TUSTIN, CA, UNITED STATES, September 7, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- TUSTIN, Calif. — [DATE], 2026 — In his early thirties, Todd Vande Hei
was running a carpet manufacturing company, working 70-hour weeks, and
winning by every external measure. Then he collapsed on a Texas golf
course — a cluster of grand mal seizures that nobody could explain.
What followed was a decade of fragmented care: specialists who didn't
talk to each other, diagnoses that treated symptoms but never
addressed the whole person, and a health system that repeatedly told
him his labs were 'normal' while his body told him otherwise.
Vande Hei was eventually diagnosed with atrial fibrillation — a
condition he'd had since age 31. He was managing it with medication,
but managing it wasn't the same as solving it. 'I was doing everything
the doctors told me to do,' Vande Hei recalls. 'And I still didn't
feel right. Nobody was looking at the whole picture.'
So he built the place he wished existed.
In 2011, Vande Hei founded what would become Stark Health — a health
optimization company that puts doctors, coaches, nutritionists, and
chiropractors under one roof, working as a single coordinated team
around each client. Not a gym. Not a clinic. Something that didn't
exist yet.
Today, Stark Health operates two locations — Tustin and Newport Beach,
California — and has served thousands of high-performing executives,
physicians, entrepreneurs, and athletes who came in frustrated by
conventional care and left with a system built around their specific
biology.
'Most of our clients are disciplined people,' says Vande Hei, now 58
and CEO of Stark Health. 'They've optimized their businesses. They've
optimized their finances. Their health is the one area they've been
flying blind — not because they don't care, but because the system
wasn't built to help them win. It was built to keep them from dying.
There's a difference.'
The results Stark tracks go beyond what a standard physical measures:
VO2 max, DEXA body composition scanning, hormonal panels, and
biological age markers are standard at intake. Clients don't receive a
single provider's opinion — they receive a coordinated assessment from
a team that meets to discuss their case.
Vande Hei still trains four days a week. Still gets his labs run.
Still manages AFib — with the same integrated team model he built for
everyone else. 'I'm not the before-and-after story,' he says. 'I'm the
ongoing story. That's the point.'
ABOUT STARK HEALTH
Founded in 2011, Stark Health is a health optimization company with
locations in Tustin and Newport Beach, California. Stark's integrated
model combines doctors, coaches, nutritionists, and chiropractors into
a single coordinated team — built for high-performing executives,
entrepreneurs, and athletes who want to optimize their health, not
just maintain it. Learn more at stark.health.
was running a carpet manufacturing company, working 70-hour weeks, and
winning by every external measure. Then he collapsed on a Texas golf
course — a cluster of grand mal seizures that nobody could explain.
What followed was a decade of fragmented care: specialists who didn't
talk to each other, diagnoses that treated symptoms but never
addressed the whole person, and a health system that repeatedly told
him his labs were 'normal' while his body told him otherwise.
Vande Hei was eventually diagnosed with atrial fibrillation — a
condition he'd had since age 31. He was managing it with medication,
but managing it wasn't the same as solving it. 'I was doing everything
the doctors told me to do,' Vande Hei recalls. 'And I still didn't
feel right. Nobody was looking at the whole picture.'
So he built the place he wished existed.
In 2011, Vande Hei founded what would become Stark Health — a health
optimization company that puts doctors, coaches, nutritionists, and
chiropractors under one roof, working as a single coordinated team
around each client. Not a gym. Not a clinic. Something that didn't
exist yet.
Today, Stark Health operates two locations — Tustin and Newport Beach,
California — and has served thousands of high-performing executives,
physicians, entrepreneurs, and athletes who came in frustrated by
conventional care and left with a system built around their specific
biology.
'Most of our clients are disciplined people,' says Vande Hei, now 58
and CEO of Stark Health. 'They've optimized their businesses. They've
optimized their finances. Their health is the one area they've been
flying blind — not because they don't care, but because the system
wasn't built to help them win. It was built to keep them from dying.
There's a difference.'
The results Stark tracks go beyond what a standard physical measures:
VO2 max, DEXA body composition scanning, hormonal panels, and
biological age markers are standard at intake. Clients don't receive a
single provider's opinion — they receive a coordinated assessment from
a team that meets to discuss their case.
Vande Hei still trains four days a week. Still gets his labs run.
Still manages AFib — with the same integrated team model he built for
everyone else. 'I'm not the before-and-after story,' he says. 'I'm the
ongoing story. That's the point.'
ABOUT STARK HEALTH
Founded in 2011, Stark Health is a health optimization company with
locations in Tustin and Newport Beach, California. Stark's integrated
model combines doctors, coaches, nutritionists, and chiropractors into
a single coordinated team — built for high-performing executives,
entrepreneurs, and athletes who want to optimize their health, not
just maintain it. Learn more at stark.health.
Todd Vande Hei
Stark
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