What Is Lion’s Mane Actually Doing in Your Brain?

What Is Lion’s Mane Actually Doing in Your Brain? Lion’s Mane has built a reputation as the brain mushroom, and you’ll often hear that it supports focus, memory, or even “grows new brain cells.” That last claim makes a great headline, but the science is more complicated. Lion’s Mane, or Hericium erinaceus, contains several compounds […]
Psilocybin and the Aging Brain

Exploring Psilocybin’s Potential for Cognitive Aging What if an aging brain is more capable of change than we’ve been taught to believe? A remarkable case report published in Frontiers in Neuroscience this year has opened up a question that would have sounded almost impossible a decade ago: What happens when psilocybin meets a brain in […]
Aging as a Journey: What Plant Medicine Can Teach Us About Becoming

Aging as a Journey: What Plant Medicine Can Teach Us About Becoming I stand in front of the mirror holding onto my crystal gua sha as if it were a surgical tool, gliding it along the curvature of my face with the precision and focus of an open-heart surgeon. My skincare routine used to be […]
Grief, Mushrooms, and the Mystery of Letting Go

Psilocybin and Grief: Making Space for Loss, Ritual, and the Mystery “Every one of us must undertake an apprenticeship with sorrow. We must learn the art and craft of grief, discover the profound ways it ripens and deepens us.”— Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow The Lost Art of Grieving And yet, in today’s […]