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Hericea

Sustained focus and stress resilience — without the stimulant tax

Focus that
outlasts the day.

Hericea: Performance — the morning stick and evening packet

The focus you can summon for an hour isn't the focus that wins a quarter. Performance is built for sustained load: four mushroom species for stamina, a fast botanical for acute stress, and a clean source of focus — no caffeine, no crash. The evening packet brings the system down.

Reserve — $149/moClinical doses · Third-party tested · 60-day refund

Why we made it

Anyone can focus
for an hour.

High-stakes work has a quiet failure mode. The focus you can force for a sprint erodes across a season, and the stress that sharpened you at first starts eating your sleep, your memory, and your patience. Stimulants paper over the gap and charge interest at 3 p.m.

Performance is built for the operator carrying that load for years, not days: a deep fungal stack for stamina, a botanical that takes the edge off acute stress without dulling you, and a focus that doesn't borrow against tomorrow. Then an evening packet that actually lets the day end.

Built for stamina, not a jolt — and built to be taken for years, not weeks.

A typical Hericea: Performance customer in their daily routine

Who it’s for

Sustained focus and stress resilience — without the stimulant tax

Reserve Performance

How it works

Four mushrooms,
then the edge cases.

Performance runs the widest fungal stack we make and surrounds it with focus and stress actives that don't cost you the next morning.

01

Build cognitive stamina

Four mushroom actives — Lion's Mane, erinacine-A, Reishi, and Cordyceps militaris — support the growth signals and cellular energy that hold up under sustained load.

02

Take the edge off stress

Zembrin® 25 mg works fast at the level of the stress response itself — calmer, not slower.

03

Fuel focus without stimulants

L-tyrosine 2 g restocks the raw material demanding work burns through, so focus has somewhere to come from besides caffeine.

04

Let the day close

The evening packet pairs Reishi with KSM-66 to bring cortisol down so a high-output day turns into real sleep.

Your daily ritual

Two actions a day. That’s the routine.

AM11 ingredients

1 stick · in water or coffee

Morning · with first meal

PM8 ingredients

1 packet · in water

30–60 min before bed

Powder only. No pills. Mix in water.

What's inside

Four mushrooms,
no stimulant debt.

Nineteen active ingredients across the morning stick and the evening packet. The four-mushroom core is the deepest fungal stack in the line, built for stamina rather than a jolt. Open any row for the dose-versus-trial bar and the paper behind it.

AM · 1 stick · in water or coffee

Hericea 1,500 mg

AT THE CLINICAL DOSE

0Clinical trial range: 1,000–3,000 mg

1.5 grams of the same dual-extracted Reishi as the evening packet, dosed again in the morning. Reishi morning and evening keeps the calming, stress-balancing mushroom working across the whole day.

Why it's in Hericea: Performance

Performance's four-mushroom core. Running Reishi morning and evening gives full-day cortisol and immune coverage, and it's the route the Performance formula takes for its fungal-immune story.

Quality & Sourcing

≥25% beta-glucan; ≥4% ganoderic acids.

Fruiting body dual extract.

Cautions & Interactions

  • consult physicianMild antiplatelet; consult physician if on anticoagulants.
Read the full Reishi fruiting body dual extract evidence review →

Primary literature

3 papers

01

Yao C et al. (2021)

Sci Rep (Nature)
Source

Animal model

Reishi extract promoted deeper sleep in mice through a gut-microbiome and serotonin-involved pathway.

Modern mechanism work showing Reishi works through both the gut-brain axis and the brain's serotonin system.

DOI 10.1038/s41598-021-92913-6

02

Tang W et al. (2005)

Life Sci

RCT · 132 people · 8 weeks

Standardized Reishi extract reduced fatigue and improved clinician-rated wellbeing more than placebo over 8 weeks in 132 adults with chronic fatigue.

Largest controlled human study of Reishi to date. The fatigue cohort overlaps with the kind of bone-deep tiredness many customers describe.

03

Wachtel-Galor S et al. (2011)

Herbal Medicine (CRC Press)

Comprehensive review

Authoritative academic review of Reishi's chemistry, pharmacology, and clinical use.

Single source if you want the whole evidence base in one place.

Last updated 2026-05-19. All links open in a new tab.

PM · 1 packet · in water

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

The dose-honest rule

Trial doses,
or it doesn't earn a row.

Performance uses Zembrin® at the 25 mg dose imaged in the fMRI study and L-tyrosine at the 2 g load-condition dose — amounts that moved a measurement, not a pinch for the panel. The Cordyceps is grown to concentrate at least 1% cordycepin — its active energy compound — so the energy story has something behind it.

Every dose is shown against its trial on the rows above. If we can't point to the study, it isn't in the stick.

Questions

The honest answers.

Does Performance contain stimulants?

No. The morning stick has no caffeine or other stimulants — focus comes from L-tyrosine (a building block your brain uses to make focus chemicals) and the mushrooms, so there's no jitter or afternoon crash. Night Shift is the only formula that uses caffeine.

Will it keep me awake?

The morning stick is non-sedating and stimulant-free, and the evening packet is designed to wind you down. Taken as directed, it shouldn't disrupt sleep.

Who is it for?

Founders, clinicians, traders, attorneys, and anyone under sustained cognitive load who wants focus and stress resilience without stimulants.

How is it different from Longevity?

Performance adds Cordyceps, Zembrin, and L-tyrosine for in-the-moment focus and acute stress; Longevity is neuroprotection-led for slow, daily cognitive maintenance.

How do I take it?

One morning stick with your first meal, one evening packet before bed. Powder, no pills.

Is it third-party tested?

Yes — every lot is third-party tested for purity, heavy metals, and active levels.

Reserve your founding batch.

Reserve your place now — nothing charged until it ships, 60-day refund, two-click cancel.