Glenn Beck revealed that he has suffered from a very serious kind of brain illness, or neuropathy, for the past five years, but has now been given a “clean bill of health.”

Glenn Beck Reveals Serious Health Problems

Beck, 50, revealed his serious health struggles on a special edition of his online show, The Glenn Beck Program, for his company, The Blaze, Monday night. First, Beck spoke directly to his audience and announced that he began noticing health problems five years ago, when he was still working for Fox News.

Beck described experiencing intense pains with no apparent reason, being unable to sleep for more than a few hours a night, and, finally, experiencing troubling memory loss.

“If we had met before, I couldn’t tell you if it was a month ago, a year ago, when we were in high school – I didn’t remember…And I then began to lose names and faces, and over time entire conversations would go away…This was 4 years ago,” Beck revealed.

Glenn Beck Suffered Seizures, Extreme Pain

Beck opened up about his deteriorating health, claiming that doctors were unable to diagnose him even as his symptoms worsened to include seizures, changes in eyesight and vocal cord paralysis. “It has baffled some of the best doctors in the world. It has frightened me and my family, as we didn’t know what was happening,” Beck said.

Beck, who was joined in the broadcast by his wife, Tania Beck, revealed he was told he only had 5 to 10 years to live, and added that his illness was part of the reason why he abandoned his job at Fox News, moved from New York to Dallas and began scalling back his involvement with The Blaze.

There was a time, Beck said, that he considered taking the doctors’ advice, quitting his job and moving away to spend his remaining years with his family.

“My pivot point came one night…we were all in the kitchen, the family was all there, and I had an attack…. And my whole family was around me, and my sweet wife was on the floor with me, and I saw the faces of my children. And the idea that I would someday not remember them, nor would I remember my soon-to-be born grandchild, hit me like a bag of bricks. And we looked at each other, and I thought, ‘What are we doing?’” Beck recalled.

Glenn Beck Says He Has Recovered

It was his wife, Tania, who convinced him to keep working. In the segment, Beck thanked his wife for her support and also thanked his close friends who helped he and his wife navigate his illness and keep his health issues from the public.

At the end of the program, Beck detailed his “miracle” recovery thanks to the Carrick Brain Centers and his faith in God. “My doctors told me that it was my faith in God that was powering me through all this, that I shouldn’t be standing,” Beck said.

At the Carrick Brain Center, Beck said he was diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder, adrenal fatigue, and Addison’s disease, among other health issues. Beck proclaimed that after less than one year of treatment at the Center, he has almost completely recovered.

“After months of treatment and completely changing the way I eat, sleep, work and live, along with ongoing hormone treatment and intensive physical therapy, I have reversed the process. Some of the physical scars will be with me for the rest of my life…but my brain is back online in a big way,” Beck said.

Article by Olivia Truffaut-Wong

Olivia Truffaut-Wong was born and raised in Berkeley, California, where she developed her love of all things entertainment. After moving to New York City to earn her degree in Film Studies, she stayed on the East Coast to follow her passion and become an entertainment writer. She lives on a diet of television, movies and food.