Some months ago I was invited to give a dinner talk to a group of doctors, scientists and members of the academia in an elite club
It was on the subject pertaining to our human existence since the evolution of life on Earth. I spoke at length on this subject to an highly interested audience.
During the lengthy Q and A session a doctor stood up boldly asking me whether or not God existed before time, space, matter, and even before the heavens were created.
When I replied in the affirmative, and the next question I already knew he was going to confront me was who then created God?
I have no hesitation in answering him at some length, but briefly here was what my answer
The question as to who then created God before He created heaven is illogic.
It is not uncommonly for people to ask this, including learned scientists whenever the subject on the creation of universe and the genesis of life on Earth propped up.
When scientists start to question this, frankly I do not think they are really learned as far as their spiritual understanding is concerned.
Our spiritual vision can be clouded by our understanding of material things. We become like a frog in a well because we cannot see beyond our enclosed physical entities.
Everything around us has to conform by existing physical laws for an explanation.
But let us remind ourselves that God is spirit and is not a material being like ourselves.
God being the highest spiritual being is not confined or has to conform by any existing physical laws of science to explain His existence
He himself created everything in heaven and on Earth, and also created laws to control everything under His creation. He is above all things and above all laws
"God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth" (John 4:24)
When I quoted Genesis 1:1 in my previous write up "in the beginning God created the heaven and earth..." it was already instantly very clear to me that God has no beginning, and it was the heaven and the earth he created that have a beginning.
I instantly saw God as eternal. He has no beginning and no end.
Think of it this way. If God haven't existed before the heaven and earth he would not have been there to create anything, let alone the heaven and earth
In short, nobody will be there..not even God. Just remember God is the most Supreme spiritual being, and being the highest, he does not require anything higher to create him. He is spirit. He is not physical or material that requires certain physical laws to explain.
Without his eternal existence everything will be empty..no time, no space, no dimension, no energy...nothing.. all void, not even time, let alone matter, space and energy.
So we need to reckon there must be a non material being already in existence to create everything, and put them into physical existence, whether it be from a point in time as explained in the Big Bang theory as astronomers believe, or from the scripture. Look at it another way even from our material vision.
Matter, space, time, and energy is just one single entity before the Big Bang or even before God created the heaven and earth according to the Bible.
Einstein specifically tells us that time and matter and space are all one entity in a continum although Isaac Newton always thought that time has no beginning.
So if we follow the theory of Einstein, even time did not exist before the "beginning" because matter in the universe or heaven if you like, must come together as one, and not as separate entities.
This already clearly tells us there was no time before God created the heaven and earth. It was only when he created heaven and earth was the beginning of time
In other words, time, matter, space and energy all started together as as one in the same instant.
Once began, everything must obey the laws of physics or Nature which God himself also created to control all his creation as much as we create law and order to control the creation of our civilization. It is often said the king of a country is above the law. Likewise, God is above all laws of his creation.
Being a Spirit, and he is above all laws he also created to control the harmony of heavens as on Earth
His existence is eternal, from the "beginning" to the "end" He is already there even before he created everything material including time. Time started only when heaven and earth began
Allow me to quote a few verses in the Bible:
"Before the mountains were brought forth or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God" (Psalm 90:2).
Similar verses on the eternal nature of God are also found in 1 Timothy 6:16, Hebrew 1:10 -12, Hebrew 9:14, and Psalm 102:25.
Then there are two more verses:
"And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with glory which I had with thee before the world was " (John 17:5)
"....the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world" (John 17:24).
What does John 17:24 tells us? It clearly tells us that Jesus and God exisited as one, even before the beginning of time and heaven.
I managed to answer the doctor to assure him that God, Jesus and the Holy SpIrit is ONE, and they have already existed even before time, and even before the heaven and everything else was created
Matter in the universe and time existed together from the very beginning only from the moments of creation, be it from the Big Bang offered by scientists where everything including time began, or by the simple Faith by way of divine revelation in Genesis.
I explained to the doctor once again God is spirit, not material or a physical being.
God does not require any material being to create Him or use the laws of science to work out his existence or beginning.
Naturally he was very amazed by what I told him. I thank him for being able to glorify God to the highest since then
Monday, September 25, 2017
Monday, September 11, 2017
Natural and Synthetic Vitamins. Can we manufacture natural vitamins
Dear Dr. JB Lim
1. Can the PharCo produce the synthetic levo vitamins instead of the dextro type.
2. Why the American FDA approved the sales of these harmful and misleading vitamins. All the while people are thinking they are buying the same vitamin products natural or synthetic.
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Thank you for your question on why drug manufacturers cannot make their vitamins exactly as those found naturally in foods.
I cannot give you the answer with certainty as I do not have a PhD degree in biological or pharmaceutical chemistry.
But I supposed it would almost be impossible for scientists to mimic God's marvellous creation of Nature.
If scientists could do that, then they would have been able to create life by synthesizing all the biological molecules exactly like those in a living body.
Most of the biological molecules including vitamins exist in the levo or left handed form as far as I read, and was also told, compared to the dextro or right handed orientation in natural ones. Do not ask me why.
Even if scientists are able to mimic God's handiwork, the vitamins are all going to be very, very, expensive which even millionaires would not be able to afford
The only exception I can think of as I type this sentence, is sugar where the body utilizes the D or dextro form more efficiently.
But the rest of the nutrients as far as I know, are mainly in their left handed orientation.
This is particular true with
L-amino acids which is found in large quantities in all biological systems.
This probably started from the beginning of life on Earth when natural amino acids were levo instead of in the dextro form and its synthesis continued naturally, being duplicated in all living things into their biological systems like molecular clones till today.
Almost all the amino acids from proteins are in the L (levo) form instead of in the dextro form
I believe it would be easier for the body to follow the same metabolic pathways for all biomolecules, whether or not they are amino acids, triglycerides, sugars or vitamins, instead of man-made D form for which I suppose is much, much easier and cheaper to manufacture.
But that does not mean the body cannot use them, except it may have to create a new road (new metabpolic pathways) for them to follow.
This means the conversion into another metabolic system may not be so efficient, and that large amounts would be needed for the conversion?
Let me put this in another way. It is like currency exchange where you need to pay large amounts of a certain currency just to get a small amount of another currency
A simple example is you need to pay more than RM 3 to get one Singapore dollar.
Now you can understand why it is far, far better to get your vitamins from food rather than from tablets because of this conversion rate.
Moreover it is far, far cheaper to eat food Nature provides for than for us to take tablets of artificial nutrients.
Remember, man eat food, not nutrients.
Now you can understand why I said in my last letter that you need only 10 mg of vitamin C from fruits instead of 100 - 200 mg from tablets to cure scurvy.
I can only explain all these examples in a lecture, not by using my small smart phone here which keeps auto correcting me.
It is more advantageous for the body to receive something that is more compatible to its own than something that is just a mirror image or as an antagonistic
The body has to create a synthetic pathway just allow the synthetic vitamin to use, and sometimes it cannot even do that.
I hope my explanation following your question makes things easier for you to understand
Lim jb
Thursday, September 7, 2017
September 11 attack. Was it a plane?
I was just fascinated by this video sent to me claiming that no plane was involved in the Twin Towers attack on Sept 11
Various arguments was given that it was not a plane which could smash thorough a building made of steel and concreate.
This fascinated me too, whether or not they were the two planes that brought down such massive and strong buildings as the Twin Towers as I sat on my hospital bed watching the video.
So I thought I should sit up and analyse the logical aspect of the controversy although I am not an expert on planes, buildings or on explosives.
First, I need to make a search to find out what was the maximum weight of a Boeing 767 with 51 passengers, 9 crew and 5 hijackers in one of the planes belonging to United Airlines on a flight from Logan Airport to Los Angeles that fatal morning.
I then searched to find the maximum load a Boeing 767 can carry, iincluding fuel, and found it was 179,000 kg.
Let us now assume this was the load including 65 people inside. Let us make a rough estimate for both planes to be roughly the same to make calculations easier. We need to assume both planes were roughly the same.
A search showed the US government calculation gave the first plane flying at 494 mph when it smashed into the first tower, and the second plane at 586 mph
But an analysis by MIT showed a slightly lower velocity.
Let us take the figures released by the US government.
United States uses the old Imperial standard of measurement instead of in the SI unit. So converting their speed, it was 220.84 meters per second for the first plane, and 261.97 m / s for the second one
Now let us look at the kinetic energy for both planes in flight that morning of Sept 11 at these speeds with a mass of 179,000 kg.
Using the equation E = 1/2 m v squared, where m = mass of the plane, and v = velocity; it turns out that first plane would have acquired a kinetic energy of 4,364,942,351 Jolues when it smashed into the first tower.
The second plane, released a power of 6,142,231,141Jolues when it slammed into the second tower.
Now the power of one metric ton of TNT is 4,184 million Joules.
This means the energy released by the first plane as it smashed into the 1st tower is equivalent to 1.04 metric tons of TNT, and the second plane with a slamming force of 1.47 metric tons of TNT
As last, this is as far I can go as I am not a structural engineer, especially one who need to specialize in building demolishing work using explosives. I am only a medical scientist and a clinician, not a structural engineer.
However, I thought to myself the fuselage and the wings to the best of my knowledge are made of either aluminium, or aluminium alloy, titanium, carbon composites such as graphite epoxy or carbon fibre reinforced polymer, all of which are much lighter and less dense than a tower made of steel and concrete.
As such I would have thought a plane travelling at that speed would have been smashed into smithereens outside the towers before it can even penetrate a tower of steel and concrete. But I admit I do not exactly know
Even if it could, I cannot tell how much TNT would be needed to smash it right through a building of concrete and steel. Would one ton of TNT be sufficient?
Even if the planes managed to smash into the towers and spill aviation fuel inside the burning of the fuel can be seen outside, and the fire can only spread upwards from the upper floors.
How could the fires burn downwards and weaken the entire structure from the bottom floor to cause the entire towers to collapse down to ground zero?
The fuel and fire cannot be burning from the bottom upwards since the planes hit the upper top floors, not from the bottom.
If this is not possible, then we need to know if it was an inside job using explosives inside the two towers rather than blown up from outside by the plhanes?
However, I am talking of the initial impact only which is the most important, but not the collapse of the entire towers from the heat of burning fuels
But if the planes managed to smash in and spill burning fuel inside. then it may explain why the towers collapsed after that which may suggest it was actually the planes, and not explosives within the building.
But as I said earlier we need to consider whether or not the temperature of burning aviation fuel was hot enough to melt steel and concrete, especially the steel structure are normally insulated by concrete outside which are poor conductors of heat
The melting point of steel is between 1,370 - 1500 deg C, but may be softened at around 538 deg C. The temperature of burning jet fuel in air is between 427 - 816 deg C.
However, the steel structures are normally embedded inside concrete which shields the steel from the burning jet fuel if there were. Hence the possibility that the steel were insulated by the concrete.
If the steel structures were all insulated embedded within concrete structures outside they would have been protected by the concrete walls.
The steel within may not even be able to able to reach a critical temperature for it to be soften,let alone melt. Of course I am not an expert on building structure and the effects of intense heat on them.So my argument is only theoretical. Only a real study or some experiments can answer that?
Then again why should the fire and weakening of the upper floors affect structures on the lower floors until both towers collapsed right down to ground level? I only asked myself this question after seeing the video sent to me by friends in the Whatsapp.
Since there are so many senior structural engineers in my Whatsapp group who sent me that video, I like them to take over from here after my argument given above.
I would be interested in their structural analysis since they told me the towers were not brought down by plane as I have all the while read
Thank you.
Lim jb
Sunday, May 7, 2017
Cardiac protein as an early predictor of heart attack
Very late last night just as I was already retiring to bed at nearly 3 am, I received a WhatsApp message from Professor Dr Andrew Charles Gomez, a very prominent and famous ENT Specialist asking my opinion of a claim by a speaker at a conference on nutrition and aging he attended who said that a heart protein called cardiac myosin can be used as early detector of heart attack?
I instantly got up from my bed to type my personal opinion on this to Prof Gomez
Dear Prof Dr Andrew Gomez,
I am surprised you heard from one of the conference speakers on nutrition and anti-aging you attended that cardiac myosin is used as an early detection of heart attack?
Since I was not at the conference, I do not have the details of that claim. This is the first time I heard of using cardiac myosin as an early predictor of AMI (acute myocardial infraction).
As you are a reputable medical specialist yourself, let us argue this logically.
First of all, myosin is not something new to scientists. Even during my student days in the early 1960’s we already learn about this protein both in our physiology, and later in our nutrition lectures, that this protein (myosin) is present in all muscles for their contractile functions.
There are essentially two types of myosin expressed by three different types of genes; two for skeletal muscles – namely, one for slow skeletal muscles, and the other for fast muscles; both of which are actually responsible for the conversion of energy-rich phosphate bonds ATP (adenosine triphosphate) into ADP (adenosine diphosphate) with the release of energy like muscle contraction. We all know that even in biochemistry.
The remaining 3rd type of gene (MYBPC3) exclusively expresses cardiac myosin that is responsible for the continuous non-stop contraction of the heart.
This protein (cardiac myosin) remains in the cardiac muscles at stable and low levels. But they may increase by drugs such as cardiac myosin activators in the event of a heart failure.
But I have never heard of a heightened expression of this cardiac protein even BEFORE an acute cardiac event such as AMI. This does not seem scientifically logical to me. How do you expect a gene able to know or predict that an acute event is going to happen that requires it to increase its (protein) expression? This is like fortune-telling and putting a cart before a horse.
In medicine, doctors ought to know (unfortunate a lot don’t) that in most diseases, biochemical lesions starts to appear in the blood before the clinical presentations become apparent. But this can only happen if the pathology is already present without the clinical features manifesting themselves in the early stages of the disease.
Just to give you one or two examples will do - hydroxyproline and hydroxylysine for collagen formation is low before gingival lesions become apparent in scurvy.
Another example is erythrocyte transketolase activity in the RBC is affected even BEFORE a thiamine deficiency and beri-beri clinically manifest itself.
Yet another simple example is blood sugar levels is elevated for months or years before polyuria, polydipsia, polyphagia, weight loss, retinopathy, nephropathy and other complications are presented as complications in diabetic patients.
Another example is the elevation of various liver enzymes - alanine transaminase, aspartate aminotransferase (SGOT)… etc., even before signs and symptoms of liver diseases are apparent.
There are hundreds more such examples of biochemical and protein expressions appearing BEFORE a clinical presentation following the existence of already an active pathophysiology
However there are also a number of examples where the biochemical expressions are not sensitive enough for them to appear first before the clinical lesions manifest themselves.
One example are the tumor markers for cancer detection. These markers are neither specific nor sensitive enough to detect a lurking cancer already in existence in the body until the neoplasm are already very massive and in an advanced stage.
The reason is probably an existing malignant tumour requires billion of cancer cells to collectively express sufficient amounts of abnormal malignant proteins to be sensitive enough for chemical detection.
In the event of tiny amounts of cellular cancers lurking in the body all the time which we all have, but dealt with by the immune system, these small amounts of malignant cells cannot express sufficient amounts of abnormal proteins for chemical detection.
The only exception I can think of are the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) where its blood elevation is common for both prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The only choice for diagnostic differentiation between PSA in prostate cancer and BPH is to look at the velocity of the PSA increase over time, and also the free and combined PSA ratios.
In a total PSA level, there will be more free PSA in BPH than in the case prostate cancer. That ratio expressed should be taken into consideration short of performing a TRUS biopsy (transrectal ultrasound biopsy) for differential diagnosis.
PSA detection expressed by the prostate gland is quite specific for prostate anomaly. The rest of the other tumor markers are neither sensitive nor specific. This is the only example I can think of at the moment as I type this sentence.
In short, in most cases biochemical changes precede a clinical presentation. It is the presence of an asymptomatic pathophysiology preceding that causes protein expressions as changes in the blood chemistry.
This is because the pathology is already actively present as a trigger factor for the genes to express the specific proteins. This is so logical to understand.
However, there is only one exception I can think of at the moment in which an acute event comes first; after which then there is an expression of a protein (enzyme).
In this exceptional example, there is an increase in cardiac enzymes creatine kinase (CK-MB), and also the troponin levels which are released by the heart muscle within 3-12 hours of onset of chest pain, reach peak values within 24 hours, and return to baseline after 48-72 hours.
These cardiac enzymes are released only after an AMI. This is because the heart muscles already suffered a damage, and the enzymes expressed are only an after effect. But there is no way the heart knows when it is going to suffer a sudden coronary insufficiency for it to express the enzymes beforehand?
So the genes responsible for such enzyme (protein) release can express themselves only after a sudden acute event. AMI happens when the coronary vessels suffers a sudden ischemic episode, unlike chronic diseases. In an AMI there is no way of predicting this instant event. This is logical.
So, how can cardiac myosin be expressed beforehand and detected as an early predictor before the heart even knows of an imminent sudden cardiac event? This beats my all my basic understanding in medical sciences
As we can clearly see from the example of CK-MB and troponin being released ONLY after the cardiac event has happened, I see no way can the gene MYBPC3 ability to express the myosin-binding protein C (cardiac myosin) before the event?
In lighter vein, genes are not fortune-tellers or harbingers that can foretell a medical catastrophe yet to come for person to take the necessary precaution.
What you heard from the conference presenter on nutrition and aging does not make scientific sense to me to the best of my understanding.
Maybe I need to get hold of his published paper (if any) to read the study, the methodology, data and inference.
Thank you for asking
Lim ju boo
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Peeling An Apple. Is It Wise?
Recently someone sent me a WhatsApp showing a mechanical apple peeler, and how it can peel many apples rapidly, efficiently and very cleanly.
I replied to tell him that the skin of an apple or any fruit especially highly coloured ones contain the core of their nutritive and even medicinal value, and such a device is doing injustice to Nature, the apple and the most of all, the consumer himself.
The Skin is Wholesome and The Best:
In fact a consumer of a cleanly peeled apple is throwing away the best part of the fruit.
The skin with its tens of dozens of phytochemicals, antioxidants, and phytonutrients of various molecular weights, many of which with low molecular weights below 400 are bioavailable through the human intestinal gut as Nature intended. They are meant for human consumption, but are lost through ignorance and fear of toxicity.
WhatsApp Ignorance:
Following that, a few in my WhatsApp group replied, the reason why they normally remove the skin of an apple is because of the wax. One said he tried to use hot water (I suppose he meant “blanching”), rub it with cloth and tissue paper, but the wax is still there.
Some even wrote using a combination of baking powder and vinegar and all sorts of de-waxing methods. But the wax is still there.
Unfortunately those with no knowledge of even simple inorganic chemistry do not realize that using a combination of baking powder (which is sodium bicarbonate), and vinegar (which is acetic acid) only result in production of carbon dioxide, sodium acetate and water in the reaction.
None of these resultant compounds can remove waxes, whether mineral wax or natural ones. But they believe in such “knowledge” taken from the Internet!!
Finally they found the best way is to skin off the apple, and consume only the white flesh beneath.
This prompts me to write a small explanation in this blog.
Perhaps most people who try to remove waxes on the surface of apples or from the skin of most fruits and vegetables do not know even simple food science, nutrition or chemistry.
I think they do not understand what wax is on the skin of an apple? I think most people think wax is toxic, and is harmful to health.
Simple Household Science:
Let me explain using with just a little organic chemistry, and a bit of physiology.
The wax on the skin of an apple is a natural fruit wax secreted by the apple itself for its own protection.
Most plants, fruits and vegetables such as apples, oranges, lemon, tomatoes, pumpkins, water melon…etc., etc , do secrete waxes and oils on their skin to protect themselves against water from outside, and internally against moisture loss and subsequently dehydration.
Even animals like ducks, birds, chicken do the same when they peen their features to keep them waterproofs and stay dry and warm.
Even the human skin secrete sebum with its sebaceous glands, and the body oils on our skin is about 26 % wax esters and about 12 % squalene, but mainly triglycerides and less of other free fatty acids.
Wax esters and squalene are unique chemical composition of the sebum on our skin, and are produced as a protective layer to keep the skin moist, and this secretion is not found anywhere else in the body.
So we may say these waxes are natural substances and are mainly made of esters. But then, what are esters?
Esters:
Now in order to explain what esters are, we need to understand just a little bit of organic chemistry.
Let me explain this in simple language.
Esters are organic compounds formed by the reaction between alcohols and organic acids.
For instance, esters derived from carboxylic acids have the general formula RCOOR’ A simple example will do, such as ethyl ethanoate CH2COOC2H5, and methyl propanoate, C2H5COOCH3.
Esters containing simple hydrocarbon groups are volatile fragrant substances found in most fruits such as in apples, citrus fruits, mangoes, peaches…etc.
Esters as the Fragrance Fruits:
Because of their fragrance, food scientists and food technologists used them as flavouring agents in the food industry.
Similarly, like oils and sebaceous secretion on human skin or the oils from the uropygial gland (preen gland) in birds to preen their features, they are called triesters, meaning they are waxes or natural oil and fats molecules containing three ester groups.
Wax can be solid or semisolid substances. There are classified into two main types. The first type is mineral wax which is a mixture of hydrocarbons with higher molecular weights.
finitely not found naturally in apples or in any fruit or vegetable or rubbed into apples by the fruit producers.
The waxes found in apples and plants and in all animals, are actually esters of fatty acids to protect them from moisture, and these are edible and not toxic.
Do Not Peel an Apple:
So there is no need to scrape off the skin of an apple. Sometimes, apple and other fruit producers do rub in just a drop or two of natural waxes to the apples to preserve and to store their produce for a longer time and for better keeping qualities during handling, transport, and storage, but these are same wax esters they use as the apples themselves, and they are of food grade, not industrial or mineral waxes.
So there is no reason why health conscious consumers should peel away the skin of an apple.
A Holistic Natural Apple:
It is “An (whole and holistic) Apple a Day that Keeps the Doctor Away”
And that’s what Nature intents, not an un-holistic one with its best parts removed. What Nature puts in, let no man put asunder.
I hope I have explained clearly in reachable non-technical language to the ill-informed consumers, including the so-called “nutritionist”, “food toxicologist” and “health and food experts”
“Let the Whole Food be Thy Medicine” (my own quote)
I replied to tell him that the skin of an apple or any fruit especially highly coloured ones contain the core of their nutritive and even medicinal value, and such a device is doing injustice to Nature, the apple and the most of all, the consumer himself.
The Skin is Wholesome and The Best:
In fact a consumer of a cleanly peeled apple is throwing away the best part of the fruit.
The skin with its tens of dozens of phytochemicals, antioxidants, and phytonutrients of various molecular weights, many of which with low molecular weights below 400 are bioavailable through the human intestinal gut as Nature intended. They are meant for human consumption, but are lost through ignorance and fear of toxicity.
WhatsApp Ignorance:
Following that, a few in my WhatsApp group replied, the reason why they normally remove the skin of an apple is because of the wax. One said he tried to use hot water (I suppose he meant “blanching”), rub it with cloth and tissue paper, but the wax is still there.
Some even wrote using a combination of baking powder and vinegar and all sorts of de-waxing methods. But the wax is still there.
Unfortunately those with no knowledge of even simple inorganic chemistry do not realize that using a combination of baking powder (which is sodium bicarbonate), and vinegar (which is acetic acid) only result in production of carbon dioxide, sodium acetate and water in the reaction.
None of these resultant compounds can remove waxes, whether mineral wax or natural ones. But they believe in such “knowledge” taken from the Internet!!
Finally they found the best way is to skin off the apple, and consume only the white flesh beneath.
This prompts me to write a small explanation in this blog.
Perhaps most people who try to remove waxes on the surface of apples or from the skin of most fruits and vegetables do not know even simple food science, nutrition or chemistry.
I think they do not understand what wax is on the skin of an apple? I think most people think wax is toxic, and is harmful to health.
Simple Household Science:
Let me explain using with just a little organic chemistry, and a bit of physiology.
The wax on the skin of an apple is a natural fruit wax secreted by the apple itself for its own protection.
Most plants, fruits and vegetables such as apples, oranges, lemon, tomatoes, pumpkins, water melon…etc., etc , do secrete waxes and oils on their skin to protect themselves against water from outside, and internally against moisture loss and subsequently dehydration.
Even animals like ducks, birds, chicken do the same when they peen their features to keep them waterproofs and stay dry and warm.
Even the human skin secrete sebum with its sebaceous glands, and the body oils on our skin is about 26 % wax esters and about 12 % squalene, but mainly triglycerides and less of other free fatty acids.
Wax esters and squalene are unique chemical composition of the sebum on our skin, and are produced as a protective layer to keep the skin moist, and this secretion is not found anywhere else in the body.
So we may say these waxes are natural substances and are mainly made of esters. But then, what are esters?
Esters:
Now in order to explain what esters are, we need to understand just a little bit of organic chemistry.
Let me explain this in simple language.
Esters are organic compounds formed by the reaction between alcohols and organic acids.
For instance, esters derived from carboxylic acids have the general formula RCOOR’ A simple example will do, such as ethyl ethanoate CH2COOC2H5, and methyl propanoate, C2H5COOCH3.
Esters containing simple hydrocarbon groups are volatile fragrant substances found in most fruits such as in apples, citrus fruits, mangoes, peaches…etc.
Esters as the Fragrance Fruits:
Because of their fragrance, food scientists and food technologists used them as flavouring agents in the food industry.
Similarly, like oils and sebaceous secretion on human skin or the oils from the uropygial gland (preen gland) in birds to preen their features, they are called triesters, meaning they are waxes or natural oil and fats molecules containing three ester groups.
Wax can be solid or semisolid substances. There are classified into two main types. The first type is mineral wax which is a mixture of hydrocarbons with higher molecular weights.
finitely not found naturally in apples or in any fruit or vegetable or rubbed into apples by the fruit producers.
The waxes found in apples and plants and in all animals, are actually esters of fatty acids to protect them from moisture, and these are edible and not toxic.
Do Not Peel an Apple:
So there is no need to scrape off the skin of an apple. Sometimes, apple and other fruit producers do rub in just a drop or two of natural waxes to the apples to preserve and to store their produce for a longer time and for better keeping qualities during handling, transport, and storage, but these are same wax esters they use as the apples themselves, and they are of food grade, not industrial or mineral waxes.
So there is no reason why health conscious consumers should peel away the skin of an apple.
A Holistic Natural Apple:
It is “An (whole and holistic) Apple a Day that Keeps the Doctor Away”
And that’s what Nature intents, not an un-holistic one with its best parts removed. What Nature puts in, let no man put asunder.
I hope I have explained clearly in reachable non-technical language to the ill-informed consumers, including the so-called “nutritionist”, “food toxicologist” and “health and food experts”
“Let the Whole Food be Thy Medicine” (my own quote)
Friday, February 3, 2017
Alternative Medicine for Liver Disease
Dear Readers
(This is a temporary reply for a comment a gentleman posted into my Whatsapp chat group. But since it was sent into my smartphone, my reply to him was rather lengthy (below) it could not be fully inserted in Whatsapp on a smart phone which like SMS is actually meant only for short messages.
I therefore take this alternative media to answer his question through this blog instead which may be used for general education on health issues for my other gentle readers as well. Thank you for your understanding).
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Dear Mr.......
This letter (answer) is for you (Mr.....to conceal his identity) . Read carefully. It is also a very useful medical education for the rest in this chat group.
First, I am sorry on your mother’s death due to a liver disease although you did not tell us exactly which disease of the liver?
There are over 100 different types of diseases of the liver such as cystic disease of the liver, fatty disease of the liver, viral A, B, C and autoimmune hepatitis, cirrhosis, alcohol-induced, alpha 1 anti-trypsin deficiency, Alagille syndrome, fatty liver disease, galactosemia, Gilbert’s syndrome, hemochromatosis Gilbert’s syndrome, hemochromatosis, sarcoidosis, liver cancer, lysosomal acid lipase deficiency, Wilson disease, haemochromatosis…etc, etc…down the long list. Which one did your mother suffered for ten long years?
However I suspect it was cirrhosis of the liver from the way you described “my mum has hardened liver” (where the liver becomes fibrotic and harden like a piece of leather). Am I right with my clinical suspicion?
You mentioned she was under a physician’s care for 10 years which makes me suspect cirrhosis, which is probably the only liver disease that takes such a long time to harden (fibrosis).
Cirrhosis itself has so many causes, and I shall mention a few later.
You also mentioned “I remember very well all the 10 years of treatment, no vitamin support was ever prescribed” Be careful of this also. I shall briefly explain later.
You also said you no longer trust conventional medicine, and that alternative medicine and vitamin should also be given to her? Also be careful on this note.
Not all alternative medicine can “care”. Same with conventional (allopathic) medicine.
However if you can give me her medical records on the investigations done, I may be able to tell if alternative medicine and vitamin support should be given that would have changed her prognosis (forecast outcome of a disease).
Ten years of treatment is a very long time. In that period your mother would have a lot, a lot of chances under a knowledgeable doctor who may take an alternative treatment pathway(s).
If that was actually cirrhosis (if my guess is not wrong from the two sentences clue you wrote), then a lot could have been done to brake, alter the course of cirrhosis (if that was the disease) or even reverse its pathology. But I do not know what her doctor did for her?
There are just 3 main causes for cirrhosis of the liver.
Chronic alcoholism
Viral infection, especially hepatitis B, A and C
Prolonged and low dose ingestion of toxic substances
Examples of liver toxins in foods are: aflatoxins or other mycotoxins, and in drugs and medications are (examples): indomethacin, ibuprofen, cimetidine, salicylates, ranitidine, nifedipine, antithyroid drugs…etc, etc…down the long list).
Hypervitaminosis: An excessive intake of vitamin A very much over the recommended daily allowances in foods may also injure the liver.
The liver already stores a lot of fat soluble vitamin A (retinol). Vitamin A in low doses is very protective against most liver diseases, but is toxic in very high doses over many years of intake (hypervitaminosis).
Even synthetic chemical inhalants like cleaning products, benzene, petrol vapours, pesticides, and hair sprays…etc, etc inhaled over long periods and exposures can injure the liver, and probably other organs as well.
Always remember all diseases including liver disorders have a single, butt in most cases multiple root causes.
In the event of early stages of the disease, her doctor should try to identify the root cause(s) as the first step, and then teach her how to remove or avoid the ROOT causes first.
This is the first and most important step in the practice of good and ethical medicine, not just give some medicine for 10 years to block the symptoms.
Once the root cause(s) has been removed through education, then a protective diet has to be instituted to assist the body (liver) to recover on its own.
Fortunately the body especially the liver has a great capacity to rejuvenate on its own.
In fact the liver is the only organ in the body that can regenerate most of it parenchyma (soft tissues and cells) even when almost severely damaged by infections or toxins, unless it is already very severely damaged to its end point over a very long period of exposures, leading to extensive scaring and fibrosis.
It is made worse due to neglect or inappropriate treatment using a lot of drugs that injure it even more. In the first place there is no drug treatment for cirrhosis of the liver.
Hence merely giving drugs for 10 years to manage cirrhosis is completely absurd without removing the root causes, something I have already briefly mentioned as the first line management.
This is to be followed by dietary intervention with appropriate protective nutrition to reverse its cellular chemistry and pathology.
I lot could have been done in that ten years for your mother if these steps were instituted by a knowledgeable doctor who is not blinded only by drug-based approach.
Vaccination against hepatitis B may be the only exception as a prophylaxis, but not for treatment.
A well-balanced, low-fat diet high in fruits and vegetables and rich in antioxidant content especially in vitamin C and broad-spectrum carotenes maybe the best approach in liver-disease prevention, as well as in early stages of the treatment.
But do not overdose with vitamin A, D, E, K and other fat-soluble vitamins as supplements. They just accumulated in the liver, being fat soluble, they cannot get out through the (water soluble) urine, and these causes toxicities in the liver and fat tissues.
Be very careful on this approach when you said in your Whatsapp chat “no vitamin support was ever prescribed” for your mother.
In small regulated doses, vitamin support is a positive yes, but not in toxic high doses especially with vitamins A, D, E and K. The chemistry and pharmacodynamics (mechanism of action) we shall leave out.
Another treatment adjunct is to get rid of excessive body fat as this can infiltrate into the parenchyma (soft cellular tissues) to cause fatty liver, and finally cirrhosis. This is the next step to hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer).
I have in the course of my career as a research nutritionist and medical researcher successfully treated about 6 or 7 cases (not very much) using a combination of dietary, natural therapeutics, and herbal medicine, combined with counseling and health education.
I did this completely free-of-charge for the patients who came to seek my help. I prescribed and educate (free), they buy the medication
But whether alternative medicine or vitamin support alone (as you believe in your Whatsapp comment) without integrating this with conventional medical approach that has supportive drugs in critical cases, this is a very risky question to answer.
Since I am using WhATAPP with limited space, it is not feasible for me to describe how I successfully managed to reverse all the 6 – 7 liver cases who sought my help.
There was one an accidental case I saw deep, deep in a village at the fringe of the jungle where there was not even basic medical facilities available. I was the only one there with my nurses and a team of medical lab technologist during our health surveys. The other doctors were stationed at the village Community Centre.
I was there in that district somewhere in Perak with the rest of my medical colleagues to conduct health surveys, and not to treat the community.
His case was so characteristics of an acute liver failure – jaundice, abdominal swelling (ascites), spider naevi, pedal edema (water retention on lower extremities), nausea and vomiting, malaise, loss of appetite, inability to answer questions as the classical clinical features.
It was a straight forward diagnosis based these clinical presentations even without the need for any further imaging, biochemical, or HPE (biopsy) as done in a major hospital.
Where can you get these sophisticated diagnostic facilities when you are working deep, deep into the jungle-villages. You just have to rely entirely on your training and clinical acumen, and nothing else.
Fortunately I happened to be trained also in natural medicine. So I just taught his family to boil some weeds (a medicinal herbs – P. amarus) available just outside his village hut, and give this to him 3 times a day.
That’s all I could do for him inside a jungle without any medical facility. It was a make-shift treatment using the best of my trained knowledge and in medical research.
To even my own surprised, he fully recovered after only a month. By then I was back to my comfortable office at the Institute for Medical Research (IMR) in KL, and forgotten his case.
One morning, a month later, I received a totally unexpected phone call from his son, a Malay gentleman who was working in Petronas.
To my surprise, he told me of his father’s total recovery, and ring me to thank me very profusely for my help.. I did not expect that myself as I have by then forgotten him, but busy analyzing my research data collected in the survey.
I have lots and lots to tell you about these few cases I met, but since I am using a smart phone (that always make a clown out of me with my English, grammar, spelling, omission of words, repetition of the same words, substituting some words or terms with its “smarter” auto-correct), it is not possible for me here to give you a detailed account, except through a few hours talk.
If you let me know specifically what liver disorder your mother succumbed to, and I shall be able to tell you if alternative medicine (as you believe) would have helped.
Please remember alternative medicine is not a miracle system of medicine. The same for conventional medicine.
It all depends on the disease. Many are not curable whichever the medical system. Some are even down right bogus and a cheat. Just be very careful.
I shall tell you later how I was incorporated into a powerful joint technical committee consisting of representatives from WHO-MOH-IMR in the early 1980 -90’s when I was working at the IMR to evaluate all these systems to be integrated into the mainstream health-care system of this country.
Our years of laborious efforts have bore fruits today, with many alternative systems of medicine now officially recognized for lawful practice through an Act of Parliament in this country. They should thank us for our years of meetings after meetings of evaluation.
I have lots and lots to tell you about these few cases I met about liver diseases, but since I am using a smart phone (that always make a clown out of me with my English, grammar, spelling, omission of words, repetition of the same words, substituting some words or terms with its “smarter” auto-correct words).
it is not possible for me here to give you a detailed account, except through a few hours talk.
Maybe I can continue later at another chat session.
Regards and take care on your health
Jb lim
(This is a temporary reply for a comment a gentleman posted into my Whatsapp chat group. But since it was sent into my smartphone, my reply to him was rather lengthy (below) it could not be fully inserted in Whatsapp on a smart phone which like SMS is actually meant only for short messages.
I therefore take this alternative media to answer his question through this blog instead which may be used for general education on health issues for my other gentle readers as well. Thank you for your understanding).
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Dear Mr.......
This letter (answer) is for you (Mr.....to conceal his identity) . Read carefully. It is also a very useful medical education for the rest in this chat group.
First, I am sorry on your mother’s death due to a liver disease although you did not tell us exactly which disease of the liver?
There are over 100 different types of diseases of the liver such as cystic disease of the liver, fatty disease of the liver, viral A, B, C and autoimmune hepatitis, cirrhosis, alcohol-induced, alpha 1 anti-trypsin deficiency, Alagille syndrome, fatty liver disease, galactosemia, Gilbert’s syndrome, hemochromatosis Gilbert’s syndrome, hemochromatosis, sarcoidosis, liver cancer, lysosomal acid lipase deficiency, Wilson disease, haemochromatosis…etc, etc…down the long list. Which one did your mother suffered for ten long years?
However I suspect it was cirrhosis of the liver from the way you described “my mum has hardened liver” (where the liver becomes fibrotic and harden like a piece of leather). Am I right with my clinical suspicion?
You mentioned she was under a physician’s care for 10 years which makes me suspect cirrhosis, which is probably the only liver disease that takes such a long time to harden (fibrosis).
Cirrhosis itself has so many causes, and I shall mention a few later.
You also mentioned “I remember very well all the 10 years of treatment, no vitamin support was ever prescribed” Be careful of this also. I shall briefly explain later.
You also said you no longer trust conventional medicine, and that alternative medicine and vitamin should also be given to her? Also be careful on this note.
Not all alternative medicine can “care”. Same with conventional (allopathic) medicine.
However if you can give me her medical records on the investigations done, I may be able to tell if alternative medicine and vitamin support should be given that would have changed her prognosis (forecast outcome of a disease).
Ten years of treatment is a very long time. In that period your mother would have a lot, a lot of chances under a knowledgeable doctor who may take an alternative treatment pathway(s).
If that was actually cirrhosis (if my guess is not wrong from the two sentences clue you wrote), then a lot could have been done to brake, alter the course of cirrhosis (if that was the disease) or even reverse its pathology. But I do not know what her doctor did for her?
There are just 3 main causes for cirrhosis of the liver.
Chronic alcoholism
Viral infection, especially hepatitis B, A and C
Prolonged and low dose ingestion of toxic substances
Examples of liver toxins in foods are: aflatoxins or other mycotoxins, and in drugs and medications are (examples): indomethacin, ibuprofen, cimetidine, salicylates, ranitidine, nifedipine, antithyroid drugs…etc, etc…down the long list).
Hypervitaminosis: An excessive intake of vitamin A very much over the recommended daily allowances in foods may also injure the liver.
The liver already stores a lot of fat soluble vitamin A (retinol). Vitamin A in low doses is very protective against most liver diseases, but is toxic in very high doses over many years of intake (hypervitaminosis).
Even synthetic chemical inhalants like cleaning products, benzene, petrol vapours, pesticides, and hair sprays…etc, etc inhaled over long periods and exposures can injure the liver, and probably other organs as well.
Always remember all diseases including liver disorders have a single, butt in most cases multiple root causes.
In the event of early stages of the disease, her doctor should try to identify the root cause(s) as the first step, and then teach her how to remove or avoid the ROOT causes first.
This is the first and most important step in the practice of good and ethical medicine, not just give some medicine for 10 years to block the symptoms.
Once the root cause(s) has been removed through education, then a protective diet has to be instituted to assist the body (liver) to recover on its own.
Fortunately the body especially the liver has a great capacity to rejuvenate on its own.
In fact the liver is the only organ in the body that can regenerate most of it parenchyma (soft tissues and cells) even when almost severely damaged by infections or toxins, unless it is already very severely damaged to its end point over a very long period of exposures, leading to extensive scaring and fibrosis.
It is made worse due to neglect or inappropriate treatment using a lot of drugs that injure it even more. In the first place there is no drug treatment for cirrhosis of the liver.
Hence merely giving drugs for 10 years to manage cirrhosis is completely absurd without removing the root causes, something I have already briefly mentioned as the first line management.
This is to be followed by dietary intervention with appropriate protective nutrition to reverse its cellular chemistry and pathology.
I lot could have been done in that ten years for your mother if these steps were instituted by a knowledgeable doctor who is not blinded only by drug-based approach.
Vaccination against hepatitis B may be the only exception as a prophylaxis, but not for treatment.
A well-balanced, low-fat diet high in fruits and vegetables and rich in antioxidant content especially in vitamin C and broad-spectrum carotenes maybe the best approach in liver-disease prevention, as well as in early stages of the treatment.
But do not overdose with vitamin A, D, E, K and other fat-soluble vitamins as supplements. They just accumulated in the liver, being fat soluble, they cannot get out through the (water soluble) urine, and these causes toxicities in the liver and fat tissues.
Be very careful on this approach when you said in your Whatsapp chat “no vitamin support was ever prescribed” for your mother.
In small regulated doses, vitamin support is a positive yes, but not in toxic high doses especially with vitamins A, D, E and K. The chemistry and pharmacodynamics (mechanism of action) we shall leave out.
Another treatment adjunct is to get rid of excessive body fat as this can infiltrate into the parenchyma (soft cellular tissues) to cause fatty liver, and finally cirrhosis. This is the next step to hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer).
I have in the course of my career as a research nutritionist and medical researcher successfully treated about 6 or 7 cases (not very much) using a combination of dietary, natural therapeutics, and herbal medicine, combined with counseling and health education.
I did this completely free-of-charge for the patients who came to seek my help. I prescribed and educate (free), they buy the medication
But whether alternative medicine or vitamin support alone (as you believe in your Whatsapp comment) without integrating this with conventional medical approach that has supportive drugs in critical cases, this is a very risky question to answer.
Since I am using WhATAPP with limited space, it is not feasible for me to describe how I successfully managed to reverse all the 6 – 7 liver cases who sought my help.
There was one an accidental case I saw deep, deep in a village at the fringe of the jungle where there was not even basic medical facilities available. I was the only one there with my nurses and a team of medical lab technologist during our health surveys. The other doctors were stationed at the village Community Centre.
I was there in that district somewhere in Perak with the rest of my medical colleagues to conduct health surveys, and not to treat the community.
His case was so characteristics of an acute liver failure – jaundice, abdominal swelling (ascites), spider naevi, pedal edema (water retention on lower extremities), nausea and vomiting, malaise, loss of appetite, inability to answer questions as the classical clinical features.
It was a straight forward diagnosis based these clinical presentations even without the need for any further imaging, biochemical, or HPE (biopsy) as done in a major hospital.
Where can you get these sophisticated diagnostic facilities when you are working deep, deep into the jungle-villages. You just have to rely entirely on your training and clinical acumen, and nothing else.
Fortunately I happened to be trained also in natural medicine. So I just taught his family to boil some weeds (a medicinal herbs – P. amarus) available just outside his village hut, and give this to him 3 times a day.
That’s all I could do for him inside a jungle without any medical facility. It was a make-shift treatment using the best of my trained knowledge and in medical research.
To even my own surprised, he fully recovered after only a month. By then I was back to my comfortable office at the Institute for Medical Research (IMR) in KL, and forgotten his case.
One morning, a month later, I received a totally unexpected phone call from his son, a Malay gentleman who was working in Petronas.
To my surprise, he told me of his father’s total recovery, and ring me to thank me very profusely for my help.. I did not expect that myself as I have by then forgotten him, but busy analyzing my research data collected in the survey.
I have lots and lots to tell you about these few cases I met, but since I am using a smart phone (that always make a clown out of me with my English, grammar, spelling, omission of words, repetition of the same words, substituting some words or terms with its “smarter” auto-correct), it is not possible for me here to give you a detailed account, except through a few hours talk.
If you let me know specifically what liver disorder your mother succumbed to, and I shall be able to tell you if alternative medicine (as you believe) would have helped.
Please remember alternative medicine is not a miracle system of medicine. The same for conventional medicine.
It all depends on the disease. Many are not curable whichever the medical system. Some are even down right bogus and a cheat. Just be very careful.
I shall tell you later how I was incorporated into a powerful joint technical committee consisting of representatives from WHO-MOH-IMR in the early 1980 -90’s when I was working at the IMR to evaluate all these systems to be integrated into the mainstream health-care system of this country.
Our years of laborious efforts have bore fruits today, with many alternative systems of medicine now officially recognized for lawful practice through an Act of Parliament in this country. They should thank us for our years of meetings after meetings of evaluation.
I have lots and lots to tell you about these few cases I met about liver diseases, but since I am using a smart phone (that always make a clown out of me with my English, grammar, spelling, omission of words, repetition of the same words, substituting some words or terms with its “smarter” auto-correct words).
it is not possible for me here to give you a detailed account, except through a few hours talk.
Maybe I can continue later at another chat session.
Regards and take care on your health
Jb lim
Dear Vincent
This letter (answer) is for you. Read carefully. It is also a very useful medical education for the rest in this chat group.
First, I am sorry on your mother’s death due to a liver disease although you did not tell us exactly which disease of the liver?
There are over 100 different types of diseases of the liver such as cystic disease of the liver, fatty disease of the liver, viral A, B, C and autoimmune hepatitis, cirrhosis, alcohol-induced, alpha 1 anti-trypsin deficiency, Alagille syndrome, fatty liver disease, galactosemia, Gilbert’s syndrome, hemochromatosis Gilbert’s syndrome, hemochromatosis, sarcoidosis, liver cancer, lysosomal acid lipase deficiency, Wilson disease, haemochromatosis…etc, etc…down the long list. Which one did your mother suffered for ten long years?
However I suspect it was cirrhosis of the liver from the way you described “my mum has hardened liver” (where the liver becomes fibrotic and harden like a piece of leather). Am I right with my clinical suspicion?
You mentioned she was under a physician’s care for 10 years which makes me suspect cirrhosis, which is probably the only liver disease that takes such a long time to harden (fibrosis).
Cirrhosis itself has so many causes, and I shall mention a few later.
You also mentioned “I remember very well all the 10 years of treatment, no vitamin support was ever prescribed” Be careful of this also. I shall briefly explain later.
You also said you no longer trust conventional medicine, and that alternative medicine and vitamin should also be given to her? Also be careful on this note.
Not all alternative medicine can “care”. Same with conventional (allopathic) medicine.
However if you can give me her medical records on the investigations done, I may be able to tell if alternative medicine and vitamin support should be given that would have changed her prognosis (forecast outcome of a disease).
Ten years of treatment is a very long time. In that period your mother would have a lot, a lot of chances under a knowledgeable doctor who may take an alternative treatment pathway(s).
If that was actually cirrhosis (if my guess is not wrong from the two sentences clue you wrote), then a lot could have been done to brake, alter the course of cirrhosis (if that was the disease) or even reverse its pathology. But I do not know what her doctor did for her?
There are just 3 main causes for cirrhosis of the liver.
1. Chronic alcoholism
2. Viral infection, especially hepatitis B, A and C
3. Prolonged and low dose ingestion of toxic substances
Examples of liver toxins in foods are: aflatoxins or other mycotoxins, and in drugs and medications are (examples): indomethacin, ibuprofen, cimetidine, salicylates, ranitidine, nifedipine, antithyroid drugs…etc, etc…down the long list).
Hypervitaminosis: An excessive intake of vitamin A very much over the recommended daily allowances in foods may also injure the liver.
The liver already stores a lot of fat soluble vitamin A (retinol). Vitamin A in low doses is very protective against most liver diseases, but is toxic in very high doses over many years of intake (hypervitaminosis).
Even synthetic chemical inhalants like cleaning products, benzene, petrol vapours, pesticides, and hair sprays…etc, etc inhaled over long periods and exposures can injure the liver, and probably other organs as well.
Always remember all diseases including liver disorders have a single, butt in most cases multiple root causes.
In the event of early stages of the disease, her doctor should try to identify the root cause(s) as the first step, and then teach her how to remove or avoid the ROOT causes first.
This is the first and most important step in the practice of good and ethical medicine, not just give some medicine for 10 years to block the symptoms.
Once the root cause(s) has been removed through education, then a protective diet has to be instituted to assist the body (liver) to recover on its own.
Fortunately the body especially the liver has a great capacity to rejuvenate on its own.
In fact the liver is the only organ in the body that can regenerate most of it parenchyma (soft tissues and cells) even when almost severely damaged by infections or toxins, unless it is already very severely damaged to its end point over a very long period of exposures, leading to extensive scaring and fibrosis.
It is made worse due to neglect or inappropriate treatment using a lot of drugs that injure it even more. In the first place there is no drug treatment for cirrhosis of the liver.
Hence merely giving drugs for 10 years to manage cirrhosis is completely absurd without removing the root causes, something I have already briefly mentioned as the first line management.
This is to be followed by dietary intervention with appropriate protective nutrition to reverse its cellular chemistry and pathology.
I lot could have been done in that ten years for your mother if these steps were instituted by a knowledgeable doctor who is not blinded only by drug-based approach.
Vaccination against hepatitis B may be the only exception as a prophylaxis, but not for treatment.
A well-balanced, low-fat diet high in fruits and vegetables and rich in antioxidant content especially in vitamin C and broad-spectrum carotenes maybe the best approach in liver-disease prevention, as well as in early stages of the treatment.
But do not overdose with vitamin A, D, E, K and other fat-soluble vitamins as supplements. They just accumulated in the liver, being fat soluble, they cannot get out through the (water soluble) urine, and these causes toxicities in the liver and fat tissues.
Be very careful on this approach when you said in your Whatsapp chat “no vitamin support was ever prescribed” for your mother. In small regulated doses, vitamin support is a positive yes, but not in toxic high doses especially with vitamins A, D, E and K. The chemistry and pharmacodynamics (mechanism of action) we shall leave out.
Another treatment adjunct is to get rid of excessive body fat as this can infiltrate into the parenchyma (soft cellular tissues) to cause fatty liver, and finally cirrhosis. This is the next step to hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer).
I have in the course of my career as a research nutritionist and medical researcher successfully treated about 6 or 7 cases (not very much) using a combination of dietary, natural therapeutics, and herbal medicine, combined with counseling and health education.
I did this completely free-of-charge for the patients who came to seek my help. I prescribed and educate (free), they buy the medication
But whether alternative medicine or vitamin support alone (as you believe in your Whatsapp comment) without integrating this with conventional medical approach that has supportive drugs in critical cases, this is a very risky question to answer.
Since I am using WhATAPP with limited space, it is not feasible for me to describe how I successfully managed to reverse all the 6 – 7 liver cases who sought my help.
There was one an accidental case I saw deep, deep in a village at the fringe of the jungle where there was not even basic medical facilities available. I was the only one there with my nurses and a team of medical lab technologist during our health surveys. The other doctors were stationed at the village Community Centre.
I was there in that district somewhere in Perak with the rest of my medical colleagues to conduct health surveys, and not to treat the community.
His case was so characteristics of an acute liver failure – jaundice, abdominal swelling (ascites), spider naevi, pedal edema (water retention on lower extremities), nausea and vomiting, malaise, loss of appetite, inability to answer questions as the classical clinical features.
It was a straight forward diagnosis based these clinical presentations even without the need for any further imaging, biochemical, or HPE (biopsy) as done in a major hospital.
Where can you get these sophisticated diagnostic facilities when you are working deep, deep into the jungle-villages. You just have to rely entirely on your training and clinical acumen, and nothing else.
Fortunately I happened to be trained also in natural medicine. So I just taught his family to boil some weeds (a medicinal herbs – P. amarus) available just outside his village hut, and give this to him 3 times a day.
That’s all I could do for him inside a jungle without any medical facility. It was a make-shift treatment using the best of my trained knowledge and in medical research.
To even my own surprised, he fully recovered after only a month. By then I was back to my comfortable office at the Institute for Medical Research in KL, and forgotten his case.
One morning, a month later, I received a totally unexpected phone call from his son, a Malay gentleman who was working in Petronas.
To my surprise, he told me of his father’s total recovery, and ring me to thank me very profusely for my help.. I did not expect that myself as I have by then forgotten him, but busy analyzing my research data collected in the survey.
I have lots and lots to tell you about these few cases I met, but since I am using a smart phone (that always make a clown out of me with my English, grammar, spelling, omission of words, repetition of the same words, substituting some words or terms with its “smarter” auto-correct), it is not possible for me here to give you a detailed account, except through a few hours talk.
If you let me know specifically what liver disorder your mother succumbed to, and I shall be able to tell you if alternative medicine (as you believe) would have helped.
Please remember alternative medicine is not a miracle system of medicine. The same for conventional medicine.
It all depends on the disease. Many are not curable whichever the medical system. Some are even down right bogus and a cheat. Just be very careful.
I shall tell you later how I was incorporated into a powerful joint technical committee consisting of representatives from WHO-MOH-IMR in the early 1980 -90’s when I was working at the IMR to evaluate all these systems to be integrated into the mainstream health-care system of this country.
Our years of laborious efforts have bore fruits today, with many alternative systems of medicine now officially recognized for lawful practice through an Act of Parliament in this country. They should thank us for our years of meetings after meetings of evaluation.
I have lots and lots to tell you about these few cases I met about liver diseases, but since I am using a smart phone (that always make a clown out of me with my English, grammar, spelling, omission of words, repetition of the same words, substituting some words or terms with its “smarter” auto-correct words).
it is not possible for me here to give you a detailed account, except through a few hours talk.
Maybe I can continue later at another chat session.
Regards and take care on your health
Jb lim
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