OUR MISSION
There are three ways people deal with ageing, we chose a fourth.
Letter From the Founders
It started with the finest doctor we've ever known. Our grandmother. Our grandmother was an AIIMS-trained doctor. If you grew up in India, you know what those four letters mean. She was among the sharpest medical minds of her generation. She spent decades on her feet, in wards and clinics, giving people the best that medicine had to offer. And she spent her life giving in every other way too. She treated underprivileged TB patients. She served in a community hospital for free. Caring for people wasn't her job. It was her nature.
We are her two grandsons. What we remember most isn't just her brilliance. It's how she lived. She carried two worlds without contradiction: the traditional wisdom she grew up with, and the scientific rigour she practised by. She never saw them as rivals. She saw them as incomplete without each other. That idea shaped both of us, long before we knew what we'd do with it.
Letter From the Founders
It started with the finest doctor we've ever known. Our grandmother. Our grandmother was an AIIMS-trained doctor. If you grew up in India, you know what those four letters mean. She was among the sharpest medical minds of her generation. She spent decades on her feet, in wards and clinics, giving people the best that medicine had to offer. And she spent her life giving in every other way too. She treated underprivileged TB patients. She served in a community hospital for free. Caring for people wasn't her job. It was her nature.
We are her two grandsons. What we remember most isn't just her brilliance. It's how she lived. She carried two worlds without contradiction: the traditional wisdom she grew up with, and the scientific rigour she practised by. She never saw them as rivals. She saw them as incomplete without each other. That idea shaped both of us, long before we knew what we'd do with it.
Then osteoporosis
entered her life.
Here was a woman who understood the body better than almost anyone, and the options in front of her were painkillers, calcium tablets, and the advice every ageing Indian eventually hears: be careful, do less, slow down. She faced it with discipline and grace. But watching her, we couldn't unsee the gap. For the one area where nutritional science has a genuinely established role, helping people stay strong, mobile, and independent through the years, there was almost nothing built with the rigour she would have demanded.
Then osteoporosis
entered her life.
Here was a woman who understood the body better than almost anyone, and the options in front of her were painkillers, calcium tablets, and the advice every ageing Indian eventually hears: be careful, do less, slow down. She faced it with discipline and grace. But watching her, we couldn't unsee the gap. For the one area where nutritional science has a genuinely established role, helping people stay strong, mobile, and independent through the years, there was almost nothing built with the rigour she would have demanded.
How it began.
I'm Shivang. I studied at Cornell, then spent years in consulting working on healthcare projects. But my interest in health and food was never just professional. It started at home, long before it became a career. Some of it, I suspect, was her doing. That interest took me to MIT for my Master's, where I began working on a health-foods idea as part of the Legatum Fellowship.
Around the same time, supplements exploded across India. Money, marketing, influencers. An entire industry appeared almost overnight. I kept waiting for someone to build for the need we had seen up close. Instead, I saw protein for gym selfies. Gummies for glowing skin. Miracle powders promising to reverse ageing itself. Billions of rupees chasing vanity, while active ageing, the thing that decides whether our parents climb stairs or avoid them, sat ignored. The idea sharpened. It became LightYears.
How it began.
I'm Shivang. I studied at Cornell, then spent years in consulting working on healthcare projects. But my interest in health and food was never just professional. It started at home, long before it became a career. Some of it, I suspect, was her doing. That interest took me to MIT for my Master's, where I began working on a health-foods idea as part of the Legatum Fellowship.
Around the same time, supplements exploded across India. Money, marketing, influencers. An entire industry appeared almost overnight. I kept waiting for someone to build for the need we had seen up close. Instead, I saw protein for gym selfies. Gummies for glowing skin. Miracle powders promising to reverse ageing itself. Billions of rupees chasing vanity, while active ageing, the thing that decides whether our parents climb stairs or avoid them, sat ignored. The idea sharpened. It became LightYears.
Then it became ours, together.
I’m Eeshan. When Shivang moved back to India, I joined him, and LightYears became what it was always meant to be: a shared undertaking.
We build it side by side. What began as one idea has grown into a range for the moments that matter most as we age: joints, back, menopause, and long-term strength. The same grandmother shaped us both, and it felt right to build this in her memory, together.
Her standard is our standard. Not to fight ageing; she’d have called that quackery. Not to numb pain while waiting for surgery. And never, ever to “slow down.” The aim is to work with the body, so it keeps saying yes.
In Health & Harmony,
Shivang & Eeshan,
Founders, LightYears Health
Then it became ours, together.
I’m Eeshan. When Shivang moved back to India, I joined him, and LightYears became what it was always meant to be: a shared undertaking.
We build it side by side. What began as one idea has grown into a range for the moments that matter most as we age: joints, back, menopause, and long-term strength. The same grandmother shaped us both, and it felt right to build this in her memory, together.
Her standard is our standard. Not to fight ageing; she’d have called that quackery. Not to numb pain while waiting for surgery. And never, ever to “slow down.” The aim is to work with the body, so it keeps saying yes.
In Health & Harmony,
Shivang & Eeshan,
Founders, LightYears Health
