Bilal Qizilbash wears many hats. As a scientist and managing partner of MiraKale Labs, Bilal has taken his research on the cancer-fighting properties of kale and worked to turn that knowledge into an actionable product through the EasyKale™ brand.
As a scientist and entrepreneur, Bilal is focused on finding solutions in nature to health and lifestyle challenges facing us as humans. EasyKale™ is the direct result of that work, with the goal of reaching as many people as possible with the health benefits of kale.
Along with his scientific research and his current studies toward an M.B.A., Bilal Qizilbash is a social entrepreneur; one of his passions is feeding the hungry, something he does weekly in his adopted home town of Jackson, Mississippi, through his non-profit organization, the Draw a Smile Foundation. The R U Hungry program feeds the hungry every Friday at 6 p.m. in downtown Jackson as well as in Brooklyn, New York on Sundays.
The decision to develop EasyKale™ was a result of founder Bilal Qizilbash's research (B.S. in Biology, M.S. in Medical Sciences) into kale's cancer-fighting properties. What he found was that, in a controlled laboratory setting, juiced kale would attack and kill melanoma cells while not affecting non-cancerous cells. The discovery led him to patent the process and brainstorm possible products for getting more kale into people's diets.
While there's a lot more research and study to be done on the cancer-fighting properties of kale, the health benefits are widely recognized. The EasyKale™ Kale Shaker is the first in a series of products that MiraKale Labs LLC intends to bring to market to make the "super food" kale more accessible and easier to consume.