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Food as medicine - First do no Pharm

ianf0ster

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John Campbell interviews Dr Aseem Malhotra.
Highlights:
Insulin resistance associated not only with T2 diabetes , but with 80% of Heart attacks ( more than high Total Cholesterol or high LDL.
Prescription medicine side effects are 3rd biggest killer in USA.
Absolute versus Relative benefit is supposed to be explained to you before prescription.
Same company that sells a new drug funds the research, designs the trial, and interprets the results both benefits and drawbacks - most of which is commercially confidential and so not known by any outsiders.
Research into new antibiotics is not profitable - so pharmas don't want to do it.
Curing disease is not (usually) profitable, so pharmas treat symptoms (for life) instead.

Video here:
 
So, was that court case, reported in the above youtube, was it pivotal? As Dr Malhotra hoped it would be....
Anyone know?
 
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