{"id":93,"date":"2018-09-03T21:29:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T01:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayslcorp.com\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2018-09-03T21:29:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T01:29:35","slug":"my-life-rollercoaster-career-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayslcorp.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/03\/my-life-rollercoaster-career-2\/","title":{"rendered":"My Life & Rollercoaster Career"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My Life & Rollercoaster Career <\/strong><\/p>\n

by<\/p>\n

Albert Y. Leung, PhD<\/p>\n

This book is two books in one, the author\u2019s Memoir and his Newsletter published between 1996 and 2004.\u00a0\u00a0 Born with a mental handicap, Dr. Leung grew up in Hong Kong and China in a traditional Chinese medical environment.\u00a0 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).\u00a0 Since then, he has been a chemist, microbiologist, salesman-entrepreneur, Chinese herbalist, botanical research scientist, herbal supplement manufacturer, and author.\u00a0 For at least 8 years while in print, his Newsletter reached many movers and shakers in the herbal and associated industries.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

For the first time, Dr. Leung wants to alert the general public to two issues in modern health care:\u00a0 (1) the vicious cycle of synthetic toxic drugs and (2) mislabeled dietary supplements often sold as herbal supplements.<\/p>\n

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 \u2018herbal\u2019 supplements. \u00a0Both unnecessarily have been draining much of our financial resources.<\/p>\n

He proposes practical solutions to improve or replace them.<\/p>\n

Available on www.amazon.com<\/a>:\u00a0 My Life & Rollercoaster Career<\/strong> – 550 pages, $25.95<\/p>\n

The Life of a Pharmacognosist<\/strong> \u2013 213 pages, $16.00<\/p>\n

My Life & Rollercoaster Career<\/strong> is also available in Kindle – $5.49<\/p>\n

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Something for you to ponder:<\/p>\n

Over decades, I have been openly critical of both the drug and herbal supplement industries.\u00a0 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.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The body is just there.\u00a0 Initially we might have viewed it as a single entity, then, as time went by, we might also notice that a man\u2019s body is physically and chemically somewhat different from that of a woman, or an adult\u2019s from a child\u2019s, or a white man\u2019s from that of a black man.\u00a0 However, despite this, we have never acted on those observations.\u00a0 So, in drug therapy, we treat our bodies simply as equal entities, yours is the same as mine.\u00a0 But they are not!\u00a0 The human body is simultaneously complex and organized.\u00a0 It\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

The reason why synthetic drugs are often toxic can be visualized as follows.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 All the scientific planning and execution in the drug\u2019s 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?\u00a0 This specific chemical we\u2019ve made has a unique structure different from all the others.\u00a0 But none has an extra specific \u2018homing device\u2019 to lead it directly to the assumed targets without bumping into millions and millions of other chemicals and cells, present in its path.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

Does anyone have a solution to this scenario that\u2019s due to our extremely complex and well-organized and functioning body?\u00a0 Ideas, suggestions, and plans to start to deal with this toxic drug vicious cycle are discussed in my new book.\u00a0 Please read it and spread the word if you think my premise makes sense.\u00a0 I am thinking of our children and grandchildren\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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