Ask AI Mark discusses how fungal infections and inflammation drive skin problems and chronic disease. An anti-inflammatory elimination diet can help identify yeast overgrowth and improve outcomes.
When I see these patients, I also think about looking for other clues. Like, do they have yeast issues? Have they been in lots of antibiotics? Are they on acid blockers which cause yeast overgrowth? Do they have other fungal issues? Do they have dandruff? Do they have anal itching? Do they have thrush or a white coating in their tongue? Do they have vaginal yeast infections? Do they have other skin markers of yeast like little tinea or other kinds of things? So you'll see often a pattern of other issues around fungal stuff. I'll check for H. Pylori, I'll check again all the tests we did talk about and see what's really going on. And then from the treatment point of view, you start with an elimination diet with an anti-inflammatory diet, right?
Exactly, yeah. Putting patients on an anti-inflammatory elimination diet, 80% of the time, doesn't matter what they come in with, they'll actually get better. Getting them off of the pro-inflammatory foods and then putting in foods which are anti-inflammatory, cold water fish, sardines, wild salmon, the essential oils like evening primrose oil, help to sort of dampen down that inflammatory response. Yeah, I agree. I think we don't understand most of.
Us how powerful food is as medicine and how it can drive tremendous amounts of inflammation throughout the body. And obviously if it's on your skin, it's visible, but there's also invisible inflammation that you're not seeing that's driving all the.
