Join Me For My Upcoming Panel Discussion At The Ancestral Health Symposium At UCLA August 18-20
I will be one of the panel members at the next Ancestral Health Symposium (AHS) at UCLA on August 19 at 11:00 AM. The panel will discuss the reasons for our small jaws, breathing problems, and much more. There should also be ample time for questions at the end. So if you are interested in evolution, health, meeting great people and hearing cutting-edge talks on ancestral medicine, join us, and please come and say hello. Tickets are available through the AHS Website at ancestralhealth.org, where you can also see the three-day schedule for the event, from August 18 to 20.
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Although the conference is scientifically oriented, many attendees do not come from scientific backgrounds. But they are an amazing group of curious people with diverse points of view. The atmosphere is one of sharing, caring, and learning. AHS is fun and inspiring, and you'll leave having made new friends and with new ideas about how to optimize your health.
The AHS examines various ways modern human life has diverged from how we evolved successfully for millennia and how those differences affect us, making us sick and unhappy. I have attended the AHS for over a decade and participated in presenting and panel discussions. The panel members are highly qualified to talk about the plight of the human face, breathing, and failing health, so I am super excited.
The panel will be moderated by the incomparable author and speaker James Nestor. James Nestor is an author and journalist who has written for Scientific American, Outside, The New York Times, and more. His latest book, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, was released May 26, 2020, by Riverhead/Penguin Random House and was an instant New York Times and London Sunday Times bestseller. Breath explores how the human species has lost the ability to breathe properly--and how to get it back. Breath was awarded the Best General Nonfiction Book of 2020 by the American Society of Journalists and Authors. You can find out more at mrjamesnestor.com.
The Panel Members
Dr. Kevin Boyd is a board-certified Pediatric Dentist in Chicago. He teaches in the Pediatric Dentistry residency program at Lurie Children's Hospital and serves as a dental consultant to their sleep medicine clinic. Dr. Boyd is a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, researching the post-industrial evolution of the human face and airway-related structures. He lectures worldwide on pediatric OSA, evolutionary oral medicine, and early age orthodontics.
Siobhán Cooke is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her laboratory- and field-based research program focuses on primate and, more broadly, mammalian dental and dietary evolution. Since 2009, She has conducted paleontological research in the Dominican Republic and Colombia and has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, and the Leakey Foundation.
Robert H. Lustig, M.D., M.S.L. is an Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology and a Member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF. Dr. Lustig is a neuroendocrinologist specializing in metabolism, obesity, and nutrition. He is one of the leaders of the current "anti-sugar" movement changing the food industry. Dr. Lustig graduated from MIT in 1976 and received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College in 1980. He also received his Masters of Studies in Law (MSL) degree at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, in 2013. He is the author of the popular books Fat Chance (2012), The Hacking of the American Mind (2017), and Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine (2021). He is the Chief Science Officer of the non-profit Eat REAL, he is on the Advisory Boards of the UC Davis Innovation Institute for Food and Health, the Center for Humane Technology, Simplex Health, Levels Health, and ReadOut Health, and he is the Chief Medical Officer of BioLumen Technologies, Foogal, Perfact, and Kalin Health.
Mike Mew is an English Orthodontist; his focus is on the why, why teeth are crooked, what causes sleep apnea, and what has changed. He has built a treatment based on treating the cause of the problem and lectured worldwide on this subject. His goal is to achieve positive facial change to treat sleep apnea in non-growing adults.
The symposium includes other notable speakers, including Amber OHearn (Eat Meat, Mostly Fat), Chris Masterjohn (chrismasterjohnPHD.com), Esther Gokhale (Gokhalemethod.com), and Darryl Edwards (Primalplay.com). Historically, some lesser-known speakers resonate just as much or more than the bigger ones. So please consider joining us at the AHS 2022 at UCLA!