Author: Eric Bakker

Today, I’m going to talk a little bit about why stress feeds Candida. In fact, this is going to be a series of a few different videos explaining about the connection with stress, your immune system, and the promotion of yeast infection.

So a big thing that you need to bear in mind is one of the main hormones that influence stress is called cortisol. Cortisol can increase or decrease in the presence of stress, and what you’re going to find is that in the alarm phase or in the initial phases of stress, which happen to people all the time. For example, if your mobile phone rings or if you’ve got an appointment or if you’ve got something to do. If there’s any demand placed on your body, cortisol will increase.

With severe stress, cortisol can increase at an alarmingly high rate. If you’ve had a car accident or if you’ve fallen down the stairs, if you’ve had any kind of injury, cortisol is going to go up. Even a sporting injury. If you’ve got prolonged pain or emotional stress, if you’ve got problems with your boss, with your employee, with your mother-in-law, anything like that, if there’s a prolonged duration of stress, you can be in an alarm phase on and off for quite a while. These alarms can occur and then you can back off and get down into what we call the “resistance” or “adaptation” phase of stress. I’ll explain a little bit more about this general adaptation syndrome in another video, but you can probably see some videos online explaining the three stages of stress. You may want to know a little bit about this.

With the alarm phase or basically the initial stages of stress, cortisol gets elevated. And what we find is the white blood cells, particularly the most important white blood cells, or lymphocytes, can, in fact, disappear with very high levels of cortisol.

Now the body will do this because if you’re running away from a threat or if there’s a problem that you need to escape from, the immune system is not initially important. What is important is that you have a good amount of blood flowing to the muscles and to the brain, to the larger muscles and the brain, so you can escape from this threat, so immunity is not really a critical issue.

The point I’m making here is if you’ve got high anxiety or you suffer a lot from stress, if you have a lot of demands placed on you, you feel recurrently ill; this is going to be a problem because you’re going to have a low state of immunity. And what does that mean for Candida? A perpetuation of Candida. So this is how stress can feed a yeast infection, can allow it to keep going.

We all talk about, we’ve got to stop the sugars, we can’t have Mars bars or Coca-Cola or we can’t go to McDonalds and have their nice sundaes, we can’t have the sugar, but we don’t talk about the reduction in the immune system that occurs with stress.

You can read a lot more about this in Candida Crusher, but I really want you to understand the principle that with poor immunity will be perpetuation of Candida. I’ll explain a little bit more in-depth about other kinds of cellular responses with the immune system in subsequent videos on stress and Candida.

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I’ve got a question here asked from a patient in America. Does Lufenuron kill Candida? No, it doesn’t kill Candida. It doesn’t kill it at all. In fact, the two websites that promote this product claim that it helps to inhibit the cell wall of Candida and, therefore, helps to eradicate it.

This is a line of crap. Science has shown that in 2005 research was conducted at the University of California showing it was a completely ineffective Candida cell wall membrane inhibitor. So I would not recommend you purchase this product at all and stick with the more traditional antifungal medicines that were designed for their intended purpose.

Lufenuron, a chitin synthesis inhibitor, was designed by a chemical company to get rid of fleas. Unless you’re infested with fleas, you’ve got them all over your body, all around your scrotum, all around the vaginal area, fleas in your hair, and fleas inside your tummy, whatever, it may be effecting, but not many people I see are covered in fleas, so I recommend you avoid this product like the plague.

I’ve seen too many patients with massive side effects from taking Lufenuron and I don’t want you to be another person who contacts me saying, “I think I got scammed. I took this product. I feel sick.

What am I going to do? I contacted the people I purchased it from. I’ve heard nothing back. Eric, help me please?”

Now I’ve had many emails like that. I’ve had many Skype consultations like that, so I don’t want you to be another one of those people, so please avoid this product and stick with more traditional things like garlic and oregano oil, grapefruit seed extract, these are things that are proven to work.

There’s even many university studies in varying states around the U.S., the U.K., and Germany, different places like that, that endorse these sorts of natural products. Science has shown that garlic, for example, is a highly effective antifungal, but it’s not just an antifungal, also it helps to keep the blood thin, reduces blood pressure, has many effects on the immune system, so these are very good things for you to take. And they’re also foods. You can actually buy these things as foods and take them as standardized medicines as well. But to take chemical treatments designed to kill fleas, it’s not a good idea, so please avoid these sham treatments.

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Today, I’m going to talk a little bit about jock itch. I’ve got quite a few guys that have been emailing me regarding jock itch, and I’ve had quite a few consultations with male patients all around the world regarding this condition. Today, the question is going to be does alcohol cause jock itch?

Well, it doesn’t really cause jock itch as such, but it can be a hell of a big aggravating factor, and a continuing factor. Guys often drink alcohol. I mean we like alcohol, us guys. We like beer. We like wine. We like spirits like whiskey. We like bourbon. We like all those sorts of things. And we like naughty foods. We like sugars. We like pizzas, and we like all the good stuff, ice cream, donuts, bagels, all that kind of stuff. We like having barbeques with our friends and a couple of cold beers, some nice hot steaks; these are things that guys like to do. I mean I’m no different. I’m a guy. I like these sort of things, and I’ve had bad jock itch in the past, really bad jock itch, so I can talk a little bit about this condition with some experience.

I can tell you now, if you’ve got bad jock itch, you don’t want to be drinking a lot of alcohol because it’s one hell of a big factor in the continuation of jock itch. So are sugary foods and sweet foods. While it doesn’t cause jock itch necessarily because there are a lot of guys that drink alcohol who don’t get jock itch. If you’ve got it, it can certainly keep it going.

If you’ve got this condition pretty bad, that’s probably one of the first things that you want to stop doing or cut right back on. If you look at my book, Candida Crusher, I’m not a big fan in stopping people doing things overnight. If you’re drinking beer at the moment, you probably want to cut back by at least 50 percent. That’s the first thing that you want to start doing.

The other thing you want to start doing is probably treating it locally by wearing boxer shorts instead of briefs and by washing the area at least twice per day having showers morning and night. Once a day is not going to cut it. You need two showers a day. If you’ve got this condition and you’re drinking alcohol, especially if you’re drinking alcohol three, four, five times a week, you definitely want to cut back, and you’ll definitely notice a reduction.

Use some tea tree oil products. Take an antifungal like Canxida. Go to Canxida.com. That’s a pretty darn good antifungal that’s going to help you a lot, and cut that alcohol back, just reduce it. Every glass of beer you have less is one less aggravating factor. So give it a shot and see how you go.

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