The power of small changes to make big results
Kristin Neff earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and is now an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas in Austin. Kristin became interested in Buddhism during her last year of graduate school and has been practicing meditation in the Insight Meditation style ever since. She opted to do…
Steven D. Levitt, the full name Steven David Levitt, is an American economist whose work has influenced numerous social science disciplines, including political economy, sociology, political science, the economics of crime, and the study of law. In 2003, he was awarded the American Economic Association‘s John Bates Clark Medal, which is given yearly to an…
Brian Deer is a British investigative journalist best known for his work for the Sunday Times investigating the drug trade, health, and social issues. The Doctor Who Fooled the World, Deer’s investigative nonfiction book, will be released by Johns Hopkins University Press in September 2020. After graduating from the University of Warwick with a degree in…
Dr. Hotez’s personal life as the father of an adult daughter with autism provides him with a unique platform as a vaccination advocate against the effort to wrongly connect vaccines with autism, which inspired the title of his 2018 book, Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism.”Dr. Hotez routinely writes for lay audiences and has been…
Paul A. Offit, MD, is the director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Infectious Diseases. He is the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Offit is a globally renowned specialist in the disciplines of virology and immunology, and she served on the…
Dr. Sarah Hallberg is the Medical Director of Virta Health, the first scientifically proven treatment to safely and sustainably cure type 2 diabetes without the need of medicines or surgery. She is accountable for supplying medical supervision to Virta’s experienced team of physicians and overseeing the clinical strategy for Virta Clinic participants as a physician…
Layne Norton is one of the world’s most recognized and popular health and fitness gurus, with over 1 million followers across his social media networks. Layne is well-respected in the worldwide fitness industry for his distinctive and intelligent communication approach as a bodybuilder, raw top powerlifter, physique instructor, and general intellectual powerhouse. In his more…
Gary Taubes (born April 30, 1956) is an author, journalist, and proponent of the low-carb, high-fat (LCHF) diet. His central claim is that carbohydrates, particularly sugar and high-fructose corn syrup, overstimulate insulin secretion, causing the person to store fat in fat cells and the liver and that obesity and other metabolic syndrome conditions are primarily…
Katherine Eban is an investigative journalist and Andrew Carnegie fellow who writes for Vanity Fair. Her publications on pharmaceutical forgery, gun trafficking, and CIA forced interrogation have garnered international attention and multiple accolades. Eban is a Rhodes Scholar who attended Brown University and Oxford. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, two kids, and Newfoundland…
Steven N. Austad, Ph.D., is the Protective Life Endowed Chair in Healthy Aging Research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, as well as a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Biology (UAB). He is also the co-director of the UAB Integrative Center for Aging Research and the director of Nathan Shock Center…