Jaiwant Rangi, MD, FACEEndocrinologist | Founder, Lower The Dose® | Speaker

The Root Cause of Chronic Disease

11 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this presentation, Dr. Jaiwant Rangi explains that three physiological factors—excess sugar intake, chronic stress, and hormonal imbalances—are the primary drivers behind a wide range of chronic diseases, including diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, obesity, and even extend to conditions like dementia and cancer. He emphasizes that these metabolic disturbances form a common denominator for many health problems. He also addresses patient fears about medications potentially causing cancer, reassuring them that he would not prescribe drugs that increase cancer risk.

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Physiologically, those three— sugar, stress, and hormones— are what drive the disease, the chronic disease, you know, be it diabetes, be it high blood pressure, high cholesterol, excessive weight. All those metabolic complications that are part of chronic health problems, the common denominator or the drive is stress, sugar, and hormonal imbalance. Even if you look at dementia or even if you look at cancer, you know, I see patients all the time who would tell me, "Doc, don't give me any drug or a medication that can give me cancer." And my answer is, of course I'm not going to give you any medication or drug that would give you cancer. I don't intend to do that.