The photo on the left was taken the same day that James was admitted to the Hospital Burn Center.

My wife and I began supplementing our diets with gluconutrients in 1994. We were of baby boomer mentality, wanting to prevent and avoid disease and disability by using the highest quality supplements. We knew that even the best of today's foods cannot meet our bodies' needs. However, it wasn't until two years later that I realized and confirmed the true power of glyconutrition.

On October 16, 1996, two gallons of gasoline blew up in my face while I was working in our yard. I caught on fire and was blown several feet away onto a gravel driveway. Luckily, my wife, Diana, was nearby, and she jumped on top of me to help put out the fire.

We hurried into the house and Diana called 911. Meanwhile, we went into the bathroom and began cutting off skin that was hanging from me and proceeded to clean off all the dirt. I was especially badly burned from my elbows down to my fingertips. There were other burn areas all around my upper torso and around my head and neck. As I looked in the mirror, it appeared like my face had been blasted with a blowtorch, and I said to my wife, "It looks like the face you once called 'handsome' is history."

When the ambulance driver arrived, I wouldn't go with him until my wife and I finished cleaning the wounds and applying fresh Aloe Vera and a glyconutrient based gel. I remember him talking on his two-way radio to the hospital, saying, "No, they won't come with me yet. They're still putting this stuff on." I just wanted to get a strong head start at healing before I went to the hospital.

We finally arrived at the hospital and I spent about an hour in the burn center admissions area. I think the staff's first clue that I was not an ordinary patient came when I refused all antibiotics. They measured 29% of my body as badly burned, which included many napalm craters around my upper torso. They kept guaranteeing me that without antibiotics, I would get infected, and I continued to guarantee them that I wouldn't. I trusted my enhanced immune system.

The next morning, a doctor came into my room and told me I was going to need multiple skin grafts, and that I was going to be in the hospital for at least two weeks. I then responded as amicably as possible, "Well, maybe, maybe not." He was taken aback and questioned, "What do you mean, 'maybe or maybe not?'" I explained that I had decided to be my own doctor, and I would be in charge of what I did to myself. He would be my subcontractor, and I would hold him responsible only for what I allowed him to do to me.

I told the doctor that I would continue to take my glyconutritionals and eat healthy meals brought to me by my wife and do everything I could in order to heal, and possibly avoid some or all of the skin grafts. The doctor didn't seem very pleased with my plans. He told me I was going to need the skin grafts regardless, and then he promptly left the room.

So, my wife, Diana, brought me healthy food and special supplements and stayed by my side and prayed with me every day. She also brought me a cute stuffed Tiger as an inspirational mascot. She treated my wounds by mixing glyconutrient powder with a healing gel, and applying it to all my raw wounds. The nurses would gather around and watch this procedure, as they continued to look for "the red to spread" (infection). However, after a day or two, they were not seeing any infection. In fact, the nurses were now gathering around with curiosity, and cheering me on, because my skin and nerves were growing back at a surprisingly rapid rate.

I walked out of that burn unit in six days! I wasn't there for over two weeks as the doctor had uncomprisingly predicted. The doctor told me to come back in three weeks to be fitted for pressure garments for my arms, to hold down the "inevitable" scaring. Three weeks later there was no scarring and the doctor did not order the pressure garments. In fact, within four weeks people were telling me my face looked better than ever. Over the past few years, my skin has continually improved. The doctors told me that I would lack skin pigmentation in the burn areas, but I have continued to consume my glyconutritionals and use them on my skin. Today, my skin is firm and healthy in the burn areas, and I can even get a great tan! No one can even tell that I was ever burned! I know that my superior glyconutritional supplements and topical products were the indespensable key to healing, which prevented an otherwise devastating outcome. My wife says I am handsomer than ever!