Functional beverages have long been associated with energy boosts and electrolytes like caffeine and potassium, but many consumers are now opting for mushroom coffee blends as a means to improve mental clarity, brain function, immune support and other health benefits. These drinks combine ground beans with powdered medicinal mushrooms such as reishi cordyceps chaga for maximum effectiveness while using organic varieties that contain naturally low acid coffee beans so as to keep acidity levels at a manageable level.

Reishi mushroom’s primary benefits lie in its stress-reducing and mood-enhancing abilities, while also strengthening immunity and improving sleep quality. Reishi has also been found to reduce oxidative damage while helping lower blood pressure and cholesterol.

Reishi mushrooms have long been revered as “mushrooms of immortality”, due to their believed longevity-extending and overall wellness-promoting properties. Reishi is said to improve cognition, strengthen immunity and increase natural killer cell count in the body – as an adaptogen they aid the body’s nonspecific response to stress.

Other medicinal mushrooms often used in mushroom coffee include lion’s mane, which may help improve cognitive function and memory; cordyceps may help lower blood pressure while strengthening immunity; both are also known to support adrenal glands as well as inhibit cancer growth by reducing cholesterol and blood triglyceride levels and protecting heart health by decreasing cholesterol and blood triglycerides levels.