Pran graduated from medicine from Otago University in New Zealand and completed his advanced training in gastroenterology here in Sydney. He is a fellow of the Royal Australian College of Physicians and a member of the Gastroenterology Society of Australia. Pran’s approach to gastroenterology is considered and broad. His attitude towards the human gut is informed by evolutionary principals and the vast and important contexts that surround the function of the gut. He is not steeped in dogmatism and continually seeks to expand his understanding regarding the role of the human gastrointestinal tract in health and disease. I had a wonderful conversation with Pran. He is so clearly aware of the unknown unknowns in medicine and speculates only when there is an evolutionary basis for his ideas. He is very forward thinking in a field that can be so far behind the research. While we both agreed that this field is very much in its infancy, we discussed the evolutionary basis for the development of our unique gut.

Zen is mother of 3 and the founder and executive director of the nonprofit organisation, Moms Across America. Zen has been a champion of informed consumer decisions throughout America since learning that the environmental chemicals in the foods that her and her family were eating were affecting the allergic symptoms in her young boys. With her deepening understanding of the dangers of pesticide residues on conventionally grown food she began rallying concerned mothers around the country to come together and seek change. Moms Across America have been involved in large-scale attempts to have the labelling of GMO foods mandatory in several states throughout the US. While not always able to prevail over the massive corporate lobbyists, the word continued to spread as more and more mothers have made commitments to change their consumer habits to protect the health of their families as well as the environment.

Jacob is a visionary in the areas of light, vision, emotions and consciousness. He has written several books including ‘Light: Medicine of the Future’, ‘Take Off Your Glasses and See’, and ‘Luminous Life: How the Science of Light Unlocks the Art of Living’. Steeped in the incredible fields of vision science and optometry, Jacob took on a new perspective in his studies and practise when he resolved long-standing issues with his own eyesight. This experience lead him to experiment with a variety of simple, natural and effective life-changing therapies with the tens of thousands of individuals he’s worked with throughout his career. Liberman is a recipient of the H.R. Spitler award for his profound contributions to the field of phototherapy and is the inventor of the EYEPORT Vision Training System, the only FDA-cleared medical device clinically proven to improve visual performance.

William has authored over 280 peer-reviewed articles on vitamin D and sunlight exposure since 1996. His primary interests are identifying and quantifying the risk-modifying factors for chronic and infectious diseases, with a particular interest in ultraviolet irradiance and vitamin D as well as diet. He is also extremely passionate about getting the message out that risk of disease can be modified by diet, supplementation, and lifestyle choices. William got his BA and PhD in physics from university of California Berkley. He later found himself working for the NASA Langly Research Centre where he operated an airborne laser remote sensing system for measuring ozone and aerosols on many international field expeditions. It after this where he became interested in the effects of UV light on human health. He has since been doing independent research primarily on the links between vitamin D and disease.

John is a world leading researcher on the effects of photobiomodulation on brain activity. His work is centred around seeking treatments and preventative measures for neurodegenerative diseases; namely, Parkinson’s disease. John is now based in France, where he works as a researcher at the biomedical research centre, Clinatec in Grenoble. In his book, Run in the Light, John outlines the most current understanding of the pathologies involved in Parkinson's disease, and how both exercise and photobiomodulation can be used as inexpensive, simple and essentially no-risk modalities to both prevent and delay the progression of the disease. John’s research is on the cutting edge. He is inquisitive and extremely open-minded in his pursuits.

Gerald received his PhD in biomedical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. He then joined the University of Washington faculty and is now professor of Bioengineering. He has received an honorary doctorate in 2002 from Ural State University in Ekaterinburg, Russia, and has been named an Honorary Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences and foreign member and Academician of the Srpska Academy. He received the Biomedical Engineering Society’s Distinguished Lecturer Award in 2002. In 2008, his colleagues chose him as the recipient of his university’s highest annual distinction; the UW Faculty Lecturer Award. Pollack is a Founding Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and a Fellow of both the American Heart Association and the Biomedical Engineering Society. He received an NIH Director’s Transformative R01 Award. He was the 2012 recipient of the Prigogine Medal for thermodynamics of dissipative systems, and in 2014 he received the Scientific Excellence Award from the World Academy of Neural Therapy, as well as the Dinsdale Prize from the Society for Scientific Exploration.

Stephanie is a senior research scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. She has a bachelor’s degree in biology with a minor in food and nutrition, and a master’s degree, an engineer’s degree, and a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT. She has authored over three dozen peer-reviewed journal papers on topics including human disease and nutrition and toxic exposures. She has focused specifically on the herbicide glyphosate and the mineral sulphur.