Myco create medicinal mushroom extracts and nutritional cacao, mushroom and botanicals blends – deliciously healing for body, mind and soul.

Humans have always evolved in co-creation with plants and fungi. This relationship is key to understanding how we can be agents in our own healing and redefine our futures as individuals and as a species.

Myco was inspired by mycorrhizal fungi, the fungal network that plants use to communicate with each other and whose role in sustaining life on this planet is far ranging and awe inspiring. Mycorrhizal fungi embody our ethos: the understanding of the profound interconnectedness of all life in this planet. Myco both celebrates and draws from the inextricable relationship between our own well-being and that of the planet and its intricate systems.

Just as our perception of nature’s systems is evolving, so is that of our own role within them and of our own internal systems as interconnected between themselves and integrated with other life systems around us.

There is a higher intelligence in plants and fungi capable of entering a dialogue with us if we open ourselves up to it. This intelligence is beckoning us to go below the surface and rediscover our alignment with heaven and earth and with our true selves.

While cacao and mushrooms contain a plethora of brain function enhancers, Myco aims at correcting the current mind versus body separation to bring us back into a more balanced integrated way: the current mind-centred paradigm is ready to give way to a more embodied sentient way of inhabiting the world and relating to it.

Myco is carefully crafted to bring a balanced and sustainable sense of vitality, through nourishing and supporting your mind-body complex – rather than depleting a system that may already be under stress. In this sense, Myco is the opposite of a mushroom coffee. As much as coffee is a plant with its value, in the modern world it’s been associated with the mentality of pushing ourselves to do ever more, depleting our bodies and silencing our needs. Myco on the contrary comes from the principle of non-violence, working by reconnecting ourselves to our embodied wisdom, hence creating a more sustainable form of energy and vitality, based on nourishing and supporting our systems, respecting our bodies and harnessing the energies of our own natural cycles.

Tonic, balancing, modulating and normalising are a few actions that define mushrooms’ potential for health. These are concepts the pharmaceutical world has difficulties to grasp, because it understands that something either suppresses or stimulates. Mushrooms on the other hand have the more complex ability to be regulators, balancing and normalizing our bodily systems.  As such, mushrooms can for example calm the nervous system at the same time as giving stamina, stimulate a slow immune system or quieten an overactive one according to need. As antioxidants they do not trigger the release of more free-radicals (which synthetic vitamins are likely to do). They stabilize hormone and neurotransmitter production, and help the body control blood sugar and lower cholesterol levels through various biochemical mechanisms.