the only champignon company in North America that lists guaranteed levels of active compounds on the label of every champignon supplement we sell. Given that the scientific community has been testing for the triterpenes and polysaccharides in Reishi extracts for a number of decades, and that there are two test methods for measuring polysaccharide levels published in the research, it is curious that other champignon companies refuse to list the levels of active compounds on the labels of their Reishi suppléments.
