"Jeffrey Murray Hockings

In 2011, Lazarus wrote about a free “Diabetes Breakthrough” dinner seminar at Los Angeles International Airport that attracted attendees with a newspaper ad promising “you will discover the hidden secrets about how to reverse your diabetes, reduce and eliminate your need and dependence on drugs, lose weight without exercise, explode your energy levels and the potential to become non-diabetic.” The main speaker was Jeff Hockings, a chiropractor who reportedly criticized doctors and drug companies for prospering by treating diabetes without curing it. Hocking claimed that diabetes can be “reversed” at an 85 percent success rate through three weeks of “cleansing,” dietary changes, “high-potency” herbs, and supplements provided exclusively by Hocking’s own company. The seminar recruited patients for an initial consultation for a cost of $87. The treatment program was said to cost from $1,000 to $15,000.

According to the website of California’s Board of Chiropractic Examiners, the chiropractic license status of Jeffrey Murray Hockings is “canceled” as of this writing. Hockings was cited twice in 2014 for his advertising, and he paid his citations in full in 2015.

Last year, Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller announced that Hockings and another chiropractor, Dean Draluck, would have to cease marketing their Help Your Diabetes (HYD) program sales seminars in Iowa after Hockings refused to grant two older Iowans cancellations and refunds of $4,000 a piece."