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hey guys dr. Berg here in this video we’re going  to talk about what causes cracked heels okay now  

it’s a vitamin b3 deficiency that’s what it is  and another name for vitamin b3 deficiency is  

called pellagra now there are levels of this  pellagra from very minor subclinical to very  

advanced and you know you just don’t wake up  one day with pellagra you start with little  

tiny symptoms and believe it or not one of the  first symptoms of pellagra it has to do with  

your your gastrointestinal tract diarrhea  and a lot of upset inflammation in your gut  

and then it leads to the skin so there’s a lot  of skin problems with vitamin b3 deficiencies  

which is niacin okay so here are the symptoms  of B3 deficiency sensitivity to light cracked  

skin rough skin cracked roughed cracked skin  especially on your heels odor sensitivity you  

have sensitivity to odors like you could really  smell things and it irritates you more than it  

should dizziness with sudden movements so  everything is like hyper sensitive desire  

to quarrel fight with someone black tongue now  there’s a lot of other symptoms but these are  

some of the common ones now the foods that you  should be eating to to make sure you have b3  

would be you know some of the animal meats  turkey chicken pork mushroom fish grass-fed  

beef seeds avocado now it could be the diet but  normally it’s not the diet so what we want to do  

is you want to look deeper and the number one  cause of vitamin b3 deficiency in fact all of  

the vitamins would be your gastrointestinal tract  is damaged you might have inflammation you might  

have a gastric bypass surgery where they took  out your intestines it could be from Crohn’s or  

celiac or irritable bowel syndrome but something  happened in your gut that destroyed the lining  

of your digestive tract and now you can’t absorb  that so you’re going to have to consume a little  

bit more B vitamins than you normally do just so  it can be absorbed so that’s something we want  

to look at if it is your GI tract then what you  want to do is you want to take al glutamine you  

want to take lactic acid from kombucha tea you  want to have more of the fermented foods and  

bone broth is a really good source of l-glutamine  as well now if your alcoholic this could also be  

the reason why you’re deficient in the B vitamins  if you have history a lot of antibiotics that can  

destroy the ability to absorb b3 and last one is  too much corn now what’s the connection between  

corn and b3 there’s a research that shows that  certain countries that pretty much are really  

really poor in their living off just primarily  corn become very deficient in b3 and they get  

pellagra and so I’ll put a link down there to  get more data on that but corn does not have  

help tryptophan this amino acid l-tryptophan  turns into b3 so if you don’t have it that’s  

why you’re going to be deficient so consuming  the diet of you know corn you’re going to have  

a problem with this deficiency right here so  we just wanted to do a video on the causes of  

cracked heels as compared to just putting a lotion  on your feet and bean that’s going to fix it this  

is more of an internal problem find the cause  go ahead and correct it and thanks for watching