Richard Ruhling, MD, MPH, taught health at Loma Linda University after board-certification in Internal Medicine.
WILMINGTON, NC, December 23, 2025 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Richard Ruhling, MD, MPH is an 83-year old physican who says, "Medical care is not healthcare—it's the diagnosis and treatment of disease with pharmaceuticals that are a leading cause of illness and death due to Adverse Drug Reactions."
Ruhling taught Health Science at Loma Linda University, a community featured in the National Geographic cover story, "Secrets of Living Longer", Nov, 2005.
One of Ruhling's teachers, a renowned cardiac surgeon, Ellsworth Wareham, died at home in Loma Linda, California at 104. He helped train surgery residents until he was 95 and got media attention for his plant-based diet, attributing his longevity and vitality to his diet, recommended by Loma Linda University founder, Ellen White.
Loma Linda University got $40 million from National Institutes of Health for a study to learn why the community lived seven years longer than other non-smoking groups. Ruhling says it was due to Ellen White's health writings, reviewed by Clive McCay, former Professor of Nutrition at Cornell University who summarized White as "no better over-all guide" about 60 years ago, but it's still true, says Ruhling.
White was 100 years ahead of US Surgeon General, saying tobacco was a 'malignant poison' in 1864 before science linked it to "malignant tumors" in 1964.
White did not want drugs taught in her school, but administrators added pharmacology to get American Medical Assoc. accreditation, in spite of her saying "NO!" twice.
White wrote this classic statement that is proving true.
"People need to be taught that drugs do not cure disease…But in most cases the drug only changes the form and location of the disease." The Ministry of Healing, pg 126, 1905.
Ruhling understood this too late. His wife got a bladder infection and saw her MD for an anti-biotic. In 3 days, she didn't need it and stopped, but months later had a rash. Her doctor called, referring her to a hematologist—she had no platelets in her blood test. The hematologist put her in the hospital, did a bone marrow exam and then took out her spleen. Still no better, he treated her with high steroids and transfusions until she died of a stroke!
Ruhling joined a Christian singles dating website and remarried an RN whose former husband died from the same antibiotic that caused Ruhling's wife to die. It's more common than most people would guess, but we always think it's for the other person.
The Journal of American Medical Assoc. reported 106,000 deaths in hospitals were due to Adverse Drug Reactions, defined as "properly prescribed and administered", not an over-dose or inappropriate prescription, Apr 15, 1998.
Western Journal of Medicine (June, 2000) reported 199,000 deaths in out-patients from Adverse Drug Events. Combining both studies makes 305,000 deaths from drugs making medical care the #3 cause of death, but the CDC reported neither study.
Archives of Internal Medicine reported a study from 1998-2005 in which deaths increased 2.7-fold. 2.7 x 305,000 deaths is 824,000 deaths, making medical care the #1 cause of death in the US, but the Center for Disease Control, in business with pharma, making billions, never reported these studies in their yearly list of Top Ten Causes of Death, blaming heart disease as #1, Cancer, Strokes, Diabetes, blood pressure, cholesterol—conditions strongly linked to diet but drugs are hyped as a vital part of "healthcare."
Ruhling says pharma started calling medical care "healthcare" in the mid-1970's as an advertising ploy, and media loves pharma ad, sticking US with a lie because medical care has no focus on healthy habits that Dr. Lester Breslow of UCLA said can add 11 years to life.
Ruhling, board-certified in Internal Medicine, 1973, says doctors aren't trained in nutrition or herbs and drug companies can't patent products of nature for profit.
Ruhling says he visited US Senate offices with medical journal articles cited above until one senator said, "You are wasting your time…they own us," speaking of pharma donations to their re-election.
If the 2.7-fold increase in deaths (above) has continued since 2005, we are seeing several million a year dying from Adverse Drug Reactions defined as "properly prescribed and administered," when, if people knew the truth, millions might change their diet as Ruhling did 70 years ago, claiming excellent health at 83. He says benefit can be often seen in 10 days but getting use to it may take a little longer.
Eating the main meal in the evening can make us overweight. More calories are stored instead of burned while we sleep and no appetite for breakfast is common, but people get going with coffee which can cause headaches, breast lumps, skipped heart beats or stomach problems. Cancer of the pancreas was reported to have a "strong association" with coffee-drinking in the New England Journal of Medicine, June 25, 1981.
In 1887, Ellen White wrote, "Disease of every stripe and type have been brought upon human beings by the use of tea and coffee and the narcotics opium and tobacco." EGWWritings.org, Manuscript 22, 1887
For readers who want more information Ruhling's book, Health Happiness and Destiny got a 5-star review from Amazon's Top 100 Hall of Fame Reviewers, Grady Harp, MD. It's available in a special holiday gift pack at https://HealthHappinessAndDestiny.com with a bonus high-value video that sells on Amazon for $14.95 plus shipping, but no companion book as Ruhling offers at his website.
About Dr. Richard Ruhling:
Dr. Ruhling graduated from Loma Linda University medical school and planning for overseas work, took a Masters Degree in Public Health. After Internal Medicine training and board certification, he also had a Cardiology Fellowship before teaching at Loma Linda's School of Public Health. Attending a cardiology convention, he heard Pritikin reporting how a low fat, low cholesterol diet reversed heart disease and got 85% of patients off their drugs for diabetes and blood pressure.
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