Dr. Elizabeth Klodas is a practicing preventive cardiologist. She developed Step One Foods to help her patients. Trained at Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins, Dr. Klodas saw that no matter how many medications she prescribed, no matter how perfect she got her patients’ “numbers”, none of them looked or felt any better. In fact, many were telling her that all the drugs they were taking were making them feel worse.

What Dr. Klodas realized is that much of what she was treating (high cholesterol, high blood pressure, high blood sugar) was caused in part or in whole by food. So instead of doing what she was taught to do - just throw more pills at the problem - she set out to help her patients address the root cause of their health issues and looked to nutrition instead. And if that sounds logical to you, believe it or not, she had to go up against nearly every part of the healthcare system to accomplish this.

Undaunted, she worked to combine the right cardioprotective food ingredients in the right amounts to yield rapid, measurable cholesterol reductions. The efficacy of her approach was confirmed when Dr. Klodas subjected Step One Foods to the highest levels of scientific scrutiny, validating them through a randomized controlled clinical trial performed at Mayo Clinic and University of Manitoba.

To date, Step One Foods has helped tens of thousands of individuals lower their cholesterol, improve cardiovascular health, and feel better. Dr. Klodas considers Step One Foods one of her most rewarding and impactful professional accomplishments. In addition to her role as Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Step One Foods, Dr. Klodas is an author, a nationally sought out expert on heart disease prevention, and Founder of Preventive Cardiology Clinic in Minneapolis, MN.