Interview with T. Colin Campbell, PhD

Posted By Marlene on 2009-06-11 11:30

Interviewer: What do you know about President Obama’s Health Initiatives?

 

Dr. Campbell:  As a doctor I am a supporter of Obama’s interest in preventive medicine.  There are two core elements of his preventive measures that are supported by the legislators.  The first is “The Gene Array Analysis” which allows people to analyze their gene profiles.  I disagree with this approach because no matter what genes you have, nutrition can control and enhance these genes. The second initiative is “Personalized Health Integrated Medicine”.  This would allow people to analyze the clinical biomarkers they have so that a physician would come up with a drug for this, a drug for that, a whole cocktail to create for an individual who may get sick.  This does not deliver health to the masses and is very expensive and this does not deliver health and is not about preventive medicine.  I am not happy with what the president is doing because I don’t believe that he really understands what nutrition can do. 

 

Interviewer: How do you think we could get to the president and get our voices heard about nutrition and plant based nutrition?

 

Dr. Campbell: What we need is serious publicity, senate or house hearings.  I have given testimonials on the health committee in the past.  When the opportunity arises I would like to give a testimony in a 3 to 5 minute prepared statement that we are on the wrong tract and that western medicine has gone down the wrong tract.  It (western medicine) is very expensive and is not delivering health.  I would also like to talk about what nutrition can do, because nutrition is out of the equation, and nutrition is the most powerful thing that can be used to cure the diseases can prevent.  After being in business 50 years I know that nutrition not only can prevent but CURE!

 

Interviewer: Can you give us highlights about your book “The China Study” and tell us what you have discovered?  Did your book stir up stuff with your colleagues?

 

Dr. Campbell: I have been in this business for over 50 years as a biomedical researcher not as a clinician.  As a biomedical researcher I did a lot of basic research in China on why cancer was so prominent in some areas but not in others and analyzed what kinds of things would lead into the prospect of getting cancer.  This was also my basic research back in the lab, studding the cancer process in some detail, understanding how does cancer start, how does it progress, and how does it get diagnosed.  It was all about cancer for the most part then it gradually took on how nutrition related.  I discovered that nutrition has a huge relation to disease and health in general.  I see a whole new perspective on health that creates more health for less expense when our current system is more expense for less health.

 

Interviewer: One last question on the health insurance industry.  Do you see any possibility of a partnership with the holistic health community because prevention would certainly help lower the run-away costs of healthcare?

 

Dr. Campbell: It is an expensive system but they (health insurance companies) are making a lot of money!  They are not as serious as they seem to be in regards to converting over to wellness and prevention.  If we were to reduce the total health care costs in this country by half that means that all the industries associated with that are going to have to live with a half the size of the industry and that is not attractive to an industry that wants to keep growing and making more wealth for themselves!  This is so they don’t have all the claims, a short term gain so they can get more money.  I am talking about something larger than the healthcare system itself, the health insurance companies!  Working with my foundation I am now having in play a model system that I can use to hopefully easily demonstrate a clinic concept.  A clinic concept is where people have a month to experience the clinic, they will be able to monitor their own health, and be able to see what happens to themselves (health wise).  When people become aware of something it is not always enough to cause behavior changes but being aware and being able to experience the benefits makes it better.  We need to find a way for people to sustain what they have learned in everyday lives.  That’s where health insurances come into play; it has to be affordable, convenient, and people should be able to independently monitor their own health.  We are now better able to do this because of the intranet, communications, etc..  There are exceptions and individuals within the healthcare industry that will argue and say that we need to bring prevention under control.  With healthcare reform of any kind, the delivery system has to be affordable, convenient, and people should be able to independently monitor their own health.   

 

Interviewer: Could you describe for the readers of my e-newsletter your foundation and what you plan to do with it?  You also have an online course.  What do you plan to do with that?

 

Dr. Campbell: My foundation is twofold; educational/research working in collaboration with Cornell to put educational courses online.  There are courses online now!  Online is better than listening in person because you can pause, fast forward, rewind, and listen in groups and participating in discussions with others online.  It is the kind of learning environment that has a lot to offer.  The program is going to build courses onto what’s already on and enable people to receive certificates.  Research is just now getting the opportunity to amp up.  I have a blog “Saved by Nutrition” for survivors who can meet others and can share their experiences.  This is a way that these survivors can build relationships and it will be an index that people can see (interactions will occur). 

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