The REAL Cause and Cure for DANDRUFF
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 11 April 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Let's talk about the real cause and cure for your dandruff. |
| 0:27.8 | I'm going to talk about what it is, the current treatment for it, and what's really behind dandruff, as well as a really good solution. How about that? What is dandruff? Very simply, it's scaly, flaky scalp. Okay. You have the layers of skin in the scalp that are flaking off prematurely, normally there's about a month cycle where the skin cells and your scalp develop and then slough off with |
| 0:57.8 | dandruff, they're sloughing off every week, okay, seven days instead of a whole month. Okay. So we'll talk about why it is, but very simply if you ask anyone what dandruff is, they'll probably show you these little flaking skin cells on their shoulders. And this is why the number one treatment for it is head and shoulders, which they're using a certain chemical zinc peri-bion, ZPT. |
| 1:27.8 | Which is an anti-fungal, okay, and it's also antibacterial. So it'll kill microbes in your scalp, and it does get rid of dandruff, at least temporarily. Now the problem with this treatment is that it's banned in Europe, because apparently it does cause some toxicity to the reproductive organs, okay. |
| 1:46.8 | Like all chemicals and medications, there's always different side effects. There is a certain fungus that the isolated being behind this whole problem, and that microbe is called malacesia. It is a fungus that has gone rogue, all right. It's part of our normal flora that we have on our skin. |
| 2:05.8 | And it's really the overgrowth and how this fungus morphs into a kind of a pathogenic microbe when the condition or environment changes, okay. Like all microbes, they live in communities, and there's a lot of different diversification of microbes that are inside our body and on our skin. And when we have this imbalance. |
| 2:30.8 | We get certain microbes that change their form, and they do weird things, and they also cause our own immune system to react with certain defenses, and there's inflammation that occurs in collateral damage. So at the very root of dandruff. |
| 2:48.8 | There's really an imbalance in the microflora on your scalp, where we have a kind of a morphed fungus that is no longer friendly. So it's creating an immune reaction. And what people don't realize is that you have not just friendly bacteria, you have friendly yeast, you have friendly fungus on your body and inside. |
| 3:11.8 | That is helping you, okay, just like the soil, you don't just have friendly bacteria, you also have friendly yeast and fungus that without that yeast or fungus. |
| 3:21.8 | The plants can't dig their roots and absorb the nutrients as well. So the fungus is just as important as the bacteria in doing its job without the fungus in the soil. |
| 3:32.8 | They can't dissolve the minerals to really pull it in and allow the roots to absorb it into the plant. |
| 3:40.8 | And apparently this fungus that grows on your scalp eats lipids, okay, it eats fats, it eats the sebum, which is the oil that comes from the oil glands around the follicles, around your hair follicles. |
| 3:53.8 | But what's interesting about this fungus is it doesn't like all the fats, okay, it only likes the saturated fats, it likes to eat triglycerides, it doesn't like to eat the omega six fatty acids. |
| 4:06.8 | And that's very interesting because the omega six fatty acids are the inflammatory acids. |
| 4:12.8 | So personally, I would need the omega six, I would definitely the saturated fats, but not the omega six because these are the inflammatory type fats, which has been linked to inflammation, which is exactly what's happening on your scalp is just the tip of the iceberg and what's really going on, it's happening in your gut flora. |
| 4:33.8 | Obviously, if you affect the gut, you affect the skin, you affect a lot of other things, but an isolated symptom of dandruff on your scalp, there's probably a lot of other things going on. |
| 4:44.8 | For example, there's a huge correlation between people developing dandruff and just after they had some type of antibiotic, right. |
| 4:54.8 | So you're taking this antibiotic internally, it's killing off your micro flora and your gut, and then you're ending up with a systemic problem on your skin. |
| 5:02.8 | The same thing happens when you take an antibiotic, right, you kill off the bacteria, and you end up with a yeast infection, which can happen in your mouth. |
| 5:13.8 | I mean, just because you affect one part of the body doesn't mean that it can't be systemic and start invading other parts of your body. |
| 5:20.8 | We do know this antibiotic kills only bacteria, it doesn't kill viruses, it doesn't kill fungus or yeast, and this is why it's very important to understand the microbiome. |
| 5:32.8 | You have a lot of different types of microbes growing in your gut and on your skin, and you have to understand that certain microbes like bacteria keep the fungus in check, keep the yeast in check. |
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