Buck Levin

Buck Levin, PhD, RD is a nutritionist who enjoys teaching, writing, and doing

research in conventional and unconventional areas of nutrition. In addition to 30 years on faculty at Bastyr University, he has lectured and published from a diversity of perspectives about nutrition and our world and is founder of Buck Levin Publications. In his own words:

"Most of my career in nutrition has been spent unlearning what I thought I knew. At least attempting to unlearn it. Not facts about carbs or calories – although most of them have changed. What I keep trying to figure out is how to understand nutrition without robbing the world of its due.

It is easy to lose sight of the connectedness between nutrition and the world. Every fall we see the great procession of life on earth when leaves change their color. Science has long viewed the breakdown of chlorophyll as the heart of this “de-greening.” But only recently has science discovered that human nourishment is intimately connected with the changing colors of the leaves. Chlorophyll breakdown products turn out to be the building blocks for vitamin E. Were it not for seasonal life cycles of seed-bearing plants and efforts by the plants to protect their seeds, vitamin E nutrients (alpha, beta, gamma and delta tocopherols, plus tocotrienols) would not exist. It’s a pint-sized detail about the world. But a floodgate for understanding nutrition."

Because of his background in psychology, phenomenology, and analysis of ideas, he also likes exploring cultural events and the way ideas shape our experience of them. His satellite website, Inclusorium, has become a repository for his writing in those areas.