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JUNE 2025 TABLEHOPPING

I was lucky the other day to talk to Dr Howe the chiropractor and I asked him to give me another copy of an article he wrote many years ago that I read and enjoyed. I lost my copy and years went by until I thought to ask for another copy. I know many medical doctors look down on chiropractic doctors. After all, only medical doctors can write prescriptions for pharmacologics / drugs. So, medical doctors following “the guidelines “ recommend diets that are making you sick then prescribe medicines that control symptoms or numbers from the lab but have very little real effect on disease outcomes. Remember, Thomas Alva Edison said: “The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.” I quess the future is not here yet. The article I read over a few years ago was about how to develop Metabolic Syndrome. This was way before medical doctors paid any attention to the cause of your illness and just focused on what meds can ameliorate your symptoms. Never getting to the root cause. The article is more relevant today than ever. The title is “How does one develop Metabolic Syndrome”

It goes without saying ,but the earlier in life you start the earlier you can expect to develop Metabolic Syndrome. These habits will help though; eat haphazardly, always. plan nothing. consume lots of long shelf life, sugar laden, processed, center aisle, barcode, drive- through foods that were not here 100 years ago . Avoid family dinners around the table with real, whole food home cooked meals, prepared from scratch. drink soda, fruit juice, flavored coffees and the light. Avoid good clean simple pure water at all costs. If you “dislike the taste of water “ you’re on your way!

Consume modern day Franken-grain, hybridized amylopectin A, gliadin-laden, addictive, appetite stimulating, high glycemic load ” wheat “ .Bread is nothing like it was in the 50s and 60s. This is an easy step. It’s ubiquitous: cereal, bread , (yes, whole grain) pasta, pizza, crackers, pretzels, muffins,and bagels ….Chow down. Beer is liquid bread so make sure you regularly imbibe. Whatever you do, avoid pesticide free organically grown produce. in fact, avoid the produce section altogether.

Eat grain-fried beef. Remember: the same omega-6 grains that make livestock fat, sick, tired, depressed and diseased will help make us fat ,sick ,tired, depressed and diseased. Keep demanding your tired pancreas produce more insulin, more often. Eventually you’ll become insulin resistant. You’re almost there.

Remember, more insulin produces more fat storage. It’s the fat storing hormone. Once insulin resistant, your cells will become less responsive to insulin’s effect – and you’ll tend to be hungry. you’ll crave because your cells are becoming progressively under fueled. Because you’re storing more fat around the middle you’ve created an estrogen producing 24/7 / 365 inflammatory reservoir. Guys wonder where those man breasts come from? Wonder why you need viagra? Avoid physical activity at all costs. Exercise reduces insulin levels. We want hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance if Metabolic Syndrome is our goal.

Press on and, in time, you’ll develop even more inflammation. Don’t forget; many research studies tell us that Metabolic Syndrome and all of our modern day diseases of civilization are inflammatory conditions. This literature now tells us inflammation is the common denominator in all diseases. Remember: A constant high glycemic load drives glycosylation. Our bodies have to deal with glycosylation whether we’re aware of it or not. If you’re trying to develop Metabolic Syndrome we need glycosylation to run rampant. press on. It will.

What’s glycosylation? Simply put, it’s how elevated blood sugar levels gum up various proteins in your body. The inflammation is now cranking and you’re aging more rapidly if you’re diligently following these recommendations. Get this now: over time, if you have glycosylation in your eyes you’ll develop early cataracts . If you get glycosylation in your hips, knees, discs, and joints you’ll develop accelerated osteoarthritis , disc cartilage and joint destruction. if you glycosylated your skin you’ll develop wrinkles; if you get glycosylation in your coronary arteries you’ll develop heart disease: if you get glycosylation in your brain… well… you get the idea.

We’re likely got a nice belly going by now. But understand: if you don’t, this does not mean you’re free from Metabolic Syndrome and its complications.

So… your pancreas is tired if not flat out spent. Your body fat percentage is climbing, your BMI exceeds 30, and your blood pressure is too high, your lipids are up, and you’re on reflux medications and using a CPAP machine. You’re likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease, senility etc any and all of it is increasing every day

Ask your doctor if medical advice from a television commercial is right for you Ignore diet, exercise, and lifestyle advice . Be sedentary. Suppress symptoms. Press On.

You’re not feeling well. You struggle through your day. You’re tired, brain fogged, bloated and overweight. You’re getting old…and for some odd reason you keep gaining weight on the low-fat diet your doctor recommends.

Keep it up.. weight gain helps the Metabolic Syndrome cause.

You visit your doctor and after a battery of tests your blood pressure is up, you’re pre-diabetic, your cholesterol level is too high, your body fat percentage and BMI is up into the well understood unhealthy range. Now the doctor sits you down and informs you you have Metabolic Syndrome. you wonder how that happened?

A very prescient article indeed and my thanks again to Dr Howe for permission to reprint this.

Now that you’ve screwed up your health by following the government guidelines and ignoring natural food, next month we’ll talk about how to reverse Metabolic syndrome. Until then…get well and stay well…..JT BARRY