{"id":4849,"date":"2012-02-14T09:08:13","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T17:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=4849"},"modified":"2013-04-06T10:03:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T17:03:39","slug":"fungavir-review-meh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/14\/fungavir-review-meh\/","title":{"rendered":"Fungavir Review: Meh"},"content":{"rendered":"

I tried Fungavir<\/a> for my persistent toenail fungus yuckiness. It’s “too good to be true” claims are too good to be true. The website offers vaguely worded claims that it has special ingredients that get under the nail where other products fail. It does not.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It works about as well as any other topical antifungal I’ve used, but it’s more expensive and the advertising is shadier.<\/strong> Don’t buy it.<\/p>\n

I’ve written a lot over the years about anti-fungals, take a look.<\/a> Short form: Most topicals keep the infection at bay but none get under the nail to the root of the problem. Prescription orals sometimes work, sometimes don’t. There’s no reliable cure for nail fungus, this is especially true for topicals. Oral medicines work from the inside-out so you’ve got a better shot at a cure but they aren’t reliable either.<\/p>\n

Fungavir’s website is filled with weasel words<\/a> and hot air. Read some of their ad copy with that in mind:
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\nThere are many discussions about nail fungus going on on my blog. Search my blog for the word “fungus”<\/a> for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I tried Fungavir for my persistent toenail fungus yuckiness. It’s “too good to be true” claims are too good to be true. The website offers vaguely worded claims that it has special ingredients that get under the nail where other products fail. It does not. It works about as well as any other topical antifungal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,36,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-nail-fungus","category-product-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5035,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849\/revisions\/5035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}