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Candace Pert

1946 – 2013

Discovered the opiate receptor and argued the body is a single emotional-molecular network.

United States·Neuroscience · Integrative Medicine

David Perlmutter

b. 1954

Neurologist who put diet, glycemia and the microbiome at the centre of brain health.

United States·Functional Medicine · Neuroscience