Eyes for natural medicine widen in SE Asia and constrict in EU

Our eAlert this week couldn’t better represent the opposing poles we so often face in our mission to protect and promote natural and sustainable healthcare globally. On the one hand, you have the ongoing battle to demonise natural health, fuelled by skeptics in Spain, and zealously executed in the UK, months before its departure from the EU. By contrast, the government of 93-year-old Prime Minister, Dr Mahathir of Malaysia, has embraced integrative medicine as it calls for doctors to de-prescribe drugs to the tune of 60%. In place of drugs, the government is determined to find more effective ways of slowing or even halting the preventable chronic disease spiral.

Fresh from a successful 3-day symposium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, held over the weekend, we share some experiences of working with some of the region’s top doctors and health professionals. The primary objective was nothing less than to collaborate on finding ways of turning the tide on the region’s insidious yet preventable obesity and type 2 diabetes crisis.

And of course, our weekly round up of news snippets — fodder for your more time-challenged moments!

In health, naturally and sustainably

Rob Verkerk, PhD

Founder, executive & scientific director