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As a mushroom lover of all kinds, hearing the term “mushroom coffee” for the first time was music to my ears.

Upon further inspection, I was pleasantly surprised by Four Sigmatic and their lineup of mushroom products. The Tim Ferriss Four Sigmatic recommendation obviously helped.

However, the medicinal mushroom industry is filled with poorly made products that will waste your money.

We decided to explore Four Sigma foods and their product line deeper to find out if they really have your best interests at heart or whether they’re over-hyped nonsense.

Mushroom Coffee: What Does it Do?

Mushroom coffee is about what you might expect from the name. It combines the focus and concentration benefits of coffee with the medicinal, anti-inflammatory benefits of medicinal mushrooms (such as chaga, reishi, and lion’s mane). We looked at the “Think” mushroom coffee mix.

The two main benefits of mushroom coffee are:

1. Increased focus and concentration (caffeine, maybe rhodiola)
2. Reduced inflammation, boosted immune health, improved nerve-growth, and cognition (medicinal mushrooms)

The first benefit of mushroom coffee is obviously caffeine, but the dosage matters (as with any supplement). With 40 mg of caffeine, the mushroom coffee has about 40 – 50% the caffeine of a cup of coffee.

Someone seeking caffeine in higher quantities might find this too low, but from our understanding, Four Sigmatic is trying to provide enough mental stimulation with caffeine without the anxiety, jitters, or crashing.

Most people would consider the caffeine to be a low dose, but if you are sensitive to caffeine (or have not used it in a while), it might be more stimulating.

Tim Ferriss mentions “If you want to light yourself up like a Christmas try…this will extremely impact your cognitive and mental state so I would suggest starting with a half-dose if you go for this…”

Either Tim Ferriss is over-stating the cognitive effects of Four Sigmatic mushroom coffee or he is truly that sensitive. We cannot stress enough that each person has unique biochemistry.

While the mushroom coffee mix from Four Sigmatic does include rhodiola root extract, there is no way to know the dosage. Furthermore, it is the last ingredient in a packet of 2500 mg so we do not suspect it is a high enough dose to produce mental stimulation (though there are other benefits).

The second component of the Four Sigmatic mushroom coffee are lion’s mane and chaga mushrooms. For those unfamiliar with the effects of these two mushroom extracts, there is ample scientific evidence and historical context.

Used for thousands of years, lion’s mane mushroom can significantly reduce feelings of anxiety and depression according to a 4 week study on 30 participants. Most interestingly, lion’s mane research suggests benefits for preventing neurodegeneration and decline and increase the expression of “nerve-growth factor” (NGF) in certain regions of the brain.