Who is Andres Zuleta?
Over the past 14 years, Andres has treated thousands of patients across the world, popularized the concept of Thrive Medicine, and founded a health company called Samasta that helps people and communities reach their health targets.
Early Life
Andres Zuleta used to play doctor as a child with his cousin, that he would help him get better in the hospital, he also used to sell air fresheners in the streets and Gas stations around Medellin Colombia as a kid, both physician and entrepreneur since an early age. He then moved from Colombia to the US with his brother and mother in search of a better future. Early in life and during high school and on, Andres Experienced hardships that made him gain the skills to overcome and seek vitality.
Career
In High School, Andres had his first experience with patients in a migrant head start center in Alabama where he help run the infirmary,
In college, he traveled to Mexico and worked with remote villages in the Mayan community, and he performed research. In Medical school, he traveled and worked in many different health systems around the world seeing what worked and what didn't.
In residency, he worked in the Diabetes Capital of the world and started to discover a new way to help his patients get to the root of their disease.
The limitations and obstacles Andres encountered equipped him with the insights required to bring his wellbeing to life. This then became the birthplace of the idea for his company, THRIVEMED.
Thrive City Health
Thrive City Health is another way of saying integration towards prosperity focused medicine
Thrive City Academy: Educational experiences to improve health and wellbeing for people
Samasta Health Foundation: A nonprofit organization that strives to improve the well-being of individuals, families, and communities
Thrive City Media: Relevant content production to help people and communities reach their health targets.
Giving Back
Andres's mission with Samasta extends out to a non profit organization he founded with other colleagues and friends called Samasta Health Foundation for which he is deeply passionate about and deeply engaged with both time and resources.
Samasta Health Foundation's mission is to improve the wellbeing of individuals, families and communities by using the internet to accelerating.