Author: Eric Bakker

Frequently asked question. Can I take antifungals with probiotics for Candida treatment? You can, and, in fact, they actually work really well together, not against each other like is commonly believed.

Many people believe that if you’re taking a probiotic, it’s going to get cancelled out by the antifungal product. This is not true, particularly if you take an antifungal dietary supplement that contains a lot of natural foods like garlic extract or argan oil. These things don’t kill beneficial bacteria. People have been consuming these natural foods for thousands of years, and many people who consume these foods do not have horrific die off. They don’t have horrific yeast infections. They also have very large amounts of beneficial bacteria in their digestive system.

What we know also from research – even the medical people – there was an article written in a gastroenterology journal in 2008 where they said that probiotics actually, in fact, are very beneficial to take alongside antibiotics. Research found that it stopped diarrhea, so you can take these together. I don’t even believe you need to take them apart. Probiotics actually will certainly live in the digestive system. We know that from people who eat yogurt and foods like that. There is belief that if you take a probiotic with food, it will cancel out. It will get killed by digestive enzymes, but that’s not the case. There are many types of bacteria that live in the stomach environment, in fact. There are bacteria that live throughout the digestive system in a wide range of pH conditions. So don’t make these assumptions because you read this sort of information from what I call “arm chair” experts on Google. A lot of this stuff is rubbish. It’s nonsense. Feel free to take probiotics and enzymes with food and also an antifungal supplement with food.

It is probably prudent to take one at the beginning of the meal and one at the end of the meal, for example. You can separate them. You don’t necessarily have to take them together, but you don’t need to split them up by several hours as some people say. I just don’t really believe that’s the right solution. The main thing is to take these things and not sort of intellectualize when you should take them, as long as you take them on a regular basis. That’s going to make the difference because a lot of people don’t even take supplements, and other people say you need to take them at this time or that time. Just take them and see what happens.

So I hope that answers your question. Thank you.

Thanks for tuning in. We’re talking about a bit of a sensitive topic today, so I’m going to talk about jock itch and having sex with your partner. Might be a bit uneasy for some guys to talk about this kind of topic, but I’m going to talk about it anyway.

In the early days of my practice, I worked with a medical practitioner, a gay medical practitioner, in fact, to be honest with you, but I had a great relationship with this guy in the clinic and I saw lots of different kinds of patients. I saw lots of straight males. I saw lots of gay males. I saw lots of lesbians and straight women, but the thing is, I talked with a lot of patients about sex. I’m one of these practitioners that talk to their patients about everything.

Sexual relations is an important part of our relationships with people, whether we are straight or gay. I don’t care. I don’t look at a person’s sexuality. I look at the person, to be honest. Now to be honest with you, I’ve dealt with a lot of people with STDs in the past, with venereal warts, with Chlamydia, with Herpes, but also with Candida yeast infections.

I can tell you something. If you’ve got jock itch as a guy or a vaginal infection as a woman, there’s one thing I want you to really think about. It’s easy to pass a Candida yeast infection from one person to another. It is possible. We can’t really say that a yeast infection of the private area is a sexually transmitted disease, but it can be transmitted sexually. It certainly can, and I’ve seen this with many of my patients in the past.

If you’re a guy and you have jock itch and you’ve got a girlfriend or a wife or a partner and you’re a bit worried about it, then you really need to take precautions because you can move this tinea infection from one person to another. It certainly can happen. I’m talking about tinea cruris or jock itch. It can happen.

It’s not easy to move like toenail fungus from one person to another unless you’re doing some unusual things, but you can certainly pass a genital yeast infection from one person to another. It can be done, and I’ve heard it done. I’ve talked to many patients who’ve moved these infections from one person to another, and it’s not a pleasant thing to do.

What do you do? Do you put on a condom? Is it going to make any difference if you’ve got a yeast infection in the rectal area or the scrotum, do you think a condom is going to help? Probably not. Oral sex probably is not quite the same as having sex in other ways, genital sex, but if you’ve got jock itch, especially if it’s really bad, you need to be pretty good with hygiene and think carefully what you’re doing here because you can move these infections across.

My recommendations are if you’ve got quite bad jock itch is to try to clear it up as much as you can, and take precautions when you’re having sexual intercourse because you can move these infections across. Try to do the right thing by your partner. Try to improve your gastrointestinal health and also your local health in that region.

You can read a lot more in Candida Crusher about how to avoid transmission of a jock itch infection from one person to another, and it’s certainly possible to do. It may be a bit more difficult in casual sex, but if you’re in a committed relationship like I am, think about your partner more carefully. Be open and honest with your partner. Talk about these sort of things, and make sure you get the right kind of treatment. Go to yeastinfection.org and look at the treatment and please do my yeast infection quiz. I want you to nail this thing. It’s not fair on your partner if you don’t talk about jock itch, and you transfer it to your partner, whether your partner is male or female. You really need to be serious about this and get on top of it.

Jock itch can be fixed up, and if you follow my treatment methods, you can nail this thing in three to six months. I’ve helped a lot of patients just like you to nail this thing. It’s an awful condition. I had it myself and it can be nailed.

So take my advice. Go to yeastinfection.org. Do my quiz and do the right thing by your partner if you’re in a sexual relationship.

Thanks for tuning in.

Please go and check out yeastinfection.org and do my yeast infection quiz. This quiz is pretty awesome. It’s going to show you if you have mild, moderate or severe Candida.

Can garlic cure jock itch? That’s the question today. Can I get rid of my jock itch by eating garlic? You probably can’t.

It’s good to include garlic as part of your overall dietary management of a yeast infection internally, but you’re best really to treat jock itch externally as well as internally. It’s the smartest move, especially if it’s severe. I’m not saying it won’t cure it 100 percent, but it’s not going to be a magic bullet. You really need to treat jock itch externally, internally; you need to make the right diet and lifestyle changes. And if you do all that, you’ll get a real quick reduction in symptoms, and you can even get it cured within three to six months by making the right kind of changes.

If you’ve read any of my articles on yeastinfection.org, the men’s articles, you will have read about lifestyle. You will have read about how stress can lower your immunity, increase your susceptibility to a yeast infection. Stress also has an effect of making you want to eat and drink the wrong kind of foods, too much alcohol, too much caffeine, too many sugary foods; these things all screw up your digestive system. They all may increase your susceptibility to yeast infection and bacterial overgrowth in the gut. They also change the pH of your body just slightly. The skin has got a set pH and when the pH on the skin shifts, it allows you to be more susceptible to yeast infection as well.

The answer to your question can garlic cure jock itch? It’s probably, no, but if you include it as part of your overall strategy, it’s going to help significantly. One raw clove of garlic per day is a smart move to have, whether you’ve got a yeast infection or not, I think it’s a very clever move.

A good dietary supplement for you to take is Canxida. I developed Canxida up over a long period of time. Check out my YouTube clips on Canxida.com. Just take one or two tablets a day, that’s going to help you a lot. That’s got garlic in it, but it’s got a standardized garlic in it, two percent allicin, so allicin is a very powerful active ingredient in garlic that helps to wipe out a yeast infection.

Some guys I know with bad yeast infections have told me that they get benefit from cutting up a clove of fresh garlic in half and then rubbing that over the worst areas of jock itch. This works really well, but it doesn’t work well if you’ve been scratching the skin because of the itching, you’ve broken up the skin, because then it could sting and burn by putting the garlic on, so garlic can help externally a little bit. And use it internally as part of your overall strategy, but don’t rely on garlic solely to cure jock itch because it won’t do that.

Look at the holistic plan. That’s going to really work well for you. Don’t forget to check out yeastinfection.org and do my quiz.

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