Cordyceps Nootropic Botanical Extract
Cordyceps is a fungus that lives on certain caterpillars in the high mountain regions of China. It is sometimes used as a medicine.
Most supplements use cordyceps that is made in a lab. Although cordyceps is sometimes called a mushroom, the type of cordyceps that is made in a lab does not grow a mushroom. Cordyceps might improve immunity by stimulating cells and specific chemicals in the immune system. It might also help fight cancer cells and shrink tumour size, particularly with lung or skin cancers. People most commonly use cordyceps for athletic performance, kidney disorders, liver problems, and sexual problems.
Sceletium Nootropic Botanical Extract
Sceletium tortuosum (Mesembryanthemaceae), commonly known as kanna or kougoed, is an effective indigenous medicinal plant in South Africa, specifically to the native San and Khoikhoi tribes.
Today, the plant has gained strong global attraction and reputation due to its capabilities to promote a sense of well-being by relieving stress with calming effects. Historically, the plant was used by native San hunter-gatherers and Khoi people to quench their thirst, fight fatigue and for healing, social, and spiritual purposes.
Guarana Nootropic Botanical Extract
Guarana is a Brazilian plant native to the Amazon basin.
Also known as Paullinia cupana, it’s a climbing plant prized for its fruit. A mature guarana fruit is about the size of a coffee berry. It resembles the human eye, with a red shell encasing a black seed covered by a white aril. Guarana extract is made by processing the seeds into a powder. Amazonian tribes have used guarana for centuries for its therapeutic properties.
It contains an impressive range of stimulants, such as caffeine, theophylline and theobromine. Guarana also boasts antioxidants, such as tannins, saponins and catechins.
Lions Mane Nootropic Botanical Extract
Lion’s Mane mushrooms are large, white, shaggy mushrooms that resemble a lion’s mane as they grow. They contain bioactive substances that have many beneficial effects on the body, especially the brain, heart, and gut.
The lion's mane mushroom is a species known by a variety of names. Its scientific name, Hericium erinaceus, is how mycologists—the scientists who study fungi—officially refer to it. It is also known as Yamabushitake in Japanese, and as lion’s mane in English. Alternately, called the bearded tooth fungus or the pom pom mushroom due to its highly textured surface, lion’s mane mushrooms are native to the mountains of northeast Asia and may also be found in Europe and North America.
Hoodia Nootropic Botanical Extract
Hoodia gordonii, also known as “Bushman’s hat” and “Queen of the Namib,” is a succulent in the Apocynaceae family of flowering plants. Hoodia gordonii is a spiny succulent plant that grows in the Kalahari Desert throughout Angola, Botswana, South Africa, and Namibia. It has fleshy stems that are covered with small thorns and topped with flesh-coloured flowers that smell like rotten meat to attract flies for pollination.
This century, Hoodia has gone from being regarded as nothing more than a rotten-smelling desert plant to being praised as a natural dietary supplement believed to suppress appetite and boost weight loss.
The plant gained attention in the early 2000s, as anecdotal evidence suggested that the Khoisan people of South Africa and Namibia — a nomadic hunter-gatherer group — have been eating small pieces of the stems to suppress hunger during long hunts since the 1930s.
Expiry date: 31 June 2024
Cordyceps:
Alcohol-free
Vegetable oil base
Sugar-free
Dosage:
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