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:

• The battle over the causes of cardiovascular disease heats up!
• The fat emperor again
• Audio: Low Carb Healthy Fat for sports performance. World triathlon age champion Bevan McKinnon
• Australia’s response to the diabetes epidemic – shooting the messenger.
• Intro to low carb and fasting seminar
• Our research published in the Lancet!
• Very low-carbohydrate diets in the management of diabetes revisited
• Sports nutrition session Wednesday March 16th
• Peak performance nutrition evening for teenage athletes and parents – March 16
• Sam the fat burner