He taught me a lot about evolutionary medicine and nutrition
in general, opened many doors and introduced me (directly and indirectly) to various players
in this
field, such as Dr. Boyd Eaton (one of the fathers of evolutionary nutrition), Maelán Fontes from Spain (a current research colleague and close friend), Alejandro Lucia (a Professor and a top researcher
in exercise physiology from Spain, with whom I am collaborating), Ben Balzer from Australia (a physician and one of the best minds
in evolutionary medicine), Robb Wolf from the US (a biochemist and the best «biohackers I know»), Óscar Picazo and Fernando Mata from Spain (close friends who are working with me at NutriScience), David Furman from Argentina (a top immunologist and expert
in chronic inflammation working at Stanford University, with whom I am collaborating), Stephan Guyenet from the US (one of my
main references
in the obesity
field), Lynda Frassetto and Anthony Sebastian (both nephrologists at the University of California San Francisco and experts
in acid - base balance), Michael Crawford from the UK (a world renowned expert
in DHA and Director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition, at the Imperial College London), Marcelo Rogero (a great researcher and Professor of Nutrigenomics at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Sérgio Veloso (a cell biologist from Portugal currently working with me, who has one of the best health blogs I know), Filomena Trindade (a Portuguese physician based
in the US who is an expert
in functional medicine), Remko Kuipers and Martine Luxwolda (both physicians from the Netherlands, who conducted
field research on traditional populations
in Tanzania), Gabriel de Carvalho (a pharmacist and renowned nutritionist from Brazil), Alex Vasquez (a physician from the US, who is an expert
in functional medicine and Rheumatology), Bodo Melnik (a Professor of Dermatology and expert
in Molecular Biology from Germany, with whom I have published papers on milk and mTOR signaling), Johan Frostegård from Sweden (a rheumatologist and Professor at Karolinska Institutet, who has been a
pioneer on establishing the role of the immune system
in cardiovascular disease), Frits Muskiet (a biochemist and Professor of Pathophysiology from the Netherlands, who, thanks to his incredible encyclopedic knowledge and open - mind, continuously teaches me more than I could imagine and who I consider a mentor), and the Swedish researchers Staffan Lindeberg, Tommy Jönsson and Yvonne Granfeldt, who became close friends and mentors.