Medifast
Medifast Inc is a old health and wellness company known for its habit-based and coach-guided lifestyle solution OPTAVIA, which provides people with a simple, yet comprehensive approach to address obesity and support a healthy life. OPTAVIA provides unparalleled coaching support along with community, tailored nutrition and healthy habits, and empowers people to master their weight loss journey through each stage of life. The company has access to GLP-1 medications where clinically appropriate. Medifast remains committed to its mission of offering Lifelong Transformation, Making a Healthy Lifestyle Second Nature.www.medifastinc.com
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Oct 13, 2026
MarlaHOST
Mm-hmm.
Sarah MetcalfGUEST
And he applied and at the time the company was a Medifast company that's, it's since switched here, but they called us both in and kind of walked us around and it felt so family-oriented and little did we know that was his interview.
Sarah MetcalfGUEST
They wanted to talk to both of us and see what we were about and if we were more family-oriented or what.
Sarah MetcalfGUEST
And he s- they said, "Yeah, we wanna offer you the position."
Ken BerryHOST
Totally normal.
Ken BerryHOST
If people go on Medifast or Deal-A-Meal or Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig, they might have diarrhea for a few days.
Ken BerryHOST
This same thing holds true for the carnivore diet as well.
Ken BerryHOST
Any doctor who understands how the human body reacts to changing diet is gonna be like, oh yeah, that's no big deal.
Eric BergHOST
In this area right here, it's basically sugar.
Eric BergHOST
And then we get to the last one, which is Medifast.
Eric BergHOST
Okay, Medifast went out of business, if I'm not mistaken, or at least they had a lawsuit.
Eric BergHOST
But this is a scientifically designed program.
Eric BergHOST
You do six servings a day.
Ken BerryHOST
If you lose a ton of weight after bariatric surgery, you're gonna lose hair.
Ken BerryHOST
If you lose weight after you do the, the, the starvation Medifast diet, you're gonna lose hair.
Ken BerryHOST
If you lose a lot of weight doing, um, the HCG diet and the starvation that goes along with that, you're gonna lose a lot of hair.
Ken BerryHOST
This is well-known.
Ken BerryHOST
Uh, if you don't believe me, you can just Google bariatric surgery hair loss, Medifast diet hair loss, HCG diet hair loss, or just weight loss hair loss, and you'll see that there's thousands and thousands of articles.
Ken BerryHOST
On bariatric surgeons' websites, they say, "Oh, you're gonna lose some hair, up to 40 or 50%." A percent of people lose a substantial amount of hair, but it'll all grow back.
Ken BerryHOST
This is not some new thing with the keto diet.