While the Piedade natives could see and feel the beneficial effects of consuming the Agaricus Blazei mushroom, they didn't know that it was the beta glucans and other powerful nutrients in the mushroom that was the reason for their vibrant health and longevity. Scientists discovered that by hybridizing the authentic strain of the Agaricus Blazei from Brazil with a strain of a specially selected Agaricus Blazei from the mountainous region of coastal California, they developed an even more potent mushroom. Named H1X1, this patent-pending mushroom has much higher levels of beta glucans and other efficacious life-enhancing nutrients than either of its "parents" and possibly of all medicinal mushrooms.

H1X1 is so rare and valuable that it is stored in vaults in the United States and in Europe.