Author: Eric Bakker

Greetings. New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker, author of Candida Crusher. Thanks for checking out my video. Today, we’re going to talk about dietary supplements. Some dietary supplements can make you feel a lot worse. It’s surprising how many patients I have seen, particularly this year, that are taking supplements with all sorts of junk in them. These supplements are purchased basically through Amazon or iHerb or big channels like that or even through conventional stores. Be very careful because a lot of the cheap bottom end crappy stuff actually contain maltodextrin, which is a kind of sugar. They can also put glucose in there. There are different types of sugars that you will find in dietary supplements. They can really help to contribute to causing the Candida flare.

Of course, when you take this supplement, you’re going to get a reaction and you think “Ha, it’s die off. It’s die off. The supplement’s working. I’ve feeling worse. I’m feeling like crap. I’ll just take more. It’s getting even worse, the side effect. I’ve gone from two to four per day and I’m feeling twice as bad. Well, this must be a good thing because I’m feeling worse. I’ll just take more.” Next thing, you’re taking five or six and you’ve got to stop because you’ve got a bad belly ache and bloating, gas. You’re got diarrhea and you’re feeling like crap. You think, “Ah, thank god the supplement’s working.”

Then you read the description box, the supplement facts box, and you find it contains something like maltodextrin or a glucose or dextrin or a weird name that you don’t have a clue of. And then you think to yourself, “I wonder what this is? Oh, well, it must be some kind of nutrient that I need.” Be really careful because many supplements on the market, in fact, are not made by reputable people. They’re made by people that are just trying to make money. They’re made by people who don’t care about the end user. They’re made with the cheapest possible raw materials with the sole aim designed to drive profits through who people who make. Don’t touch these products. Be very careful.

This is not a video aimed at driving or pushing people away from supplements to my supplements. I don’t really care what kind of supplements you take. I just want you to think if you’re going to take something, it’s going to be made by somebody or designed by somebody who understands dietary supplements, who understands what happens when the person takes them who doesn’t want to create any untold reactions with people, who only wants to use the finest possible raw materials. And the person who designs it has a specific action in mind they’re trying to achieve. Most importantly, the supplements were designed by somebody who understands an entire program that patients are going to benefit from.

Because I can tell you something, folks, taking supplements is only a very small part of healing. I’ve told you many times in my videos that you need to look at lifestyle, diet, and the supplements maybe form a small percentage of improving your health to a very high level. They’re very important, but they’re the icing on the cake. If you look at my book, Candida Crusher, it’s predominantly about lifestyle and diet. When those things are put in place and a quality supplement is put in with that, it’s the key that opens the door. It’s going to give you the kind of health improvement that you’ve been looking for.

That’s why I made my Canxida range of products. I put no sugars in them. I put no crap in them. They were designed for people that really want to get well. They were designed for the person who understands the connection of stress and lifestyle, enjoying life. A person who understands the connection between happiness and disease or unhappiness and disease. The person who understands the connection between a natural healthy whole foods diet and a person who also understands the need to backup off and relax more about their diet, not get too anal about every tiny little thing they eat.

It’s the same with supplements. In supplement case, I want you to be anal. I want you to be careful and check out very carefully what’s in that product. It’s very important that you do that. Just thought I would give you a bit of a heads up there. Watch out for sugars and junk in dietary supplements. Also be careful apart from supplements if you’re going to take something like stevia or xylitol because some stevia supplements I’ve seen even contain added glucose to make them even sweeter or to improve on the spectrum of the sweet taste. I found sugar put with stevia. Would you believe it? You’re actually going to find that.

I’ve got some stevia plants growing in my garden and they’re wonderful to grow. You may want to get one from your plant nursery and grow one yourself. My plant is quite a big bush. When I water the garden, I’ll often go down there and pick a few leaves off it and chew on it and just marvel at how wonderfully sweet the stevia plant is.

Food for thought. Check your supplements out. If you’re not sure what a particular thing is, check with the person whose made it. If they can’t give you a valid reason why it’s in there, move on and get something else. Thanks for tuning in. Click on the link in the description box below for your free Candida report. If you’re not a subscriber, subscribe. Thanks for tuning in.

Greetings. It’s New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker. Author of Candida Crusher. Thanks for checking out my video. We’re going to talk about antibiotics and acne. “Can antibiotics cure acne?”
Many, many people I’ve seen over the years have taken antibiotics for acne and in nearly all cases, it was an absolute, complete waste of time. Acne is not something you really want to control with a drug that helps to eradicate bacteria in your body. The reason why is because it’s a crazy treatment. In this case, antibiotics aren’t given for 10 days or a short duration. They’re given long term. How stupid is that? It’s almost as crazy as what’s happening in the Middle East at the moment between Israelis and Palestinians. It goes on and on. Every day someone gets killed because of conflict.

What we’re doing giving antibiotics long term for acne is no different from the Gaza Strip. It’s a continual long term killing and conflict. You never win wars by pointing guns at each other. You never win the fight with acne by giving a drug.

I just read a very interesting website of board certified dermatologists in America who will remain nameless who said that it was a very good excellent treatment for the long term eradication of acne with six months of antibiotics. Why would you take antibiotics for six months? Why would you take a treatment that kills bacteria for such a long period of time? Both good and bad, indiscriminately, kill, kill, kill. Why would you do that? That’s just board certified crazy as far as I’m concerned. But then this person went on to say that the only proper cure for acne is a drug called isotretinoin or Accutane.

You go on Google. Accutane or isotretinoin. You Google it and look how many lawsuits, how many suicides, how many people have been permanently scarred, disfigured. How many people have developed inflammatory bowel disease from this crazy treatment? You may as well jump off a cliff. You’d probably get a better result curing your acne than you would taking this drug long term. It just doesn’t make sense to me to do that. It’s a stupid thing to do.

If you’ve got acne, there are different approaches. If you’re a female, you may be more prone to having acne if you’ve got polycystic ovarian syndrome. You’ll have a higher number of androgens, for example, the male kind of hormone in the body that can increase sebum production. That’s an important point to bear in mind. Hormonal manipulation, particularly if you’re female and feel you’ve got menstrual period issues. It’s very important to get that sorted because that could underpin the acne problem. If you’re a pimply teen like I was, kid 17 with zits all over his face, then you might want to stop drinking Coke for a while and stop all the crème pies and crap like that.

There is certainly more evidence that diet plays a huge role in acne. Many doctors think it’s a load of crap, but certainly young people that eat a fresh, healthy diet are a lot less prone to acne than the ones who don’t. My four kids have grown up now, but they never suffered from acne, but we had home cooked fresh food all the time. We always had good food. Sure the kids would have a Mountain Dew or a Coke here or there, but they didn’t drink it every day and they did eat a very healthy diet. That played a big role in keeping their face nice and clear.

There are other genetic predispositions that could come into it with acne. But taking a drug long term to cure acne is just crazy. It just doesn’t make sense. It’s almost like having an American Express card for years and years at like a 30 percent interest rate. It just keeps crippling your further and further. I say to that lady, that board certified dermatologist, shame on you for recommending people to take an antibiotic for six months. I’ve seen more misery and more ongoing digestive problems with that kind of recommendation than anything else. It’s a ridiculous thing to do.

Probiotics have a nice effect on cleaning up the mess, but a probiotic may need to be taken for one to two years or longer or on an even permanent basis if a person has had antibiotics for this long. If you are a young person watching this video and you’re contemplating antibiotics long term, I would say “stop” don’t do it. Don’t make the mistake that so many of my patients have made, taking an antibiotic long term. It just doesn’t work. It’s going to erode your health. It’ll come back and bite you in the bum when you get older. Especially, if you were young and you take it. When you get to my age, you could have an ongoing, long term gut or immune dysfunction as a result of this treatment. Please don’t even consider it.

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Greetings. Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand, author of Candida Crusher, formulator of the Canxida range of products. It’s good to be back. Thanks for tuning in. We’re going to talk about pumpkin today, so those big, orange things that people like to carve faces in at Halloween. Pumpkin soup is awesome. We’re in winter now in New Zealand and I really like pumpkin soup. But should you have it on the Candida diet or not? If so, when can you have it? When should you avoid it?

Pumpkin is a starchy carbohydrate, not unlike squash. Not unlike things like sweet corn. There are many different kinds of starchy carbohydrate like this. Sweet potato, you could consider a bit like that. They’re quite sweet. People like them. When they cut out a lot of sugars from their diet, they’re drawn to starchy carbs.

When should you have them? When should you avoid them? Well, it really depends on you. If you’re a bloaty or farty person, if you’ve got lots of gut issues, you need to be careful with these sweet carbs, especially when you start to make diet changes and you want to eradicate a yeast infection or clear up SIBO or parasites. I recommend that initially you do an assessment, like a stool test to assess what’s going on in your gut. I also recommend that you clean your diet up in general. So if you currently are eating pumpkin and you want to get rid of Candida, first get rid of the general crap out of the diet, the stuff that you know you need to avoid like chocolate, like alcohol, like sugars, junk food, take away foods in general. Start cooking at home meals from scratch. Make home cooked meals like your grandparents probably made. These are basic things that you need to start doing before you just chop and change things out of your diet.

When you do all these kind of things, let’s see what your digestion is like then because you may not need to take pumpkin out of your diet right up front. Be careful about anyone who tells you to make dramatic lifestyle and diet changes very quick, so you can quickly recover. You need to avoid people like that. It’s almost like they’re trying to convert you or something like brainwash you religiously or something, so be careful. You need to make change slowly. The bacteria in your gut will not like it when you make massive changes very quickly. Any more than your muscles won’t like it when you start going on a massive exercise program. If your doctor tells you to lose a few pounds and exercise, you’re not going to join the gym the following week and then start training three hours a day and then do half marathons within a month. Only idiots do stuff like that. To my mind, only idiots are the ones who make massive overnight diet changes. You don’t do it. You make slow change. I’ve said this a hundred times on my videos before. Never make very quick changes with your diet.

Some people have too much pumpkin in their diet. In those cases, they may need to cut pumpkin consumption back. But in my mind, most people don’t consume large amounts of pumpkin every day all the time. Pumpkin is a wonderful food. I really like the butternut pumpkins like the long ones that have go the nice female shape about them. The tall ones, they got that creamy colored skin. I peel them and cook those in a pan with a bit of butter, with a bit of pepper in there and then just basically cream that up. You can actually put rice milk with it, oat milk with it. You can put cow’s milk with it and then blend that up. It’s very, very nice. It makes a beautiful soup.

If you’ve got a lot of gut issues and you are eating pumpkin, it may pay for you to cut back on squash or pumpkin or sweet corn right up front. Just halve the amount that you’re having and see if that makes a difference in your life. If you’ve got major gut issues, irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel, done a stool test and found that you’ve got loads of Candida that cultured, you’ve got low levels of beneficial bacteria or if you’ve got just a serious gut problem in general, work toward over about a six-week period to eliminate the starchy vegetables completely from your diet. All the starchy vegetables, potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, squash, sometimes even zucchini. Just be careful. If you’re very much drawn to one particular starchy vegetable or even starchy carb like rice and you’ve got major gut issues, just slowly wind this back over a period of four to six weeks until you’ve stopped that. And then substitute that sweet starchy maybe for a green leafy vegetable and that can make a big difference by putting spinach in there or broccoli in there or beans in there or cauliflower or things like that. That should make a difference. If you’ve noticed a relationship with cutting back on pumpkin and gas and bloating and flatulence, that’s a good sign that it was not really conducive toward good gut health. You can always introduce it down the track as your health improves and see how you feel.

I’ve said this also previously, but I’m modifying by changing how you prepare that food, it can have a big effect on the gut, too. For example, baking pumpkin as opposed to making a pumpkin soup, can have a big difference in terms of how it affects your gut. Maybe if you have pumpkin soup, you’re bloating and farting more. But if you bake the pumpkin, you notice that that drops off. That means that you can modify that starch with a cooking method and it may have a different outcome in terms of the effects on the gut. Worth thinking about.

Just to recap. Should you avoid pumpkin? Can you have it on the Candida diet? In many cases, you can, but you need to just seriously reduce the amount. For best effects, probably better to really cut right back or even stop as you’re introducing the Candida diet. Pull these things right back and focus on other kinds of vegetables because they do have quite a lot of sugar in them. For some people, this form of sugar is not too bad, as opposed to white sugar or bread. For other people, it’s not so good. But only you will be able to know that by cutting back and watching the relationship between cause and effect.

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