Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s health
secrets could help him live to 130 years old
Medicine man ... Dr Shuquan Liu is
the Chinese doctor who helped Malcolm Turnbull lose 14 kilos in 2011. Picture:
Rebecca Michael
MALCOLM Turnbull could become the
country’s longest serving Prime Minister ever, living up to age 130 if he keeps
to the treatment protocol of the Chinese Medicine guru who helped him lose 14
kilos.
The 60-year-old Mr Turnbull took drastic action to reduce his
weight back in 2011 using the services of Dr Shuquan Liu’s extreme fasting 101 Wellbeing Program.
Now the multi-millionaire works out
on a rowing machine, cycles and swims and survives on five hours’ sleep a
night.
With a price tag of between $4,000
and $9,000, Dr Liu’s weight loss services are for high rollers and he’s
reportedly also treated Australian Securities Commission chief Greg
Medcraft and Aussie Home Loans’ founder John Symond.
The 47-year-old Dr Liu, who spent
five years studying Chinese medicine in China where he achieved a PHD,
continues to treat Mr Turnbull for ailments like tennis elbow.
“Malcolm is doing very well, he
looks healthy, he looks good,” says Dr Liu.
In good shape ... Malcolm Turnbull
finishes the 1km Cold Power swim from North Bondi beach in 2011.
Dr Liu’s treatment philosophy is
based on the idea that a person’s organs have a set life that is determined by
DNA and won’t change after the age of 18 and they are built to sustain only a
normal weight.
“From then how long organs last is
set, that should be between 100 and 130 years old,” Dr Liu said.
However, he says if we overeat and
treat our bodies badly, we damage the organs and can’t fulfil our life
potential.
“I want my patients to use their
life potential to the maximum,” he says.
Traditional
Chinese Medicine Australia has four clinics in NSW and one in
Melbourne where more than 55,000 clients have been treated for weight loss
cancer, diabetes and other health problems.
Many clients lose up to 8kg in
weight and 10cm from their waist in two weeks by fasting, drinking a mysterious
herbal mixture and receiving massage, acupuncture to their stomach, cupping and
reflexology treatments.
Health guru ... Dr Shuquan Liu’s
philosophy is based on the idea that a person’s organs have a set life that is
determined by DNA. Picture: Rebecca Michael
After the full 101 days of treatment
their weight loss peaks at between 18 to 24 kilos.
Dr Liu told News Corp Australia that
the first four weeks of treatment involves an organ cleanse and toxin release,
the next four weeks are for repair and recovery, then four weeks of
maintenance.
In the first two weeks clients fast
and consume a brew of Chinese herbs three times a day with black tea and water
allowed. In week three, a small amount of food is allowed — half a cucumber on
day one, then small amounts of cooked white fish, prawns, chicken or egg and a
herbal brew every second day.
“Once you reset your body is clean,
if you allow your organs to repair you don’t feel like you want to eat more and
if you do you feel discomfort,” Dr Liu said.
Dr Liu said his program is based
around resetting the organs in a patient’s body so they work in balance and
every patient gets a different herbal mixture to suit their individual needs.
Those who have undertaken the
program claim the herbal brew doesn’t taste good and Dr Liu says it removes
body toxins through the urine but he would not reveal the recipe.
“Some people feel unwell,” he said,
adding that most of his patients don’t feel hungry.
“I must say that I found the fast extremely
informative because it made me realise I am in control of my own body and can
control my appetite,” Mr Turnbull said in 2012 on his weight loss. “It is a
very good insight.”
While former Liberal Prime Ministers
like Tony Abbott and John Howard have made a public feature of their exercise
habits — John Howard’s walks and Tony Abbott’s cycles and swims — Mr Turnbull
has no such plans.
His advisers say he’s unlikely to be
seen working up a sweat in public.
The PM revealed this week that like
the evil fictional political hero of US television show House of Cards, Frances
Underwood, he uses a rowing machine to keep fit.
“I’ve got nothing in common with
Frances Underwood other than we both use a rowing machine,” he told the Sunrise
program.
The PM, who owns a harbourside
mansion, can also be seen kayaking on Sydney Harbour, he cycles around Lake
Burley Griffin and walks to work in Canberra, although that is likely to stop
now he’s running the country.
“The secret to weight loss is to eat
less,” Mr Turnbull told News Corp Australia this week.
“Exercise is very important and do
as much as you can but the only way to lose weight is to eat less,” he said.
World leaders are famous for needing
little sleep.
The late British PM Margaret
Thatcher got by on four hours a night, former PM Kevin Rudd started work at six
in the morning and went to bed around two or 3am according to his wife Therese.
New PM Malcolm Turnbull goes to bed
before midnight and rises at 5am.
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