--who are not necessarily gluten intolerant and/or diabetic or have impaired glucose tolerance, have noticed that going on a gluten free (or, in some cases, a reduced gluten) diet and cutting down on the sugars has helped to ease some of the symptoms.

It's probable that most of us should not eat so many simple carbs anyway, for lots of other health reasons, but it's likely that many of us with nerve damage are particularly sensitive to their determinental effects. And, obvously, diabetes and gluten intolerance are causes of peripheral neuropathy.

It may well be that the gut dysfunction that such sensitivity engenders also hurts us in absorbing other essential vitamins/minerals. Moreover, those of us trying to heal damaged nerves, or any other damaged tissue, indoubtedly need nutrients wellin excess of minimun daily requirements--at the very least, vitamins C, D, and the B's, along with essentail fatty acids and magnesium/calcium/potassium.

In the end, as Wings has noted, we need to create an internal environment that is most conducive to bodily regeneration, flooding it with that which is good for us and trying to avoid that which is not.