Expert Profile: Dr. Clyde Wilson
Dr. Clyde WilsonDirector, Center for Human Nutrition and Health and Performance Sciences, SMI
Dr. Clyde Wilson is currently the Director of the Center for Nutrition at the Sports Medicine Institute (SMI) in Palo Alto, California. He is also a Research Associate in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California San Francisco UCSF). Dr. Wilson teaches a nutrition course on the pharmacological effects of food in both the Stanford and UCSF medical schools, and teaches lower and upper division courses in nutrition in the Department of Athletics at Stanford. He earned a PhD from Stanford in chemistry, and approaches nutrition from that perspective. However, his interest in making nutrition science applicable to our lives has generated systematic approaches to eating for each specific nutritional goal: Health, performance and disease prevention. His personal interest in fitness motivated Dr. Wilson to complete post-doctoral research in the Cardiovascular Research Institute at UCSF, where he studied metabolism and the mechanisms of fatigue in skeletal muscle. It was this work, along with his graduate work at Stanford in the area of neuronal function that served as the basis of his other course in Athletics at Stanford: Analysis of Human Movement.
He has always had a passion for exercise, but during his time in the Navy (where he was the supervisor for Reactor Laboratories, in charge of the radiation control and nuclear chemistry), he learned from his doctors that his obesity and high blood pressure and cholesterol levels required him to make immediate changes or go on medications. This was a turning point for him, and his effort to understand the facts of how the body works and how to use the scientific health information in our everyday lives has become his passion. Clyde believes that anyone can understand how the body works and how to keep it healthy if they receive that information in an effective, clear and concise way. His lectures and forthcoming book are result of years of effort helping others understand the principles of health so that they are empowered to improve their quality of life.
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