VITALITY is a beneficial addition to any dog’s proactive wellness routine to help maintain health, help prevent cancer, and support the immune system proactively. For a proactive approach to pet wellness, we recommend rotating between the different medicinal mushroom tinctures Chaga, Turkey Tail, Vitality, Clarity, and Breathe.

VITALITY is especially recommended to help support dogs dealing with cancer, autoimmune disease, liver issues, and respiratory issues.

For healthy pets:

For healthy pets, we believe the best way to feed any functional supplements is to rotate them. So, once you run out of this supplement, you can move on to a different one.

By rotating through different natural supplements on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis, your pet receives a variety of different health benefits. You can add certain supplements according to the season (i.e., a Spring detox) or rotate throughout the year for well-balanced health.

For symptomatic pets:

While trying to address any health issue with Myco Dog supplements, it is good to do a minimum of 6 weeks. This is because authentic herbalists found that the body needs an average of 6 weeks to process the healing response.

Many animals take our functional supplements long-term because they feel so much better when on them.

Liquid mushrooms are more bioavailable and contain many more beneficial compounds compared to powdered mushrooms.

Mushrooms need to be extracted for their medicinal values to be activated and bioavailable. Liquid extracts can hold and preserve the many bioactive compounds released during extraction. 

Liquid extractions are also easier to absorb than powder, as the body doesn’t need to digest anything, and therefore, the medicinal properties of the mushroom can be absorbed right into the body.

MycoDog mushrooms are meticulously extracted through a unique triple-extraction process. This includes a primary ethanol extraction using Organic Cane Alcohol (no alcohol is present in the final product), followed by a hydro extraction with distilled water, before finally carefully extracting the fungi’s mineral salts, which we imbibe into the tincture. The result? A powerful mushroom tincture, known as a Spagyric Tincture.

There are (at least) 350mg of mushroom extract in 1mL.

MycoDog tinctures are thoughtfully formulated from mushrooms that are grown outside, naturally in the woods of the Pacific Northwest in the USA.

Mushrooms are bioaccumulators, which means they absorb toxins from polluted air and earth. Although China is known for its mushroom cultivation methods, it is one of the most polluted countries in the world.

The mushrooms used in the MycoDog tinctures are growing in their natural environment in the United States Pacific Northwest region and are not exposed to these pollutants and toxins, which is an important factor to consider when choosing mushrooms for dogs.

It is important to source mushrooms from an area that is least likely to be impacted by environmental toxins that might be absorbed by the mushrooms.

Did you know mushrooms can be grown on things like grain and rice? It’s a cheap and quick way to mass produce. The problem is, well, you are what you eat. So mushrooms that are grown on grains take in the nutrients from those grains, which are severely lacking in the health benefits your dog needs. If the mushroom is grown on a tree, in the wild (where they naturally grow), it’s able to absorb all of the important vitamins and nutrients your dog needs to thrive.

A lot of people don’t realize this, but there are actually mushrooms growing, wild-harvested, extracted, and packaged in the United States (such as our MycoDog mushrooms)! If you do a little research, you’ll see that the Pacific Northwest is a mushroom heaven that’s been supplying us with naturally grown mushrooms for over 2,400 years.

The mushrooms offered by PAWDEGA contain the fruiting body. We do not offer products containing mycelium for a very good reason.

The only way to get mycelium is if companies grow the mushrooms in a bag, inside rice, oats, etc.

When mushrooms grow in a bag, taking the stuff the mushrooms grow in (like rice or oats) out of the bag is almost impossible. Most mycelium products on the market come from mushrooms grown in industrial bags, not from logs (wooden material).

The mushroom products offered by PAWDEGA are all grown IN Nature. In the forest, as Nature intended.

When mushrooms are grown in nature, you cannot just dig out a log and pull out the mycelium. The roots weave all into the log, and you just couldn’t do that.

When mycelium is taken out of mushrooms grown in bags, the polyphenols (beneficial compounds) don't come from the mushrooms themselves but from the stuff they grow in (oats or rice).

We believe in the old, traditional wisdom of using mushrooms, which is supported by elders who use medicinal mushrooms therapeutically. This means using the fruiting bodies.

Mycelium is a newer science, and until we're sure pet parents are only getting mushrooms and no substrates, we stick to the traditional way of only offering mushrooms from fruiting bodies.