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Chris Kilham is a medicine hunter, author and educator. The
founder of Medicine Hunter Inc., Chris has conducted medicinal
research in over 20 countries including
India, China, Siberia, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Chile, Vanuatu South
Pacific,
Lebanon,
Syria, Ghana, Austria, Germany, Thailand, Malaysia, Morocco and the
US.
Chris is Explorer in Residence at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he teaches the popular ethnobotany course, The Shaman’s Pharmacy™, through the department of Plant & Soil Sciences. Chris also conducts botanical educational programs for the natural products trade.
Chris is the host of Medicine Trail™, a series of television specials on medicinal plants shot on location around the world. The first two programs, shot in Peru and Malaysia, are currently in international distribution. More Medicine Trail specials are scheduled.
Chris has worked with numerous companies to develop and popularize traditional plant-based food and medicinal products into market successes. These successes include kava, maca, horny goat weed, catuaba, tamanu oil, herbal beverages and dozens of other plants.
Chris is the author of fourteen books, including Hot Plants, The Five Tibetans, Psyche Delicacies, Tales from the Medicine Trail and Kava, Medicine Hunting in Paradise. Chris also writes articles on plant medicines for several publications.
Chris lectures extensively on holistic health and botanical medicines, throughout the United States and the European Union, Hong Kong, Thailand, Dubai, Australia, Peru, Vanuatu and many other countries. Recent appearances include American Herbalists Guild, Medicines of the Earth Symposium, Natural Products Expos East and West 2008, Southwest Yoga, Midwest Yoga, Plant Teacher's Convergence, University of Massachusetts and Geneva Vitafoods Conference.
He held the diplomatic post of Honorary Consul to the United States for the Republic Of Vanuatu from 1997 through 2000. Chris has been featured in numerous newspaper and magazine articles. He hosted his own health-oriented talk radio programs in the Boston area for five years.
Chris has appeared as a guest expert on over several hundred radio and television programs including news programs on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, BBC and NPR. As a guest he has spoken about medicine hunting, traditional botanical medicines, nutraceuticals, environmental and cultural preservation and other related topics for a wide variety of audiences. Chris has appeared on over 1500 radio programs and more than 500 TV programs worldwide. He has appeared with America’s Doctor™, Dr. Mehmet Oz on Oprah & Friends.
Since October 2007 Medicine Hunter Chris Kilham has been featured in Psychology Today, The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, CNBC's Power Lunch, HD Net's World Report, Prevention Magazine, Natural Health Magazine, Oprah & Friends, ABC 20/20, NBC Nightly News, PBS Healing Quest, Fox News, Better TV, Good Morning America, Fox TV PIX Morning News, and most recently Ode Magazine (in order of appearance.)
Chris conducts medicinal plant research for Naturex, one of the largest botanical extraction companies in the world and is an advisory board member of the Naturex Foundation, which funds community development projects in various countries. In addition, Chris serves on the Scientific Advisory board of Enzymatic Therapy, a high quality provider of natural medicines and nutritional supplements, and on the Marketing Advisory Council of The Organic Center, a leading nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance verifiable scientific research behind the health and environmental benefits of organic products—and to communicate those benefits to the public. Chris is also Medicine Hunter and spokesperson for Kiiera, a high quality network marketing company, and he is co-creator of VIV™, an adaptogen-based transformational beverage.
An avid body surfer and adventure traveler, Chris lives and works in Massachusetts with his wife Zoe Helene and their dog Boo. Chris and Zoe travel the globe on Medicine Hunter expeditions, and work together to promote plant medicines, environmental protection and cultural preservation.
CNN calls Chris “The Indiana Jones of natural medicine.”
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