I Take No Prescription Medication for My Diabetes

I probably had diabetes for 10 years before I was diagnosed. Whenever I had my yearly check-ups, my fasting blood sugars were always within normal limits. Several years earlier, I told my doctor that it hurt when I clapped my hands. He said, “Well, don't clap.” After months passed, I noticed that my hands were hurting more than ever. My doctor sent me to a neurologist, who sent me to another specialist who diagnosed me with type 2 diabetes and diabetic neuropathy. The doctor told me four times that I would never improve, that I should avoid stress, keep moving, and try to control my diabetes. He said that there was no treatment for my neuropathy, and that possibly I would be in a wheelchair within one year. I went home very depressed.

I had been subscribing to Dr. Whitaker's Health & Healing for about six months. I had stacked the magazines by my chair, but hadn’t read very much. About three days after my diagnosis, one of the papers fell open at my feet to that said, “If you have diabetic neuropathy, this is what you should do.” It said that alpha lipoic acid would help the regeneration of nerves. I immediately went to the health food store, purchased it, and began taking it. Six weeks later, I began to drop things such as my keys, a water glass, etc., but two weeks after that this problem stopped. Also, the pain in my hands and feet stopped. (I was told later that nutritional supplements sometimes take about two months before they start showing a positive response.)

I returned to my doctor and he noted that coordination was normal in my right and left leg and ankle, and I was no longer dragging my left foot. Pinprick tests showed improvement in my hands and legs. The doctor was astonished. He said they had never had a neuropathy patient improve like I had. He wanted to know what I had been doing, and for twenty minutes we discussed alpha lipoic acid. I believe that without my regimen of alpha lipoic acid (I take 600 mg daily) I would be in a wheelchair or even dead. I continued to improve but was told they had nothing for me, and since I was doing so well, I could just return as needed.

I felt that since I had a major improvement in my life by reading Health & Healing, I should go to the Whitaker Wellness Institute in Newport Beach, CA, for other health benefits. My doctor there fined-tuned my vitamin and supplement program and recommended EECP, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, chelation, infrared light treatments, and a number of other supplements. Every one of these treatments has helped me. Although I take prescriptions for other health problems, I take no prescription medication for my diabetes, which I control with diet, exercise, and these supplements.

I believe God helped me by having that magazine fall open at my feet to the page about diabetic neuropathy and alpha lipoic acid, and I am so thankful for Dr. Whitaker and his Health & Healing newsletter. Without his magazine, I believe I would be dead or helpless.

— William Bellomy