Hey everyone! I wanted to let folks know that Prof. Loren Cordain will be at the School of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon on May 18th at 7pm. Here is an outline of the talk. Sorry The formatting is screwy, I’m doing this on the fly! AT the end of the post you can find registration info and a Pdf. on the confrence info. Please send this info to anyone who might be interested!
CONFERENCE
“Nutrition and Diseases of Civilization”
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
19:00 – 20:00 – Origins and evolution of the Western diet:
ü Evolutionary discordance
ü Chronic disease incidence
ü Nutritional characteristics of preagricultural diets
ü Introduction of new foods throughout history:
o Dairy Foods
o Cereal grains
o Refined sugars
o Refined vegetable oils
o Alcohol
o Salt
o Fatty domestic meats
o Processed foods
ü Nutritional repercussions of novel foods:
o Glycemic Load
o Fatty acid composition
o Macronutrient composition
o Micronutrient density
o Acid-base balance
o Sodium/Potassium ratio
o Fiber content
20:15 – 21:15 – Nutrition and Auto-Immune diseases
ü Brief physiology of Auto-immunity
ü Prevalence of auto-immune diseases
ü Suspected Environmental Factors
ü The role of the gut in auto-immunity:
o Gut bacteria and molecular mimicry
o Intestinal hyperpermeability
ü Dietary factors
o Lectins
o Saponins
o Glycoalkaloids
o Egg white and Milk Lysozyme
o Dietary antigens (dairy foods, cereal grains proteins, among others)
o Micronutrients (Zinc and Vitamin D)
o Other dietary factors (W3, Probiotics, Prebiotics and Glutamine)
21:15 – 21:30 – Questions & Answers
SPEAKER:
Professor Loren Cordain
- Ph.D. Physiology (University of Utah)
- M.S. Exercise Physiology (University of Nevada-Reno)
- B.S. Health Sciences (Pacific University)
- Professor and researcher in the Health and Exercise Science Department at Colorado State University
- World scientific expert in the evolutionary and anthropological basis for diet, health and exercise in modern humans
- First scientist to propose an endocrine link between dietary induced hyperinsulinemia and acne.
- Has extensively researched the role of nutrition and dietary lectins in the aetiology of auto-immune disease
- Recipient of the Scholarly Excellence award at Colorado State University for his contributions into understanding optimal human nutrition.
- Author of more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles and abstracts
DATE:
May 18, Starting at 7 PM
LOCATION: School of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon,
Lisbon, Portugal
REGISTRATION
To register, fill out the form attached, and please e-mail it to
For more information (including information concerning hotels in Lisbon), contact us directly:
PEDRO BASTOS:
+351 967 088 799
ANDRÉ MATIAS:
+351 965 618 875
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Ah good, Lisbon! I’m over there like every other weekend!
Sir i take great umbridge at your baseless and scurrulous advert about Prof. Cordain.
Prof Cordain cannot be a Lisbion as he is the wrong gender.
Eating paleo i do understand can make one all things to all peoples but saying such a thing is simply taking the biscuit.
Yours,
Confused in Vancouver
Confused & Fruity-
This is not a mistake on my part! All Lisbons have a gender-non-specific moniker such as Loren, Chris, Pat, Bobbi etc. It’s non nominative determinism but something akin to this.