Modern industrial medicine treats disease with medication or surgery. That’s what it is designed to do, and when it comes to emergency interventions it is still the best medicine in the world. When someone comes into the emergency room with a severed leg, conventional medicine treats the problem with incredible efficacy.

But when it comes to chronic illness, this approach simply doesn’t work.

Here’s why conventional medicine tends to break down in the face of chronic illnesses like diabesity …

Most medicine today is based on clear-cut, on-or-off, yes-or-no diagnoses that often miss the underlying causes and more subtle manifestations of illness. Most conventional doctors are taught that you have a disease or you don’t; you have diabetes or you don’t. There are no gray areas.

Practicing medicine this way is extremely misguided because it misses one of the most fundamental laws of physiology, biology, and disease: The continuum concept. There is a continuum from optimal health to hidden imbalance to serious dysfunction to disease. Anywhere along that continuum, we can intervene and reverse the process. The sooner we address it, the better.

For example, when it comes to diabesity most doctors just follow blood sugar, which actually rises very late in the disease process. If your blood sugar is 90 or 110, you don’t have diabetes. If it’s over 126, you do have diabetes. But these distinctions are completely arbitrary, and they do nothing to help treat impending problems. I remember one patient, Daren, who came to see me with mildly elevated blood sugar. I asked Daren if he had seen his doctor about this. He said yes. I then asked, “What did your doctor say?” Daren’s doctor had told him, “We are going to wait and watch until your blood sugar is more elevated, and then we are going to treat you with medication for diabetes.”

This attitude is absurd and harmful in the face of what we know about the problems that occur even in the absence of full-blown diabetes. Science is now showing us that many people with prediabetes never get diabetes, but they are at severe risk just the same. Prediabetes actually isn’t pre-anything, it’s a serious health condition and needs to be treated as early as possible.

More to the point, this approach of completely ignores more subtle clues from symptoms and signs of disease, which may highlight underlying metabolic imbalances (especially when complemented by further testing). These imbalances may be remedied by the appropriate treatment—treatment that is not focused on some disease, but instead works to remove those things that alter or damage our functioning, and provides those things that enhance, optimize, and normalize our functioning by balancing the system rather than treating the symptom. We need to treat the system, not the symptom; the patient, not the disease.

Consider the man in the emergency room with the severed leg again for a moment. For that person, identifying what severed the leg isn’t likely to make the difference between life and death. The symptom—the severed leg—must be treated if he is going to survive.

But that paradigm simply doesn’t hold true for health conditions like diabesity. This mechanistic model can be applied in some health crises, but it doesn’t work when it comes to chronic disease.

For more information about diabesity click here for a sneak peak of my new book The Blood Sugar Solution coming out on February 28th.

In the meantime, I’d like to hear from you …

Do you suffer from diabesity? What has your struggle been like?

Why do you think conventional medicine is so ineffective at treating this illness?

Please share your thoughts by leaving a comment below.

To your good health,

Mark Hyman, MD
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Putting the toilet lid down isn’t just good manners — it could also save a life, and, no, I don’t mean from drowning.

British researchers recently conducted a series of tests on toilet seats — and before you dismiss this as a bit of wacky and unnecessary research, check out what they learned: Toilets can spread potentially deadly bacteria when the lid is up.

That’s because each time you flush, a cloud of tiny water particles rises up out of the toilet.

It’s a gross enough thought — but the researchers found that those water droplets can harbor Clostridium difficile (C. diff), a gut bacteria that can cause severe diarrhea, colitis, blood infections and more.

A series of flush tests at the Leeds Teaching Hospital found that the C.diff-contaminated toilet water can rise 10 inches out of the toilet and land on the seat — and up to 90 minutes later, the bacteria was still alive…and waiting for someone to sit there.

Now, this study is more than just a funny bit of research about bathrooms, because the one place where you might be most likely to encounter C.diff is also the one place where you’re most likely to be hurt by it: in a hospital.

C.diff is rapidly becoming a scourge of hospitals and nursing homes, spreading like wildfire and often resistant to medication when it does break out — especially because most of the patients who suffer a C.diff infection have already taken one or more antibiotics.

The drugs wipe out nearly all the bacteria in the stomach, even the good ones, leaving tough-as-nails C.diff as the only survivor. And because these patients are already sick, a C.diff infection could quickly turn deadly.

As a result, an estimated 28,000 people die of C.diff infections every year — and nearly all of them picked it up in a hospital or nursing home.

Why is this important — and what does this have to do with toilets? Because in many of these facilities, you can’t put the lid down even if you want to: The toilets don’t have them.

C.diff is notoriously tough to kill — but fortunately, it still has one natural enemy: bleach. If you or anyone you love is in a hospital or care facility, make sure the bathroom positively reeks of bleach.

And if it doesn’t, demand a cleaning crew and a bucket of bleach… especially on and around the toilet seat.
House Calls
Edward Martin
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Talk about missing the point!

Blood thinners are supposed to reduce the risk of the blood clots that can lead to a heart attack or stroke — but a new drug that’s intended to slash the risk of stroke can actually increase the odds of a heart attack.

That’s not a benefit — that’s trading one deadly risk for another.

The drug, called dabigatran but sold under the brand name Pradaxa, is most commonly given to atrial fibrillation patients, who have a higher risk of stroke to begin with.

It’s also the first in a series of new blood thinners specifically aimed at preventing strokes — but there were problems with it right out of the gate: Even in the studies used to get it approved, that heart risk kept popping up.

Now, a new analysis shows this wasn’t just a fluke, as the drug’s maker no doubt hoped, but a genuine threat that should have anyone thinking twice before popping these pills.

And get this: While the drug is supposed to slash the risk of stroke by a third, the new numbers show that it increases the risk of heart attack and acute coronary syndrome by pretty much the same amount — nearly a third — when compared to the older blood thinners as well as a placebo.

That’s not the only serious problem with Pradaxa. This drug hasn’t been on the market very long, but the FDA is already looking into reports of serious bleeding problems (being the FDA, however, you can bet that “look” is all they’ll do).

I’m sure this sounds like a win for warfarin and the older generation of blood thinners, but warfarin itself is so dangerous it’s actually been used for years as a rat poison — and patients who take it need to be closely watched, lest they end up like those rats.

Like all blood thinners, warfarin can also cause serious bleeding problems, not to mention swelling, bruising, flu-like symptoms and more. It’s even been linked to gangrene.

It’s nuts to take those risks when there are completely natural options on the table — including ordinary fish oil, safe for men and mice alike.

Talk to your doc before making any changes, but a skilled naturopathic physician can wean you off risky meds and help you find the right amount of your safe alternative.

And you can leave the warfarin in the garage for the rats.
House Calls
Edward Martin

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