Different Diseases, Same Root Cause?

Atherosclerosis. Multiple sclerosis. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.Three very different diagnoses—but they all contain the same word.Why?On this episode of Sugar Crush: The Rest of the Story, Dr. Rick Jacoby starts with the Greek origins of sclerosis, meaning “hardening,” and follows that thread through more than 150 years of medical history to ask a provocative question: Could diseases we treat as completely separate conditions share pieces of the same underlying biological process? Drawing on his decades of work with diabetic neuropathy and peripheral nerve surgery, Dr. Rick lays out his Global Compression Theory. He discusses inflammation, fibrosis, glycation, the polyol pathway, nitric oxide, oxygen deprivation, and the physical compression of nerves—and explains why he believes sugar plays a central role in that process.