Myceliated Grain vs Filler

Initially posted on hostdefense.com

Host Protection has proudly centered on mushroom mycelium because the Nineteen Nineties when founder and Chief Science Officer, Paul Stamets, created a dietary complement line. Primarily based on years of analysis, Host Protection merchandise use a mycelium biomass basis which comprises a singular matrix of mushroom mycelium with enzymatically-converted natural brown rice substrate, ‘cultured’ collectively – with no fillers! This distinctive matrix of mycelium and fermented substrate – also referred to as ‘mycelium biomass’, ‘myceliated rice’, or ‘myceliated grain’ – work collectively to assist quite a lot of physique methods for general wellness.* 

What’s ‘Myceliated Grain’?

‘Myceliated grain’ is the distinctive ingredient shaped when mushroom mycelium consumes and converts a grain substrate by a fermentation course of not not like tempeh, yogurt, or kombucha. The mixture of mycelium and fermented substrate is usually known as ‘myceliated grain’ or ‘mycelium biomass’.

There are a selection of fruit body-only complement manufacturers which have launched complete advertising campaigns designed to downplay the advantages of mycelium and the fermented substrate as a strategy to lend credibility to their very own merchandise. They discuss with mycelium and the fermented substrate as ‘myceliated grain’ and present photos of mushroom fruit our bodies alongside pictures of mycelium rising on rice or oats as a strategy to point out that their merchandise are “extra pure” or “of upper high quality”. They are saying that the mushroom fruit physique is superior to mycelium, and due to this fact additionally superior to a mycelium product that features the substrate it’s grown on. A few of these similar manufacturers additionally declare that mycelium merchandise are of much less general worth and profit to the patron.

As a result of the mushroom fruit physique is the extra widely-recognizable stage of the fungal life cycle, and what usually involves thoughts when eager about ‘mushrooms’, it’s straightforward for many individuals to just accept this line of messaging in the event that they aren’t conscious of what the science demonstrates. Nevertheless, figuring out the fermented rice as ‘filler’ and mushroom mycelium as “much less helpful than the fruit physique” ignores an unlimited physique of analysis and knowledge that continues to build up in scientific literature. At Host Protection, we take an knowledgeable method to our product formulation by acknowledging the large potential of all the fungal organism and that’s why we use myceliated grain – or mycelium biomass – as the muse of all our product formulation.*

What’s ‘Mycelium Biomass’?

‘Mycelium biomass’ is one other identify for ‘myceliated grain’, which is the mixture of mushroom mycelium and its fermented substrate. We use an natural brown rice substrate to develop our mycelium, and the transformed, fermented brown rice turns into a totally new, uniquely energetic ingredient that helps and enhances the well being supporting advantages of the mycelium.* 

Mycelium and Fermented Substrate vs Filler

There’s plenty of misinformation about using mycelium as a result of it requires a meals supply – or the substrate – to develop to be used in shopper merchandise. Frequent claims that mushroom fruit our bodies not solely provide extra worth to the patron, however that mycelium merchandise that embrace the substrate, have fewer health-supporting advantages and are nothing however a mix of mycelium and ‘filler’. Nevertheless, there’s a elementary distinction between a SUBSTRATE and a FILLER. The mycelium and fermented substrate – also referred to as ‘mycelium biomass’ or ‘myceliated grain’ – is a singular ingredient that has been transformed as mushroom mycelium consumes and ferments a meals supply, whereas a ‘filler’ is an inactive ingredient that serves so as to add weight or bulk to the primary ingredient. However the substrate, as soon as fermented, is definitely immunologically energetic and enhances the health-supporting advantages of the mycelium.* 

What’s a Mycelium Substrate?

A mycelium substrate is utilized in a managed setting to develop mushroom mycelium for using dietary supplements and different mycelium-based merchandise that customers can use to assist numerous physique methods. Meaning the substrate have to be each a nutritious meals supply for the mycelium and likewise be helpful to people. In contrast to rising fruit our bodies, that are separated from their meals supply when harvested, the mycelium substrate turns into remodeled by the mycelium, creating an almost inextricable matrix. We imagine the distinctive mixture of each the mycelium and its substrate are one of many causes our mushroom mycelium merchandise are so efficient.* 

The method to develop mushroom mycelium in a managed setting just isn’t not like that of a number of different well-known useful meals, like tempeh, yogurt, and kombucha. For every of these extremely helpful meals, a progress medium – referred to as a “substrate” – is launched as a meals supply for the bacterial and/or fungal organisms:* 

• Tempeh is made by a pure culturing and fermentation course of during which a fungal organism binds to and ferments soybeans till tempeh is shaped. 
• Yogurt is shaped when probiotic micro organism are launched to exploit and allowed to ferment.
• Kombucha is shaped when a mixture of sugar and tea are fermented utilizing a tradition of micro organism and yeast (a fungal organism). 

In every of those situations, the substrate is essentially remodeled as the first ingredient digests and metabolizes it. The method of fermentation makes the tip consequence seem very completely different from the unique particular person elements. And along with the unique dietary profile, the newly-fermented closing consequence additionally provides the added health-supporting advantages that consequence from the fermentation course of itself. At Host Protection, all of our merchandise use each the mushroom mycelium and the fermented substrate – as a result of it really works!*

What’s a Filler?

A ‘filler’ is nothing greater than an additive. It’s an ingredient that both serves so as to add bulk or weight to the tip product, however a filler has no discernible well being profit. Fillers are added to all the pieces from dietary supplements and seasoning salts, to processed meats and quick meals. They’re usually supposed as a reasonable bulking agent that makes the ultimate product cheaper for the producer.

There are not any ‘fillers’ utilized in any Host Protection merchandise. Slightly, each the mushroom mycelium and the fermented rice substrate utilized in all of our merchandise – together with capsules, powders, extracts, and more- have been researched, examined, and should provide health-supporting advantages.* 

Our Natural Brown Rice Substrate

Mycelium requires a meals supply to develop. When cultivated to be used in human dietary supplements, mycelium might be grown on a substance like rice or oats, which is secure for consumption by each the mycelium and people. At Host Protection, we use an natural brown rice as our substrate as a result of it’s usually well-tolerated by most individuals, and it serves as a nutritious meals supply for the mycelium. As soon as consumed and fermented by the mycelium, the rice is remodeled into a wholly new substance – similar to with tempeh, yogurt, and kombucha. Beneath regular circumstances, the matrix of mycelium and the fermented substrate are inseparable. Nevertheless, in a laboratory setting it’s potential to extract the 2 and take a look at every one individually. When separated out, analysis suggests that after the rice has been fermented, it turns into a wholly new and immunologically energetic substance that enhances the health-supporting properties of the mycelium.* 

Host Protection® mushroom mycelium is grown on an natural brown rice substrate that turns into essentially transformed because the mycelium consumes, cultures, and transforms the rice right into a fermented, myceliated, almost inextricable matrix. As with the examples of tempeh, yogurt, and kombucha, the method of fermentation fully transforms the substrate, and the ensuing myceliated rice – or mycelium biomass – is immunologically energetic.*

Advantages of Myceliated Brown Rice and Mycelium*

There are a whole bunch of articles revealed within the scientific literature demonstrating the health-enhancing worth of mushroom mycelium grown on grain substrates similar to natural brown rice, together with a 2019 NIH funded examine confirming the immunologically supportive exercise of Host Protection® Turkey Tail mycelium-based capsules.* Analysis confirms that the helpful mushroom mycelium and the fermented substrate each provide health-supporting advantages.*

Analysis Conclusions

Independently collected knowledge reveals that in Host Protection® merchandise, the myceliated rice is remodeled into an immunologically energetic superfood that enhances the health-supporting compounds of the mycelium.* 

At Fungi Perfecti, we stand by the scientifically confirmed outcomes of our merchandise. This is the reason our formulations embrace mushroom mycelium as the muse for the entire merchandise within the Host Protection® Mushrooms™ line – together with capsules, powder, extracts, and extra!*

We Develop Our Personal

One other necessary differentiator of Host Protection merchandise is that we develop our personal mushroom mycelium and fruit our bodies. We don’t buy from a third-party. We particularly don’t use imported mushroom fruit our bodies or mycelium. Mushrooms are bioaccumulators, that means that they accumulate – or take in – each vitamins and toxins from their setting. It’s one of many issues that makes it potential for them to assist the well being of the encompassing ecosystems of their native environments. They pull toxins, pollution, and dangerous substances out of their instant environment, maintaining the native habitat from hurt. Nevertheless, these toxins dwell on within the fruit our bodies that take in them, and when wild-harvested to be used in mushroom dietary supplements, it may be almost inconceivable to make sure a clear product for consumption. 

Our Develop Practices

In an effort to verify the security and high quality of our dietary supplements, we develop all of our personal mushroom mycelium and fruit our bodies. We begin by accumulating samples from mushroom fruit our bodies within the wild. This methodology requires solely a small pattern, leaving the wild mushroom fruit physique and its surrounding native ecosystem intact and unhurt. We carry these samples again to our tradition library, the place we use proprietary culturing methods to filter out any potential pollution whereas preserving genomic integrity. Then, on our licensed natural farm in Washington State, we develop our personal mushroom mycelium and fruit our bodies, utilizing an natural brown rice substrate for our mycelium and alder wooden chips for our fruit our bodies.

Along with guaranteeing that our mushroom mycelium and fruit our bodies are sustainably grown and free from contaminants, our manufacturing practices additionally assure that our dietary supplements include completely no fillers. As a result of we hold our mushroom mycelium and fruit physique cultivation in-house we all know there’s nothing there that we haven’t chosen to incorporate – from the forest, to our farm, to you.

Dedication to Transparency & Analysis

Transparency is necessary to us. As a part of our foundational worth system, we proceed to speculate sources into furthering our understanding of mushroom mycelium and fruit our bodies to share with each our shoppers and the mycological neighborhood at giant. We make use of a full-time workforce of devoted scientists that embrace mycologists, botanists, biologists, chemists, and medical professionals, together with 5 PhDs and 5 full time researchers on our Analysis & Growth Staff. These extremely skilled scientists are dedicated not solely to testing the security, high quality, and advantages of Host Protection® merchandise, but additionally to on the lookout for new and modern methods to make the most of the immune-supporting advantages of the mushroom organism, at every of the assorted levels of the life cycle that the fungal organism strikes by. Mushrooms are fascinating, advanced, and extremely nuanced. We imagine we’re solely at the start of studying what they’ve to show us, and we’ll proceed to evolve as we be taught extra about what they’ve to supply. Harnessing the facility of mushroom mycelium within the type of human dietary supplements is a technique now we have chosen to evolve as science demonstrates the large advantages obtainable to us.*

At Host Protection® we observe the science. And years of industry-based analysis, together with each inside and third-party testing, demonstrates that our mycelium-based mushroom merchandise provide important immunological assist.* 

“In my scientific opinion, mushroom merchandise not incorporating mycelium are at a determined drawback, given the outcomes of current analysis.”* 

— Paul Stamets

*These statements haven’t been evaluated by the Meals and Drug Administration. These merchandise aren’t supposed to diagnose, deal with, remedy, or stop any illness.