Avoiding Amputation from Diabetes

Since the age of sixty-five, I have had diabetes that resulted in four different surgeries to remove arteries from my left leg to replace damaged arteries in my right leg. In 2004, my vascular surgeon informed me that he might have to amputate my leg above the knee. My foot had sores that would not heal and the pain had become unbearable.

My two daughters, Nancy and Kara, had been to Hippocrates in 2002. Kara had a prolapsed colon and was scheduled for surgery, but after doing the Hippocrates Program she was able to cancel that surgery. My daughters arranged for me to do the program, and Nancy came along to assist me.

I arrived at Hippocrates in a wheelchair. They placed me on a raw food diet of fresh green juices, wheatgrass juice, and plenty of sprouts and salads. Within one day of being there, I saw the color of my leg and foot begin to change. It had been a reddish blue-black, and during the program it went back to 80 percent of its normal color. The swelling also disappeared, as did most of the pain.

By the second week, I was pushing my wheelchair around for exercise. I also found that I did not need to take my diabetes medicine, as my blood sugar level had stabilized. I am now eighty-one years old and feel I can lead a normal life. I know that the quality of my life has greatly improved.

—Alice Brown, Sevierville, Tennessee