Grant Schofield

Oh, yeah.

Some filming with Professor Grant Schofield and Christchurch.

Yeah.

Tell us about that.

So that's the kind of overarching idea of this documentary.

So we just don't have a lot of money, but we've had a little seed money.

And so Grant came into the studio and we did some filming with Grant and kind of a conversation between him and I in the studio.

And so we've done that.

And I know you'll have some, uh, some thoughts and comments on today's topic, talking about preventative medicine in response to New Zealand First's, uh, policy about, uh, perhaps more, uh, fence at the top of the cliff and less increasing, um, reliance on big pharma.

Joining us on the program now is an expert in preventative medicine, both policy and practice, Professor Grant Schofield.

Kia ora, thank you so much for your time today.

Hey.

Uh, i- in some ways good to see a political party, um, taking your research seriously in that regard.

Having said that, the, the people that make money in our health system, the so-called big pharma, they've got some pretty big lobby groups and a, and a b- a little bit of pushback in the space saying that a policy like this saying, "Hey, you need to go for a walk in the sunshine and, and perhaps have more vitamin C," that this is anti-science.

What would your response be, Grant?

It's, it's, it's the exact opposite of anti-science.

Today we're going straight to the source, your actual health and how much control you still have over it.

Professor Grant Schofield is Chief Science Officer at Precure, the organization that trains health coaches, including Age Brightly's head health coach, Shelley.

He's also a former professor of public health at Auckland University of Technology.

Known to some as the fat professor, Grant has spent his career challenging outdated nutrition advice and pushing the idea that healthspan matters more than lifespan.

Now I'll just...

One more comment, 'cause I just wanna keep the mic away from Grant 'cause he looks really, really eager to speak.

[laughs]

[laughs] So, um, uh, somebody asked me yesterday about glycation from fructose.

Generally, if you've got small, dense LDL, you also have small, dense LP(a).

Now, your gut feeling is if LP(a)'s bad, small, dense LB, LP, uh, little a might be even worse.

So that's r- that's a really interesting area, and, and it's such an interesting area, Grant, I was thinking of...

I'd really need to do a talk on LP(a) because, um, it's, it tells you a lot about, uh, the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease as well as, uh, uh, people are...

I'm an orthopedic surgeon, um, but I'm gonna talk to you about what I think is a nutritional model of modern disease.

Um, I've been influenced by several people, a couple of them are here today, and Grant and I were involved in a interesting email exchange a few months ago, where the penny dropped, and I'll explain that a little bit later.

Um, I've recently been recognized as having a nutritional recognition, at least, by the American Society for Nutrition, so this is my first public announcement of that.

Um, so for all the people who say I've got no nutritional education, maybe I've got a little bit.

I'll come back to glucose again.

This is something I-- we came across earlier this year.

And I was at a meeting in, um, Auckland, and I slid this paper across to Grant Schofield.

And I slid it across to him, and, um, another person was speaking, and he went, "Oh, expletive," in kindness.

They saw traces that were identical to mine.

That's from Grant Schofield.

Thank you, Grant, for that slide.

And this is over time.

This is just a, a, a few of us.

So you'll see in the, the blue, you might recognize some of our mugs, myself, Professor Grant Schofield, Dr. Catherine Croft, some of you might know.

Um, in the green we've got, um, Dr. Glenn Davis, who is here.

Awesome.

Um, and those donations are really to help us continue the implementation science research work that we're doing long term, and also help us with some of our activ- our activities moving forward, particularly when our current funding, um, ends.

Uh, very exciting, uh, that we have partnered with AMHS, the Australasian Metabolic Health Society.

And, um, myself and my colleague, uh, Professor Grant Schofield, we're on the board of, of AMHS.

Um, so we can feed in really nicely with our complementary organization and, um, you know, ke- keep everyone, um, up to speed with what's going on in the Ne- New Zealand situation.