Ivy Larson & Andy Larson, M.D.
Founders of Clean Cuisine
Ivy & Andy’s 19-year old son, Blake (a clean eater since birth!)
Ivy Larson and Andy Larson, M.D. are the original founders of Clean Cuisine, a nutrient-dense anti-inflammatory nutrition program the couple developed after Ivy was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, multiple sclerosis (MS), in 1998 at the age of twenty-two. For over two decades, Ivy has strictly adhered to the Clean Cuisine nutrition principles outlined in the Clean Cuisine Defined page and has remained symptom free of MS without the need to take any of the disease-modifying medications.
Together the couple has written five top-selling nutrition books, including Clean Cuisine: An 8-Week Anti-Inflammatory Nutrition Program that Will Change the Way You Age, Look & Feel and the Clean Cuisine Cookbook. The Clean Cuisine nutrition program has helped tens of thousands of people suffering with autoimmune and inflammatory conditions regain their health and lives.
A former host of nutrition and fitness segments on Lifetime Television, Ivy has also been featured on Good Morning America, CNN, Fox News, Martha Stewart Radio, The Doctors, the Montel Show and NPR. Her recipes, fitness and nutrition advice have been featured in in Time Magazine, US News and World Report, Fitness Magazine, Life & Style, Get Active, Oxygen, Woman’s Day, Woman’s World, Star, National Examiner, First for Women, Quick and Simple and many others.
As a mother, Ivy intimately understands the time constraints other working women and mothers face and she has always aimed to make her lifestyle recommendations as family-friendly, realistic and doable as possible. She is incredibly proud to say she has raised their now 19-year old son, Blake, on the same nutrient-dense, anti-inflammatory nutrition program she has adhered to since his birth in 2001. The couple attributes Blake’s remarkable good health to clean eating (he has only been on antibiotics once in his life!)
IVY LARSON
Ivy Larson is a nutrition, fitness and wellness expert and the creator of Clean Cuisine. She is the founder of CleanCuisine.com and author of five nutrition books including the bestselling Gold Coast Cure (HCI Books, 2005). She is also an American College of Sports Medicine certified Health Fitness Specialist and creator of Full Fitness Fusion: The 30 Minute Solution workout DVD.
Ivy holds additional professional certifications as a fitness instructor and fitness testing specialist through the Fitness Institute International.
Ivy’s Clean Cuisine recipes, workouts and nutrition advice are especially popular among time-crunched women trying to balance family, fitness, health and work. Ivy lives in North Palm Beach, FL with her husband Andy while their son Blake currently attends Drexel University in Philadelphia.
ANDREW LARSON, MD, FACS, FASMBS
Dr. Larson is the medical expert behind Clean Cuisine. A board certified general, laparoscopic, and bariatric surgeon, Dr. Larson has directed an internationally certified “Center of Excellence” program offering weight loss surgery. He serves as part of the affiliate faculty of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and has also served as an Affiliate Clinical Assistant Professor at the Schmidt College of Biomedical Science at Florida Atlantic University.
Dr. Larson graduated with distinction from Cornell University, where he earned a BS in mechanical engineering. He earned his MD from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine, consistently ranked amongst the top five medical schools in North America. Since graduating from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine Dr. Larson has trained at some of the nation’s most storied medical institutions including:
- Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Hospital, the nation’s first hospital
- Philadelphia’s Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
- New York’s prestigious Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- New Jersey’s premier heart hospital, the Newark-Beth Israel Medical Center
- New Jersey’s Monmouth Medical Center, a referral center for minimally invasive surgery
Dr. Larson presently works in Palm Beach County, Florida where he has served as medical director for JFK Medical Center’s Bariatric Wellness and Surgical Institute, a certified “Center of Excellence” facility for weight loss surgery. Dr. Larson is a member of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, the American Medical Association, and the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity. He holds a fellowship in the American College of Surgeons and is the 2013 President of the Palm Beach County Medical Society.
Dr. Larson has published multiple peer-reviewed medical journal articles and presented scientific research at national conferences. Along with his wife, Ivy Larson, he has authored five national top selling books to date in addition to serving as the medical expert for the Chicken Soup for the Soul Healthy Living: Weight Loss book.
