Dr. Oz and Smelly Feet

I’m sit­ting here writ­ing an arti­cle and just hap­pen to have the Dr. Oz Show on. Not some­thing I watch nor­mally and I don’t really remem­ber how my TV ended up on that chan­nel. Oh well, any way, some­one I know…and absolutely NO ONE in my fam­ily… has REALLY smelly feet, so when Dr. Oz said some­thing about how to stop smelly feet…my ears honed right in and picked up on it!

First Dr. Oz explained why peo­ple get smelly feet.
More infor­ma­tion is avail­able at the Dr. Oz Show.

He said it’s the 3 S’s.

Sweat

Socks

Shoes

The spi­ral look­ing sweat glands (Dr. Oz referred to them as coiled cir­cu­lar glands…and btw, these are 4 feet long!) under the der­mis pushes sweat up and out of a pore. The sweat is clean and scent free when it comes out. It’s when the sweat mixes with bac­te­ria located in the sock and shoe that it becomes stinky.

Tea Bag It!

One thing Dr. Oz said to treat a set of stinky feet is to soak it in tea for 30 min­utes. Yep, tea. Tea has this thing in it called tan­nic acid that breaks down and kills the bac­te­ria. After about 1 week of soak­ing your feet daily, the stink will be all gone and then you can just use this as a pre­ven­tion and on an as needed basis.

Antiper­spi­rant? Seriously?

The sec­ond thing Dr. Oz said was to use an antiper­spi­rant on your feet! But not just any appli­ca­tor will do, it needs to be the roll-on kind. While demon­strat­ing on an audi­ence member’s foot he said deodor­ant will NOT work and it MUST be antiper­spi­rant. If you’re not sure on the dif­fer­ence, deodor­ant masks a smell and antiper­spi­rant pre­vents the sweat that can cause that odor!

Another thing Dr. Oz brought out to help stinky feet, was med­icated antiper­spi­rant pads to rub onto the areas that per­spire too.

Some of the things that can cause stinky feet to be stinkier…black beans, gar­lic, and aspara­gus (those of us who eat aspara­gus would prob­a­bly say, “duh”). Oh, and beer…my deep­est sym­pa­thies to the beer lovers out there.

I have no first hand knowl­edge if these work, but really wish I had known about them a long time ago. I plan to pass this info along and make the recip­i­ents of this very valu­able advice report back to me on the suc­cess or lack there of. I’ll keep you posted.

If any­one knows if this works, let me know.

Now, go grab a beer and get to brew­ing that tea!

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Photo Cred­its:
nayrb7 (Flickr)
mopos­show (images/stinky_feet.jpg)
HautFin­ger­spitze (Wiki­me­dia Com­mons)