Advancing, preventive healthcare through precision nutrition, sustainable innovation & AI.

Priyanka and I are not just co-founders, but also husband and wife. A few years ago, Priyanka went through one of the hardest periods of her life. After an extended period of stress, she began to have terrible panic attacks and lost her appetite. It took a long time for us to get the help we needed. The delay was not only due to smaller practical problems such as scheduling difficulties, but also the bigger themes of paradigm clash, clinical dismissal, therapeutic misalignment and structural barriers to preventive care.

Going through that together, we kept noticing the same gap. ‘Care’ was available once things became serious, but these were not long-term solutions, and almost no supports were available earlier on. Once Priyanka started to recover, I turned my attention to how many people around us were quietly dealing with similar problems.

I started thinking about the role of nourishment and nutrition in mental health and overall well-being. I took a very broad view of nutrition: as everything we consume, mainly food, but also information, ways of thinking, moving, breathing and feeling our way through life. I wanted to uncover the connections between these everyday choices and how they could support our minds and bodies before a crisis rather than after, sustainably rather than fleetingly.

What if nutrition could help people manage stress and anxiety before it ever reaches that point?

That question is what started HUMNS. Our first application, Mood Nutrition Connect, is where we began, bringing daily mood tracking, supportive nutritive practices and personalised nutrition guidance into one simple, flowing experience, because that was the gap we had lived through ourselves. However, the question remains bigger than one app. Nutrition is the most everyday thing in all of our lives, and it sits at the centre of how we feel, how we age, and how heavily we lean on the planet that provides it.

HUMNS exists to take that seriously: to advance the science of human wellness, nutrition and sustainability, and to put what it finds into people’s hands early, while it can still prevent something rather than repair it, and allow it to ripple outwards - from individual change to worldwide impact.