Mark is the Founder of Health Quest and was born in Johannesburg, South Africa - raised in a tennis household that eventually led him to be one of the top 3 junior players in South Africa. He later earned a tennis scholarship to UC Irvine in California and soon was ranked #5 in division 1 NCAA in the US by his senior year. Mark went on to receive a BA in Economics and a MBA from University of California, Irvine. After college, he became an ATP tennis Pro ranked # 117 in the world and played the professional mens tennis tour for five years. Mark played all the grand slams and enjoyed wins over top 10 players in the world.

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25 years later, at 52 Mark experienced a burning sensation in his chest. He drove himself to the nearest ER. Despite having no family history or prior warnings and being physically fit, he was told that he had experienced a minor heart attack. Mark had a stent inserted in his diagonal off his LAD. Needless to say Mark's family and friends were in total shock.

Initially, Mark went the regular route of medications for the first 8 months, until he began developing severe side effects from the statins prescribed him. He suffered from a host of conditions that indluded severe memory loss, extreme fatigue, and an unusually rapid heart rate. It was at this juncture, Mark began his deep dive into learning about heart disease; reading over dozens of books and reaching out to renowned integrative cardiologists, Dr. Stephen Sinatra and Dr. James Roberts Mark quickly joined Dr. William Davis' platform named 'Undoctored', and continued his education in the field. Inspired by what he had learned, Mark began his journey into a new type of testing that included measuring things such as inflammation, metal, microbiome, and genetic testing.

Mark then went on a keto/paleo diet and lost 30 pounds — resulting in restoring the majority of his blood to a normal range, including: Trigs, Insulin, HDL, Thyroid, and Microbiome.

It was this experience that inspired Mark to develop the HealthQuest platform, with the mission to help patients resolve their health issues as he had — by getting the the root cause of their condition, rather than masking the root condition with petroleum-based pharmaceuticals. By leveraging a highly personalized road map that employs the latest in technology, research, blood tests, a commmunity of healthcare professionals and forums, and expert advise HealthQuest aims to change the way people address their health.

Today we understand that the traditional LDL, HDL and Trigs tests traditional medicine employs is not enough to deliver the information we need to address the underlying cause of our health issues. Heart disease is far more complicated than we've been led to believe, so much so, that it's often the root of the myriad conditions we suffer from. In other words, when we address our health of our heart, we address the health of our entire body.

HealthQuest is determined to arm people with the right kind of information that will help to distinguish between the often confusing and complex cadre of voices and information, and instead lead them onto a path of real and lasting health for themselves. This revolutionary sea change in an industry that in many ways seems to have lost its way between big Pharma, insurance incentives, and malpractice, is a critical one. One that we intend to facilitate on one platform in a comprehensive and straight-forward manner.

Mark Kaplan has spend the past 23 years working in the financial services industry building companies. HealthQuest will be his sixth start up company initiated via his core global investment company Paradigm Capital (operating globally in Americas, Middle East, Africa, Europe and Asia.)

To view Mark's tennis history (5 year match stats as ATP player), please link here:

https://www.itftennis.com/.../800178884/rsa/mt/S/overview/

Since graduating from chiropractic school, Eric's main passion has been and continues to be teaching people about health-related topics, including Healthy Keto® and intermittent fasting as a basic long-term eating plan. He loves dissecting complex health problems, breaking them down so they are easy to understand, and connecting symptoms to a real cause. Eric also wrote the Amazon Best Seller, The Healthy Keto Plan.

In Eric's 30 years of practice in Alexandria, Virginia, he had the opportunity to personally work with over 40,000 people using natural methods, nutrition, and the healthy version of the ketogenic diet (Healthy Keto®). His clients have included senior officials in the U.S. Government, medical doctors, actors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, professors, engineers, as well as nurses, stay-at-home moms, and high school students.

People from all walks of life and from all over the world visited Eric. He also devotedly did in-house seminars several times a week, including external seminars in Governmental agencies, including the Library of Congress, Federal Communication Commission, National Institute of Science, FBI, and many others. In addition to his practice, he created monthly training seminars for doctors in which he delivered techniques to over 2,500 doctors and healthcare practitioners.

Eric passion for teaching shifted to YouTube in 2008. Over the next 14 years, he compiled over 6,000 videos on just about every health topic that you could imagine. Eric'c YouTube channel, including different languages, finally totaled 26 million subscribers and regularly achieves 100 million views per month.

He is constantly searching for underlying reasons why people get diseases—it's become a hobby. So, it’s either doing videos or creating courses. I even created a course on keto and intermittent fasting to train Keto Coaches worldwide.

In 2017 and 2018, he hosted the annual Keto Health Summit at the Gaylord Hotel in National Harbor Maryland, where 1,000 people flew in from all over the world to attend and soak up a wealth of keto knowledge.

He completed his Doctor of Chiropractic degree in 1988 at Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa, and am is a  board-certified chiropractor in three states (Virginia, California, and Louisiana).

In his earlier years, he completed 2 years of undergraduate pre-med studies at the University of Wisconsin Parkside, as well as training as an X-ray technician through St. Phillips College in Texas.

Notable achievements, publications, and appearances:

• Host of an annual Keto Health Summit in Washington, D.C., sharing my expert knowledge and featuring speakers like Dr. Mercola, Thomas DeLauer, and Dr. Eric Westman. The summit attracted 500 attendees in 2018 and 800 in 2019.

• Published multiple books, including The 7 Principles of Fat Burning and The Healthy Keto Plan.

• Trained over 2,500 health professionals in my methods and professional expertise over the course of my career.

• Featured in countless notable publications and magazines, such as being the cover story of Woman’s World in June of 2019.

• Journal of Clinical Medicine - Cancer Metabolism: Fasting Reset, the Keto-Paradox and Drugs for Undoing

• Appearances on various TV and radio shows as an expert in the field, such as Channel 9 CBS Nightly News, Channel 8 News, and more.Eric is the Health Quest Chief Medical Officer and works closely with the management team in steering the growth of the global platform.

Dr. Philip Ovadia is board certified in Cardiothoracic Surgery and General Surgery. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and is a founding member of the Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners. Conducting over 3,000 heart surgeries taught Dr. Philip Ovadia that good health comes from lifestyle and nutrition, not from surgery. He is now on a mission to help people stay off his operating table by giving them the tools and mindset to never need a heart surgeon.

After growing up in New York, Dr. Ovadia graduated from the accelerated Pre Med/Med program at the Pennsylvania State University and Jefferson Medical College (now Sidney Kimmel School of Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University). He then went on to complete a Residency in General Surgery at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and a Fellowship in Cardiothoracic Surgery at Tufts-New England Medical School. Dr. Ovadia has practiced Cardiothoracic Surgery in Beaver, PA and Clearwater, Florida.

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In 2020 he established Ovadia Cardiothoracic Surgery and now works as an independent contractor Cardiothoracic Surgeon in various locations throughout the United States. In an effort to overcome his lifelong struggle with obesity, Dr. Ovadia adopted a low-carbohydrate focused way of eating in 2015. He has maintained a weight loss of nearly 100 pounds and since March, 2019 has maintained a mostly carnivorous way of eating. He has extensively researched the health benefits of low-carb with a focus on heart health through many hours of reading the medical literature, books and listening to podcasts, as well as personal discussions with many of the physician leaders and citizen scientists involved in the low-carb movement. In his recent book, Stay Off My Operating Table, Dr. Ovadia discusses the principles of optimizing metabolic health to prevent heart disease and other chronic diseases. He also hosts the Stay Off My Operating Table Podcast, is a frequent guest on other podcasts focused on metabolic and heart health, and has delivered lectures at conferences focused on metabolic health. Dr. Ovadia has also established Ovadia Heart Health, a Telehealth practice that focuses on the prevention and treatment of metabolic and heart disease utilizing lifestyle and dietary modification. He incorporates his hands-on, clinical experience with heart disease and the personal insights he has gained in his own struggle with obesity and poor metabolic health.

Jeff Mahony sees opportunities in places where others don't and has had a multitude of successes as a result. From creating aerospace patents to innovating banking that gives opportunities to low-income families, he looks for the gaps in the white space in the marketplace and then searches for an answer. As the CEO and founding member of the global management team, that's how he looks at SaveDaily Holding Corporation and all the companies he acts in a strategic advisor role or active day-to-day operations.

Jeff's strong work ethic and thirst for learning landed him at UCLA where he put himself through school as a cognitive science major, what we now know as artificial intelligence. Even before he graduated, he was tapped by the aerospace industry, and was sent all over the world as a troubleshooter, from South Africa to Russia and from Australia to Austria.

A pioneer in the fintech space with over 35 years building companies, developing A.I. and leading technology teams, Jeff is now dedicated to fulfilling the promise of blockchain technology and health related services. Since 2017, he has served as the co-founder/CEO of Ubiquicorp, the parent company of BRYT. And, in 2023, Jeff was named Chairman of the Hourglass ($WAIT) Foundation and advises several multi-national financial platforms built on blockchain.

Jordan is on a personal mission to transform heart health, inspired by the loss of his grandfather to heart disease and his uncle's near-fatal heart attack. At HealthQuest, he harnesses his understanding of human behavior and storytelling to orchestrate the company’s vision.

Known for his versatility, Jordan combines creative problem-solving with meticulous attention to detail, excelling in strategic and operational roles. He previously worked at Veritus Holdings, an early stage venture capital firm, where he analyzed the business models and growth strategies of numerous brands in the consumer goods and health technology spaces. More recently, Jordan took on a multifaceted sales role at Axonic Insurance, helping drive revenue and operations from the company’s initial launch.

A Bentley University graduate with a degree in Finance, Jordan co-founded the Bentley Blockchain Association, a leading organization focused on the education of blockchain technology. At Bentley, he was the captain and #1 player of the varsity tennis team where he amplified his teammates strengths and supported their growth, a skill he continues to leverage in his career today.

Dr. Cywes is Dual Board Certified in General Surgery and in Pediatric Surgery. He specializes in Metabolic Healthcare including Pediatric and Adult obesity, diabetes, insulin resistance,N lipidology, metabolic brain development including Autism Spectrum Disorder, PCOS, Lipedema and other endocrine disorders.

Dr Cywes received his medical degree from The University of Cape Town, South Africa in 1987 where he interned and did an anesthesia/trauma surgery residency. He moved to North America and studied at Ohio State University's Columbus Children's Hospital before moving to Canada where he completed his general surgery residency and specialized in minimally invasive surgery at the University of Toronto. Dr. Cywes earned his PhD in liver metabolism and immunology and the effect of glucose metabolism on vascular endothelium inflammation and coagulation working with Dr David Jenkins, the father of the Glycemic Index (the current standard of care used to treat diabetes).

After completing his pediatric surgery fellowship at the University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, Dr. Cywes was appointed as an Assistant Professor of Pediatric and Fetal Surgery at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee where he did hepatic stem cell research.

His focus is helping people understand and treat the true cause of their endocrine/metabolic disease including obesity and diabetes. He is increasingly working with high performance athletes as well. Dr Cywes is a strong proponent of Therapeutic Carbohydrate Restriction and is comfortable anywhere along the continuum of lowcarb vegetarian to pure carnivore ways of life. Dr Cywes works in a private practice alongside lowcarb specialist RD Dieticians, Certified Diabetic Educators and psychologists and psych Nurse Practitioners focused on behavioral health transformation.

During this time, Dr. Cywes became increasingly interested in adolescent obesity and the impact of carbohydrates on the liver and endocrine/metabolic syndrome in young patients. Dr. Cywes’ research led to a comprehensive understanding of the toxicity of chronic excessive carbohydrate consumption as the primary cause of obesity and so-called obesity-related co-morbidities, particularly diabetes and vascular inflammatory disorders. In the late 1990s Dr Cywes understood that the prevailing treatment of obesity using a Calories in, Calories out (CICO) model was erroneous, and he developed the Carbohydrate Insulin Model of Obesity and Diabetes (CIMOD). Using this model in combination with his understanding of the psychology of addiction, he developed a clinical Metabolic Health program and put together a team of practitioners to treat obese children, adolescents and adults using this approach.

In 2004, Dr. Cywes established Jacksonville Surgical Associates to continue his work in both adolescent and adult obesity and endocrine/metabolic treatment, and in 2013 opened a practice in West Palm Beach, Florida. He now works with a highly experienced team of professionals from a variety of medical sub-specialties to better care for metabolically ill patients. He has developed the practice into an internationally recognized Center of Excellence for obesity and metabolic management. The practice uses a cognitive behavioral therapy approach addressing carbohydrates as addictive substances to help patients manage the cause of their disease and establish remission. Based on his extensive clinical research and observations, Dr. Cywes lectures internationally regarding the physiological impact of carbohydrate consumption as the primary cause of the worldwide Chronic Non-Communicable Disease (CNCDs) epidemic including pediatric brain development, PCOS and gestational diabetes. He also lectures on the behavioral aspects of carbohydrate addiction as the cause of obesity and obesity-related co-morbidities and the use of substance abuse methodology, rather than a diet and exercise approach, to the effective long term treatment of obesity. Dr Cywes firmly believes that metabolic disease, obesity and diabetes are not treated by drugs or surgery, however, medications such as GLP-1 agonists and bariatric surgery may be invaluable tools along the journey of becoming carbohydrate-free.

Dr. Cywes is a Founder Member and on the Board of Directors of SMHP the Society for Metabolic Health Practitioners. He is a member of ASMBS (American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery) and is a member of the ASMBS Childhood Obesity Committee. He is a member of APSA (American Pediatric Surgery Association) and sits on the APSA Childhood Obesity Committee. He has earned a Centers of Excellence designation by the Surgical Review Corporation. Dr. Cywes trains healthcare workers in developing a CIMOD aftercare model to help patients maintain changes to their lifestyles.

Dr Cywes has become one of the foremost clinical authorities in the treatment and management of obesity and metabolic disease in adolescents. He is active in clinical research. He has written several lowcarb book chapters and co-authored a book, Diabetes Unpacked outlining an effective approach to understanding and treating diabetes into remission. Dr. Cywes' vast experience in pediatric and general surgery serves him well in using bariatric surgery to treat obesity in adults and children. Dr Cywes has collaborated with Dexcom, Inc and is engaged in several prospective trials.

Dr Cywes maintains an active clinical practice in Jupiter and Jacksonville, Florida as well as conveying the CIMOD message on social media and through his websites – He has many podcasts freely available on YouTube at carbaddictiondoc. His website is Obesityunderstood.com and he is active on Facebook, Tiktok and Instagram

Melanie grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa. She studied Optometry and worked as an Optometrist for 4 years. After immigrating to the United States, Melanie worked for Nestlé Waters for 17 years doing project management and leading training, data, communications, and continuous improvement initiatives. The skills she acquired at Nestlé allowed her build expertise to handle complex corporate environments and be able to work with multiple teams to implement projects.

Melanie has always been interested in natural health and has helped her family, friends and others reach optimal health. She has studied nutrition for the last 20 years and has a passion for the health care, feeding her family organic food and living the natural way. She has always taken a natural approach to illness and uses alternative remedies to heal.

Dr. Alain Sabri is CMO and Chief Medical Director, EMEA and is a medical professional with 25 years of experience as an Otolaryngologist-Head & Neck Surgeon and Facial Reconstructive Surgeon. He has gained a versatile healthcare management experience in a variety of geographical areas worldwide. He has held several leadership positions including chairing four departments, serving as associate chief of staff, medical director of human resources and Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs & recruitment at leading international medical schools and medical centers. He has established multiple programs and multidisciplinary teams/centers of excellence and was involved in two major international projects with the Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic along with his ongoing clinical and academic activities as an educator-researcher.

He lectured extensively worldwide, has organized & chaired many scientific meetings. He is active in research, both basic science and clinical, and has published widely on head and neck surgery. He recently published a medical textbook on the challenges of global sleep disorders management. He has also lectured and conducted research on physician burnout, healthcare professional wellness and leadership.

He was granted the title of professor from the Cleveland Clinic Lerner School of Medicine and many leading medical schools in the middle east. At the Mayo Clinic, USA where he practiced as a faculty surgeon, he has received the Teacher of The Year Award. He also received the inaugural ‘outstanding physician-educator of the year award’ at SSMC-Mayo Clinic in the UAE. He was presented with the ‘honor award’ from the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.

Dr. Sabri is American board certified in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. He was also awarded the American Board certification in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in 2004. His medical educational journey included surgical training, sub-specialization in head and neck oncologic and reconstructive surgery as well as neurotology-skull base surgery at Georgetown, Case Western/University Hospital of Cleveland and Vanderbilt University Medical Centers. He has also completed a master’s degree in health and hospital management from ESA (Ecole Superieure des Affaires-affiliated with ESCP France) business school as well as pursuing further Healthcare Leadership course at INSEAD.

In parallel to the above, he was involved in multiple medical humanitarian missions in South America and the Middle East. He serves on educational institutional boards as well as a cancer charity fund in the MENA region where he oversaw the establishment of dispensaries for the less fortunate. He is fluent in many languages. His hobbies and interests include intercultural exchanges & peace initiatives, avid reading, tennis, downhill skiing, padel, squash, motorcycling and antiques.

Florence is a trauma-informed Certified Health Coach with expertise in metabolic health and ultra-processed food addiction recovery. Her additional training includes Functional Medicine Nutrition courses, a Metabolic Psychiatry certificate from Dr. Georgia Ede (Harvard), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Focusing, EFT, and more. She is currently being certified as a Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Practitioner with Dr. Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing Institute.

She has a proven track record of helping individuals unhook from the additive pull of processed foods, better regulate their nervous system, and reverse metabolic diseases such as obesity and diabetes. Florence is the founder of the world’s first online conference on the health-harming and addictive nature of sugar and ultra-processed foods (Kick Sugar Summit®), which has touched and transformed the lives of tens of thousands of individuals.