The Tradition
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.
Our Story
Built from the inside out.
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.
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
The gap we were built to fill.
The U.S. supplement market is full of postpartum products. Most of them have the same problem: herbs at doses too low to do anything, synthetic nutrients the body can barely absorb, and no connection to the traditions that gave these plants their meaning. Akna Wellness was built to fill that gap.
Akna Wellness was built to fill that gap.
Why Akna?
The Mayan goddess of birth.
Akna is the Mayan goddess of birth and motherhood, the ancient protector of women in labor and in the weeks that follow. We chose her name because we believe new moms deserve to be genuinely cared for. Not rushed back to normal. Not handed generic capsules. Held the way communities have always held women who have just done something extraordinary.
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.
OUR COMMITMENTS
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.
AKNA WELLNESS
Miami & 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.
(786) 519-3007 · hello@aknawellness.com
The Science
Tradition Earns More When Science Shows Up
Every nutrient in Leche Viva Plus was selected because postpartum bodies are genuinely depleted — and most supplements do not correct for that with any rigor.
Methylfolate instead of folic acid. Dual-form B12 — Methylcobalamin and Adenosylcobalamin together. Magnesium Glycinate. Zinc Bisglycinate. Citicoline. Phosphatidylcholine. Each chosen for bioavailability and clinical relevance to the postpartum and lactating body.
This is what it looks like when a Board-Certified Lactation Consultant and Functional Nutritionist builds a formula — not a marketing team chasing trends.
