Author: Eric Bakker

Have you checked out my yeastinfection.org website yet? Please check it out and also don’t forget to do the quiz. I’ve created the world’s best online Candida yeast infection quiz. You’ll find that at CandidaCrusher.com or go to yeastinfection.org and you’ll find it there. I think it’s on the right hand side, so please complete the quiz. That’s going to tell you whether you’ve got mild, moderate or severe Candida.

Is Candida a parasite, has been asked recently. A guy wrote in on email and said to me, “Eric is Candida a parasite? Is it parasitic?”

Yes, it is. It is parasitic because it feeds off the body and it doesn’t off the host and it doesn’t give anything back in return. That’s the definition of a parasite. I’ve just had a look at Killzone and various other websites to read people’s explanations of Candida whether it’s a parasite or not. There’s some pretty dumb stuff written on Killzone, by the way, by people self-proclaimed what I call “armchair experts.”

“Candida” one guy said, “must be killed at all costs. We’ve got to get rid of it. We’ve got to annihilate it entirely from the body.” That’s pretty dumb. You can’t do that. Candida is a normally occurring organism in the body of most people. It occurs in the vaginal area of 30 percent of women as a normal organism. Even though it’s parasitic, it lives in a normal balance inside the gut of a lot of people. There are many different yeasts that live inside our bodies and bacteria. It’s a silly idea to assume that we’ve got to eradicate Candida. We don’t. We’ve got to keep it under control.

It’s the same as criminals. You’ll never eradicate criminals, but we can control them with the right kind of legal, the police and things like that around them, they’re under control. They’re kept under check. Most people won’t do bad things if there are a lot of good people around. It’s the same in your digestive system. If you’ve got a lot of good bacteria, the bad ones aren’t going to get up to much mischief.

Inside the gut we’ve got the good, we’ve got the not so good, and we’ve got the ugly. There’s a whole lot of species of beneficial bacteria that live perfectly well in harmony with the not so good and the bad. You’ll never get a gut that eradicates all bad and all mischievous bacteria and just have good. It doesn’t work like that. Everything in life is ying and yang. It’s night and day. It’s black and white. It’s a balance. The gut is no different. There needs to be a semblance of order there.

Candida should not be killed off. It should be kept under check and controlled. When you’re out of control with stupid diets and weird lifestyles and staying up until 3 o’clock in the morning, not sleeping enough and stressing too much, when you’re way out of control, you’re going to get sick, and this is how Candida gets the upper hand.

When you’re eating crappy foods and drinking sodas and skipping breakfast and having maybe a beer and a bit of pizza for dinner at night and paying no attention to your lifestyle, this is how you get Candida. When you get sick and you repeatedly take antibiotics or you take the oral contraceptive pill or you pay no attention at all to what you’re eating or drinking, this is how you get Candida. When you live in a moldy house. When you work late nights or do shift work like a nurse as a patient I had yesterday working weird shifts and wondering why she’s always coughing and sick. Major thyroid and adrenal dysfunction because she’s got a complete problem with work/life balance, got divorced five years ago, living alone with a child, very unhappy, more stress, eating carb foods because she’s unhappy, eating chocolate before her period every month, not happy. This is why she’s got Candida.

People get sick for a reason. Nothing happens in this life per chance. Everything happens for a reason, and if you can work out that reason, if you can try to work out why you got sick, the things you did that contributed to the Candida overgrowth, get the balance back again, then you’re the intelligent patient I’d like to see because you’re going to get well.

The stupid patients I see are the ones who get well with drugs or antifungals and they go back to the same lifestyle. They get sick again and they try to nail it again. Some people are on this roller coaster for years. Don’t be one of those people. Try to understand the link between cause and effect. It’s intelligent. That’s how you get well.

Forget eradicating Candida. It doesn’t work. Think about the balance. That’s the intelligent approach.

Thanks for tuning in.

Thank you for looking at my video today. Is a white tongue a sign of Candida, is a question that was asked of me by a lady in Hungary. Let’s have a look at what a white tongue really is.

When people talk about a white tongue, generally, what they mean is a coating on the inside of the tongue, a white coating. What you’ll find is it will tend to be a bit thicker and darker at the back of the tongue and a little bit lighter in the middle of tongue.

Having a white-coated tongue is not necessarily an indication of Candida. It’s an indication of dysbiosis or bad bacteria, so bacteria are often a really big problem with many people who eat the wrong kind of foods. You’ll typically see this with people that eat sugar-laden foods, have soda drinks, that smoke cigarettes, that have a high carb rich diet. You’ll also see it in people who tend to be very stressed out, have a lot of anxiety. People who take lots of pharmaceutical medications. You’ll see it in shift workers because of their erratic lifestyles. You’ll see it in many different kinds of people. You’ll often see it in babies, too, particularly younger children who’ve had a round of antibiotics. You’ll see white tongue coating in them.

Many people on different medications affecting their liver or kidneys can have a yellow coating on the tongue, so a color on the tongue indicates a sick digestive system. A digestive system that needs rejuvenation, that needs overhaul. When I see a patient with a white coating on the tongue, it’s probably like what a green keeper if he or she would got out and look at a lawn that’s in serious need of renovation. A lawn that’s got weeds on it, dead patches on it, that’s been compacted that needs rejuvenation. That lawn keeper would look at that lawn and think, “What am I going to do here? I’ve got quite a lot of work on my hands.” But eventually that lawn will look beautiful with a lot of care and attention.

Just like a person’s tongue can be lovely pink and clean with the right kind of attention to eating the right kind of foods, chewing food properly, drinking plenty of clean water, all the basic things that we recommend to build good health back up again.

A white tongue is often a sign of bad bowel flora. The bad bowel flora may encompass Candida; it may not. I’ve seen many patients with serious Candida with a pink tongue, so you can’t always say that a white tongue always is a red flag for Candida. It is not. The quickest way to clean up the tongue is not to focus on the tongue itself, but is to focus on the stomach first, the pancreas or central region of digestion, and then work your way lower down.

Many people my age, 50+, have got a low functioning stomach. A low functioning stomach will mean you’re not breaking food down properly. You’re not creating the right pH level up here to activate the proenzymes in the pancreas to the active form; therefore, you’re not giving the small bowel and the large bowel the right kind of substrate. If the food isn’t broken down properly in the other part of the digestive system, it’s going to cause a lot of problem further downstream because the beneficial bacteria need food sufficiently broken down to thrive on. If the food’s broken down properly, you can extract all the goodness out of it and build your health right up again.

These are the sort of things that contribute to the white tongue. Eating in front of the television. Eating late at night. Skipping meals. Not having breakfast. Having a coffee and a cigarette for breakfast instead of a meal. These are things that contribute to white tongue. Stay on Facebook at night or using your iPad in bed when you should be sleeping. These are things that contribute to white tongue.

White tongue is often also associated with gas and bloating, so if you’ve got bloating and gas or a lot of flatulence or farting and white tongue, we know you’ve got serious dysbiosis. Worst-case scenario is people who actually have wind or gas when they’re walking or standing up. These people usually need to seriously work on their gut function. If that’s you, check out some of my other videos regarding digestive system health and Candida because that’s going to give you a lot of good information.

Don’t forget to complete my quiz, my yeast infection quiz, on yeastinfection.org or CandidaCrusher.com. That will give you some very good indication on what your level of severity of Candida is.

I hope that’s answered the question today. Thank you and have a great day.

Thank you for checking out this video. What is Candida brain fog? I often get asked by people. Why is my brain feel like cotton wool and more foggy up there? I’ve got mental confusion. I can’t think clearly. I seem to be in a world of my own. I feel stoned or spaced out. Eric, help me out. I’m a bit worried here. Brain fog is a term that’s used by people when there’s a certain element of mental confusion where they can’t really think clearly or rationally. They don’t know what the heck’s going on.

There are many reasons why you could be feeling like this that may not be Candida related. We could be looking at heavy metal toxicity. Mercury, for example, in higher amounts can cause brain fog and it commonly does. The term “mad as a hatter” came from years ago when people used to use mercury for putting felt inside hats, and hat makers used to go crazy because the mercury would cause neuro toxicity.

If you’ve got brain fog, a hair analysis is probably quite a good idea to determine what your level of mercury is or cadmium or arsenic or lead, one of those four sulfhydryl metals is very important to determine if you’ve got heavy metal toxicity. High calcium levels, low potassium and low zinc levels are often found in a hair analysis as well. This will give you an indication also if you’ve got a copper imbalance. A copper imbalance is something that is commonly found, too. Zinc to copper ratios can be pretty screwed up in people with bad mental confusion.

The other thing with brain fog, probably much more common that I see in the clinic, is bowel toxemia or toxins in the bowel, so bad bacteria producing indoles and skatoles and cadaverine and various types of chemicals that get liberated in the blood stream by these bacteria that get into the brain. Lack of beneficial bacteria is the number one cause of brain fog, I can tell you now. It’s not Candida. It’s the lack of beneficial bacteria.

How do I know this? Well, I’ve completed many, many, many hundreds of stool tests over the years, over 1,000 stool tests on Candida patients, and in most cases, when the patient had severe brain fog, I found NG or null growth on the lacto bacillus species, no growth, none. We couldn’t detect any on culture. The people with the lowest beneficial bacteria levels had the worst brain fog of all.

Some of these people didn’t even have Candida. We couldn’t culture it in these people, but because they had such low beneficial bacteria, it allowed the bad bacteria to go crazy. It’s a little bit like the police or the military presence isn’t there and these ISIS militants or these crazy terrorists just get out of control and start dropping bombs and chopping people up.

The bad bacteria in your bowel can do a similar thing. They create a lot of gases and by products that can make you feel all spaced out in the presence of low beneficial bacteria. You really need to get the beneficial bacteria up when you’ve got brain fog. And sometimes, it’s not just a matter of taking probiotics because probiotics can make some people much worse. You may be one of those people watching this video now with brain fog. You took a probiotic and got 10 times worse. This is where you need to get expert help from somebody to really determine what’s going on in the bowel, what level of beneficial bacteria you’ve got and commensals, which are what we call transitional bacteria going from good or bad and the bad guys you’ve got. This needs to be determined first before we can decide what we’re going to do.

I can tell you now. Brain fog can be cured 100 percent. I’ve helped many hundreds of patients get rid of their brain fog. I’ve got really, really grateful patients as a result. Because you can’t work, you can’t even drive a car sometimes when your brain fog is that bad.

Let’s just recap on that. Check for heavy metals. Urinalysis is probably a good thing to do if you’ve got brain fog. Check for gut dysbiosis. Make sure that you do a stool test and a hair test if you’ve got severe brain fog. These are two very clever things to do to give you an indication on what’s going on. There’s no doubt 20 other reasons why people have brain fog, but what I just mentioned in this video is a very good explanation of some of the prime causes of brain fog and what you can do about it.

I hope that answers your question.