Our Founder
Carla Guinet
Licensed acupuncturist. Mother of two. Founder of Wugu Wellness.
In Peru I grew up on quinoa milk for breakfast — cooked slowly on the stove, sometimes with cinnamon, sometimes with cacao, always plant-based, always sustaining.
In China I learned to create blends — whole plants and legumes like soybeans, black sesame, purple rice, jujube — slow-cooked in a plant-milk machine into something creamy and warming. It felt strangely familiar. Half a world from home, I recognized the ritual.
I later trained as an acupuncturist. Every week I see patients who cannot tolerate dairy, or who simply want a daily drink that does something for their body — not just fill them up.
Wugu Wellness is my answer. A plant-based, warm daily ritual built from the quinoa meals I grew up with, the five-plant drinks I learned abroad, and the seed-cycling blends I now recommend to patients. Different paths, the same wisdom — that a bowl of plants, cooked with intention, is medicine.
The Philosophy
One ritual, many paths
Across cultures and centuries, the same truth keeps appearing: nourish the body with warm, whole plants and legumes, slowly cooked, no dairy required. Wugu translates that ritual for a modern kitchen — brewed in minutes, drunk from a cup, with a plant-milk machine doing the slow work for you.