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Most people have
mistaken surviving well
for thriving.
We'd like to help your audience understand what vitality really is.
ALVARA is an invitation to a deeper conversation about foundational vitality, symbiosis, and what it means to live in right relationship with the natural world. If that sounds like a conversation your listeners would want to have, read on.
Vitality has been narrowed to biohacks, metrics, and molecules. What's been lost is the foundational understanding that vitality is a state you return to, sustained by relationship — with food, soil, sleep, community, ceremony, and the rhythms of the natural world.
For thousands of years, ancestral and Indigenous traditions have understood the human body as part of a living ecosystem. Modern wellness has built an industry around the symptoms of its absence while ignoring its source.
ALVARA exists to restore the biological foundation where lifeforce flows abundantly. We'd like to bring that conversation to your audience — with scientific rigor, specificity, and stories from three very different lives that converged around one philosophy.
What We'd Bring to
Your Audience
Foundational Vitality
The difference between surviving well and truly thriving. Most of modern wellness trains people to manage symptoms from a depleted baseline. We talk about what it takes to live from abundance — and what it feels like once you're there.
Symbiotic Stacking
Nature's intelligence emerges in cooperation, not isolation. Symbiotic stacking is the principle behind MycoNectar's formulation, and it's also a way to think about ecosystems, teams, and lives well lived.
Stewardship
Caring for Earth, body, and relationships as a daily practice rather than an aspirational ideal. Stewardship is the through-line that connects our work with veterans, our pollinator conservation, and the land we steward at the Sanctuary.
Three Lives.
One Philosophy.
CO-FOUNDER & CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER
Ty Clark
Ty is ALVARA's medicine maker. He is the formulator of MycoNectar and the artisan behind every small batch — each produced on a sound table tuned to nine Solfeggio frequencies, on the full moon, as ceremony.
Over 20+ years he has studied with Indigenous elders and medicine keepers, sat in Lakota ceremony, and trained in the Vajrayana, Zen, and Dzogchen traditions at Chagdud Gonpa Rigdzin Ling. He holds certifications in Kundalini teacher training, Reiki Master (Usui), Alphabiotics, Theta Healing (Level 3), Rebirthing Breathwork, and Reconnective Healing.
When Ty talks about symbiotic stacking or adaptogenic intelligence, he's describing lived practice.
CO-FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN
Jamieson Slough
Jamieson is a United States Marine Corps Major (ret.) and a former F/A-18 Hornet air combat instructor pilot with 1,600+ flight hours across two overseas tours. Before the Corps, he was a dual-sport All-American at the Naval Academy — lacrosse and squash — and a Naval Academy Hall of Fame inductee. Two-time All-Marine Golf Champion.
The defining turn in his story came when his family was exposed to toxic chemicals at Camp Lejeune. His children suffered seizures and heart problems. Conventional medicine offered management. Jamieson sought healing, and found it through a deeply personal exploration of vitality, which ultimately led him to Ty.
He is ALVARA's Executive Chairman, Chief Revenue Officer, and he leads Front Line Vitality, ALVARA's program for veterans, active duty military, and first responders.
CO-FOUNDER & CEO
Jared Angaza
Jared has spent 25 years building brands and institutions across five countries — including a decade in East Africa, where he co-authored women's rights legislation ratified into law in Rwanda, designed the research framework for one of USAID's first micro-loan banking models, and freed women from human trafficking in Rwanda and Congo.
He designed the first Citizen Astronaut Training Program with Space for Humanity and Yale, training two Blue Origin astronauts. In 2024 he joined the MIT Critical Data Research Lab as an Associate Researcher, where his work focuses on integrating Indigenous epistemology into AI ethics and healthcare education.
He came to ALVARA after seeking Ty's help to heal from PTSD accumulated over two decades of human rights work in extreme sociopolitical environments and prolonged physical danger.
ALVARA operates across four integrated pillars. Each one is an expression of the same philosophy: that vitality is sustained through symbiotic relationship — between people, land, species, and practice.
MycoNectar
The flagship formulation. 24 synergistic ingredients — functional mushrooms, adaptogenic roots and botanicals, rare minerals, and MCT oil — suspended in raw honey. Formulated by Ty Clark over 20+ years, built on the principle of symbiotic stacking.
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Stewards of the Hive
Pollinator conservation and ancestral beekeeping. Bees are the living expression of the symbiotic principle ALVARA is built on. Protecting them is foundational to everything we do.
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Front Line Vitality
Vitality programs for veterans, active duty military, and first responders. Led by Jamieson Slough. Those who have given the most deserve the deepest care.
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ALVARA Sanctuary
A 198-acre regenerative land project in Valley Center, California. Our operational headquarters, honey production, R&D kitchen, and events venue. A working expression of the stewardship we talk about.
Learn moreWe are comfortable on the mic, and we take the job seriously.
A few notes for context:
Jared hosted and produced the Noetic podcast (2020–2023) and is currently launching the MIT Critical Data Research Lab podcast as host. He has been a guest on more shows than he can reasonably count and has hosted online panel discussions and webinars with space industry experts and celebrities.
Ty has spent over 25 years teaching ancestral medicine, leading plant medicine ceremony, and speaking on the intersection of nature, healing, and human vitality. He has been a trusted voice in the vitalist and functional wellness community for two decades — sought out for his depth, his directness, and his ability to make ancient wisdom immediately practical.
Jamieson has spoken to military and civilian audiences on resilience, identity, and the transition from service to purpose. As a decorated USMC Major and F/A-18 Hornet pilot, he brings a rare combination of operational credibility and personal vulnerability — and through his work with NSSx, he is actively building platforms that serve veterans long after they leave the field.
We prepare. We show up. We come with specifics.
Conversations We'd Love to Have
Four threads we're especially interested in right now. Happy to tailor any of these — or propose something specific to your audience.
The Difference Between Surviving Well and Truly Thriving
with all three founders
A conversation about foundational vitality — what it is, why most of modern wellness misses it, and what it takes to live from a state of abundance. Draws on ancestral medicine, military service, and human rights work.
Symbiotic Stacking: Nature's Intelligence as a Design Principle
with Ty Clark
Why the most advanced vitality science already exists in nature. How symbiotic relationships — between fungi, plants, bees, and soil — produce outcomes that isolated molecules cannot replicate. A conversation about formulation, yes, and also about how to structure a life.
From the Cockpit to the Healing Path
with Jamieson Slough
The Camp Lejeune story. A Marine fighter pilot's reckoning with what conventional medicine could not fix, and the mission that grew from it. A conversation for audiences that care about military service, family, and honest healing.
Indigenous Intelligence, AI Ethics, and the Future of Human Flourishing
with Jared Angaza
What thousands of years of Indigenous wisdom can offer to the technologies shaping the next century. Drawn from Jared's research at the MIT Critical Data Research Lab and 25 years of work with Indigenous communities across five countries.
We'd be honored to bring
this conversation to
your audience.
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The ALVARA Mantra
Ancient symbiotic intelligence, crafted to restore the biological foundation where lifeforce flows abundantly.
What People Are Experiencing
Unfiltered words from people who made MycoNectar™ part of their daily ritual.
7 reviews
Transformed my morning routine
MycoNectar™ has transformed my morning routine and got me off of coffee. I have constant energy throughout the day and no crash. Also sleeping so much better without anxiety.
Feel like I'm in my 20s again
My energy levels are through the roof, including libido. I feel in my 20s again. Working out is so much more enjoyable. Testosterone went back up.
Calm and focused under stress
I have a lot of stress, and MycoNectar™ helps me stay calm and manage it far better. My mood is better, focus is easier, and I am more present and engaged with my life.
Coffee will never be the same
It's so delicious in my morning coffee. Coffee will never be as good without it. No jitters and no afternoon crash either. It inspires me to learn more about my health because I feel so much better.
Game changer for my cycle
Helped me regulate my moon cycle and dramatically lessen mood swings, pain, and duration. It feels like it smoothes out my mood throughout the whole month. Wouldn't be without it.
My new secret sauce
My training went through the roof. Better everything. Speed. Endurance. Recovery. All biomarkers increased. My new secret sauce.
Affiliate Program
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