After 15+ years cooking for those with chronic illness and postpartum mothers, Chef Lando (Lan Thai) noticed the same pattern again and again: many people are deeply lacking key nutrients. Raised on a farm and influenced by her Chinese-Vietnamese cultural background, she grew up around traditional herbal remedies and healing foods that have been used for thousands of years. Through both experience and observation, she came to understand that nutrients and beneficial plant compounds work together, not in isolation, to help support the body. Most importantly, they are often best utilized when they come from real food, herbs, fungi, and ingredients found in nature.