The Burning You Feel in Your Feet is NOT a Neurological Problem | Dr. Eric Berg DC

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1:00The burning you feel in your feet is not a nerve problem. But I know you feel tingling, burning and numbness in your feet, almost like you're walking on fire. And you were told that you had a nerve problem that must be treated with a medication. But what you're going to find out in this presentation is something completely different than what you've ever heard before. One thing that they're always not going to talk about is the root cause of this. Your nerves didn't just decide to go bad. Stop working and fail. This is not a random thing at all. There is an underlying cause to this. And if you have burning on your feet, you're going to be very glad you're watching this video right now. So we're talking about burning in your feet. We're talking about a condition called neuropathy. Usually classified as a disease of the nerves. But what's never explained is how you get there in the first place. What is actually causing this burning in your feet? And just so you know, that problem is literally brewing in the oven for 20 to 30 years before you even feel anything in your feet at all.

2:01The real problem is not in the nerve. It's the blood vessels supplying the nerve because the blood vessels supply the fuel, the oxygen, and the nutrients. And when the nerve doesn't get oxygen or fuel or nutrients, it starts to become very irritated. It can be burning or itching or tingling at the root of this problem is a blood sugar problem. It's yours of high blood glucose that then destroys the circulation. And the reason why it shows up in your feet first is that is the longest nerve in the body. So it's actually showing up in the most peripheral part of your body first. And what's really kind of a counterintuitive about this is we have a starvation of fuel at the nerve level yet we have a massive abundance of fuel in your blood. So the body is bathed with sugar but it can't get access to that glucose. And that is called insulin resistance. The reason why that's so important to talk about

3:01is when we get into how to correct that, you must align the treatment towards that and not focus on the long-term effects and just the management of these downstream symptoms. If we look deeper into the nerve, there's something really interesting. You have a lot of these mitochondria in the nervous system. And the mitochondria is like the engine that takes the fuel and allows the nerve to work. And what's really happening, and I'm gonna keep this really, really simple, is if you have access to the mitochondria, you get about 32 units of energy currency per glucose molecule. And so as a survival mechanism, the body no longer uses this biochemical pathway in the mitochondria. It uses another plan B pathway outside the mitochondria called glycolysis, an ancient pathway to use energy. The problem with this is it only makes two units of this energy, this ATP.

4:02But not only that, there's a lot of other toxic byproducts that this system gives. It's kind of like a dirty engine that's getting off a lot of extra exhaust, lactic acid, toxicity, other byproducts. And that is what's causing all the irritation to the nerve because these nerves are slowly dying because the circulation is not getting to the nerves. And so they eventually remove the toes and then the foot because the person gets something called gangrene, there's one nutrient, a natural nutrient, that you could take to switch from this plan B back to the mitochondria. And what is this nutrient? Vitamin B1, Vitamin because high blood glucose sucks out B1 from the tissues. So with people that have symptoms of neuropathy or burning in the feet, they're nearly always deficient in B1. And it's such an amazing... This episode is brought to you by Peloton.

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6:06called benfotamine. Benfotamine is a fat-syable vitamin B1 that goes right through that nerve and penetrates and it starts to fix this right through and here. So benfotamine, if that's iable B1, will allow this nerve to start getting fuel. Number two, it starts to decrease the byproducts, the excessive lactic acid. And it starts to get rid of other complications of diabetes, not just in the nerves and the feet, but in the eyes, in the kidneys, in the arteries, and even in your brain. And this whole mechanism also explains why the burning of the feet is worse sometimes at night because blood sugar is normally worse at night, going through at least three cycles of up and down. That's why people feel like their feet are on fire. And I think one of the most important things to learn about this condition is just about medicine in general, the system of medicine.

7:07All they're focusing on is managing the symptoms, the long-term effects that are created from root causes, but they never look earlier into the root cause. That's not part of medicine. Medicine's about diagnosing something they can find. So they're gonna do screenings. They're gonna wait until your blood pressure starts to become high. They're gonna wait for this first symptom of Alzheimer's or diabetes and then they're gonna diagnose and treat. And when you go to the doctor, if you don't have those symptoms, you're considered to be healthy. And unfortunately, the elephant in the room is that these conditions take 20 to 30 years to develop. So unfortunately, modern medicine doesn't get training on root causes. They don't get training on lifestyle changes, on diet, on nutrition, only on clinical medicine, which relates to visible symptoms that occur usually late stage. Now, the problem that I have is the mode of treatment

8:10is usually drugs. Like in this situation, it's gonna be gabapentin, which really doesn't work that much more than a placebo. And it gives you side effects. And it doesn't even touch this problem, this problem, this problem, this problem. All this doing, it's decreasing the sensation of your pain because now you're managing that symptom. You're not correcting anything that's related to the root cause. If we had a fire in the building, we could cut the fire alarm, or we could actually find where the fire is and put that out. Let me go through exactly what I would recommend you to do. Number one, spin photamine. Whatever it says to take in the bottle, I would take that times four and spread it out through the day. Keep this fat-soluble-be vitamin in your body to saturate the nervous system so you can heal as quickly as possible. Number two, I highly recommend you adjust the dietary sugar and the hidden sugar starch in your diet. You must keep your carbs below 30 grams per day.

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