We built Stark around a simple belief: the gap between the health care most people receive and the health optimization available to those with resources and access is one of the most consequential inequalities in modern life.
For over a decade, we've worked with executives, athletes, and high performers in Newport Beach and Tustin/Irvine to close that gap for themselves. But the mission doesn't stop there.
"Your health determines what you're capable of. If we can extend that capability to people who wouldn't otherwise have access, that's not charity. That's the whole point."
— Todd Vande Hei, Founder & CEO, Stark HealthThe same data-driven approach we bring to our students — bloodwork, body composition, movement screening, Doctor oversight — is the approach everyone deserves. Most people never get it. The standard of care for the average person in America is reactive: you get sick, then you get treated. Prevention and optimization are reserved for those who can afford to seek them out.
We believe that's wrong. And while we can't solve it overnight, we can make choices — in how we run our business, who we support, and where we direct resources — that bend that curve.
Stark's community giving focuses on two areas where we believe we can make a genuine difference in Orange County:
Young athletes are often the ones most in need of real health infrastructure — and least likely to have access to it. Stark works with student athletes to provide the kind of performance support that used to be reserved for professionals: movement screening, body composition tracking, and coaching on nutrition and recovery. The habits formed at 17 are the ones people carry for life. We want those habits to be good ones.
The Stark Naked Challenge — our annual body composition competition — directs funds raised toward local charities chosen by participants. Every person who competes gets to designate where the proceeds go. It's community accountability, health transformation, and local giving all in one event.
We also partner with local organizations throughout the year — youth sports programs, community health initiatives, and causes that share our belief that healthier people make for a healthier community.
We don't publicize every partnership. We don't chase press for charity work. What we do is show up consistently — year after year — for the community that has supported Stark since we opened our doors in Newport Beach over a decade ago. That's what we owe them, and that's what we intend to deliver.
Performance support, movement screening, and nutrition coaching for young athletes in Orange County who deserve the same infrastructure as the pros.
Stark Naked Challenge proceeds go directly to OC charities chosen by participants. Your transformation funds someone else's breakthrough.
Ongoing partnerships with Orange County organizations that share our belief: healthier communities are built one person at a time.
Every Stark student who shows up, gets their data, and does the work is part of something larger than themselves. That's not marketing — it's what 13 years of this looks like.
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