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By Dr. Greg Fors, DC Board-certified Neurologist The Silent Epidemic of Peripheral Neuropathy: More than 40 million Americans now suffer with some form of peripheral neuropathy. The cause in nearly 70% of these cases is either pre-diabetes or fullblown diabetes. Are you experiencing any numbness, prickling or tingling in the toes or fingers? Are you sometimes kept up at night by restless legs? Then you may be developing peripheral neuropathy. Your nerves are a very precious thing to waste. If you’re destroying the nerves in your hands and feet, very likely you are also damaging them in your brain!

What Is Peripheral Neuropathy: It means that you have sick and damaged nerves in your feet and/or hands. Generally, the symptoms of numbness, prickling or tingling in the toes or fingers begins as a mild problem. You may only become aware of this nerve damage after it is well established.

Reversing Neuropathy: With a, thorough neurological exam, a careful doctor can find evidence of peripheral neuropathy even before you are aware of the symptoms. This neurological exam followed up by proper laboratory tests can identify the underlying metabolic causes of your neuropathy. Armed with this knowledge, a doctor trained in Functional Medicine can start the process of reversing your neuropathy naturally with diet, nutraceuticals, acupuncture and various therapies.

Diabetes Is the Most Common Cause: This neuropathy develops over time from elevated blood sugars and insulin causing inflammation, reduced blood flow, decreased oxygen levels and nutritional deficiencies in the peripheral nerves. However, many individuals not yet diagnosed with diabetes are in fact developing early neuropathy from metabolic syndrome with its insulin resistance, elevated blood sugars and nutritional deficiencies.

Prediabetes and Neuropathy: New research now shows that you do not have to wait to be diabetic to get diabetic neuropathy! Research has now established that the risk to neuropathy correlates with your blood sugar levels after eating, not your fasting glucose. If you are relying on your yearly physical of a fasting blood glucose you may be being led astray.

Even with normal fasting blood glucose, it is quite common to have undetected glucose and insulin spikes after eating - high enough to damage nerve tissue. As soon as your post meal blood sugar goes over 140 mg/dl your risk for neuropathy starts to rise - even if you are not diabetic. If this happens often enough, you will eventually damage your nerves and begin to have symptoms.

Because prediabetes has already damaged the nerves in nearly half of those newly

diagnosed with diabetes, it is vital for anyone over the age of 35 to be properly tested for prediabetes and early signs of nerve damage. I can’t emphasize enough, if you think you may have prediabetes, or have been diagnosed with diabetes, you need to see a doctor who will look carefully for the early signs of peripheral neuropathy.

The Signs of Prediabetes: One of the most common signs of pre-diabetes is easy weight gain and difficult weight loss because of the elevated levels of insulin in prediabetes. Insulin has one primary command, “you shall store fat.”

With this, it seems that no matter what you eat you gain weight.

Along with this is the very common symptom of fatigue.

Many individuals are confused because their thyroid checks out normal, but they’re gaining weight and are always fatigued with brain fog. This is a dead giveaway that you probably have prediabetes.

There are also signs such as slow wound healing, vision changes and even patches of darkened skin.

Then there is the odd numbness and tingling in the toes or fingers in prediabetes, potentially peripheral neuropathy.

To catch this and properly treat it without drugs, you need a knowledgeable doctor to test your HA1c, insulin levels and a one hour post meal glucose level.

What Won’t Fix This: The pharmaceutical industry would have you believe that controlling your blood sugar with drugs or insulin will protect you from organ and nerve damage and early death. And, that type II diabetes is not reversible. Don’t you believe it! A new study published by Mayo Researchers found that the use of drugs to control your blood glucose levels showed no significant benefit in reducing the risk of dialysis, kidney transplant, renal death, blindness, or neuropathy.

Act Now and Save Your Brain: If you know you are diabetic or prediabetic or even starting to notice some of the early signs of prediabetes, you need to act now before it’s too late. Remember, if you’re destroying the nerves in your hands and feet, likely you are damaging them in your brain. An early sign of this is brain fog and mood and memory issues.

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Eventually, peripheral neuropathy will lead to greater disability, that of muscle weakness, loss of balance and coordination. An individualized personal lifestyle medicine approach is vital in healing peripheral neuropathy.

Want to know more now, join me, Dr. Greg Fors, at one of my FREE “Healing Neuropathy” health workshops on Wednesday, March 29 and Monday, April 10, 7 PM or Thursday, April 6 at 12 noon at the Pain and Brain Healing Center.

For directions and to reserve your space call my clinic at 763-862-7100. You can also schedule a free consultation with me.

Dr. Greg Fors, D.C. is a Board-certified Neurologist (IBCN), certified in Applied Herbal Sciences (NWHSU) and acupuncture. As the clinic director of the Pain and Brain Healing Center in Blaine, Minnesota, he specializes in a functional medicine approach to neuropathy, diabetes, fibromyalgia, fatigue, depression, insomnia and autism.

If you have any questions or comments regarding this article, you can contact Dr. Fors at 763-862-7100. He is a sought after international lecturer for various post graduate departments and state associations.

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► On March 19, 1916, eight Curtiss “Jenny” planes of the First Aero Squadron take off from Columbus, New Mexico, in the first combat air mission in U.S. history. The squadron flew in support of U.S. troops who invaded Mexico to capture Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.

► On March 21, 1871, journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his search through Africa for missing British explorer Dr. David Livingstone, who had been gone for six years. Reaching Lake Tanganyika, Stanley spotted a white man in the crowd and famously asked, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”

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► On March 22, 1947, in response to fears about communism in the United States, President Harry Truman issues an executive decree establishing a sweeping loyalty investigation of federal employees. Loyalty boards were to be set up in every department and agency of the federal government.

► On March 20, 1995, several packages of deadly sarin gas are set off by the Aum Shinrikyo cult in the Tokyo subway system, killing 12 people and injuring over 5,000. Sarin originally was developed in 1938 in Germany as a pesticide.

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Over 100,000 people had to be evacuated in the biggest evacuation in Canada’s history at the time. Duff Roblin was Manitoba’s Premier at the time and he decided the city should never again be subjected to such a flood.

• His solution was to dig a 29mile long (47 km) ditch around the city, designed to divert excess water from the Red River in times of flood. The project cost $63 million Canadian dollars, equivalent to approximately $360 million today, and took 7 years to complete. It was the second largest earth-moving construction project in history, next to the building of the Panama Canal.

• Duff Roblin’s opponents and constituents ridiculed the project, dubbing it “Duff’s Ditch” and predicting it would never be useful. No sooner had it been completed than it was put into use, saving the city from flooding in 1968.

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A RESTLESS PLANET • Alfred Wegener was a German scientist born in 1880. His research showed that the rock strata and the fossil record on one edge of a continent matched the rock strata and fossil record on the opposing edge of another continent separated by thousands of miles of ocean. He noticed that the continents seemed to fit together like a jigsaw puzzle: the eastern edge of South America fit into the gap of the western edge of Africa; the coasts of Australia and India matched the coast of Antartctica on so on.

• In 1912 he presented his hypothesis that all the continents had once been joined together in a single landmass that had drifted apart. He called the landmass “Urkontinent” which is German for “primal continent,” and coined the term “continental drift.”

• Geologists all over the world ridiculed him. How could something as large as a continent move? What would cause the movement? Wegener hypothesized that the centrifugal force of the Earth’s rotation caused it, or astronomical influences, or a rift under the ocean that was spreading apart.

His theories were almost universally rejected. He died on a polar expedition in 1930 without gaining recognition for this discovery.

• By the 1950s, evidence in favor of continental drift was beginning to accumulate. When sonar technology advanced to the point where the sea floor could be mapped, a big expanding rift was discovered in the Pacific. By the 1960s, the theory of plate tectonics was well developed, “Urkontinent“ was re-named Pangea, and Wegener was vindicated long after his death.

• Today, the Alfred Wegener Medal is awarded by the Alfred Wegener Institute to researchers in the field of geoscience each year. With advances in GPS technology, the movement of the

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GET THE LEAD OUT • Clair Patterson spent many years working as a chemist for the California Institute of Technology. He focused on working with lead, a heavy metal that is toxic when inhaled or ingested.

• When uranium decays, it turns into lead. The half-life of uranium is over 4 billion years, so by measuring the decay of uranium/lead, scientist can estimate the age of minerals in the same sort of way carbon dating is used to measure the age of organic material. In 1956, Patterson was the first person to use uranium-lead dating to estimate the age of the Earth at 4.55 billion years, a figure that is still considered accurate.

• The focus of Patterson’s career was tracking the geo-chemical evolution of the Earth. While measuring the chemicals in ice core samples taken from Greenland, he noted an alarming increase in the amount of lead that coincided with the date in the 1920s that gasoline companies began adding lead to gas in order to stop engines from knocking. When he compared the lead content of skeletons of people buried in the 1600s (none) to the amount of lead in the skeletons of people who had died recently (high), he became alarmed. He proved that after lead was added to gasoline, the amount of lead being deposited in the environment was 80 times greater than it had been previously.

• In 1965, Patterson began a concerted effort to have lead removed from gasoline. Gasoline companies fought back hard. He was ridiculed and his research was disparaged. But his efforts paid off: lead was phased out of American gas products by 1986.

• Patterson then led the charge to have lead removed from tin cans, and it was subsequently also removed from paint.

• By the time Patterson died in 1995, the level of lead in the blood of Americans had dropped by 80%.

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What’s as soft as a lamb’s ear? It’s this fuzzy member of the mint family!

• It’s a no-brainer as to how this hardy perennial herb received its name.

Its thick wooly leaves feel like velvet!

Although its origins are in Turkey, Armenia, and Iran, it’s now found in nearly every country in the world. Its furry leaves are densely covered with silvery white leaves that provide a striking contrast to the bright and pastel colors of other flowers in the garden.

Gardeners value this ornamental plant for its ability to spread as a border or ground cover. Although its main attraction is not its flowers, the plant does produce light purple flowers on tall 12” to 18” (30.5 to 45.7 cm) spikes during the summer season. It’s a favorite in children’s gardens, as the little tots can’t resist

yanking off a fuzzy silvery leaf to wrap around their fingers.

• The lamb’s ear genus name Stachys comes from the Greek language, meaning “an ear of grain,” a reference to the shape of its flower spikes. There are about 300 different members of this genus around the world, with the most well-known the byzantine, indicating the plant’s origins in what was once part of the Byzantine Empire. Some herbalists call it woundwort, lousewort, wooly hedgenettle, or wooly betony.

• The plant does best in full sun and doesn’t mind poor soil, which explains why it grows abundantly on the rocky cliffs of western Asia and Turkey. It survives heat, drought, and severe frost.

• Gardeners should take care that the soil is well-drained, and be careful not to over-water, as the plant’s leaves will become brown and limp and will rot if they get too wet. Planting them near a lawn is a poor choice, as is cultivating lamb’s ears in a humid climate.

• This herb has long been reputed as having medicinal qualities. Early

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pioneers packed it in their wagons for the long journey across the country, and today it is often found growing wild in locations where once stood log cabins. It was used to reduce the swelling of injuries and inflamed muscles by squeezing the juice from the leaves and rubbing the affected area. Lamb’s ears were frequently wrapped around minor scrapes and scratches to staunch the bleeding, contributing to its nickname of woundwort. Some of the herb’s chemical compounds have proven effective as an antibacterial agent. It’s been shown to reduce the swelling and discomfort of an insect sting or bite when the leaves are crushed and rubbed on the site.

• In Brazil, lamb’s ears are known as lambari, and the leaves and flowers are frequently eaten, with the leaves served fried in batter.

Leaves that are harvested just before the flowers appear are also dried, then steeped in boiling water for a medicinal tea. It’s believed that brewed leaves can help with throat

and gum infections, cold, and diarrhea.

Many simmer the leaves and when cooled, use the mixture as an eyewash for conjunctivitis (pinkeye) and styes.

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The third man married a girl from Ireland. He ordered her to keep the house clean, dishes washed, lawn mowed, laundry washed, and hot meals on the table for every meal. He said the first day he didn't see anything, the second day he didn't see anything but by the third day, some of the swelling had gone down and he could see a little out of his left eye, and his arm was healed enough that he could fix himself a sandwich and load the dishwasher. He still has some difficulty when he pees......;)

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