Our Story
Some Knowledge Is Older Than Science
In Mexico and across Latin America, when a woman gives birth, her community gathers. The cooking begins. The visitors are managed. The new mom is told, firmly and lovingly, to rest.
This practice has a name: la cuarentena the forty days. For forty days, she is fed warm broths, nourishing stews, and herbal teas. She is kept from cold drafts. Her only job is to heal, to bond, and to feed her baby.
The herbs were part of it. Ixbut brewed into tea. Chaya stirred into soups. Anise steeped with other plants to ease the body and support the flow of milk. These remedies were not written in clinical journals. They were passed from grandmother to daughter, generation after generation, because they worked.
THE FOUNDERS
Built From the Inside Out
A short introduction to the story behind the brand and the people who built it.
FOUNDER
Our founder is a Board-Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and Functional Nutritionist who lived in Mexico as a working postpartum professional. What she witnessed there la cuarentena in real homes, families rallying around new moms, plants like Ixbut used with quiet confidence gave her the context that clinical training later gave her language to explain.
co-founder
Our co-founder grew up in Mexico. He watched his sisters and friends go through postpartum depleted and unsupported and saw the gap between the healing tradition his culture carried and what the supplement market was offering. That bothered him enough to do something about it.
The tradition was right. Science caught up. Akna Wellness is where they meet.
The Gap We Were Built to Fill
Akna Wellness was built to fill that gap.
Why Akna?
Sourcing
Rooted in the Land That Knew Them First
Our hero ingredient, Ixbut, is native to Guatemala. We source it there where it has been grown and understood for centuries.
Moringa, Chaya, and Anise are woven into Latin American
postpartum cooking for generations. These are not trendy ingredients. They are old ones. That
is the point.
Where We Are
Built in Miami. Available Everywhere.
We are based in Miami, Florida a city where la cuarentena is still observed in countless homes.
Our products are on our website and coming soon to Amazon. We are a small team and we
answer our own messages.
What We Stand For
We source from origin communities, not around them. We choose nutrients for bioavailability, not label optics. We are transparent about every ingredient and dose.
And we are building this brand in real relationship with the moms it serves
starting in Miami, growing carefully.
