Our story

We started Melina for someone we love

We're Laila and Jeremy. Jeremy has had migraines since he was a kid. Melina began with the years we spent trying to get his life back, and it grew when pregnancy changed Laila's brain too.

Laila and Jeremy, co-founders
Laila and Jeremy, the co-founders of Melina, sitting together at home
Jeremy in bed with an ice pack on his head during a migraine attack

When I met Jeremy, I inherited the nights

Lights off. A towel over the window. An ice pack over his eyes, and me lying next to him, awake, with nothing useful to do.

We saw four or five doctors and neurologists. We tried painkillers, prescriptions, a headache hat that lived in the freezer and oils on his temples. Three different people told him to drink more water. He drank the water.

His list of triggers kept getting longer, and he blamed himself for every new one. The last neurologist we saw was kind about it. He told us there was nothing new left to try.

Laila

I'm a scientist, so I went back to the research

When we couldn't get answers from our doctors, I went back to what I know I can trust: the research, and finding the right partners who could help us bring it to life.

The research kept pointing the same way. In a lot of people with migraine, the brain struggles to make the energy it needs, and it runs low on the nutrients that process uses. In studies where those nutrients were brought back up, at the right doses, people had fewer attacks.

Then I looked at what was on the shelves. Most supplements used forms the body barely absorbs, at a fraction of the studied dose, or hid the amounts inside a "proprietary blend".

For years, everything we tried was aimed at the attack itself, and nobody had asked what his brain was missing.Laila, co-founder
A laptop open on a spreadsheet next to supplement bottles and a notebook
Laila smiling on the floor of the manufacturing facility
Laila at our manufacturer
Jeremy at a table covered with capsule samples during formula testing
Jeremy testing samples

So we made the formula we couldn't buy

We never planned to start a company. We built Mighty with headache specialists, then had board-certified clinicians check the formula against the research. We flew to meet ingredient suppliers and stood on the factory floor for the first batches.

Mighty is 13 nutrients at the doses used in migraine research, in one morning dose. Jeremy takes it every day. His life looks very different now, and we hear the same from customers every week.

Meet Mighty
Then it was my turn

Pregnancy changed my brain, and nobody warned me it could last

After our baby arrived I'd lose a word halfway through a sentence, or walk into a room and stand there trying to remember why. Everyone said it was normal and that it would pass. For me, it didn't.

So I went back to the research. Everbright is built around citicoline, the nutrient your brain uses to make the messenger it runs focus and memory on. It's two capsules in the morning, with no caffeine and no hormones.

Meet Everbright
Laila, pregnant, smiling at a cafe table

What we hold ourselves to

If it's going into your body every morning, you should know exactly what it is and who made it.

Tested by someone else

Every batch is checked by independent labs for purity, potency and contaminants, and made in GMP-certified facilities in the USA.

Doses from the research

We use ingredients that have been studied, at the amounts the studies used, in forms your body can absorb.

Every dose on the label

No proprietary blends. You can read exactly what's in each capsule and take the label to your doctor.

We've been there

We started Melina because of what migraine did to our own family. We answer your emails ourselves.

What we make

Both come with free shipping on subscriptions and a 90-day money-back guarantee.

A jar of Mighty with its golden capsulesMost popular

Mighty

For migraine attacks and dizziness

★★★★★ 4.8 | 500K+ servings sold
  • 13 active ingredients at studied doses
  • Developed with headache specialists
  • Take it alone or with your migraine meds
A jar of Everbright with its mauve capsules3 months, pay for 2

Everbright

For mom brain and brain fog

★★★★★ 4.8 | 150,000+ servings sold
  • Citicoline for focus and word-finding
  • Energy without caffeine or the crash
  • Two capsules each morning

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