Post by Gilles Jourquin

"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." — Hippocrates (probably) This phrase decorates thousands of nutrition websites, supplement brands, detox programmes, and well-meaning LinkedIn posts. One problem: Hippocrates never said it. A paper published in e-SPEN Journal (Cardenas, 2013) combed through the entire Corpus Hippocraticum — over 60 texts — and found zero trace of it. For at least 30 years, at least one peer-reviewed biomedical journal per year has cited the phrase... without a single primary source. The Lancet. The BMJ. The NEJM. All of them. Here's the twist: the confusion between food and medicine is precisely what Hippocrates argued against. For him, food nourished the body by becoming part of it. Medicine acted on the body's humors without being incorporated into it. Fundamentally different things. So the most famous quote in nutrition history wasn't just never said — it describes the exact opposite of what its alleged author believed. Next time someone invokes Hippocrates to sell you a turmeric latte or a superfood protocol... you know what to say. 🏺 (Cardenas D., e-SPEN Journal, 2013 — worth reading- The Hippocratic misquotation- European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism. https://lnkd.in/erizEWCq)