Author: Eric Bakker

Thank you for checking out the video. You may have seen some of my videos regarding Candida yeast infection, and a question I ask you is have you completed my yeast infection quiz yet? It’s the world’s best online quiz for Candida yeast infection determination whether you’ve got mild, moderate or severe, so please go there right now if you haven’t done that, Yeastinfection.org or CandidaCrusher.com.

This frequently asked question today, is toenail fungus Candida? It’s a question I got asked by a lady in America a few weeks ago, so I think I’ll reply to that question now.

Toenail fungus is Candida. It is a form of fungal or yeast infection. And another term for toenail fungus is onychomycosis; try to remember that name. You probably see it on some sites like WebMD or Mayo Clinic website, onychomycosis. Tinea unguium or tinea pedis, so these are other terms we tend to use for toenail fungus.

Toenail fungus will commonly occur on one or more of your toenails. A clinical observation I’ve got is you’ll often find it on the large toenail of the leading foot, so the leading foot being the foot that you step off with. If you’re right handed, check out the large right toenail carefully for little specks of discoloration of toenail. If you’re left handed, check out your left large toe. I believe that it’s got to do with an increasing blood supply to this toe because it’s more active because you’re stepping off with it and using that foot a little bit ahead of the other foot. It may seem like crazy logic to medical doctors, but that’s just my clinical observation.

Many people have got toenail fungus. It’s a very common condition. In fact, so common, people tend to ignore it and they don’t think it’s a problem. I think it is a problem. It’s a bit like rust in a car. Once it sets in small areas, sometimes people tend to forget about it, but eventually it spreads and gets bigger and bigger until sometimes it’s irreparable.

So make sure you get onto small things before they become big things in life. Whether it’s an argument with somebody or a debt you owe or toenail fungus, if it’s small, it’s easy to treat, so get onto these things first.

So tea tree oil is a very, very good way to treat, Australian tea tree oil. Just a drop of oil on the toenail once per day, but make sure that you follow my Candida Crusher diet and read my book to get a good understanding on how to tackle the “beast called yeast.”

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Is hummus any good for Candida is a question I got asked recently by a lady in Canada. Erik, can I have hummus to eat if I have a yeast infection? Yes, you can. Absolutely you can.

Let’s have a look at what hummus really is. We’re looking at chickpeas. We’re looking at tahini. We’re looking probably at a bit of – you might want to put a bit of raw garlic in there, a bit of salt, so various things like that. Hummus is actually quite okay to have when you got Candida. It’s a nice dip to have with celery sticks and carrot sticks and radishes and things like that, all these sort of yummy foods you can have on the Candida diet, so don’t refrain from eating hummus. Be careful with the commercial hummus you buy in the supermarket because it can contain a lot of unwanted ingredients in there. Best to make it yourself.

How do you make hummus? It’s pretty simple. Just get some chickpeas, get the real big plump ones, get about a cup and soak them for about five or six hours in water. That’s all I tend to do. I’ve had some friends tell me that when you’ve soaked them and they’re plump, freezing them brings out the flavor more in them. If you want to stop gas associated with hummus because some people develop bloating and gas when they got Candida, just put one drop of iodine extract in there. It could be Lugol’s solution. It could be super saturated potassium iodide, so just one drop in that water and just let it soak, the water, the chickpeas, and one drop of potassium iodide in there. Now what that does is it helps to reduce the ability of that chickpea to produce gas in your intestinal tract. Don’t ask me how it works, but apparently it works fantastic.

Once you’ve soaked these things, then you drain them. Then I tend to put them in a small cast iron pot and I simmer them. I get them boiling, then turn it down and simmer it for a little while. Let that simmer. Then I take them off, strain them of the water, I put them in my blender, mash them all up, and then I put a little bit of tahini in with it to get the right consistency. This could be maybe a third of a cup or half a cup of tahini and blend that through. With a spatula, scrape the sides, then throw in a couple of cloves of garlic, raw fresh garlic chopped and fine and throw them in, blend that all up, and that’s quite tasty, and it’s antifungal.

I’ve got a patient that sent me a recipe also regarding putting coconut oil in with it, so you may want to experiment with some coconut oil in with the hummus because coconut oil and the garlic are quite antifungal. Hummus will store in the fridge. Don’t forget. If you put hummus in the fridge, you can put a tiny little bit of coconut oil on top to stop any mold, the fungi growing on it, because I’m not keen on people having things out of the refrigerator, putting their minute out for several days or a week because molds and fungi can grow on these sort of foods. If you don’t heat them up properly, you’re contaminating your gut again.

So try all those tips and see if they work for you, and thanks for tuning in today.

Hi there, welcome back. Eric Bakker, naturopath, author of Candida Crusher. The world’s most popular book on Candida yeast infections. Thank you for tuning into this video.

Today, I’d like to talk to you about men’s yeast infections, and particularly hygiene in men’s yeast infections.

I receive quite a few patients from time to time. I see them on Skype. I get them on the telephone. Lots of men complaining about men’s yeast infections, and these can involve the anal region, the scrotum, the penis; they get lots of itchiness in this area, redness, burning, stinging, painful sex, lots of different problems.

There are different issues that involve yeast infections when it comes to men. It can be a problem that affects the inner thigh. It can be a problem that affects the scrotal area. It can be a rash all over the scrotum and the penis. And some men just get a problem with the glans penis, with the tip of the penis or the shaft itself. You’ll see an image appearing now on this video, which shows you the whiteness there around the shaft of the penis. This is an uncircumcised male. The skin’s been rolled back. You can actually see the white Candida appearing there under that area.

This is similar to what we see in a woman with a vaginal yeast infection because on an uncircumcised male that area is a great breeding ground because it’s dark, it’s moist, it’s warm, and it’s a perfect breeding environment for a yeast infection to occur.

Observing good hygiene is quite important. And also if you’re in a sexual relationship with a partner because this can be transmitted through anal sex, oral sex, vaginal sex, so you need to take a lot of precautions here and make sure that you and your partner are both safe from reinfecting each other or what I call “pass the parcel.” It happens quite commonly in physical relationships. Observing good hygiene; washing the area at least twice per day, having a good shower, and lathering up the area with tea tree oil soap is quite a good thing to use.

One of my favorite brands is Thursday Plantation. It’s a brand from a place called Ballina in New South Wales in Sydney, which grow, I think, some of the finest tea tree oil in the world. Tea tree oil is very anti-fungal. It’s an excellent product to use on your physical body for yeast infections. Make sure you roll the foreskin back and wash the area, and then dry it properly, even use a hair dryer to dry it around the area. Because the pubic hair will tend to trap a lot of water and moisture in the area. Cutting pubic hair back is a good idea, too, if you’ve got a lot of pubic hair in that region. Cleanliness, hygiene, cotton underwear, dryness, tea tree oil, you could also use a bit of coconut oil. Get a high-quality coconut oil on the area; put a few drops there around the foreskin and around that area. It contains a high amount of Caprylic acid, up to seven times more than you’ll find in coconut cream or milk, which is quite an anti-fungal product. You could also put a few drops of tea tree oil in with coconut oil, one or two drops, which gives it a strong fragrance and leave that on all day and then shower it off at night.

These are all good measures, but it’s important for you also to treat internally as well as externally because external treatment is a small part of the puzzle. I’ve seen many YouTube clips on toenail yeast infections, for example, and penis and vaginal infections. And they completely forget about the internal treatment.

You can read a lot more about internal treatment in my very comprehensive book, Candida Crusher, a 732-page book with 200 pages of diet and nutrition. There’s no bigger book with more comprehensive information than Candida Crusher on all aspects of yeast infections. Please have a look at the book. The small price is certainly worthy of you having a look at this book. You can also have a look at my yeast infection survey on candidacrusher.com, world’s most comprehensive online Candida survey. And please subscribe to this YouTube channel because there are many, many more videos coming out with lots of good useful information based on my 25 years of treating patients with yeast infections.

Thank you for your time.