Ganoderma Lucidum is really very rare. It grows on the trunks of old growth plum trees in Asian forests, and has much fewer spores than most mushrooms. In fact, in its natural state, it can be found on only 2 out of 10,000 plum trees! Because of it’s low spore count, it has resisted any kind of human agriculture until relatively recently. The first successful greenhouse crop was grown by a Japanese man in 1974.

Now, one can mail order a 100 gram package of dried Ganoderma mushrooms for about $200. Immagine paying that much money to get a small handful of these mysterious treasures, and then going about the process of preparing them to get some of the good out. First you will have to soak them in cold water for 8 hours, then boil them for another two. Strain the liquid and attempt to drink it. I haven’t had the good fortune to try it, but I hear it’s almost impossible to get down.

Sound preposterous? But people in Japan are doing just that, because of the amazing results they are seeing in their health.

Lucky for us, there is a great company – Gano Excel – that has spent 11 years of research to remove the awful taste and odor without damaging the rich nutrients and poly-saccharides that make it so very good for us. Then they took up the task of finding ways to make it very easy to take.

These same clever people found some wonderful organic coffee plantations in Brazil, roasted and brewed the coffee to perfection, and then found a way to “spray dry” it that retains all the good flavor and expells most of the caffiene.

They put these two discoveries together to produce real live “healthy coffee”.