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Chaga, Reishi and Turkey Tail medicinal mushrooms support immunity

How Medicinal Mushrooms Support the Immune System

When it comes to fortifying our immune system, nature has provided us with some remarkable allies - medicinal mushrooms. These exceptional fungi have long been revered for their ability to support immune health through a range of extraordinary mechanisms. Read on to explore how these wonders of nature can work to bolster our body's defence system and contribute to our overall resilience.
Medicinal Mushrooms Winter

Simple Practices to Support Immune Health in Winter

In the Southern Hemisphere we’re in the frosty depths of winter, the season that invites us to protect our inner resilience and support our immune health. Medicinal mushrooms go a long way in helping to strengthen our innate immune response, but their action is enhanced when we’re moving in harmony with the seasons and working to cultivate a strong foundation of health.

Read on for our top lifestyle practices to naturally move in harmony with winter and support our inner resilience mentally and physically.

Combining Medicinal Mushrooms and the Synergies Between Them

Can I Combine Medicinal Mushrooms? The Synergies Between Them

We like to think of each medicinal mushroom having its own personality with individual benefits for body, mind and spirit. We often get asked, can I combine medicinal mushrooms? Do they work together? Are there certain synergies between them? In this journal entry, we will explore the world of medicinal mushrooms and provide insights into whether it is beneficial to combine different varieties.
Tremella Mushroom in a Tremella tea with goji berry and jujube

Recipe ~ Tremella Medicinal Mushroom Beauty Tea with Goji & Jujube

Affectionately known as the beauty shroom, Tremella has been used traditionally for thousands of years as a youth-protecting tonic, slowing the natural signs of ageing. 

With its softly sweet, malty flavour, Tremella forms the perfect base for this warming winter tea along with added goji berry and jujube.

Read on for the recipe that you can whip up in minutes.

Whole Tremella Medicinal Mushroom and Tremella extract powder on a wooden spoon

The Beauty Secrets of Tremella Mushroom

Tremella mushroom has created a buzz in beauty circles in recent years yet its fame as the beauty mushroom didn’t arrive overnight. Tremella comes to us from a long tradition of use in ancient China as the secret to a youthful complexion amongst noblewomen who sought to nourish their beauty.

In this Journal entry, we explore how Tremella first became somewhat of an ancient beauty legend and delve into its modern uses for promoting skin health and radiance.

Medicinal Mushroom Powdered Extracts on Gold Spoons

Our Mission to Provide the Most Potent and Pure Medicinal Mushrooms Available

As self-confessed mycophiles when we started on our journey 5 years ago to bring Inner Atlas to life we set out to offer the highest quality medicinal mushroom extracts possible. In other words, we work hard to provide mushies that we know are active and potent and deliver their intended benefits.

In this journal entry we will run through our sourcing principles and what to look out for, so you know you’re working with a quality product. Buckle up, we’ve got a few mushie truths on the way!

Woman's hand holding an orange flower in autumn

Moving with the Seasons ~ A Guide to Thrive in Autumn

Autumn is a time of reduction, the drawing inward of energy, with nature prompting us to release and let go of what is no longer necessary fortifying our bodies and minds for Winter.

Fallen leaves and fruit return to the earth and aligning ourselves with this sense of returning to source acts as our guide when we think about supporting our physical, emotional, and spiritual harmony throughout Autumn in order to thrive.

We hope some of the practices in this guide help you to find your own rhythm and drop into a sense of coherence with nature and her cycles. 

Cordyceps fruiting bodies emerging from grass

Cordyceps, A Health Hero and its Portrayal in “The Last of Us”

Cordyceps has recently been the subject of much fascination after its role in the popular HBO series "The Last of Us."

The program depicts Cordyceps as infecting humans, turning them into zombie-like creatures, and sending the internet into a flurry; could this scenario really play out in real life?

In this Journal entry, we'll explore the truth behind Cordyceps and the Last of Us and the possibility of Cordyceps infecting humans. Spoiler alert, it’s a work of pure fiction – phew!

Cup of Bulletproof Coffee with Lion's Mane Medicinal Mushroom Extract

Recipe ~ Lion’s Mane Bulletproof Coffee

We’re a couple of coffees a week kind of crew’. When we are making a strong morning brew, we like to make a Bulletproof coffee recipe to help slow the release of caffeine. And Lion's Mane is our mushie of choice here for an added brain boost!
Wooden Board with a bowl of food containing Lion's Mane Mushroom, rice and salad

Recipe ~ Lion’s Mane Mushroom with Miso and Honey

Something a little bit different on the journal today; a recipe with fresh Lion’s Mane mushroom!

The flavour of fresh Lion's Mane is savoury and meaty with a slightly sweet tone and once it's cooked its texture is often compared to seafood like crab or lobster. With its umami flavour Lion's Mane is a delicious addition to vegetarian or vegan dishes as a substitute for meat. 

This recipe is one we often whip up for a quick lunch. It’s bursting with flavour and so incredibly easy!