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Natural Supplements, Herbs and Vitamins

You've heard lion's mane mentioned three times this month, your last bottle ran out, and you can't decide between capsules and a dropper. That's how most people end up on this page. The Healthshop runs across 24 shelves of supplements, herbs, vitamins, minerals and mushroom extracts, sorted by what you want out of them: energy, sleep, calm or focus. Pick the goal first and the list shrinks fast.

Where to Start in the Healthshop, and What to Skip

Most baskets here start with one thing, a finished bottle of CBD oil or a powder a friend kept going on about, and grow from there. Nothing wrong with that, but the quickest way through 24 subcategories is to settle on the form before you pick the shelf.

Tinctures, Capsules or Dried Herb: Choosing a Form

An extract squeezes the plant down into a few drops, so a tincture gives you precise dosing from a dropper. Dried herbs need a kettle and ten minutes, which some people treat as a wind-down ritual and others find a faff. Watch out for the taste of full-spectrum hemp extract: grassy, oily and properly bitter at the back of the tongue, and the flavoured versions only mask so much. If that's a dealbreaker, capsules do the same job with none of the taste.

FormHow you take itSuits
TinctureDrops under tonguePrecise dosing
CapsulesSwallow with waterNo taste
Dried herbBrewed as teaEvening ritual
PowderStirred into drinksSuperfood blends

Mushroom Supplements: Lion's Mane, Reishi and Cordyceps

The mushroom supplements shelf gets the most questions of any corner of the Healthshop. Lion's mane usually turns up in the brain and focus tiles, reishi sits closer to relax, and cordyceps shows up next to the energy products. Reishi is the bitter one, woody and dry, so most people take it as capsules rather than stirring it into anything. Extract powders dissolve into coffee far better than plain dried mushroom powder, which tends to sit on top in gritty little clumps.

Grouped by Goal: Focus, Energy, Calm and Immunity

Adaptogens, nootropics and superfoods

Adaptogens like ashwagandha and rhodiola live in the herbs and relax tiles, nootropics in brain, and superfood powders such as spirulina, maca and baobab in superfood. The same plants keep reappearing under different goals because that's how people shop, by what they want to support in their routine rather than by botanical family. Vitamins and minerals get their own shelves, D3, magnesium and zinc among them, and they're the unglamorous ones people actually restock every month. If you'd rather see what's moving than read labels all evening, the Top 10 Healthshop list is the shortcut.

One practical tip: add one product at a time and give it two or three weeks before the next one joins. Start four on the same Monday and you'll never work out which one earned its place.

Frequently asked questions

What can I actually buy in the Zamnesia Healthshop?

Supplements, herbs, vitamins, minerals, CBD oil, mushroom extracts, superfood powders and a few tools, spread over 24 subcategories. They're grouped by goal, so there are separate shelves for energy, sleep, relax, mood, brain, immune, digestion and more. If you'd rather browse everything in one long scroll, use the All Products tile.

Should I get a tincture or capsules?

Tinctures let you nudge the dose drop by drop, which is handy when you're still working out what suits you. Capsules are fixed-dose and taste of nothing, so they win for anything bitter like reishi or full-spectrum hemp. If you travel a lot, capsules also survive a rucksack better than a glass dropper bottle.

Do you sell gummies in the Healthshop?

We get asked this a lot. Chewables and gummies pop up across several subcategories rather than sitting on one shelf of their own, so the quickest check is the Top 10 Healthshop and All Products tiles to see what's in stock right now.

How much should I take, and can I combine products?

Follow the dose printed on the label, since strengths differ hugely between an extract powder and a dried herb. If you want to combine a few, introduce them one at a time with a couple of weeks between so you know what's doing what. Talk to your doctor first if you take medication, or if you're pregnant or breastfeeding.