Russel Reiter, Ph.D. is a Professor of Cell Biology in the department of Cell Systems and Anatomy at UT Health, San Antonio. His research is centred around the impact of melatonin in biological systems. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Melatonin Research and on the Editorial Board of over 35 other journals. He is the recipient of numerous awards including three honorary doctor of medicine degrees and the Presidential Distinguished Scholar Award from UT Health San Antonio. He is also on the Clarivate Analytics list of Highly Cited Scientists. At the time of recording, Professor Reiter’s papers have been cited over 174,000 times.

Glen Jeffrey is a Professor of Neuroscience in the Faculty of Brain Sciences and Institute of Ophthalmology at the University College London. His research focuses on areas including retinal structure, development and visual areas of the brain as well as comparative evolution of the brain. In the last decade, his work has been centred around public health, looking into cost-effective and safe ways to prevent and even reverse the increasingly common condition macular degeneration. His research has delved into the mechanisms that underpin the aging process and applied these findings to the most energy demanding cells in the body; the retinal cells.

Marty Kendall is an engineer who seeks to optimise nutrition using a data-driven approach. Marty’s interest in nutrition began eighteen years ago to help his wife Monica better control her Type 1 Diabetes. Since then, he has developed a systematised approach to nutrition tailored for a wide range of goals, contexts and preferences. He has developed Nutrient Optimiser and Data-Driven Fasting to guide thousands of people on their journey towards nutritional optimisation.

Charlie is an award-winning grazier from Boorowa, New South Wales, Australia, an educator and passionate advocate for Regenerative Farming practices. Charlie started his Regenerative Farming journey 15 years ago. Previously he and his family had been farming conventionally on their 5,000 hectare property “Hanaminno” for over 35 years, in an industrial high input/ high output farming business model, heavily reliant on pesticides, herbicides and man-made fertilisers. After a series of epiphanies and through education Charlie found the Regenerative Agriculture movement, a movement which reflected his instinctive connection to the land and his ethos of producing quality food for his family and the world.

Dr. Gary Fettke is an Australian Orthopaedic Surgeon with a focus on preventative medicine and nutrition. Gary has concentrated on the role of diet in the development of diabetes, obesity and cancer. He has been speaking out on the combined role of sugar, particularly fructose, refined grains and polyunsaturated oils in the epidemic of inflammation and modern diseases. He has incurred the wrath of Australian regulatory bodies for his stance on public health advice, but he and his wife, Belinda, actively defend the benefits of low carbohydrate dietary patterns. Their ongoing work has uncovered the vested interests and ideologies shaping nutritional guidelines at the policy level in Australia and beyond.

Satchin Panda, PhD is a professor in the Regulatory Biology Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. His work focuses on chronobiology, the study of the day-night cycles that drive the multifaceted activities of the human body, using genetic, genomic, and biochemical approaches. He is an expert on circadian rhythms and a pioneer in the concept of time-restricted eating, or as it has come to be known, intermittent fasting. Dr. Panda has been focusing on translating data regarding the impact of circadian rhythms on human health to legislation that protects people from the dangers of circadian disruption. Satchin has been a champion of circadian health and was among the first to identify the role blue light plays in circadian signalling. He has been spreading the word about the importance of maintaining strong light/dark cycles and is a proponent for circadian friendly architecture and carefully considered rotations for shift-workers.

Patrick McKeown is a world-renowned author and breathing practitioner. He was educated at Trinity College in Dublin before completing his clinical training in the Buteyko Breathing Method at the Buteyko Clinic, Moscow, Russia. This training was accredited by Professor Konstantin Buteyko. In a career spanning 15 years, Patrick has since also become a bestselling author and expert on the topic of optimal breathing for improved health, well being and fitness. Patrick was also recently made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology in the UK for his contribution to our understanding of breathing. When he is not working from his home in the West of Ireland, Patrick travels extensively in Europe, the USA and Australia teaching and training athletes and coaches in The Oxygen Advantage® Program. He delivers workshops and speaks at conferences worldwide. Since 2015, Patrick has been training Olympic athletes as well as NFL and soccer players.

Joel Kahn, M.D is a world leading integrative cardiologist based in Michigan. He has been practising cardiology since 1983 and has long been practising holistic, preventative methods for the promotion of longevity and cardiac health. Joel is extremely well read and up-to-date with the latest research regarding health and longevity. He has authored several books including “Your Whole Heart Solution” and “Dead Execs Don’t Get Bonuses”. He currently runs the Kahn Center for Cardiac Longevity in Bingham Farms, Michigan.

Michael Hamblin is a world leading expert in photobiomodulation and photodynamic therapy. His roles have included Principal Investigator at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, and an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. He has published over 422 peer-reviewed articles, is Editor in Chief of "Photoiomodulation, Photomedicine and Laser Surgery" and Associate Editor for 10 journals. He has authored/edited 23 textbooks on photo dynamic therapy and photomedicine and is a member of the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers where he was elected as a Fellow in 2011. He also received the 1st Endre Mester Lifetime Achievement Award in Photomedicine from the NAALT in 2017, the Outstanding Career Award from the Dose Response Society and 1st Ali Javan Award for Basic Research from WALT in 2018.

James Muecke is an Australian ophthalmologist, 2020 Australian of The Year recipient and proponent of healthy eating. After beginning his career in Kenya, Muecke returned to Australia where he became an eye surgeon and advocate for preventing blindness. He has started both Vision Myanmar and Sight For All, organisations aimed at eliminating blindness throughout the world. In 2012, James Muecke was appointed a Member of The Order of Australia (AM) and in 2019 he received the University of Adelaide's Vice-Chancellor's Alumni Award. In 2020, he was named both South Australian of the Year and Australian of the year. James’ primary focus in recent years has been on increasing public awareness of the dangers of refined food, particularly sugar. Type 2 diabetes is the largest cause of blindness in Australia and abroad, leading Dr. Muecke to focus on the preventability and reversibility of this condition when these refined foods are eliminated.

Anadi is a physicist and electronics expert. He designs experimental instruments for use in the exploration of sound and light. He also acts as a consultant for special projects for diverse organisations such as IMAX, Cirque du Soleil and the Metropolitan Opera of New York. His sound spatialisation devices have been used throughout the world, by artists of international renown as well as by NASA. For 40 years, he has carried out research on light and its applications, having developed new devices integrating light, sound and touch. A number of these inventions have been patented such as the Light Modulation process. During seven years up to 2018, Anadi Martel was president of the International Light Association (ILA), a group of researchers exploring the therapeutic applications of light. The ILA acts as a bridge between leading scientists offering their latest research, and the practitioners of the diverse forms of Light Therapy.

Welcome to the Ricci Flow Nutrition Podcast. My name is Cameron Borg, on this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Robert Prentner, PhD. Robert is a Doctor of Philosophy currently at the Department of Cognitive Sciences at UC Irvine, where he conducts research in consciousness studies, molecular physics, natural and artificial intelligence, and philosophy. His current project is “Consciousness and the Emergence of Objects”. Robert and colleagues have been working to explain their theory of consciousness in a mathematically consistent manner. Their group has published several papers on what they refer to as the Interface Theory of Perception using evolutionary game theory and complex mathematics to bring precision to their theories. Prentner’s colleague, Donald Hoffman forwarded this ‘Conscious Realism’ to the mainstream in his popular book, “The Case Against Reality” (2019).

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.