About us

Food Pharmacy – one of the most well known health brands in Sweden – was founded in 2014 by Lina Nertby Aurell and Mia Clase. 

It all started with the losses of one mum, one aunt and one dear friend to the fight against cancer. Strong and vital, deeply loved women way too young to die all passed away within a year and left them with, apart from grief and emptiness, so many questions. Lina and Mia felt like they were banished to some sort of health lottery where they could only hope that the genes they had been given were not too bad. However shortly after, their paths crossed with that of an 85 year old professor who had spent almost an entire life studying what makes us sick. One of the first things he taught them was that we have more power than we might think when it comes to staying healthy and preventing diseases. 

Suddenly a door to a whole new world was opened, and this new knowledge was quite simply, mind boggling. Not only did the statistics clearly show that the number of cases of lifestyle related diseases were growing exponentially, but it also showed that an increasing number of younger people were affected by lifestyle related diseases. And how could it even be possible that bad eating habits were the biggest risk of getting ill or dying too early today and furthermore that these so called bad eating habits were to a certain extent the “new normal” when it came to eating habits? They learnt that healthcare today almost entirely focuses on treating sick people even if research shows that the majority of the diseases affecting us today could be prevented. Many times even small changes can do miracles to our health.

They strongly felt an urge to share and reach out to ordinary people with this life saving knowledge. So Food Pharmacy was born so as to empower the people and to improve public health! 

The meeting with the professor was the starting shot of a long and meandering, yet magical journey where as a result, during the following years they have had the privilege to meet with and interview a good many, remarkably accomplished experts within the health domain. Today Food Pharmacy is known for its blog, podcasts, it’s supplement brand and three bestselling and award winning books translated into 15 languages – Food Pharmacy: A Guide to Gut Bacteria, Anti-Inflammatory Foods, and Eating for Health (2016) and Food Pharmacy: the Cookbook (2017) and Food Pharmacy: Nutrient Hunter (2019). Through daily updates, here on the site and on Instagram @food_pharmacy, Lina and Mia share inspiration and delicious recipes to encourage everyday people to small but yet life saving lifestyle changes as well as facts and knowledge of the most recent science, from a series of international experts within health and food. And in addition to all this, in their podcast The Food Pharmacy Show you will be introduced to some of the foremost experts in the UK such as Dr. Rangan Chatterjee, Dr. Michael Mosley and Professor Robert Thomas – and hopefully benefit from their remarkable knowledge base through a series of interviews. 

Food Pharmacy is eager to take its Scandinavian award winning concept and share it with the world in the fight against the global burden of lifestyle related diseases. 

But don’t think about that now. Instead, think of all the wonderful nutrients you will be hunting in the future and all the good food you will be eating.