At one time in recent history, many of today's chronic diseases were understood to be symptoms of diabetes. Strokes, both ischemic and hemorrhagic, heart failure due to neuropathy as well as both ischemic and hemorrhagic coronary events, obesity, atherosclerosis, elevated blood pressure, elevated cholesterol and elevated triglycerides were all known to be common consequences of a disturbed metabolism as it occurs with diabetes. These symptoms, as well as impotence, retinopathy, renal failure, liver failure, polycystic ovary syndrome, elevated blood sugar, systemic candida, poor wound healing, peripheral neuropathy, etc., have since been turned into separate diseases, requiring specialized treatments and specialists to administer them. Although this may have greatly served the medical and pharmaceutical industry, it has led to untold suffering of patients and cost many lives unnecessarily.