The Fastest Way to Get Rid of Toenail Fungus

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 24 November 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Treating a fungal infection with medication can cause several side effects, including liver damage! Toenail fungus is often blamed on sweat and can cause other skin infections such as jock itch, athlete’s foot, beard infections, and even scalp infections.

When attempting to treat a fungal infection topically, the cream will not penetrate deep enough into the nail to kill the toenail fungus.

Toenail fungus can evade your immune system through several mechanisms, including growing slowly, suppressing T cells, and going dormant for long periods of time. The T. rubrum microbe that causes toenail fungus is resistant to UV radiation.

When your T cells are healthy and active, it forces this microbe into remission. A cooler, dry environment can also put it into a dormant state. A change in environment, such as pH, temperature, or moisture, can bring it out of remission.

A suppressed immune system is the leading cause of a toenail fungal infection. Stress, diabetes, obesity, antibiotics, and a vitamin D deficiency can suppress your immune system and cause toenail fungus to come out of remission.

Vitamin D is the most important nutrient for your immune function. Your toenails contain vitamin D receptors, but toenail fungus can downgrade them.

Toenail fungus prevention starts with a strong immune system and a hostile environment for toenail fungus. High amounts of vitamin D can help! Consider taking at least 25,000 IU of vitamin D daily to get rid of toenail fungus.

Vitamin D strengthens the immune system and addresses toenail fungus at the systemic level. Zinc pyrithione, breathable shoes, and proper foot hygiene can also aid in toenail fungus prevention.

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0:00.0	Today we're going to talk about how to get rid of this toenail fungus. Tonell fungus is really not a
0:04.4	problem of the toenail. It's a systemic problem. And so if you just treat it right here in this
0:09.3	location, you may or may not be successful long term. And one of the big problems of treating the
0:14.3	toenail fungus with medication is if you're going to be treating it for a period of time, which is
0:18.7	usually about three months, there are side effects that come along with it, like liver damage. Wouldn't it be nice to do something
0:26.2	that didn't have any side effects? Before we get to the solution, I want to quickly just go through
0:30.5	a couple little facts that you need to know about tonal fungus. If you look up the actual cause,
0:35.0	it'll say your feet are too sweaty and then you all of
0:38.1	a sudden got this tonal fungus. A lot of people have sweaty, wet feet and they don't get
0:42.5	toenow fungus. This specific tonal fungus can invade the toenail, but it can also cause other
0:47.9	skin infections. Jock itch, athlete's foot, infections in your beard, infections in the skin on your legs, and even your
0:55.7	scalp. This specific microbe lives on protein, and your nail just so happens to be pure
1:01.8	protein. One of the problems that people have treating this topically is that the cream does not
1:07.1	penetrate deep enough in the nail to kill off the microbe. This microbe is bearing itself
1:12.7	deep inside the protein part of the nail. And there's something very unique about this
1:18.1	microbe and how it survives. It has the ability to evade or escape your immune system defense.
1:26.6	And there's several mechanisms that it uses. One is it grows
1:29.9	really slowly over time so your immune system doesn't necessarily see it. Number two, it has the
1:35.8	ability to suppress your T cells. The other thing that it can do is it can go into a dormant state
1:43.1	and then wait for the right moment to come out of remission.
1:47.4	And it could stay in this dormant state for years. This microbe is uniquely resistant to UV radiation.
1:55.1	Part of the sunlight spectrum is called ultraviolet and that does have the ability to kill certain
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