Fall 2014 Forum Series
Genetically Modified Foods: Dangerous or Safe?
Genetically Modified Foods: Dangerous or Safe?
Stacey Cantor-Adkins M.D.
Wednesday, October 15; 2:30 – 4:00 P.M.
Campus Center Ballroom
The debate about GMO — genetically modified organisms — is intense, with conflicting claims of great benefits and great dangers. Do you know what such organisms are? Are they in food you eat each day? What are their effects on your health? Have they been tested and regulated?
Learn the answers to these and other questions from Stacey Cantor-Adkins, M.D. when she comes to campus on October 15 for the next Technology, Art and Science Forum. A former cardiac anesthesiologist, Cantor-Adkins has been interested in GMO issues for two decades.
Cantor-Adkins now studies and practices functional medicine and is earning a master’s in human nutrition. Functional medicine seeks to find the root cause of disease, personalize therapy based on individual genetics, biochemistry and physiology, and use the most natural means possible to restore the body to balance.
In addition to giving whole-food cooking lessons and organizing community-wide detox programs, Cantor-Adkins has counseled in macrobiotics, studied acupuncture, herbs and homeopathy, and is a regression therapy practitioner. She received a B.A. in biology from Brandeis University and her doctor of medicine degree from Stanford University, training in anesthesiology at the University of Pennsylvania and completing a cardiac anesthesia fellowship at New York University.
Cantor-Adkins retired from anesthesiology in order to heal from chronic fatigue syndrome, and recovered her health using a macrobiotic diet and lifestyle as well as the principles of functional medicine. She now seeks to integrate traditional energetic wisdom with cutting-edge biomedical and nutritional science to guide patients towards health. She raised her son, A.J., today a creative and active teenager, primarily on an organic, whole-foods, plant-based diet.