5 Questions with our Founder - Vivek
Tell us about what inspired you to start MYCO?
If your gut is working well, your mind and cognitive function will work well too. Alongside this if you are sleeping well, you are healing well. Sadly in my own personal circumstances I was suffering from both issues, a lack of good quality sleep and my gut had become overly sensitive with similar symptoms to IBS. Implementing functional mushrooms into my life had an incredible impact on reducing inflammation and healing my gut, it became obvious it was making a significant improvement on both my gut and mind. The reality is, if there is ever a natural option why not try it? I had so much incredible success with my own mushroom journey, I really felt there had to be a. more options and more mushrooms to explore and b. more people who suffered from similar issues whom needed to hear about it!
Which product is proving to be the most popular and why?
Lions mane is continuously MYCO’s best selling product, it just somehow has its own marketing power of its own! One of the core foundations of MYCO was to improve anxiety, overthinking and cognitive function, which as you can imagine we are seeing as being major concerns for this generation! Especially post-covid.
People are raving about mushrooms as coffee replacements, what are your thoughts on this?
Coffee & caffeine is one of the biggest rituals and inclusions in many people’s day to day. But in reality living with a sensitive stomach meant coffee consumption wasn’t truly benefitting me, if anything I became dependent on the caffeine fix but cursed the jitters, the crash and the detrimental effects on my stomach. Chaga the mushroom equivalent or better yet improvement, was not only a natural energy boost but its high anti-oxidant profile helps nourish and heal my gut whilst giving me a pure energy boost over a longer period of time. A double benefit. Now I am happy to say I’ve gone from drinking coffee daily to not even thinking about it in over 2 years.
What would be your advice to anyone who wants to begin exploring mushrooms and their benefits?
They say for every worldy problem there is a mushroom to remedy it. Think about the core issues you are trying to work on whether that be physical or mental, it’s a great starting point to discovering the right functional mushroom for you. For example be it problems with brain fog or maybe something as simple as dull skin. Trust me there is a mushroom for it.
Finally, what do you hope to see for the future of MYCO?
The truth is MYCO has already really been for myself and going along this journey. The vast majority of people who are suffering and truly can benefit from mushrooms don’t even know about them and the amazing things they are capable of. I’m on a campaign not only to bring mushrooms to people but also to educate more people about functional mushrooms.
