Imagine you’re a mechanic. Your day starts with fixing cars damaged in accidents, which likely satisfies you since it’s your job.
Now, picture being a doctor. You see patients needing medical attention daily. Similarly, treating more patients means more income.
But let’s pause here. I’m Dr. Richard Jacoby, a peripheral nerve surgeon with decades of experience and authorship.
The parallel between mechanics and doctors might seem odd. Yet, it highlights a crucial point: both professions thrive on fixing problems, not preventing them.
However, this doesn’t mean we should accept it as the only way. Especially in healthcare, where prevention could save more than costs—it could save lives.
Many diseases today stem from our lifestyle choices. Contrary to popular belief, not all conditions require medication or surgery. Often, better nutrition and more exercise are the keys.
At drjacoby.academy, I advocate for a shift towards preventative health. One of the significant steps? Cutting out sugar.
Especially for those with diabetes, this advice could be transformative. My Urban Carnivore course is designed to show how impactful these changes can be.
So, why is this shift necessary? It’s simple. By adopting a preventative mindset, we can work towards a healthier future for everyone.
It’s one of those things I’ll never understand about our current medical landscape.
Insurance companies only pay doctors to treat diseases post-symptomatically.
Meaning after they arise.
Which is ridiculous, sort of like shutting the barn door after the cows have all wandered out and got lost.
Wouldn’t it be better if we could treat certain diseases proactively, meaning before they manifest symptoms?
Whenever I propose this, people ask, “Well, how can we know a disease will strike before it strikes?”
The answer is modern technology.
For instance, the model used to be that insurance companies only paid for people to get glucose monitoring devices after they’d been diagnosed by a physician as being diabetic.
Nowadays, new technologies allow anyone to monitor their glucose levels.
And that’s very important because I think what we eat today is a lot of sugar.
Too much sugar.
And this excess sugar is causing a lot of what we see today as chronic diseases running rampant in our population.
Imagine being able to treat patients for diabetes before the disease manifests itself.
What would happen if we got ourselves off this modern, debilitating diet and put ourselves back on a diet our bodies were fundamentally built to accept?
Recently, a patient of mine told me she was putting one of her parents on a new medication for Alzheimer’s disease.
However, before she even mentioned the medication, I was deeply underwhelmed.
A Cure With Zero Side Effects
The medication in question represents the pinnacle of decades’ worth of research and comes with a host of potentially drastic side effects.
Yet, this new medication only delivers up to a ten percent reduction in the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.
I was particularly offended to read about this medication when I knew very well that a much better cure already exists for Alzheimer’s and plenty of other diseases.
A Cure With Zero Side Effects
A few of us who have experimented with it understand that this simple cure can treat dozens, if not hundreds, of diseases.
It has zero side effects—you read that right, zero side effects. And what is this cure, you ask?
