Life Cykel Cordyceps Double Extract Tincture

The Benefits of Cordyceps Mushroom

The extensive research into the Cordyceps mushroom shows that the bioactive compounds found within the mushroom can reduce inflammation, increase libido, prevent oxidative stress (anti-ageing) and hold antimicrobial effects, and this is just to name a few of the benefits of this powerful mushroom.

Ingredients: Filtered Water, Alcohol (20-24% v/v), Mushroom Flavour: Cordyceps (Cordyceps militaris) Mycelia & Fruit Body, Kakadu Plum Natural Flavour.

Directions: Add your liquid double extracts directly to your coffee, smoothie, tea or water.

Serving Size: 2 ml - 1/2 a dropper full is approximately 1ml, you can use this as a guide for the recommended serving size.
Storage: Store in a cool, dry place

*These statements have not been evaluated by the Therapeutic Goods of Australia. This information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease

FAQ

I am pregnant, can I consume the liquid extracts?

There is currently not enough research available to safely conclude mushroom supplements are safe for use during pregnancy. For further guidance, please consult your doctor. Thank you for your understanding.

Double extracts? Are they the equivalent strength to powders? The ratio is 10:1 on powders, but not the extracts. How does that work?

Powders and liquid extracts are made using different processes.

Life Cykel powders are 10:1 which means that 10kg of mushroom material has been used to make 1kg of powder. The powder is made using a spray-drying process.

Life Cykel liquid extracts are 1:2 which means that 1kg of mushroom material is used to make 2L of liquid extract. The liquid extracts are made using a double extraction method (water and alcohol based). This double liquid extract ensures that both water soluble compounds (mainly polysaccharides like beta-glucans) and alcohol soluble compounds (mainly antioxidants such as triterpenoids) are present in the end product and bioavailable for the consumer.

Life Cykel believe that the liquid extracts contain a range of full spectrum compounds acting synergistically together while powders are an isolate of single compounds.

For your own purpose, we advise you to test the difference - some people prefer the powders, others prefer the liquids.

What is the starch content in your liquid extracts?

Life Cykel liquid extracts contain less than 1% of starch. This result tells us that we can separate most of the grain parts (mainly starch) from the mycelium with our patent pending extraction process.

Your label tells me there is alcohol in your extracts; how much and why?

Alcohol is used to extract the alcohol soluble compounds (mainly antioxidants such as triterpenoids) to make them bioavailable for the consumer. Without using alcohol in our extracts, you would only have the water-soluble compounds. The alcohol also acts as preservative.

As one serve is 2ml, there is 0.6ml of alcohol in one serve. This is the equivalent of drinking 12ml of a standard 5% alcohol beer or 5.2ml of a standard white wine restaurant glass size (150ml) of 11.5% of alcohol. This is a very small quantity of alcohol with no intoxicating effects. In Australia, one standard drink is equivalent to any drink containing 10 grams of alcohol.

1 serve of extract is equivalent to 0.6ml alcohol = 0.4g of alcohol = 4% of a standard drink

Are all your liquid extracts suitable for vegetarians and vegan diets?

Yes

Which extracts are made from native Australian strains?

Life Cykel Lion’s Mane Hericium corraloides and Turkey Tail Trametes versicolor extracts are made from strains growing natively in Australia.

And what do you mean by flavouring on the ingredients. Are you using artificial flavouring agents?

This is a requirement from the current FSANZ standard regulations. Life Cykel do not use artificial flavouring agents in our liquid extracts. Our liquid extracts are made from organic ingredients and wild harvested Kakadu Plum.

My dropper doesn't have 'ml' marked on it, how many ml's are in a dropper?

Half a dropper full is approximately 1ml, you can use this as a guide for the recommended serving size (2ml)

Do you use fruiting bodies or mycelium?

Life Cykel liquid extracts are made using fruiting bodies and mycelium. The liquid extracts contain less than 0.5% of starch. This result proves that we can separate up to 99% of all starch coming from the substrate we are cultivating the mycelium on. This is made possible with Life Cykel’s proprietary patented extraction process. With their great global team of scientists that include a biotechnology engineer, nanotechnologist, microbiologist, Mycologist and food scientist they are constantly refining and optimising the technology to ensure they are growing the best quality fruiting bodies & mycelium and using the best extraction processes.

Life Cykel cordyceps, chaga and reishi extracts are grown and engineered in the USA as they are not allowed to grow these strains in Australia under the current biosecurity laws.

All mushroom fruiting bodies used for Life Cykel extracts are produced by them, they do not use Chinese based ingredients in our liquid extracts. Most of their fruiting bodies are grown on hardwood sawdust, cordyceps being an exception as it is grown on a substrate based on organic brown rice.