Optify Mushrooms Review: Brain-Enhancing Mushrooms?

Optify Mushrooms

7

Short-term Effects

4.5/10

Long-term Effects

8.0/10

Price

6.5/10

Safety

9.0/10

Positives

• Good servings of powerful nootropic mushrooms
• Not many supplements use Chaga mushrooms

Negatives

• Other mushroom supplements provide more Lion's Mane & Reishi
• Cordyceps is not a very powerful nutraceutical
• No short-term cognitive enhancements

Optify Mushrooms Review: What Does This Brain Supplement Do?

Mushroom stacks are all the rage right now. More and more are appearing online every single month. Optify Mushrooms is just one of the latest mushroom supplements to hit the shelves. It hasn’t received a lot of attention yet, but judging by the number of positive customer reviews it already has, Optify Mushrooms is set to be one of the hot supplements of the year. So what is it supposed to do?

The Optify Mushrooms bottle tells us exactly what this stack is designed to do:

1. Energy
2. Focus
3. Clarity
4. Health
5. Immunity support
6. Brain support

Sounds like an all-in-one, full spectrum nootropic. The fact that it also supports health is great to see; we think nootropics should aim to protect brain health and longevity as well as short-term performance.

But these are just words; words we’ve heard so many times before!

Does Optify Mushrooms really work? What can it actually do? How does it work? Is Optify Mushrooms safe? How does it compare to other full-spectrum nootropics on the market today? Find out by reading our full Optify Mushrooms review below!

Optify Mushrooms Ingredients

Here is the Optify Mushrooms ingredients list as it is shown on the bottle:

As you can see, there are just 4 ingredients, all of them mushrooms (no surprise there). We’ll now give you a quick overview of what each mushroom can – or can’t – do for cognitive performance, brain health, and immune system function. Post your questions in the comments section at the end.

Lion’s Mane – 400mg

Lion’s Mane Mushroom is without doubt one of the best natural cognitive enhancers in the world today. It has a long history of use in traditional Chinese medicine – and cuisine – where it has been used as a kind of cure-all. While many of its traditional uses are bogus, recent studies have found that it has one extremely powerful property – stimulating neuron growth and proliferation.

Lion’s Mane Mushroom consumption promotes Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) expression in the brain. NGF governs the growth, maintenance, proliferation, and differentiation of neurons. Increasing NGF levels invariably means greater brain cell development, which means significantly increased brain power over the long-term.

Lion’s Mane is dose dependent; the more the better. We usually look for 500mg, but the studies indicate that similar benefits can be derived from 300mg and above. Optify Mushrooms provides more than enough for long-term brain development.

Cordyceps – 400mg

We’re less enthusiastic about the use of cordyceps mushrooms as a nootropic, or even as a general health supplement.

For one thing, there is no evidence that cordyceps promotes better cognitive function. Not by any measure. There simply aren’t any good studies showing a reliable improvement in focus, learning, memory, or mood from cordyceps use.

However, one effect that cordyceps supplementation does seem to have is to improve immune system function. Studies have found that regular consumption of large doses of cordyceps mushrooms leads to greater immune cell proliferation and activation (source). Basically, compounds in cordyceps mushrooms seem to kick your immune system into a higher gear. But notice we said “large doses” – the cited study used 5-10g daily. Optify Mushrooms – like most mushroom supplements – provides just 400mg.

Reishi – 400mg

Reishi mushrooms are a hot topic in the nootropics world right now. Many people are claiming that reishi consumption has dramatic pro-cognitive effects similar to those obtained form Lion’s Mane. Some recent clinical studies back these claims up. In this 2017 trial, for example, researchers found that reishi mushroom supplementation had significant regenerative effects on brain tissue. So great was the effect that the researchers thought reishi might make a possible “therapeutic agent for the treatment of cognitive decline associated with neurodegenerative diseases”.

It seems that Reishi Mushrooms might work in exactly the same way as Lion’s Mane Mushrooms – increasing neurotrophic factors which lead to neuron growth and maintenance. So why include them both? Why not just choose one and include a higher dose – a dose that will definitely reach the minimum effective dose threshold?

Chaga – 400mg

Chaga mushroom has not been anywhere near as well-studied as these other mushrooms. But chaga does look like it has some potential as a general health supplement. Chaga has been used for hundreds of years in parts of Eurasia as a general cure-all. It contains a lot of powerful antioxidants. Unfortunately, many of these are found in the indigestible cell walls of the fungus. So, an extract is needed.

Chaga makes for a very interesting antioxidant source. You wont see this stuff in many nootropics, or even in any antioxidant stacks. Optify Mushrooms might end up starting a new trend here is Chaga turns out to be a particularly potent antioxidant – it might be the new Maritime Pine Bark!

For us, Optify Mushrooms really over-promises. It is what it is – a decent mushroom stack. Not a particularly powerful one, but a good, well put-together mushroom supplement.

If you want immune system support and enhanced long-term brain development, then Optify Mushrooms is not a bad choice.

But if you want significantly increased focus, faster information processing right now, and improved mental performance under strain, look elsewhere.

Side Effects – Is Optify Mushrooms Safe Long-Term?

There’s nothing in Optify Mushrooms which makes us worried about side effects.

Not in the slightest.

It’s true that few of you will be used to consuming these mushrooms, in this combination, with such regularity. So of course for a number of you, digestive discomfort is a possibility. Stomach cramps or bloating might occur if for some reason your digestive system struggles with these mushrooms.

But in the clinical trials looking at these mushrooms very few participants experienced any adverse effects whatsoever.

Each mushroom is now used in dozens of other supplements. To our knowledge, they are not known to cause any problems for 99% of users.

We know of no mechanism by which the mushrooms in Optify Mushrooms might backfire.

So yes, Optify Mushrooms looks safe for long-term use.

That said, everybody is different. We are just talking about the average user here. We don’t know anything about you or your medical history. That’s why you need to talk to your regular doctor before using any nootropics.

If you think you have serious cognitive decline, get medical attention – DO NOT TRY TO SELF-DIAGNOSE!

In Conclusion – Is Optify Mushrooms A Good Nootropic?

Is Optify Mushrooms any good as a mushroom supplement? Yes, absolutely. If you want some immune system support, a different antioxidant source, and something to promote neurogenesis, Optify Mushrooms is not a bad choice.

But Optify Mushrooms doesn’t just present itself as a simple mushroom supplement.

If you look at the Optify Mushrooms bottle, it clearly sells itself as a full-spectrum nootropic.

It promises greater focus, mental clarity, and so on.

Sure, it will delver these things in a very subtle way over a long period of time.

But when nootropics promise focus and clarity, they usually mean now.

Optify Mushrooms cannot deliver the sort of instant lift in focus and clear headedness that we get from today’s top nootropic stacks.

So you really need to decide what you’re looking for from a supplement.

If you want total brain enhancement, use a more complete nootropic. If you just want some immunity support and neurogenesis (which is no small benefit), a good mushroom stack like Optify Mushrooms might be right for you.

B. Johnson

Brian Johnson is a former academic researcher, psychologist, and tireless proponent of bio-hacking. Brian has dedicated all of his time since leaving academia and private practice to promoting the benefits to be obtained from the application of biotechnology and bio-hacking supplements. He has years of experience with nootropics, as well as prebiotics, probiotics, and other natural nutritional supplements. He has published scholarly research on natural nootropics; you can find his papers on his Google Scholar page.