“Let Medicine Be Thy Food”?

The blogger wishes to share with readers of this blog an amusing WhatsApp message from his most-learned e-buddy The Great Sifu Dr. JB Lim received on July 3, 2016 as follows:

Just to let you know Dr William Osler is a very well known and highly respected doctor, and I think what he says is gospel truth even to us as modern doctors. He is well quoted in the medical literatures. I think he was and still not wrong about taking unnecessary drugs and medicine.

Even the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, the Father of Mediicine taught doctors during his time this: "Let Food Be Thy Medicine". He NEVER said “Let Medicine Be Thy Food”. This was put into his mouth by modern doctors and drug companies to promote and to sell their drugs in order to make money and survive.

Just imagine asking people to take pain killers, antibiotics and steroid as your daily food. Do you in your right sense and mind want to follow that sort of idiotic advice from any doctors or pharmacists Do you not think it's nuts to take all these drugs, chemical poisons as your daily food, bread and butter?

Use your good and intelligent brain to think, and NOT follow your doctor blindly just because you think he is a doctor and you must follow his instruction.

It is the body that heals itself and NOT the chemical drugs. It will take me hours to explain pharmacology and the limited biochemical actions of various drugs. Just his simple sentence will do to all lay listeners.

My name is Ju Boo Lim. I am a Special Medical and Science Adviser and Head of the Technical Advisory Board to an international group of drug companies.  Also a former Senior Medical Research Officer at the MOH Institute for Medical Research, and Research Toxicologist and Research Nutritionist at MIT, Cambridge.

Just to add another simple sentence to what I have already said.

If every sensible person follows this wisdom in this adage that says "an apple a day keeps the doctor (and the drug company) away", they will all go bankrupt.

That's why they put this additional non existing clause into Hippocrates mouth 'let medicine be your food'. We also have complete idiots invited as speakers who blindly quote what HIppocrates never said. It is just a case of a blind following another blind.

Just remember the word drug and medicines are just the glorified term for a chemical.  In chemistry all tangible compounds and substances are chemicals, drugs included. Do you want to take chemicals as your daily food? Even nutrients are technically chemicals except harmless if taken in moderation as the body requires to power its biochemistry, and to provide it with energy growth and development. It is exceeding lengthy and highly complicated for me to teach biochemistry, nutrition, pharmacology and medicine here in WhatsApp.