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Keynotes, conference presentations, podcasts, panels, and private briefings on microbiome medicine, microbial metallomics, food safety, trend forecasting, and unconventional career paths.

11th Beneficial Microbes Conference, Amsterdam 2025. The Microbiome Signature of Endometriosis.

Talk topics

Microbial Metallomics: The Field Nobody Knows About Yet

Research conferences, scientific advisory boards, pharma R&D

How heavy metals reshape the gut microbiome by selecting for virulence-enabled pathobionts, and why this changes everything about how we think about food safety, chronic disease, and therapeutic intervention. Includes live demonstration of the Microbiome Signature Triangulation Method.

The Oracle Talk: What I Called, What I See Coming, and How I Do It

Business conferences, CPG summits, investor groups

A documented track record of calling trends 4-15 years early (Paleo, keto, prebiotics on Pepsi cans) and the mechanistic forecasting method behind it. Covers the next decade of food, health, and consumer science. Fred Hart, founder of Interact, called me "the oracle" after the Pepsi prediction came true.

Heavy Metals in Your Food: What Consumers Don't Know and Brands Can't Ignore

Food industry events, regulatory conferences, consumer advocacy

The case for third-party heavy metal certification beyond lead and arsenic. Covers nickel in infant formula, cadmium in chocolate, the fertilizer contamination timeline, and why HMTc certification is the next frontier in food safety.

Range: What Selling Rocks at Six Taught Me About Presenting to 150 PhDs

Entrepreneurship events, career development, podcast interviews

The full story of an unconventional career spanning door-to-door rock sales, operating rooms at 13, roofing at 16, color theory, food certification, fecal transplants, and presenting original research at an international microbiome conference as the only non-PhD in the room.

Why I Built a Tech Platform Instead of Asking for Donations

Social enterprise events, animal welfare conferences, impact investing

How the donation model for animal welfare is a structural design flaw, not a funding gap, and why I built Tinies as a pet services marketplace where 90% of booking commissions fund sanctuaries. Includes the Cause Hotel concept and the €100M Cyprus cat tourism thesis.

The Microbiome Medicine Roundtable: From Mechanism to Published Journal Issue

Pharma, biotech, clinical research organizations, disease foundations

How two people produced five papers, a novel therapeutic hypothesis (melanotan for Parkinson's), and a published journal issue using a structured mechanism-first synthesis process. A live walkthrough of the Roundtable method and its applicability to any disease where microbiome biology, metallomics, and immunity intersect.

Past appearances

11th Beneficial Microbes Conference

2025

The Microbiome Signature of Endometriosis: From Dysbiosis to Metallomics to Targeted Interventions

Only non-PhD presenter among 150 researchers. Invited guest.

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SCD Lifestyle Podcast with Jordan Reasoner

2012

First documented case of FMT for Celiac Disease

First public discussion of DIY fecal microbiota transplant for celiac disease, four years before the first published case study.

"Well if it isn't the oracle herself! Too bad we don't have a recording of that call. And now you need to put out a 2030 trends prediction piece."

Fred Hart

Founder, Interact (CPG Brand & Packaging Design)

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Available for keynotes, conference presentations, podcast interviews, panel discussions, and private briefings. All inquiries begin with a complimentary 15-minute call to determine fit.

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