Feet Gives You WARNING Signs of Underlying Diseases

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re going to discuss the connection between your feet and health. The foot receives oxygen and nutrition from the heart through tiny capillaries. The following feet symptoms are also potential signs of diseases.

1. Peripheral neuropathy

This shows up as numbness or burning in the feet due to low vitamin B1 (thiamine). Benfotiamine, a fat-soluble form of vitamin B1, may help.

2. Fingers or toes turn blue

This can be related to an overactive sympathetic nervous system. This is often treated medically with calcium channel blockers. Magnesium is a natural calcium channel blocker and the primary regulator of calcium inside the cells. Magnesium glycinate is the most absorbable form of magnesium.

3. Foot cramps

Foot cramps and charlie horses in the calves are among the earliest signs of magnesium deficiency. Try taking 400 to 800 mg of magnesium glycinate for several weeks to alleviate foot cramps.

4. Swollen feet

Swelling of feet typically involves diabetes and excess sugar in the blood, which causes sodium and water retention. The solution is to remove sugar from the diet.

5. Discoloration of lower legs and feet

This is often caused by a circulation problem. Deep vein thrombosis is a condition where you develop clots in the veins of the lower legs. This can cause fluid retention and discoloration of the lower legs and feet.

6. Big toe pain

Pain in the big toe is usually a symptom of gout caused by too much uric acid. Decreasing oxalates in the diet can sometimes solve this problem. Magnesium can also help decrease oxalates.

Ulcers on the foot can be caused by diabetes. Benfotiamine and a low-carb diet can help mitigate a diabetic or high blood sugar problem.

Fungus or jaundice can cause discoloration around the nail bed. Splitting or curving toenails indicate nutritional deficiencies.

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0:00.0	Your feet are a diagnostic window into your health problems. In other words, this right here will tell you
0:06.7	a lot about early signs of many different problems. At the end of this video, you're going to have
0:12.2	the ability to understand a lot about what's going on inside your body just by looking at your foot
0:18.3	or someone else's foot. Right here, we have the heart and we have the foot.
0:22.0	And this little connection between the heart and the foot is your blood vessels. You have the most
0:28.1	oxygen starting at the heart and you have the least oxygen starting in your foot. The foot
0:34.6	is going to receive oxygen and nutrition through tiny little capillaries.
0:38.4	If someone has sugar in their blood, as in diabetes, it's going to show up in your foot first
0:43.8	as the earliest sign. I'm going to go through a series of indicators that will tell you what's
0:49.1	going on in the rest of the body. First topic I want to cover is something called peripheral neuropathy. You might start
0:55.4	with numbness or even like burning and then it can go into some weird sensations. It just feels
1:02.6	abnormal. That's because the sensory nerves are breaking down because of mainly one
1:08.8	missing vitamin called vitamin B1, thymine. There's not enough thymine in that nerve
1:14.9	to allow the nerve to work. That nerve is dependent on B1. You need a very special type of B vitamin
1:21.5	that has been changed to a fat-siable version. And the name of that is called Benphotamine. I'll put in the description of
1:29.6	how to spell it. There's not enough thymine in that nerve to allow the nerve to work. And there's a
1:35.0	couple things that will deplete B1 from the nerve. Sugar destroys nerves. If you drink a lot of
1:41.7	alcohol, it destroys your liver. Sugar and alcohol deplete be one,
1:46.2	and you want to put that back. Benphotamine is what you need. Whatever it recommends on the dosage
1:50.9	on the back of the bottle times four, because you want to take more to really penetrate to fix
1:57.8	this problem right here. Another diagnostic indicator or a window to look inside your body is to
2:04.1	notice if your toes get blue. It could be the fingertips too. It has to do with a part of the
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