The world has Having been addicted to caffeine for centuries, and in 2025, the scientific argument about whether coffee is good or bad remains unsettling. One might think that the lack of consensus is a mainstream Media™ Psyop that can get people scrambling to solve a completely compensated issue, but this endless war slippers have flooded the bungalow industry of coffee alternatives, which is an interesting result, no matter which side you are on. This is the inevitable entrance to mushroom coffee.
Some quick Google searches reveal 10 well-known players in the game, all of whom offer their own riffs on the regular mushroom base recipe, usually a combination of lion mane, chaga and cordyceps, and are enhanced with probiotic and hybrid and hybrid additions. It took me a week to swap out the morning coffee with powder and hot water recommended by each brand. After the fifth day, I allowed myself to try sweeteners and milk, almost all of which required no clogging throughout the cup.
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Some bump into it like a gentle cup of coffee, some Actual coffeeunless the average person has completely instilled with this unique Alt-Beverage industry, no one else is longing for any strange mixture. I laughed, I cried, I ran away, I crashed on the couch in the afternoon, more than I could calculate, all for science, so you don’t have to try it yourself.
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