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. I have been in clinical practice since 2010, and trained through the Institute for Functional Medicine, with certifications across orthopaedic and neuromuscular therapy, pain neuroscience, breathing retraining, autonomic regulation, functional laboratory testing and nutrition.
I came to nutrition early and formalised it late. It has been part of my work since 2005 and central to my clinical practice since 2010. Clinical laboratory testing I left for eleven years, because I wanted the hands-on assessment skills underneath it first. Most of the people I work with have been unwell, or below their own baseline, for years, and have usually seen several practitioners already. So I start with history and laboratory data rather than protocol — what your physiology has been carrying, for how long, and under what conditions. This is nutritional and lifestyle support, delivered as education. It complements medical care rather than replacing it.
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 It has not yet been peer-reviewed.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 Qualifications
MSc Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine — University of Worcester (in completion, 2024–2027)
BSc (Hons) Biological Anthropology — University of Kent (2018–2024)
Access to Higher Education Diploma (Health Professions), 2017
Professional Memberships and Registrations
British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT) — student member
International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health (ISEMPH)
Professionally insured through Balens
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, 2024–2027)
BSc (Hons) Biological Anthropology — University of Kent (2018–2024)
Access to Higher Education Diploma (Health Professions), 2017Professional Memberships and Registrations
British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine (BANT) — student member
International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health (ISEMPH)
Professionally insured through BalensClinical Certifications
Applying Functional Medicine In Clinical Practice — AFMCP, Institute for Functional Medicine, 2025
Fellowship in Functional and Integrative Psychiatry — Psychiatry Redefined, 2023–2024
Certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner (FDN-P), 2021
Advanced Blood Chemistry Analysis, 2022
Certified Phlebotomist — Level 3, 2023
DNA Life Certification — Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics, 2025
Hair Mineral Analysis — Mineral Check, 2025
Micro-immunotherapy Certification (MIT), 2026
Mould Illness / CIRS Specialist, 2023
Foundational and Advanced Ketogenic Therapeutics — Keto Mastery, 2026
Primal Restoration Certification — currentMovement, Breathing and Autonomic Regulation
Accredited CHEK Practitioner Level 4 — Clinical Specialist, CHEK Institute, 2010–2016
Integrative Neuromuscular Therapy — Neuromuscular Research Institute, 2013–2014
Neuro-Orthopaedic Institute — Explain Pain (2015), Mobilisation of the Nervous System (2016)
Institute for Neuro-Physiological Psychology (INPP), 2016
Buteyko Breathing Instructor — Buteyko Clinic International, 2016
HeartMath Certified Coach, 2022
Polyvagal-Informed Certification — Polyvagal Institute, 2026Further Study
Herbalism Certification — Matthew Wood Institute, three-year programme, 2026–2029 (current)
Shamanic Practitioner Diploma — The Sacred Trust, three-year residential programme, 2022–2025
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