Author: Eric Bakker

Greetings. Eric Bakker, New Zealand naturopath, author of Candida Crusher and formulator of the Canxida range of products. Thanks for checking out my video. Today, we’re going to talk about the five steps toward a successful parasite cleanse. What you can do to clean up your body if you’ve got parasites. This is going to work for Candida, but even more specifically for parasites. This is a particularly useful video if you’ve been positively diagnosed with parasites, especially after a stool analysis.

I want you to be very careful with many kinds of tests when it comes to the determination of parasites or Candida. I’ve had an amazing number of people that have contacted me over the years that have said, Ive been diagnosed with Candida. I’m full of this stuff. I’ve got to get rid of it. I’m sick of having all this yeast in my body. I’ve got worms. I’ve got parasites. I’ll say, Hold on. How did you find out about this?” “Oh, well, a guy told me. He had one of these little dousing pendulums and hung it over my belly and said I’ve got worms crawling around inside me.” Or another person may say, “Well, a guy hooked me up to this machine. I had wires hanging off me everywhere. One of these biofeedback machines.” Or another person may say, “I had it done via muscle testing or kinesiology.”

There are many different methods, but the only method in my opinion that’s scientifically validated and that can really nail the parasite determination is PCR, polymer chain reaction. It’s a special DNA testing to determine that if stuff inside you actually is a parasite or not. Be very careful if someone tells you something because it may be a load of crap. Do you believe everything they say? I certainly don’t. Just be very careful what you’ve been told my people. A stool analysis performed by a lab that will do PCR technology, yes or no. Just remember that before you go further.

This video is for those who’ve determined they actually have got parasites. What you believe to have or have been told may be far from the truth from reality is. I’ve been told a lot of weird stuff over the years, but whether it was reality or not, got to use common sense. Let’s look at the five steps.

Step one is preparation. I look like Donald Trump doing this. Have you seen Donald Trump doing this on the TV? I won’t do that anymore. Preparation is everything when it comes to doing anything in life, whether it’s getting married or it’s starting a new business or anything. You need to have some kind of plan and prepare yourself properly for what you’re about to do. It’s no different from doing a parasite cleanse. What’s the point in trying to get rid of parasites if you’re going to have three glasses of wine every Friday night? “I’ve cut back. I don’t drink anymore during the week. You can’t take wine away from me on Friday nights.” If that’s how you feel, turn the video off. There’s no point watching any further. If you can’t forego these kinds of treats like chocolates, McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, gin and tonic, Mars bars, and all that crap that you may be eating, there’s no point going any further. Preparation is paramount.

I want you to really understand that this is part of my Candida Crusher protocol. What I try to do first for the first couple of weeks is I do what’s called “the big cleanup.” It’s get people off crap. Get them off crap in their diet. Stuff like alcohol, caffeine, crap that you know that you shouldn’t be eating. You know inside in your own heart what you should and shouldn’t be eating. I don’t need to tell you that. The doctors don’t need to tell you that. Your husband or wife don’t need to tell you that. Your next door neighbor doesn’t need to tell you that. You know. If you don’t know, please check out some of my other videos, but also have a good look at yeastinfection.org. There are many articles I’ve written and many videos I’ve done on the correct way to eat. I’ve also done videos on “the big cleanup.”

Get rid of the junk out of your diet. That’s stage one, is preparation. If you’re drinking even once a month, stop it. You’re not going to get rid of parasites by doing all these kinds of things. Preparation is paramount. I want you to eat a basic, common sense healthy kind of diet. Vegetables, low fat meats, grains are acceptable. Again, check out my other videos on grains and starches and things like that. I’ve done a lot of work on that. If you’re not prepared to do the preparation, turn the video off and go and look at funny cat videos or something because this is not for you.

Let’s assume that you’ve done the preparation. You’re eating good food. You’re eating a healthy diet. You’re making good choices. And also, let’s assume that you’re serious about a parasite cleanse because you may not be. You’ve got to be serious. Preparation is number one.

Number two is the actual cleanse itself. Now, we’re actually going to get into eating particular kinds of foods that are going to facilitate and help that process along. You may think what I’m about to say is a load of crap, but based on my clinical experience, it’s not. I want you pay attention the moon cycle and aggravation of symptoms. I know for a fact from my clinical experience that many patients I see with parasites get worse in the week leading up to full moon. Don’t ask me why, but I’ve seen it. I read it in many books. I’ve talked to many expert people who say they’ve also noticed some similar things happening. You may find if you start paying attention to that that what I’m saying is correct. Obviously, a really good time to increase certain types of spices and foods in your diet to facilitate removal or the cleanse is to do it in the week leading up to the full moon.

Is this science? Maybe not. Is it mumbo jumbo? Definitely not. There’s a lot to be said about growing plants and sowing seeds to the moon cycle. There’s a lot to be said about harvesting firewood with the moon cycle. But I also know that with parasites, it makes a big difference. Particularly the week leading up, I find there’s heightened activity. You can read more about that in Candida Crusher. I’ve written a whole section on the moon cycle. Just a tip. If you’re going to increase stuff, have a look before full moon because it could make a little bit of a difference.

Let’s look at some of the extra foods you can add into your diet that really help to annoy the hell out of parasites. I assume you understand what parasites are. If not, check out my other videos. I did one a few days ago on the 10 signs of parasite infection. I’ve done other parasite videos on blastocysts and things like that. Please check those out. I assume you already know what parasites are. Parasites are not worms crawling through your intestines. Parasites, in most cases, you can’t even see them. They’re so tiny and microscopic. Very difficult to determine. The parasites are all around us. The cleanse itself, food. Food is your medicine and medicine is your food.

If you look at work done by a Dr. Hulda Clark, parasite cleanse, she talks about things like black walnut. She talks about clove. These are things that you can take into your diet. Don’t buy the things. Just go out to the local Asian store or grocery store and buy some cloves. You know the little black spice cloves? The stuff they put in cookies or in cakes and things like that. Not garlic cloves, but clove, the black spice clove. Clove is very, very good for Candida. Clove tea, but also just to put in cooking. I’ll throw cloves in a lot of different types of dishes I make. Very, very good anti-parasite spice to use. Cinnamon is good to use. Quassia, another herb you can get called Quassia. These are things you can buy at the grocery store. You can add them to your diet.

Pumpkin seeds, very, very good, especially before a full moon. Have about a tablespoon of pumpkin seeds per day. Chew on them really well. They work particularly well on worms, but they also have an effect on other kind of parasites as well. Think about that. Grated beet root and grated carrot, 50/50 mixed together. Yes, beet root is okay with a yeast infection. Yes, grated raw carrot is okay with Candida and particularly affective against parasites. A small quantity every day ongoing for several weeks is a fantastic food. Cultured and fermented foods, a good quality sour yogurt, maybe some kefir, very good. Coconut kefir, very, very good. Water kefir even more powerful. Be careful with kefir. Check out my video on kefir. Make sure it’s made properly because it could make you sick instead of healthy. Lots of people stuff up kefir cultures all the time. They don’t make them properly. If you’re going to make your own cultured or fermented, make sure it’s done properly. Those are good building foods.

You need good killing foods. You need good inhibition foods. I don’t often use the word “killing,” but with parasites, I do. Parasites can be killed off effectively in the body by taking away their food source. That’s number one, the preparation. And they can be inhibited and killed by using the treatment phase, which is stage two. You’ve got to stop giving them food and you’ve got to start annoying the hell out of them with spices and herbs. Take their food source away and then put some supplements in there that are going to help eradicate them.

How long does it take to get rid of a parasite in the body? How long do I have to do step two, the treatment phase? That really depends. How long is a piece of rope? Is it three inches? Is it three meters? That depends on the extent of the parasite infection. It depends on how long you’ve been sick for. Depends on other health complaints you’ve got. It depends on a lot of factors. I always say to people you need to treat as long as it takes to get well. Keep an eye on the symptoms.

Garlic, as I mentioned, but also onions, chives, shallots, that whole allium family is quite good, too, consumed steam or partially raw is better. Many different foods you can do, but even basic green stuff like brassicas, broccoli, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, these are all really good foods to have because they aid in liver detoxification. They improve the glucoronidation or phase two for liver. A lot of people misalign brassicas like cauliflower, say that they stuff up the thyroid function, which is a lot of crap. I’ve talked about that in previous videos.

Raw kale is what you should not eat. Cooked kale is fine, but raw kale is no good. Steamed broccoli is perfectly fine and I have it on very expert authority that these kind of foods do not ruin your thyroid function. People take everything out of context when they go to Dr. Google.

With food, go more into my Candida Crusher approach. It’s a three stage dietary approach. This is perfect for parasite cleansing. We talked about “the big cleanup” first. Now, we’re going to talk about the MEVY diet. You can see that in another video, MEVY, meat, eggs, vegetables, yogurt. The second stage is the low allergy diet, the hypoallergenic phase. Then we do a reintroduction. That’s number three. Check out my Candida Crusher eating approach, which is perfect for step two, the cleanse.

Also, what I want you to do is to take some dietary supplements. Now, it’s not mandatory, but supplements have a very good effect on eradicating parasites when taken properly in the correct dosage. Watch my video on the 2/4/2 protocol. This is not my idea. The 2/4/2 protocol was designed by a very clever friend of mine, Dr. Joseph Collins in America. A really wonderful doctor who does incredible work, particularly with hormones in women. Dr. Collins suggested the 2/4/2 protocol, which I’ think is a fantastic idea. Two weeks’ introduction. And then there’s the four, which usually means four weeks, but it could mean two months. That’s the treatment phase. Then the other two is the coming out phase. Introduction, treatment, reintroduction or coming out. Reintroduction of a normal diet and coming out of supplement treatment phase.

If any practitioner tells you to take supplements continually for a long period of time without this 2/4/2 protocol, there’s no real rhyme or reason to that. Every person who has a parasite problem should have a slow introduction of a supplement. Then they should ramp it up to their tolerance level, what you can tolerate, which could be low, medium or high. Then when they keep treating and treating along their intolerance level, they’ll find that usually over time, they can increase the product a little bit more, which pushes the kill and inhibition further. Then they can slowly back off as symptoms improve. They can back off more and more. They can back right off and then slowly they slide into the second two, which is the coming out phase. Then they go back to a lower dosage. Does that make sense? Makes sense to me. Start off slow. Build up to your tolerance. Find out what it is. Keep treating it. Slowly back off and then go into a coming out phase.

Canxida Remove, Canxida Restore, Canxida Rebuild. The three Canxida products are perfect for people with parasites. You can check that out at Canxida.com. Canxida Remove is incredibly good for many different types of parasites. I’ve had feedback from people in many countries around the world who’ve had a very successful eradication with blastocysts and Dientamoeba and many other kinds of parasites. Many of them. Give that a go. That’s step two is the cleanse.

How long does it last? “Eric, you’re not giving us specific timelines.” Well, I can’t because I don’t know you particularly as a patient. If I knew you as a patient or I’d seen you, I could give you a pretty darn good guideline, which is usually reasonably accurate. And a lot of it depends on your stool test results and your previous history. But my advice is to keep treating in step two until you feel better and better. It could be one month. It could be six months. It really depends on a lot of factors, as I say.

Step three. Reintroduction of foods. Now, you need to come back to normal again. That doesn’t mean to say that when you improve, you rush out to McDonald’s and you start having Happy Meals every day. It doesn’t mean to say that you can drink three cans of beer every night while you’re playing Xbox. It means that you need to reintroduce foods slowly. Does that make sense? Slowly you reintroduce the foods that you were eating prior. Remember, I want you to maintain a healthy, clean diet from this point forward. That’s going to go a big step toward stopping you from getting sick again with parasites. It’s going to keep improving your gut health. It can take a year for your digestion to get to a very high state of health.

There’s a huge surface area with trillions of bacteria inside here. It’s like a big lawn. It can take a long time for a garden to become beautiful. I know that from experience. I love gardening. It takes years for a garden to become absolutely stunning. Lots of little bits or work here and there. A bit of weeding here and there. Sometimes you’ve got to pull stuff out. The digestive system is no different. You’ve got to keep weeding it and feeding it, looking after it. It takes time. Please be patient.

Step four. Assessment long term. What I want you to do long term as you improve, which you should, is to assess your state of health on a regular basis. There would’ve been why you went into the parasite cleanse. There could’ve been a diarrhea. It could’ve been constipation. It could’ve been gas. It could’ve been one of a 100 reasons. Check out my video, if you haven’t please, on the 10 signs that you may have a parasite infection. If you improve with a parasite problem, all those things should disappear. There should be no itchy skin. There should be no headaches, no muscle fatigue, no joint pain, bowels should work perfect, should be no bloating all, there should be minimal gas. Everyone farts, but you shouldn’t be farting like a horse or a dog. You should be farting a small amount. It’s normal.

These things will become apparent to you as you improve. If they’re not apparent to you, they’ll be apparent to your partner or friends or people around you who may say, “Wow, you’re looking good lately. What have you been doing? Have you had Botox? Have you had a holiday? Have you got a new man or a new woman? Have you won the lotto or whatever?” But if people come up with a statement like that, it usually implies that you are definitely improving in health. Even though you may not think so yourself.

Long term assessment. Very clever. Perhaps another stool test. Six months down the track repeat the stool test. Maybe you don’t need the comprehensive test. Maybe you just need to do the bacteriology and the parasitology panel. It’s a couple hundred bucks. File both of those test reports away. The first one and the second one. Because down the track if there’s recurrence, you pull it out. Bang. You’ve got a pretty good idea what’s going on. Remember. Test and measure. Treat and then measure the response. That’s what intelligent people do. That’s step four. Assessment long term.

Step five. The last step is prevention. Why would you want to go back to feeling like crap again? Why would you want bloating and gas and headaches and feeling terrible? Nobody wants to live like that. I wouldn’t want to live with something like that. It would be awful. Prevention. Remember washing your hands. Hygiene. Especially if you travel. I’m very careful when I do air travel. I’m not anal. I don’t wear gloves on airplanes and stuff like that. Some people do crazy things. They put masks on their face all the time. I’ve seen people on airplanes wear gloves. That’s the kind of Michael Jackson phobia. You don’t need to be like that. What you do need to do is wash your hands. Many people don’t. They go from the bathroom straight out and shake your hand. Not a good idea.

I think if you travel a lot like I used to, is I’d always wash my hands once or twice at the airport and particularly when I was on the plane again. Maybe when I disembark and go through customs and I’m going out. I go to the lavatory and wash my hands again. These are important things to do because you’re touching all kinds of surfaces. You’ve been around people who’ve been in many different countries. You don’t know what you’re dealing with. Every time you eat, you wash your hands. You be very careful. Common sense. That’s prevention. If you have got a tummy that can be a bit on the funny side and you’re going to go traveling, maybe take the Canxida Restore with you. Just take one tablet per day. That’s going to go a long way toward prevention of sickness.

I hope this video gives you a little bit of an insight into what I would consider the five steps on how to eradicate parasites. I’ll just quickly go through them again. Preparation, we spoke about. The cleanse itself, diet, lifestyle, some supplements. Step three, reintroduce foods again. Step four, assessment of long term health, what you’ve got now and what you’ve had, and where you’re going to. Step five is prevention. Make sense? Thanks for tuning in. If you haven’t got my report, please click on the link below and get your free report. Thanks for watching. I do appreciate it.

Greetings. New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker. Author of Candida Crusher and formulator of the Canxida range of products. Thanks for checking out my video. I have a request here from a lady called Natalie in Sweden. Natalie is quite a remarkable lady who set up a Facebook page for people with Candida yeast infections, but also all different kinds of problems and health issues related to Candida. Natalie has asked me, “Eric, can you please talk about urethritis?”

Urethritis belongs to a category of problems called urinary tract infections. There are different kinds of UTIs or urinary tract infections. Urethritis relates more to an inflammation of the urethra, which is a conduit for the little tube that runs from the bladder to the outside of the body. We’ve also other conditions of that. We’ve got cystitis, which is really the bladder infection or the reservoir of the urine to which the urethra is attached to. They move on out to the body toward the urethra. We’ve got prostatitis that males can get. We’ve got pyelonephritis, which is a kidney inflammation. A person will get fevers and chills and pain in the back like being kicked in the back by a horse or something like that.

Urethritis is actually quite a common condition and it can affect men and women both equally. It can affect young people and old people. There are different reasons why these particular type of age groups will get it. Let’s go into that a little bit.

Men can be quite prone to urethritis even if they’ve got a longer urethra, they can certainly be prone to it. They tend to have a thinner mucous membrane lining the urethra than women do who tend to have a shorter and thicker one. Women tend to have urethritis particularly as they older. Much more prone due to estrogen and progesterone. Estrogen has a very big effect on maintaining the integrity of the urinary tract. Older women can be much more prone to urinary tract infections than younger women. I feel because they have these big problems with estrogen and progesterone. It may pay to get your hormones checked out and maybe balanced or fixed up if you are certainly an older type of person.

With the younger ones, most cases of urethritis, I find, is after having intimate relations or after sex. It’s important to go straight to the bathroom to urinate after that. Make sure that the hygiene is very good. If you get this infection, try to find out what it is. Is it a Candida problem? Is it a bacterial problem? Is it virus? What’s causing the actual infection. Doctors will routinely give antibiotics, which is crazy. Because if you don’t know what you’re doing your just given antibiotics routinely. You could be causing a big problem for yourself and destroying a lot of normal flora while not even affecting the bug that’s causing the problem in the first place.

If it is bacteria or e-coli, try a powder called D-Mannose powder. Mannose is basically a particular kind of sugar. Don’t worry about Candida because you’re not going to have a big issue with Candida with Mannose. You can buy this quite easily. If you can’t, contact me. It’s a type of powder you get in a little tub and you take that once or twice per day if it’s an e-coli infection. You can use D-Mannose for any kind of e-coli urinary tract related infection. E-coli is a very common cause of a lot of these urinary infections. It’s a common bacteria and it can be transferred from the rectal region to the urethral region quite easily, especially with intimate relations.

Mannose actually acts a little bit like Velcro. You know what Velcro is. That stuff that when you rip it apart, it’s got all of the little plastic hooks on one end and that funny stuff on the other end. Pull it apart. What the Mannose does is it actually hooks up to the e-coli and pulls it out of the body. D-Mannose sticks to it and can’t be separated and you pea out these compounds of the D-Mannose and e-coli bound together. It’s very effective. If you keep taking D-Mannose with an e-coli urinary tract infection regularly, you’ll find the symptoms will go down and be gone.

Cranberries are also very good for this particular problem. But here’s the problem. Most of the cranberry juice you buy in the shop is crap. It’s crap. It’s like you may as well drink coca cola. It’s full of sugar. If you’re going to go the alkaline way for urine and try to nail this infection through that alkaline cleansing of the urinary tract, then I recommend you buy the proper cranberries from the health food shop. Make sure they’re cranberries and not some Chinese import moo-moo berries or whatever you get. Make sure they’re the proper real thing. They have to be cranberries.

You’re going to use one tablespoon of these and you’re going to put it in quite a large cup. You put probably a level tablespoon into that. Poor boiling water on top and then cover and leave it for a good 10 or 15 minutes. That can work quite effectively and you can use the cranberries at least twice, if not three times, doing that or you can make a small pot of tea with the cranberries. Put a couple of tablespoons in there, boiling water, cover it. If you make herbal teas, don’t put the cranberries in pots you’ve had herbal teas. Buy a brand new ceramic pot and just keep that for that one particular herb. It’s much better.

The standard dose for something like a cranberry, if you look at the old fashion herbal way, we used to prescribe a wine glass full. I’m sure some people happen to drink wine. How much wine would you put it in a glass? It depends on the glass and how much you like wine, I suppose. How much you would drink in one wine glass is the dose for the cranberry and you have about three or four wine glass fulls of that herbal tea per day. You can make an infusion or a decoction. The infusion is when you let it steep like tea. The decoction is when you simmer the cranberry. You put it in a stainless steel pot on the stove and boil it and turn right down to a gentle simmer for about a good 10 minutes. That’s a more powerful way to take it.

You can also do cat’s claw. Cats claw is a very good antifungal herb, especially for Candida, but I know it’s very successful for urethritis. You can buy cat’s claw powder or bark. I hope you can get it in Sweden or you can import it. I know that it might be tough there in customs. Cat’s claw comes from South America. Uncaria is the other name for it. It’s very, very effective for urinary tract issues and bladder problems in general.

Those are a couple of good tips for you to use. I’m not a huge fan of alkaline when it comes to diet, but when it comes to urinary tract infections, I am a fan on alkalizing. You need to alkalize. The best way to do that is herbal medicines. Much more so than foods. As I mentioned, if you’re peri-menopausal or menopausal like 45 or 50 or older, get your hormones checked out, especially if you get regular urethritis, you want to get that checked.

I’m just going to read some notes I’ve made here. Some other tips here. Another one is a sitz bath. You can just sit in a nice small bathtub. Fill it up with quite warm water and that’s going to really help to settle the symptoms right down quite a bit. Hygiene we spoke about. With guys, if guys have not the urinary issues, urethritis, anything like that, they should obviously use condoms or things like that if they’re going to have sex. It makes sense until any kind of infection clears up.

It’s the same with females. You need to be careful with intimate relations with infections that you don’t pass the parcel from one person to another. We don’t want that. That’s not really nice. Of course, drinking a lot of water. Water is a good thing to do when you’ve got a UTI. Lots and lots of water. Any kind of urinary issue. I don’t recommend that you drink lots of coffee and tea and schnapps and vodka and all that other stuff. I know in Sweden; they like to drink alcohol. When you’ve got any kind of infection, you want to really stop drinking all alcohol and cut your coffee down to one per day and drink green teas.

When it comes to food and urinary issues, I think you should back off the protein and eat lighter. Eat fish or even eat legumes or go vegetarian for maybe a good week or 10 days. The thing is you need rest, rest, rest. You need lots of rest when you’ve got any kind of infection, so your immune system can get stronger and more viably fight the infection.

So far, we’ve mentioned some different natural aids. We’ve mentioned particularly the cranberry. We’ve mentioned the sitz bath. We mentioned resting. We mentioned ceasing alcohol. Cutting coffee and tea consumption back and drinking a lot of water. Those are all very good tips for urethritis. Give those a go.

The other thing is don’t forget I’ve got a nice report to give away for free for people who join my list. If you want that, click on the link in the box below and you can get that nice Candida report off me. If you’re not a subscriber, please subscribe. Thanks to Natalie for asking that question. Thank you.

Greetings. New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker, author of Candida Crusher. Thanks for checking out my video. I’m going to do a video today about diets and why I hate diets. Why I just really loathe them. As you can see, I’ve got a few books on my bulging bookshelves and some of the shelves need a bit of weight loss treatment. They’re a little bit on the bendable side. I’ve had a few people comment over the years that shelves definitely need some treatment. A big like the bellies of some people I see. Have you noticed how they’re sort of a little bit round at the bottom and a bit lighter up here and low down there. Shelves are a bit like that.

Most of those books are diet books. The bookshelf on this side is all my herbal and homeopathic books and at the top there where the white statue is I’m just pointing to now, that shelf and the one under it, there are some really old classic books about health and wellbeing. Some go back to the 1890s. I’ve got some real beauties there.

Nearly all of those books on there, the first three rows are all diet books mainly. I’ve looked at a lot of them over the years. So many of them. I’ve got a collection going probably back from the 1940s, 1950s, right up to today. One thing that a lot of these books have got in common. They’re well written. They’re written by passionate people and they’re written by people who are quite emphatic that “This is the diet to follow. It’s the diet that’s going to give you everything you want in life. Money, sex, power, you’ll be the next president. You’ll have it all. You’ll be amazing. You’ll live to 140. You’ll be invincible. Everyone will love you and adore you.” That’s what that person says. That’s that person’s idea of wellbeing.

Remember every diet book has been written by a person who’s got a belief that that particular book is the right one. I’m not going to discuss politics or religion on my Candida Crusher, but I want you to remember that a person’s attitude toward diet who’s written a book, it’s a little bit like a person’s attitude toward religion or politics. You’ll have people far left in politics. You’ll have people far right and you’ll have the center. Religion is the same. We have the Muslims, the Christians, the Bahia, the Jehovah’s Witness, the Mormons. Unfortunately, the more passionate people get in politics and religion, the more they think that they’re the smart one and the other people are the loser or the idiot. They know nothing.

Now, some people in my industry are like that, too. They believe that their way is the highway. That their diet book is the one that solves all of the problems. If that’s the case, how come I’ve got so many darn books on my shelf and they all say something similar, but quite different? I’ve got a couple of points I want to discuss here regarding diets and what my philosophy on eating is for patients. I don’t even use the word “diet.” Some people say it’s “die” with a “t” on the end.

First point is keep it simple. You know often particularly when you get a little bit older like me, you’ll have a pretty good idea what’s good to eat and what’s crap. You know this. You don’t need to be told that drinking two liters of coca cola a day is a bad thing. You don’t need to be told that eating one or two bars of chocolate before lunch is a bad thing. You should know this. If you don’t know this kind of stuff, then maybe you shouldn’t be watching this channel. Maybe you need to be watching the crazy cat videos or some kind of daffy duck channel or something. If you’re watching this, you’re probably reasonably intelligent. You’ll probably intelligent enough to know how to use YouTube anyway. If you’re that smart, then you’re smart enough to know that your diet needs to be kept simple and basic and plain healthy eating. It’s common sense, isn’t it?

For many of us, our relationship with food is as complex as the most complicated of family dynamics. We tend to make it way too complicated. Some of the diets I get when I get my case taking forms from patients. Like here are some of my patient folders from last week. I think these are from Friday. When I look at some of the diets, I should read some of them out to you, you’ll laugh when you see what people eat. How complicated some people’s diets are. They’ll have seven or eight different types of vegetables in a green smoothie every morning. They’re have linseed oil or flaxseed oil in there and then they’ll put this stuff in there and then they’ll put a bit of salmon oil in there. Make sure they’ve got about seven or eight vitamins they’re taking in the morning. Quite a complicated sort of a diet.

Same thing with lunch. It’s a mixture of too many vegetables, too many meats, too many proteins, too many smoothies, too many supplements. They take all these things in there thinking that by adding all this extra stuff, they’re going to feel a lot better. It’s surprising how many people I see that when I tell them to stop having their incredibly super potent green drink in the morning, how quickly the gut starts feeling better. Many people actually feel sick purely by the virtue of how complex they make their healthy diet. They put too much stuff in there. Keep it simple. Basic diet.

If you think back a long time ago, people didn’t have blenders. They didn’t have all these amazing array of vegetables, fruits, meats, grains from all over the world at their disposal. They had a few basic things. Understand the basics and don’t get muddled in the complexities.

We should let go of all the shoulds and shouldn’ts, the dos and don’ts. The number of people that say, “I’ve been told not to eat this. This is bad for me or I can’t eat this particular food or I’ve been told that oatmeal is bad for Candida. Candida will get worse with oatmeal. I’ve been told this. I’ve been told that.” As I said on a previous video, if I tell you to jump off a cliff, would you jump off a cliff because you’ve been told to do that? No. You’ll have common sense and you’ll think, “If I jump off a cliff, I could die.” Have a bit of common sense about you. Don’t automatically assume that what people tell you is the gospel because it might not be.

Second point is take control of your own health and diet. You know what’s right for you. Not some stupid book. Even my book. It could be a stupid book. I don’t care what you think the book is. For some people it’s good; for some people it’s stupid. Take a few hints and tips out of a book that you find. I never read books from cover to cover, ever. I will go through them. I might read Chapter 9 first or go through here or there. I find that books that tend to be non-fiction are like that. You can use them for reference. If I pick up a book and I read something and I think, “This is a load of crap,” I’ll just throw the book away if it doesn’t make sense. Sure enough, if a person comes up with one ridiculous or stupid statement in a book or a whole bunch of stuff, the rest of the book is probably junk anyway. Just be careful.

Take control and also let go of the negative associations you’ve got with food because you may have a really negative association with sourdough bread. You may have a negative association with certain types of foods that I recommend. Try to stop that negative association. Give it a try. It might actually work. It’s like going for a walk every day. You might actually feel better if you walk every day. Don’t be negative and say, “Whenever I walk, I feel like crap.” How do you know? Have you walked every day for three months? Don’t knock it till you try it.

Stop depriving yourself also of certain types of foods that you like to eat that you feel guilty eating. All of the food police who’ve told you not to eat. You may feel that a certain type of food actually feels good for you. It sits well in your tummy. You don’t get aggravated by it. But because the food police have said don’t eat it, when you do eat it, you feel guilty. Shouldn’t think like that; that’s wrong thinking.

Point three. Listen to your body. If you eat potatoes and then an hour later you’re farting and bloating, maybe the potatoes aren’t the right thing for you to eat. If you have a certain type of food in the morning and then you feel pretty bad in the early morning, you think to yourself, “Oh, I feel awful.” Listen to your body. Think carefully what you ate previously. There might be an association there between how you feel and what you were eating. The listening part is important because that will make you understand cause and effect. Once you’ve understood that relationship, you stop that food, you may not feel awful anymore.

Nourish your body. Nutrient dense foods nourish your body. Fresh, healthy foods. Try to create nourishing plates of food with nice color on them. Also, if you’re worried about your weight, maybe get a slightly smaller plate. Maybe you don’t need a plate that’s really big. Because when we get really big plates, we want to fill them right up. We’re eating too much food. Maybe a smaller plate is all you need. That can make a big difference. I’m quite fortunate with my vegetable garden. I had a lovely meal of fresh beans last night. It was beautiful. We had some chicken and I just had a whole heap of fresh beans straight out of the yard that was steamed and wonderful to eat.

A good way for you to put a lot of these things together, simplicity, control, listen, and nourishment is to really look maybe at about a dozen foods that you really enjoy eating. Fresh foods. Maybe start making some meals around those foods and get back into enjoying the taste of food, the smell of food, the texture of food. Because to be quite honest, when you’re starting to rely more on processed foods, not a good idea. You’re going to really affect your digestive system quite a lot. That’s going to keep you in that state of Candida or parasites. It’s going to keep you in a state where you can’t lose the weight. It’s going to keep you in a brain fog state. Simplicity. That’s the big one. Keep it simple.

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