THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: ISRO scientist Saji K. Sam has bagged the national health care award instituted by the Indian Nutritional Medical Association. An engineer in satellite design at ISRO Inertial Systems unit here, Sam has created awareness on therapeutic nutrition that offers relief to patients suffering from chronic cancer, heart ailments etc. Sam’s nutritional therapy is based on ‘orthomolecular medicine,’ a form of alternative medicine which aims to maintain health through nutritional supplementation.
This was developed by two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry and peace Linus Pauling. “Modern medicine and orthomolecular medicine are on a par with each other in addressing various health issues which affect the standard of living. It was this understanding which brought me to this nutritional field under the guidance of INMA president Dr. A. Sreekumar, who is an ENT, head and neck surgeon,” said Saji.
He claimed that these days doctors depend on nutrition therapy to treat patients along with modern medicine. The award was handed over to Saji by Ernakulam district collector K. Mohammed Y. Safirulla at the eighth Nutritional and Environmental International Medical Conference (NEMCON 2018) in Kochi the other day. Many expert doctors in nutrition therapy or orthomolecular medicine from across the world presented research papers at the three-day conference.
