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My Life & Rollercoaster Career
by
Albert Y. Leung, PhD
This book is two books in one, the author’s Memoir and his Newsletter published between 1996 and 2004. Born with a mental handicap, Dr. Leung grew up in Hong Kong and China in a traditional Chinese medical environment. He flunked out of the same school twice, but somehow managed to graduate from another high school in Hong Kong with honors and earned a Pharmacy degree in Taiwan, before going to the University of Michigan on a teaching assistantship to pursue graduate studies in Pharmacognosy (study of natural medicines). Since then, he has been a chemist, microbiologist, salesman-entrepreneur, Chinese herbalist, botanical research scientist, herbal supplement manufacturer, and author. For at least 8 years while in print, his Newsletter reached many movers and shakers in the herbal and associated industries. In 2011, he was awarded an Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award for the scientific advancement of herbal medicine from his Alma Mater, the College of Pharmacy, the University of Michigan.
For the first time, Dr. Leung wants to alert the general public to two issues in modern health care: (1) the vicious cycle of synthetic toxic drugs and (2) mislabeled dietary supplements often sold as herbal supplements.
Synthetic drugs all have toxic side effects some of which become new diseases requiring more drugs to treat, causing a persistent vicious cycle. At the same time, many herbal supplements are not really herbal but chemical, in a base of excipients (carriers and fillers) labeled as ‘herbal’ supplements. Both unnecessarily have been draining much of our financial resources.
He proposes practical solutions to improve or replace them.
Available on www.amazon.com: My Life & Rollercoaster Career – 550 pages, $25.95
The Life of a Pharmacognosist – 213 pages, $16.00
My Life & Rollercoaster Career is also available in Kindle – $5.49
Something for you to ponder:
Over decades, I have been openly critical of both the drug and herbal supplement industries. Only in the last 15 years have I started to realize that for over a hundred years since the modern drug era began, we have never paid much attention to our body while doing drug development and therapy. The body is just there. Initially we might have viewed it as a single entity, then, as time went by, we might also notice that a man’s body is physically and chemically somewhat different from that of a woman, or an adult’s from a child’s, or a white man’s from that of a black man. However, despite this, we have never acted on those observations. So, in drug therapy, we treat our bodies simply as equal entities, yours is the same as mine. But they are not! The human body is simultaneously complex and organized. It’s not too different from regulating herbs as food per the DSHEA passed in October 1994, yet up to the present we have never treated them properly as food, only as drugs, using technologies only suitable for drugs.
The reason why synthetic drugs are often toxic can be visualized as follows. No matter how scientifically a drug is developed, once it enters our extremely complex and organized body, it meets billions of chemicals, cells, and tissues. All the scientific planning and execution in the drug’s development and testing are irrelevant, because we have not provided it with directions to bypass millions of potential targets everywhere in its path when it tries to reach what we assume to be the target(s). Besides, what if our assumption is wrong? This specific chemical we’ve made has a unique structure different from all the others. But none has an extra specific ‘homing device’ to lead it directly to the assumed targets without bumping into millions and millions of other chemicals and cells, present in its path. Just imagine the chaos it produces in our complex and extremely well-organized and functioning body. The end result can be different toxic side effects leading to new diseases requiring more drugs to treat, thus a persistent vicious cycle. This scenario does not even include the potential highly toxic impurities from the synthetic process which can be almost sure to accompany the synthetic drug in question.
Does anyone have a solution to this scenario that’s due to our extremely complex and well-organized and functioning body? Ideas, suggestions, and plans to start to deal with this toxic drug vicious cycle are discussed in my new book. Please read it and spread the word if you think my premise makes sense. I am thinking of our children and grandchildren’s generations, as it would at least take that long to extract ourselves out of this vicious cycle of current drugs, entrenched in our healthcare system for so many decades.