Author: Eric Bakker

Eric Bakker, author of Candida Crusher. Thanks for tuning into this video today.

Today, I’d like to talk to you a bit about aggravations. What are aggravations? How do they come about? How can we minimize them?

Let’s first try to understand a little bit what aggravations are. When you’re unwell, you’ve got aggravations as it is. You’ll have different symptoms produced by a yeast infection. They can range from itchy skin or jock itch or vaginal thrush or itchy ears or itchy scalp. They can be itching anywhere in the body. It could also be bloating or gas, uncomfortable digestive problems. For some people it could be brain fog. For others, fatigue. For other people, it could be pain in the joints, the small joints or the larger joints. Or just a feeling of not being well at all. These are what some people would term aggravations. Of course, they’re aggravations.

When you start a natural medicine treatment, there often will be some form of aggravation. And for those people who hold on dearly to the belief that western conventional medicine is the be-all, end-all that it cures disease, they find that quite strange that you would aggravate or feel worse before you feel better.

Many people who hold onto the tenets of conventional medicine believe if you’re not feeling well, you take a drug and you feel better and the problem is solved. But is it really? Is that what constitutes cure in your book? A disappearance of all symptoms. I would believe it’s more a suppression of the symptoms. And, of course, when you stop that drug and you start cleaning up the body, what are you going to get? Aggravations. Many patients that I treat, but particularly ones who’ve been taking non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drugs like Advil or paracetamol, aspirin or people taking drugs to lower cholesterol or blood pressure, many times when we treat them, particularly if we get them off those drugs, their body’s going to throw out toxins and that’s going to cause an aggravation.

Let me just grab my book, Candida Crusher, which you may well be familiar with, and just go over some of the likely scenarios that can cause aggravations. As I mentioned, aggravations can come about for many different reasons. But these are six of the common reasons.

Drug side effects that we call iatrogenic disease, but we just covered that really. When you take a drug, it’s going to suppress the symptoms. And in many cases, the drug will actually create symptoms in its own right. We call that iatrogenic disease. For example, patients I know with psoriasis, a skin condition, may take a drug called methotrexate. This drug is known to cause itching and skin problems, a feeling of tiredness and headaches and digestive problems. Certain types of pharmaceutical drugs to lower blood pressure we call beta blockers have also been known to cause skin itching in about 25 percent of patients who take them. Many different drugs cause iatrogenic disease. Antibiotics when taken can cause a yeast infection, which is a disease in its own right.

Coming off any medications or detoxing from pharmaceutical drugs. We covered that a little bit as well. When you come off a medication and you clean the body up, you’re going to experience discomfort we call an aggravation. Don’t confuse aggravations from coming off drugs to aggravations being produced when you clean the body up from Candida die off or Herxheimer reactions; they’re entirely different. It’s easy to get confused there.

A change in diet after commencing treatment. When you change your diet, you’re going to experience some type of aggravation. If you’ve gone from a pretty crappy diet to a healthy diet. If you’ve lived on take-away food, coca cola, ice cream, donuts, foods like that and you decide to clean up your act, you’re probably not going to feel too well for a couple of weeks. It’s no surprise. All that hydrogenated fat, sugar, excess salt, colors, all the rubbish and chemicals in those foods, the body’s going to throw those all out. They’re all toxins to the body, so it’s going to be detoxifying. Especially if you start drinking fresh juices and eat a high protein diet with good lean meats, lots of fresh organic produce, you’re going to clean up and you’re not going to feel too well. If you’ve cut down from seven coffees a day down to one per day and then cut coffee out, you’re going to feel not too good. These are aggravations with a diet change.

Combining several different treatments, drugs and dietary supplements all at the same time. How many people watching this video will be taking the oral contraceptive pill or maybe Advil or a drug like that regularly and taking a B vitamin or a multivitamin or an Omega 3 fish oil. You need to be careful when you combine drugs and supplements because you can get yourself into a lot of hot water and create additional symptoms and aggravations.

Improperly combining drugs and natural medicines at the same time. For example, you have to be careful if you’re taking a blood thinning drug called Coumadin or Warfarin and taking lots of fish oil; not really a flash idea. Particularly if you’re going to be on a diet that’s also going to have your blood a little bit on the thin side. You need to be careful with certain pharmaceutical medications with dietary supplements and herbal medicines. Talk to your naturopath or doctor about that. They’ll give you more information.

Cleansing reactions of the body after commencing natural medicine treatment. Oftentimes, this will be drug residues clearing from the body. This is a bit similar to the drug side effects to a degree. Just be aware that there are various cleansing reactions that occur in the body for different degrees of medications and supplements you take.

You can read a lot more about this in Candida Crusher, my book. I’ve written extensively on iatrogenic disease, i.e., drug-induced disease, aggravations from Candida, aggravations from improperly combining drugs and supplements. If you’re educated in that area, it could save you a lot of discomfort. If in doubt, I recommend you either read my book or go and see your medical practitioner or naturopathic practitioner for some expert advice. Because he or she will be able to expertly guide you in this area.

I hope this video was of use to you today. Thanks for tuning in.

Hi there, Eric Bakker, naturopath, FAQ. This one’s from a lady in France, in some small place in France. It looks like a French name.

The question here is Eric, what are the consequences of a long-term chronic yeast infection if left untreated?

I may have done a video on this before. I’m not sure. But the consequences of any condition left untreated are not usually that good. This is going to allow all sorts of disease processes to take place.

So if you look at a yeast infection, for example, if left untreated, a yeast infection could turn out to be a chronic problem, which can lead to all sorts of long-term complications. Just like any infection of the genital tract, it needs prompt attention and it needs a resolution.

It’s important first to diagnose what you’re dealing with, and after what you know what you’re dealing with, treat it and get it over and done with. Any condition in the body left to become chronic is asking for a lot of problems.

You know, they say that yeast infections are self-limiting, but even the experts can’t agree whether a yeast infection of the female area is going to lead to infertility or conditions like endometriosis. We don’t really know. A lot of people are divided over that. But in my clinical experience, I’ve certainly seen it be the link between infertility, endometriosis and chronic yeast infections, which are basically just treated time and again, only to resurface.

And it’s the same with the male. If a male get a penis yeast infection or a genital condition, it would pay to treat this condition because, again, it could lead to all sorts of complications. And I’ve certainly seen chronic prostatitis linked with male yeast infections.

Intestinal yeast infections can lead to all sorts of complications for the gut. Liver disorders, diabetes, many different conditions can come about from this. It can be very debilitating and cause you a lot of discomfort, pain and cost you a lot of money down the track in medical bills and time off work. So it would pay for you to treat any chronic condition promptly rather than waiting for it to get out of hand and become very chronic.

Yeast infections can often go from the digestive tract into the system itself, into the circulation. There’s certainly studies which agree that this can take place. I wrote up one of these particular studies in my book of an American gentleman who swallowed some capsules of Candida albicans and within only a few hours, it could be cultured from his bloodstream and produced from the urine. So we know that yeast infections can spread from the GI tract into the circulation itself quite rapidly, even under the right conditions.

So Candida is generally held in strict control in the body in accordance with the microbial balance which is occurring in the GI tract. But if Candida is given the upper hand through antibiotics or the pill or high stress, high sugar diets, for example, it can go rampant and become quite a severe major condition which certainly needs treatment.

So my recommendation for you is if you’ve got a chronic infection is certainly get onto it today rather than tomorrow and do something about it, so it doesn’t become a condition which is unmanageable even by the very best clinician. Any condition is best treated right now and nipped in the bud before it gets out of hand and becomes chronic.

So I hope that answers the question there about the consequences of long-term chronic yeast infections if left untreated.

Good day, Eric Bakker here, naturopath, author of Candida Crusher.

Just wanted to do a quick video today regarding why my program would be good for you to get if you’ve got a chronic yeast infection. What sets my program apart from the rest? Why is it different? What are some of the things that you need to take into account when you get all these other eBooks on yeast infections? There’s millions of them online. How do you know I’m not selling you a bunch of bologna like a lot of these books are?

Well, I’ve studied yeast infections now for 25 years. These are some of my books on yeast infections up here. I’ve got about 2,000 books on natural health in my room, a lot of diet books, and probably about 100 books on Candida. I think I’ve referenced about 50 or 60 in my Candida Crusher book. I’ve got about 15 eBooks on yeast infections.

I find most of the books keep rehashing the same information. Most of the books, if not all of the eBooks, are written by people who’ve actually had a yeast infection but never actually treated patients in a clinical setting with a yeast infection. They weren’t clinicians. They weren’t doctors. They were basically just people who lived at home, got sick, treated their yeast infection, and then became instant experts in this whole area.

The difference with Candida Crusher and all these other eBooks is, for example, I’ve treated over 15,000 people with yeast infections spanning a 25-year period. That’s quite a long time and that’s quite a lot of people. I’ve built up a reasonably good amount of clinical skills over these years.

How do you know this book’s going to be any good for you? Are you going to get cured using this book? Well, I don’t like using the “cured” word, but I would put it to you, what are you going to do with the information in my book, more likely. Because I find there are three types of patients that I tend to see in my clinic.

Patient number one is going to look at the information I presented them, have a good think about it, and make the changes that are necessary to get on top of their yeast infection. They’re going to make the right lifestyle changes and dietary changes. They’re going to take dietary supplements regularly. They’re going to come back regularly to my clinic for follow up. They’re going to ask me questions. We’re going to be able to track and measure and test their results to see if they’re on track and maybe gently nudge them back on track again. And these are the patients that recover from a yeast infection.

These make up about 60 percent of the people I see. My reputation’s built on results. Results are the main things that get me work. I don’t really market. I write and research and I treat patients. And if I get good results, I’m going to get patients. If I get crap results, I’m not going to get patients. And I’ve got plenty of patients, so I must be getting reasonable results.

The second group of people are people that we also see quite frequently. That would make up about 25, maybe 30 percent of people we see in a clinical setting. These are people who come in. They sometimes don’t make the follow up visit. They will listen to your advice, but they seem to be always too busy to eat the right kind of foods or do any exercise. They’re always on their computer. They’re always out partying or doing things. Health is sort of a priority for them, but not really as much a priority as it is for the first category. They do take supplements, but they forget to take them here or there. And they’re always in a hurry. They’re busy people.

You think they get results. Well, they do. Some of them do. Some of them don’t. Some of them become category one patients and some of them drop out never to return. I guess it’s because their symptoms weren’t bad enough really for them to really want to commit to making the change necessary to get the results.

The third category, unfortunately, are people that seen me once and we don’t see them again. These are people who are after the quick fixes. These are the people who fall for scams like the 12-hour yeast cure. These are people who want to have their cake and eat it, too. They want to keep on drinking booze. They want to keep on eating chocolate bars. They want to keep on having all those sugary cereals. They don’t take their health seriously. And as Dr. Wilson used to say to me, if you don’t take your health seriously, just take it somewhere else. Just go and see another doctor.

We call these patients doctor hoppers. They hop from one doctor to another. They complain about all the doctors that can’t cure them, but they don’t want to make any damn changes themselves to get well. Those aren’t the patients I want. I say to a patient when they come in, “Are you going to be one, two or three?” It’s as simple as that.

Why is my book different? Why should you buy this book? What makes Candida Crusher a cut above a lot of that other stuff out there online?

There are a couple of points here I’ve got on my screen I’m going to read out to you. And this is what sets my book apart from all those other yeast infection books.

A comprehensive, fully clickable, 23-page table of contents in the front, so it’s an eBook. You can click to anywhere in the book.

More than 25 comprehensive case studies.

A whole chapter devoted to quick solutions called the Quick Start Guide, that’s Chapter 4.

A three-stage, fast relief program for men and women. A whole chapter devoted to vaginal yeast infections. This is worth the price of the book alone.

The most effective vaginal yeast infection treatment yet developed. It’s a two-stage protocol that just nails yeast infections time and again.

Hundreds of answers to frequently asked questions.

Sections that rebuke most of the myths about yeast infections.

How to get the correct diagnosis.

An extensive chapter on the many and varied signs and symptoms of your yeast infection.

An in-depth information about medical testing of yeast infections.

The most comprehensive information ever seen on Candida functional medicine testing in any book.

You’ll also find my comprehensive at-home test for yeast infections, which is entirely unique information.

You’ll find my symptom tracker, how you can track your symptoms at home and the severity of them, whether you’re improving or getting worse. I’ve also got a home test tracker, so you can actually do these home tests and track them over a 16-week period to see which way you’re going.

There’s a proven three-stage diet and there’s 100 pages on Candida diet and nutrition alone. I think it’s close to 200 pages on diet and nutrition in Chapter 7.

The link between Candida, your immune system and stress; there’s about 50 pages on this information.

There’s Candida detoxification and cleansing. There’s 31 pages on detox. I think there’s about five pages on heavy metal cleansing.

Special Candida foods and the best dietary supplements to take. There’s 70 pages on this.

The best lifestyle information. I’ve got 70 pages on how to have the right lifestyle if you’ve got a chronic yeast infection.

There’s tons of information on herbal treatments, the correct washes, cleanses, it just goes on and on and one, 718 pages.

If you’ve got a chronic yeast infection, this is the bible to get. Forget a lot of these other junky books I was telling you about because as I was saying, they’re written by people who’ve never seen a patient. They’ve grabbed information from the internet; whereas, this information comes from my clinic after treating thousands of patients, and that’s what makes the difference.

And if you’re not happy, you get all your money back. What do you got to lose? I don’t think you’ll want a refund on this book. Because once you read this book and you use the information, you’re going to nail that yeast infection. And that’s why I wrote this book. I wrote this book and the by-line is called the permanent yeast solution, for that reason. Because I want you to permanently eradicate that yeast infection once and for all. And that’s worth $47. It sure is.

A visit to a gynecologist for a female is going to be $500. And what is she going to get out of that? A bunch of creams and then maybe another visit.

If you want to beat this infection permanently and you’re serious about wanting to get rid of it and you’re a category one patient who’s going to do what it takes, then this book’s going to give you the result you’re looking for.

Thanks for your time.