Author: Eric Bakker

Thanks for tuning into this video. Here’s a question I got asked from a guy in Australia not that long ago. Where do I go if I have a male yeast infection? What do I do? Who do I see? What treatment do I take? How do I know I’ve got a male yeast infection? How do I know I haven’t got herpes or a sexually transmitted disease? What the hell have I got? What is it? Can you help me?

These are some routine questions I get posted to me through yeastinfection.org, so what I want you to do is please check out my yeast infection quiz. That’s one of the first things that you can do. Go to yeastinfection.org and look for the button or go to CandidaCrusher.com and look for one of the buttons that says, “Take the quiz.” This is going to give you quite a good idea because it took me a long time and a lot of investment to get this yeast infection quiz perfected and I believe it’s one of the best in the world currently, so go and do that quiz right now if you haven’t already done it, to determine if you’ve got a mild, moderate or severe yeast infection.

Now as a lot of people have said to me, “Oh, these questions are quite generic. These questions could mean you’ve got any kind of disease like diabetes or multiple sclerosis or arthritis or anything,” but that’s not true. This quiz was very carefully designed with these particular questions and the screens you go through to very carefully determine not only your level of Candida, but whether you’ve got Candida or not, and it’s based on tens of thousands of patients. It’s not something I just plucked out of the air yesterday or found on Google somewhere and quickly slapped it up. This is a carefully designed quiz, so do that quiz.

The other thing I want you to do is to read some of my male articles on yeastinfection.org. There’s a whole section for guys there. I’ve seen a lot of guys like you over the years with jock itch, with toenail fungus, with skin rashes, with gut problems, with all kinds of manifestations of yeast infections, so I believe I’m well positioned to help guys like you out there with this problem right now. So that’s where you can go to.

If you’ve got a lot of problems and you’re really in doubt, you can always go to your doctor and ask for an assessment to check out what you’ve got. You can also ask for a skin scraping and culture to see whether they can actually grow a fungus off the skin. Don’t be embarrassed. Go to the doctor. Doctors are well trained to check this out. You don’t have to take the treatment necessarily, but if you’re really concerned and you’ve got high anxiety about it, maybe get checked out first.

I’ve got plenty of solutions for you, so get checked out first to determine if you’ve got a male yeast infection. There are different types of infections that can affect the groin region of the male, but it sometimes pays to get checked out first. Natural treatment is the way to go, and you can see about that in other videos that I’ve made regarding male yeast infections.

I hope that answers your question on where do you go. First do the quiz, check out your severity, get a diagnosis if you’re concerned about it, read some of my articles, tune into my other videos on this YouTube channel because there are a lot of male videos on here, and drop me a line if you’ve got a real concern and a consultation is possible, too.

I hope that gives you some information. Thanks for tuning in.

I’ve got a question here. Why would I need to take an antifungal dietary supplement for Candida?

Well, that’s quite simple. You don’t need to take one at all. If you do everything perfectly, if you eat the right kind of foods, you abstain from all alcohol, most refined carbohydrates, all fruits, and quite a lot of different foods for probably six to nine months, if you live a very low-stress lifestyle, you get eight hours of sleep, drink plenty of water, if you do everything premium, you probably would not need to take an antifungal.

But here’s the crunch. Nobody does that. The fact that you’re looking at this video today, it might be 11 o’clock at night, might be 1 a.m., it could be on your mobile phone any time of the day, it could be why you’re eating something right now in distress. The thing is we don’t live naturally balanced lives. We live in the 21st century. We need to have some kind of support. We all like to get things done quickly and efficiently and that’s why we take an antifungal.

Antifungals help us to overcome Candida yeast infections much more rapidly than if we didn’t take them, and more effectively. They help to balance our bowel flora as well. They help us to eradicate lots of different types of bacteria, not just Candida, so taking an antifungal for three to six months makes a lot of sense. You don’t need to take a lot of quality antifungals; you just need to take a small amount. Once or twice a day, three times per day. You can lead up to that after 14 days, so I generally get people to start taking an antifungal maybe two tablets a day for a little while and then build up to three a day and generally just for a period of about four to six weeks.

Good idea to take an antifungal when you come back from holiday, for example. Say you’ve been on a cruise or you’ve been on a holiday somewhere, whether it’s to the Caribbean or Mexico or South America or even Paris or Germany or New Zealand where I live. If you’ve traveled and you’ve eaten different kinds of food and been under travel stress, it can shift the microbial balance. A good time to take an antifungal.

If you’ve been through a lot of work stress or bankruptcy or divorce, this can lower your immunity. Good time to take an antifungal. So, yes, it does make sense to take an antifungal from time to time because Candida overgrowth is rampant. Many of us eat too much foods and consume beverages containing sugars. Many of us take various medication or eat poultry or chicken with antibiotics in it. Many women take the pill. Many guys drink too much beer. We get a lot of microbial imbalances, and particularly with stress, we increase our susceptibility to yeast infection.

I believe that everybody will benefit from a good antifungal supplement once or twice per year. It can really help to keep your digestive system in good shape.

I hope that answers the question on the antifungal medication because I think it is very beneficial, and it’s going to help you. Not just for Candida, but just for overall gut health as well.

Thanks for tuning in.

Today, I’d like to talk to you about processed foods versus natural foods or foods that are unrefined and unprocessed.

Many people out there will be eating foods today that come out of cans or boxes or packets or perhaps being bought at a supermarket. I’ve noticed there’s an increasing amount of these foods being consumed over the last 10, 15, 20 years. I’ve also noticed an increase in digestive problems in people in that period of time.

These digestive problems, obviously, occurred for reasons other than eating processed foods. But I can tell you now that when you start moving toward a more healthy kind of diet and eat more natural, unprocessed foods, there’s going to be a big change in your health, regardless of what condition you might have. Whether it’s a yeast infection. Whether it’s an inflammation in the body. Whether it’s heart disease. Whether it’s insomnia. Whether it’s being overweight. I don’t care what it is. If you start moving yourself more toward a natural way of eating, you’re going to notice a lot of changes occurring in your body. It may be uncomfortable at first, you may even notice some detoxification or cleansing taking place, but the changes are going to be profound.

Let’s have a look first at why processed foods are not really good. I remember when I was a boy growing up in the ’60s and supermarkets were first starting to come in. It was incredible. The person who sold the fruits and vegetables would come to the door. These people would actually come to our house and we would buy fresh produce. And then people started to realize that they could build bigger shops and sell all these goods in one area, one point of contact. And I believe in that 30- or 40-year period that this has occurred, people’s health has certainly declined.

Processed foods? Why? Well, it’s convenience. If you think about it, a company can make food and put it in some type of a packet or can or whatever and put it on the shelf and have a shelf life for one to two years and then market that product. But doing that, the foods are often cooked at a high temperature. And many additives are included in these foods. We get various flavorings and colors and emulsifiers and all sorts of preservatives go in there. They can’t be good for your system. Eating all these chemicals is no good.

A big problem with processed foods also is they contain a lot less vitamins and minerals than freshly grown produce. Eating vegetables and fruits and meats straight from nature makes a lot more sense.

A big thing I find are digestive problems with people occur in processed foods. And I think part of this is because these processed foods, especially canned foods, they lack enzymes. If you’re going to have deep-fried foods, if you’re going to eat food out of a packet all the time, you’re going to lack a lot of enzymes in those foods. Enzymes in these foods are there for many different reasons in natural foods, but enzymes also will speed up the rotting or break down that food in nature. But those enzymes in our digestive system improve our enzymatic ability and our ability to break that food down and absorb it.

Natural foods also from nature contain more fibers than foods do that are processed, so we end up having a better bowel motion and better beneficial bacteria because of those fibers. Processed foods contain high levels of salt and sugar as well.

These are just a few reasons why you don’t really want to go for processed foods and go more to natural foods.

Start cooking foods like you did or your grandparents, perhaps, would have done. I don’t buy the excuse that people haven’t got enough time to cook food. That life is too hurried and too busy. Maybe if that’s the case in your life, you may want to reevaluate your life and go back to a bit of an easier lifestyle where you have got the time to cook foods that are going to build up your health.

As you can see, I’ve got a lot of health books. A lot of these books are from the ‘60s and ‘70s. A well-known author called Adele Davis wrote in the ‘60s that every day when you make food choices, you’re either building up your health or you’re breaking your health down. Each and every day you’ve got that choice to make a healthy choice or an unhealthy choice. And it’s a combination and a culmination of all those choices over a long period of time that are going to determine your health.

So what’s it going to be? Misery, poor health, sickness when you get to your ‘50s, ‘60s, ‘70s or retire in style and have good health to enjoy the things that you’ve built up over a lifetime. Your grandchildren. Your assets. Have holidays. All those things that you can do in good health.

The ball is in your court. It’s your call. I would like you to have a look at a healthier, unprocessed diet if you want to build up good health. Have a think about it.

Thanks for your time.