Food as Medicine: Ancient Wisdom for a Grounded Life + Career
"Food isn't fuel. It's information — a relationship between the body, the season, and the world around it."
— Roger Green, founder of Academy Healing Nutrition
Underlying the world's longevity cultures — like TCM, Ayurveda, and ancestral medicine traditions — exists a profound truth: food is medicine.
Bringing this into modern, fast-paced life doesn't mean adding one more thing to manage. It means returning — to something our great-grandmother's generation understood instinctively, and modern life quietly forgets: elemental, seasonal medicine that has nourished cultures around the world for generations.
For over 40 years, Academy Healing Nutrition has trained practitioners not around the latest trend — Mediterranean, plant-based, Blue Zones, protein-forward, whatever comes next — but around time-honored principles of bioindividuality, seasonality, and non-dogmatic practicality.
Grounded, sound, and globally inclusive.
🗓️ Thursday, September 10
🕐 4:00pm ET / 9:00pm UK
💸 Free with suggested donation ($5-$10)
Two ways to join:
In Person (Brooklyn) — Reforesters Laboratory, Williamsburg. Space is limited.
Virtual (Livestream) — join us live online, wherever you are.
Select your ticket type.
In this free lecture, you'll learn:
Food energetics — how TCM reads the thermal nature and direction of food, not just its nutrients
Five element theory and yin/yang — a practical way of reading what your own body is asking for, season by season
Our Longevity Diet — beyond Blue Zones, this maps your own constitution, season, and body type onto principles drawn from TCM, Ayurveda, and Taoist philosophy — so the diet is built around you, not a place you don't live
The traditional food preparation wisdom your grandmother's generation knew intuitively
For those called to go deeper, we'll also share how to apply for early access to AHN's 2027 certification cohort — accepted in small numbers each year.
ABOUT YOUR TEACHER
Roger Green founded Academy Healing Nutrition in 1986 and has spent four decades at the intersection of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurvedic philosophy, ancestral nutrition, and longevity science — long before most of those words entered the mainstream. A TCM practitioner and registered nurse trained in shiatsu, he's taught in over 70 countries and worked for decades on water harvesting and soil regeneration projects alongside his clinical practice. His approach is built on a simple premise: food isn't fuel, it's information — a relationship between the body, the season, and the world around it.
Academy Healing Nutrition has trained nearly 1,000 certified graduates across six continents since 1986 — the only certification program at the intersection of TCM, Ayurveda, and the world's longevity cultures, moving between theory and hands-on cooking practice, with training in building a financially sustainable holistic practice built in from the start.
A few things to know about the in-person gathering:
Reforesters Laboratory is an adaptogenic listening cafe, not a traditional lecture hall — there are no chairs, just floor cushions and pillows, closer to a listening room than a seated venue. If this raises any accessibility concerns, email us at hello@academyhealingnutrition.uk and we'll do what we can to accommodate you.
The evening runs on a tight window — doors at 4:00pm, closing by 5:30pm sharp — as another event follows us in the space. In-person space is limited and may reach capacity; we can't guarantee entry for late arrivals.
Whichever way you join, you're covered: all attendees, live and virtual, receive access to the replay. And if in-person conditions don't end up working for you, just reach out — we're glad to move your donation to the virtual ticket instead.