Published by Carlos Ochoa

Today, I’m going to tell you exactly how to make Paul Stamet’s mushroom microdosing capsules.

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Paul is a world renowned mycologist, author, and all around badass. You can checkout his website Fungi Perfecti.

A lot of people are interested in microdosing mushrooms for anxiety or depression. Lord knows we all feel a little of each these days.

Background

Microdosing means taking a very small amount of a drug to benefit from its physiological action while minimizing undesirable side effects.

The undesirable side effects of taking psilocybin mushrooms might entail nausea, “bad trips," distortion of time and space, confronting your inner demons, finding peace with the world, and/or uncontrollable laughter.

Always consult a doctor before taking any kind of supplement.

Paul Stamets’ Neurogenesis Patent

Paul's patent is called “compositions and methods for enhancing neurogensis and cognition by combining mushroom extracts containing active ingredients psilocin or psilocybin with erinacines or hericenones enhanced with niacin.”

Yeah – that's kind of a mouthful. But we like to keep things simple here at Happy Little Fungi, so we’re going to make it easy for you.

 

The 2.5 gram rule

 

There are several formulas, but we'll focus on Paul's 7th formula which includes using psilocybin containing mushroom, lions mane mushrooms, and niacin.

Specifically, this blog and video will explain how to make 24 micro dosing capsules using the “2.5 grams rule." This means you use 2.5 grams psilocybin-containing mushrooms, 2.5 grams lion’s mane mushroom powder, and 2.5 grams niacin.

The 2.5 gram rule will make 24 perfectly filled size 1 capsules.

This rule is also a starting place. Want more of an ingredient? Change the formula! Make it your own!

What’s up with the niacin?

Paul Stamets’ patent says that niacin helps prevent any of the undesirable side-effects from taking place. Microdosing already has such a small amount of active compounds, and the niacin brings down the chances of side-effects even further.

Some people like the flush feeling of niacin. Others do not. This recipe doesn't have a particular stance, so do what feels right to you. Paul's patent says to use regular niacin. So if you want to follow those guidelines, it's up to you.

Check out this article: What's up with Niacin?

Material and Instructions

This process takes about 20 minutes, assuming you have to grind up your mushrooms. Most of that time you'll be weighing and encapsulating. You won't need any experience to do this. Just get the necessary material and equipment, follow these instructions, and you should be good to go!

You’ll need:

• Dried mushroom bodies (2.5 grams)

• Some kind of grinder. I like this food mill but you can use coffee grinders, too.

• Lions mane mushroom powder (2.5 grams)

• Flush-free Niacin (2.5 grams)

• Size 1 capsule machine bundle (includes size 1 capsules)

• Size 1 capsules

• Digital scale

• A spoon

• Ceramic container

Steps:

1. Grind dried mushrooms into a powder

2. Mix dried mushroom powder with lion’s mane mushroom powder and the niacin.

3. Place powder mixture in the capsule machine and follow the directions for filling and encapsulating supplements.

Video Resource

I’ve made a video that shows you step-by-step! It’s 3 minutes long and will teach you everything that’s taken me years to perfect.

 

Microdosing starter kit

 

Get started making your own mushroom supplements with our signature starter package!

Includes:

1. Capsule Machine

2. 300 Vegetable Capsules

3. Digital Scale