The standard mechanistic approach to this problem, which promotes the eating of "correct" food and eating it all day, inadvertently creates a vicious feedback loop that ensures the continuance of common hypoglycemia, worsens mental health, and can eventually develop into more serious health concerns such as diabetes 2 and stoke.

By eating five to seven meals daily, hypoglycemics never allow themselves to feel physical hunger – an empty feeling in the stomach area that motivates and empowers animals and people to go to work for food. Never feeling that emptiness in the upper abdomen means that the body never wants food. Food unwanted by the body is not processed quickly or easily, setting up a situation of food stagnation. Stagnation of any sort picks up heat, and this extra heat adds to the overall symptoms of excess internal heat rising and wind.

Eating meals in the absence of hunger is a clear violation of the natural trust between body and mind. Lack of self-trust in deference to external authority lessens self-esteem and increases a general sense of insecurity and fear, exactly what hurried and worried Americans do not need. The cells of the muscles, bones, connective tissues, and organs that are constantly bombarded with insulin, at a certain point refuse to accept any more insulin. Thus nutrition, including blood sugar, along with insulin, build up in the blood and the cells begin to starve. Diabetes type 2 is the result of this insulin refusal.

Rejection of excessive insulin commonly occurs in obese and overweight people who are constantly jammed with excessive nutrition, hence the high correlation between obesity and diabetes 2. But experts are mystified at outwardly lean people who develop diabetes 2. What goes unnoticed is that these people who are often treating their hypoglycemic symptoms with food all day are stuffed with food and insulin on the inside. And their wicked pace of life burns off calories like crazy, keeping them "lean" on the outside.

Eventually, the situation reaches a point where the lean tissues of the body say, "Enough is enough!" and the ironic 180 degree turnaround would be diabetes – also known as high blood sugar (hyperglycemia), the opposite of low blood sugar (hypoglycemia). In Chinese theory, we would say that excess yin (material) in the form of food, which is used to calm excess yang (heat and energy), causes excess yin in the blood. Our intention is to subdue this unhealthy yang with healthy yin in order to achieve balance, always the goal in Chinese medicine.