Vana Founder and CEO Sak Narwal and Founder and President Misha Andric have been friends and partners for many years, both sharing a deep interest in discovering ways to improve the health of themselves and their loved ones. Vana was built around their vision of creating a product that could provide a healthy foundation for living – and do so by combining potent natural ingredients proven to aid the body in both performance and recovery.
Throughout his life, Misha has come to focus and place a high value on mental health, always searching out ways to improve the mind and body – and optimizing the connection between the two. Sak, coming from a holistically-focused family who embraced ancient remedies and techniques to treat ailments, is often inspired to look to nature for potential answers to health concerns.
These perspectives led them to explore the benefits of superfoods such as tea, dark chocolate, red wine, berries, and vegetables, and in doing so discovered an intriguing commonality: an extremely high level of a micronutrient and antioxidant called polyphenols. This discovery led them to investigate Aronia berries, known to have one of the highest polyphenol counts among fruits and vegetables, and containing the highest iRAC (Iron (III) Reducing Antioxidant Capacity) rating out of all fruits and vegetables.
Through mutual connections, Misha connected with Dr. Maria Glibetic. A molecular biologist and globally recognized leader on nutrition and polyphenols, Maria had conducted years of research into Aronia berries and the benefits of polyphenols for their cardioprotective, anti-diabetic, performance-enhancing, and antioxidant effects. Upon reviewing Maria’s research, Sak and Misha became convinced that Aronia berries would indeed form the foundation of the Vana formula. They would complement the Aronia berry with other ingredients that, when combined with aronia extract, would create a powerful elixir of health.
To determine those ingredients, extensive research was conducted into superfoods, herbs and extracts that each delivered a wide variety of health benefits. Many candidates were considered, but the ingredients that ultimately make up Vana were found to not only perform well on their own, but when used together, enhanced each other’s natural properties.
Once these key ingredients were sourced, Misha and Sak ensured that harvesting, extracting, and manufacturing methods were employed that did not lose any of the ingredients’ nutrients, had no artificial or chemical components, and had a minimal environmental impact. And thus was born a formula that managed to include the majority of benefits needed to heal and optimize the human body.
To date, Sak and Misha have refused to compromise the quality and potency of Vana’s formula by cutting its cost. They do, however, strongly believe that wealth should never determine one’s health and therefore plan to create a more cost-efficient product that can provide health benefits to anyone, regardless of their circumstances.
Looking to the future, Sak and Misha hope to expand clinical testing to further understand the potential of Vana’s formula to improve the quality of life of those suffering from clinical illnesses the world over.
