I think you already know Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine. When they finish medical school, doctors take an oath, and that oath is the Hippocratic oath.

The Hippocratic Oath, that’s what it’s called at least in U.S. medical schools, which is pretty funny because they promised to do three things that Hippocrates has told all healers that they must do and most violate them.

The three rules Hippocrates says to all doctors, and all future healers are:

Number one rule: heal yourself.

Whether you’re a doctor or a therapist, a healer or whatever, heal yourself. How many doctors do you know are really healthy? Most doctors live under stress, they smoke and use drugs. It’s like living away from what they actually preach.

I know doctor jobs can be stressful, but if you don’t take care of yourselves, you’re poisoning people like everyone else, so you invalidate the first rule. Heal yourself, take care of yourself first, because if you don’t take care of yourself, you can’t heal anyone else.

Second rule: doctors do no harm.

Mainstream medicine is not interested in healing people, only in managing for profit their illnesses. A lot of people die because of hospital malnutrition and, if you look at most hospital’s menú, you understand why. Largest hospitals are managers of human diseases and are not experts in human health.

If a person gets sick, the doctor should be able to know what are the requisites for health in humans, ask the right questions, and determine the cause of the symptom or disease. Finally,

Third golden rule: “May your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.”

There’s nothing more precise than that statement. That is the absolute truth. It’s simple, there are only food and poison, there’s nothing in the middle of it. There only is what nourishes your body and what doesn’t.

Doctors are not trained in the connection between diet and disease, and that is why health educators are so needed today. Food that your body doesn’t recognize as a nutrient is a poison. Health educators must be trained in this connection, so they have the power to change lives! Those are the three golden rules of Hippocrates and how I feel they’re being violated.

While helping people to heal and reverse symptoms is, under the right conditions, probably fine, the fact remains that helping people to avoid and prevent the disease in the first place is better. Prevention is always better than cure,  that’s what we do!