Powering Hiking Heroes with Superfood Medicinal Mushrooms

Hiking's a great habit to start working into your weekly routine to get out of the house, get some exercise in, and keep your body healthy. Local trails and destination spots are all great to give a whirl, and you should do plenty of both when you're finding your favorite spots.

Sometimes, though, it's tough to keep your energy up. Deadlines, kids, studying, responsibilities can quickly add up to rob you of an energized morning and relaxing evening. That's where getting your body the nutrients it needs is really going to play a role in your fatigue recovery, immune system health, overall productivity, and more.

Today, we'll evaluate a few of the most popular routes to try medicinal mushrooms, what sets each of them apart, and other good habits that can make hiking up the trial that much simpler.

What Makes Functional Mushrooms Powerful?

Adaptogenic mushrooms are loaded with vitamins, proteins, and function-boosting properties. Rooted for the most part in colder climates, their parasitic relationship with maple trees, birch trees and other nutrient hosts are what create such highly-impactful health superfoods.  

Take lion's mane mushrooms, for example. Lion's mane has risen majorly in popularity for links to:

• Reduced brain fog
• Increased state of focus
• Immune system support
• Brain health, cognitive function boosting

Lion's mane is a solid place to get started with using functional mushrooms in your diet, but can also be best paired with cordyceps as well. Cordyceps strengthens a completely different variety of areas in your day, including:

• Increased natural energy
• Cardiovascular health support
• Anti-aging properties
• Increased fitness performance

Each of these components can be a game-changer for folks out on the trail. Mushroom-powered wellness has become a regular routine for so many folks looking to stay healthy, and now, there's science to back it up. Now, you just have to pair them up with other good hiking-health habits, and you'll be golden.

Good Habits for Hiking

Eating Well

A good diet has an incredible impact on our moods and how we feel overall. While it's important to get a starch, a protein, and vegetable into as many meals as possible, the primary goal of eating well should be consistency.

Getting three meals a day is a great foundation to set, and as you go, you can start to implement supplements into the areas that are lacking. Say you're missing out on proteins and don't eat as much meat, nuts, or eggs as you might want to. Protein pills are one thing, but functionally shifting your diet to be more protein-friendly can make a pivotal shift to how your body responds to your dietary choices. While natural isn't always better, it's a great place to start.

Good Sleep

Sleep can completely derail your day. Getting an extra five minutes after that first alarm is always dangerous, but poor sleep habits in general can be even more damaging.

You want to implement strong mental and physical preparations for your body to relax and revitalize naturally. Whether that's meditation, good playlists, or talking with loved ones, there's all kinds of good behaviors that'll allow you to settle down faster than ever. The trick is just finding which ones work for you, and pairing it with the perfect natural help, like eating well and taking the perfect supplements for your needs.

Similar to diet planning, supplements are a proven route to get extra help beyond nutritional needs. Take Troomy's Sleep gummy for example. Using only the power of the reishi mushroom and a pinch of melatonin, you can create quality sleep routines for yourself that make getting a full-night's rest easier than ever. Additionally, restful sleep can be supported more easily, not leaving you groggy in the morning and feeling off.

Trail Partners

Having someone out on the trail with you to keep you motivated and consistent can be a huge asset to making hiking a bit more fun. You get exercise, enjoy the wilderness, and also have some great company. This also allows you keep each other accountable from missing out on a day on the trail, which elevates both of your routines together to make it a priority rather than just an occasional activity.

When you're looking for someone to hike with, take note of how seriously you're going to approach hiking as exercise for yourself. If you want to do it just for fun, who you go with won't make as much of an impact. However, if you're tying to make it a regular habit, someone who shares those same values is going to be essential to your development on the trail. Make sure that you voice what you're looking to get out of hiking with them, and you're on the same page when it comes to accountability.

Recovery

Recovery from fatigue and getting back on track with your daily routine has to be a priority in the early game of hiking regularly. Fatigue can actually root heavily in your entire body's function, especially mental. If you don't combat it quickly and effectively, mornings can feel more sore, afternoons more sluggish, and days long. You'll need time to put your feet up, give your body the proper nutrients it needs, and heal overall.

Similar to getting better sleep and a good diet plan in place, supplements are an excellent little booster to smooth your fatigue recovery over.

Which Supplements Should I Work Into My Hiking Routine?

Protein Shakes and Green Juice

Tons of folks have hopped on the green juice train and had fantastic results. It's a really strong way to mash a bunch of daily vitamins and proteins up into one blend of greens.

The same goes for protein shakes, but these are a bit more targeted to athletes, of course. Especially if you're trying to put on bulk, adding a bit of cardio in through hiking is a great way to keep your muscles activated throughout the week.

For most, a blend of both green juice and protein shakes can start with a recipe you find online, or just combining some of your favorite foods into one drink. Take some time assessing what's missing in your diet normally, and work to make the shake complement these needs.

Teas and Coffees

Teas and coffees are fantastic routes to work in vitamin-rich nutrients like mushrooms, matcha, and herbs. You can customize your blends around your needs and flavor profiles you enjoy to get that soul-cleansing nutrient power you're looking for.

The thing with teas and coffees are that they almost always are high in caffeine. Caffeine-free blends do exist, but they're hard to come by, and aren't always the most effective. This extra caffeine and potential sugars can leave you jittery early on, and crashing in the mid afternoon. Even if you've already got your hike in by then, it's not worth losing the rest of your day over. That's why so many folks have started to turn to naturally powerful medicinal (or adaptogenic) mushrooms.

Adaptogenic Mushrooms

Adaptogenic mushrooms like cordyceps, lion's mane, chaga, and others, are all a fantastic foundation for boosting your health and wellness routine for new hiking habits. They can functionally power better sleep, stress relief, higher energy, good moods, and more.

What's been tough in the past was just finding a way to work the mushrooms into your diet. Powders can be messy, raw mushrooms take a ton of prep work, and capsules can feel more like medicine than a supplement. Instead, mushroom gummies are the new wave that use proven, functional power to reshape your day in mushroom-powered wellness.

What Makes Mushroom Gummies Great?

Caffeine-Free Support

Mushroom gummies in blends like Troomy stay true to their mushroom power, and have zero caffeine additives. This keeps your supplements clean, and allows you still benefit from the naturally energizing power of medicinal mushrooms without crashing in the middle of the day.

Delicious Natural Flavors

You never want a supplement that works to taste terrible. Poor flavors can make taking supplements a chore rather than something to look forward to.

Luckily, gummies usually will have a solid flavor to enjoy as a part of your routine, and Troomy is no different. Using only natural ingredients and no processed sugars, mushroom gummies like Focus, Daily, Boost, and others make mushroom-powered wellness easier to start than ever.

Customized Around Your Needs

Your needs come first, and you shouldn't just be getting daily vitamins in your supplements. While they're effective for some, others might overload on vitamins they're already getting plenty of, which offsets the benefits a good margin. A strong practice to implement is trying out supplements by need.

Take hiking for example. You wouldn't want a generic tea blend that's aiming to help you wind down for the day. Instead, you can use mushroom gummies that target specific needs like Focus and Boost. Each of these blends from our team at Troomy pairs one mushroom to each blend in order to maximize the efficiency of each one's health benefits and support areas, which makes planning your day that much simpler.

Today, there are five mushroom gummy blends at Troomy to try.

 

 

Getting Started with Troomy Nootropics Today

Overall, fungi like cordyceps, reishi, and chaga are a great place to start with mushroom-powered wellness. They can be excellent supplements for a higher-performing daily routine, better hiking habits, and increased productivity.

To give functionally-powered medicinal mushrooms a try, we recommend our Boost and Focus blends as the perfect introduction to easier hikes, more productive days, and better moods. Additionally, the Daily blend incorporates a bit of everything when it comes to functional mushrooms, so it really comes down to what you're looking to get out of supplements in general.

With five powerful blends, you can completely reshape your daily routine around mushroom-powered wellness at ease. Head on over to our mushroom gummies shop and find your "True Me" with Troomy Nootropics today!