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Lion's Mane (Hericium erinaceus)·Focus and think clearly·finding 07 of 19
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★★☆Single study — solid evidence, such as one good trial or a large observational dataset, but not replicated at the top tier.

Mental & cognitive · not established · single study

There is no known dose, only four the trials happened to use

Trials have used 1 g once, 1.8 g daily for four weeks, about 2.9 g for 16 weeks, and 1.05 g of mycelium for 49 weeks. None was ever put against another.

What the study found

Four trials, four different doses, none compared against another

Human trials have used a single 1g dose of lion's mane fruiting body, 1.8g a day for four weeks, about 2.9g a day for sixteen weeks, and 1.05g a day of lion's mane mycelium for 49 weeks. They ran in different people on different tests, and no trial has put one dose against another.

The caveat · Two tissues, so grams don't compare

These are not four points on one scale. Fruiting-body powder and mycelium are different tissue carrying different compounds, so a gram of one is not a gram of the other, and the range above is what has been tried rather than what has been optimised.