Dr Robert Lufkin argues that modern medicine hasn’t paid nearly enough attention to the underlying causes of diseases, and has tended to treat symptoms instead.

And in a controversial new book Lies I taught at Medical school, How Conventional Medicine is Making You Sicker and What You Can Do to Save Your Own Life, published by BenBella books, as evidence for his claims, he points to the epidemics of chronic disease, we are now seeing in the industrialised world.

In the US in 2010, 16-21% of adults had two or more chronic diseases. Today, shockingly, the figure is 40%.

Rob explains what needs to  change and why he believes medical teaching gets a number of pivotal facts so wrong.

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