Hearing Nicholas Mirotic's words, Luo Chao couldn't help but frown, "Mr. Nicholas Mirotic, are you saying I'm talking nonsense? Well then, tell me, how exactly am I talking nonsense?"

"Hmph!" Nicholas Mirotic snorted coldly, looking at Luo Chao with disdain, and said coldly, "You supporters of the subhealth concept claim that this theory originates from the Soviet scholar Buchman, who proposed that there is a third state between health and disease."

"In the mid-1990s, some people in Huaxia started calling this state subhealth, and it spread widely, as if becoming yet another feature of Huaxia traditional Chinese medicine."

"However, our Western medical scientists discovered that in the relevant materials on subhealth, it is mostly described as an intermediate state between disease and health but lacks detailed and accurate definition standards."

"The so-called subhealth has never been widely recognized by the international medical community!"

"You people claim that the World Health Organization refers to a state without organic lesions but with some functional changes as a third state, but in fact, the World Health Organization has never defined this concept!"

"Also, I couldn't find any content related to subhealth on the World Health Organization's website!"

"When I searched for research related to subhealth in an authoritative international medical database, there were only a few dozen articles, which were all written by you Huaxia people!"

"However, in these studies, the definition standards for subhealth are not clear enough, with quite a few studies using self-rating scales. Respondents rate themselves according to questions and define the score range for subhealth groups. This method seems reasonable, but the self-rating questions and scoring methods have no unified standards, with a lot of subjectivity relying on self-assessment!"

"In your Huaxia folklore, there's also a widely circulated saying that sixty to seventy percent of Earth's people are in a subhealth state, with very few being truly healthy."

"Usually, those making such assertions claim these numbers come from the World Health Organization's surveys or the Huaxia Ministry of Health, Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Statistics Bureau's 2002 survey report on Huaxia residents' nutrition and health status!"

"In reality, the World Health Organization has not made a clear definition of subhealth, so there's no way they could conduct a survey on subhealth status, while the health status survey report on Huaxia residents doesn't mention subhealth at all!"

Nicholas Mirotic said up to this point and saw that no one refuted him, so he continued, "Although there's no clear definition, there are plenty of symptom descriptions in the promotional materials on subhealth for people to identify with."

"For example, someone summarized ten typical symptoms of subhealth, such as restlessness, palpitations and sleeplessness, excessive sweating, frequent colds."

"Tongue red with a thick coating and bitter taste with dry stools, complexion looks sluggish with gray circles around the eyes. Swelling in limbs with eye bags, and abnormal nail patterns."

"Pre-menstrual chest discomfort with breast nodules, sticky saliva with belching and bloating. Abnormal body temperature with fatigue and weakness, blurred vision with headache and dizziness."

"But what can these symptoms really illustrate?"

"According to our Western medical research, in fact, some of these symptoms are just normal physiological manifestations!"

"For instance, pre-menstrual chest discomfort in women is influenced by hormones and occurs before menstruation; it's quite normal and nothing to worry about!"

"And some symptoms could be caused by many different reasons and require further examination to clarify, like restlessness could just be due to drinking too much coffee, but it might also be related to heart disease."

"The causes of abnormal body temperature could merely be an ordinary cold that doesn't need special treatment, but it could also be a more serious infection, or an autoimmune disease, tumor, etc."

"The treatment for these symptoms varies greatly depending on the specific circumstances, and simply lumping them all into a subhealth category to be treated in the same way is extremely unreasonable!"

"Doing so might increase unnecessary worry and could delay the treatment of diseases that truly require attention!"

"Therefore, subhealth is just an ill-defined concept that's not widely acknowledged, and if abnormal symptoms do occur, simply attributing them to subhealth doesn't really help solve the problem!"

After Nicholas Mirotic finished this lengthy speech, he saw that Luo Chao still didn't speak. He thought Luo Chao was ashamed by being exposed in public and wouldn't dare to refute him.

With this in his mind, Nicholas Mirotic's tone became increasingly confident.

He feigned a look of deep regret, pointing at Luo Chao while shaking his head and said, "Dr. Luo, Dr. Luo! I never expected this! Even if your skills might not be that great, but how can you promote tricks that only charlatans would use in such a sacred place as a proper hospital?! Or am I wrong to scold you just now?!"

Just then, as Nicholas Mirotic thought Luo Chao was left speechless by his words, a hearty laugh from Luo Chao suddenly rang out again.

"Mr. Nicholas Mirotic, I admit that what you said just now makes sense, but unfortunately, the subhealth I was talking about is not the same subhealth you mentioned! It seems your proficiency in Chinese still needs improvement! Hahaha!" Luo Chao said as he laughed.

"Hmph, just being evasive, I think you were indeed exposed by me and are just forcibly making excuses!" Nicholas Mirotic looked unconvinced.

"How am I being evasive? I just meant that the subhealth I mentioned was just a name I made up on the spot so that you Westerners present here wouldn't be confused!" Luo Chao said with an innocent look.

Luo Chao continued to explain, "You just mentioned that the concept of subhealth was proposed by a Soviet person, but I clearly said earlier that the subhealth I was talking about refers to a physical state that existed in ancient Huaxia. Although it's also called subhealth, it doesn't mean the same thing at all!"

"Not the same thing?" Nicholas Mirotic pursed his lips, "Then tell us, what exactly is this subhealth you're talking about?!"

Luo Chao spread his hands and said, "Since you sincerely asked, I will tell you, but let me remind you first, this state of the human body is very simple to understand with the mindset and language of us Huaxia people, but you Westerners might not get it easily!"

"Less talk, just say it. If we can't understand, I'll look it up in the dictionary!" With that, Nicholas Mirotic pulled out an ancient Chinese dictionary from his pocket.

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