Advancing evidence-based nutrition science to improve healthspan through international collaboration, rigorous scholarship, and practical clinical guidance.
The HLMS Nutrition Working Group brings together international experts in nutrition, metabolism, aging, and lifestyle medicine to advance rigorous, clinically meaningful guidance on nutrition for healthy longevity.
Nutrition for Healthy Aging
This multi-author HLMS paper is being developed to clarify foundational principles of nutrition for healthy aging, including how nutrition guidance can be personalized across clinical context, life stage, metabolic health, functional goals, and individual risk. The paper is intended to help clinicians, researchers, and the public distinguish well-supported nutrition principles from premature conclusions in a rapidly evolving field.
Nutrition has become one of the most confusing areas in medicine. The HLMS Nutrition Working Group exists to provide clinicians, researchers, policymakers, journalists, and the public with rigorous, evidence-based guidance on nutrition for healthy longevity. Through international collaboration, evidence review, and multidisciplinary expertise, the group aims to separate promising science from premature conclusions while translating complex nutrition research into practical guidance that can improve healthspan.
Nutrition has become one of the most confusing areas in medicine. The HLMS Nutrition Working Group exists to provide clinicians, researchers, policymakers, journalists, and the public with rigorous, evidence-based guidance on nutrition for healthy longevity. Through international collaboration, evidence review, and multidisciplinary expertise, the group aims to separate promising science from premature conclusions while translating complex nutrition research into practical guidance that can improve healthspan.
Nutrition for Healthy Aging: Principles, Personalization, and Practice
It is an extraordinary privilege to chair a group representing some of the world’s leading experts in nutrition, metabolism, aging, and lifestyle medicine. Together, our responsibility is not simply to advance science, but to help ensure that rigorous, balanced, and clinically meaningful nutrition evidence reaches healthcare professionals and the public in an era often dominated by misinformation.
Working Group Members
Chair / Nutrition translation
Tom Rifai, MD
Protein, muscle, resistance exercise
Stuart Phillips, PhD
Dietary patterns, evidence translation
Christopher Gardner, PhD
Precision nutrition, biomarkers
David Barzilai, MD, PhD
CKD, immunosenescence
Yen-Ling Chiu, MD, PhD
Lifestyle medicine, clinical translation
Melissa Sundermann, DO
Dr. Evelyne Bischof
President, Healthy Longevity Medicine Society
The final quote from Dr. Evelyne Bischof can emphasize that the Nutrition Working Group reflects HLMS’s commitment to scientific rigor, interdisciplinary collaboration, and clinically meaningful translation of healthy longevity medicine.
Excellence, Leadership, Transparency, Inclusiveness
