Author: Eric Bakker

Thank you for checking out my video. Here’s a question I got from a guy in the States. What is the difference between Candida albicans and Candida? Probably no difference because most people when they talk about Candida or yeast infections, they talk about the organism, Candida Albicans. After doing many stool tests, I can tell you there’s 19 types of Candida that commonly affect a human organism[?]. But when I say “commonly” some I only see maybe 1 in every 400 to 500 stool tests.

The common ones I see would be these: Candida Albicans, Candida Krusei, Candida Parapsilosis, Candida Glabrata, and Candida Tropicalis, so they’d probably be the five I would commonly see. Occasionally, we get rare ones like Candida Lyxosophila or Candida Maltosa or Rugosa. These are more rare strains of Candida, so they’re picked up in the stool test every now and then.

But the very common one I would see would be Albicans in probably 89 percent of all stool tests, and I do see a bit of Glabrata and Krusei. When I was in Australia, I saw more of the Tropicalis. The Candida Tropicalis tend to be more difficult to eradicate than the Albicans. Albicans is the one that we commonly associate with gastrointestinal yeast infection issues.

It’s just like with bacteria. We’ve got many different types of bacteria. We’ve got gram negative. We’ve got gram positive. We’ve got all sorts of beneficial, lots of beneficial. We’ve got many forms of parasites that we deal with. So just like with Candida, there’s no one particular strain, but the treatment is basically the same.

For example, to get rid of Tropicalis, the record[?] is anywhere up to 20 times more difficult than to get rid of Candida Albicans. Many patients I see with chronic yeast infections have got multiple Candida strains, and that becomes a little bit more difficult to eradicate. It’s like having different kinds of criminals in an organization. Some of the criminals are pretty dumb and stupid and they get caught. Other criminals are very smart and some of them are super intelligent. They can always have different disguises on that if they’re captured constantly. You’ve probably seen some movies like that, some pretty good films like that.

Other criminals are plain dumb. They’ll leave their wallets at the crime scene. They’ll leave guns lying around and they’ll have photos of themselves taken with the CT cameras. These are stupid criminals, and we’ve got some bacteria like that, and I find Albicans quite stupid, too. But the problem with the Albicans is it can mutate and change and evade capture, particularly when the person hasn’t really been eating a good diet for a long time and been taking a lot of antibiotic drugs and commercial antifungal drugs.

Candida is quite clever in evading capture. I may have told you in a previous video that Candida can release a particular poison called gleer[?] toxin around itself that actually neutralizes the immune system around it, so it can be quite smart to do that. And when it dies, it releases all these glycol proteins into the circulation that attract the immune system to it rather than the Candida. It’s a little bit like if you see some of these jets that fly and they’ve got a heat sensing missile going straight up their tail, they can release these trailers or showers of sparks and the missile will hit those and blow up instead of the aircraft.

Candida will do a similar thing. Bacteria don’t tend to think as clever as that. Candida is a little bit a cut above a bacteria when it comes to intelligence, I think. And then we’ve got viruses, which are even higher above that which tend to be quite clever in how they can almost completely avoid being destroyed.

I hope that answers your question with a bit of ramble on there for the difference between Candida and Candida Albicans. They’re probably the same. That’s what the person’s talking about. Thanks for tuning in.

This is another home test you can do. I call it the “itch” test.

So the “itch” test is for you to become more acutely aware of your body for a three-day period, and you’ll be surprised. If you’ve got moderate to severe Candida, how often you scratch or itch your body. This could be the ear. This could be the scalp. This could be anywhere around the face or the neck. It could be under the arms or it could be the back. It could be between the toes. It could be in the groin or the private area. Particularly, people who drink a lot of alcohol, have ice cream and sweet foods like cookies because Candida is something that also grows on the outside of the body. We commonly see this with toenail fungus. We see this with vaginal infection or jock itch. We see this with ringworm. There are many different fungal conditions that attack the body on the outside.

So the itching could be as mild as having a bit of an itch on the hand every now and then or on the arm. It can be various kinds of molds or fungi that grow on the body like microsporum and it can be hard to pick, but they can create an itching sensation. Just become aware.

And the other thing is if you’ve got a partner you suspect of having a Candida infection, just watch him or her for a three-day period and don’t say anything and just watch how often they itch themselves. You’ll be surprised. You’ll be quite surprised.

This is performed weekly and recorded in my Candida home test symptom tracker that you’ll find in my book. I’ll talk about some other home tests on other videos, so thanks for tuning in.

This is going to be another home test for Candida to determine if you have Candida or not. This is called the “smell test.” It’s quite a funny one, the smell test.

They did some research at a college in London a long time ago, the Imperial College in London, in England, and they found out that people who have excessive bacteria and fungi on their body often have a body odor about them, a smell.

I frequently get emails from people saying they’ve got bad breath or they got body odor, what could be going on? So it’s not uncommon to have like a, “whewwww,” a smell under the armpit or like a body odor. People with Candida often have gas. They have bloating. They have flatulence. They have bad bowel motions, so they’ve got a lot of fermentation going on in the gut. This fermentation creates heat and body odor as a consequence.

If you go to a brewery or you do your own home brewing of wine or beer or know an uncle or a relation who does this, go into that place where they do it and it’ll be a bit smelly. The odor that is produced with fermentation is quite common. Fermentation also creates warmth or heat, so people sometimes complain about sweating or flushing with excessive fermentation dysbiosis, which occurs with Candida quite a lot, so heat can be generated. Perspiration can be generated, bad body odor, sweating all the time, smelly armpits just after a shower, still got bad body odor, and so this could be a sign of an intestinal Candida problem, digestive Candida problem. So what happens on the inside of the body goes to the outside of the body.

Once a week you can do this test and then write it down on my symptom tracker to determine if your body odor is changing. As Candida goes away and the gut improves more and more and the fermentation disappears slowly and the good bacteria come back, you’ll find that the odor will go away as well and you’ll smell normal. You won’t have to be embarrassed around people anymore.

That’s the smell test. Try and determine if your body – if the odor is changing, if it’s getting better or getting worse and record that or have someone tell you that they think that your body odor is changing, someone that’s close to you, a partner or a friend or something. They may notice this change as well.

So that’s called the smell test. Thanks for tuning into my video today.