Functional mushrooms are species with specific physiological benefits beyond basic nutrition. Cordyceps helps your body take in and use oxygen more efficiently, supporting clean, sustained energy. Lion's Mane supports cognitive function and REM sleep. Reishi calms the nervous system and helps regulate stress hormones. They've been used in traditional medicine for centuries and are now used by serious competitors who want the full game covered.

No. Cordyceps, Lion's Mane, and Reishi are functional mushrooms. They contain no psilocybin and have no psychoactive properties. They support physiological function: energy, focus, and recovery. Legal, ancient, and boring in all the right ways.

Different mushrooms, different jobs. Psychedelic mushrooms contain psilocybin, which alters consciousness. Functional mushrooms like Cordyceps, Lion's Mane, and Reishi contain no psilocybin and cause no altered state. Instead, these functional mushrooms support the body's systems: oxygen efficiency, cognitive function, and nervous system regulation. That's the whole story.

It depends on what part of your game needs the most help. Use Cordyceps for clean, sustained energy without a crash. Use Lion's Mane for focus, cognitive function, and overnight brain recovery. Use Reishi for nervous system regulation and calmer sleep. Many competitors end up running all three in combination because every part of the athletic cycle matters. Start with whichever one addresses the most pressing gap and add from there.

Faster than you'd expect. More than 80% of our customers report feeling the effects within about a half hour of taking either capsule for the first time. While Reishi's effects are harder to discern, most customers report feeling the cleaner, steadier energy from Cordyceps, or experience the vivid dreams that come with the better REM sleep Lion's Mane supports. Like all adaptogens, the effects build over 60 to 90 days. But most people don't have to wait to feel whether something is working. They know on day one.

Yes. Cordyceps, Lion's Mane, and Reishi have been used safely for centuries and are well-tolerated by most people. Team Mushrooms products are made with organic fruiting body extracts, third-party tested for purity and potency, melatonin-free, stimulant-free, and non-habit-forming. If you have a specific medical condition or take prescription medication, check with your doctor before adding any supplement.

Yes. Cordyceps pairs well with coffee. In fact, many people find that it adds to and smooths out the energy lift, without adding to the jitters. Many competitors take Myco Rise with their morning coffee or before it. The two work together rather than against each other.

Yes. Functional mushrooms play well with protein, creatine, and pretty much all standard sports nutrition. No known interactions with common supplements. If you're taking prescription medication, check with your physician before adding anything new.

Yes. All Team Mushrooms functional mushrooms are certified organic, made from fruiting bodies only, and third-party tested for purity and potency. No mycelium-on-grain filler. What's on the label is what's in the product.

The capsules are tasteless. The energy bars are designed to taste like real food first: honey, walnuts, pecans, a satisfying salty crunch. The mushrooms are in there doing their job, but you'd never know it from how good they taste.

Both the fruiting body and mycelium are parts of the same organism. The difference that matters for supplements is concentration. Fruiting bodies contain significantly higher concentrations of beta-glucans: the active compounds responsible for the physiological benefits functional mushrooms are known for. The bigger issue is how most mycelium supplements are made. When mycelium is grown on grain substrate, the grain becomes inseparable from the final extract. What you end up with is mostly starch filler with a small percentage of active mushroom compounds. Team Mushrooms uses only fruiting body extracts. You're paying for the active compounds, not the grain they grew on.

Yes, specifically Reishi. Reishi calms the nervous system and helps regulate stress hormones, which supports the body's ability to recover from training load. Lion's Mane supports REM sleep, which is where overnight physical and cognitive recovery actually happens. Recovery isn't just what you do after the session. It's what your body does when you stop interfering. These two mushrooms support that process without sedation, dependency, or grogginess.

Melatonin is a hormone your body already makes that tells your brain it's time to go to sleep. It can help you fall asleep faster but it doesn't improve the quality of what happens after. Take it long enough and your brain stops producing its own. Reishi and Lion's Mane work differently. Reishi helps regulate the stress hormones that keep you wired when you should be winding down. Lion's Mane supports the REM sleep where your brain does its overnight work. No hormones. No habituation. No reason to stop taking it.

It depends on what's happening during those hours. Duration and quality are different things. The competitor who sleeps eight hours but wakes up flat, heavy-legged, or mentally slow isn't sleeping badly by the clock, but their training the next day will undoubtedly suffer. Quality sleep begins when the nervous system calms down. If your stress hormones are still elevated when you close your eyes, the hours that follow are shallower than they should be. REM sleep is where your brain consolidates what you learned today and prepares what tomorrow requires. Both need to happen. Most competitors are getting in the way of at least one of them.

Team Mushrooms is made by Umbo, a sports supplement company built by Jake Plummer, Pro Bowl NFL quarterback, and Rashad Evans, UFC Light Heavyweight Champion and Hall of Famer. They didn't find these products. They built them because nothing formulated for serious competitors at the right doses and honest sourcing existed. Jake owns Mycolove Farm in Fort Lupton, Colorado, where many of our mushrooms are grown and extracted.