{"id":16733,"date":"2013-05-22T16:25:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T21:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=16733"},"modified":"2013-05-22T16:25:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T21:25:58","slug":"how-can-i-get-rid-of-foot-fungus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/22\/how-can-i-get-rid-of-foot-fungus\/","title":{"rendered":"How can I get rid of foot fungus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s a fungus among us\u2014a hundred different species in fact\u2014and nearly all take up residence on our feet, according to a study that appears in the journal Nature this week.<\/p>\n<p>Only a few fungi species were found on other body parts known to house fungi\u2014such as behind the ears and on palms\u2014according to the most thorough analysis to date of our fungal &#8220;landscape.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ha. You&#8217;re probably better off leaving most of them alone. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2013\/05\/130522-fungus-feet-health-body-science-weird-gross\/\"> Click through for the details. <\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 id=\"otherpostsofinterest:\">Other posts of interest:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/09\/29\/how-to-get-rid-of-spiders-in-y\/\">How to get rid of spiders in your house<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/02\/20\/why-is-my-poop-green\/\">Why is your poop green?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/11\/28\/how-many-cells-are-there-in-th\/\">How many cells are there in the human body?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2013\/08\/16\/harry-potter-goblet-of-fire-plot-hole-filled\/\">Is there really a plot hole in Harry Potter <em>Goblet of Fire?<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/03\/01\/how-long-is-a-generation\/\">How long is a human generation?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/09\/01\/is-blood-ever-blue-science-tea-2\/\">Is blog ever really blue?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/11\/29\/how-to-not-get-caught-plagiari\/\">How to not get caught plagiarizing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/29\/the-origin-of-the-chicken\/\">The origin of the domestic chicken<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/08\/25\/the-three-necessary-and-suffic-2\/\">What are the three necessary and sufficient conditions of Natural Selection?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2013\/05\/22\/how-can-i-get-rid-of-foot-fungus\/\">How do I get rid of foot fungus?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2013\/05\/14\/should-you-drink-tap-water-or-bottled-water\/\">Which is better, Tap Water or Bottled Water?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2013\/07\/16\/has-global-warming-stopped-2\/\">Has Global Warming stopped?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also of interest: <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/sungudogo\/\"><strong>In Search of Sungudogo:<\/strong> A novel of adventure and mystery<\/a>, which is also an alternative history of the Skeptics Movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t! There&#8217;s a fungus among us\u2014a hundred different species in fact\u2014and nearly all take up residence on our feet, according to a study that appears in the journal Nature this week. Only a few fungi species were found on other body parts known to house fungi\u2014such as behind the ears and on palms\u2014according to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/22\/how-can-i-get-rid-of-foot-fungus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How can I get rid of foot fungus?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3718,3719,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4lT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}