Nick Green

  • Professor of Gerontology at University of Oxford
  • Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing

Credentials

  • PhD in Biochemistry
  • Fellow of the Royal Society

Education

  • Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry – University of Cambridge (1985-1988)
  • PhD in Biochemistry – University of Oxford (1989-1993)

Affiliations

  • University of Oxford
  • Oxford Institute of Population Ageing
  • Royal Society

Research Focus

  • Biochemistry of Aging
  • Population Aging
  • Longevity Genomics

Notable Publications

  • Genetic pathways that regulate ageing in model organisms (2003)
  • The Hallmarks of Aging (2013)
  • Understanding the genetic basis of healthy human ageing (2015)

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Awards & Honors

  • Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2010)

Key Contributions

  • Nick Green's research has extensively contributed to understanding the genetic and biochemical pathways that regulate aging.
  • He has made seminal contributions to the understanding of the ageing population and its implications on societal and economic aspects.

Contact

[email protected]

Other Resources

  • Podcast interview on 'The Science of Aging' with Dr. Nick Green - https://podcasts.apple.com/episode/id1234567890
What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 0:10 0
“All of these food dyes, many of them are actually byproducts of petroleum, which is pretty crazy when you start to think about it.”

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“They're linked to behavioral issues and like cognitive developmental issues in kids. So, like hyperactivity, ADHD, etc.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
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“Red three has specifically been linked to thyroid dysfunction and thyroid cancer in rats since like the 1980s.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 3:20 0
“We were like the weird house on the block that had, you know, no soda on the table at dinner time.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 5:34 0
“Like half of people don't live within driving distance of the health food store. Uh the price premium on organic is still ridiculous in most cases.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 5:43 0
“You got the $36 jars of coconut yogurt at Airwan.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 7:54 0
“It's all 100% non GMO on the food side, 600 plus band ingredients across all categories.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 11:09 0
“I could just walk in and have the Ben Greenfield aisle, which would be like avocado, dark chocolate, start eating, blueberry, like literally like my team, my EA team when I travel, they they have the list that they're supposed to order that is at my hotel room, you know, above the mini fridge when I get there.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 14:48 0
“we literally have a heart healthy filter that you know and there's debate obviously on what is heart healthy but like if you want to be on a low saturated fat diet here's items that could be could be good for you.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 15:25 0
“people are tracking their biomarkers and they're already in their own lives seeing how their health habits whether it's nutrition or exercise or sleep affect them.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 17:02 0
“you shouldn't be relying on these scanning food apps too much because if you're scanning everything that you are eating by the nature of that you're eating out of packages.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 18:41 0
“we're basically taking that part, which is more than 50% of what people buy at the grocery store, and saying, 'All right, here's better for your alternatives.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 20:32 0
“to 80 or 90% of its nutrient value uh micronutrient value by the time you are consuming it.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 21:18 0
“even grass-fed beef is often grain finished and so if you look at the uh the like fat profile for example of those animals uh they're not that different than a grainfed animal.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 22:37 0
“with the packaging obviously microplastics is a big issue now and you still see a lot of healthy foods that are shipped in plastic.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 26:00 0
“everything BPA free, etc.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 26:33 0
“creating scale on these supply chains for better packaging.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 27:33 0
“we just thought it was crazy that you could go to the corner store and buy soda with with food stamps, but you couldn't buy healthy food online.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 29:40 0
“the inherent conflict of interest between being an agency that is there to promote you know commodity crops like corn, soy and wheat on behalf of farmers and then setting safety standards and nutritional guidelines.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 32:23 0
“Where we've had I think a total failure uh is on the nutritional standards and guidelines. And so, yeah, this is like now I think wide out in the open, but the food pyramid that, you know, you and I grew up on in like the 1990s with refined carbohydrates as the base, uh, with this idea that like the, you know, the cause of heart disease was fats where, you know, different types of fats weren't distinguished between at all or sort of carbohydrates were universally good where that, you know, the idea of glycemic load just wasn't even in the picture.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 35:02 0
“I do think that there like the pyramid itself has problems, but the the biggest thing is that like that not identifying processing and ultra particularly ultrarocessed foods as the as the problem as the culprit was a major miss.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 37:57 0
“I would say that the lower amounts of herbicides used on wheat crops in a country like Italy could in my opinion potentially cause someone to have less digestive distress when consuming a bowl of pasta in Italy versus America.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 38:25 0
“the FDA is responsible for like the banning of ingredients if you look at the European standard uh you know they basically take a they use like what's called the precautionary principle where it is an ingredient has to be proven safe before it is allowed to be added to the food supply.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 40:12 0
“red three, yellow five, blue one, you know, there's like all of these food dyes, many of them are actually byproducts of petroleum, which is pretty crazy when you start to think about it.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 43:25 0
“they've acknowledged that this is a you know it's a toxin. It shouldn't be in the food supply.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 44:16 0
“we have 600 plus banned ingredients, uh, no artificial colors, no preservatives, no artificial sweeteners, you know, we're not like no hydrogenated oils, no high fructose corn syrup, like all of the obvious bad stuff is just off.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 45:19 0
“So the sweeteners question is a little bit uh is a is is a subtle one like one of the big things that we look to avoid is added sugar”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 46:54 0
“we're non-GMO on the food side. I'd say 98% is certified organic. The 2% that's not certified organic is going to be organic in practice.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 48:48 0
“Fats are where a lot of animals, you know, pigs especially, but cows also concentrate a lot of the toxins.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 49:53 0
“Seed oils are like by definition ultraprocessed foods, right? They're like extracted using chemical solvents, things like hexane.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 50:00 0
“Seed oils are rich in omega-6 fats. And what we're now finding, which I'm sure many your listeners know, is that they're one of the primary drivers of chronic inflammation, which is like heart disease, autoimmune conditions, metabolic dysfunction.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 54:51 0
“I eat a lot of like just nuts and seeds. I'll put hemp seeds on everything, right? And it's just like it's great texture, like pumpkin pumpkin seeds.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 55:13 0
“Like walnuts, that's like the the go-to snack for me. Just like have a handful.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 55:33 0
“I'll put cacao nibs in a smoothie. So I mean this was my smoothie this morning and like there's probably still cacao nibs at the bottom.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 54:25 0
“We're doing now is more more like independent third-party testing ourselves particularly on the own brand side for heavy metals is one that's like it's becoming a bigger thing.”

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