Hey guys I'm Dr. Jason Barker with the Natural Athlete's Clinic and today I want
to teach you how you can take care of Athlete's foot quickly and effectively.OK
so there are no shortage of topical medicines, internal medicines and natural
medicines that you can use to heal athlete's foot but it takes a long
time to heal this stuff up right?! Well the reason that it takes forever is because we
are not using the right approach. Now before I get into that, what is athlete's
foot? Quite simply it's a fungal infection that's living in the outer layers of your
skin and of course if you have something called tinea pedis, this is the technical
term for athletes foot and can also get into your toenails - same thing, it's just that
athlete's foot fungus living in the nails there. So this is a fungal infection. It's something
that shouldn't be there of course. So why does it take so long to heal this stuff? It's because
we're not treating the inside of our body. So let me try and analogy for you. So if you
have a bunch of garbage in your house and you haven't taken it out for a while and it
gets a little warm outside, guess what happens - all the flys and all the other
gross little bugs start getting attracted to it. So what you don't do is spray it with
some sort of pesticide hoping that all the bugs will go away right? No, you take the
trash out. You're treating the actual cause of the problem. You get rid of the trash
and the bugs go away. So we need to do the same thing with our body and what
I'm referring to is treating the terrain of our body. So that's more of an old fashion
word, what we're calling it these days is the micro biome. So our micro biome just
refers to the environment of healthy bacteriathat we have living inside of us and outside
of us. So you have lots and lots of good bacteria all over the outside of your body that helps
keep things like fungus and other bacterial infections away. Same thing with the inside
of our body, we maintain a proper balance of healthy bacteria in us to so that we don't get
infections from the food we eat. So by taking care of the terrain of our body by using a probiotic
and of course by changing our diet, we can expedite or rapidly increase how fast we
can take care of that fungal infection. So internally like I just mentioned, taking a
good probiotic. We love the HLC high potency probiotic because it's a broad
spectrum very good probiotic. And then of course we need to look at diet. So if
you're eating a lot of foods that are sugary in nature, guess what? That's just
like adding gasoline to a fire. OK fungus and yeast which is actually a cousin of
fungus love sugar. So if you feed your body any kind of sugar, you're just going
to be feeding that athlete's foot fungus and that's why the stuff goes on and on
and on forever. You're trying to teat it topically but it's getting well fed from the inside.
So getting rid of all the simple carbohydrates in your diet - So of course
you're straight up sugars but also flowers, any food made out of white
flower, rice or pasta, bread, bagels, cookies, crackers. We talk about this stuff
all the time. Get all the simple carbs out of your diet even things like root veggies
like potatoes, sweet potatoes, lots of carrots, those are pretty
high in simple carbs too and that can contribute to that overall burn of sugar in
your body. So of course lots of lean meats lots of green leafy's, nuts, seeds
beans, foods like that ok. Whole grains are probably ok, complex
carbohydrates are ok but nothing that turns into sugar.
Remember when you eat that processed food, it's very rapidly digested, it turns into sugar in your body.
Ok so I've mentioned a probiotic, we also love Chronic Immune. This is a Mountain
Peaks immune stimulating formula. So it's loaded with all kinds of natural
medicines that excite your immune system. So it's going to turn on
the T-lymphocytes and activate the B-lymphocytes and those are the two major
arms of your immune system. So chronic immune has six different
immunostimulitory mushrooms in there. So I things like Maitake, Shiitake,
Cordyceps, Turkey tail, there's a couple others in there, a
compound known as dimethylglycine, we have astragalus, we have Beta-glucan in
there. So all of the great natural medicines that actually fire up that
immune system. So this is just like getting an army excited to go out to fight
a battle - that's what chronic immune does and so by increasing
that immune surveillance as we call it, your immune system is going to be more
ready to go and find things like fungus living on your feet. So that's
a natural way to get your immune system going to help get rid of that foot fungus.
The last thing you need to be aware is of course just regular old hygiene - a lot of us a shower in
the shower, all the stuff runs down, we don't really pay attention to the feet.
So you've got to actually wash in between your toes. Make sure you're getting all
that junk out of there. And of course when you get out of the shower you've go to dry
your feet. Now you need to use a clean fresh towel every day because you can
reinoculate yourself if you use that same towel every day with that fungus and a
good tip is using a blow dryer to really clean the inside or rather dry off your feet
really well because remember fungus's love damp warm places. And then
one thing that I had success with in the clinical treating athlete's foot topically is a special
type of probiotic yeast called Saccharomyces Boulardii. And what I will do is get a powder version
of that. I have people sprinkle it on the areas affected by the athlete's foot, put a
sock on and go about your day. Now these other two things you can use are apple cider vinegar and essential
oil's like oregano oil, lavender oil and of course Teatree oil. Now you wanna be careful
using those ones because if your skin is cracked and broken from that athlete's
foot, it's going to hurt, so you can dilute that apple cider vinegar - like one part
apple cider vinegar to three or four parts water. The essential oils you can put in a
little bit of coconut oil and rub that on your feet too. Like I said I've said I had
success in the clinic using those to take care of athlete's foot. So I hope this video
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