Todd Caldecott

Todd Caldecott is an author, clinical herbalist and Ayurvedic practitioner in Vancouver, British Columbia, who also worked as a film and television actor. Born in New Westminster, British Columbia, he won best actor at a Vancouver Theatre Festival in 1987 for The Box, a play by Sheldon Rosen. Under the name Todd Shaffer he signed with an agent and found guest work on series including 21 Jump Street and Wiseguy. He appeared in the made-for-TV films One Boy, One Wolf, One Summer and Mother May I Sleep With Danger, plus the films Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) and Fear (1996). He studied Western Herbal Medicine at Coastal Mountain College and Ayurvedic medicine in India. He was clinical director at the Wild Rose College of Natural Healing. He wrote Food As Medicine: The Theory and Practice of Food (2011) and Ayurveda: The Divine Science of Life (2006). In 2012 he founded the Dogwood School of Botanical Medicine.