Hello, hello, and welcome to the root cause medicine podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Carrie Jones.

Today, I'm talking with Krista Bigler all about eczema.

Krista is an award-winning dietitian nutritionist, online educator, and host of the Less Stress

Life podcast. She's the creator of the less stressed approach to eczema and fast-track to

fabulous programs. Plus, she regularly guest speaks and educates on the topic of eczema. It was an

absolute pleasure talking with her today, all about eczema as she helped to identify key

areas to help you recover from it.

Here's a clip from today's conversation. I'm going to look at eggs in a month differently than the dermatologist does. And I think that this is more useful in what to do because people, again, we crave a diagnosis. It's like, oh, here's my problem. But once you have the diagnosis, the toolbox is really shallow, which is the entire problem. The toolbox is, here's some steroids, which, by the way, are just an anti-inflammatory that suppress it at the moment. And they're like, yeah, but it keeps coming back when I take it. Well, yeah, that's like it's not really fixing the root cause. Yeah, it's just suppressing the symptom at the surface. So that's in the toolbox. and then from a conventional toolbox standpoint, and then from there, it's almost like it jumps to expensive biologics from there. And that's where people are like, wait a second. What? Like I have to go from steroids to that. Like, that's the option. There is a protocol from a South African dermatologist. I don't know if you know the Aaron protocol. And that's low grade antibiotic and lowgrade steroid. And that can be really amazing and life-changing for someone who's covered, like, especially a child who's just covered in eczema. And if there's a staff infection thing, that is a potential quick win in a few days, depending on the severity of it. That's just a small taste of the amazing show we have for you today.

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Presta, welcome to the root cause medicine podcast. I am so excited to have you on today.

And I could not be happier to be here, graced by your awesome neon sign in the background.

And this is, I love when people say this when I talk to them as potential clients and they're like, I'd like to get to the root cause of this. I'm like, you are awesome. You know, and that's, that is the movement of medicine. If we want to change medicine, you just have to start with yourself and say, oh, I would like to stop having band-aids. And that's, it's not right or wrong, like people, and there's a lot of band-aids in eczema, honestly, which is our topic.

And so, anyway, I just freaking love the title. And sometimes you're like, oh, I can't believe that wasn't taken. Good job. Good job for snapping that up. Way to go. Yeah, I wish I had thought of that five years ago. Root Cost Medicine podcast. Well, I mean, it's the truth, though, because you're right. A lot of people are looking, especially the last couple years.

People are looking for quick fix.

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