I’d finally learned to resolve the root cause of their problems, rather than simply suppressing their symptoms.

This probably sounds like an extraordinary claim, but the reason I can make them disappear is that they’re an illusion. Unfortunately it only deals with these issues which people often bring on themselves through eating lots of junk food (type two diabetes), poor sleep due to too much coffee and the blue light from electronic devices, depression due to comparing oneself unfavourably with others on social media. My son nearly died from a preventable vitamin deficiency and his father, a doctor, knew nothing about it. He’s examining many different factors including diet, stress levels and sleep quality as well as physical activity levels. You can think about it a little bit like a fire that has been burning in Dotty’s body for years, it’s getting bigger, it’s getting bigger until its finally raging out of control and at that point I can say to Dotti, hey you have a disease.

Rangan’s 15 years of clinical experience in the NHS includes internal medicine, immunology and general practice.

You see that raises levels of cortisol in your body and cortisol when it’s up raises your sugar which causes insulin-resistance.What happens is your blood sugar goes up, but your body releases a little bit of insulin and that helps it come back down to normal. Well there’s many different things – it could be your diet, it could be your diet for the past 10 years has been full of processed junk food, that could be a cause. And so began an incredible journey through many new worlds of knowledge that, I’m sad to say, the majority of doctors still have relatively little idea about.

We too often forget this and are then surprised by all the discrepancies there are between what lab trials show and what we find happening in real life. He’s showing that you can reverse cognitive decline in his patients with dementia and how is he doing that? This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. So let’s say you’re at the bottom left in optimal health, like all of us in here, and you have a breakfast of say a sugary bowl of cereal and what happens is your blood sugar goes up but your body releases a little bit of insulin and it comes back down to normal. Chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, depression and dementia are today the nation's leading causes of death and disability.I believe my decade and a half of practice qualifies me to make simple recommendations that, as long as they do no harm, don’t need to wait for all the science to catch up. Now this isn’t the same inflammation as if you trip up, you sprain your ankle, it gets red, it gets swollen, it gets hot for a few days. What I’m giving you is my seventeen years of experience as an MD seeing tens of thousands of patients, but this is my belief. Gives some solid practical advice for leading a healthy lifestyle and some great patient cases where he actually reverses health conditions. But depression can just as easily be driven by poor diet or high stress levels—or, even more likely, both.

As you become a more seasoned and accustomed drinker, you need more and more alcohol to have the same effect, and that’s what’s going on with insulin. And as you become a more seasoned and accustomed drinker you need more and more alcohol to have the same affect, that’s what’s going on with insulin. Chatterjee, reveals we can reverse and make disease disappear without a complete overhaul of our lifestyle. It’s a heart-wrenching condition and we the doctors, we’re scrambling around aren’t we, trying to find the cure. The problem is, there are many different causes of insulin resistance, and if we don’t address all the causes for that particular patient, we’ll never get rid of their disease.Because of this, a symptom in one domain might actually have a cause way upstream, in an area of the body that our medical training just doesn’t tell us to look in. I'm having numerous health problems ranging from polymyalgia rheumatica (a type of arthritis), an inherited underactive thyroid and slipped disks in my back and neck possibly as a result of poor childhood nutrition.