A former Arizona Cardinals and Arizona State University football player operates a mushroom farm that sells to athletes.
Jake Plummer has been among the nation’s most high-profile advocates of medicinal and functional mushrooms since co-founding Umbo, a mushroom supplement company based in Colorado.
Umbo sells capsules, tinctures and nutrition bars packed with legal, naturally occurring and non-psychoactive mushroom varieties like Reishi and Lion’s Mane which, according to the company’s website, “fuel focus, endurance, and sleep.”
Plummer says the mushrooms provide benefits.
“This is about bringing something to somebody that could help them, whether that’s have more energy or sleep better or possibly approach some of these other issues we’re dealing with when it comes to anxiety, depression,” he said.
Plummer also says research is being conducted to see how mushrooms might help players with concussions and other injuries.
Cronkite News reporter Alex Wakefield contributed to this report.
