GAIA begins with Amanda Langan, our Founder, who gained interest in medicinal herbs as a last resort to healing her pain ailments and inflammation. At age 12, she started developing body aches and pain. She experienced a long and excruciating seven years of pain, without a clear diagnosis. It wasn’t until she was 19 that she was diagnoses with Ankylosing Spondylitis; a rare autoimmune disease that causes long-term inflammation of the joints resulting in intense pain.

Amanda was later put on an injectable biological medication, which relieved some of her pain, but was coming at a great expense. She began noticing her health was deteriorating faster on the medication. She spent years looking for alternative treatments; strict diets, massage therapy, acupuncture, but nothing was fully working. 

It wasn’t until Amanda was introduced to Traditional Herbal Medicine that she found a long-term and sustainable treatment for her chronic inflammation and pain. Amanda crafted a blends of herbs to treat her pain and inflammation. After three months of consistently drinking two to five cups a day of what now it the GAIA Pain & Inflammation Tea blend her pain dissolved completely. This was the first time in almost a decade that she was without pain.