Author: Eric Bakker

Have you checked out yeastinfection.org yet? It’s an excellent website containing hundreds of articles regarding all types of conditions in terms of yeast infection. You’ll find lots of stuff there. If you’re a guy, you’ll find lots of stuff there on jock itch. If you’re a woman, you’ll find lots of stuff on women’s yeast infections. There’s lot of solutions, so go and check that site out.

Today, I’m going to talk a little bit about athlete’s foot and jock itch. Can athlete’s foot cause jock itch? Can jock itch cause athlete’s foot? Can this particular fungal problem be transferred from the groin to the feet or from the feet to the groin?

It’s not really likely. We’ve got two different types of fungal infections here. Athlete’s foot is called tinea pedis, and jock itch is called tinea cruris, so it’s not really likely this is going to occur. And if it does occur, if you’re going to get a shift in a fungal condition on the exterior surface of the body in different areas, I mean you can even get a fungal condition around the ears. You can get it on the scalp. You can get it anywhere on the body. In my ‘20s, I had these white spots, fungal rash, all over my torso and my arms. You can get fungal skin conditions involving many types and places in the body.

You’ve got to be pretty sick and have low immune system to transfer this skin condition all around the body like that. And there’s probably a big likelihood also that you’ve got a digestive yeast infection as well. You’ll have intestinal gut problems. If you’ve got it around the scrotum, around the anal region, you have really itchy inner thighs, and you’ve got athlete’s foot, there’s no doubt you’re going to have it in the gut as well. Your digestive system will be full of fungus, too, that will need cleaning out.

Healthy people who have just got a small amount of jock itch, just a little bit here or there, and no athlete’s foot have got a lot less chance of having it in the intestinal tract. But if you’ve got it on several parts on the skin, there’s a big chance, as I said, that you’ll have it in the gut.

It’s not likely you’re going to transfer it from the feet to the groin or groin to the feet. And if you do, you probably have got a high susceptibility and a low resistance. I write about this quite a lot in my book. So when you become very susceptible because you’re immune system is not good, you can transfer this yeast anywhere in the body.

If you want to beat this thing, you really got to get your immune system working really hard out. If you get your immune system working good like it should, just like if you’ve got a good defense force or a police force working well, you’re going to have a lot amount of criminal activity, and it’s the same with your immune system. If you’ve got a good powerful immune system, you’re going to have a lower chance of bacterial or fungal infections.

Make sure you read my articles on yeastinfection.org, and also don’t forget to do my quiz; my yeast infection quiz will give you an idea on how severe you’ve got this problem, whether you’ve got mild, moderate or severe. If you come back severe on the quiz, then you’ve got a higher chance of moving it from the foot to the groin or from the groin to the foot.

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They can. They can. You’ve got different choices. Pharmaceutical choices or natural choices. I recommend you do the natural thing. Mainly because you’re not going to get the terrible side effects or long-term problems that you will from a pharmaceutical drug. You won’t get the toxicity. And the other thing I like about the antifungal supplements is a lot of them are like foods, so you can include them in with what you’re eating and not have the same liver kind of reactions of toxicities as you would have with a pharmaceutical drug.

Antifungal supplements are very good to treat Candida, and they’re very effective. You just need to start slowly on them. Take a good tablet or formula once or twice per day; build up to three times per day. Stay on this for about three months. Let this medicine work quite well. Get something in a slow release in a sort of sustained release form. A tablet is preferable, I feel, than a capsule. Take it with food. Start maybe with one tablet a day and just gradually build up to three tablets a day. If you find that you get aggravations taking a good product, you can experiment taking before, during or after meals at different times, so it will affect people differently.

So generally antifungal supplements are a very wise choice if you’ve got a Candida yeast infection, regardless whether you’ve got a vaginal infection or a jock itch or toenail or infections of the skin or throat or tongue or gut, it doesn’t matter. An antifungal dietary supplement makes a lot of sense.

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Here’s a question. Can antifungal supplements cause a die off effect? Yes, they can, and in fact some can cause severe die off effect. Let’s just talk about that for a few minutes.

Many people have heard of the word “die off.” Another word for this is called the Herxheimer Reaction. This is a reaction that we see with some people, which can happen for a multitude of reasons. Many people feel bad when they go on an antifungal treatment and they may think it’s die off, but it may not be die off at all. It could be something entirely different. Let’s talk a little bit about that, too.

Die off typically occurs when large amounts of yeast cells die, and the immune system starts attacking these cells. Various chemicals are secreted, which work on the Candida itself or the Candida fragments. These chemicals create a lot of reaction in the body. It’s almost like a nuclear reaction. It starts small and it builds up and up and up until it’s a massive explosion. We’re not talking about binary fusion or some nuclear type of explosion inside your body, but some people get no reactions. Some people get minor reactions, and some people are almost hospitalized, so sick from a die off that they can be debilitated for weeks or months after, brain fog and pain and vomiting and nausea. I’ve seen some horrific cases.

Let’s look at a couple of reasons why die off could occur. Die off typically occurs when you’ve got a patient who is very sensitive, who starts too strong or too full on with treatment. I’ve told you this before. You may have seen my other videos. There are three types of people. You’ve got normal people, they’d be like you or me; you’ve got sensitive people, and then you’ve got the supersensitive.

The normal people can generally take a lot of different types of things like paracetamol, like Tylenol, for example, or Ibuprofen, various medications. They don’t react to antibiotics or penicillins. They don’t have a huge amount of food reactions or environmental reactions. They tend to get sick every now and then, but not sick all the time. They don’t have a lot of food allergies. These people don’t tend to react to a lot of things in their life.

Sensitive people tend to have a couple of food allergies, and they will have noticed some strong reactions to different foods, also maybe perfumes or chemicals. But the supersensitive are in a class all on their own, and these are people that react to everything. You can give them one B vitamin tablet or a bit of Vitamin C powder, and they can have a headache for two days. They can eat a particular food and have vomiting and diarrhea for a week. They’re extremely sensitive. They can be sensitive to smells, to noise, to lights, also to chemicals, to chlorine, to colognes or perfumes to the point where they can’t be around a lot of people. These are the supersensitive.

The supersensitive patient is the one who’s most likely going to experience the most severe die off or what’s natural in it [?]. And the sensitive are going to experience die off, but normal people like you and me aren’t going to experience die off, and if we do, it might be a mild headache for a day and it’s quickly gone.

There are other reasons why you may have signs and symptoms which you believe are die off but, in fact, they’re not at all. These could be detoxification reactions. When you go on a good multivitamin, for example, it’s not hard for your liver to be up-regulated or to work harder or faster and clear toxins from the body. When you cut caffeine and alcohol out, these things typically create reactions that are not die off, but they can masquerade like die off. If you’re drinking three or four or five coffees a day and you stop that, you’re going to feel like crap for three or four days, potentially. You may think that’s die off, but it’s not.

You need to be careful when you use the word “die off” around me because I’m going to ask you a lot of questions and find out whether it is or not. Be careful if you’re sensitive or supersensitive taking an antifungal supplement. You need to go very slowly. You may be better off including tiny little pieces of garlic into your diet, even just like a tiny slice of garlic, one drop of oregano oil in your food, and just sort of gently approach it like that.

If you’re going to take an antifungal tablet, you’d cut it in three pieces and take a third of it with your main meal, and you do that for three to four days and see how you feel. If you feel okay, then you take one-third twice per day and you gradually, gradually, gradually build up until you can take one to two tablets a day. That’s a clever move. That’s how you avoid die off. Nobody likes feeling terrible for several days. And with a bit of intelligence and the correct protocol, you don’t have to experience die off.

Another quick tip for you to avoid die off is to slowly ease yourself into an antifungal holistic program. Don’t jump in and take antifungals right away. Make dietary changes two to three weeks at the onset, so right at the beginning make the changes and slowly ease yourself into the diet program. This is an intelligent approach. Don’t take any antifungals for four weeks if you’re a very sensitive person. Make the dietary changes, drink more water, cut out the junk food, including high quality lean proteins and vegetables, take out potentially allergy forming foods, improve your lifestyle, reduce your stress, and then slowly put the antifungal in. This is how you’re going to avoid Herxheimer reaction. Common sense. But remember, common sense isn’t very common with a lot of people.