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One Level Scoop in the Morning Coffee: A Mushroom Blend That Weighs 1.3 Grams, the Trials That Used 3.2, and the 68 Customers Who Wrote In.

Focus and Memory Mushrooms is a powder from Laird Superfood, an Oregon company, sold in a 3.17-ounce bag: organic lion's mane, L-theanine from green tea and coffee berry, stirred into whatever you already drink. I weighed the scoop, read the trials at the doses they actually used, read all 68 reviews, and wrote down what a habit inside a habit can and cannot do.

A man in his sixties tapping a level measuring spoon of powder into a mug of coffee at his kitchen counter

Walter Brandt is the pen name of this desk. The customers quoted on this page are real; their reviews are public on the seller's site and were read through the seller's own review system on September 9, 2026. I haven't met them and know nothing about them beyond what they wrote. The small photos beside their reviews are illustrations, not the reviewers. Everything about the bag, from the weight of a scoop to the return policy, comes from the seller's own label and pages, read the same day.

I don't keep resolutions. I keep habits, and I keep them small.

The only one that has never failed me is the coffee.

Same mug, same counter, same eight minutes before anyone else is up.

If a new thing can't live inside those eight minutes, it doesn't last the month. That's the whole test.

So when a neighbor asked me about a blue bag of mushroom powder "for focus," I didn't start with the mushroom.

I started with the spoon.

The label says half a teaspoon, and it says what that weighs: 1.3 grams.

About 69 of them in the bag.

Stir it into the cup you were going to drink anyway.

Everything on this page hangs on that number. One and three-tenths of a gram of a three-ingredient blend, once a day, in a cup you already hold.

Now the second number, and I'll say it early so you're not surprised later.

The one trial of lion's mane in people your age that found anything gave people 3.2 grams a day of a different part of the mushroom. [1]

That's two and a half scoops, if the scoop were all mushroom, which it isn't.

Here's what the bag is.

A 3.17-ounce resealable pouch of light brown powder from Laird Superfood, a company that started in Sisters, Oregon.

Three ingredients, printed as one blend: organic lion's mane mushroom, L-theanine taken from green tea, and coffee berry, which is the red fruit around the coffee bean, dried and ground.

Certified organic, vegan, kosher, no fillers, and the label says so.

Five calories a scoop. It tastes of earth and a little coffee, and in coffee you won't taste it at all.

I did what I always do with a bag like this.

I read the label before the listing.

I read the trials behind each of the three ingredients, at the doses they actually used.

I read all 68 reviews and kept seven, and I'll tell you why I threw out the rest.

And I read the shipping and return pages, which are friendlier than most.

What I found is a real, clean powder that turns your morning coffee into a small ceremony, sold by honest people, that does less than its name and more than nothing.

One more thing before the first habit, because most of you got here from one of our own advertisements.

Those ads talk about a boxed cereal, three foods, three drinks, and three words or phrases a man is supposed to be able to say or spell.

None of that is in the bag, and I won't pretend it is. It's on this page, in its place: the cereal, the drinks and the word test are the ninth habit, and the honest version of every headline we run is in the guide linked at the foot.

Habit one · The bagA Blue Pouch, Three Names, and a Scoop That Weighs 1.3 Grams

This is what's on the counter.

The blue 3.17-ounce bag of Laird Superfood Focus and Memory Mushrooms beside a glass of coffee, from the seller's photograph
The bag, from the seller's own photograph. Three ingredients on the front, one weight on the back.

A soft blue pouch the size of a paperback. A zip across the top. Ninety grams of powder.

The front says Focus & Memory Mushrooms, then the three ingredients, then "supports cognitive clarity + mental focus" with the little asterisk that points to the sentence every supplement in America carries.

The back is where the number lives.

"Serving size: ½ tsp (1.3 g). About 69 servings per container."

Then one line for the blend, 1.3 grams, and the three ingredients underneath it with no weight of their own.

The label does not say how much is mushroom, how much is theanine and how much is coffee berry. It gives one number for all three, and I'll come back to that.

Two more things off the back before we go on.

The mushroom is "mycelium and fruiting bodies grown on gluten-free, organic oats." Keep that word, mycelium. It matters in habit three.

And the cautions are short: not for anyone under 18; if you take anything daily, or you're pregnant or nursing, ask first; and a California notice about lead that the seller prints on every bag of this kind.

A man's hands leveling a measuring spoon of powder from a blue pouch beside a white mug

Habit two · The scoopWhat 1.3 Grams Is, and What It Isn't

Let me show you the arithmetic, because the arithmetic is the product.

A level half-teaspoon of this powder weighs 1.3 grams. That's about the weight of a paperclip and a half.

Sixty-nine of them in the bag, so if you take one every morning, the bag lasts a little over two months.

At the seller's list price that comes to about 36 cents a day, which I mention only because it's the last time money comes up before the end.

Now split that scoop three ways, because that's what the label does.

Some of it is mushroom. Some of it is an amino acid from tea. Some of it is dried coffee fruit.

The label doesn't say how much of each, and on a label the biggest share comes first, so the mushroom is probably most of it.

The trials you'll read below are measured in grams of one ingredient at a time, or in hundreds of milligrams. A scoop is 1.3 grams of three ingredients together. Hold those two facts side by side and the rest of this page reads itself.

Every ingredient in this bag has been studied. None of them has been studied at the amount that's in a scoop.

Habit three · The mushroomLion's Mane, Grown on Oats, and the One Trial in People Over 50

First on the label, and the reason the bag exists.

A white lion's mane mushroom with hanging spines growing on a fallen log in a forest

Lion's mane is the shaggy white mushroom you sometimes see at a farmers' market, sold as a meat substitute because it cooks up like crab.

It has a long history as food in East Asia, and it's the mushroom everyone means when they say "mushrooms for memory."

There's one trial in people your age, and it's small, and it used a lot.

Thirty-one healthy adults over 50 took 3.2 grams a day of the fruiting body, the shaggy white part, or a placebo, for twelve weeks.

The mushroom group scored a little higher on a standard mental-status test at the end.

A test of visual memory in the same trial didn't change. [1]

There's a younger trial too, with a single dose.

Forty-one healthy adults aged 18 to 45 took 1.8 grams once, and an hour later they were faster on a color-word test.

Twenty-eight days of it produced only a small trend on how stressed they said they felt, not a result. [2]

Now the word from the back of the bag.

This mushroom is "mycelium and fruiting bodies grown on organic oats."

Mycelium is the root-like web the mushroom grows from, and when it's grown on grain, some of what you weigh is the grain it grew through.

The trials above used the fruiting body, the mushroom itself.

Three thousand two hundred milligrams of fruiting body a day, for twelve weeks, moved one test a little. The scoop holds a share of 1,300 milligrams of a three-way blend, part of it mycelium on oats.

So the honest reading of the mushroom is: a real food with one small, positive trial at a dose the scoop doesn't reach, in a form the trial didn't use.

Not nothing. Not the headline either.

Habit four · The tea leafL-Theanine, the Reason Tea Feels Different From Coffee

Second on the label, and the ingredient I'd have bet on before I read the trial.

A bowl of loose green tea leaves beside a glass cup of green tea on a wooden table

L-theanine is an amino acid that green tea makes and coffee doesn't.

It's the reason a strong cup of tea sits differently than a strong cup of coffee, and it's sold on its own for exactly that.

It has one trial in people your age, and it's a single-dose trial.

Japanese men and women aged 50 to 69, with normal mental-status scores, took one dose of L-theanine or a placebo.

On an attention task afterward, the theanine group did a little better. [3]

One dose, one afternoon, one task. That's the trial.

The bag doesn't say how much theanine is in a scoop. It's the second ingredient of a 1.3-gram blend, so it's less than half of that, and probably a good deal less.

Theanine is the one ingredient here that fits the morning cup on purpose: a little tea in your coffee. Whether there's enough of it to notice, the label won't tell you, and neither will I.

A mug of coffee settling after powder has been stirred in, with a teaspoon set down on a napkin

Habit five · The coffee cherryCoffee Berry, a Blood Marker in Ten People, and the Caffeine Nobody Counted

Third on the label, and the one to read most carefully, because it's the one you'll feel.

A branch of a coffee plant with red and green coffee cherries in morning mist

Coffee berry is the red fruit that grows around the coffee bean.

Most of it gets stripped off and thrown away at the mill. Dried and ground, it's a mild, fruity powder with some caffeine in it.

It has one study, and it isn't about memory.

Ten healthy adults per group took a single 100-milligram dose of whole coffee fruit concentrate, or of a few comparison powders.

Over the next two hours, a protein in their blood called BDNF rose by about 143 percent from where it started, more than with the other powders.

The authors themselves asked for larger studies. [4]

A blood marker is not a memory test. I'd rather say that plainly than let the number do the selling.

Now the part the label leaves out.

Coffee berry "is a natural source of caffeine," the listing says, and it doesn't say how much.

So the scoop has some caffeine in it, on top of the coffee you're stirring it into, and the number isn't printed anywhere.

What we know about caffeine is dull and well-established.

The European food-safety authority concluded that single doses up to 200 milligrams and daily intakes up to 400 are not a safety concern for healthy adults, and that caffeine in moderate doses increases alertness. [5]

A cup of brewed coffee is roughly 80 to 100 of those milligrams.

Whatever the scoop does to your mid-morning, some of it is the coffee fruit's caffeine, on top of your coffee. The label doesn't say how much. One customer, who bought it, describes jitters. You'll meet her in habit seven.

If you're already at your limit of coffee, this bag adds to it by an amount the seller hasn't printed. That's the one line on this page I'd want you to remember before you buy.

Habit six · The cup itselfWhy a Man Feels Sharper at Nine, and Which Part Is the Powder

Suppose you buy it, stir it in tomorrow, and by nine you feel a little clearer than usual.

I'd believe you. And I'd give you three reasons before I gave the powder one.

A man in his sixties at a kitchen table with a mug of coffee, writing a line in a small notebook

You drank your coffee more slowly, because you stirred something into it and paid attention to it.

You did one small deliberate thing before the day started, which is what a habit is for.

And you added a fruity powder with some caffeine to a drink that already had caffeine in it.

None of that is in the mushroom. All of it comes with the bag.

What actually helps, and costs nothing, is duller than a bag of powder.

  • Water with the coffee, and again at ten. Most mid-morning fog is a dry mouth in disguise.
  • No coffee after two. The three o'clock cup fixes three o'clock and wrecks eleven.
  • One thing at a time. Radio off while you read the instructions.
  • Ten minutes outside before the hard part of the day.
  • A notebook. Writing a thing down is the oldest memory aid there is, and the bag doesn't ship with one.

Now look at that list and be honest.

You've heard every item since your first physical, and you still don't do them.

Boring loses to a blue bag every time.

If a scoop of powder gets you to drink your coffee slowly, at the same time every morning, with a notebook open, it did its work before any mushroom did. And the mushroom, at this amount, isn't going to do much.

Habit seven · The reviewsSixty-Eight Reviews, Read to the Bottom, and Seven Kept

The seller's page shows 68 reviews with an average of 4.68 stars.

Its review system marks 65 of them as verified purchases. I read every one.

Then I threw out most of them, and I'll tell you which.

I threw out the ones that credited the powder with things the label doesn't claim: digestion, appetite, a better mood, better dreams.

I threw out the ones about the box arriving, or the ones written before the bag was opened.

I threw out a review from a woman who mostly wrote about her husband and son.

And I kept two that are lukewarm and one from a customer who got jittery, because you deserve those more than you deserve the five-star ones.

What's left is the honest middle.

These are real customers, quoted word for word from the seller's review system; the small photos beside them are illustrations, not the reviewers.

Illustrative portrait, not the reviewer
Kimberly L. Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Super easy to use. So delicious in my coffee. Truly makes me feel like I'm getting my day off to a great start!
Illustrative portrait, not the reviewer
Inger Y. Verified Buyer
★★★★★
The mental sharpness you expect from coffee without the jittery distraction.
Illustrative portrait, not the reviewer
Martha D. Verified Buyer
★★★★☆
I blend this with my morning coffee. It gives me a pick up and gets the day started more clear and focus. Especially when sitting down to pay the monthly bills!
Illustrative portrait, not the reviewer
Kyle H. Verified Buyer
★★★★★
Has certainly helped with focus during the day. Have been feeling great since incorporating.
Illustrative portrait, not the reviewer
Jennifer G. Verified Buyer
★★★★☆
It isn't bad and I put it in my coffee. Can I see anything memory and focus? Not really. I will know more when I am done with the bag.
Illustrative portrait, not the reviewer
Angela S. Verified source
★★★★☆
High quality product, however I get the jitters! Taste is the same to me, however I get the jitters after drinking. I attribute this to the Coffee Berry ingredient.
Illustrative portrait, not the reviewer
Daryl R. Verified Buyer
★★★★★
I feel more clear in my thoughts daily after only 1 week of use.

Read those the way I did.

Kimberly and Martha both say the same thing in different words: it goes in the coffee, and the morning starts better. That's the habit talking, and I believe it.

Inger says "without the jittery distraction." Angela says the opposite, and blames the coffee berry. Both bought the same bag. Caffeine is like that, and the label doesn't print the number.

Jennifer gave it four stars and "not really." That's an honest tester, and she's finishing the bag anyway.

Daryl says "after only 1 week." A week is when a new habit feels best, whatever is in it.

Nobody I kept claims anything big. Several describe a clearer start to the day. That's the effect a cup of coffee with a ceremony attached will give you, and I don't think the mushroom has much to do with it yet.

Habit eight · The likelier explanationA Habit Inside a Habit

There's an old method for making a new habit stick: tie it to one you already have.

Not "I'll take a supplement." Instead, "when I pour the coffee, I add the scoop."

The coffee carries the scoop. You never have to remember it.

That's the honest reason this bag works for the people it works for, and it's a good reason.

It doesn't depend on the mushroom being strong. It depends on the coffee being reliable, and yours is.

It's also why I'd never tell you to switch to a capsule that promises more.

A capsule on the shelf is a thing to remember. A scoop in the mug is a thing you can't forget.

A man in his sixties walking slowly along a tree-lined sidewalk in mid-morning light

So the question isn't whether lion's mane works at 1.3 grams split three ways. It probably doesn't. The question is whether you want a reason to slow down over the first cup, and this is a cheap one.

Habit nine · The bowl and the cupThe Cereal, the Three Drinks, the Three Foods and the Word Test From Our Own Advertisements

Our advertisements have been saying, in one version or another, that a boxed cereal, three foods and three drinks have something to do with memory, and that there are three words or phrases a man ought to be able to say.

You're owed the honest version, on one page, so here it is.

A bowl of frosted cereal beside its box, a mug of coffee, a blue pouch and a measuring spoon on a kitchen counter
The cereal bowl and the coffee mug, side by side on the same counter. One of them was in our advertisement. Neither is in the bag.

Start with the bowl, because it sits next to the mug.

A frosted, honey-coated or chocolate cereal is mostly refined starch and added sugar, and a serving can carry more sugar than a cookie.

No cereal "ages the brain faster than time." Nobody has measured any such thing, and that phrase was written to be clicked.

What the studies do say is duller, and worth more.

In the Framingham Heart Study, adults who drank more sugary beverages scored lower on tests of memory, and daily fruit juice went the same way. [6]

In a Brazilian study of 10,775 adults followed for eight years, the ones who ate the most ultra-processed food, and the sweet cereal shelf is part of that, lost ground on tests of thinking about a quarter faster than the ones who ate the least. [7]

Both are associations across a population, not a sentence on your bowl. And a quarter faster than slow is still slow.

The three drinks.

The "evening drink" in our advertisement is alcohol, and it's the one with the strongest case behind it: in 550 British civil servants followed for thirty years, the more a person drank, the faster their scores fell on a word-fluency test, and light drinkers had no edge over those who didn't drink at all. [8]

The second is sugar in a glass: soda, sweetened tea, the tall flavored coffee from the counter, which is a soft drink with coffee in it. The Framingham finding above is about sugary drinks, and those are sugary drinks. [6]

The third, in one of our headlines, was coffee. That was our worst headline, and on this page of all pages I'll say it twice.

Plain black coffee isn't the drink any of those studies were about. Keep your coffee. Keep it before two. This bag goes into it.

The three foods.

Processed meat, fried food, and the white-flour shelf: pastries, packaged cakes, white bread.

Our advertisement says "just stop eating these three." The research says something slower.

In 960 older adults followed for nearly five years, the ones whose meals looked most like the MIND pattern, vegetables, berries, nuts, whole grains, beans, fish and olive oil, held their thinking scores better, and the gap between the top and bottom thirds worked out to about seven and a half years of age. [9]

That's a pattern over years, not a list of three, and it can't be sold in a headline. Which is exactly why our headline doesn't say it.

Less sugar in the bowl and the glass. Less alcohol in the evening. Keep the coffee. Eat more like the Mediterranean shelf and less like the vending machine. Every one of those is free, and none of them is in the bag.

The three words, or the three phrases.

There's no such list. What our advertisement borrowed from is the short, scored mental-status test clinicians have given at the bedside since the 1970s: the date and the place, a few words to hold in mind and give back a minute later, a sum, naming, repeating one sentence, copying a drawing.

It's given in person and read against your age and your schooling by someone trained to do it, and a low score is a reason for a proper look, not a verdict.

Stumbling on a word when you're tired or being timed means nothing on its own. Nothing begins at a word.

If the worry behind the click is real, that's fifteen minutes with your doctor, and it costs you nothing from me.

And the advertisement about the things some men take every day.

That one sits closest to real research, and it's the one an advertisement has no business acting on.

Some kinds of daily medicine, including a few sold over the counter for allergies and for the night, are on the lists pharmacists check for people over 65.

Don't stop or change any of it because of an advertisement, ours included. Put everything you take in one bag, this powder included, take it to the pharmacist, and ask one question: is anything here a poor choice at my age? The guide at the foot of this page has that section written out, with the studies.

So if you clicked on the cereal, here's where the cereal went: next to the mug, where the real answer was always the coffee you drink slowly and the bowl you fill with something plainer.

Habit ten · What it isn'tSix Things a Scoop of This Won't Do

  • It won't give you the trial dose of lion's mane. The trial used 3.2 grams a day of the mushroom itself; a scoop is 1.3 grams of three ingredients, part of it mycelium grown on oats.
  • It won't tell you how much of anything is in it. The label prints one weight for the blend and none for the three ingredients.
  • It won't be caffeine-free. Coffee berry carries caffeine, the amount isn't printed, and it goes into a cup that already has some.
  • It won't act on any condition a doctor has named. It's a food supplement, and its own label carries the sentence that says so.
  • It won't be for anyone under 18, or for anyone who avoids caffeine or takes something daily without asking a pharmacist first. The label says so too.
  • It won't dissolve like sugar. It's a real powder with no fillers; stir it and drink it, and expect a little sediment at the bottom. The seller says so on the bag.

If that list annoys you, I'd rather you were annoyed now than when the pouch arrives from Oregon.

Habit eleven · The routineIf You Do Buy It: One Bag, Two Months, One Cup, One Notebook

If you're going to spend the money, spend it as a test with a date on it, and test the thing that can actually work.

A man's hands writing a line and a check mark in a small notebook beside a mug of coffee and a blue pouch
  • Buy one bag. Sixty-nine scoops is the test, and it outlasts the guarantee, so decide by day thirty.
  • One level scoop in the first coffee of the day, not the second. The scoop already has caffeine in it.
  • Nothing with caffeine after two, the same as before. Let the afternoon stay what it was, so you know what the morning did.
  • Write one line a day in a notebook. Not "sharper" or "foggier." What you were doing at ten, and how it went.
  • Keep everything else the same for the first two weeks. Change nothing else, so the notebook is about the scoop.
  • On day thirty, read the thirty lines. If the second half reads better than the first, decide whether it was the scoop or the ceremony. The notebook will tell you more than the bag will.

Look at that list the way I do.

Four of the six things are free.

The bag is the one you'll pay for, and the coffee and the notebook are the ones that will do the work.

Habit twelve · Who it's forWho It Suits, and Who It Doesn't

This is worth a look if:

  • You drink coffee every morning at the same time, and you want a small ceremony added to it.
  • You like real food ingredients, certified organic, with no fillers, and you've now seen exactly how much of each there is: the label won't say.
  • You want a company with a street address, a phone number that answers seven days a week, and a 30-day guarantee that mentions a refund. You have all three now.
  • You can hold two ideas at once: a mushroom with a real trial, at an amount far below the trial.
  • You'll run it as a thirty-day test with a notebook, not as a hope.

Give it a miss if:

  • You want the trial dose of lion's mane. Buy the mushroom itself, or a product that prints grams per ingredient.
  • You avoid caffeine, or you're already at your limit of coffee. The scoop adds an unprinted amount.
  • You want something that acts on a condition a doctor has named. This is a food supplement.
  • You take anything daily and you haven't asked a pharmacist about caffeine and mushrooms. The label says ask first. Ask.
  • You're pregnant or nursing, or under 18. The label rules you out.

Habit thirteen · Where it's soldFrom Oregon, Usually Shipped the Same Day, With a 30-Day Guarantee From the Day It Arrives

The bag is sold by Laird Superfood on its own website, and that's the only place this page links to.

A quiet small-town street in central Oregon at dawn with pines and a mountain behind

The company is easy to find.

Laird Superfood, Inc., started in Sisters, Oregon, with a post office box there on its privacy page and a Boulder, Colorado address printed on the bag.

A phone number that answers from eight to four Pacific time, seven days a week, a text line, and an email that begins with "aloha."

The current price is shown on its page, not here.

The day I read it, the bag was under the seller's free-shipping line for a repeat order, but the seller ships the first order free.

Buy one bag. Sixty-nine scoops is a test. Two bags of something you haven't tried is a bet.

Now the two things that matter more than the price.

First, shipping.

Laird ships within the United States, and says orders normally go out the same day.

Free standard shipping on your first order, and on one-time orders over the seller's threshold after that.

Second, the return policy. Read this twice.

The seller offers a 30-day guarantee that starts when the bag arrives at your home, not when you paid.

You tell them by email or phone within those 30 days; they'll try to fix the problem first, replace or exchange the product, or refund you if they can't help.

It's a fair policy for a bag of powder. It's a promise to make it right, with a refund at the end of the list, and I'd rather say that than call it money-back.

Everything in a scoop

IngredientAmount per serving
Organic lion's mane mushroom (Hericium erinaceus), mycelium and fruiting bodies grown on gluten-free organic oatspart of a 1.3 g blend
L-theanine (L-TeaActive®, from green tea)part of a 1.3 g blend
Coffee berry (Coffea arabica whole fruit powder)part of a 1.3 g blend
No other ingredients listed

Full details on each ingredient are in the guide linked at the bottom of this page.

The ingredient and advertising guide linked at the foot of this page goes through every line of the label.

What each ingredient is. What the research does and doesn't show, at what dose. What to be careful about, caffeine first. And which of our own headlines it does and doesn't support.

Print it and take it to the pharmacist if you take anything daily. It's written for that.

See the current price on the seller's site

Focus and Memory Mushrooms

Half a teaspoon of mushroom, tea amino acid and coffee fruit stirred into the cup you already drink every morning, from a company in Oregon.

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Sold and shipped from the United States by Laird Superfood, Inc. · Free standard shipping on a first order; after that only above the seller's order minimum · 30-day guarantee from the day it arrives: replacement, exchange or refund

QuestionsWhat Readers Ask Me Before Their First Bag

Questions readers ask

Is this medicine?

No. It's a food supplement, a powder of one mushroom, one amino acid from tea and dried coffee fruit, made for a company in Oregon. The label carries the standard sentence every American supplement carries, the one that says the FDA hasn't evaluated its claims, and the little asterisk on the front points to it.

How much lion's mane is in a scoop?

The label doesn't say. It gives one weight for the whole blend, 1.3 grams, and lists the mushroom first, so it's probably the largest share. The one trial in adults over 50 used 3.2 grams a day of the fruiting body alone.

Does it have caffeine?

Yes, from the coffee berry, and the amount isn't printed. It goes into a cup that already has caffeine. If you're sensitive to it, or already at your limit, that's the line to read twice. One verified customer describes jitters.

What does it taste like?

Earthy, faintly of coffee, and in coffee you won't notice it. The seller says to expect a little sediment, because there are no fillers to keep it suspended.

How long does a bag last?

About 69 scoops. One a day is a little over two months. The 30-day guarantee runs out well before the bag does, so decide by day thirty.

Will it help my memory?

I can't tell you that, and you should be wary of any page that does. The mushroom has one small trial at two and a half times what a whole scoop weighs, and the scoop is three ingredients. What the customers I kept describe is a better start to the morning, and I think the coffee and the ceremony deserve most of that credit.

Can I take it alongside what I already take?

Ask your doctor or pharmacist and take the ingredient guide with you. It contains caffeine in an unprinted amount, and mushrooms and green-tea extracts are worth a mention if you take anything daily. The label says to ask first. Two minutes at the pharmacy counter answers it.

Which reviews did you leave out, and why?

Sixty-one of 68. The ones about digestion, appetite, mood or dreams, which the label doesn't claim; the ones about shipping; the ones written before the bag was opened; and one that was mostly about a husband and son. What's left is quoted word for word, including a four-star "not really" and a customer who got jittery.

Does it ship to me?

Within the United States, usually the same day. The first order ships free; after that, free only above the seller's minimum.

What if it arrives and I don't like it?

Tell the seller within 30 days of the day it arrived. They'll try to help, replace or exchange it, or refund you if they can't. Keep the bag until they answer.

Your advertisement was about a cereal, or three foods, or three drinks. Where is that on this page?

In habit nine, in full, with the studies. The short version: less sugar in the bowl and the glass, less alcohol in the evening, keep your plain coffee, and eat more like the Mediterranean shelf. None of it is in the bag, and the ingredient and advertising guide at the foot goes through every headline we run and says which ones overstate.

Your advertisement said something about three phrases, or spelling three words. Is there a test I can take?

Not on a screen. The words and phrases come from the short mental-status test clinicians give in person, and it's read against your age and schooling by someone trained to do it. Nothing begins at a word. If the worry behind the click is real, ask your doctor for the proper test. It's fifteen minutes.

The short versionEverything Above, in Sixty Seconds

  • A 3.17-ounce bag of powder from Laird Superfood, Inc., of Oregon: organic lion's mane grown on oats, L-theanine from green tea, and coffee berry, with no fillers.
  • One level half-teaspoon, 1.3 grams, stirred into your morning coffee. About 69 scoops to the bag.
  • The label gives one weight for the blend and none for the three ingredients. The caffeine from the coffee berry isn't printed either.
  • Lion's mane has one small trial in adults over 50 at 3.2 grams a day of the fruiting body. [1] Theanine has a single-dose trial in adults 50 to 69. [3] Coffee fruit raised a blood marker in ten people. [4] Caffeine, in moderate doses, increases alertness. [5]
  • Sixty-eight reviews, average 4.68; the seven I kept say "in my coffee," "not really," and "I get the jitters."
  • Ships within the US, usually the same day; the first order free; a 30-day guarantee from the day it arrives, with a refund at the end of the list.
  • The cereal, three drinks, three foods and the word test from our own advertisements, in habit nine: less sugar, less alcohol, keep the coffee, more like the Mediterranean shelf, and no test on a screen. None of it is in the bag.
  • The honest use: a habit inside a habit. One scoop in the first cup, a notebook open, and thirty days to decide.
A kitchen counter with an empty coffee mug, a measuring spoon, a closed blue pouch and a closed notebook with a pencil

The last habitWhat a Scoop Is Actually Worth

Here's the whole thing in one breath.

A real mushroom, real tea leaf and real coffee fruit, ground into a powder with nothing added, from a company that answers the phone on Sundays.

One and three-tenths of a gram to the scoop, split three ways, with the caffeine uncounted.

A trial behind each ingredient, none at the amount in the scoop.

And 68 customers, the best of whom say it makes the first cup of the day feel like the start of something.

If you're a man whose one steady habit is the morning coffee, and you want a reason to hold the mug a minute longer, that's worth a thirty-day test.

Not because of what's in the scoop. Because of what you'll do around it.

Buy one bag, not two, put a notebook next to the mug, and write one line a day for thirty days. The notebook is a better judge than I am.

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Focus and Memory Mushrooms

Half a teaspoon of mushroom, tea amino acid and coffee fruit stirred into the cup you already drink every morning, from a company in Oregon.

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Sold and shipped from the United States by Laird Superfood, Inc. · Free standard shipping on a first order; after that only above the seller's order minimum · 30-day guarantee from the day it arrives: replacement, exchange or refund

P.S. If you take one thing from this page, take the two numbers. One and three-tenths of a gram in the scoop, split three ways, with the caffeine unprinted. Three and two-tenths of a gram of the mushroom alone in the one trial that found anything. Everything else about this bag follows from holding those two side by side.

P.P.S. If the mid-morning fog has been with you for a year, and it's there before the coffee too, talk to your doctor before you buy anything. A scoop in a mug is a small habit. It was never going to answer a question a doctor answers in fifteen minutes.

P.P.P.S. And if you do order it, keep the notebook. When the bag is empty, you'll have two months of lines about your own mornings, and that's worth more than the bag, whichever way the lines turn out.

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