Professor Michael Angus Crawford is a Visiting Professor in The Department of Metabolism, Digestion, and Reproduction at Imperial College, London. He is the recipient of numerous honours, medals, and awards including Order of the Rising Sun, 2015, Tokyo, Japan; the prestigious La Médaille Chevreul (2015) in Paris, France; the Alexander Leaf Distinguished Scientist Award for Lifetime Achievement at ISSFAL, Stellenbosch, South Africa (2016) and the Glass Fleur De Lis which was presented by Nicholas Bazan,
at the DHA Celebration Meeting, which was held in 2010 at the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) 2010. The primary objective of Professor Michael Crawford’s current work is to raise awareness of the rise in brain disorders and their links with poor nutrition and child poverty. Michael has published over 300 scientific papers and four books. His most recent book is called The Shrinking Brain, and the Global Mental Health Crisis, Two Problems, One Solution and is co-authored with Evolutionary Historian, David E. Marsh. Michael is fondly referred to as the godfather of omega-3 research, as his experimental research at Nuffield Hospital in 1973 with colleagues including Andy Sinclair was among the first to confirm the essentiality of docosahexaenoic acid for brain function and that deprivation of omega-3 from the diet led to behaviour pathologies including self-harm
Dr Robert Lustig
Dr. Lustig is s Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, and a Member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Lustig is a neuroendocrinologist, with expertise in metabolism, obesity, and nutrition. He is one of the leaders of the current “anti-sugar” movement that is changing the food industry. He has dedicated his retirement from clinical medicine to help fix the food supply in any way he can, to reduce human suffering, and to salvage the environment. Dr. Lustig graduated from MIT in 1976 and received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College in 1980. He also received his Master 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 and is on the Advisory Boards of the UCDavis 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. More recently, he founded the Robert H. Lustig Research Foundation. He has co-authored the scientific paper titled: The Metabolic Matrix: Re-engineering ultra- processed foods to Feed the Gut, protect the Liver, and Support the Brain with Dr. Rachel Gow and colleagues, which was published by Frontiers in Nutrition.