If you’ve been told you have peripheral neuropathy, you probably left the doctor’s office with more questions than answers. Why do your feet burn at night? Why do they tingle, go numb, or send electric shocks up your legs for no reason? And why does everyone repeat the same thing: that the nerve damage is permanent and all you can do is manage the pain?

For most people it starts in the toes and slowly climbs. First a little tingling. Then the burning that wakes you at 3 AM. Then the numbness, like walking on cotton or on broken glass, until one day you miss a step because you can’t feel the ground under your shoes. The pills help for a while, then stop. The creams last an hour. The B vitamins don’t seem to change a thing.

What many people are never told is what may actually be happening inside those nerves. Each nerve in your feet is wrapped in a protective coating called myelin, like the insulation around an electrical wire. Some researchers now believe an enzyme called MMP-13 may slowly wear that coating away, especially when everyday toxins like the pesticide glyphosate and BPA from plastics keep your body from using the B vitamins your nerves depend on. Strip the insulation off a wire and it sparks. That’s the burning, the tingling and the shocks.

One of the researchers looking at this is a Nobel Prize-winning cell biologist who watched his own wife struggle with neuropathy. His search led him to Okinawa, the Japanese islands where nerve problems like these are remarkably rare, and to a simple 2-ingredient Japanese morning ritual built around a local spice. It’s something you can prepare at home, alongside your current care.

In this short presentation, he walks through what peripheral neuropathy may really be doing to your nerves, why so many treatments only cover up the pain, and how the morning ritual is made. Click here or tap the button above or below to watch the free video now.