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ADAPTOGEN IS MORE THAN JUST A TRENDING BUZZWORD. These compounds are thought to stimulate your body’s stress-protection response and offer potential health benefits by supporting natural functions for immunity. Lion’s Mane is a great example of a natural adaptogen - it helps with brain nerve protection and recovery.

HYPHAE WELLNESS combines the branching filaments that make of what was available failed to meet their high standards – which led them to up the mushroom’s mycelium network, hyphae, with the expres- build out a cultivation facility. sion “get hyphy” (meaning to get excited) into a line of fungi-fo- “We focus on every element to make sure it’s of a therapeutic grade and cused products. Their growing line of natural adaptogens and nootropics that our products are having a positive impact on people’s lifestyles, whether rely on the benefits of mushrooms and Cannabis to help promote health and it be in the Cannabis or functional mushroom space,” said Geoff. wellness. Adding to the wellness angle, Hyphae also teamed with electronic Working alongside Tao has been a natural fit – from the existing symbivehicle manufacturer Arcimoto to offer a sustainable home delivery option for otic relationships of the mycelium networks in the no-till beds to cultivating, their mushroom-based products. extracting and formulating as much as they can in-house.

Nick Ciufo and longtime friend Geoff Ostrove grew up in Oxnard, Calif. A rarity in the industry, together Hyphae Wellness and Tao have combined and saw careers in food, wine, politics and more recently, Cannabis. When Geoff made the connection between the fungal supplements he was taking for his brain health and the fungal network GETHYPHAE.COM @HYPHAEWELLNESS their efforts to produce edibles for the Oregon rec market, combining their functional mushroom blends with solventless hash. It’s a synergistic combo that likely produces a quicker onset and more Nick was utilizing in Tao Garden’s no-till cultivation method, he holistic effect. knew there was real potential to combine their expertise into a functional 2022 is shaping up to be the year of the mushroom. A Hyphae stout is mushroom brand. being brewed by Ninkasi, and the guys have a growing roster of wellness

“A lion’s mane actually grows lobes and looks like a brain while it’s grow- products available online and in grocery stores. ing,” Nick explained. “What’s wild is that it’s been shown to increase blood Their Cannabis-free gummies, tinctures and mouth sprays are developing flow and neurological function to the brain. Even as skeptics, we saw some quite the following. “ amazing benefits when adding mushrooms into our daily regimen. I really Currently, we are working with some great local grocery stores, and we geeked out on that stuff and we started sourcing products to see what we would love to see our gummies in every grocer across the country,” said could do on our own.” Geoff of their plans for the near future. “We want these high quality products

Rather than extracting or formulating from mycelium-based products, to be as accessible to as many people as possible. Really, the mushrooms are Hyphae is using higher potency, fruited body compounds. It turns out, most the facilitators, we’re just helping them fulfill their goal.”