Dr Guy Hatchard is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior manager at Genetic ID, a global food safety testing and certification laboratory. His published work uses the statistical methods of the physical sciences to analyse social data. He has lectured and advised governments in countries around the world on health and education initiatives. His book Your DNA Diet examines the role of genetic information in nutrition and investigates safety issues in medical settings. He is a pioneer of research on consciousness as a field phenomenon and has presented papers on benefits of meditation to improve health outcomes and quality of life. He lives in New Zealand.