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Narasana began with a search for clarity.
Most mornings, before the day gets loud, I am already in the mountains with my dog Beauregard, walking toward first light. Up there, there is a moment when everything feels right again.
The idea behind Narasana took shape while I was writing I Lived, my memoir. Revisiting a lifetime demanded focus and endurance. I did not want another coffee, energy drink or stimulant-heavy powder. I wanted something simple enough to become part of an ordinary day.
Before Narasana, I founded an EU-GMP pharmaceutical extraction facility in Spain. That experience taught me to look past ingredient names and ask how materials are sourced, cultivated, extracted, documented and made consistent. I began comparing functional mushroom extracts from different suppliers until two remained: Lion's Mane and Cordyceps CS-4.
Mushrooms were new to me as supplements. But not as food or memory.
Growing up, once a year after the heavy rains, my father and I would go into the woods to pick wild edible mushrooms. My basket filled quickly. His filled carefully. After he inspected mine, perhaps two or three made the final cut — which, looking back, was probably for the best.
Back home, he cooked them into a rich mushroom sauce. Soon the whole family, and even the neighbours, would gather. We ate it with fresh dark bread and fresh butter, wiping every plate clean. I can still taste it today.
Long before mushrooms became an industry to me, they were simply part of our table.
From searching to simplifying
Years later, I came back to mushrooms from a very different direction. I began sourcing and comparing extracts from suppliers around the world. Different origins. Different extraction methods. Different specifications. Different results.
I kept removing rather than adding. I wanted something simpler: fewer ingredients, chosen with greater care. Because getting to simple takes more work, not less.
Choosing Lion's Mane and Cordyceps CS-4 was only the beginning. I compared the material, process, documentation, taste, solubility and consistency. I learned quickly that products carrying the same mushroom name could be very different things.
The reason it became Narasana
The story behind extraction and sourcing interested me. But that was not why I chose the formula. I chose it for a much simpler reason: taken consistently, it worked for me.
I used it every day for about nine months before Narasana became a commercial product. Then I started sharing it with friends. When they came back asking where they could buy it, Narasana stopped being only mine.
Narasana came out of the story. It was too good not to share.