My name's Richard. I'm 80 years old and I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and hypertension about forty years ago. I started having numbness in my toes and genital area about twenty years ago. In the last five years, I started developing retinopathy. I decided to get as healthy ass possible. I changed my eating lifestyle, lost 114 pounds, and started exercising. I've been doing this for eight years, and my health has rebounded to a surprising degree. The neuropathy in my toes and genitals is receding, and the retinopathy has just recently started to have longer periods without that spot in my right eye that was blurry. I attribute all these changes to better health. I have the notion that the root mechanism behind the neuropathy, microangiopathy, can be made to recede and possibly reversed. I think aerobic exercise helps, but I'm looking for other ways besides diet and exercise. I read a week ago that when people have an MCI, a process called efferocytosis produces two microphages, one of which produces a protein that heals the endothelium. Since the veins and capillaries also have endothelial tissue, I think there might be a way to induce an effercytotic state which would help heal the damage done by diabetes and hypertension. Does anyone else have any info or experience with reversing microangiopathy?