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Approvals For Herbal And Nutritional Supplements As Medicines (Part 3)

August 23, 2008 · Leave a Comment

This posting will make more sense if you read Part 1 as well.

Having read a very good posting on Dr Buttar’s blog, I was inspired to write an additional posting on this subject.  As Dr Buttar points out, many mainstream doctors readily issue pharmaceutical drugs to treat a symptom, when the route cause can often be eliminated by dietary or lifestyle adjustments. 

So why will doctors seldom issue nutritional/lifestyle advice, whilst (as Dr Buttar points out) readily issuing drugs that often have toxic side effects?

I would say that there are 2 reasons:

  • The first reason being that it is the way that they are trained.  Very little time of a doctors training is devoted to nutrition.  Many people who advocate natural health may remember a popular tape some years ago called “Dead Doctor’s Don’t Lie”, where the narrator pointed out that the average life expectancy of a doctor is not actually that good.  He suggested that if you wanted advice on longevity, then ask a bus conductor as statistically they live longer.
  • We live in a “don’t sue me” culture.  A doctor can issue all the drugs he likes as long as they have been “approved” for that condition without being sued.  As long as he gets the quantity right he is covered.  But if he issued nutritional/lifestyle advice for certain conditions and things went wrong, he could be sued.

I suspect that the “don’t sue me” culture is the reason that very little training is giving to nutrition as it is safer for them not to go there.  This is why in the Part 1 of these postings, I advocate that herbal/nutritional methods should be tested to the same degree as pharmaceutical drugs, so that doctors can issue them without fear of recrimination.  The only trouble with that is, who would fund testing of things likes herbs, which cannot be patented (therefore no big profits derived from the enormous expense of testing)?  I have made suggestions to answer that question in Part 1.

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