
Are you suffering from numbness, tingling, burning, or deep stabbing pain in your hands or feet? Are you experiencing balance problems or have the fear of becoming disabled needing someone to take care of you and losing your independence? You may be one of the millions of Americans that suffers from peripheral neuropathy.
People with peripheral neuropathy are told there is no cure. They’re told to deal with it, to live with it, and to rely on injections or other dangerous off-label drugs that come with serious side-effects of their own. But it’s not your doctor’s fault; rather, it’s the irrational industry-wide concept of only treating the symptoms instead of the root cause.
There are two primary types of neuropathy.
- The first type of neuropathy is circulatory neuropathy. This type affects patients with pre-diabetes, diabetes, circulatory challenges, and even those whose overall health has been on a downward spiral.
- The second type of neuropathy is toxicity-induced neuropathy. This type of neuropathy affects patients whose systems have been damaged by chemotherapy and/or the side effects of certain medications.
With neuropathy, we are dealing with a multitude of causes that create a condition called hypoxia where the blood flow and nutrients are being cut off from the nerves. The lack of oxygen to your tissues and nerves results in a nerve’s slow death. In simple terms, I like using the analogy of a plant. Just like a plant, when we cut off oxygen, nutrients, sunlight, and water from that plant, it starts to die. Healthcare professionals, instead of masking symptoms, need to address the root cause of hypoxia and, unfortunately, there is no pill, potion, lotion, or surgery that reverses this damage. We have to look at the body’s physiology and the underlying cause of hypoxia to correct this.
So now we know that neuropathy is caused by the lack of blood flow to our nerves and that the nerve is an organism just like a plant. Continuing the plant analogy, if we give it what it needs, it will regenerate. If we try to feed or inject a plant with poisons or chemicals we know this would not allow the plant to regenerate — quite the opposite. The answer is actually quite simple: increase the blood flow and oxygen directly to the nerves thereby giving them what they need to regenerate. There is now a cutting-edge three-step process used to revive dying nerves that involves nutrition, light therapy, and nerve stimulation.
The nutritional component addresses the hypoxia internally with a non-inflammatory diet plus specific natural supplements that alkalize and detox the body and increases blood flow through the nitric oxide effect. Simply by restoring normal physiology, the body knows exactly what to do and how to heal. Research on one of these supplements and the nitric oxide effect on the body — that allows increased circulation to the extremities — won a Nobel Prize.
Lower Level Light Therapy
The light therapy component increases blood flow by using a cutting-edge technology known as Lower Level Light Therapy, or LLLT. The technology was discovered by NASA for treating wounds in space. LLLT was approved by the FDA in 2001 and is at the forefront of neuropathy treatments. LLT creates a process called angiogenesis. Angiogenesis means “new blood vessels.” The more LLLT a nerve gets, the more it repairs itself, just like a plant would by getting more water, more sunlight, and more nutrients.
The nerve stimulation component addresses the crucial need to re-educate the nerves back to normal function once we get new blood to the nerves and create new blood vessels. By using a device that’s used in large hospital chains across the country for neuropathy, we are able to repair the damaged nerves and start to make them durable once again.
Common mistakes neuropathy sufferers make are hoping that “maybe it will go away on its own” or “the medications will get me better.” Over time this head-in-the-sand mentality could cause you to reach a point of no return where the nerves are too far gone to regenerate. The worst mistake is to believe it when they’re told they have to live with neuropathy and face the inevitability of further degeneration, further pain, and eventual disability. Like most of the chronic health conditions that we suffer with, neuropathy is a treatable and reversible condition when you address the root cause and not mask the symptoms.
There is hope.