Carlon Colker

Quick Facts

Full Name	Carlon Colker
Occupation	Physician
Date Of Birth	Jun 21, 1965(1965-06-21)
Age	59
Birthplace	New York
Country	United States
Horoscope	Gemini

Carlon Colker Biography

Carlon Colker is one of the most popular and richest Physician who was born on June 21, 1965 in New York, United States. Carlon M.Colker, born June 21, 1965, is an American celebrity doctor. He is also a dietary supplement industry consultant. Peak Wellness, Inc., a private consulting and practice in Greenwich, Connecticut, is his birthplace. He was also the chief medical officer for Atlas Therapeutics, which does business under the name MYOS Corporation. He was also a researcher, product designer, and spokesperson for several supplement companies, including LifeVantage and ITV Ventures, Cytodyne Technology, Muscletech Research and Development and Metabolife International.

Colker was named in three lawsuits in Missouri, West Virginia and Illinois that were filed against him in 2003 for his role in the marketing and research of Hydroxycut. Colker and Peak Wellness Inc. (his Greenwich clinic) were accused of running fraudulent tests, altering test results, and hiding dangerous adverse reactions that test subjects suffered. Colker was summoned to testify before the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce in July 2003. The committee was investigating adverse events and deaths related to ephedra supplement marketing and research. His lawyers stated that he had been removed from the Missouri suit and that negotiations were ongoing to release him from all the other cases. The report didn’t describe the terms of the agreement.

Following the February 2003 heatstroke-related death of Baltimore Orioles pitcher Steve Bechler, in which ephedra was implicated as the cause, Colker and two other physicians, all speaking on behalf of the industry-affiliated Ephedra Education Council, disputed the role that ephedra played in Bechler’s death. Colker also downplayed the dangers of ephedra, claiming that it “is not a health risk for most people”.

In 2008, Colker advised actor Jeremy Piven to prematurely withdraw from David Mamet’s Broadway play Speed-the-Plow due to concerns of alleged mercury poisoning from consuming excessive amounts of sushi and Chinese herbal supplement products. The producers of the show pursued grievance and arbitration hearings through the Actors Equity union, which ruled in Piven’s favor.

Colker’s research and commentary on dietary supplements, including those containing ephedra, was widely criticized in the 2000s. In lawsuits brought in several U.S. states, Colker was named as a defendant. He claimed that the research he did for Cytodyne Technologies (ephedra supplement manufacturer) was fraudulent and that he altered test results. Also that he tried to conceal dangerous adverse reactions that were suffered by his subjects. Colker was featured in radio commercials for V-Factor, a dietary product that claims to improve male sexual performance. This was the subject of a U.S. Federal Trade Commission false advertising complaint.

Carlon Colker Net Worth

Carlon Colker is one of the richest Physician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Carlon Colker 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Colker earned a baccalaureate degree from Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York in June 1988. In May 1993, Colker received his medical degree from Sackler school of medicine. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center, Manhattan, New York, from 1993 to 1996.

Colker began his career at Park Avenue Medical Nutrition in 1996. Later that year, he was hired by Affiliated Physicians in New York City. Colker founded Peak Wellness in January 1996. It has locations in Greenwich (Connecticut) and Beverly Hills (California). They offer integrative medical services. Colker is affiliated with Greenwich Hospital, Greenwich, Connecticut. Colker is an attending physician at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in New York City’s Department of Medicine. Colker is also a volunteer faculty member at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City.

In May 2003, a California Superior Court judge handed down a $12.5 million judgment in a class action suit against Cytodyne Technologies for falsely advertising Xenadrine RFA-1, the product implicated in the death of Bechler. Colker had been enlisted by Cytodyne to conduct a clinical study on the effectiveness of Xenadrine RFA-1, and upon the study’s completion, the company paid Colker approximately $5,000 to field calls from customers and make conference appearances. Referring to Colker’s research, the judge noted that Colker lacked credibility and concluded that Cytodyne had “not just exaggerated the findings of the clinical trials it commissioned, but had also cajoled some researchers into fudging results”, and that those involved in the research on Xenadrine RFA-1 had set out “to create a study that justified the money being spent by Cytodyne and that would ensure that they received further work from the company”. Journalists for The New York Times commenting on Cytodyne’s research noted that the legal case raised “serious questions about the way makers of ephedra and other dietary supplements use — and often misuse — the promise of scientific proof to market their products”.

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In January 2015, Justin Bieber said he used MYO-X in preparation for a Calvin Klein underwear photo shoot and thanked Colker over social media; Bieber was criticized for “…hyping Colker’s latest “miracle” supplement MYO-X, to his 59 million Twitter fans.”

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Colker previously served as a researcher and television spokesperson for “V-Factor” (a combination of yohimbine, L-arginine, and Gingko biloba), a dietary supplement marketed by Vital Basics, Inc. of Portland, Maine as a men’s sexual performance enhancer. In 2004, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission registered a complaint against Vital Basics and its owners alleging, in part, that the company’s advertising of V-Factor violated Federal law; specifically, that the company made unsubstantiated claims about V-Factor’s safety; falsely represented that a clinical study of V-Factor conducted by Colker proved that the product was safe and effective; and misrepresented paid commercial advertising featuring Colker (Vital Basics Health Show radio infomercials) as independent radio programs. The defendants settled the FTC’s complaint by paying $1 million for consumer redress and agreeing not to make unsubstantiated claims in the future.