From Seizures and AFib to 15 Years of Stark: The CEO Who Built the Health Company He Needed to Survive

TUSTIN, CA, UNITED STATES, September 7, 2026 / EINPresswire.com /

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 that 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. 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. 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."

— Todd Vande Hei, CEO, Stark Health

The Results Stark Actually Tracks

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. Students 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. 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.

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