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 after birth, a new mom is fed warm broths, nourishing stews, and herbal teas. She is kept from cold drafts. She is held by her family. Her only job is to heal, to bond, and to feed her baby. This was not a luxury. It was a system — a community infrastructure built around a biological truth: the postpartum body needs time, warmth, specific nutrients, and rest to fully recover. 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.

Built From the Inside Out

Akna Wellness was founded by two people who came to this mission from different directions — and arrived at the
same conviction. Our co-founder grew up in Mexico. He watched his sisters and friends go through postpartum — exhausted,
depleted, and largely unsupported by the products available to them. He saw the gap between the rich healing tradition his culture carried and what the supplement market was actually offering. That gap bothered him enough to do something about it.


Our founder is a Board-Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and Functional Nutritionist who spent years living in
Mexico as a working postpartum professional. Immersed in the culture — in the kitchens, the communities, the
conversations between women about how they healed — she developed a deep respect for the traditions that clinical training later gave her language to explain. When she saw the science behind postpartum nutrient depletion, the importance of bioavailable folate and B12,
the role of phospholipids in postpartum brain recovery — it all connected to what she had witnessed firsthand. The
tradition was right. The science caught up. Akna Wellness exists at that intersection.

The Gap We Were Built to Fill

The U.S. supplement market is full of postpartum and lactation products. Most share a common problem: they are
built around marketing, not meaning.
Herbs at doses too low to do anything. Synthetic forms of nutrients the body can barely absorb. No connection to
the cultural traditions that gave these plants their significance. And almost nothing that honored the knowledge Latin American communities have held for centuries. That is the gap Akna Wellness was built to fill.

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Rooted in the Land That Knew Them First

Our hero ingredient, Ixbut (Euphorbia lancifolia), is native to Guatemala and Central America. We source it directly
from Guatemala — where it has been grown, used, and understood for centuries.
Alongside Ixbut, our formulas include Moringa, Chaya, and Anise — plants woven into Latin American postpartum cooking and traditional medicine for generations. Chaya in particular is deeply embedded in Yucatan and southern Mexican food culture, historically used in postpartum broths and meals. These are not trendy ingredients. They are old ones. And that is exactly the point.

Why Akna?

Akna is the Mayan goddess of birth and motherhood — the protector of women in labor and in the tender weeks that follow. In ancient Mesoamerican tradition, she was the guardian of new life and the women who bring it int the world. We chose her name because we believe new moms deserve to be protected, honored, and genuinely supported— not rushed back to normal, not handed generic capsules, but cared for the way communities have always known how to care for a woman who has just done something extraordinary.

Built in Miami. Available Everywhere.
Akna Wellness is based in Miami, Florida — a city that holds Latin American culture close, where la cuarentena is still observed in countless homes, and where the women who inspired this brand live.
Our products are available on our website and on Amazon, so you can access them wherever you are. We are a small, real team — and we answer our own messages.

What We Stand For
• Heritage with integrity — we honor traditional knowledge, credit its origins, and source from the communities that hold it.
• Bioavailability over optics — every nutrient is chosen for absorption and clinical relevance.
• Inclusive support — made for new moms and nursing parents, across all backgrounds and birth experiences.
• Transparency — every ingredient, dose, and source clearly stated. No proprietary blends.
• Community first — building this brand in relationship with the people it serves, starting in Miami.

You Deserve More Than Generic
La cuarentena exists because women, for thousands of years, recognized that the postpartum period is not something to push through — it is something to move through, slowly, with nourishment and support. Akna Wellness is our contribution to that tradition. Better herbs. Better nutrients. A brand that actually understands where you are.

Nourish your journey. We are honored to be part of it.

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