SPEAKER DETAILS
CHRIS KNOBBe, md
Chris Knobbe, MD, is a physician, nutrition researcher and associate clinical professor emeritus (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center) who has spent the past decade challenging the conventional narrative of modern chronic disease. His work focuses on the role of Westernized diets—particularly industrial seed oils—as primary drivers of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, autoimmune disorders and age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
An internationally sought-after speaker, Dr. Knobbe has presented across the U.S. and globally, questioning long-held dietary assumptions and calling for a fundamental rethinking of modern nutrition. He is the author of “The Ancestral Diet Revolution” (2023) and “Ancestral Dietary Strategy to Prevent and Treat Macular Degeneration” (2016). He is also the founder of AncestralHealth.ai, a recently launched AI-powered platform aimed at democratizing the science of ancestral health and empowering clinicians and the public to rethink the root causes of chronic disease.
PRESENTATION
THE SEED OIL EXPERIMENT: CAN WE EXONERATE CARBOHYDRATES? RETHINKING THE DRIVERS OF MODERN CHRONIC DISEASE
FRI., OCT. 16 AT 1:45 PM
For the last few decades, carbohydrates—and especially sugar—have been cast as the primary culprits behind global epidemics of obesity, diabetes, metabolic disease and other chronic illnesses. But what if this dominant narrative is fundamentally flawed? Analyzing dietary and health trends across eighteen countries representing over half the world’s population, in this talk Dr. Chris Knobbe challenges the foundations of conventional thinking. Since 1961, carbohydrate and sugar intake have remained relatively stable in many regions, while one dietary variable has risen relentlessly—and in striking parallel with chronic disease: industrial seed oils.