Science, Stewardship & Scalability. PSGR New Zealand.
Science, stewardship & scalability.
Extending your health span to live your best (mental & metabolic) life with Professor of public health Grant Schofield.
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Extending your health span to live your best (mental & metabolic) life with Professor of public health Grant Schofield.

Prevention for health ... & what Grant Schofield, Professor of Public Health at AUT would do if he had 10% of New Zealand's health budget to spend on increasing the health span of New Zealanders.

Great discussion on how to intervene earlier & increase your health span - 'we've missed the entire 30 years intervening'.

  • Carbs, diabetes and mental health.

  • Problem of WHO guidelines for diabetics.

  • Academic & practicing communities - collegiality or contested? Difference between exercise & physical health v nutrition & diet scholars/experts.

  • Problem of being a chief science officer when your scientific advice diverges from institutional norms (advocacy of healthy fats).

  • Health coaching to support behaviour change.

  • Insulin responses through decades as a person ages.

  • Food addiction.

  • Similarities between elite athletes & the military

  • dropping carbs for keto.

  • Crisis in mental health in New Zealand.

  • What Grant would do with 10% of New Zealand’s health budget.

'They were right. I should never have been appointed. It's a hopeless job for someone who wants to be outspoken about public policy.'

Grant Schofield is the Professor of Public Health at Auckland University of Technology, Director of the University’s Human Potential Centre, former Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Education in New Zealand and Chief Science Officer for PREKURE.com.

https://academics.aut.ac.nz/grant.schofield/about

Grant is co-author of four best-selling books including:

- What the fat!

- What the fast

- What the face! How to look and feel good from the inside out: Eat your way to lasting wellbeing and radiance.

A YouTube version is available with reference papers posted throughout:

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Science, Stewardship & Scalability. PSGR New Zealand.
Science, stewardship & scalability.
Doctors & scientists talking about how policy-makers steward tech, pollution & open-ended systems to protect human & environmental health. Discussions traverse health, environment, agriculture, technology and governance. They shed light on why linear, technical approaches to risk assessment & regulation often create more problems in open-ended, biologically complex environments than they solve.
How can we identify & prevent tipping points to build resilience & protect health – from soil biology; to water systems; to our children and young people - who are being diagnosed with preventable conditions, at younger and younger ages?
Importantly: When policy and decisions around new laws rest upon science claims, how do 'we' create governance structures to prioritise the independent science & research that might inform policy & triangulate industry claims?
There's lots to talk about!