Author: Eric Bakker

Greetings. Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand. Author of Candida Crusher. Thanks for checking out my video once again. I also want to thank everybody for all the wonderful comments I’m getting on the YouTube channel. I really appreciate them. I try to answer them as much as I can. Apart from the crazy ones that I just delete, which I only get every now and then.

Today, we’re going to talk about pharmaceutical medications. Pharmaceutical drugs and their interactions. This is an area that not many people talk about and it’s also an area that I don’t think many people in the natural medicine business are familiar with, dabble in, or get involved in and that’s pharmaceutical medications.

Many people take pharmaceutical drugs. I’m not one of these people who are either for or against pharmaceutical medications because many people long term will take some kind of a drug, whether it be a sleeping pill, an antidepressant. It could be drug to regulate thyroid function. It could be a drug for epilepsy, an anticonvulsant. It could be insulin to regulate their Type 1 diabetes.

There are many reasons people take pharmaceutical medications. People can also take pharmaceutical medications to switch off pain like headaches or period pain or back pain. If you live in the States, how many times have you seen an advertisement just to take a pill if you’ve got a headache or just to take a pill if you’ve got period pain? We get these ads here on TV in New Zealand as well. It’s crazy how many advertisements I see for pharmaceutical drugs. They’re even advertising anti-psychotic medication on TV. “Check to see with your doctor if you’ve got schizophrenia and this drug might be suitable for you.” Then you see all the tiny little side effects down at the bottom. That is inappropriate.

What we’re going to talk about is the interactions of pharmaceutical medications, particularly with diet and lifestyle and also natural medicine supplements. This is something I see a lot of patients being affected by. Only the other day I had a young man I saw who developed convulsions. He came to me and he said, “Eric, I’m in my 50s.” And he developed convulsions. It’s something he’s never had before. He had it about three or four weeks ago and I was quite alarmed so I said, “Well, let’s just have a look what’s going on.”

When I took the case and I had a really good look at the medications he was taking, he was taking an antidepressant and a sleeping pill. Then when I inquired further about his lifestyle, I found that he was drinking beer. The doctor didn’t actually tell him that you couldn’t drink alcohol with the strong medications he was on. A few weeks prior to the convulsions he was drinking beer on a regular basis and then he was working with his son hard out working in the yard building a fence or something. It was quite warm weather. He drank about 10 or 15 beers over a period of a weekend. Then he developed a major convulsion. Lying on the ground writhing away. His son had to call the ambulance. Of course a trip to the doctor and the doctor basically said, “Well, that’s it. You’ve lost your driver’s license for 12 months.” This guy was pretty devastated about that. But when we had a good look at the case, it was clear cut interaction between the antidepressant and the alcohol.

If you’re drinking alcohol, even small amounts of alcohol, let’s just say a glass of wine once or twice a week, a couple of cans a beer once or twice a week, and you’re taking any kind of pharmaceutical medication, you’re really walking a tight rope. It’s a very dangerous risky game. Why is that? That’s because drugs have to be metabolized by the liver. But the liver is also the same organ that helps to metabolize alcohol. Those two things often clash. If you look in the drug guide, your doctor will have one of these drug guides and the drug guide clearly states with many medications that you need to avoid drinking alcohol. But this is not told to many people. It’s not just alcohol. You may be eating far too much of one particular food. I’ve seen interactions with a high fat and even a Paleo diet with people taking multiple medications at the same time.

If you’re taking a pharmaceutical medication, what I’d like you to do is go to Drugs.com or go to a different website than that and carefully print out all the information on adverse effects and reactions. Just print out all the pages and then get yourself one of these highlighters and then I want you to highlight all of the relevant areas, all the areas that stand out to you.

When I spoke with this young man who had the convulsion, I looked the drug up in the book and I said, “Do you suffer from da, ta, da, ta, da, all these side effects?” He said, “Eric, I’ve got all of those. Every single one of them.” And I said, “Why didn’t you talk to your doctor about it?” “I did, but the doctor didn’t see a link.” Many doctors don’t see the links between side effects and drugs. What they will do is give a subsequent drug to treat that new disease. Then sometimes I’ve seen people being treated for side effects of drugs that were given to treat side effects of drugs. That’s how crazy it is.

Also be careful taking natural medicines when you’re taking pharmaceutical medicines because there can be an interaction there as well. You need to check with your practitioner first if you’re taking any kind of drug long term to see (a) is it interacting with any kind of food or drinks you’re taking on a regular basis. It could be tea, coffee or alcohol. It could be different kind of food you’re eating. You may have noticed that when you started taking that drug, the symptoms got worse that you already had or other symptoms appeared. You need to talk to your doctor about that; (b) you need to make sure that the drugs you’re taking if you’re taking more than one don’t interact together. This is a very, very important thing to do; and (c) if you’re coming to someone like me for a consultation or a naturopath or a doctor and you’ve developed these symptoms, make sure they’re not related to the drug that you’re taking.

Classic symptoms are attached to classic drugs. For example, I’m interested in growing roses, so I notice that some roses have got a very strong fragrance. Others have got quite unusual habits. How the petals will drop with a little bit of wind. Other roses clash when you put them together. The scents will clash. It’s the same with pharmaceutical drugs. A little bit of studying up and a bit of reading up and you’ll soon become an informed and aware person. Knowing what he or she is taking to see if there is any link between that and how you’re feeling. It’s very important to do that. Go back to your doctor and talk about these effects that you could be getting. They may be able to switch you to a drug, decrease the dosage, or take you off that drug altogether, and that would be a really good thing for you to do.

I’d just thought I’d put this video up to alarm you about pharmaceutical drugs. I get these reports from people, particularly women taking the oral contraceptive pill, antidepressants, tablets like Zopiclone, sleeping pill, I get lots of people complaining about those with the side effects. Many medications. You could even be looking at acetaminophen, drugs like that, paracetamol can cause a lot of problems. In fact, one of the leading causes of hospital admissions for liver failure in America is not alcohol, it’s in fact paracetamol or acetaminophen, you guys call it over there. That drug does work at all with coffee, tea or alcohol. You can get very sick doing that. That’s very much Russian roulette. Check out the drug you’re on.

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Greetings! It’s naturopath from New Zealand Eric Bakker. I’m the author of Candida Crusher. Thanks for checking out my video today. We’re going to talk about Taheebo or Lapacho or Pau D’arco, which is the beautiful brownish red colored inner bark from a big rain forest tree that grows in Brazil in the rain forest. It’s been used for a long, long time by a native Indian people in South America for a wide range of conditions. Bowel conditions, colitis, hemorrhoids, constipation, and many different types of cancers of the head, the neck, the throat, the digestive system. So this is a plant that’s been used for a long, long time. It’s been researched quite well, too.

Now the problem with Taheebo or Pau D’arco is the adulteration with inferior species. They’re chopping whole trees down and using the inner heartwood when they should be using the inner bark. It’s a little bit like the sandy climb of the slippery elm tree in Canada and the northern parts of America. They’re used by many different Indian tribes for many generations and now, unfortunately, just about disappeared out of the wild because of fools coming in there and just chopping all the trees down.

The slippery elm is one of my favorite herbs. It’s a beautiful deep pink colored powder, which is a fantastic product for the digestive system, but Taheebo or Pau D’arco you can use very effectively as an anti-fungal. So here’s what you do. Just get yourself some of the tea and then this is just a packet I’ve got here, but I’m sure you’ll find it in your country as well. Now I don’t want to make a mess all over my computer so I’m going to put the paper down. This is what the stuff looks like. So, I’ll hold it up-it’s sort of like a browny colored bark. You can see in here a nice bark. I’ll bring that up a bit closer to the screen. There you go. That’s the bark of the Taheebo.

What you want to do is you want to probably get around about a good three level tablespoons of this powdery stuff. Just get one of those plastic baking teaspoon measurements. Get about three tablespoons and level them off and then chuck that into a pot. Get a stainless steel or glass pot. Don’t use aluminum. It’s crap. Don’t use aluminum saucepots at all. A cast-iron pot is okay, too. So three level tablespoons you put in there, and then you put in about three to four cups, usually about four cups, about 1,000 mils or one liter. Four 250 mil cups of cold water you put in on top of it. And use a good quality water. Don’t use fluoridated or tap water or some junk like that. Use preferably bottled water-a good quality water. Make sure it’s cold water. Don’t put boiling water on it at all. Bad idea. This is not how you make Taheebo tea. Cold water on top of the bark, put the lid on it, and bring it to the boil.

So turn it up, I generally stir it in really thoroughly. Get my hand in there and just crunch it all up, get the water in there. It’ll start discoloring a little bit at that stage, and then I will just get the heat up to it and then bring it up gently to the boil. When it’s rolling boil, turn it right down to simmer, to the lowest possible setting. And then keep the lid on it and you leave it simmering for about 20 minutes to half an hour. This is how you make a good Taheebo tea. And then keep checking it so it doesn’t boil dry and make sure that you have it on a low setting. You can partially take it off the elemental flame so it’s not covering it all. You just want to have it heating nicely.

Other people I know will just actually put the bark like I showed you into a blender and make a powder out of it and then actually put one or two teaspoons of that in a ceramic teapot and make like a tea out of it and then strain that because it’s also going to sit for 20 minutes. As long as you’ve got the powder or the bark in contact with the nice warm to hot water for a period of about half an hour, then you’re going to strain it through a piece of fine clean cotton cloth. It could be through some sort of coffee/tea strainers, one of those plunger pots, you could strain it through that kind of mechanism. Strain that and then what you’re going to do is keep that in the refrigerator. Now because it’s anti-fungal, no molds or fungi will really grow in that stuff, so you can keep that in the fridge for days and days on end.

Now what’s the average dose? Well, that depends on you, but I recommend that you would start maybe with a couple of tablespoons of Taheebo tea per day. You gradually build it up to a 250 mils or one cup per day, which means that what you’ve got in the refrigerator will only last you for five days. Some people say it’s best to make the tea fresh every day. Other patients I know who have drunk Taheebo for a long time say it’s not necessary and you can make up a large batch and keep it in the refrigerator for up to two or three weeks. Then take it out, then drink it cold, or you can reheat it. I don’t like the microwave to reheat it. That’s the only problem. Drinking it cold.

The other one I know of I’ve got a few people who actually make it and leave it at room temperature in a big jug and they’ll put mint leaves with it. They’ll put a couple of peppermint leaves with it or other kinds of herbs or lemon juice in there or a couple of pieces of lime or lemon. Especially in the summer months that’s quite a nice thing to do. So every day you walk past your urn, put the tap open and have one or two glasses of the Taheebo tea. It’s a very powerful tea. It’s going to work very effectively in conjunction with the Candida Crusher protocol.

Now, I’ve also put the Pau D’arco-a very powerful four-in-one extract in the Canxida Remove tablets. I actually made a Canxida Remove product. It’s a very broad spectrum anti-microbial product. Perfect for the gut. It’s got really a good quality Pau D’arco extract in that tablet. So if you were going to take a couple of tablets per day of the Canxida Remove, you won’t need to drink the tea at all because you’re going to get a very potent anti-fungal activity.

I’m going to do another video in a minute showing women how to use Taheebo tea as a vaginal cleanse because it’s very, very good for that as well. So if you haven’t already got some of this tea, you can buy it online or you can just go to a health food shop and buy it. And if you don’t want to have the tea but you want the benefits of Pau D’arco, just take the Canxida Remove tablets because you’ll get plenty of activity in those. I hope that gives you a little bit of understanding on Taheebo.

Last thing I’ll leave you with is if you do buy Pau D’arco make sure you’re getting an authentic Pau D’arco. You’re not getting ripped off or scammed by some crap quality product, because you need to get the real stuff. Thanks for tuning in. Don’t forget to click on the link below if you haven’t already got my report. And please subscribe. Catch you next time.

Greetings. Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand. Thanks for catching up with me on my video again. I’m going to talk about snacking today. I’ve had a few patients I’ve seen in my Skype clinic today and one interesting point I raised with a lady was snacking at night. Many people eat at night. Are you one of those people who has their evening meal and sits down, turns on the TV and then says, “Now, where’s that chocolate? Where are those chips? Where are those cookies? Where is that xyz thing that I like to snack on?”

If you’re one of those people who like to snack habitually on foods, it may be in the afternoon, maybe at night time. It could be at any kind of weird or inappropriate time. Think carefully what you’re doing. Usually people who snack at night don’t do it because they’re hungry. They do it because they’re bored. They’ve had enough of life. People in their 40s and 50s get into routines, they get married, they fall into relationships long term, and then she’ll do her thing, he’ll do his thing, she’ll have her snacks, he’ll have his snacks, she’ll have her friends and drinks and nibbles and he will have his mates and man cave, do his man kind of stuff, whatever it is what you men do. I don’t know. I’m a man, I should know.

But the point I’m making is be careful as you get older. I am now in my mid-50s. I can remember how different my life was when I was in my 20s and 30s and 40s, but now I’m in my 50s. Been in a long term relationship 30 years, you tend to get into rut. You get into routines. Is your life a little bit like that? Have you got a particular type of snack that you like to buy or have in the cupboard all the time? This is a classic way to gain a few pounds over 365 days. After 10 years, you’ve got that muffin top or that spare tire around here. It’s easy to gain weight as you get older.

If you find yourself a late night snacky kind of person or watching television snack kind of person, you need to break up your routine a bit and do things different. Many people associate football with beer or they may have their favorite sitcom they watch and then when they watch that, they might want to have some kind of food with that. I’m not really a TV person. My wife and I sit down once or twice a week to watch our favorite soapy kind of thing. We do that because it’s just something we like to do. We’ve been following a particular soapy for many years and we know the characters. I kind of enjoy that to get the time.

I used to fall into the trap of snacking on crappy foods and also with action movies. You watch Bruce Willis or Arnold Schwarzenegger. We will annihilate the planet and shoot everybody. Guys like watching guns and people falling down. Women like watching romance and stuff like that. If you’re one of these guys who likes to watch action movies, maybe your mouth is doing a bit too much action. Or maybe you’re watching people on sports, golf or football. Maybe the action is happening here, too, when you’re watching action on the screen. Think carefully. What are you doing when you’re eating? Is it because you’re hungry? It’s probably because you’re bored. It’s probably because it’s become a habit. Break this up.

My mum smoked right up until she almost passed away and I can remember a long time ago when mum used to type letters.

Remember typewriters? If you’re old enough to remember typewriters. She used to have a cigarette, put the cigarette down, pick up the cigarette, put the cigarette down. Okay, so that’s an associated habit. The cigarettes and the typewriter. Many people have associated habits. They’ll do one thing and they’ll have something else they’re doing with it.

I’ve got a very good friend in Australia and every time he’s out there watering the garden, he’s got a glass of wine in his hands, so he’s associated wine drinking with watering the garden. These association habits can be broken. Does it mean he’s got to stop watering the garden? No. It means maybe he should water the garden at another time of the day because he’s less likely to have a glass of chardonnay in your hand at 8 o’clock in the morning than you are at 5 o’clock in the evening.

Think carefully about the snacks you’re having. Why are you having the snack? Are you stressed? Are you bored? Are you frustrated? What’s the purpose of that snack? Are you having snacks every Friday and Saturday night? Are you having snacks every night of the week? Have you been gaining weight? Has the weight gain, fatigue, and gut problem been associated with this snacking habit? Maybe you’re buying a bar of chocolate every week. Maybe you’re snacking on chocolate every night. Many people develop digestive problems around their snacking habits. Makes sense? Makes sense. Think about it.

On the lighter side, I’m going to leave you with this one, “If you can’t be a good example, be a terrible warning to people.” You like that one? Be a good example, especially if you’ve got teenagers like me. If you don’t want teens to smoke and drink, don’t smoke and drink yourself. If you don’t want your teens to use profanity, don’t use profanity yourself. Think about the good example versus the terrible warning. You can’t change people. They have to change themselves. But by being a good example, you’re not going to be a terrible warning to people.

Same if you’re in a personal relationship with somebody. You might have a best friend. She’s drinking too much wine. He’s eating too much fatty chips or something like that. Again, by being a good example, your friend will be positively influenced by that. That’s going to really improve the relationship between you both.

I’ve got a very dear friend in Australia who drinks too much alcohol. He’s a really nice guy. But when I’m with him, I make sure that we don’t drink alcohol and his wife supports that. When he’s with me, he knows that we’re probably going to go for walk. We’re probably not going to drink alcohol. That’s a positive reinforcement. You can do that too in your personal relationships with your friends, with your family, with your partner. Think about that. You can either be a good example or a terrible warning. Think about it.