Pedro Bastos 

Pedro Bastos, member of the New York Academy of Sciences and the International Society of Sports Nutrition, is currently finishing his Master degree in Nutrition and Dietetics through Fundación Universitaria Iberoamericana (Spain), and his thesis main focus is on Diet’s Net Acid Load. He has a Post-graduate degree in Exercise and Health from ESDRM (School of Sport Science of Rio Maior, Portugal), where he studied the role of Exercise in Abdominal Organ Transplant Receivers and obtained a certification as a Personal Trainer. He also received a Strength and Conditioning Instructor Certification from CEF (“Centro de Estudos Fitness”), and CEFAD (“Centro de Estudos e Formação de Actividades Desportivas”), two Portuguese Fitness Schools.

From 2001 to 2004 he worked as a Health and Fitness Instructor, as well as a Personal Trainer in Squash Soleil Health Club, in Lisbon.

Since 2005, he’s a regular contributor to various Portuguese health and fitness magazines, and lectures at national and international conventions, symposiums and conferences on topics related to Nutrition, Health and Performance. His latest research has been on Milk and Dairy, having lectured on that topic at the 1st Annual Iberian Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine and Biomedical Technologies, held in Estoril, Portugal on May 2008, and at the International Congress on Functional Clinical Nutrition in São Paulo, Brazil, on July 2007.

Presently, he serves as a nutritional consultant for some nutrition companies and clinics in Portugal and Brazil, and is a member of the editorial board of a brazilian technical nutrition journal (“Nutrição, Saúde & Performance”).