3/26/2024 –
One of the hardest things about being pregnant is learning what to eat for maximum digestive comfort and nutrition. Once the baby is born, the nutrition guessing game continues on which foods are ideal for postpartum and nursing.
Chiyo wants to be that support system by offering nutrition advice and meals in the form of a meal delivery service to women from fertility through postpartum as part of its holistic approach to fertility care. Chiyo offers digital guides and health coaching for its users and is also working to build what it considers the “first-of-its-kind” research database of nutrition for women’s health.
Irene Liu, co-founder and CEO, got the idea for Chiyo after seeing her mother send her aunt traditional Chinese medicine meals after her aunt had a baby. Liu was always interested in the concept of food as medicine, and wanted to pull from her background in nutritional science combined with Eastern food therapy to create stage-based and symptom-specific nutrition programs for other mothers…
