Patrick Holford, BSc, DipION, FBANT, NTCRP
Patrick Holford is a leading spokesman on nutrition and mental health and is the founder of the Food for Brain Foundation, vitaminC4covid and the Institute for Optimum Nutrition, an educational charity that offers degree accredited training in nutritional therapy. Originally trained in psychology at the University of York, he was involved in groundbreaking research showing that multivitamins can increase children’s IQ scores. This was the subject of a Horizon’s documentary in the 1980s. He was one of the first promotors on the importance of zinc, essential fats, low glycemic diets, and homocysteine lowering B vitamins and their importance in preventing Alzheimer’s Disease He is the founder of the charitable Food for the Brain Foundation. He is the director of their Alzheimer’s is preventable campaign and the chair of their Scientific Advisory Board He is the author of several papers and 47 books which have been translated into over 30 languages including the bestselling The Optimum Nutrition Bible, Optimum Nutrition for the Mind, Food is Better Medicine than Drugs, The Ten Secrets of Healthy Ageing, The Alzheimer’s Prevention Plan, the Feel Good Factor, and coauthored the the Hybrid Diet and the Stress Cure With more than 40 years of research and experience in the field of nutrition and mental health, he is a retired visiting professor at the University of Teeside and is in the Orthomolecular Medicine Hall of Fame and is on the editorial board for the Orthomolecular Ne
