Parris M Kidd,PhD
Dr.Parris Kidd is an internationally recognized biomedical researcher,
educator and nutritional
product developer. Dr.Kidd earned his B.Sc.degree with First Class Honors in Zoology-Marine
Biology at the University of
the
at the
Association Fellow, he was
honored by the U.S.National Institutes of Health (NIH)with a
Young Investigator Research
Award to support his ongoing cardiovascular research at the
his career to nutritional biomedicine.
Dr.Kidd's first nutrition project was on “free radicals
” and the importance of the antioxidant
nutrients for human health.By 1985 he had
published several review papers and had written the
500-page textbook
Antioxidant Adaptation —Its Role in Free Radical Pathology .This book blazed
the trail for clinical application of nutritional antioxidants as
the body's intrinsic anti-toxins,anti-
inflammatories,and anti-cancer agents.It presented the in-depth evidence that antioxidants
have
pivotal importance for human health,that
virtually all toxic agents deplete the body's antioxidant
resources,and that cumulative free
radical damage is linked to degenerative diseases and aging.
Dr.Kidd later co-founded a company that provided consulting services
on biomedical nutrition,
and developed further expertise in the great variety of nutrients
that help prevent and manage
disease (now called “nutraceuticals ”).In
1990 he co-authored (with then partner Dr.Wolf Huber)
the book Living with the AIDS Virus —A Strategy for Long-Term
Survival .This text pioneered
the integrative strategy for HIV-1/AIDS management.It
laid the scientific groundwork for using
nutritional supplementation,exercise and
lifestyle modification,together with other selected
therapeutic protocols,in advance of viable
pharmaceutical options to control the virus.