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The Myth of Diabetes
“Management”
-A primer on integrative medical
optimization and why diabetes
can be cured without chemical
pharmaceutical intervention
Dr. Trip Goolsby, MD is the Founder/CEO of
Dr. Trip Goolsby, MD
By: Trip MD & Tia Tucker, MD, Infinite MPHHealth Integrative Medicine Center. The
best part of his days usually include working with
his wife (a/k/a The Boss) and 6:00 p.m. hugs from
his sons, IV & Huck.
CASE STUDY:
Jane (name changed) was referred to me
with diabetes, high cholesterol, obesity,
hypertension, and significant stress,
due to many social challenges. Her labs
initially showed a fasting glucose of 123
and a hemoglobin A1C of 7.3, despite
receiving 40-50 units per day of insulin.
Another patient, Dick (name changed),
suffered from a 25-year bout of
diabetes complicated by blood clots,
neuropathy, obesity, kidney failure,
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD), and congestive heart failure. At
the beginning of his care with me, Dick
was receiving five different oral diabetes
medications, in addition to approximately
100 units of insulin daily.
After optimization, both Dick and Jane
improved tremendously.
Jane’s most recent labs show fasting
blood glucose of 89, and a hemoglobin
A1C of 6.5. She is no longer taking
diabetes medications and she continues
to improve.
Six months post-treatment, Dick’s
hemoglobin A1C plateaued at 5.4
and remains there after three years.
Initially wheelchair bound, Dick now
independently walks into Infinite Health
Integrative Medicine Center. He no
longer takes insulin, or any other diabetes
medications, which were completely
removed after four months.
1Hemoglobin A1C represents
the average blood sugar over
the preceding four months.
“Oi chusoi Dios
aei enpiptousi!”
God’s dice are
always loaded!
Allow me to say, at the outset, that
I have always been a clinical skeptic
when it comes to the conservative
“management” of any disease process.
Having delivered industrial doses of
chemotherapy to thousands of patients
over a period of twenty-five plus years,
in my former community medical
oncology practice, I still get tremors
when I remove the technologic wonders
of the pharmaceutical industry in favor
of optimized metabolic and hormonal
lifestyle. And, had it not been for the
Tia Tucker, MD, MPH is a native of Sulphur,
Louisiana, and is passionate about improving
health outcomes in the Gulf South. She enjoys
singing, Cuban salsa, and riding bikes with her
husband, Eduardo.
conception of my ten-year old son on
the eve of my fiftieth birthday, I would
probably still be ministering the suffering
of the ill with the poisons of camouflage.
That said, I now witness, on a daily
basis, the resilient miracle of our human
physiology, and its ability to recover from
the disastrous effects of chronic disease
simply by optimizing its parameters.
Dick and Jane’s cases are among
dozens of my personal patients that
exemplify what optimized integrative
medicine is capable of accomplishing
in the setting of the chronic diseases.
These diseases (hypertension, diabetes,
atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease,
dementia, degenerative arthritis and
osteoporosis…) account for two thirds
to three quarters of the gross domestic
product (GDP) that constitutes our yearly
healthcare expenditure (3 trillion dollars).
It is almost insulting to think that the
most technologically advanced nation in
the world spends almost three times that
of the nearest competitor nation in terms
of percentage of GDP (17%), only to
achieve significantly worse overall quality
of healthcare delivery by World Health
Organization standards.
Duke University’s Integrative Medicine
6 November 2016 WWW.THEVOICEOFSOUTHWESTLA.COM Volume 4 • Number 2