About Us...
Meet Dr. Malia
Dr. Malia, is a local girl from Hawaiʻi. She holds a doctorate in education and a professional plant-based nutrition certificate from the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies. Dr. Malia was a former assistant dean and university professor before opening her award-winning plant-based restaurant, ʻAi Love Nalo. Guided by her passion for helping others heal and live their best healthy lives, she developed our health and nutrition online course, created the recipes for our plant-based medically tailored (MTM) meal plan and designed our recipe book and various learning tools. She also helps steward a 20-acre regenerative farm and healing retreat center and is committed to living a joyful, helpful, and healthy life!
Meet Kapiʻolei
Kapiʻolei, also a local girl from Hawaiʻi. She has a degree in Psychological Brain Sciences and Creative Writing and was awarded Colgate University’s prestigious Kevin Carlsmith Award in recognition of an outstanding senior interested in clinical psychology. Don’t mistake her youthful spirit for naivety; she is highly intuitive and has a deep spiritual connection to Nature. In perfect step and partnership with her mom, Dr. Malia, Kapiʻolei has helped build their award-winning restaurant, ʻAi Love Nalo. She was also instrumental in helping to develop our online course and materials and continues to manage our creative productions. Driven by her imagination and ability to see beauty in all things, Kapiʻolei is committed to living a balanced life as a true well Being.
How it all began...
In August 2015, we launched ʻAi Love Nalo, a plant-based restaurant in Waimānalo. With the help of a fantastic team, loyal customers, and a supportive community, we built something GREAT. ʻAi Love Nalo was awarded the best healthy restaurant in Hawai’i, won numerous Ilima Awards, and secured top spots in the vegetarian and vegan cuisine category by culinary experts. Also, we were featured in magazines, newspapers, videos, and TV shows, including an international airline in-flight program. Additionally, we made it on the front cover of Hawaiʻi’s popular Honolulu Magazine.
At first, our only goal was to offer healthier food options for our community. But, as fate would have it, that soon changed. About a year after we opened, we met a young man who needed heart surgery but had to lose some weight before the procedure. “I don’t know what I’m doing wrong,” he said. “I can’t seem to shake off the pounds. Can you help?” “Of course,” we replied.
So, we fed him two plant-based meals daily for a couple of months to help break his salt, sugar, and fat addiction. We also taught him about nutrition and gave him simple tips and tricks to improve his diet. By the end of week ten, he had lost 26 pounds and went on to have a successful surgery!
We think the word got out because we started to receive calls about our “new health and healing service.” So, we got to work and created our Hā’ehuola Health & Wellness Program, which strives to awaken the well Being in all people!
About the well Beings
There’s a LOT of information out there about health and nutrition and sometimes it can be overwhelming and difficult to navigate, especially when you’re trying to make healthy changes.
We the well Beings make learning about health and nutrition easy and fun! Our aim is to remind you that eating healthy and making healthy choices does not have to be a drag!
Although it’s not necessary to use all of our products and services or to attend our retreats to achieve positive outcomes, we have found that people reach the fastest and BEST results when they:
1. Book a private session with Dr. Malia
In these private sessions, Dr. Malia can help you to create a wellness plan specifically for you.
2. Sign-up and complete our online course
Our health and nutrition online course, which includes 25 informative videos and a supplemental workbook, focuses on three primary elements:
Physical Health Psychological Health Spiritual Health
The online course covers many topics, from understanding diabetes and heart disease to breaking your neurochemical emotional addictions, habits, and unhealthy behavioral patterns. Each video is packed with tons of information, tips, and tricks on how to make long-lasting healthy changes. In addition, the e-workbook will challenge you to think about your health journey and some of the unhealthy choices you might have made along the way. As Native Hawaiians, we also integrated our indigenous perspective and Hawaiian values of health and healing into our course material, which honors the great wisdom of our ancient people.
3. Get our 'Ai Love Nalo prepared plant-based food medically tailored (MTM) meal plan
Most clients immediately jump on our meal plan to kick-start their healing and health changes. We suggest you do the meal plan for twelve straight weeks for the fastest and most promising results. However, if that’s not possible right now, we conveniently offer our meal plan every week, so you can jump on and off when it best suits you. Of course, many non-vegan folks initially feel apprehensive when trying our plant-based meal plan. But, plain and simple, our food is good. It’s really good…and filling too! People often tell us they never knew plant-based food could taste so delicious. And the health benefits are nothing short of remarkable.
Health results of our participants...
We are very proud and happy to report that many people who book private sessions with Dr. Malia, complete our health and nutrition online course, and follow our meal plan program have experienced outstanding results. For instance, some of our clients have:
- Lost 5, 15, 45, to upwards of 120 pounds within a year
- Experienced significant reductions in their glycated hemoglobin levels, glucose, cholesterol, and blood pressure
- Reversed their pre-diabetic conditions
- Increased their energy and sense of community
- Improved their overall mental health
One participant reduced her A1c from 6.3 to 5.8 in less than nine months.
Another decreased her glucose from 239 to 126 and cholesterol from 152 to 115 in just four months after completing our course and committing to our meal plan. You can do it too!
