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 West Indies, and his PhD in Cellular and Developmental Biology at the University of California at Berkeley.After postdoctoral training as a California Heart 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 University of California's San Francisco Medical Center (UCSF).In 1983 he decided to reorient 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.