Dr Sandra Cabot health supplements, vitamins and books.

Dr Sandra Cabot has written many very popular books on health and she is very well known under this name. Dr Cabot’s best selling “The Liver Cleansing Diet book was awarded The Australian People’s Choice Award in 1997.

You may find it interesting to know that Sandra chose the nom de plume of “Dr Cabot” in 1982, as in those days Australian medical doctors were encouraged to use a nom de plume (or writer’s name) if they were going to write books and participate in the health media. This was considered ethical behaviour and was smiled upon by the medical registration boards.

Dr Sandra Cabot’s professional name is Dr Sandra McRae and her ancestors come from Scotland and England. There is also a touch of French ancestry in Sandra, and that is why she chose the French nom de plume of Cabot!

Dr Sandra McRae is a registered medical doctor in the states of NSW and Queensland Australia, where she has busy medical practices and works with other medical doctors, naturopaths and nutritionists.

Dr Sandra McRae was born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1952 and trained in medicine and surgery at Adelaide University in South Australia.

Sandra McRae graduated in medicine and surgery with honours in 1975 from Adelaide University, South Australia.

In Australia a bachelor of medicine and surgery is designated by the letters MBBS, which appear after the name of the doctor. Sandra McRae is also a diplomate of the Royal Australian College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists and this is designated by the letters DRCOG. Thus the correct title of Dr Sandra McRae in Australia is MBBS, DRCOG.

Dr Sandra Cabot is published in many different countries and languages. In the USA, Sandra uses the letters MD after her name, which is the American equivalent of the Australian MBBS, and simply means Medical Doctor and not Medical Doctorate.

During the mid 1980s Dr Cabot spent 6 months working as a volunteer doctor at the largest missionary hospital in India (the Leyman hospital). Here she studied tropical and infectious diseases and tended to the poor indigenous women with obstetric emergencies.

Dr Cabot debated Professor Geoff McCaughan in the Great Debate of the Twelfth National Symposium on Hepatitis B and C held in Melbourne in 2004. The topic of the debate was "That the liver needs a good cleanse". To this day nobody knows who won this famous debate because the adjudicator asked the audience to vote with a clap of their hands. She said "Those who vote for Dr Cabot should clap louder with their left hand and those who vote for the learned Professor should clap louder with their right hand". Of course, we believe Dr Cabot won the debate hands down!

Today she is asked by many different organisations and hospitals to lecture all over Australia and New Zealand.

Dr Cabot believes that the most important health issues for people today are:

Educating our children about a healthy diet & lifestyle
Protecting the planet from pollution and wild life extinction
Avoiding the overuse of drugs (polypharmacy), especially when nutritional medicine may be able to achieve the same (and usually a better effect) for less cost and less risk.
Spreading government funding and subsidisation equally between drug treatments and nutritional/complementary medicine.
Educating doctors about the correct use of nutritional medicine
The effective treatment of mental and emotional illness
A supportive and well educated community where people are guided to find the best health care.