Meet Dr. Bernstein

For over 35 years, Dr. Stanley K. Bernstein, MD, a leading authority on healthy and rapid weight loss, has been helping people lose weight quickly and safely and to keep it off long term.

Inspired by a passion to actively improve the quality of his patient’s life and frustrated by the inadequate standards of obesity treatment administered by most physicians, Dr. Bernstein spent years researching and developing the Dr. Bernstein diet.

“I want to help people lose weight before they face unnecessary medical problems down the road”
– Dr. Bernstein

Hundreds of thousands of people have come to Dr. Bernstein and have lost millions of pounds of excess weight, and have kept it off for life –improving their health, longevity and quality of life.

Dr. Bernstein graduated from the University of Toronto in 1966 and interned at the renowned Mount Sinai Hospital. As a physician, his personal goals and professional aspirations have always had one commonality: a commitment to go beyond merely monitoring and treating symptoms in his patients, but to correct the underlying problems and truly improve their quality of life.

Following his internship, he went into family practice and took on geriatric work at the renowned Baycrest Centre. His reputation as a GP saw him quickly develop a very busy family practice and become the busiest family doctor at the obstetric ward at Mount Sinai Hospital.

It was during these years that he became disappointed with the inadequate standards for the treatment of obesity. Dr. Bernstein wanted to focus on treating the underlying problem causing health issues in his patients as opposed to treating the symptoms.

His interest in the condition of hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) led him to develop a method of controlling hunger through the introduction of vitamins, minerals and proper diet that proved effective in reducing cravings. He also joined the American Society of Bariatric Physicians, an organization devoted to educating physicians in methods of treating obesity.

Finally, after years of development and research, he began administering a unique diet program that generated dramatically better results than any prevailing treatment - and it still does, more than 3 decades later!

Dr. Bernstein’s weight loss/disease management practice grew, primarily by word of mouth, from his single office in 1974 to 70 clinics across North America in 2009. To date he and his network of clinics, staffed with specially-trained nurses and doctors, have helped hundreds of thousands of people change their lives. After more than 35 years, the results his diet achieves every day continue to fuel his passion for helping people improve their quality of life and prospects for longevity.