Author: Eric Bakker

I’ve got a question here on somebody. What causes a recurring yeast infection?

Recurring yeast infections are caused by probably a partial recognition of the problem and some treatment that’s been effective to a degree, so you may know you’ve got this problem, you’ll fix it up a little bit. It’ll go away to a degree, but then it will recur; it will come back again, so I commonly see this with people, many different people, who are quite busy and active. They sort of want to get rid of their yeast infection, but don’t invest the right amount of time or effort to really eradicate it properly.

This is very common with working people, busy people, with moms with a couple of children, for example, or guys that are self-employed or working quite hard, you know, have got jock itch, for example. These people are very busy. They go about their life. They get symptoms. They treat the symptoms. The symptoms go away. They feel good for a while, and then their symptoms recur. The only way you’re going to prevent these recurring symptoms is by tackling this thing properly and by getting on top of the problem or making the right lifestyle and diet changes long enough, usually four to six months, consistently making these changes to eradicate this infection. Then being vigilant, being very careful that you don’t get recurrence while monitoring this condition. And then if the symptoms come up slightly, is to knock them on the head really fast while making those changes again.

I write about this a lot in my book, Candida Crusher, that the big danger period for a lot of people is when they’re actually in the recovery phase. Many people have got a lot to learn about a full recovery because partial recovery with many chronic conditions is much more common than full recovery. I’d say 75 percent of people partially recover. Partial recovery can be meaning as symptom free for weeks to months, but full recovery means no symptoms for 12 months plus. There’s a big difference. Most websites and books and practitioners you see will pitch to you partial recovery through their treatments because they don’t push you hard enough or give the patient the right information they need to fully recover.

What causes recurring yeast infections is a partial application of wanting to get well, not fully committing. It’s almost like you’ve got a job and from eight to five, five days a week, but you turn up at the job three or four times a week. You don’t go five days a week. You’re not really fully committed to that job. You’re going to annoy a lot of people. You’ll probably end up getting fired from that job.

It’s the same with a yeast infection. Some people say to me, “Look, I will do everything you say, but I’m not going to give up alcohol.” Of course they’re going to get recurrence. Or as soon as they get a cough or a cold, they go straight for the antibiotic. Bang! Recurrence. Or they’re over at a wedding and they’re feeling really good. They’ve felt good for two or three months. They’re at a wedding, and they get offered some champagne, some nice cakes, and some candies and things like that, and then they really go into this. They binge on this. They come home and a day later, “Oh, I feel so bad. I’ve got bad bloating,” or things like that. Recurrence.

So Recurrence is more common if you’ve had a period of feeling really good, and then you go all out and you go crazy and have a bit of a binge on something, and then wham, the symptoms recur. It pays to be vigilant and to be careful with your diet and lifestyle for a good four to six months at a minimum before you start going back into some of your old habits that lead you to the yeast infection in the first place.

If you can bear some of those points in mind, you can prevent recurrence of Candida infections. I hope that answers some of your questions.

Thank you.

Thanks for tuning in. What herbs can I take if I have Candida? What are the best herbal medicines that will have very strong antifungal activity that allows me to overcome a yeast infection? Thanks for asking this question.

There are many different herbs you can take, but probably my favorite herbs to recommend to a patient would be garlic, Pau d’Arco, Pau d’Arco from the rainforest of South America, it’s a beautiful antifungal herb, clove, Neem, berberine, black walnut extract. These five would be probably my pick.

Garlic. If you’re going to take garlic, make sure you eat a good quality, organically grown garlic every day, one small clove, cut it in pieces, swallow with a bit of food or crush it lightly and swallow it whole like a capsule or a tablet. Preferably with food because you could burn your empty tummy. Very powerful antifungal thing to take.

Pau d’Arco. You can actually buy Pau d’Arco. Make sure you get a certified proper Pau d’Arco. There’s a lot of scam products on the market. It’s got to be a good quality one. Your really good local organic health food shop will have this product hopefully. I drink usually one cup of Pau d’Arco every afternoon during my afternoon clinic. I like Pau d’Arco. It’s got a nice sort of flavor and it forms a good base for many different herbal teas you can put on top of that, so Pau d’Arco tea.

Neem. Neem Azadirachta, or Neem, is a tree from India. It’s a very, very good herb for parasites. If you can get some Neem oil, for example, or a Neem extract, it’s really good to use in your vegetable garden. I tend to use it for spraying. I use no chemicals at all anywhere in the yard for weeds or anything. Everything’s natural. You can get Neem actually for spraying in the veggie garden or on fruit trees as well. Antiparasite, antifungal, antibacterial, fantastic product to have in an antifungal product because it’s got a broad-spectrum activity.

Berberine. Berberine is what we call an alkaloid or a chemical that comes from various kind of herbs. Berberis vulgaris, for example, I think they call it cranbark[?]. There’s Goldenseal. Beautiful Goldenseal from North America and Canada. Goldenseal contains Berberine. Goldenseal is a lovely yellow colored herb that the American Indians used to use for the color yellow. A very powerful antibiotic. It’s one of our most potent antibiotics in natural medicine is Berberine.

Clove. Clove has got particular types of extracts, oils in there that are a very powerful antifungal. So when you put all these things together and then put some nutrients in there, undecylenic acid, Caprylic acid, you’re going to have a killer product and I designed that product and I call it Canxida Remove. All those herbs are bunched in one slow release tablet that’s going to really kick butt and get rid of this yeast infection. So check out Canxida.com if you’re interested in one of the best antifungal remove products on the market.

Take my advice regarding those tips. Eat some raw garlic. Get some Pau d’Arco tea. Add some clove spice to your diet regularly. Use goldenseal here and there if you’ve got little infections. All these things work quite well.

Black walnut hull extract is a very powerful parasite product, in particular. When you partner it up with things like grapefruit seed extract and the garlic, it’s an incredibly powerful killer against a whole wide range of pathogens in the body and particularly parasites that are hard to kill or only taken out by some kind of pharmaceutical drug.

You don’t need drugs to get rid of bacteria or Candida. Using these herbs in your diet and taking a good antifungal, you’re going to eradicate just about everything in your gut that’s not really wanted there. So give all that advice a go. We’ll catch you in another video. Thanks for tuning in.

What is a Candida cleanse? What does it mean? Is it a detox? What does this term mean? It’s a question I get asked from time to time by people in the clinic here. How can I clean myself up from Candida?

Well, a Candida cleanse in my mind is really an overall holistic program that you’re looking at. A detox does form part of it. Candida cleanse means to reduce the population in the body. It’s a pretty dumb idea to think that you can kill all the Candida or cleanse your body of all the yeast. You can’t do that anymore than you can clean your garden up of all the weeds and all the bacteria and have it all sterile. It just doesn’t work. The stuff is going to come in from all over the place.

Most people have got some element of Candida in their body that’s kept in check, kept in control by beneficial bacteria and by the natural physiological homeostatic balance mechanisms of the body, and there are many different systems that help to regulate your system and keep it perfectly balanced. Nature is quite complex, but it has very simple requirements. It’s something I’ve always been taught to believe.

So your body also has got very simple requirements in terms of food. Simple requirements in terms of rest and relaxation. Plenty of pure water. Plenty of fresh air. All the basic things that we’re taught as naturopaths to instill in our clients to get them to maintain optimal health. These are the things that help to cleanse the body from Candida. Not super-duper, way out crazy protocols or weird diets. It’s basic stuff, but many people don’t do the basic things right and that’s why they get themselves in problems. They go to bed too late. They eat too much sugar. They drink too much booze. They just overdo things. Tend to neglect the body. When you neglect the body, problems start happening.

My book, Candida Crusher, was written for people like you with Candida yeast infection and I assume you’ve got a Candida problem or that’s perhaps why you’re looking at this video today, so you can relate to that. Check out my many articles on yeastinfection.org and do my quiz. The quiz will help you determine what degree you’ve got a yeast infection, then you can work out whether it’s important for you to do a cleanse or not.

When I think of the words Candida cleanse, I’m thinking more about the term Candida program, a holistic program. There are many different books out there that give you the promise of Candida cure. Yeast Infection No More is one of them. The Candida Diet is another one of them. The 24-Hour Yeast Cure is another one. There’s a whole bunch of them. Most of them all fall short of the mark.

I’m not trying to blow my own trumpet here, but what I’m trying to say is it took me three years to write a book where I looked at all aspects of cleansing the body from Candida. It was very important for me to explain to you that it’s not just a matter of eating foods, focusing on food, food, food all the time. That’s what the Candida Diet book does. It’s just basically a big food book. Yeast Infection No More book is a little bit better, but it lacks the most important parts that I’ve included in Candida Crusher. It lacks to put strong emphasis on the fact that stress and an imbalanced lifestyle is often what keeps the Candida going on and on in somebody’s body.

They may partially recover, but then they relapse again. And that’s the big problem with yeast infection is people don’t really put all the pieces of the puzzle together properly if they want to cleanse their body from the yeast infection.

So check out yeastinfection.org as I mentioned. And if you’re interested, buy my book because it’s going to give you all the pieces of the puzzle that you’re looking for.

Thanks for tuning in.