THE MAMA SHROOMS STORY
Meet the Founder
MEET GEMMA OGSTON
Hi, I’m Gem — chef, author (The Self-Care Cookbook & The Healing Cookbook), plant-based nutrition advocate, and proud mum of two teenagers.
Before creating Mama Shrooms, I spent over 10 years working as an addiction therapist, supporting people through recovery and learning how deeply nutrition, brain health, and emotional wellbeing are connected. Later, I retrained in whole foods and plant-based nutrition, published books, and built food businesses before launching Mama Shrooms.
I was recently diagnosed with ADHD, after struggling with focus and overwhelm for much of my life. Looking back, I believe functional mushrooms were already helping me — supporting my clarity, calm, and energy — long before I even knew why I needed them.
THAT'S WHY I STARTED MAMA SHROOMS
That’s why I founded Mama Shrooms: to harness the power of Lion’s Mane, Reishi, Chaga, Tremella, and Cordyceps — all fruiting body only, dual-extracted, independently verified by EUROFINS, and standardised to ≥35% beta-glucans — to help real people feel clearer, calmer, and more supported every day.
DEEP DIVE INTO FUNCTIONAL MUSHROOMS IN OUR JOURNAL
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Look Up Tonight: A Cosmic Reminder to Slow Down
If you can do one small thing tonight, let it be this:step outside. Even for five minutes. Just after sunset, if the sky is clear, something quietly extraordinary will be...
Look Up Tonight: A Cosmic Reminder to Slow Down
If you can do one small thing tonight, let it be this:step outside. Even for five minutes. Just after sunset, if the sky is clear, something quietly extraordinary will be...
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Mama Shrooms Wins
Sharing the Wins as Well as the Hard Parts I share a lot about the hard parts of building Mama Shrooms because they’re real. Running a supplement business, especially as...
Mama Shrooms Wins
Sharing the Wins as Well as the Hard Parts I share a lot about the hard parts of building Mama Shrooms because they’re real. Running a supplement business, especially as...
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Mama Shrooms Wins: Growing a Functional Mushroo...
Building a functional mushroom brand isn’t always easy. The world of mushroom supplements and adaptogens is growing fast, and running a female-founded wellness business takes resilience, clarity and deep commitment...
Mama Shrooms Wins: Growing a Functional Mushroo...
Building a functional mushroom brand isn’t always easy. The world of mushroom supplements and adaptogens is growing fast, and running a female-founded wellness business takes resilience, clarity and deep commitment...
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