Professor grant schofield

Pioneering Preventative Health

Leading the movement to extend the human healthspan through preventative medicine

Leading the movement for prevention

Meet "The Fat Professor"

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Hi I'm Grant,

I’ve spent my entire life working at the intersection of health, human potential and behaviour change, and I try to live it, not just talk about it. I eat low carb, do cold plunges at home, train well above the guidelines and at the moment I’m experimenting with OMAD (one meal a day) fasting.

I’m 56 now and was Professor of Public Health at AUT for many years, and Director of the Human Potential Centre. These days, I’m more focused on what I consider my real mission, training health coaches through PREKURE, the organisation Louise and I founded.

I genuinely believe that although humans are living longer than ever, we’re also living with more disease and dysfunction than ever what healthcare calls morbidity. Healthspan matters more than lifespan. If you’re going to be alive, you might as well enjoy it.

The real leverage comes from behaviour change knowing how to change your own behaviour and helping others do the same. That’s why we train health coaches. Prevention is cure.

Book Grant to Speak

I speak at live events, on podcasts and to teams. If you want frictionless ideas and status quo thinking, I’m not the right fit. If you want honest insight, prevention-first thinking, and a speaker who lives what he teaches, book me in.

What I deliver

Science that isn’t stuck in the 1990s

No reheated food pyramids to see here. I deal in metabolic health, nutrition and lifestyle medicine backed by current evidence, not dogma. If the science has moved on, so should we.

Stories from the front line

I don’t sit in an ivory tower. I test ideas in the lab, in the community and in my own life. I share research, lived experiments and what actually works with real people and real systems.

A shake-up, not a pep talk

I’m not here to motivate you for 20 minutes and disappear. I challenge assumptions, call out the nonsense, and push for change. Walk away with something to act on.

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Academic Pioneer & Health Disruptor

Grant Schofield is the Professor of Public Health at Auckland University of Technology, Director of the University’s Human Potential Centre, former Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Education in New Zealand, co-author of four best-selling books and Chief Science Officer for PREKURE.

Professor Grant’s career has focused on preventing the diseases of modern times, and seeing what it takes to help people live a long, healthy and happy life.

He lives and breathes the motto “be the best you can be”, and sees this as a game-changer for the health system, capable of transforming the current health (sickness) model, to one in which we aspire to be well. He is redefining public health as the science of human potential; the study of what it takes to have a great life.

Grant is well known for thinking outside the box and challenging conventional wisdom in nutrition and weight loss, as well as physical activity and exercise.

How I Got Here

I was originally going to study PE in Otago, but my dad and grandfather talked me out of it. I lasted one week in engineering before switching to science, then did a master’s in psychology and went on to a PhD. My first academic job was in Queensland, where I spent 10 years in a psychology department before coming back to AUT when our kids were young.

When I returned, public health and physical activity weren’t really a discipline here yet, so I was able to establish that field and build what became the Human Potential Centre.

Louise and I met through triathlon. We both raced professionally and endurance sport has been a constant thread in my life. I’ve done Hawaii Ironman and I still coach a handful of young athletes. These days I run, swim in the ocean, surf-lifesave in summer and train when I can. I’m not the athlete I used to be, I ran 6km last week and 12km on Sunday, slowly, but I still walk the talk.

"Thank you speaking out. Prof. Schofield. You help to restore my faith. I am university educated, a great believer that without education society does not progress, but these days I am appalled at how out of touch, and how woke academia has become. The traditional bastion of debate and learning is actually cancelling debate and learning."

Weekly Episodes

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The Prevention is Cure podcast

In the Prevention is Cure Podcast I sit down with leading researchers and practitioners, like Dr Matthew Phillips on metabolic therapy for brain health, Prof Julia Rucklidge on nutrition and mental wellbeing, and Dr Caryn Zinn on metabolic flexibility. We dig into the latest science and practical tools so people can live healthier, happier lives- not just manage disease once it arrives.

If you or someone you know would make an interesting conversation, get in touch via the form.

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