Leading Doctors Explain About The Prevalence Of Insulin Resistance
Five leading physicians—including cardiologists treating the consequences daily—have independently reached the same conclusion: insulin resistance is the root cause of most chronic diseases including hypertension & T2DM, yet conventional medicine neither measures nor addresses it.
Doctor | About | Quote 1 | Quote 2 |
Dr. Pradip Jamnadas
| Cardiologist & Founder, Cardiovascular Interventional Institute, Florida Credentials: Board Certified Interventional Cardiologist Over 40 years clinical experience Performed 20,000+ cardiac procedures Founded Galen Foundation for metabolic health education | “Insulin resistance is the root cause of 80-90% of chronic diseases. We’re treating the smoke, not the fire.” First stated: 2018 (Galen Foundation Lecture Series) Context: Explaining why conventional cardiology fails to prevent heart disease | “We routinely measure cholesterol, blood pressure, and blood sugar – but we almost never measure insulin levels or insulin resistance, which is often the underlying driver of all three.” First stated: Ongoing clinical teaching (2018-present, Galen Foundation lectures) Context: Highlighting why conventional cardiology misses the root cause by not measuring insulin resistance |
Dr. William Davis
| Cardiologist & Author: Wheat Belly, Super Gut Credentials: Board Certified Cardiologist (former) Author: Wheat Belly, Undoctored, Super Gut Founded Track Your Plaque program for heart disease prevention Pioneered coronary calcium scoring for early detection | “Insulin resistance drives heart disease, not cholesterol. Cardiologists are plumbers – we fix blockages but ignore why they formed in the first place.” First stated: 2011 (*Wheat Belly* publication) Context: Explaining why statin drugs don’t address root cause | “Wheat, grains and sugars cause formation of small LDL particles, amplified by insulin resistance, abdominal visceral fat and inflammation. This has been clear for 30 years.” First stated: 2019 (Functional Medicine Coaching Academy podcast) Context: Explaining what causes coronary atherosclerosis |
Dr. Ken Berry
| Family Physician & Author Credentials: Board Certified Family Physician 20+ years clinical practice in rural Tennessee Author: Lies My Doctor Told Me Over 3 million YouTube subscribers | “Nutritional therapy is often overlooked in medical school, and the information provided to physicians is often outdated. Doctors don’t really want to be nutritionists—they want to be experts on drugs and medical procedures.” First stated: 2017 (Lies My Doctor Told Me publication) Context: Explaining why doctors give poor nutritional advice | “The criteria for metabolic health involves five metrics: blood sugar, blood pressure, HDL cholesterol, triglycerides, and waist circumference all being at healthy levels without prescription medications. Only 12% of Americans are metabolically healthy.” First stated: 2021 (Kicking Ass After 50 publication) Context: Explaining the scope of the insulin resistance epidemic |
Dr. Aseem Malhotra
| FRCP (UK Cardiologist) Credentials: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) Consultant Cardiologist Co-author of Academy of Medical Royal Colleges report on exercise Campaigner for evidence-based nutrition in healthcare | “Telling people that heart disease is caused by saturated fat instead of sugar and insulin resistance is one of the greatest mistakes in modern medicine—and it’s cost millions of lives.” First stated: 2016 (Documentary: The Big Fat Fix) Context: Exposing how dietary guidelines have focused on the wrong culprit | “The evidence shows that insulin resistance and chronic inflammation, not LDL cholesterol, are the primary drivers of cardiovascular disease. Yet this is not what patients are being told.” First stated: 2013 (British Medical Journal article) Context: Calling for a paradigm shift in cardiology -fat research |
Dr. Jason Fung
| Nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) & Author | “Type 2 diabetes is a disease of too much insulin, not too much sugar. We’ve been treating the wrong thing for 50 years.” First stated: 2016 (*The Diabetes Code* publication) Context: Explaining why diabetic medications often worsen outcomes | “We’ve known about insulin resistance since the 1960s, but the pharmaceutical industry has no interest in curing a disease they can profit from managing.” First stated: 2015 (Intensive Dietary Management blog) Context: Discussing why reversal protocols aren’t taught in medical schools |
