About Happy Feet Care

I teach yoga barefoot six days a week. For years that felt like a health credential in itself. All those hours grounding through the soles. Turns out mindfulness does not prevent nail fungus.

Last spring a yellowish discoloration appeared on my left big toenail. Mid-class during Warrior I, a student in the front row tracked her gaze down and I followed it. Yellowish along the outer edge. Told myself it was a bruise from a hiking boot, even though I hadn't been hiking. Six weeks later, nothing had changed.

Three months of tea tree oil from the health food store on Northeast Alberta Street produced no visible result. Same nail, same yellow. So I started reading past the first page of search results into the actual biology of nail growth, how fungal spread works at the nail bed level, which supplement ingredients have legitimate research behind them versus which ones smell medicinal and give you something hopeful to do. That reading became a log. The log became this site.

Twice a month I photograph my toenails against a white tile background under the bathroom light. I keep a phone note of what I applied or took that week. Unscientific by any clinical standard. Useful enough to tell whether something is actually changing versus whether I just want it to be.

Nothing here is medical advice. For a nail concern that warrants professional attention, see your own provider. What you get here is a careful record from someone who teaches barefoot every day, cares about what actually helps, and is not trying to sell you anything you do not need.

For more about how I test: Julia Rennick.

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