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Stress and sugar intake are the primary causes of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Stress involves flooding the blood with glucose which increases insulin causing insulin resistance and causing diabetes to become a progressive disease. Sugar intake involves the intake of sucrose (sugar) which is ½ glucose and ½ fructose which causes obesity.

The glucose goes into your blood and the fructose goes into your liver becoming ethanol, a carbohydrate and a toxin. Fructose simultaneously raises insulin and blocks lepton, the chemical that makes you stop eating. I am very careful not to prescribe any treatments that oppose a medical doctor’s prescribed treatment (insulin). However the truth is that anything that will reduce the level of glucose in the blood and lower insulin will result in the reversal of type 2 diabetes and obesity.

So the three pronged intervention includes guided imagery or meditation to maintain homeostasis, reduce stress and keep the glucose level from spiking, lowering glucose and insulin with exercise and diet by completely eliminating sugar consumption. This means taking all forms of sugar out of the house including things like honey, demerara, muscovado, corn syrup and maple syrup. Reading labels to avoid sugar in processed foods which are disguised with names like cane syrup or beet juice.

The bottom line is that as long as insulin is the recommended treatment for type 2 diabetes it will only get worse and become a progressive disease. Insulin chemically opens the door in cells to admit glucose. When too much insulin causes those cells to become insulin resistant the cells will not admit the glucose and so the blood becomes hyperglycemic. This is the very definition of type 2 diabetes and the cause of obesity.
Any attempt to disseminate this knowledge to a diabetic is a violation of law and you could get into trouble.

“White Coat Syndrome” describes a phenomenon where a patient’s blood pressure goes up in the examination room when in the company of a doctor in a white coat. Why do you suppose the patient’s blood pressure rises? I submit that it rises in response to fear, anxiety and stress.

I believe that white coat syndrome is intentionally promoted by the doctor as a motivating agent to motivate the patient to purchase the goods and services (drugs and surgery) that the doctor is selling. His/her questions involve the family history of the patient which suggests that their illness is the result of bad genes and bad luck leaving the patient feeling like they have no control over their illness. Their only salvation is the treatment of their doctor.

This feeling of helplessness causes an elevation of stress which exacerbates, aggravates, worsens, inflames and compounds the symptoms of the illness and the illness itself. The drugs that the doctor prescribes mask the symptoms but don’t cure the disease. The disease becomes a chronic condition, never improved but held at bay by the treatments the doctor prescribes.

The business model of medicine involves the doctor taking control with fear and addicting the patient to a lifetime of medical treatment including drugs and surgery that goes on for the rest of their life. The biggest cause of bankruptcy in America is medical bills. This is beneficial for the doctor but devastating to the 2 million people who go bankrupt each year because of medical treatment (Health, 2013).

The rising costs of medical care reflect a disregard for the patient’s health and a focus on the accumulation of wealth. The healthcare insurance industry doesn’t protect their clients from the medical industry but are also focused on the accumulation of wealth to the detriment of the patient. The patient is stressed out, sick, dying and bankrupted by the medical system and the insurance system (Health, 2013).

Resources
Health (2013) Medical Bills Are the Biggest Cause of US Bankruptcies: Study. Retrieved on June 18, 2015 from http://www.cnbc.com/id/

Richard S. Hickman Ph.D

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