Locally Made Organic Meal Replacement Up For Top National Award
Robin created a feeding-tube formula that consisted of nothing but real food - nutritionally dense, vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free, GMO-free whole food, with complex carbohydrates and no sugar added. She and her family affectionately dubbed the supplement Liquid Hope.
Locally Made Organic Meal Replacement Up For Top National Award
Liquid Hope is the First Commercially Produced, Shelf-stable, Organic Whole Foods Enteral Formula
Robin Gentry McGee, founder of Functional Formularies Liquid Hope, has developed the first commercially produced whole foods organic feeding tube formula that is shelf-stable. After five years of research and development in Ohio and South Carolina, McGee has perfected an enteral formula that is formulated using real food.
Following an appearance at the prestigious Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, California, Liquid Hope was nominated amongst thousands of new products for a Nexty Award. Nexty Award nominees are determined as being the key leaders and influencers shaping the future of the natural products landscape. Winners will be announced in June for the coveted Editor’s Choice Nexty. The public can vote for Liquid Hope for the Nexty Award until May 3 at http://www.nextforecast.com/nexty/
Although Liquid Hope went into commercial production in January of 2013, McGee’s journey began in 2005, when her father suffered a traumatic brain injury. In the hospital and nearing death, McGee, who has an extensive background in nutrition, sensed that her father’s chemical-laden feeding-tube formula was doing him more harm than good. As his health continued to decline with additional symptoms after his initial injury, McGee felt compelled to investigate finding him an organic whole foods formula for his feeding tube.
After an extensive and thorough search, McGee was disheartened to discover that no such thing existed. With her own expertise with whole foods, and through some intensive brainstorming with her natural-foods colleagues, she created a feeding-tube formula that consisted of nothing but "real” food — nutritionally dense, vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free, GMO-free whole food, with complex carbohydrates and no sugar added. She and her family affectionately dubbed the supplement "Liquid Hope.”
McGee agrees that in the creation of Liquid Hope, necessity was the mother of invention. "I did not set out to commercialize Liquid Hope. I merely wanted to help my father get better. I feel strongly that when given the right tools, the body has an innate wisdom for healing, and to this day, I question how that can happen with sugar-filled chemical water, which is the basis for most enteral food.
"After I created this formula to help my dad, word began to get around about what I’d done, and I started to get many emails from others looking for the same thing I’d set out to find. Knowing from experience that such a product didn’t exist, I realized Liquid Hope could help so many others if it was commercially available. I deeply believe that my father’s illness allowed me to give a great gift to the world,” said McGee.
Since Gentry’s creation of Liquid Hope, two former NFL players who suffer from ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) — Oakland Raiders’ Steve Smith and New Orleans Saints’ Steve Gleason — have introduced the meal replacement into their diet in an attempt to stave off the effects of their debilitating disease. Gentry is part of a team of people known as "The Healers,” a group started by Dr. Craig Oster, who has lived with ALS for 18 years — a rarity — and attributes his survival to a mostly raw, whole-foods diet. In addition, Liquid Hope is being considered for use in clinical studies involving whole-foods nutrition and ALS outcomes.
Liquid Hope is currently available through McGee’s Web site, www.functionalformularies.com, in addition to Dorothy Lane Markets, a local specialty grocer in the Dayton, Ohio, area.
Founded in 2006, Functional Formularies is a privately held company based in Wilmington, Ohio, that manufactures whole foods for the whole body. If you would like more information about Functional Formularies Liquid Hope, or to schedule an interview with Robin Gentry McGee, please call Robin at 937.271.0381, or email her at robin@functionalformularies.com.
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