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Treat Addiction, Reduce Pain, Reverse Diabetes– Gurpreet Padda MD​

Treat Addiction, Reduce Pain, Reverse Diabetes– Gurpreet Padda MD​

Treat Addiction, Reduce Pain, Reverse Diabetes– Gurpreet Padda MD​

August 25, 2022

Addiction, chronic pain and diabetes are treated together. That is because all three share one root: metabolic syndrome. The treatment plan fixes the pain paths, reworks nutrition and increases movement and exercise.

Know someone in chronic pain? Know someone who has an addiction? Know someone who is diabetic? Addiction, chronic pain, and diabetes have one thing in common: metabolic syndrome. This is a cluster of conditions. They include increased blood pressure, high blood sugar, excess body fat, chronic inflammation, and abnormal cholesterol or triglyceride levels. Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD, MBA, MHP is an interventional pain specialist. In his treatment he has often found addiction and diabetes in the same patients. His practice is dedicated to working with, reducing, and in many cases curing all three. It finds and fixes pain paths, reworks patient nutrition and increases movement and exercise. He has clear advice on fixing your diet and exercise routine, and it has met with great success.

Frequently asked questions

What are the 5 signs of metabolic syndrome?

Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of five conditions that show up together. They are increased blood pressure, high blood sugar, excess body fat, chronic inflammation, and abnormal cholesterol or triglyceride levels. It is the one thing addiction, chronic pain and diabetes have in common. That is why Dr. Padda treats the three as one problem with one root, not three unrelated diagnoses.

How do I fix metabolic syndrome?

You fix it on three fronts at once. Dr. Padda’s plan finds and fixes the pain paths, reworks your nutrition, and increases movement and exercise. He gives clear advice for fixing your diet and exercise routine, and that advice has met with great success. His practice is dedicated to reducing, and in many cases curing, chronic pain, addiction and diabetes together.

Who treats addiction, chronic pain and diabetes together?

Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD, MBA, MHP, an interventional pain specialist, does. In treating chronic pain he has often found addiction and diabetes in the same patient. So his practice works on all three at the same time. It fixes the pain paths, reworks nutrition, and increases movement and exercise. That is because all three grow from the same metabolic syndrome.

 

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Medically reviewed by Dr. Gurpreet Singh Padda, MD, MBA, MHP
Interventional pain physician, addiction medicine specialist and obesity medicine diplomate.
Licensed in Missouri and Illinois.
Last reviewed June 5, 2026