The doctor named the 10 main deceptions of American medicine that destroy lives

A California doctor says the medical community doesn't always tell patients the truth. He said FoxNews about the 10 main deceptions of American medicine that destroy people's lives.

Dr. Robert Lufkin, a physician and father of two young children, was diagnosed with four chronic illnesses—the same ones that took his father's life.

While enduring his own medical struggles, Lufkin decided to write a book.

In it, a doctor exposes what he calls “medical lies.” It contributes to the risk of chronic disease in the United States. Lufkin criticizes the medical establishment, but noted that he himself is still part of it.

“I have written hundreds of peer-reviewed articles and 10 textbooks. I have the honor and privilege of teaching doctors and other healthcare professionals and seeing patients,” he said in an interview.

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According to Lufkin, his own diagnoses “woke him up” and made him aware of the shortcomings of the medical system.

Treat diseases, not symptoms

First he developed a type of arthritis called gout.

“Then I developed hypertension. Almost half of adults have it,” the doctor noted. “If we don’t address the metabolic cause, the diseases will just get worse and worse.”
Then he developed prediabetes, which the doctor said was followed by dyslipidemia—"sort of abnormal levels of lipids in the blood."

Lufkin noted that he is actually a “big fan” of Western medicine.
“I think she changed our lives and made the world a better place,” the doctor admitted. “But in the 21st century, a new class of diseases has emerged.”

“Diseases existed before, but now they are growing rapidly,” he emphasized.
These include obesity, diabetes, hypertension, cancer, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease and even mental illness, he said.

“Up to 80% of our resources are now spent on these chronic diseases,” the doctor stated.

The problem, according to the doctor, is that the tools that were so effective in the 20th century - “pills and surgeries” - can now save lives.

But they only address the symptoms of these chronic diseases, not their root causes.

“Most of these diseases have a common metabolic cause,” Lufkin explained. “And if we don’t eliminate the metabolic cause, pills and surgeries won’t help.” The diseases will only get worse.”

10 deceptions of modern medicine

In his book "The Lies I Taught in Medical School" Lufkin claims that medical professionals tend to spread 10 false claims about health and treatment.
He listed these situations and included separate chapters dedicated to them in his book.

• 1. Metabolic lie: “Metabolism is just a way of digesting food.”
• 2. Lies about obesity: “To lose weight, just exercise more and eat less.”
• 3. Lie about diabetes: “Sugar is harmless except that it causes weight gain and tooth decay.”
• 4. Lies about fatty liver disease: “Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is incurable.”
• 5. Lie about hypertension: “High blood pressure is best treated with medication.”
• 6. Lies about heart disease: “Statins (first-line drugs for treating dyslipidemia) are a good choice for preventing heart disease.”
• 7. Cancer Lie: “Most cancers are caused by accumulated DNA damage.”
• 8. Lies about Alzheimer's disease: "Alzheimer's disease is a progressive, incurable disease caused by the accumulation of amyloid beta."
• 9. Lies about mental health: “Metabolism has little effect on mental health.”
• 10. Lies about longevity: “Aging is the inevitable result of accumulated wear and tear.”

“In each chapter we go through each of those chronic diseases that determine the length of our lives. We talk about what is a lie and what is the truth,” the author commented on his book.

The doctor then presents a plan for making healthier lifestyle choices.

“We talk about nutrition, sleep, exercise, stress and how you can change your lifestyle. All this can reverse such diseases,” he summarized.

In the following excerpts from the book, Lufkin explains the first two points of deception.

The Obesity Lie: “A calorie is just a calorie.”

“We are now experiencing the worst global obesity epidemic in history. Statistics show that 42,5% of adults aged 20 years and older are obese. 73,6% are at least overweight, the author concluded. – Nearly half of Americans are now obese, and most are overweight. Obesity is harmful to health. It is a marker of metabolic dysfunction. It manifests itself in hypertension, diabetes, heart attack, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, cancer and other chronic diseases.”

The doctor explains that our understanding of the causes of this epidemic and approaches to its treatment is based on a simple lie: “a calorie is a calorie.” This deception implies that obesity is caused by eating too many calories.

“As a doctor, I know from personal experience that I can make anyone gain weight or fat simply by giving them extra insulin. This is seen in both type 1 and type 2 diabetics as soon as they start taking supplemental insulin as a medication,” Lufkin concluded. “In other words, calories are necessary, but not enough to cause obesity. Insulin is necessary. Obesity is not just a calorie problem—it's an insulin problem."

If all foods stimulated insulin equally, a calorie would just be a calorie.

This is not a lie. But, as the doctor says, not all foods trigger insulin production in the same way. In fact, to lose weight (or gain weight), the most important thing is not the number of calories you consume. What matters are the types of calories that affect insulin levels and cause our bodies to store energy as fat.

Lies about diabetes: “Sugar is harmless except that it causes weight gain and tooth decay.”

The doctor believes that we are currently at the beginning of the worst diabetes epidemic the world has ever known: 10% of American adults have type 2 diabetes, and about 38% are pre-diabetic. That is, for the first time in history, 48% (or almost half of the population) suffer from the same metabolic disease!

The false claim about diabetes, as Lufkin writes in the book, is based on the idea that the best way to treat type 2 diabetes is with insulin.

Injecting insulin will help control the immediate effects of too much glucose in the blood by telling our cells to remove that glucose from the blood and store it as fat.

However, this will increase the overall level of insulin in the body, thereby worsening insulin resistance, the main cause of type 2 diabetes. In addition, elevated insulin levels lead to the development of other chronic diseases.

“Many people would rather take a pill or a shot than change their lifestyle,” Lufkin said. “Unfortunately, our health care system is much more optimized for issuing prescriptions for insulin and other medications to treat type 2 diabetes than it is for providing instructions on how to reverse it.” Need to change our dietto avoid the occurrence of the causes of the disease."

In addition, there is some evidence that simply improving glucose control with medications may not prevent some of the long-term complications that all these patients face.

There are also financial incentives, Lufkin said. Sales of insulin and other diabetes drugs reached $2013 billion in 23, according to research firm IMS Health.

That's more than the combined revenue of the National Football League, Major League Baseball and the National Basketball Association.