Numbness and Tingling in Your Feet? It's Not Your Nerves
In a Nutshell
Numbness and tingling in the feet (peripheral neuropathy) is primarily caused by high blood sugar depleting vitamin B1, which starves tiny blood vessels and nerves of energy—starting at the toes. The solution requires therapeutic doses of benfotiamine (150-600 mg, 3-4x daily), magnesium glycinate, B12, alpha lipoic acid, and switching to a low-carb/ketogenic diet to provide ketones as alternative nerve fuel. Without dietary changes to reduce sugar intake, benfotiamine alone cannot reverse the condition.
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If you have numbness or burning or tingling or prickling or some type of pain in the bottom of your feet or your toes, there's a powerful remedy available. Many people end up at the doctor's office with the doctor telling them there's nothing that can be done about this because nerves don't heal and they'll have to live with it, though medication is offered. Some doctors may suggest surgery. Medication doesn't get to the root cause.
When you have numbness and tingling in the feet, the typical name is peripheral neuropathy. Peripheral refers to something on the end of the nerves like the bottom of your feet or toes. Neuropathy means nerve and disease. The focus is on the most common type related to being diabetic or pre-diabetic. A download covers the protocol for other types of peripheral neuropathy.
If someone's blood sugar is too high and they're starting to have insulin problems, the demand for vitamin B1 goes very high. Diabetics, both type one and type two, usually have a severe deficiency of B1 because B1 is needed to handle sugar metabolism in the body. The tiny blood vessels around the nervous system do not get enough cellular energy, so the nerves start dying at the very end of the nerve first - the toes. This is why even a diabetic will notice symptoms in the toes first, then the bottom of the feet.
When there's damage to the tiny blood vessels, it creates a lack of oxygen to that tissue called hypoxia, which destroys the nervous system and anything in that area. Low B1 in the body creates a lowered amount of energy and a buildup of the waste product called lactic acid.
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