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We help to ensure you that no barriers
stand in the way of your goals.

Our job is simple.
You define what "the best version of you"
looks like and we help you get there.

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ABOUT STARK

We're not a gym. We're not a clinic. 

We’re the team behind business leaders who take their health as seriously as their work.

Stark is a health optimization ecosystem built around the doctor, trainer, nutritionist, and chiropractor working together on your behalf.

SINCE 2011 · NEWPORT BEACH · TUSTIN/IRVINE
THE STARK MODEL

Four specialists. One conversation. Built around you.

Doctor
Medical insight, labs, and clinical guidance.
Personal Trainer
Strength, performance, and accountability.
Nutritionist
Food strategy that matches the full plan.
Chiropractor
Movement quality, pain, recovery, and function.
 

The difference is not that Stark has specialists. The difference is that they communicate, challenge each other, and build one plan around one person.

ABOUT STARK

We're not a gym.
We're not a clinic. 

We’re the team behind business leaders who take their health as seriously as their work.

Stark is a health optimization ecosystem built around the doctor, trainer, nutritionist, and chiropractor working together on your behalf.

SINCE 2011 · NEWPORT BEACH · TUSTIN/IRVINE
ABOUT STARK

We're not a gym. We're not a clinic. 

We're something new.

A health optimization ecosystem built for business leaders, around one radical idea: what if your doctor, trainer, nutritionist, and chiropractor actually talked to each other, about you?

SINCE 2011 · NEWPORT BEACH · TUSTIN/IRVINE

Four specialists working from one shared plan.

Your doctor, trainer, nutritionist, and chiropractor are not separate vendors. They communicate, challenge each other, and build around you.

 
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Doctor

Labs, diagnostics, and clinical guidance.

02
Trainer

Strength, movement, and progression.

03
Nutritionist

Food strategy that supports the full plan.

04
Chiropractor

Recovery, function, and movement quality.

Stark was built for people who understand that great outcomes do not happen in silos. The doctor, trainer, nutritionist, and chiropractor are not separate vendors. They are one coordinated team.

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Medical insight

Labs, diagnostics, and clinical guidance that give your team a clearer picture of what your body needs.

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Performance training

Strength, movement, and progression built around your goals, limitations, and long-term performance.

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Concierge care

Coordinated support across your health plan so every specialist is working from the same information.

The Problem

You’ve done everything right.
So why don’t you feel right?

You’ve been to the doctors. You’ve run the labs. You’ve tried the programs. And you still don’t feel right.

Maybe it’s the 2pm fog that won’t lift no matter how much sleep you got. The body that used to respond and now doesn’t. The bloodwork that comes back “normal” while you’re sitting there knowing something is off.

You probably have a cardiologist. A primary care physician. Maybe a trainer. A nutritionist you see occasionally. Each one is competent. Each one is doing their job. But none of them are talking to each other.

So you get prescriptions instead of answers. Referrals instead of solutions. And a growing list of specialists each treating a symptom while your body keeps sending signals that nobody is reading together.

That’s not a you problem. That’s a structure problem.

That frustration you feel — the confusion of doing everything right and still not getting where you want to be — that’s what happens when high-performing people are handed a fragmented system and told it’s the best we’ve got. It isn’t. This is.

The Stark Difference

Most programs guess.
We measure.

We start with The Stark Baseline — a comprehensive intake that gives us the data to build a real plan. DEXA body composition scan. Blood work. Movement assessment. A full consult with our medical team.

Then the team goes to work. Together. On you.

Doctor. Trainer. Nutritionist. Chiropractor. All in the same building, all in the same conversation, all with access to the same data.

15 years. Two locations. Thousands of students. Health is a skill. And we’re here to teach it.

Who We’re For

Stark isn’t for everyone.
It’s for the ones who are serious.

We work with business leaders — and the people who love them — who know something is off but haven’t found anyone who could actually figure out what. People who have been through the system and left with prescriptions instead of answers.

Stark exists for the person who is serious — not curious, serious — about getting their health back. Not as a luxury. As the foundation everything else runs on.

If you’re looking for a quick fix or someone to tell you what you want to hear — we’re not the right fit. If you’re ready to find out what’s actually going on and fix it — we are.

How I Got Here

It started when my own body stopped cooperating.

In my early 30s, I was running a company, sleeping in my office, eating McDonald’s three times a day, and telling myself I was fine. I wasn’t fine.

I was on two medications — one for atrial fibrillation, one to raise my seizure threshold after a cluster of grand mal seizures. My doctors told me: you’re just getting older. This is just part of life. I believed them. For years.

The moment it cracked open was 2008. I’d just been let go from the company I’d built. The real estate plan I’d spent years constructing collapsed with the market. I was standing in my Jacuzzi — beautiful house, ocean breeze — thinking I couldn’t take care of my family. I went inside and broke down.

My daughter Lizzy, two years old, came around the corner and found me like that. She climbed into my lap. Put her hands on my face. Pushed her nose against mine. Being consoled by a two-year-old. As a father. That didn’t sit well with me.

Not long after, a call came from a trainer named Brad who was about to close his tiny gym. He needed someone like me. I needed to be needed. Stark opened January 2, 2011.

What I eventually understood — through my own body and through 15 years of watching the system fail people who deserved better — is that the body doesn’t break down in isolation. My AFib, my seizures, my shoulder injuries, my chronic headaches, my fatigue: they weren’t separate problems. They were a system in crisis being treated by specialists who never spoke to each other.

When I asked my own physician to sit down with my nutritionist and trainer to discuss my labs, he refused. Looked offended. Walked out. That moment became the blueprint for Stark.

I came from manufacturing. Every product I ever launched involved a cross-functional team — design, finance, engineering, sales — all in the same room, arguing. We called them “sweaty armpit conversations.” Uncomfortable. And they produced better decisions every single time. I wanted that to exist for the human body.

That’s what Stark is. An ecosystem of specialists who share different educational backgrounds and the same goal: your optimal health. The conflict is built in. We’re always questioning each other. Out comes a better result. In our case, that result is you.

Todd Vande Hei

Founder & CEO, Stark Health

The moment Stark was born

Why does the doctor never talk to the nutritionist?

Todd had asked his doctor a simple question: "Would you be willing to speak with my nutritionist?" The doctor rolled his eyes. He couldn't. He wouldn't.

Todd drove home angry. Then curious. 

“Why can't I put together a team of people who share different perspectives, with the same goal? I wanted that to exist for the human body.”

He had spent years watching cross-functional teams outperform siloed experts in business. It was obvious everywhere else. Why was the human body treated differently?

It wasn't anymore. Stark was built on that question.

About Us - Stark
Who Stark is for

Stark is for people who treat health like the operating system for everything else.

If you want a quick fix, Stark is not it. Stark is for the person who is serious about optimizing their health the same way they optimize their business, with real data, the right team, and a long-term view.

The ecosystem

Four specialists. One coordinated team.

Every Stark student works with a doctor, personal trainer, nutritionist, and mobility expert. That is not the unusual part. What is unusual is that they actually talk to each other, about you, specifically, on your behalf.

Not in theory. In real conversations, with real disagreement, working toward a single goal: your health.

We call our people students. Not clients. The distinction is intentional. You are here to learn how your body works, not to consume a service. Over the years, we have learned the outcomes are better.

We have been doing this since 2011. We were the first. There is a reason nobody else has built quite what we built, it is hard. The collaboration is messy. The communication takes time. The specialists have to check their egos at the door.

We think it is worth it.

01
Doctor

Medical insight, labs, diagnostics, and clinical guidance connected to the larger plan.

02
Personal Trainer

Strength, progression, and performance coaching tailored to your body and goals.

03
Nutritionist

Food strategy designed around recovery, body composition, and long-term health.

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Mobility Expert

Movement quality, pain, recovery, and function built into the same coordinated plan.

Why it works

Built-in conflict.
Spectacular outcomes.

In most medical and fitness settings, the doctor doesn't speak to the trainer. The trainer doesn't challenge the nutritionist. Nobody talks. They all have different philosophies, communicated through you, not with each other.

At Stark, that conflict is the point. When your doctor, trainer, nutritionist, and mobility expert are all looking at the same person with different lenses, they are going to disagree. That disagreement is productive.

The conflict is built in.

Stark is always questioning assumptions, looking at the same person from multiple angles, and using that tension to build a better answer.

It is not the efficient way.

It takes more communication and more coordination. The tradeoff is a better work product. In this case, that work product is the human body.

Outcomes

What Happens Inside the Ecosystem

When four specialists are looking at the same person and communicating openly, they catch things a single practitioner can miss. Not because any one of them is smarter, but because the system is designed to find what isolated expertise misses.

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Russ avoided surgery.

Russ was told spinal surgery was his only option. Stark's integrated team found the real source of the problem and fixed it. No surgery.

 
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Tony resolved joint pain.

Tony had lived with joint pain long enough that he had stopped questioning it. Inside Stark's ecosystem, the team traced it to its actual origin. The pain resolved.

BUILT ON ONE QUESTION

Comprehensive health approach

Why does the doctor never talk to the trainer? Why does the nutritionist never challenge the program? Stark was built on the belief that isolated expertise has a ceiling. The ecosystem removes it.

WHY

The Best Version of You

Our job is simple: you define what “the best version of you” looks like, and we help you get there. If there is a gap between where you are currently, and where you want to be  physically, then STARK exists to help bridge that gap.

ALICE NGUYEN, NMD Naturopathic Doctor

WHAT

360° Approach

Optimal health can only be achieved when the WHOLE body is addressed – inside and out. We look at things from all angles to make sure there is nothing inhibiting you from achieving your goals.

Wheel of Health

JUSTIN CHENG, DC Chiropractor/Soft-Tissue Therapist working on a student

HOW

Team of Specialists

No one person can be everything to everyone. Instead, we take a team of highly specialized individuals that each make contributions and allow for the high level of customization needed to deliver results.

BRIAN MOLINA Newport Beach General Manager working with a student

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