Author: Eric Bakker

How do I know if I have Candida in my gut? So how do I know if Candida is affecting my digestive system? What are the signs and symptoms? How is it recognizable?

There are different ways for you to determine if you’ve got a yeast infection in your digestive system, but one of the big things that you need to be looking for is what I call fermentation dysbiosis. Fermentation dysbiosis is not a new concept. This concept was basically originated by various digestive experts. People like Dr. Liz Lipsky, for example, quite a well-known author and expert in digestive health. There are many other books. As you can see behind me, there are quite a few books. Many other authors I’ve read, studied and looked at, they talk about four or five kinds of dysbiosis, so “dys” meaning bad “biosis” meaning life, so “bad life” in the gut. Dysbiosis can generally mean poor bacteria, yeast infection, bloating, farting or gas, burping or a lot of air coming up. These are all signs of fermenting in the gut.

When you think about it, Candida loves sugar. It loves warmth. It loves moisture. It loves darkness. It’s a mold. It’s a fungus. It needs these things, and the gut provides the perfect place for Candida. There’s a lot of food there. There’s a lot of warmth there. There’s a lot of moisture there. So get yourself a jar of jam, for example, or a piece of bread and put a little bit of jam on it or a very sweet spread and put it somewhere in a warm, dark place and what are you going to find in a few days? You’re going to find mold growing on it. But if you put that same piece of bread – you put a bit of honey on it, you won’t get the mold because they can’t grow in honey, for example, because of the peroxide value of the different chemicals in there that the Candida is averse to. It all depends on the environment. The nutrients that Candida feed on and the environment to allow it to feed and the gut is the perfect place for that to occur. The vagina is a perfect place for that to occur. The groin for jock itch, the toenails, these are all perfect environments for Candida.

How do you recognize it in the gut? How you recognize it in the gut, you look at the bloating. People will say to me, “I feel like I’m three months’ pregnant later in the day.” These are things I hear some women tell me or a guy will say, “I’ve got this big gut I can’t get rid of. Have a couple of beers and I burp and I’m fat and I bloat.”

I noticed this with my father for many years when I was a young guy growing up that dad would eat cookie after cookie after cookie. He would eat 15 or 20 cookies. He would have a cup of coffee with three/four teaspoons of white sugar in it. He would eat six or seven scoops of ice cream. Dad had an insatiable craving for sugary foods, and dad was always bloating. He was always burping and he used to fart like a horse. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard a horse or a sheep fart, but man, they can fart. These animals can really fart. It’s a prolonged fart, which means there’s a lot of trapped gas inside that intestine. When you’ve got a lot of fermentation, you’ve got lots of farting. Lots of bloating. Burping, to a lesser extent. Burping occurs for other reasons, which I’ll talk about in another video, but generally bloating and gas are two primary things that you would look at for the gut.

Other more covert ways that Candida will present itself will be food allergies and what we call “leaky gut” syndrome. Leaky gut we’ll describe in a consequent video. But, yeah, bloating and gas would be the big ones, and the other one would be craving sugar. Wanting sweet foods, developing lots of gas and bloating, and the other one that you need to look for would be constipation or diarrhea or alternating, which is typical irritable bowel syndrome we commonly see with Candida as well. The diet becoming narrower and narrower in scope because the patient can’t tolerate certain foods. He’ll become increasing intolerant because of leaky gut. Allergies develop. Bloating gets worse. And that could become commoner symptoms like the skin itching, vaginal thrush flaring up, so often Candida with many people will start centrally and spread out peripherally. They’ll often have bloating on and off for a few months. Guys will laugh and joke about gas and bloating and think that it’s quite normal, but fermentation dysbiosis is not good.

Many experts believe that death starts in the bowel. If you look at guys like Dr. Norman Walker and a lot of the old experts, Dr. Birdie Jensen, people who really understood the gut function, colonics and cleansing, always said the same thing. Death begins in the colon. Toxic disease begins in the bowel, and what comes before that? Yeast infection is one of the prime things that gets in there. All Aids patients when they die have got yeast infection. Many people who die of cancer have got yeast infection, so we know that yeast infection is a contributing factor to a lot of chronic disease.

If you don’t want to go down that route, get the gut cleaned up and follow my three-stage Candida Crusher diet because it’s going to get rid of the Candida.

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Today I would like to answer a question that I frequently get asked. How do I know if I have a yeast infection?

Well, there are many ways I can answer this question. One of the most intelligent ways to answer it is to say, let’s just see if there are any particular causes which could have contributed to your yeast infection in the first place. I think that’s quite a smart move. So let’s have a look.

Have you taken an antibiotic in the past several years or recurrent rounds of antibiotics? Have you been on the oral contraceptive pill for any prolonged period of time? Do you have cravings for sugar? Have you had any other medications? Have you been on any steroid based drugs like prednisone or cortisone for a while or perhaps inhaled steroids for asthma? They’re called preventatives. These are all quite pertinent questions. Do you feel worse in a damp surrounding? Perhaps you live in a moldy sort of environment. Does it make you cough or wheeze? These are all important questions to ask, you know, if you have a yeast infection.

Look at the signs and symptoms of yeast infection. Can you relate to any of these? Do you have any aches or pains in the body? Any digestive problems? Fogginess in the head? Do you have any toenail fungus or jock itch or vaginal thrush? That’s how you’re going to know if you’ve got a yeast infection.

If you go to yeastinfection.org, you can see a lot of the common signs and symptoms on one of my pages there. There’s a very comprehensive page I’ve written about the signs and symptoms of yeast infection. But probably one of the most intelligent things you can do is to go to my quiz on CandidaCrusher.com. Very, very good quiz you will find online. In fact, it’s the world’s best online Candida quiz. So by going there and you can just follow the 20 odd screens for man, woman or child and just go through the screens and you’re going to find out whether there’s a low probability, moderate or high probability that you’ve got a yeast infection.

It took a long time for me to put this quiz together and many, many thousands of people now have done this quiz. I’ve had some incredibly good feedback, so that’s a very smart way to find out if you’ve got a yeast infection.

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So don’t forget, if you really want to know if you’ve got a yeast infection, go to CandidaCrusher.com and please complete my online quiz. That’s how you’re going to find out if you’ve got Candida or not.

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Here’s a good question, an intelligent question. I like intelligent questions because they require me to really think about giving quite a reasonably good reply. This question comes from a lady in Australia. How do I know if I have a yeast infection or a bacterial infection? What is the difference? How can I tell how? How can the doctor tell?

It’s a tough one. It really catches people out and, in fact, it’s something I struggled with, too. To be quite honest, I don’t care what kind of infection you’ve got. All I care about is trying to find out what caused the problem and how I can fix it, how I can remedy the problem.

The two key things that you look at with people when they come to you presenting with problems are the signs and symptoms. I may have spoken to you about this before. Symptoms are very important to me. Symptoms are subjective; these are what the patients tell you. You can’t measure them. You can’t quantify them. You can’t see them. You can only go by what the person is telling you, what they’re experiencing, what they’re feeling; whereas, signs are something we can see with our eyes.

We can test. We can see cuts. We can see wounds, for example. We can see hair loss. We can see skin rashes. These are signs. Also tests can pick up things, but sometimes these things don’t match; the signs and symptoms don’t match. And with infections, it’s very difficult to try to piece the signs and symptoms together because both of them can create a similar outcome. Bacterial infections can create fevers in the body or temperatures that can create tiredness; all sorts of problems can occur, so there’s no clear-cut way really of finding out.

Some people will argue with me that there is, but in the end, it’s not really important. The important thing is basically to find out what got the person in this mess, help them overcome it, and prevent them from getting into this mess again.

So a couple of telltale signs that will determine the Candida infection will be the sugar craving. The craving for sugar is the blood sugar drops, particularly around meal times, they’ll have some food, they’ll go down really quick, they’ll develop gut problems quickly, many of them after meals. These are things. So look at the symptoms that are characteristic of Candida infection, which can point you in the direction of that person having Candida, the itching, the bloating, gas, craving for sugar, the vaginal infection, the jock itch, the toenail fungus, itchy anywhere on the body. It’s less likely that the person’s going to have itching in and around their body if it’s a bacterial infection, but it is possible.

But in the end what you’re going to find is that most people with a Candida infection will have a bacterial infection anyway, especially in their digestive system. There will be parasites and bacteria and yeast infection there. All of that needs treatment. Then it becomes less important to worry about what the person’s got.

After doing many, many thousands of stool tests, I can tell you that nearly every patient I see with a Candida infection, we can culture it and we can see it through a microscopy that that person will also have various kind of dysbiosis or SIBO, small intestinal bowel overgrowth. They’ll have bacteria there. Probably in about 15 or 20 percent of cases, there will be parasites like Blastocystis, Dientamoeba fragilis; they’ll be present there as well as the bad bacteria.

And the other thing that you probably haven’t even thought about is what about the good bacteria? Because people with bacterial infections may have not a bacterial infection, they may just have a lack of beneficial bacteria. And in that case, the bacteria that are generally okay like e-coli may become pathogenic or turn into criminals or “militants” as we call them today. Guys with their guns running around shooting. We may get that scenario as well.

As you can see, there’s a lot more at stake here than just determining whether they’ve got a bacteria or Candida affecting their body, and generally, most people will have both. When they’ve got a bacterial infection, there’s often an element of Candida. When they’ve got a Candida infection, there’s often a bit of an element of bacterial there. So the main thing is to treat through way of diet and lifestyle and targeted supplementation, and you’ll see all about that in my other videos.

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