Lifehouse Tonics + Elixirs

The Love Shack is made with strawberries, goji berries, Bulgarian rose water, and ashwagandha—an herb used in Ayurvedic healing.
Mango and coconut lend sweetness to the Mango Lassi probiotic tonic, while cardamom and turmeric add a kick.
The Chaga Chip Cookie Dough is a new tonic featuring chaga mushrooms and cocoa nibs.
Co-founders Jack Latner and Fraser Thompson opened Lifehouse Tonics + Elixirs in 2015.
The minimalist health tonic shop is located on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
Several types of mushrooms are packed into the Shroom Shake, including agarikon, blazei, chaga, and lion’s mane.
The Greenhouse Chip is like a healthy rendition of mint chocolate ice cream, made with cashew milk and mint extract.
The coconut water kefir in the Wild Orange Strawberry provides a dose of probiotics.

Hollywood special effects.

Writer Keith Flanagan

Hailing from Toronto and Ottawa respectively, Lifehouse Tonics + Elixirs co-founders Jack Latner and Fraser Thompson moved west years ago to Hollywood, California, and in 2016 to opened their business: a minimalist health tonic shop with products designed to maximize the delivery of plant-based nutrients. At Lifehouse Tonics, adaptogenic superfoods like agarikon, blazei, chaga, and lion’s mane mushrooms, as well as ingredients like coconut oil, wheat grass, goji berry, and activated charcoal are blended into all-vegan tonics, steeped elixirs, and glorified milkshakes (made with nut milk, of course).

But it’s Lifehouse Tonics’ philosophy that sets them apart from rank-and-file health shops. They select ingredients not only for their independent benefits, but because of the ways their compounds interact with each other, working in tandem to produce what Latner and Thompson refer to as “special effects”. Supposedly, the Shroom Shake (which taste like mocha) helps you focus, while the Love Shack packs a beautifying hit of Bulgarian rose water. Other beverages are designed to energize, combat hangovers, balance blood sugar, and even boost libido. Consider it drinking with a purpose.

Lifehouse Tonics + Elixirs, 7515 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90046, USA.

Photos courtesy of Lifehouse Tonics + Elixirs.

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