Lab results

C35H54O6

Hericenone C is not currently part of an ISO 17025 accredited method.

Hericenone C is one of a family of aromatic compounds — benzyl alcohol and chroman derivatives — concentrated in the fruiting body of Lion's Mane, and first described by Kawagishi and colleagues in 1991. Hericenones are studied as potentiators of nerve growth factor rather than substitutes for it: in cultured glial cells they raise the amount of NGF the cells make and release. Hericenone C is the marker assayed here because it can be measured properly: the most abundant of the family, and the one with a certified reference standard — so the figure above is an HPLC measurement against a known quantity, not an estimate. Erinacines, usually quoted alongside, are a different family, found mainly in mycelium.

C10H13N5O3

Cordycepin is 3′-deoxyadenosine — adenosine with the 3′ hydroxyl replaced by a hydrogen. That one missing group is the whole compound: it is close enough to adenosine that cells take it in through the same transporters and convert it into a nucleotide the AMP-activated pathway reads as the real thing, and different enough that once it's built into an RNA chain, the chain can't be extended. Cordycepin content varies enormously between Cordyceps sources — wild material can carry under a hundredth of a percent by weight — so a Cordyceps extract with no figure beside it is telling you nothing.

The table transcribes the individual compounds in sample 26060025-3. The original certificate uses the name Ganoderma lucidum; our current product is identified as Ganoderma lingzhi. The original document is unchanged.

Betulinic Acid is not currently part of an ISO 17025 accredited method.