Dr. Pharm. Paul Clayton

"Pharmaco-Nutrition, the new medicine"

I am convinced that it is possible to stay healthy well into old age and at the same time counteract, and indeed, reverse, the development of many illnesses. Based on the right diet and lifestyle, the body has fantastic power to both heal and repair injured functions. I call this new science "Pharmaco-Nutrition". Pharmaco-Nutrition is fundamentally different from traditional medicine. It does not believe in cures in which each individual illness is treated with a particular pill – "the magic bullet". The pharmaceutical industry has killed far too many people! Pharmaco-Nutrition is based on what we eat and premise that, with the help of scientific and documented knowledge from pharmacology, biochemistry and epidemiology, we can develop new diets and varied micronutritional programmes, with no negative side effects, which can re-create the balance in the body's complex metabolic systems.

Pharmaco-Nutrition starts by mapping out the many metabolic discrepancies in the body which, for instance, may be the cause of cardiovascular diseases and degenerative joint conditions. The results are compared with the knowledge we have already gathered from pharmacology and nutrition. This forms the basis for extensive micronutritional programs which can contribute to restoring the metabolic balance of the body.

Pharmaco-Nutrition will teach us that physical breakdown of the body, which usually develops in parallel to increasing age, can be avoided. This depends on an alteration in our way of thinking, so that illnesses and the symptoms of aging can be prevented and treated.

Personally, I believe that Pharmaco-Nutrition will prove to be as effective a way of treating illness as antibiotics once were in the curing of bacterial diseases.

If your doctor thinks this is much too radical a way of thinking, remind him or her of how the medical profession took exception to antibiotics when they came on the market. It was believed, at the time, that infectious diseases were both natural (which they were) and impossible to cure (which naturally they are not!).

Dr. Paul Clayton is England's leading expert in Pharmaco-Nutrition, a rapidly growing field of science. He was senior adviser to the British authorities in questions of health and was nominated as research director for the post-graduate training of doctors in medical nutrition at the Royal College of General Practitioners