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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: Fungusam]
#26546505 - 03/20/20 11:51 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Hi everyone! I'm new here. Glad to see that there's already a thread about this.
Bumping because I am currently working on a similar project.
I cloned some lion's mane from my local farmer's market onto a couple dishes of antibiotic agar, and am preparing to make an LC for the sole purpose of consuming the mycelium.
I was going to add a picture of my plate cultures, but I couldn't figure out how to embed it from imgur without it being GINORMOUS, so here's a link if you want to check it out.
I have a few questions about the research paper mentioned by Fungasam.
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Fungusam said: Have you seen this research paper about different liquids to use for the culture? Here
This paper has been my main point of reference so far:

As we can see from the study's conclusion, oatmeal is the best readily available option for making LC with a high erinacene content. But how would one go about making an oatmeal LC that is expressly for this purpose?
Also, I'm having trouble figuring out the following table:

Is it saying that the end product would have the same concentration of erinacenes regardless of what concentration the media was, or are the numbers in the table referring to the overall end amount? In other words, which concentration would net the largest total amount of erinacenes?
I'm looking forward to working together with y'all to figure this out!
So many aspects of this hobby haven't been thoroughly explored, so there is so much we can do that is on the cutting edge!
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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: Fungusam]
#26547318 - 03/20/20 06:22 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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Sorry for the late update guys.
Unfortunately there still isn't much progress on the liquid cultures. I think 4% was too high because they are growing awfully slow. I may try another culture with 2% LME this week.
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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: iwh678]
#26554185 - 03/23/20 10:59 PM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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iwh678 said: Sorry for the late update guys.
Unfortunately there still isn't much progress on the liquid cultures. I think 4% was too high because they are growing awfully slow. I may try another culture with 2% LME this week.

I think theres also a chance that you did everything right, and it's just slow because that's just how lions mane mycelium acts. When I was doing a clone, it took about 2 weeks for the first signs of growth to appear on the agar
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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: light4x]
#26565989 - 03/29/20 08:05 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Prepared a liquid culture today, dropping an agar wedge from my lions mane clone in it tomorrow.
I boiled some stonecut oatmeal on the stove in excess water for 10 minutes, then diluted it to clear it up a bit. At first I used 75g of oatmeal to 1 liter of tap water, but even after it was strained, it was practically opaque and I wouldnt have been able to judge the mycelial growth very well. Added a tablespoon of honey for good measure. I PC'd for 20min @15psi.
This is only my second time making a liquid culture, so I hope it works! If not, I will keep trying
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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: Fungusam]
#26602891 - 04/15/20 12:37 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Idk if anyone's still following this, but I said I'd update so here I am 15 days of growth. The solution is starting to lighten up a bit (I think) which I would say is a result of the lions mane mycelium starting to munch up the nutrients.
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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: Fungusam]
#26603832 - 04/15/20 07:10 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: Stromrider]
#26619775 - 04/22/20 10:25 AM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Pictured liquid culture is still steadily growing. I am going to start 6 new jars this weekend, but havent decided which solutions to use yet. Does anyone have suggestions? I'd prefer to make something that will be clearer this time, but at the same time be something that the lions mane mycelium will love to eat.
Also, I had a bicycle day thought. Would it be possible to grow mycelium in big buckets, kind of like how kombucha brewers do? Could it be a similar process? Or am I way off?
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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: Fungusam]
#26625509 - 04/24/20 07:29 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Still watching.
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Fungusam said: Pictured liquid culture is still steadily growing. I am going to start 6 new jars this weekend, but havent decided which solutions to use yet. Does anyone have suggestions? I'd prefer to make something that will be clearer this time, but at the same time be something that the lions mane mycelium will love to eat.
Really not too sure tbh. Having a little read of the forums, most LC teks use a slow-burn sugar substrate - i.e. LME, because you want the mycelium to transfer to grains nicely. They mention something about not "shocking" mycelium that has grown on LC in a sugar substrate by transferring it to a complex sugar (grain), which is harder to metablise. That seems to be a key reason for choosing LME over sugars that metabolise faster.
Your goal is to just grow LC, so previous advice might not work in this case? This is a bit of a new project so maybe you should experiment? It is difficult because your intention is to maximise erinacine synthesis based on your substrate but, I am assuming so may be wrong, that you don't actually have the facilities to measure this once you have grown the LC?
I have tried to look into the literature but I have had trouble finding studies that are about growing mycelium. Are you uni-affiliated and able to get behind paywalls? We should try and do a literature review to get more information on techniques n shit. I can search the databases and try and find studies looking into this.
I had a look at that paper you linked. I gotta say their methods section is wildly confusing. Maybe I am just a bit dyslexic but it doesn't look to me that they actually fully explain their mediums - always a good sign in a paper Firstly, they have a pre-culture medium which is a malt-yeast preparation. Then they transfer onto their experimental mediums, which I don't think are plain molasses, oatmeal, etc. The table you linked above looks to me like they had 8 mediums which were a combination of all the ingredients listed at those g/L amounts, minus certain ingredients. I think they were testing which components of the medium affected erinacine C production. That is how they get the preparation without oatmeal performing worse than preparations with oatmeal, i.e. prep. 3 vs prep 1 (which is the control preparation with all ingredients) respectively. The key performing preparations I think are prep 2 and prep 4.
It is annoying that they also had this mystery component, edamin K. I googled that and it is some weird powder that Merck produces to increase yield. The product page mentions a nitrogen analysis, so I am thinking it is some kind of fertiliser... thing.
I mention edamin K because the line graphs in the paper are comparing performance of edamin K with and w/o oatmeal in preps 7 and 8. They don't include prep 8 in the bar graph, which is curious. Seems they are hiding that result for some reason.
Anyway, if you are interested in trying different kinds of preparations, maybe try something like preps 2 and 4 from the paper? I would be interested in performance of preps 2 and 4, as well as four additional preps looking at removing the sucrose and mannitol (KISS - the fewer ingredients the better). Six preps all up.
1. Prep 2 2. Prep 2 minus sucrose 3. Prep 2 minus mannitol 4. Prep 4 5. Prep 4 minus sucrose 6. Prep 4 minus mannitol
The bar graph is interesting because it suggests that there is more eranacine production with less sugar in the preparations. Removing molasses and glucose have the biggest effects, but what if you removed molasses and sucrose, or molasses and mannitol, or glucose and sucrose, or glucose and mannitol? Again you probs don't have the facilities to measure eranacine production after these but they are a good start for thinking about this question anyway.
Ammonium sulphate and calcium carbonate are easy to come by, they are commonly used gardening compounds.
Also I just want to say, this paper is looking at maximising a single erinacine (C), when the mycelium produces tons of compounds. I think it is generally a mistake to try and isolate compounds from organic materials and then try and say this single one out of hundreds is the most important. There is going to be an important synergistic effect of all of the compounds in this mycelium, not just one they think has the greatest effect on nerve growth factor (NGF).
Anywho, that is my two-cents. I am super interested in this topic so will be perusing the literature. Will share my findings if I end up having any. Good luck with your current LCs, keen to see how they go.
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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: skywhisp]
#26625540 - 04/24/20 07:40 PM (3 years, 9 months ago) |
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Don't forget that if you improve neural adaptation with disregard to the hedonic level personally and collectively you will become a parasite to the world. But this mushroom shows great promise to Severe Brain Injury patients in physical therapy.
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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: skywhisp]
#26627063 - 04/25/20 12:37 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Fungusam said: Pictured liquid culture is still steadily growing. I am going to start 6 new jars this weekend, but havent decided which solutions to use yet. Does anyone have suggestions? I'd prefer to make something that will be clearer this time, but at the same time be something that the lions mane mycelium will love to eat.
Really not too sure tbh. Having a little read of the forums, most LC teks use a slow-burn sugar substrate - i.e. LME, because you want the mycelium to transfer to grains nicely. They mention something about not "shocking" mycelium that has grown on LC in a sugar substrate by transferring it to a complex sugar (grain), which is harder to metablise. That seems to be a key reason for choosing LME over sugars that metabolise faster.
Your goal is to just grow LC, so previous advice might not work in this case? This is a bit of a new project so maybe you should experiment? It is difficult because your intention is to maximise erinacine synthesis based on your substrate but, I am assuming so may be wrong, that you don't actually have the facilities to measure this once you have grown the LC?
I have tried to look into the literature but I have had trouble finding studies that are about growing mycelium. Are you uni-affiliated and able to get behind paywalls? We should try and do a literature review to get more information on techniques n shit. I can search the databases and try and find studies looking into this.
I had a look at that paper you linked. I gotta say their methods section is wildly confusing. Maybe I am just a bit dyslexic but it doesn't look to me that they actually fully explain their mediums - always a good sign in a paper Firstly, they have a pre-culture medium which is a malt-yeast preparation. Then they transfer onto their experimental mediums, which I don't think are plain molasses, oatmeal, etc. The table you linked above looks to me like they had 8 mediums which were a combination of all the ingredients listed at those g/L amounts, minus certain ingredients. I think they were testing which components of the medium affected erinacine C production. That is how they get the preparation without oatmeal performing worse than preparations with oatmeal, i.e. prep. 3 vs prep 1 (which is the control preparation with all ingredients) respectively. The key performing preparations I think are prep 2 and prep 4.
It is annoying that they also had this mystery component, edamin K. I googled that and it is some weird powder that Merck produces to increase yield. The product page mentions a nitrogen analysis, so I am thinking it is some kind of fertiliser... thing.
I mention edamin K because the line graphs in the paper are comparing performance of edamin K with and w/o oatmeal in preps 7 and 8. They don't include prep 8 in the bar graph, which is curious. Seems they are hiding that result for some reason.
Anyway, if you are interested in trying different kinds of preparations, maybe try something like preps 2 and 4 from the paper? I would be interested in performance of preps 2 and 4, as well as four additional preps looking at removing the sucrose and mannitol (KISS - the fewer ingredients the better). Six preps all up.
1. Prep 2 2. Prep 2 minus sucrose 3. Prep 2 minus mannitol 4. Prep 4 5. Prep 4 minus sucrose 6. Prep 4 minus mannitol
The bar graph is interesting because it suggests that there is more eranacine production with less sugar in the preparations. Removing molasses and glucose have the biggest effects, but what if you removed molasses and sucrose, or molasses and mannitol, or glucose and sucrose, or glucose and mannitol? Again you probs don't have the facilities to measure eranacine production after these but they are a good start for thinking about this question anyway.
Ammonium sulphate and calcium carbonate are easy to come by, they are commonly used gardening compounds.
Also I just want to say, this paper is looking at maximising a single erinacine (C), when the mycelium produces tons of compounds. I think it is generally a mistake to try and isolate compounds from organic materials and then try and say this single one out of hundreds is the most important. There is going to be an important synergistic effect of all of the compounds in this mycelium, not just one they think has the greatest effect on nerve growth factor (NGF).
Anywho, that is my two-cents. I am super interested in this topic so will be perusing the literature. Will share my findings if I end up having any. Good luck with your current LCs, keen to see how they go.
What a thorough and well-written reply! Thank-you for your input I will do my best to address all the points you've brought up.
Yes, I agree that some of the current advice on LC's is not applicable since this is not being transferred to grains. We can see that another experimenter in this thread tried using LME as the sole ingredient in their media preparation, and it didn't work out very well.
You are correct in your assumption that I don't have the means to measure Erinacene content, and you make a good point about different compounds having a synergistic effect. The main goal is to produce mycelium with a healthy percentage of beneficial compounds; so I'm not married to the idea of maximizing the yield of this sole Erinacene. However, I do think the percentage of erinacene C in this study could be an indicator of how well the production of other medicinal compounds is faring.
I have access to journal databases, but have never done a "literature review" or anything of that nature. You're right though, it would definitely be beneficial to get more info about "techniques n' shit" I just don't know how to go about such a thing.
I'm glad it's not just me that found the methods section to be wildly confusing. I showed it to a friend of mine who is a fairly advanced amateur mycologist, and he had hard time understanding it too! It was so difficult trying to interpret how they were making those experimental mediums..
I'm not interested in using Edamin K. I'll be sticking with more commonly available ingredients, because one of the things I'm hoping to accomplish here is to create a Tek for the community. Once we make enough progress with this project, the knowledge that we've learned should be shared with everyone!! An obscure ingredient could definitely be a barrier to our fellows. So yeah I think it's best to avoid that if we can.
I have to admit, I've read through this paper a handful of times already, but I still don't understand how to reproduce the preparations described therein. I have six perfect LC lids ready to go for wide mouth quart jars, but I'm waiting to make anything until I know I'm making solid choices that will advance this experiment! Can you, or anyone, help me figure out many grams per liter of the ingredients to use for these preparations? No matter how much I study the table and corresponding description, I can't comprehend it enough to translate it to what I need to do.

As I touched on before, it would be a helpful to future growers if we stick with easily obtainable ingredients as much as possible. Maybe do something like that, but in a few different concentrations? i.e. honey, cane sugar, maybe a little LME, all those things w/ or w/o gypsum? The oatmeal LC I have right now is pretty foggy, which makes it difficult to identify whether there is any contamination. So I'm a little hesitant to continue using that as an ingredient (unless there's a way to make it into a clear solution, which I think might be impossible unless it's extremely diluted).
Regardless of which ingredients we choose for this experiment, I believe this study could be a great reference to determine what the optimal concentrations of different sugars are. If only we can interpret it!
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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: Shroomhunter53]
#26627088 - 04/25/20 12:48 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Shroomhunter53 said: Don't forget that if you improve neural adaptation with disregard to the hedonic level personally and collectively you will become a parasite to the world.
You say that with such conviction- I'm curious what led you to believe it?
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Shroomhunter53 said: But this mushroom shows great promise to Severe Brain Injury patients in physical therapy.
Yes, I have 2 close friends who have suffered severe brain injuries (for different reasons). I hope that by developing a simple tek for lion's mane mycelium production, people like them and/or their loved ones will be able to affordably produce this extraordinary medicine
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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: Fungusam]
#26627255 - 04/25/20 01:49 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Fungusam said: Also, I had a bicycle day thought. Would it be possible to grow mycelium in big buckets, kind of like how kombucha brewers do? Could it be a similar process? Or am I way off?
It would be nice, but I think it would be very difficult if not impossible, unless the buckets were inoculated in sterile conditions and sealed while fermenting.
Kombucha works for growing in such a nutrient-rich environment (there's a lot of sugar in there) because of the high acidity level mostly, (that's why when you first start brewing you have to use so much vinegar to start it or it will mold) and also because the kombucha culture has it's own bacteria and yeast that outcompete any unwanted ones very quickly. After your first batch, the culture will produce it's own acid and keep the ph low enough to keep bacteria and molds from taking hold. Also I think the scoby helps by sealing off the top from any spores landing, that's one of the reasons I believe it makes one.
I think to make something like this work with a mushroom mycelium, you would have to first have a mycelium that would be able to survive in a very acidic environment. You'd also have to keep adding an acid of some sort because the mycelium will not produce it's own acid.
Just my thoughts though, I could be wrong and maybe it's been done?
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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: Fungusam]
#26627307 - 04/25/20 02:08 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Checking out some more research, I took some screenshots so I can share what I'm learning with anyone else who may be interested. Sorry that the formatting isn't so great, I don't have a lot of experience writing forum posts. Some of the info I've come across is quite thought-provoking!

This one came from an article titled "Erinacine C: A novel approach to produce the secondary metabolite by submerged cultivation of Hericium erinaceus". This reveals that Edamin K is no longer in production, and that its function in this context is to serve as a complex nitrogen source. Maybe this information can help us find alternatives?

This excerpt suggests that the pH of the media should be taken into consideration

Finally, an understandable version of a recipe! This is for the ideal media for erinacene C production. 2.73 g/L sounds like an impressive yield, especially considering it's only one of the compounds that the mycelium is producing

Some info about glucose concentration. This excerpt, as well as the following one, are from a the paper titled "Effects of Ascorbic Acid and Uracil on Exo-polysaccharide Production with Hericium erinaceus in Liquid Culture".

Wow, another comprehensible recipe! Really on a roll now, this is great  However, this recipe was formulated to optimize polysaccharide production. For the record, I am not yet familiar with what the function of the polysaccharides are. Or whether their production is an indicator of the presence of other medicinal compounds. So that's something else I/we should probably look into before moving forward
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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: Forrester]
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It would be nice, but I think it would be very difficult if not impossible, unless the buckets were inoculated in sterile conditions and sealed while fermenting.
Kombucha works for growing in such a nutrient-rich environment (there's a lot of sugar in there) because of the high acidity level mostly, (that's why when you first start brewing you have to use so much vinegar to start it or it will mold) and also because the kombucha culture has it's own bacteria and yeast that outcompete any unwanted ones very quickly. After your first batch, the culture will produce it's own acid and keep the ph low enough to keep bacteria and molds from taking hold. Also I think the scoby helps by sealing off the top from any spores landing, that's one of the reasons I believe it makes one.
I think to make something like this work with a mushroom mycelium, you would have to first have a mycelium that would be able to survive in a very acidic environment. You'd also have to keep adding an acid of some sort because the mycelium will not produce it's own acid.
Just my thoughts though, I could be wrong and maybe it's been done?
Thanks for your input I knew very little about kombucha, so I learned a lot from your post
I was just looking over some research today, and incredibly, it turns out that lion's mane mycelium produces its own organic acids during growth! Which makes the growth medium significantly more acidic over time.
I didn't see this post before I was looking through papers, so I wasn't paying attention specifically to that aspect though. I think it's not uncommon for it to reach a pH of at least 4, if I'm remembering correctly. So maybe it is possible!
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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: Fungusam]
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That's funny, your 3rd pic down says pretty much EXACTLY what I was saying, that it's only feasible on very small scale, because of aseptic handling of large volumes.
So it would have to be under fully sterile conditions. They say a ph of 4-5 in pic #2, which I don't think is near low enough. For a solution as rich as 4% glucose, I have a feeling you're going to need the ph to be more like 2 to avoid mold and bacteria growth.
Sorry don't mean to be a downer I just had a feeling it wouldn't be so easy or it would already be done a lot more.
I am very interested in lion's mane medicinal information though so will continue to monitor this thread. It's one of the only tinctures that helps with the "brain fog" my wife and I get from lyme disease.
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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: Fungusam]
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Fungusam said: Checking out some more research, I took some screenshots so I can share what I'm learning with anyone else who may be interested. Sorry that the formatting isn't so great, I don't have a lot of experience writing forum posts. Some of the info I've come across is quite thought-provoking!

This one came from an article titled "Erinacine C: A novel approach to produce the secondary metabolite by submerged cultivation of Hericium erinaceus". This reveals that Edamin K is no longer in production, and that its function in this context is to serve as a complex nitrogen source. Maybe this information can help us find alternatives?

This excerpt suggests that the pH of the media should be taken into consideration

Finally, an understandable version of a recipe! This is for the ideal media for erinacene C production. 2.73 g/L sounds like an impressive yield, especially considering it's only one of the compounds that the mycelium is producing

Some info about glucose concentration. This excerpt, as well as the following one, are from a the paper titled "Effects of Ascorbic Acid and Uracil on Exo-polysaccharide Production with Hericium erinaceus in Liquid Culture".

Wow, another comprehensible recipe! Really on a roll now, this is great  However, this recipe was formulated to optimize polysaccharide production. For the record, I am not yet familiar with what the function of the polysaccharides are. Or whether their production is an indicator of the presence of other medicinal compounds. So that's something else I/we should probably look into before moving forward
This is all great information, but at about 2.5 g/l are you really getting more medicinal properties more efficiently than just growing the fruit bodies and just taking more as prescribed?
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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: Reish]
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This is all great information, but at about 2.5 g/l are you really getting more medicinal properties more efficiently than just growing the fruit bodies and just taking more as prescribed?
Just to clarify: that's 2.5 g/L of a single medicinal substance that was analyzed in the sample, not 2.5 g/l of biomass.
That substance was Erinacene C, one of the more frequently studied medicinal diterpinoids found in lion's mane. This substance is only found in the mycelium. So in the case of that specific substance, it definitely wouldn't be more efficient to grow fruit bodies, since the fruiting bodies don't contain any erinacenes at all. Hericenones are the aromatic compounds typically found in the fruiting bodies.
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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: Fungusam]
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This is all great information, but at about 2.5 g/l are you really getting more medicinal properties more efficiently than just growing the fruit bodies and just taking more as prescribed?
Just to clarify: that's 2.5 g/L of a single medicinal substance that was analyzed in the sample, not 2.5 g/l of biomass.
That substance was Erinacene C, one of the more frequently studied medicinal diterpinoids found in lion's mane. This substance is only found in the mycelium. So in the case of that specific substance, it definitely wouldn't be more efficient to grow fruit bodies, since the fruiting bodies don't contain any erinacenes at all. Hericenones are the aromatic compounds typically found in the fruiting bodies.
In that case it's great. 2500 mg per liter of liquid culture of a substance that doesn't get biosynthesized in the fruiting bodies is something to get excited about, for sure. I'm definitely on the boat of this being the best method for mycelia extraction, just wanted to clarify why I was leaning that way.
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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: Reish]
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So is there any reason we are focusing on getting it through the liquid method, rather than just growing the mycelium on an edible grain and then powdering and consuming the grain?
John Holliday a while back did an analysis on a one of his cultures, after a certain period of time on millet, you ended up with well over 90% mycelium, as most of the millet had been eaten by it.
Just seems easier that way. I'll bet if you played with cultures enough (and had equipment to test), you could get one that produced a lot more erinacine-C, like they do with weed and it's constituents.
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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: Forrester]
#26634907 - 04/28/20 05:12 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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This is a good point. I was leaning towards LC because I didn't want to be consuming tons of grain with my mycelium. I didn't realise the mycelium consumed so much of the grain. 90% biomass would be excellent.
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