Founder, Lala's Wellness

Lara Dilkes, L.Ac. MSAOM, FNLP

I'm Lara Dilkes, a licensed acupuncturist, herbalist, and functional nutrition practitioner with nineteen years of clinical work behind me. I run PDX Acupuncture here in Portland, I see clients virtually through my Self'ish' Health hormone wellness consults, and I co-host the She's Got Guts podcast with gut health dietitian Molly Ostrander. Lala's Wellness grew out of all of that work, and also out of something a lot more personal.

For years, I was the patient who kept getting sent home without answers. I had migraine-like mini-strokes that took days out of my life at a time, leaving me cancelling plans and lying in the dark, waiting for my body to give me back. Then I landed in the hospital with inflammatory bowel disease, which was the lowest point in an already long stretch of low points. The care I received managed my symptoms reasonably well, and nobody could tell me why any of it was happening in the first place.

So I went looking on my own. I built what I still call my Recipe of Health, a working combination of lifestyle changes, dietary shifts, and herbal medicine that I adjusted over months until my body finally started responding. Some of it came directly from my training, and a great deal of it came from paying very close attention to what actually moved the needle.

The hardest change by far was giving up coffee. My nervous system was running on borrowed energy, and caffeine kept the whole system in a state my body simply could not afford anymore. Quitting helped more than almost anything else I tried, and I still missed it terribly, because coffee was never only about the caffeine for me. It was the ritual, the warmth in my hands, the fifteen minutes in the morning that belonged entirely to me.

That is exactly why SuperCube exists. I wanted the ritual and the lift without asking my adrenals to foot the bill, so I built a blend of high quality teas, superfoods, and adaptogenic herbs that supports energy, hormones, and immune function rather than borrowing against them. You can drop it straight into your coffee if you love your coffee, or you can drink it on its own. I use it every single morning, and it is the reason I stopped dreading the afternoon crash.

Everything I make now comes from the same belief, which is that most bodies are under-supported rather than broken, and that real support has to fit inside a real life. I'm not interested in asking you to overhaul everything you love in the name of your health. I would much rather hand you the tools, the reasoning behind them, and the products that make the whole thing easier to sustain.

If you're somewhere in the middle of your own maze right now, whether that looks like perimenopause, exhaustion, a gut that stopped cooperating, or a stack of normal lab results that explain absolutely nothing, I would love to help you find the way through. I have been in that maze myself, I found my way out, and I have spent nineteen years building the map for other women.

Sending love,

Lara