In a recent post, Dr. Elie Jarrouge challenged the conventional approach to treating type 2 diabetes, arguing that the condition is both reversible and symptomatic of a deeper systemic failure.

“Type 2 diabetes is not a lifelong sentence,” said Dr. Jarrouge in a post on X. “It’s a symptom of a broken system, and it can be fixed. Food is not just fuel. Food is powerful medicine.”

He emphasized that prioritizing dietary intervention over pharmaceutical management offers patients a path to genuine healing. “Diet over drugs. Healing over managing. Root cause over lifelong prescriptions,” he added.

Jarrouge’s perspective reflects a growing movement in functional and lifestyle medicine, where physicians treat insulin resistance and metabolic dysfunction through nutrition, fasting, and behavior change rather than long-term medication alone.

Dr. Elie Jarrouge is a primary care physician and advocate of root-cause medicine. He works with patients to reverse chronic conditions like type 2 diabetes through personalized, evidence-based lifestyle interventions.