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Eric Bakker, the naturopath. Thanks for coming back. Let's talk about some key ways on dealing
with an uncomfortable condition called jock itch, something that many men face, lots of guys. In my
years in the clinic, I saw many men as patients, all kinds of lines of work. Jock itch isn't just
the guy in the boiler suit. It's not the mechanic that always crawls under the car. It could also
be the executive or the CEO in charge of a billion dollar company. And it's exactly
one patient I had a billion dollar patient in charge of a huge company with massive jock itch.
The guy is a pain in the butt to be honest and he got rid of the jock itch,
but a difficult person to work with, quite needy and demanding like
some billionaires can be, I suppose. So what are some of the best solutions on
dealing with jock itch? How can you really get on top of this problem? Because it's painful,
it's embarrassing. It's awful. And many men have this problem every day. I often see comments
on our YouTube channel talking about how it's ending my life. It's ruining my life. And I had
one male patient on the phone in tears, crying like a little baby. There's a guy about in his
40s or 50s telling me that he couldn't live like this anymore. I don't think many people understand
how bad jock itch really can be. It can get to the point where you don't want to live anymore.
Some of the pictures that were sent to me were just disgusting, the extent of their jock itch,
but there's always a solution. But the problem is people often let conditions get so far out of hand
that they want to try and claw their health back when they're in a really, really, really chronic
state, because they'll try anything. So some of the best solutions
for jock itch are actually some of the easiest ones, but also they're some of the most difficult
to implement. So I want you to always remember this. If you've got a serious jock itch problem,
you're not going to turn the whole thing on a dime. You're not going to, within 48 hours, be all
symptom free. It doesn't work like that. Right? So the first thing you need to do is to calm
yourself down and understand it's a process you've got to go through that's going to take several
months, maybe even years if you've had jock for, I've seen some cases 10, 15 years duration.
So you need to shift the environment. So if it's a very chronic condition and you are a guy who's
a blue collar worker, you'll probably know what I mean by blue collar worker. I was a blue collar
worker, all my life blue. Blue collar's a guy with the shovel, the guy outside, the guy with
driving the truck or fixing the road up. The white collar is the guy sitting up there in an
office who thinks he's important because he's got a white shirt on and a computer in front of him.
But as I said, jock itch can affect anybody. So you need to change the environment.
If you've got jock itch, look at your current employ, look at where you're working.
In some cases, I've had to fire people. I've actually fired people. Would you believe it?
I was just like Trump, "You're fired. Get out of here, you're fired." So some people need firing
from their job before they clear up their jock itch. And that's happened on a few occasions
where the person had to wear a particular type of clothing. And I had that in one case of a guy who
was a spray painter for airplanes. I think it was some airplane spray painting person. It's serious
bad jock itch, all around the buttock area and around the penis area. All inflamed red burning.
And it was just a hot environment. He was basically in a hazmat suit
so many hour hours a day and sweating and in a very hot environment. And I said to him, "Man,
you just got to sack yourself. You got to just give yourself the job. Get out of this
job for a good 12 months." Now, he was a senior technician so he got his job back,
of course, but he cleared the jock itch up and he went back on his terms, on his conditions.
So he had so many days on, so many days off and we had him in different type of clothing.
I had him showering twice a day, not once a day. So let's go over some of the instructions I gave
this guy and the key ones were basically, well, he had to get out because it was a serious condition.
Maybe you can't do that, but you need to shift the environment, all right? So this meaning you need
to change your personal grooming behavior. Any guy with jock itch needs a shower twice a day minimum.
Three times is even better but twice. When you get up in the morning and before you retire at night,
that's a given. You have to have that showering regime. Even better, if you
can have a light shower three times per day. So I want you to get a tea tree oil soap.
And the name of the brand is called Thursday as in Friday, Thursday, Friday, Monday, whatever.
Thursday Plantation, plantation like a coconut plantation. That's how you spell it, Thursday
Plantation. That's the brand. Now, they bring out a nice yellow soap. It's a tea oil soap and
that's the one to use. So you go to your shower or your bathroom, you throw out all the other soap,
you get 10 cakes of that stuff and that's what you use until you've no longer got jock itch.
You don't use any other soap, you just use that one. Right? And of course, that's your soap.
It's not your partner's soap. So the showering is extremely important. And so is the drying.
Second thing is you need to cut the pubic area away so all around the male area. So trim it. I'm
not saying waxing and stuff like that. I'm just saying keep it really, really, really short so you
don't trap the heat around the leg area and all that. Hair's got to go, get it off. Shave it down.
Cotton underclothing or something that really absorbs moisture. So no poly, no blends with
polyester or anything. The best of course is wool or Merino, but it's bloody expensive. But I find
the Merino underclothing to be incredibly good, because it breathes so much. So you never feel hot
or cold when you wear Merino or woolen garments. You don't feel heat or you don't feel cool. You
just feel you, okay? So cotton or Merino. Now, every single day, you need to change
your clothing. Here's what you also do with serious jock itch is you go out and buy 30,
40 pairs of cotton underclothing. So let's say you're a size M or L or XL, whatever. Just go down
to the local store and get yourself at least 20 or 30 pair. And this will allow you to have ... when
you have your shower in the morning, okay, you put clean underclothing on. When you have a
shower in the night, you put clean underclothing on. So you see what I mean? You're disrupting,
disrupting, disrupting that whole area constantly with the soap.
So you also, in summertime, I'd like you to spend time in the ocean. So go swimming. So
if you can like the bit of sun today, you're lying out there and getting sun on the area,
just watch the neighbors. Don't take photos and put it on Facebook and stuff or
start calling law enforcement and say there's a weirdo next door. Okay? You got to be in ...
Today's a bit different. It's different when I was a kid. You could lie in the backyard with
no clothes on. You wouldn't get on Snapchat within five minutes. Today, now, you can't
do anything without within 10 minutes 50 people have got a picture of you with nothing on, so
watch out. But you know what I mean? Sunshine, salt water, clean underclothing, lack of pubic
hair, constant disrupting the environment is going to go a long way and get the condition
smaller and smaller and smaller. So that's the environment. That's, okay, the lifestyle.
But then there's also what goes in here is the diet and that needs to change.
So you need to look long and hard in what you got in your glass in front of you. Is it beer?
If it's beer, well man, that's bad news because you're going to really have to nail this alcohol
issue. So the worst cases of jock itch I've often seen are in guys who drink a lot of booze. So
needless to say, you got to look at the glass and think, "Do I like my Budweiser more than my butt
itch or what am I going to do here?" Itchy butt especially with jock itch is a sign of a major
yeast issue going on internally in the rectal area. And if you've got that itchy butt plus all
around the scrotal area, all itchy and rashes down the leg, you seriously need to curtail the alcohol
addiction. Otherwise, you're forever more going to be
jumping up and down because you've got pain there. When you have a shower, you get water on the
cracks and it burns. Well, I've had jock itch. I know what it's like. It's a demon. It's a demon.
It's terrible. It ruins your intimacy. You feel embarrassed all the time. You can't scratch when
you're in public, and there's always pain and it's just misery. So you need to make that call.
Are you going to keep drinking or are you going to finally get rid of the jock itch? It's your call.
Second. Once you've looked at the alcohol, you've got to look at the food.
What am I drawn to? Do I love junk? Am I working in a job that's stressful? Am I eating
inappropriately? Am I eating too many times a day too many snack foods? Am I eating candy? Am I
eating sugar? Am I feeding a yeast problem here? Okay? You could be feeding a use problem.
It needs to change. You need to disrupt the yeast cycle by stopping these foods,
by slowing down their intake. I never ever encourage people overnight to stop.
That's called cold turkey. Okay? We don't want cold turkey. We want warm turkey.
Meaning you slowly, slowly cut these foods out of your diet. You slowly disassociate with these guys
that are sitting down drinking beer all afternoon watching football. You just can't keep doing that.
If you want to change the condition, you have to change your lifestyle and your diet. And if you
do it sufficiently long enough, like most of my patients, you'll nail this condition. It'll be
gone. There's no magic secret, tricks or silver bullets to jock itch. It's got to come from you.
And that's the hard part. Don't go to other people. Look inside
yourself and make those changes. And not only will a jock itch go away, I guarantee you, your gut
problems will go away because nearly every patient I've seen with jock itch has some gut problem.
Bloating, burping, cravings, itching. They'll have some type of issue. Weight problem.
Can't gain weight. Can't lose weight. Can't sleep properly. Most people with jock itch have sleeping
problems, because they're lying there in bed, scratching and itching all night.
What kind of a tormented life is that to lead? All you've got to do
is discipline or discipline. I think you know what I mean. Check out my other videos in jock itch,
because you can nail this thing, but it's got to come from you. Thanks for tuning in.
It's Eric Bakker, again, the naturopath. I hope you enjoyed that video. Remember go to
yeastinfection.org/goodies if you want to download my free resources I've created just for people
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