Website:

https://scienceofhumanpotential.wordpress.com

Profile:

I am Grant Schofield, Professor of Public Health at Auckland University of Technology and director of the university's Human Potential Centre (HPC) located at the Millennium Campus in Auckland, New Zealand. My research and teaching interests are in wellbeing and chronic disease prevention especially reducing the risk and eventual mortality and morbidity from obesity, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes. I live by the motto "be the best you can be" and have a strong commitment to peak performance in which I also do consulting work. I’ve been interested in human health and performance for my whole career. I started in psychology, went into sport and exercise psychology, then into public health, especially physical activity, then obesity. There have been some twists and turns along the way, which are the reasons for why I do what I do – you can read about those in my first blog entry. I want to know how we can be the best we can be. This crosses disciplines such as biology, medicine, pubic health, and productivity management. The cornerstones are nutrition, exercise, sleep, neuroscience, psychology and wellbeing. In my blog, I cover these topics under the broad heading of the Science of Human Potential.

Posts by Prof. Grant Schofield:

• COVID: Your opinion counts
• The mouth is missing out too…
• Talking about what went wrong with school lunches and what to do about it
• Why fitness is medicine, and you should learn about Fasting Mimicking Exercise (FME)
• Aseem Malhotra’s talk to the UK parliament
• Science in a minute: Which diets work for who?
• Fitness is medicine
• Four Challenges for a Good Life
• Democracy in action, food labelling and sugar. Have your say.
• National Business Review’s fasting challenge