Stop Controlling Diabetes

I’m Dr. Richard Jacoby, a leading peripheral nerve surgeon, health advocate, and author of the critically acclaimed book Sugar Crush.

It’s a tradition for doctors from Harvard University’s world-renowned Joslin Diabetes Center to visit my hometown of Scottsdale, Arizona, every year.

They teach us the latest techniques for controlling the disease.

A few years back, all I heard them talk about was the new buzzword: “poly-pharmacy.”

Which meant treating diabetes with multiple drugs.

They’d even built an acronym for the five drugs they wanted to treat diabetes with before resorting to insulin.

I won’t bore you with the chemistry.

Or outrage you by telling you how much the pharmaceutical industry makes off such silly parades.

I will say that not one of those doctors I ever heard speak tackled what I believe is the primary question for diabetes researchers.

What causes the disease?

Not “How do we treat it?” but “How do we stop it before it starts?”

It’s always interested me that, back in the 1500s, physicians would diagnose diabetes mellitus by drinking a patient’s urine.

You heard that right.

Diabetes mellitus is a term that comes from the Greek that means “siphoning out sugar.”

This describes the process the human body enacts when someone becomes diabetic.

Their bodies become diseased since they’re bound up with siphoning excess sugar.

In other words, you don’t need a degree from Harvard Medical School to tell if someone’s diabetic.

Nor do you need that degree to stop the disease cold in its tracks.

Get people to stop eating sugar.

I treat this in my new online Urban Carnivore course, and I hope you’ll check it out.

It might be the most critical decision you ever make for your health.