We’re here to elevate the health of families.
We believe healthy living was never meant to be complicated, and that the body has an extraordinary capacity to heal and thrive when it’s given what it actually needs.
We believe it’s the small things repeated that make the biggest difference. What a family does on an ordinary morning will do more over a lifetime than anything dramatic. We make whole-food nutrition simple enough to keep, and we start where the body does most of its work: the gut microbiome.
It started with one question.
I grew up watching someone I loved lose control of her own body. I was young enough that I didn’t have words for it, and old enough to understand that whatever was happening inside her was reaching all of us.
That left me with one question, and I have spent nearly thirty years on it. How does a body lose its balance, and what does it take to bring it back?
It carried me through exercise physiology, sports nutrition, and microbiome research, and every path kept arriving at the same place. The gut. Almost everything the body does well, it does better when the gut is in balance.
Our standard
Nothing we wouldn’t give our own children.
By my twenties I was building my own nutrition by hand every morning — a cupboard full of supplements, a counter full of containers, and never quite the purity I wanted. When Marty and I had our first child, that time-consuming ritual became impossible.
We looked for something clean that we could trust. We couldn’t find it. So we made it.
We read the fine print on every ingredient, and follow the science as it changes. Nothing goes into a LIVEDEN product that we haven’t approved, and nothing stays in one simply because it’s already there.
It’s the only way we know to put something on your counter and stand behind it.
and Sports Nutritionist
A family mission.
I knew it had worked on an ordinary Tuesday. Our children were lined up along the counter, getting everything their growing bodies needed — the things I would otherwise have been hiding in a recipe — and I was standing there not worrying about a thing.
LIVEDEN began as my question. Marty and I have run it together ever since. It belongs to our whole family now, and to the people who keep it running every day.
It was built in our kitchen. It was always meant for yours.
Our counter, 2018.
Why LIVEDEN
LIV + EDEN
Live and Eden. A life that is natural, whole, pure, and balanced. A return to nourishing our bodies the way the earth intended.
The name is a reminder. Slow down. Feed your body with intention. Trust that it knows how to heal and thrive when it’s given what it needs.
Your morning feeds ten children.
Every bag of LIVEDEN provides ten meals to children in need, through partners working on the ground. It happens every time a bag leaves our hands.
Over a million meals so far. That number belongs to every family who has ever made this part of their morning.
- 1M+ meals provided
- 18 countries
- 8 years
Where we give
Eighteen countries, including children here at home.
- Benin
- Canada
- Ecuador
- Ethiopia
- Haiti
- India
- Kenya
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mozambique
- South Sudan
- Syria
- United States
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Every LIVEDEN family
We’re a family company in the most literal sense. Ours built it. Yours is the reason it keeps going.
Today there are LIVEDEN families in five countries, and most of them found us because someone told them.
If you’re here because you’ve been looking for something you can trust and haven’t found it yet, then you already know how we started.
There’s room at our counter.