Dr. Jaime Dy-Liacco humorously accepts being called a quack doctor, but for every person he has healed, he is more than a healer, he is a life-saver.
By Hannah Jo Uy
Photography by Carlo Gono
In 1994, a successful and accomplished businessman by the name of Jaime Dy-Liacco was diagnosed with cancer. For others, the news would have been equal to a death sentence, not for Jaime. Instead, it signaled the beginning of a marvelous adventure that would eventually lead him to being a doctor of natural healing and helping countless of people that traditional drug-based medicine have given up on.
In his former life, Jaime was a distinguished executive who had spent 22 years at Proctor & Gamble. He was the first Filipino to become the company’s managing director of the region. Afterwards, he transferred to the Chicago-based gum and candy manufacturer, Wrigley, as an international vice-president for another 20 years.
“Until I got cancer, that changed my whole life,” Jaime recalls pensively. “My older brother died of lung cancer after 18 months following the traditional conventional drug-based remedies. Everyone, when they get cancer, they panic because we all know the doctors don’t know how to cure cancer, and the cure that they give you is very devastating. Surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation are slash, poison, and burn methods. I didn’t want any of that, so I started looking for options. But when you start looking for options, there are so many out there. It’s all very confusing. I was saying which one should I do?”
In a stroke of luck, he had signed up for The Last Chance Report, a newsletter featuring people who had been given up by conventional medicine and found their last resort in al¬ternative means. It also talked about the one who facilitated healing, a certain Dr. Kelly,
Once upon a time, Dr. Kelly had pancreatic cancer. He was given 11/2 months to live, but he refused the death verdict, thinking of his wife and kids. He researched medical literature and eventually found a scientific basis for the ther¬apy he developed. The enzyme therapy he designed cured him within eighteen months. He survived and for the next 45 years, he cured 3,000 terminal cancer patients.
Struck by his story, Jaime did his own investigative work and eventually found himself on the phone with Dr. Kelly. In six months, Jaime was cancer-free. He and Dr. Kelly became good friends.
“When you get well from cancer without the use of drug-based medicine, people start calling you asking ‘what did you do?’ I never planned to go into natural healing, I was just very happy I got well… I was not yet retired fully from work, but people kept calling. I’d tell them to call Dr. Kelly, but they would ask me to do it.”
As an eager beaver, Jaime was calling Dr. Kelly almost six times a night, in which time he had learned about all types of cancers and cures. Having a one-on-one mentorship with the very man who founded the College of Metabolic Medicine in Kansas, Jaime was soon awarded a doctorate degree in metabolic medicine.
I never went there in person to attend classes but he [Dr. Kelly] said ‘your personal mentoring is better than attending classes. So after seven years of mentoring, you are better than any of the doctors I work with here in the US,” he says.
However, being the only doctor of metabolic medicine in the Philippines, there is no licensing board. “So I am a quack doctor,” says Jaime with a big smite. “I don’t mind. In all my lectures, I always say, 1 want all of you to know I am a quack doctor and if you want a licensed doctor, get a licensed doctor, and I’ll be happy to recommend you to a very good licensed doctor”
Jaime now works as a full-time natural healer. “I was just drawn to it. It’s more satisfying than selling detergents, soaps, and Pringles. It doesn’t give me any money because I do everything for free but there’s a lot of satisfaction. My feeling is that this is not a business for me and if I treat a business, the Holy Spirit will abandon everything because all natural healing comes from the Holy Spirit, without exception, for all people to see. All of us will die, but you newff know when or where or how, only God knows that.”
For more than a decade now, Jaime has been going on healing missions every month to different provinces to spread the good word of natural healing. In 2004, he was even asked by the Manuel Dayrit, secretary of the Department of Health, to become director general of the Institute of Traditional and Alternative Healthcare, a post he kept for one year and four months.
Congress passed the Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act of 1997 in which the preamble states that “It is the policy of the state to accelerate the development of traditional and alternative healthcare and to integrate the national health care system.” Natural healing is particularly fitting for our country because the Department of Health found that 70% of Filipinos do not get health care because they cannot afford drugs, doctor fees, and hospitalization.
“There is a natural remedy for everything that’s how God made us,” says Jaime with a passion. “He made our bodies totally of natural cells, not a single synthetic cell. That’s why a synthetic drug will always have adverse effects because the body reacts against it”
In Jaime’s work, he heavily emphasizes going back to the basic elementary needs of the body and its corresponding natural remedy. Like with everything else, Jaime stresses the importance of raw foods, asking us to look at the Japanese who live longer as a good example.
“The body is nothing but nutrition. Without nutrition, the body wilf malfunction. Without water, the body will mal-function. How do you keep the body the way God made it? Restore everything to the way God made it That’s our focus in our studies. We learn what makes the body work,” Jaime explains.
For heart problems, strokes, and other such ailments, Jaime swears by the almost miraculous powers of raw eggs and siling labuyo, citing multiple instances when paralyzed stroke victims walk out of the hospital simply hours after being administered.
“A raw egg is the most complete food. It has the vitamins and the minerals. It supplies you with the perfect nutritional! the proteins, amino acids, fats, carbohydrates that the body needs. Why did God make the raw egg that way? Because a living being will grow in that egg and it needs all the nutrition it can get. It even has the growth hormone because that chick has to grow. The red siling labuyo stimulates the pumping action of the heart and it actually does the work of the heart, so it allows the heart to rest and heal itself.”
Another basic reminder that Jaime shares, one that has been strangely overlooked in recent years, is our need to stay hydrated. “The whole body runs on water. God made your body 75% water, the rain is 85% water, organs are 80% water, the blood is 94% water, the bone joints and the disks in the spinal column are 95%, the muscles and nerves are 80% water, the bones are 19% water,” Jaime explains. “So, you can see the whole body runs on water. If you don’t have enough water, the organs will dry up and you will get sick. It’s impossible to stay healthy if the organs are dried up and it’s impossible to heal if organs are dried up. Why do you get heart disease? The heart is dried up. It’s that simple. It’s very basic. It’s the first thing doctors learn in medical school.” Jaime also reminds others that soda, coffee, and tea are often culprits of dehydration
For Jaime, all the knowledge he has gained is meant to be shared to make people better. As he prepares his lecture for the Philippine College for the Advancement of Medicine, one can see his authentic love for life and living.
Dr. Jaime Dy-Liacco may be considered a quack doctor, but he humorously owns this title and is proud of it. Sprightly and silver-haired, the good doctor is living out his second life in service to the general public. The communities and countless people he has touched are all the better for it.”