Biography of Carlon Colker

Carlon M. Colker, M. D., FACN currently heads up Peak Wellness of Greenwich, Connecticut. His practice specialties include internal medicine, sports medicine, and sports nutrition. Dr. Colker is an attending physician at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, and Greenwich Hospital, in Connecticut. As a special care physician, he has taken care of the most critically ill patients in the intensive care unit at both St. Joseph Medical Center and Stamford Hospital in Connecticut. In addition to his practice, Dr. Colker is also one of the premier published researchers in the field of integrative care and a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition. He is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost experts on wellness, physical performance, athletic enhancement, and performance nutrition. Having been a part of the health and fitness industry for over 20 years, to his credit in the late 80’s he helped to design and build the first wellness program on the East coast. He is an internationally recognized consultant in health and fitness and has worked with governments, large health systems, and private companies, as well as with numerous Olympic and professional athletes and celebrities. Dr. Colker’s expertise is utilized at the highest level by sports teams and world class athletes and from around the globe. Dr. Colker is also a long time columnist and contributing editor in Muscular Development Magazine. He has also appeared in such magazines as Muscle & Fitness, Ironman, Muscle Magazine, Flex Magazine, Mind & Power, Body, Runner’s World, Walking, Let’s Live, Self Magazine, Strive, Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, and Cosmopolitan, just to name a few. He has published a number of books including The Greenwich Diet and, his most recent publication, Extreme Muscle Enhancement—Bodybuilding’s Most Powerful Techniques. Dr. Colker is a familiar person in the field of medicine, health, nutrition, and fitness. He has been a regular guest correspondent on America’s Health Network "Ask the Doctor" segment and Fox News Channel’s "Fox & Friends". Offering his expert opinion and advice, he has appeared on such shows as ESPN Outside the Lines, NBC’s Health Segment, Court TV, and ABC’s World News Tonight. Dr. Colker has also been interviewed on national television over a variety of topics from the serious to the not-so-serious by everyone from Barbara Walters and Katie Couric to Jenny Jones and Roseanne Barr. Currently he is starring in Shaq's Big Challenge. Dr. Colker was also a competitive bodybuilder and former champion. He has managed to combine his remarkable experiences to help countless people unleash their power and reach their true maximum potential. Dr. Colker has invented, formulated and/or performed the clinical research on products such as Ripped Fuel (Twinlab), Metabolife (Metabolife), Xenadrine RFA-1 (Cytodyne), Xenadrine EFX (Cytodyne), Hydroxycut (Muscletech), Metabolic Thyrolean (Prolab), CellTech (Muscletech), NitroTech (Muscletech), Q-Pro Products Sports Supplement Line (QPro), Pyruvate (MedPro), Essential Minerals (New Vision International), 7-Keto (Humanetics), Synthatrex® (Prosource), Androfuel® (Twinlab), Pyruvate Accelerator® (Nutrition for Life International), Core Control® (Alena), V-Factor (VitalBasics, Inc.), Vital Basics® Weight-loss System Supplements (VitalBasics, Inc.), Vital Basics® Weight-loss System (VitalBasics, Inc.), Greenwich Diet (ARP), Sex Pills Encyclopedia A-Z (ARP), and most recently Extreme Muscle Enhancement (Prosource Publications).