Clinician • Educator • Researcher in Evolutionary Medicine
Lee Glanville MSc (candidate), BSc (Hons) Biological Anthropology
Picture during a paleopathology lab, learning how disease affects the skeleton - 2023
I have been fascinated by human health and evolutionary biology since childhood — a curiosity that shaped my entire academic and clinical path.
I read Biological Anthropology at the University of Kent and am completing an MSc in Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine at the University of Worcester. Alongside my degrees I have trained through the Institute for Functional Medicine and across a range of clinical disciplines over more than twenty years in practice.
Alongside clinical work I read and write in evolutionary medicine. In 2026 I set out the Lipid Encephalisation and Mismatch Hypothesis, which connects hominin dietary history to modern neuroinflammatory disease, and deposited it as a preprint on Zenodo. It has not yet been peer-reviewed. I have also been developing a classification of clinical action — proximate and ultimate medicine — which extends Tinbergen's evolutionary framework from explanation to intervention, and which is in preparation for submission. A PhD research programme is in development for 2027 entry.
What draws me to this field is a question rather than an answer: how do the conditions that shaped human physiology over hundreds of thousands of years interact with the modern environment, and what follows from that? It is a question I am pursuing academically, and one that keeps me reading the primary literature rather than the summaries — which is, in the end, what I think clients are entitled to expect.
Academic
MSc Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine — University of Worcester (completing 2027)
BSc (Hons) Biological Anthropology — University of Kent
Member — International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health (ISEMPH)
Outside work I sea swim and have practised Wing Chun Kung Fu for twenty-three years, currently at third level grading with the UKWCKFA.
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Academic Qualifications
MSc Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine — University of Worcester (in completion)
BSc (Hons) Biological Anthropology — University of Kent
Clinical Registrations and Primary Certifications
Applying Functional Medicine In Clinical Practice — AFMCP (Institute for Functional Medicine)
Fellowship in Functional and Integrative Psychiatry (Dr James Greenblatt)
Certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner (FDN-P)
Primal Restoration Certification (Nora Gedgaudas — current)
Foundational and Advanced Ketogenic Therapeutics (Keto Mastery)
DNA Life Certification — Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics
Advanced Blood Chemistry Analysis
Mould Illness/CIRS Specialist (Dr Sandeep Gupta)
Micro-immunotherapy Certification (MIT)
Specialist and Movement Certifications
Accredited CHEK Practitioner Level 4 — Clinical Specialist
Buteyko Breathing Instructor (Buteyko Clinic International)
HeartMath Certified Coach
Polyvagal-Informed Certification (Polyvagal Institute — current)
Herbalism Certification (Matthew Wood Institute, 3-year programme — current)
Shamanic Practitioner Dip (The Sacred Trust, 3-year residential programme)
Certified Phlebotomist — Level 3
Professionally insured through Balens
Training with the Institute for Functional Medicine, Applications in Functional Medicine, London 2025.
Pictured with Dr Elizabeth Boham, Dr Dan Lukaczer , Dr Yousef Elyaman.
Commencing the MSc in Nutrition & Lifestyle Medicine, 2024.
Graduating with a BSc (Hons) in Biological Anthropology, University of Kent, 2024.
Examining the skull of Au. africanus (STS 71), during a paleoanthropology laboratory session, University of Kent, 2022.
Paul Chek, 2016
Matt Wallden & IMS 4 students, 2015
Patrick McKeown, 2017
Professor John Mew, 2017
Professor Alice Roberts, 2018
Will Lord, 2023.
Homo Neanderthalensis - natural history museum, 2024.
Ahau Samuel, 2024.
Professor Richard Dawkins, 2025
Dr. Gunter Schlegel (MD), 2026