Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter argues that preventing diabetes and obesity through early lifestyle changes beats treating them later. Once hemoglobin A1C hits 9, complications are already underway. By then, he says, the cows are already out of the barn.
We could have done some preventive things to keep you from having this problem.
I think we oftentimes look at disease like especially in the traditional sense. We're going to wait until you have a problem before we have an intervention. And oftentimes if we look at the root cause of these problems, we could have modified your activities. We could have used food as medicine. We could have done some preventive things to keep you from having this problem. But when you go in with your hemoglobin A1C9 and you're a diabetic and you know you're obese and you start to have all of these downstream problems from diabetes, it's too late. I mean, it's like the cows are already out and now you're going to shut the gate. I mean, you can collect them, but they're still out running around. You know, you might be able to get one or two back, but you may never get all of them.
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