Adam G. Southam

Founder & CEO at Food for Health

dam Southam is a broad-based strategic thinker with more than 35 years of leadership, innovation, strategy, invention, business start-up, branding, and marketing excellence. He has conceived several patented inventions related to functional and preventative medicine, health, wellness, broadcast media, eCommerce, and distribution channel management. His most important invention is his patented Efficacy Engine® -- a solution for practitioners, patients, payers, providers, and people-at-large to use in determining what ingredients in foods, beverages, and supplements are clinically proven effective in the treatment or prevention of disease or the pursuit of wellness goals.

Like many that have been diagnosed with chronic disease, a single routine check-up changed his life His doctor told him he had abnormally high levels of fat in his blood, a condition called hyperlipidemia, that could lead to heart attack or stroke. Instead of reaching for medications first, his physician prescribed a book that taught simple dietary changes. His deadly triglyceride levels plummeted from 1830 to 410 points in 90 days. Then his doctor recommended a high-quality fish oil, and his triglycerides dropped another 200 points. Adam tells an amusing story of shopping for fish oil and the confusion that he experienced in trying to choose from dozens of options in a store with none. Most physicians and pharmacists are not trained in nutrition or functional food, and his journey caused him to create our algorithm that relies wholly upon significant verifiable clinical facts. Adam created MyFormulary to guide others to treat or prevent disease using Functional Foods, tools, and reliable, peer-reviewed, clinically proven resources.

Adam consults with companies internationally and holds positions on several Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards. Southam is engaged in speaking at conferences, trade shows, colleges, and universities on topics of functional food, innovation, branding, patent prosecution and defense, business, and channel management. Adam is an exercise fanatic, avid downhill skier, mountain biker, and equestrian. He has a long history of leading charitable events and fundraising initiatives. He is passionate about dance, ballet, theatre, and artistry. His charitable passions are leadership, youth, and wellness. Southam credits his success to countless mentors and advisors and looks to give back and pay forward in mentoring and advising others.

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Minneapolis, United States

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Food for Health™ is the world’s only patented personalized precision Food-as-Medicine Software-as-a-Service solution that uses unbiased, peer-reviewed, third-party, clinical studies to calculate cumulative efficacy across multiple co-morbidities. 52% of all consumers already read product labels for health reasons yet under 1% understand them. Uber improved how we travel from A to B and we are improving health by replacing label reading with label scanning to deliver precision, clarity, speed, and certainty about which foods are good or bad for you. We seek to significantly reduce and, one day, obliterate chronic disease caused by the foods we eat. Few understand food labels and the health impact of ingredients micro- and macro-nutrients contained therein. The problem becomes exponentially complex with multiple co-morbidities coupled with allergies, sensitivities, cultural, regional, or religious dietary implications, general preferences, costs, and contraindications, depletions or adjuvants with prescription medications and other foods/ingredients. We are precisely aligned with health trends, MAHA, and diet-disease remedies. Our Digital Health SaaS delivers high multiples, valuations, and major health impact by simplifying colossal complex calculations with speed, science, and clarity. Consumers, grocers, payers, providers, and employers attain major profits. We are a patented, recession-resilient, social impact imperative with worldwide scalability and multiple exit verticals.