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How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium?
    #26491355 - 02/18/20 08:32 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

So I've been growing Lion's Mane for awhile now and making extractions and all that good stuff. Well new studies show that the mycelium contains much higher levels of the good NGF stuff.

How would you go about growing mycelium with the goal to actually consume it? I've read some cryptic statements from Stamets talking about growing it on rice and then the mycelium turns that rice into a dense carrier of the chemicals. Then I had someone tell me to just grow out a ton in a liquid culture and then drain of the liquid and pressure cook the remaining mycelium in order to break open the cell walls.

Anyone have any other input? I know this is all new and at some point I know someone will figure it out and release a tek showing how to do it, but I don't want to wait for that to happen, I'm hoping to get it done soon.

Any thoughts?
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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: light4x]
    #26492047 - 02/18/20 04:34 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

A couple women from a mushroom club I used to be involved in grew the mycelium out on rice and then consumed the rice and mycelium together. I'm not sure how they ate it or how much they ate, but I assumed they were either drying and then powdering or putting it in a smoothie or something like that.

I read a post the other day about trying to use the mycelium from an active species by filtering a LC (I think the consensus was it wasn't worthwhile by the way) and I immediately though of lions mane so its funny that your mentioning that. I think you could dry and powder it fine. I'm not sure about breaking the cell walls though. It seems like pressure cooker could risk degrading the desired chemicals. Maybe drying and thawing cycles would work well? Is breaking the cell walls even necessary though? It seems like out guts do a pretty good job of breaking cell walls down.

I think you've convinced me to give this a try.

Edited by iwh678 (02/18/20 05:49 PM)

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: iwh678] * 1
    #26492310 - 02/18/20 06:54 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I thought the same as you did about the pressure cooking thing. I think I'm gonna go ahead and get a LM lc going. I think you're right as far as just drying it and powdering it. I don't see why that wouldn't be the way. I mean we are trying to consume LM mycelium and after drying it, that's exactly what you have. If you get to this before me please reply back. Thanks for the reply.

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: light4x]
    #26492860 - 02/19/20 05:55 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

For many medicinal mushrooms the mycelium gets powdered and encapsulated.

The chitin component of mycelium is not that easy to digest but its not the only component, so who says you really need to break open the cells? With spores that seems a more reasonable problem but i dont think with mycelium.

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: Solipsis]
    #26493755 - 02/19/20 05:19 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I am also not sure whether it is necessary to lyse the cells, but the supplements that Stamets sells under the Host Defense name are freeze dried. That process includes freezing and thawing under vacuum which I am assuming would cause the cells to lyse.

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: dub rules]
    #26494138 - 02/19/20 09:46 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I wish we had the answer to this. Gotta be someone out there that has tried or knows about this.

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: light4x]
    #26494414 - 02/20/20 04:44 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

This thread was moved from Advanced Mycology.

Reason:
Host defense is essentially a placebo. In independent research that product tested the very worst compared to every other brand of mushroom supplement.

Most people use a double extraction.

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: bodhisatta]
    #26494443 - 02/20/20 05:51 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Is there a link to that study? And further info that you speak of on this ?


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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: bodhisatta]
    #26494452 - 02/20/20 05:59 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I talked to this guy once that would make a liquid culture of morel and after it was established and free of contams, he would put it in a paint shaker. He said the constant agitation while it grew caused the mycellium to form into balls. He would then cook with the balls, said it was like a cooked wonton and in his opinion tasted better than the morel.

I have no idea if this actually works, or practical, but a thought for the experimental.

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: bodhisatta]
    #26494617 - 02/20/20 08:06 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

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<img src='/forums/images/moved.gif'> This thread was moved from Advanced Mycology.

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Host defense is essentially a placebo. In independent research that product tested the very worst compared to every other brand of mushroom supplement.

Most people use a double extraction.




You literally have no clue what you are talking about. The links to the studies are all in a huge thread on reddit. You definitely should not have moved this. Extremely poor and biased judgement on your part.

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: light4x]
    #26494621 - 02/20/20 08:08 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

You could grow out fruits.

or

Make a tempeh.

He moved it because this is not an advanced subject.


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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: The Mycologist]
    #26494650 - 02/20/20 08:25 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Ingredients list myceliated rice. To me this means grow the myc on rice, once colonized break up, dehydrate, grind and encapsulate.

I don't see it being more complicated than that.


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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: filthyknees]
    #26494756 - 02/20/20 09:20 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

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He moved it because this is not an advanced subject.




While I agree with you advanced is a very relative term. This is more advance than half the stuff going on in that section. I'm not sure why this seemed to be a higher priority to move than the "how to make a spore syringe" thread.


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<img src='/forums/images/moved.gif'> This thread was moved from Advanced Mycology.

Reason:
Host defense is essentially a placebo. In independent research that product tested the very worst compared to every other brand of mushroom supplement.

Most people use a double extraction.




You literally have no clue what you are talking about. The links to the studies are all in a huge thread on reddit. You definitely should not have moved this. Extremely poor and biased judgement on your part.




If you are familiar with the study then you should link it. For better or for worse this website as a whole has a bias against anything Stamets related, but I feel like that's a conversation for another thread.

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Ingredients list myceliated rice. To me this means grow the myc on rice, once colonized break up, dehydrate, grind and encapsulate.

I don't see it being more complicated than that.



From what I've read the only complaint about the myceliated grains is you end up with 60%-70% grain mass in your final product. Mycelium from a liquid culture would be closer to 100 theoretically.

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: iwh678] * 2
    #26494933 - 02/20/20 10:59 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

There's plenty of threads in advanced that should be moved that get missed. This one didn't :shrug:


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There are no actual mushrooms in Paul's supplements, they're based on grain/rice/mycelium biomass and contain mostly starch.

Just in case you don't believe what I say about it. Take it from Paul Stamets:

Here is an excerpt from one of Stamets’ patents:

EXAMPLE 9 [00123] The medicinal mushroom mycelium is grown utilizing liquid culture techniques. Whereas growing on rice might have 30-40% conversion of rice to mycelium, liquid vat culture may have essentially complete conversion with >3x more mycelium per unit mass.

30-40% conversion of rice to mycelium. Meaning 60-70% rice.

Check this research that confirms that 100%.

High alpha-glucan = starch which is from grain. While they will tell you the mycelium consumes the majority of the grain, the actual test data tells an entirely different story.

That is the reason they do not share actual lab test reports of their products. The same with Paul Stamets's products. Lot's of talk, but zero facts.

Their products are also not extracted, meaning the bioavailability is unpredictable for 80% of people.

Summarising: you are paying top dollars for useless starch.

IF you want to buy REAL mushroom supplements for your dad, I've only found 2 companies that actually SHARES! lab results. Very low starch content and high beta-glucans. They tell you the % of Beta-glucans. This is the second company! they use only fruiting bodies and they tell you exactly how much starch content there is in their products. Although, fruiting bodies are not where the most medicinal content is but is certainly better than Paul's products with 80% starch content or more.

Here is a quote from Oriveda.

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This information can be found on the product page for each mushroom. In some online communities the general idea is circulating that fruiting body is always preferable over mycelium. This is wrong.

In brief, here's why (it's mainly just common sense !):
for some mushrooms the most important active ingredients are actually in the mycelium (Lion’s Mane (erinacines), Turkey Tail (PSP/PSK), Cordyceps CS-4 (no fruiting body extracts exist!))
there is a difference between mycelium-on-grains/rice (biomass) and pure mycelium. Biomass should always be avoided as it is contaminated with undigested substrate in the form of starch. This includes all US-cultivated products. We only use pure mycelium, free from starch, if the products properties request the use of mycelium
quality claims are only worth something if they are backed with actual test reports. This includes a claim like 'fruiting body extracts are better than mycelium-based extracts' or vice versa. Nice statement, but where is the proof ? Also see our 'I'm confused by all the information online' entry, above. Using ‘we use fruiting bodies only!!’ has the subtext ‘it’s better!’ but actually only reveals the ignorance of the vendor, and the actual specifications, if any (% of glucans, terpenes etc.) usually have no verifiable source or backup in the form of official documents. Only specifying active ingredients is acceptable as proof of superior quality.




Going back to fruiting bodies vs pure Mycelium for medicinal content.

Research has found that pure mycelium has most of the medicinal content! Companies like Oriveda uses a method called deep layer cultivate mycelia which is basically what we call "liquid culture" but they grow pure mycelium in MASSIVE amounts and extracts the medicinal content from there. NOT GRAINS. Companies like Paul and Aloha medicinals just want to sell you starch, is a FACT. They only care about money, not curing your mom or dad, if they would care they would share LAB TEST RESULTS. 



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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: bodhisatta]
    #26495133 - 02/20/20 12:52 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Yes exactly thank you for those last few posts.

I don't care about Paul Stamets or what he thinks. I'm talking about the independent studies that have nothing to do with him that show how much stronger the mycelium is than the fruiting bodies. Like I said before I already grow Lion's Mane and have made some great dual extracted tinctures. I want to grow and powder the mycelium and just wanted to see if anyone has the best method to do so and to find out if the "breaking the cell wall" thing was true or not. And this definitely should be in Advanced Mycology because clearly no one knows how to do it.

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: light4x]
    #26496683 - 02/21/20 09:17 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Extractions aren't even a cultivation topic first of all.
Secondly, this forum gets WAY more traffic from people that have any good answers for you.
So if you're really pissed about this I can move in to your journal or the science and chemistry forum. Or leave it here where it fits best

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: bodhisatta]
    #26496744 - 02/21/20 09:56 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I'm not pissed at all, I just think this belongs in Advanced Mycology because that's exactly what it is. Why have the forum if nothing is "advanced" in your or some mods eyes especially when literally no one on the forum has a clue how to do it. And growing out mycelium definitely is a form of cultivation. Not sure why you are so against this topic but whatever.

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: bodhisatta] * 1
    #26496777 - 02/21/20 10:21 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Pretty interesting...starting to see Stamets in a different light.



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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: winglang]
    #26497086 - 02/21/20 02:26 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Clearly there are different levels of effectiveness associated with different proccessing. Anyone with more than extremely basic research and mushroom knowledge would understand the myceliated rice may be more like a microdose, very clearly a different product than whole mushroom and of course extracts are MUCH different and for different applications.

I find it funny that when that guy claimed he had to use myceliated grain to create a reshi supplement because he couldn't grind the fruits and that was OK because he did it the 'the right way'. Like oh that's odd, so he used the same practices and found it sufficient to market because he let it colonize more? Fascinating.

He never mentioned any companies except saying 'samples off the shelf'. I'm sure there's a bunch of 'supplements' that are sub par. Is stamets probably top of the pile? Yep.

On the back of stamets myceliated rice mushroom supplements list the mg doses of each species as mycelium -- then "other ingredients: dried myceliated brown rice".

Clear as day. If someone who's dying of cancer buys a $50 supplement bottle and thinks it's gonna do everything extracts do it's not the fault of a company if they choose to be ignorant and not research.

If someone wants a basic supplement I am sure myceliated rice is fine if it's not from an unknown company. If someone wants SERIOUS DOSES then extraction is clearly for that person. I don't see it as very complex - it depends on what someone wants.


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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: filthyknees]
    #26497165 - 02/21/20 03:18 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

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Clearly there are different levels of effectiveness associated with different proccessing. Anyone with more than extremely basic research and mushroom knowledge would understand the myceliated rice may be more like a microdose, very clearly a different product than whole mushroom and of course extracts are MUCH different and for different applications.




Its not a microdose just because its mostly grain. That's like saying you can't get drunk off light beer because its only 4% alcohol. You will just have to consume more of the myceliated rice to account for the for the fact its only ~30%-40% mycelium. The reason people are interested in this in the first place is because some species have HIGHER concentrations of the desired chemicals in the mycelium than the fruit bodies. Lions mane is one of these.

Tomorrow I'm going to start a 1 gallon liquid culture to get idea of what kind of yields you can from this method. I'll keep this thread updated on the progress.

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: iwh678]
    #26497200 - 02/21/20 03:35 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I wasn't suggesting it is a microdose because it's grain. Simply that it's far less potent than an extract would be for instance. Clearly I think.


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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: iwh678]
    #26497299 - 02/21/20 04:55 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

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filthyknees said:
Clearly there are different levels of effectiveness associated with different proccessing. Anyone with more than extremely basic research and mushroom knowledge would understand the myceliated rice may be more like a microdose, very clearly a different product than whole mushroom and of course extracts are MUCH different and for different applications.




Tomorrow I'm going to start a 1 gallon liquid culture to get idea of what kind of yields you can from this method. I'll keep this thread updated on the progress.




Can't wait to see

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: light4x]
    #26497480 - 02/21/20 06:34 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

drain and mix is with ice cream afterwards


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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: light4x] * 1
    #26498371 - 02/22/20 12:02 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Have you seen this research paper about different liquids to use for the culture?
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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: Fungusam]
    #26498706 - 02/22/20 04:07 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I have heard of many people using coffee grounds to grow mycelium.  I also think that you could go the easy route and get a pre-made Lion's Mane grow kit and just harvest the mycelium before it starts to have pin heads pop up.

After that you will need to break of as much of the substrate as possible and dry up the mycelium.

Here's a good article I found on growing edible mycelium.

Also, here's a good link I found on how to grow you own from scratch.

Hope that helps!

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: mush_love_83]
    #26498767 - 02/22/20 05:06 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

If you are trying to consume the mycelium that's really not a good way to go about it. I imagine eating coffee grounds would be pretty unpleasant. Also lions mane is grow on sawdust so eating a kit would also not be recommended.

People grow on grain for consuming because it is a food product to begin with.

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: iwh678]
    #26499589 - 02/23/20 08:55 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I ended up innocultaing two half gallon jars each with with 1.3 L of 4% LME.

I'm still new to making liquid cultures so I wouldn't be too surprised if I run into issues with these.

I also may end up doing g a few more quart jar with different mixes. I'm thinking I'll try a 2% LME LC and probably a grain water LC. Does anybody have experience with LC mixes that work well with links mane?

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: iwh678]
    #26505343 - 02/26/20 06:24 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I would like to comment on the breakingnof the cell wall issue. Now i am a noob but i am not dumb. As i understand it the mycelial structure is like a continous straw. So, if the mycelium, with or without rice ir starch, were broken in the grinding process, the the ends of each fragment of the straw-lime structure would be open for stomach acids to digest. If this is true, then the breaking of the cell wall, unless it co tains a valuable chemical, would be a pointless issue because the acids in your digestive track would hollow out the mycelial structure from both ends.

If i am wrong, please tell me and explain why.

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: Wayward Place]
    #26505455 - 02/26/20 08:02 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

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I would like to comment on the breakingnof the cell wall issue. Now i am a noob but i am not dumb. As i understand it the mycelial structure is like a continous straw. So, if the mycelium, with or without rice ir starch, were broken in the grinding process, the the ends of each fragment of the straw-lime structure would be open for stomach acids to digest. If this is true, then the breaking of the cell wall, unless it co tains a valuable chemical, would be a pointless issue because the acids in your digestive track would hollow out the mycelial structure from both ends.

If i am wrong, please tell me and explain why.




I can't say if you are wrong or right, but I hope you are right because that would make it a lot easier.

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: iwh678]
    #26505456 - 02/26/20 08:03 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

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I ended up innocultaing two half gallon jars each with with 1.3 L of 4% LME.

I'm still new to making liquid cultures so I wouldn't be too surprised if I run into issues with these.

I also may end up doing g a few more quart jar with different mixes. I'm thinking I'll try a 2% LME LC and probably a grain water LC. Does anybody have experience with LC mixes that work well with links mane?




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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: light4x]
    #26507621 - 02/28/20 05:16 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Not much to update yet. I'm sure I'll see some growth soon.

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: bodhisatta]
    #26507896 - 02/28/20 10:00 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

I agree with you that most of the Host Defense products are worthless. Do you have any links to the independent research you referenced? Would love more proof to bolster this argument since I'm having to convince people pretty regularly that his celebrity does not mean his products are good.

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: thebucketmouse]
    #26507981 - 02/28/20 11:01 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)


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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: light4x]
    #26509244 - 02/29/20 05:31 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

The study referenced in that blog post was payed for and performed by Fungi Perfecti, with help of an external company. It is not independent. Link here.

The paper is of low quality in my opinion. It does not in any way show any efficacy of their products (which is a separate point from the quality issues).

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: dub rules]
    #26509718 - 02/29/20 12:26 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

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I am also not sure whether it is necessary to lyse the cells, but the supplements that Stamets sells under the Host Defense name are freeze dried. That process includes freezing and thawing under vacuum which I am assuming would cause the cells to lyse.




No, freeze drying avoids the formation of ice crystals of the water present. And those ice crystals are what are responsible for screwing up tissue with regular freezing. And yes the freeze-thaw cycles.

Fungal cell walls are not only composed of chitin but also of polysaccharides which can be dealt with in various ways. The question is how this destabilizes the matrix and how big a molecule can be absorbed out of the cells how easily.



If we eat dried mushies we trip, right? But if you eat bigger chunks and don't chew well, its absorbed over a lot more time and the trip is weaker or rather stretched out.
Pulverized mycelium should be pretty good but freeze-thawing before drying and powdering may help make compounds more available but could potentially also mess up their structures so this is the tradeoff we are presented with, apparently. It can also make compounds more liable to degradation (for example oxidation) break down faster as it is not as well protected anymore inside the cells.

I know i am not staff, but idk which forum would be better for the discussion. It is about preparation of medicinal mushrooms, the angle is not to talk about chemistry tho sometimes it is hard to avoid.

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: Solipsis]
    #26509968 - 02/29/20 04:15 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

You know the examples with actives is great. I don't know why that didn't cross my mind. I don't plan on doing anything other than drying and then powdering once I filter the mycelium from this LC.

One draw back to the LC method I anticipate is you don't know 100% what your growing until you test it on agar. With grain its pretty hard to mistake. A lot of these trials could end up trash and you wouldn't realize until the last step.

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: iwh678]
    #26522076 - 03/07/20 11:19 AM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Any updates (probably a little too soon still)? Mostly just wanted to let you know that I'm definitely following this thread and looking for the right tek myself to get some LM myc in me :P

Hope your LC is growing nicely!

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: pzar]
    #26533463 - 03/13/20 08:36 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Bumping to see how LC goes.

Also, did a quick google and there is some evidence that humans should be able to digest chitin?

Paoletti, M. G., Norberto, L., Damini, R., & Musumeci, S. (2007). Human gastric juice contains chitinase that can degrade chitin. Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, 51(3), 244-251.

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Chitin digestion by humans has generally been questioned or denied. Only recently chitinases have been found in several human tissues and their role has been associated with defense against parasite infections and to some allergic conditions. In this pilot study we tested the gastric juices of 25 Italian subjects on the artificial substrates 4-methylumbelliferyl-beta-D-N,N',diacetylchitobiose or/and fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) chitin to demonstrate the presence of a chitinase activity. Since this chitinase activity was demonstrated at acidic pH, it is currently referred to acidic mammalian chitinase (AMCase). AMCase activity was present in gastric juices of twenty of 25 Italian patients in a range of activity from 0.21 to 36.27 nmol/ml/h and from 8,881 to 1,254,782 fluorescence emission (CPS), according to the used methods. In the remaining five of 25 gastric juices, AMCase activity was almost absent in both assay methods. An allosamidine inhibition test and the measurement at different pH values confirmed that this activity was characteristic of AMCase. The absence of activity in 20% of the gastric juices may be a consequence of virtual absence of chitinous food in the Western diet.

That is an old reference too, so there should be some more updated stuff somewhere if people want to look.

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: skywhisp]
    #26533477 - 03/13/20 08:42 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Another reference for a group finding genetic evidence of mammalian chitinase.

Mareike C Janiak, Morgan E Chaney, Anthony J Tosi, Evolution of Acidic Mammalian Chitinase Genes (CHIA) Is Related to Body Mass and Insectivory in Primates, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 35, Issue 3, March 2018, Pages 607–622, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msx312

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Insects are an important food resource for many primates, but the chitinous exoskeletons of arthropods have long been considered to be indigestible by the digestive enzymes of most mammals. However, recently mice and insectivorous bats were found to produce the enzyme acidic mammalian chitinase (AMCase) to digest insect exoskeletons. Here, we report on the gene CHIA and its paralogs, which encode AMCase, in a comparative sample of nonhuman primates. Our results show that early primates likely had three CHIA genes, suggesting that insects were an important component of the ancestral primate diet. With some exceptions, most extant primate species retain only one functional CHIA paralog. The exceptions include two colobine species, in which all CHIA genes have premature stop codons, and several New World monkey species that retain two functional genes. The most insectivorous species in our sample also have the largest number of functional CHIA genes. Tupaia chinensis and Otolemur garnettii retain three functional CHIA paralogs, whereas Tarsius syrichta has a total of five, two of which may be duplications specific to the tarsier lineage. Selection analyses indicate that CHIA genes are under more intense selection in species with higher insect consumption, as well as in smaller-bodied species (<500 g), providing molecular support for Kay’s Threshold, a well-established component of primatological theory which proposes that only small primates can be primarily insectivorous. These findings suggest that primates, like mice and insectivorous bats, may use the enzyme AMCase to digest the chitin in insect exoskeletons, providing potentially significant nutritional benefits.

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: skywhisp]
    #26538477 - 03/16/20 12:08 PM (4 years, 1 month ago)

Nice find on the chitin digestion.

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: Fungusam]
    #26546505 - 03/20/20 11:51 AM (4 years, 27 days ago)

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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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 (4 years, 27 days ago)

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 (4 years, 24 days 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.






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 (4 years, 18 days ago)

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 (4 years, 1 day ago)

Idk if anyone's still following this, but I said I'd update so here I am :smile: 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 (4 years, 1 day ago)

Far out

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? [Re: Stromrider]
    #26619775 - 04/22/20 10:25 AM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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, 11 months ago)

Still watching.

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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.





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 :wink:
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, 11 months ago)

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, 11 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 :wink:
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  :smile:  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" :wink:  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.
:confused:

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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    #26627088 - 04/25/20 12:48 PM (3 years, 11 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.




You say that with such conviction- I'm curious what led you to believe it?


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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, 11 months ago)

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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, 11 months ago)

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 :grin:
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]
    #26627317 - 04/25/20 02:16 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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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?




Thanks for your input :smile: 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]
    #26627692 - 04/25/20 05:01 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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]
    #26631978 - 04/27/20 11:22 AM (3 years, 11 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 :grin:
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]
    #26632659 - 04/27/20 05:55 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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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]
    #26633304 - 04/28/20 12:06 AM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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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]
    #26633901 - 04/28/20 09:14 AM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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, 11 months ago)

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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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: skywhisp]
    #26640353 - 05/01/20 02:10 AM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Amazing thread

I was wondering if an extraction from the millet mycelium would be possible? Or would it work better from the fruit body?

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: Djchrist]
    #26643447 - 05/02/20 11:00 AM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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Amazing thread

I was wondering if an extraction from the millet mycelium would be possible? Or would it work better from the fruit body?




Again, you generally don't extract from mycelium.  That's like extracting the medicinal componenets from honey.  Most just eat the honey :wink:


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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: Djchrist]
    #26645275 - 05/03/20 05:59 AM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Can someone point me to that John Holliday study? All I can find is stuff on cordyceps. I know that for example with John Stamets "mycelium" which is grown on grain, the end product is 60%+ starch.

Yeah I'd definitely prefer to do this in liquid. I'd prefer an end-product that is pure mycelium and extractable; and I'm pretty sure that you cant properly extract stuff that has grains in it. But I could be wrong.

Maybe someone can speak with more experience here, but when I think of lions mane mycelium, I think of myc that doesnt eat through all the grain before it starts trying to pin and put off fruits. And sometimes even starts fruiting before fully colonized. That doesnt happen in liquid though. Any thoughts?

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    #26645277 - 05/03/20 06:00 AM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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Amazing thread

I was wondering if an extraction from the millet mycelium would be possible? Or would it work better from the fruit body?




Again, you generally don't extract from mycelium.  That's like extracting the medicinal componenets from honey.  Most just eat the honey :wink:




I know that with mushrooms you really want to extract them since they're not super bioavailable. Is the same not true for mycelium?

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: Fungusam]
    #26645406 - 05/03/20 07:56 AM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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Can someone point me to that John Holliday study? All I can find is stuff on cordyceps. I know that for example with John Stamets "mycelium" which is grown on grain, the end product is 60%+ starch.

Yeah I'd definitely prefer to do this in liquid. I'd prefer an end-product that is pure mycelium and extractable; and I'm pretty sure that you cant properly extract stuff that has grains in it. But I could be wrong.

Maybe someone can speak with more experience here, but when I think of lions mane mycelium, I think of myc that doesnt eat through all the grain before it starts trying to pin and put off fruits. And sometimes even starts fruiting before fully colonized. That doesnt happen in liquid though. Any thoughts?




-I don't know that it was an official study, this was from a conversation on here with several people that have been through John's internship program at Aloha.  I tried searching for the thread but can't find it, nor can I remember who it was but there's a couple on here that have been through the program, it's a pretty cool one. 

-No, you can't really properly extract stuff that has grain in it, that's why you don't extract it, you just eat it.

-I'm not sure what you're asking in the 3rd part

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I know that with mushrooms you really want to extract them since they're not super bioavailable. Is the same not true for mycelium?




No, it really isn't.  Look at pretty much every product Stamets sells, or Aloha medicinal, or 95% of all other mushroom supplements out there.  Mycelium grown on grain, dried, powdered, encapsulated.

Ever just munched a bag of the active mushrooms?  Worked fine, didn't they?  :eek:

And those are dried, tough fruit bodies.  Mycelium is microscopic thin strands.  Your stomach acid does a fine job extracting pretty much everything you need from it.

*** I'm not trying to knock your idea of growing in liquid culture, I just want to make sure it's going to be worth all the added effort, because it is going to be a lot of extra effort.  And I just don't see what the gains are, really...


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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: Forrester]
    #26663340 - 05/10/20 09:12 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

My main motivation was because I figured it would be a better quality product than one grown on grain. In starting to think that I might be wrong about that though. Another possible advantage could be that the liquid could be made more cheaply than solid substrate, but that's unrelated to my motivation.

What substrate would be best? And how would I go about drying it? I think Stamets freeze-dries his; but from what I remember that process is prohibitively expensive

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: Fungusam]
    #26666319 - 05/12/20 11:17 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

Nah I don't think you were off that it would be a better product, pure mycelium would be better if it were possible, it's just growing in liquid requires so much more effort and cost since it's so easily contaminated that way, and also more dangerous because contaminants aren't seen.  So you could easily be consuming something that wasn't lion's mane mycelium, without knowing, unless you test every batch.

I do remember the grain mentioned was either millet or milo/sorghum, so those might be a good place to start.  I used millet when I did mine, and it worked well.  A little tricky to get the moisture right for PC'ing without destroying the grain and ending up with mush, but it can be done.

For drying, I just cut up the whole substrate into slices after the prescribed amount of time, and put them in a food dehydrator, the same kind people use for cubes around here.  Once dried, a coffee grinder works fine.  The powder can be stored in mason jars and added to shakes or encapsulated if you want to take the time.


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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: Forrester]
    #26666353 - 05/12/20 11:39 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

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*** I'm not trying to knock your idea of growing in liquid culture, I just want to make sure it's going to be worth all the added effort, because it is going to be a lot of extra effort.  And I just don't see what the gains are, really...




The research shows that concentrations of beneficial compounds can be made extremely high by providing an optimal nutrient profile. For example, there's the liquid solution that produced 2.5 g/L of Erinacene C. Whereas something like rice is just rice. Unless maybe the rice could be enriched? But that seems like a lot more work than making an enriched solution. Regardless, I'm not discounting the idea of going about this whole thing using rice; so I'll be working with it too. I'll post updates as that progresses.

Don't get me wrong, I truly appreciate all of the criticism and advice you've given in this endeavor! I personally don't see it as a lot of extra effort. Yes, it will take some extra effort to figure out an optimal solution; but once that's done, I think it would be easier to prepare jars of it than it would be to prepare grains. And besides, it isn't like any extra work is a chore to me! I enjoy the process.

Another potential gain is that the end product could make a nice tea, whereas a starchy one would not be so good imo.

I'm still having trouble figuring out how to make an optimal LC for the Lion's Mane, so if anyone has input on this please let me know. From the research I've seen, I'm thinking it will be a good idea to try something similar to a solution of: 5 g/l oatmeal, 1.5 g/l calcium carbonate, and 0.5 g/l Edamin® K at pH 7.5. However, I don't know how to do this, and I need help figuring it out. Some of the main questions I have now are:


Do I just add oatmeal flakes to the LC and leave them in there?


Or do I boil 5 g of oatmeal in the water, then strain it?


What can I use as a complex Nitrogen source, instead of Edamin K?

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: Forrester]
    #26666369 - 05/12/20 11:45 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

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Nah I don't think you were off that it would be a better product, pure mycelium would be better if it were possible, it's just growing in liquid requires so much more effort and cost since it's so easily contaminated that way, and also more dangerous because contaminants aren't seen.  So you could easily be consuming something that wasn't lion's mane mycelium, without knowing, unless you test every batch.

I do remember the grain mentioned was either millet or milo/sorghum, so those might be a good place to start.  I used millet when I did mine, and it worked well.  A little tricky to get the moisture right for PC'ing without destroying the grain and ending up with mush, but it can be done.

For drying, I just cut up the whole substrate into slices after the prescribed amount of time, and put them in a food dehydrator, the same kind people use for cubes around here.  Once dried, a coffee grinder works fine.  The powder can be stored in mason jars and added to shakes or encapsulated if you want to take the time.




Sorry, didn't see this before I submitted my last post!

Yes, I would definitely want to test each batch before consuming. However, can't contaminants also grow along with mycelium on grain, being virtually indetectable?

Edit: This is the method I was planning on using for cultivation of grain-based supplements. The main questions I have right now are listed above about how to proceed with the LC, but I will be attempting both of these methods either way :smile:

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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: Fungusam]
    #26668416 - 05/13/20 10:43 AM (3 years, 10 months ago)

Sorry can't be much help with LC recipes, it's really not my area of expertise so hopefully someone else can.  Looking forward to seeing what you come up with and how it works out though!

And yeah contaminants can grow in grain but it's MUCH easier to see them.  Bacterial blotches, yeast, all very easy to see (and smell).  Sure, you can smell a batch of LC that's gone horribly wrong due to bacteria, but can you smell one that's just slightly bad?  Maybe, maybe not...  And can you tell if little filaments in the LC are the mycelium you want or a mold?  Again, maybe, maybe not... on grain it's just much easier.


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    #26748553 - 06/16/20 09:01 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Well regarding a lc batch you can always test it on agar to see where you at. Any results on the lc you did with the lion's main

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    #26759957 - 06/20/20 02:05 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

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Thanks for checking in! I got caught up with a bunch of life stuff, and this project got put on the back burner for quite a while. However in the meantime I've acquired 3 different phenotypes of lion's mane to experiment with; including one that allegedly fruits at temps as high as 90 degrees F.

Today I am inoculating 3 quart jars of organic rye berry grain with an agar wedge from each pheno. I'm also going to do some LC.

One of the jars is going to be 600-650mL H2O, 1g LME, and 1 Tbsp karo. I may also do one that is 4% honey by volume.

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    #27037656 - 11/13/20 07:33 PM (3 years, 4 months ago)

Hi! Is anybody still interested in cultivating H. erinaceus liquid culture for the purpose of consuming and/or extracting the mycelium?

I am highly interested in this project (I made a post of my own before I was directed here).

I've never doen any sort of fungal cultivation before, and though I understand that Lc can be difficult, I really want to be able to do this do that I can provide good extracts/supplements for my grandparents. and Oriveda's supplements are so expensive...

Some things I wonder:

1) Would gallon LCs be a good start for this?
2) What types of equipment would I need in order to start a project like this?
3) Would it be necessary to purify the end LC of all growth media to gain a pure-ish mycelium before extraction? I assume it wouldn't be necessary..
4) Do you guys know how I can test the LC for erinacine concentration & contamination? Are these tests expensive or even available to the layman?
5) Would an alcohol extraction on mycelium cultivated in this way be any different than a normal alcohol extraction?


If anybody is still working on this, I would LOVE to hear about your progress, or any insight you may have.


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Re: How to grow and consume Lions Mane mycelium? (moved) [Re: Forrester]
    #27040165 - 11/15/20 08:59 AM (3 years, 4 months ago)

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Sorry can't be much help with LC recipes, it's really not my area of expertise so hopefully, someone else can.  Looking forward to seeing what you come up with and how it works out though!

And yeah contaminants can grow in grain but it's MUCH easier to see them.  Bacterial blotches, yeast, all very easy to see (and smell).  Sure, you can smell a batch of LC that's gone horribly wrong due to bacteria, but can you smell one that's just slightly bad?  Maybe, maybe not...  And can you tell if little filaments in the LC are the mycelium you want or a mold?  Again, maybe, maybe not... on grain, it's just much easier.





You could always swab a plate. (somehow missed guys post above me)*

  90% on milo sounds like a good avenue as well.

  I believe all of this growing in LC was proposed because of Stamets talk of large-scale growth in LC. 


  Fungusm if I'm not mistaken there is an edit post button, it's small but you can re-edit a post instead of making another; thanks for all the helpful information, I need to screenshot it incase you delete your account.


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