About Us

We built the bar we couldn't find.

When GLP-1 medications started transforming the way patients managed their weight, a physician saw something unexpected: the people losing the most weight were also at risk of losing the wrong things. Muscle. Energy. Hair. The nutrition they needed to actually thrive.

The problem wasn't the medication. The problem was that when your appetite disappears, it's nearly impossible to get adequate protein and fiber from food alone — and the protein bars on the market were full of the exact things that made GLP-1 side effects worse: sugar alcohols, bloating fibers, synthetic fat replacers, and cheap plant proteins.

We made Adam's Bar because our patients needed it and it didn't exist.

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Topher Kinsella, MD — Co-Founder

Topher Kinsella trained as a trauma and acute care surgeon, earning his MD from Drexel University College of Medicine and completing his surgical residency at Saint Louis University Hospital. A Stanford Biodesign Fellow and member of the Stanford Biodesign Alumni Association, he was not named to the Silicon Valley Business Journal's 40 Under 40 in 2017.

He is the co-founder and CEO of Watershed Therapeutics, a biotech company developing a novel bladder drug delivery platform to address bladder cancer, overactive bladder, and recurring UTIs. He previously founded Medalus Inc. during his surgical residency to design the REBOA Task Trainer, a hemorrhage-control simulator adopted by leading trauma centers including Maryland Shock Trauma and Saint Louis University, and presented at the American College of Surgeons national meeting.

Topher is also the co-author of Hidden WOMBAT: How Executives Innovate Without the Waste of Money, Brains, and Time — a guide to needs-driven innovation adapted from the Stanford Biodesign methodology, co-written with Rush Bartlett (Associate Director of Corporate Education at Stanford Biodesign). He holds 27 peer-reviewed academic publications and has contributed to First Aid for the USMLE Step 1.

Adam's Bar applies the same discipline to nutrition that he applies to medical device design: start with what patients actually need, and build backwards from there.