Michael Eades

Biography

Dr. Michael Eades was born in Springfield, Missouri and educated in Missouri, Michigan, and California. He received his undergraduate degree in engineering from California State Polytechnic University, and received his medical degree from the University of Arkansas. After completing his medical and post-graduate training, he and his wife, Mary Dan, founded Medi-Stat Medical Clinics, a chain of ambulatory out-patient family care clinics in central Arkansas. Since 1986 Dr. Eades has been in the full time practice of bariatric, nutritional, and metabolic medicine. Drs. Michael and Mary Dan Eades became familiar to television viewing audiences from 1997 to 2005 because of a pair of highly successful infomercial shows—the first, based on their Protein Power nutritional strategy and the second on a nutritional supplement they developed for weight loss, called Metabosol—and as the on-camera hosts of a 26-episode PBS television cooking show, Low Carb CookwoRx, which they developed and co-wrote.