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Magnesium Deficiency
What I was taught in 1990's that has held true in all experience and further reading since then.
Five macro minerals are essential.
potassium, magnesium calcium - all raise pH and lower BP
sodium, phosphorus - all lower pH and raise BP
These five interact with each other and all the micro minerals. These five cause excesses and depletions of each other when imbalanced. Toxicities also cause excesses and depletions. Phosphorus is about the only one we hardly need to monitor intake on. Hard to deplete phosphorus given how much we take in by eating meat, grains, dairy.
I respect Garrett most for helping reduce my supplement intake since I started low vA January, 2023. I no longer see that happening as he ramps up sales of nicotinic acid supplements and zeolite.
Have argued with him most of this last year over that list of macro minerals. He just pivoted on calcium at the same time he banned me and others. Pertinent that his pivot on calcium coincided with banning us and includes all the ideas that I and a group of others were demanding he consider.
Toxins deplete micro and macro minerals as they are used to remove toxins. Excessive intake of micro and macro minerals also deplete the others. vA and copper seem to routinely deplete zinc, calcium, magnesium, selenium, molybdenum and potassium. Oral magnesium seems to mostly act as laxative. Topical magnesium seems to get into tissue better - like 10 times better. Similar seems the case on potassium. Credit Garrett with most of these insights. Think he got them from Selig and others.
Since the body through all activity and metabolic processes tends toward acidity, we usually need to keep after our alkaline mineral intake more. Tim Noakes did genius work proving Coke and Pepsi pushed this to the point of gatorading / killing marathoners with hyponatremia years ago. So for sure, getting plenty of good salt is a good idea. Hence the etymology of the word salary. Ironic given that in the 1960's high school and college coaches handed out sodium salt pills to athletes like candy. Somewhere in the ensuing decades, sodium became a taboo villain.
As an aside. About the only thing athlete's foot indicates is the exterior pH and moisture levels in environment and skin. Athletic trainers, martial arts instructors and especially wrestling coaches have known since forever that ring worm and athletes foot are the same thing and everywhere. The ideas listed below work for both. Topical and oral pharma / chemical meds / cleaners are toxic and do not work well.
In last few decades, most have used ferocious chemical / pharma industrial cocktails to clean their mats, showers and locker room surfaces. Quite a few of the athletes suck down a chemical stew as well.
The best I have seen and used is simple. Alternate the pH of surfaces. Athlete's foot thrives in midrange alkali environment. Salty sweaty mats, shoes, socks,...... So we changed the pH to extremes and often. Washed mats and other surfaces with peroxide, rinsed, dried. Next week washed with vinegar, rinsed and dried. Baking soda water works as well. Get everything dried as often and for as long as possible.
Never wear the same shoes two days in a row. Athlete's foot bug can not survive a dry surface past 36 hours. If this seems dubious, suggest a test. Put the same pair of socks on the next morning. Keep doing it. Might be surprised how fast and how strong athlete's foot starts. Suggest to avoid this test. Have seen horrific, painful, bloody cases. Another example of the idiom "it can not get any worse" being absolutely false.
To get immediate relief bring vinegar into shower. Rinse feet after shower well with vinegar. It will burn where skin is broken and cracked. It will eliminate itch, pain and further infection in short order. Hours if not a day maybe two. Never seen it fail. Repeatedly seen it succeed and astonish folk as the new latest miracle. Every bit as miraculous as how much better we feel when we take a walk in the sun. Oh yeh, the bug in question dislikes the sun too.