The
blogger wishes to share with readers of this blog an amusing WhatsApp message
from his most-learned e-buddy The Great
Sifu Dr.
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.