If I were to have dinner with anyone alive or dead, it would be Hippocrates as I want to know what his beliefs are on modern medicine and use of drugs would be, as opposed to food. As he once stated, “Let food by thy medicine and medicine by thy food.” I am aware that he believed that the type of food we eat affect our health and the sort of illnesses we receive, after having done years of learning Medicine from his father and Herodicos. He was a physician who studied why we become ill and how to prevent others from becoming ill. What intrigues me about Hippocrates is how little we know about him and what led him to discover how our diet effects health. What I admire about Hippocrates is his use of plants for medicinal elements as I personally
