Optimal Health

The Take Shape for Life program, a wholly owned subsidiary of Medifast, Inc.,  was co-founded by Dr. Wayne Scott Andersen, the program’s main “architect”.

Dr. Andersen trained in open heart surgery at Cleveland Clinic and then went on to train for two years at Jackson Memorial Hospital at the University of Miami, considered to be the premier training program in the country in surgical intensive care.

Dr. Andersen became the tenth physician Board Certified in Critical Care and went back to the institution where he began his post graduate training, to set up the open heart program and surgical intensive care unit.

It was here that Dr. Andersen developed a profound understanding of the pivotal role that nutrition plays in disease and health.

For eighteen years, Dr. Andersen directed the Surgical Critical Care Program at Grandview and was Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology. In 2000, he made a monumental decision to leave his hospital-based practice to devote his full energy to helping people to become and to stay healthy.

Dr. Andersen, affectionately known as “Doc A”, has published a book and workbook that act as the blue print for how anyone can attain the measure of Optimal Health specific to them as an individual. That measure may differ between people because we do not all start at the same place, we are not the same age, nor do we all have the same genetics or health issues.

Regardless of where we are at now, most of us can get to a healthier state, even if we are struggling with a chronic health condition [not related to a metabolic disorder - Take Shape for Life will help you address that] or a physical challenge.  We won’t all end up marathon runners but everyone who undertakes the Take Shape for Life program with sincerity will be healthier, and the goal is to be as optimally healthy as we can each be.

Review: Dr. A’s Habits of Health may be one of the most important books you will ever read. –Robert Fritz, best-selling author, The Path of Least Resistance

Review: You’ll find this book replete with all the tools to help you change those ingrained, lifelong habits that make it so hard to break free. Dr. Andersen is a master at helping you look at situations in the most positive way possible a valuable tool indeed in your journey toward optimal weight and health. — –Lawrence J. Cheskin, MD, FACP, founder and director, Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center

Review: Millions of Americans are struggling to get healthy but just don t know how. The Habits of Health and this guidebook are groundbreaking advances toward overcoming this pressing problem the prescription for creating health in your life.

Dr. Andersen s simple step-by-step plan will teach, guide, and empower you to lose weight safely and quickly, learn how to maintain a healthy weight, and achieve optimal health for life. –Mark Nelson, MD, FACC, MPH