Lāʻau Tonic • Protein Greens + Heart Health

Did you know that you have to eat eight oranges today in order to receive the same amount of nutrients that one orange had in 1980? This unfortunate trend is seen across the board in most fruits, vegetables, roots and herbs. For example, one apple today has about .10mg of iron while on the other hand one apple in 1950 had roughly 4.3mb of iron! The undeniable truth is that plant based foods are rapidly losing nutritional value and this is due to soil depletion, genetic modification and chemical exposure. Consequently most people suffer from micro-nutrient deficiencies that cause many of the auto-immune diseases that are on the rise today. Because superfoods are nutrient rich with high mineral potency, they can help our bodies to quickly reach homeostasis with ease.

Most supplement and nutraceutical companies fail to address a very important aspect to health and viability which is bio-availability. The health of our gut biome and our stomach's ability to properly absorb nutrients into the blood stream is essential for our bodies to receive minerals and nutrients. This is why all Hā Tonics Superfood powder products are designed with either prebiotics or digestive enzymes. Additionally, Hā Tonics features endemic Hawaiian superfood ingredients in an effort to educate, empower and equip our communities with lā‘au lapa‘au nutritional wisdoms.

Prebiotics are a type of specialized plant fiber in food that foster growth or activity of beneficial microorganisms in our gut biomes. In essence, think of prebiotics as fertilizer for our gut flora. These beneficial microorganisms in our stomachs are essential for processing food and absorbing nutrients which means the healthier they are the healthier we are! Digestive enzymes are proteins that break down food and aid digestion helping nutrients to be absorbed into your body through the wall of the small intestine and distributed quickly into the bloodstream. Prebiotics and digestive enzymes do wonders for our metabolisms.

Our great grandmother, Anita Pua, was a Kumu Lā‘au Lapa‘au which can be defined as a traditional Hawaiian medical practitioner. Although much of her knowledge has been lost due to generational poverty, we're passionate about perpetuating the Lā‘au Lapa‘au understandings in our family that remain. In the Hawaiian language, there is a reason why the word for plant and the word for medicine, Lā‘au, are one and the same. This is because Hawai‘i is home to some of the most powerful superfood plants on earth. Lapa‘au can be defined as to heal or to cure. Together Lā‘au Lapa‘au is defined as healing through plant medicine and at Hā Tonics we believe everyone can thrive when we give our bodies the tools they need to heal and feel alive.