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Chapter 727: In an era of lack of medical care, if you get this disease, you won't live long! Cao Pi: I have to give up sweets even if I'm dying of greed!

As an emperor who has always loved sweets, the glucose mentioned on the sky curtain made Cao Pi involuntarily think of his favorite candied fruits!

Moreover! I have been feeling dry mouth lately. The imperial kitchen prepares several large jars of honey water every day, but it still can't quench my thirst!

Thinking of the symptoms described on the sky curtain and his own addiction to sweets, the young emperor couldn't help but feel a palpitation in his heart!
Could it be...? Impossible!
Cao Pi raised his head and looked at the ministers, and said slowly: "I have been feeling thirsty these days. Could it be that this glucose is to blame?"

Chen Qun, the Minister of the Chancellery, immediately stepped out and said to Cao Pi, "Your Majesty, you are worrying too much. What the Heavenly Curtain said may not be true. Besides, the candied fruits that Your Majesty eats on a daily basis are probably not the same thing as this glucose."

"It is common for emperors to enjoy desserts in ancient times. Your Majesty does not need to worry about this."

But when the Grand Marshal Hua Xin heard this, he immediately stood up.

"Your Majesty, have you forgotten about your cousin Bian Lan? He loved sweets so much that he died of alcohol thirst!"

"Bian Lan had the same problem when she was alive. She just felt thirsty at first, then gradually lost weight until she died."

Hua Xin's words made Cao Pi feel even heavier, as he himself had indeed shown signs of weight loss recently.

Although Chen Qun's words made sense, Hua Xin's words made Cao Pi feel more empathetic.

Cao Pi knew very well that Hua Xin was an upright person and would never say anything against his will just to please him.

Furthermore, the experience of his cousin Bian Lan mentioned by Hua Xin is so similar to the symptoms described on the sky curtain.

Thinking of this, Cao Pi couldn't help but sigh: "It seems that this sweet thing is indeed something we must be on guard against."

Seeing this, Hua Xin added: "Your Majesty, I am not exaggerating, but I cannot bear to see Your Majesty repeat the same mistake as Bian Lan!"

Chen Qun saw that what Hua Xin said made sense and no longer insisted on his own opinion.

Cao Pi pondered for a long time, and finally felt that his life was the most important!

It is necessary to reduce the intake of sweets.

You have to quit even if you are dying of greed!
After all, as the king of a country, wouldn't it be unwise to harm your body because of your appetite?
If this story were passed down to later generations and people knew that he died from eating sweets, wouldn't that be extremely embarrassing!
[And more patients have type 2 diabetes. ]

[Type 2 diabetes is not caused by the absence of beta cells, but by the presence of healthy beta cells and normal insulin levels.]

【But it becomes more difficult for insulin to enter cells.】

[This results in glucose entering cells less efficiently.]

This is insulin resistance.

[The end result is the same as type 1, where a large amount of glucose in the blood cannot be transported to the cells where it should go.]

【This leads to increased blood sugar.】

[This type of disease used to occur mainly in middle-aged and elderly people.]

[Due to the hundreds of thousands of years of human history, it is only in the last hundred years that Homo sapiens has experienced what it means to eat and drink as much as one can.]

[It is only in the last 100 years that the human body has entered an era of sufficient glucose.]

[So the age of onset of type 2 diabetes is getting younger and younger. ]

[But this disease was a terminal illness more than a hundred years ago. ]

[At that time, if a child was diagnosed with diabetes, his life expectancy was basically only one or two years. ]

[The survival rate of a 30-year-old diabetic patient is about four years.]

[The survival rate for people with diabetes over the age of 50 is about eight years.]

[Compared to cancer, it’s not much worse. ]

[Elizabeth mentioned at the beginning is a young patient.]

[Theoretically, there is not much time left to live. ]

[There is basically only one method that can slightly delay the patient's death. ]

【Hungry! 】【Scientific name: hunger therapy. 】

[But Dr. Allen, the most famous doctor in this field, gave Elizabeth a strict checklist.]

【You can only eat 400 calories a day. 】

[What does 400 calories mean? Forget desserts, even rice and flour buns are not allowed. ]

[Vegetables also need to be repeatedly rinsed and boiled several times before they can be eaten. ]

[Even with such strict control of energy intake, in reality, it is just a way to survive. ]

【Especially children.】

[They are not fat to begin with, and have little fat reserves. They eat so little every day, and in the end they all die of severe malnutrition.]

The ancients watched intently, savoring this record about diseases in later generations, and could not help but fall into deep thought.

"It is clear that there will be abundant material life in the afterlife, but the patient is being starved to death because of this disease. Isn't this putting the cart before the horse?"

"It is indeed puzzling. We were born in an era of material scarcity and have never heard of such a strange disease. On the contrary, people in later generations who are well-fed and well-dressed have to suffer from this disease."

"The ancients always said, 'eat when you are hungry, drink when you are thirsty', the way of nature is very simple, but nowadays we have to follow so many rules, even eating has become a science."

"It seems like this is a disease of affluence. Poor people like me don't have to worry about it at all, hahahaha!"

"Since we know that this disease is related to diet, why can't we prevent and treat it from the root, but instead wait until the disease breaks out and then starve ourselves to death?"

“Maybe I didn’t know I would get this disease at first…”

"Living in an age of plenty, yet having to eat such bland and scanty food, it's such torture, it's better to just end it all!"

Li Shizhen, sitting at the desk, slowly put down the pen in his hand and carefully thought about this strange disease of later generations shown in the sky.

As a doctor who spent his entire life compiling the "Compendium of Materia Medica", he certainly knew that everything in the world can be used as medicine.

But faced with such a strange disease, he was at a loss for a moment.

Thinking back on my travels across the country and the sufferings of the people I saw when I climbed mountains and crossed rivers to collect herbs, most of them were caused by hunger and lack of warm clothing. I never imagined that people in later generations would develop such strange diseases because of eating too well.

However, his many years of experience in pharmacology research still made him feel that this disease must be closely related to the internal organs, especially the dysfunction of the spleen and stomach.

The better the food, the finer the texture.

The current situation seems to be in response to Lao Tzu's warning that "the five flavors make the mouth refreshing, while hunting makes the heart crazy."

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine also contains records on ways of keeping in good health. Perhaps the dietary moderation advocated by the ancients was not entirely unreasonable.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel emotional again.

What I have learned throughout my life may not be as good as the understanding of this disease by later doctors. This shows how vast the medical field is.

Sui Dynasty plane.

After hearing this, Yang Tong's heart suddenly trembled!
Memories of my grandfather Yang Jian’s last days suddenly came to my mind.

At that time, my grandfather was getting thinner and thinner, and he kept drinking water all day long. In the end, even the prescriptions written by the imperial physician were of no use, and he could only watch him become more and more haggard day by day.

It turned out that my grandfather suffered from this strange disease, but in their time, even the true cause of the disease could not be explained.

I recall the huge granary built during my grandfather’s reign, which stored millions of taels of grain. But in the end, because of this illness, he couldn’t even enjoy the most basic meals!
The imperial doctors at that time were helpless and could only watch as the emperor was tortured by the disease and eventually died in emaciated condition.

If I had known these medical principles at that time, perhaps my grandfather could have lived a few more years, or at least he would not have to suffer such pain on his deathbed.

The starvation therapy mentioned on the skylight reminded him that his grandfather did eat very little when he was seriously ill, but who could have thought at that time that this was the only way to delay the disease.

As a descendant of the royal family that once ruled the world, he was well aware of the horrors of the extravagant and decadent life in the palace, but he never expected that this disease would be caused by too much wealth!

If the imperial doctors at that time had known these medical principles, perhaps they could have controlled my grandfather's illness in time when it first occurred, and prevented the condition from worsening to the point where it was beyond cure.

(End of this chapter)