They used to bleed patients to cure their diseases.
I attended the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine.
It’s across the street from the first hospital in the United States, built by Ben Franklin in 1751.
Franklin’s library is still in that building—his desk, his books, his notebooks. All there.
Back in the late 1960s, I used to go there to study. It was so peaceful and quiet.
I learned that Franklin was a big fan of bloodletting.
Back then, bloodletting was the go-to practice for medical doctors.
If a patient had a fever or an infection or some other malady, doctors would open a vein and literally bleed them to heal them.
Did it work?
In a way.
Letting out blood from a veins will lower a person’s blood pressure. This gives the illusion of healing but it’s not an enlightened process.
Ben Franklin thought it was genius. It was one of his inspirations for building the hospital.
Today,we’d call bloodletting dangerous, stupid, naive, and insane.
I think about this when I consider how most of the medical industry treats the consumption of sugar.
Over the past 20-plus years, I’ve researched how a diet rich in sugar causes all sorts of maladies.
Headaches.
Diabetes.
Seizures.
Chronic inflammation.
Mood swings.
Energy fluctuations.
My name is Dr. Richard Jacoby. I’m the author of the book “Sugar Crush.”
If you suffer from ailments your doctors can’t diagnose, read it. Then please get in touch.