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John Heiss, Ph.D.

Vice President, Global Product Innovation at Herbalife
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Dr. John Heiss is the vice president of Global Product Innovation at Herbalife Nutrition, a member of the Nutrition Advisory Board and one of the scientists behind Herbalife24®, a comprehensive sports nutrition line and Enrichual®, a hemp-based line of skin care products.

In his role, Heiss leads the Company’s effort to modernize formulations of existing products and design new products across several consumer verticals.

Heiss spent the past three years outside Herbalife exploring the intersection of wellness and neuroscience, developing wearable sensors to continuously monitor neurodegeneration disease progression, with an emphasis on Alzheimer’s. With his new insight into the relationship between the brain, heart, blood vessels, sleep, and stress hormones —Heiss is back to help Herbalife move forward with an approach that focuses on all elements of a healthy lifestyle.

As a former category 2 competitive cyclist, Heiss has a keen understanding of the nutritional needs of endurance athletes. He is a multi-time sub-9-hour Leadville 100 mountain bike race finisher and holds an age-group course record at the Furnace Creek 508, a non-stop 508-mile bike race that passes through Death Valley, California as part of a two-man relay team. Heiss is also an avid backcountry skier and has run several ultra-marathons.

He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)* in biological chemistry, where he discovered how single proteins function within cells. The findings from his research work have been published in several peer-reviewed journals and can be found on PubMed.

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  • Herbalife
    Vice President, Global Product Innovation
    started Jun 2010
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