Patrick Holford Agent - Bioharmony Nutrition |
 Bioharmony has secured the rights to produce under license to Patrick Holford a range of nutritional products researched and developed by Patrick Holford. Patrick Holford is a leading light in new approaches to health and nutrition. He began his academic career in the field of psychology. While completing his bachelor degree in Experimental Psychology at the University of York he researched the role of nutrition in mental health and illness and later tested the effects of improved nutrition on children’s IQ – an experiment that was the subject of a Horizon documentary in 1987. He became a student of twice Nobel Prize Winner Dr Linus Pauling, who believed that the future of medicine was “optimum nutrition”. In 1984, with the support of Dr Pauling, Patrick Holford founded the Institute of Optimum Nutrition. A charitable and independent educational trust for furthering education and research into nutrition. ION is now one of the most respected training colleges for clinical nutritionists. At ION he pioneered many radical ideas in nutrition, from the importance of antioxidants to the dangers of HRT. He has written over 26 popular books, now translated into 17 languages from Spanish to Chinese. The first, Optimum Nutrition Bible, has sold over a million copies worldwide. Bioharmony entered into an association with Patrick Holford to bring top international nutritional expertise to Africa to the highest international standards of safety, efficacy and quality. Patrick’s research into the field of Nutrition has led him to create specific formulas which are the building blocks to vibrant health and wellness. All the formulations are based on Patrick Holford’s research at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition in establishing Optimum Daily Allowances. “At its most profound level, health is not merely the absence of pain or tension, but a joy in living, a real appreciation of what it is to have a healthy body with which to taste the many pleasure of this world. My job is to let you know how.” - Patrick Holford Profile Patrick Holford BSc, Dip ION, FBant is a leading light in new approaches to health and nutrition. He is widely regarded as Britain’s best-selling author and leading spokesman on nutrition, food, environmental and health issues, hence being frequently quoted almost weekly in national newspapers from the Daily Mail to the Guardian. Patrick is also popular on radio shows and national television as a presenter, interviewer and guest. He started his academic career in the field of psychology. While completing his bachelor degree in Experimental Psychology at the University of York he researched the role of nutrition in mental health and illness and later tested the effects of improved nutrition on children's IQ - an experiment that was the subject of Horizon documentary and published in the Lancet in 1988. In 1984 Patrick founded the Institute for Optimum Nutrition (ION), a charitable and independent educational trust for the furtherance of education and research in nutrition, now the largest training school in the UK offering a degree-accredited training in nutritional therapy and widely respected as a leading edge organisation by professionals and media alike. Patrick was awarded an honorary Diploma from ION and is also an Honorary Fellow of BANT. (The British Association of Nutritional Therapists). In 2003 he founded the Brain Bio Centre at ION, a treatment centre pioneering the optimum nutrition approach for mental health. Patrick is frequently involved in government campaigns and debates and has been invited to the House of Commons, House of Lords and the Food Standa |