Greetings. New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker, author of Candida Crusher, formulator of the Canxida range of dietary supplements. Thank you, again, for checking out my video. I’ve got an email here from a lady called June Tickell. June is from Florida and June has a 12-year-old son with eczema and she wonders if he has Candida as well, so she’s asking me if eczema and Candida can be together, cohabitate in a person. Can a person have both of these conditions?
They can. I’m going to do quite a lot of videos this year, hopefully, on eczema and also on psoriasis and explain these different kinds of presentations in the clinic. Eczema is quite a different skin presentation from psoriasis and dermatitis. Many people get these skin conditions confused. In fact, a lot of doctors get confused. They don’t even know the difference some of them between psoriasis and eczema or dermatitis and psoriasis.
Eczema basically is an immune problem where a person is going to have an issue with certain kinds of foods causing an inflammatory response. It generally involved leaky gut syndrome. As the person matures, usually by the time they get to about between 12 to 14, maybe 15, the immune system tends to settle down. Some white blood cells can take many, many years, 10, 12, even 14 years to fully mature. Younger children tend to have more of a problem with eczema than older children, but some adults can still get it.
Eczema can be inherited or acquired, but generally, you will find there is a strong element of hereditary there with eczema. We often talk about atopy. Atopy is a condition where a person will pick up the gene from one or both of the parents and it can be quite bad if it’s from both. So if dad, for example, had hay fever and mom had asthma and eczema, the child has got a 75 percent chance of picking up eczema, quite a bad case of eczema and will probably have multiple food allergies there. And I also find sometimes eczema can be acquired as well through serious antibiotic use when the child was quite young. They can develop it.
Eczema is not uncommon. We get a lot of it here in New Zealand and I put it down to a huge amount of dairy consumption because the cow is king here in New Zealand and lots and lots of people still drink way too much cow’s milk. I don’t think cow’s milk is a great food in general. I’ve never been a fan of people drinking cow’s milk. I do like a bit of whipped cream, though, with my strawberries at Christmas time and I do like a little piece of cheese here or there. I think mozzarella cheese is quite nice. But to drink glasses of cow’s milk is not a good idea.
June, the first question I ask you. Does your son drink cow’s milk because that’s the first thing that I take out of the diet when I know someone has got eczema? Eczema is really all about getting the gut right, restoring that leaky gut membrane. I certainly have seen Candida and eczema together in many different cases and it’s very important for your son to get his digestive system right and to take that allergenic food out. In fact, it’s the second phase of my Candida Crusher approach.
The first phase I put patients on. I put them on the MEVY, meat, eggs, vegetables and yogurt. And the second phase is the low allergy diet. You’ll say, “Hang on a minute. You’re telling people to have yogurt, but isn’t that a dairy product?” Yes, it is. But it is a cultured dairy product and a really good quality yogurt will have a large amount of beneficial bacteria in there. The lactose will be consumed by the lactobacillus. There will still be beta casein in there, which is a dairy protein that could upregulate the immune response, but generally, I don’t find that a problem with most people with eczema. And I’m not talking about the Yoplait or those yogurts with artificial sugars like aspartame or chunks of fruit or tons of sugar in there. Look at the packet of yogurt, if it says “sugar” ditch it. Don’t touch it. Yogurt should be a fresh, raw sour yogurt without any sugar added to it at all. There is a big difference between that kind of yogurt and the crap you get in the supermarket.
With eczema, it’s all about taking the allergenic foods out of the diet. So what are the top allergy foods? I used to work years ago, the first years of my practice, I worked with a pediatrician, a guy who is quite well known in Australia for working with a lot of children with allergies. My kids were quite young at that stage. We tested hundreds, I think we tested about 350 kids in a two-year period. We did blood testing on them, and these were kids from six months up to about seven years of age. And what we found out was that the children – these were the children particularly with eczema, asthma, and hay fever, a typical allergy kind of pattern.
We found that those children, the highest allergy, in fact, it was almost 70 percent was cow’s milk. Cow’s milk ranked high. I found most dairy products would rank to a degree. Butter was never a problem. Cheese was certainly there, but it was on the low end potential. Mozzarella cheese, I found, a usually quite low allergy. Oranges ranked quite high. I think bananas were 16 percent of the allergies. Oranges about 19 percent. Oranges, bananas, pineapple, chocolate, sugar, these are all allergy foods for children you need to watch out for. Milk is the big one. Fish, no, not really. Crustaceans, shell fish, fish, not really. I found it very rare for a child to have a strong allergy toward fish. In fact, if it was an allergy, it would be an anaphylactic or very, very strong response where the child would be hospitalized or need an adrenaline shot. These were very rare cases. I don’t find fish allergies to be common in children at all. There are always exceptions.
So it’s very important for a child with eczema not to have any antibiotics. I think it’s a dumb move because you just increase the permeability. You wipe out more beneficial bacteria. Antibiotics should not be given to children unless in extreme circumstances. I’ve seen way too many problems occur as a result of these stupid antibiotics given indiscriminately for things like a little cut finger or something where you can put a bit of tea tree oil on.
How would you go about treating a child with eczema and Candida? You need to be very, very good with the diet for starters. This boy needs to be able to have some treats that he can enjoy. Certainly, you need to think carefully about that. And also, have a look at the low allergy diet sheet that you can find in my book, June. I’ll send you a copy of that low allergy diet sheet, so you can have a good look at it. You might be able to read about that at yeastinfection.org. Take the allergy foods out of the diet, look at giving the boy a good probiotic enzyme formula.
Enzymes are very good to give with eczema because they allow the proper breakdown of protein foods to very small components. It’s generally the protein components that set up an immune response in a person, not always, but generally. And giving lots of beneficial bacteria is very important when it comes to eczema as well.
By fortifying the gut, helping to repair the leaky gut, you’re going to also make it much more difficult for Candida to get a foothold in the body, so certainly do that. The low allergy approach is a part, as I said, of my Candida Crusher approach. I think your boy is going to pick up quite nicely. Always look for the key food the child wants a lot of. I had a child in my room once that was given one and half kilograms, that’s three pounds of cheese a week, and this kid is like five years old and he’s jumping off the chairs. He’s kicking my books off the floor. He’s jumping up and down on the clock and everything. I couldn’t believe this kid. All I wanted was out of my room. I found out during the consultation. I said to this mom, “What are you giving this kid? He’s really wired up. What does he snack on?” “Oh, he likes cheese.” I said, “Well, how much do you give him?” She said, “Oh, just a couple of pieces a day.” And it ended up being three pounds of cheese a week. Of course, that food was on the off list. When that child was brought back in three weeks, I could not believe the difference how he sat there quietly with his hands on his lap all quiet. In fact, it was just a different child.
Foods can really cause a lot of behavioral disturbances, especially when they create this allergic potential. When it comes to your boy, June, my question to you is what food does he like to snack on? What is he sneaking when you’re not looking? What is he asking for all the time because that could be one of the foods that could be causing or really bringing the eczema right up in the body? Take that food out to start with or cut right back.
Check out my Canxida Restore product, June. One capsule per day should be enough for this boy at this age. That’s a probiotic enzyme. The Canxida Remove is the antifungal. I would just give him one tablet per day. That’s going to help with the Candida. Both those products should work quite well on him. You can get those at Canxida.com.
I hope that answers your question, June. You’re going to get a good result. Just make sure that you’re onto it with the diet and I think you should do fine with this boy. Thanks for your question.
Greetings. Naturopath from New Zealand, Eric Bakker, author of Candida Crusher, formulator of the Canxida range of products. Thanks for checking out my video. Today, we’re going to do an interesting video on always adopt dietary changes slowly with Candida. Make changes slowly. Don’t be one of these crazy people who do everything really quickly.
I can’t tell you how many people that have consulted me over the years that felt like crap after they started treatment and that’s because they went hammer and tongues. When I gave them some advice, they would go in and the next day make all the changes very quickly. It’s a stupid idea. I had a very interesting consultation with a lady in Australia today, a lovely lady from the Philippines now in her 60s who I’ve been seeing now probably for about I think six months whose been sick for some time. And she always wanted to eat rice for many rice for many years, but she said every time she went into rice, it made her sick. I think it’s because when she started, she would have a whole plate of rice with something on top of it and then start eating that and feel terrible. My suggestion to her was start with about a teaspoon of rice per day or half a teaspoon. She said, “What? One teaspoon of rice. That’s crazy. I like to eat rice.” What she did like a lot of people do when they start to incorporate a new food into the diet is they do way too much, way too soon, too quickly. You can’t do that. I really want you to get that through your mind. It is not a good idea.
Nor is it to do that when you are going to start an exercise program. You’re not going to go out and walk 50 miles the first day or go on a cross country hike up big mountain cliffs and down to ravines and then the next day say, “Crazy. I’m never going for a walk again. I feel like crap. All my muscles are sore.” What if you started with just a gentle walk around the block for a week? And then the second week, you maybe went around the block once and then twice? And then what about the third week, you did a bigger loop. And after a month, you did a small hike up a hill. And then after about three or four months, you did a large hike around the countryside? And then in six months, you did that big walk? Sure, you had some sore muscles, but you didn’t need to have hospitalization with extreme dehydration because you weren’t crazy because you gradually built things up over a period of time.
Your digestive system is the same. It needs slow adjustment. It needs slow change. It’s very clever for you to understand that principle. Why would that be so? Why do I want you to start slowly and build up? Lots of changes need to occur inside you. For example, people who’ve got leaky gut or SIBO or Candida often have been unwell for many, many years. They’ve got altering levels of pH in their digestive system. They’ve got different kinds of bacterial levels than they should have. They may have not enough beneficial bacteria. Too many bad ones. They’ve had different kinds of yeasts. So as soon as they start changing their diet too quickly, they’re going to upset all of those things. They’re going to feel bloated, have gas, feel sick, have headaches, have farting, constipation, all these sort of things. And then immediately they think, “Oh, can’t eat that food anymore. I’m allergic to that food.”
But what if they started with the smallest amount of that food and if they had a reaction, they backed off and they wrote it on a piece of paper and tried another piece of food. What if at that same time, they started to take some digestive enzymes and some probiotics and maybe a small amount of antifungal/antibacterial, but they put all the other supplements aside for a while? One of my patients today was taking around 19 different dietary supplements and she felt like crap. I said, “What the hell are you taking all this stuff for?”
We had another patient about two years ago that was taking 90 supplements per day; $4,000 per month in supplements. Plus, a whole page of medications and pharmaceuticals from their four different doctors. I asked her how she felt. She said, “I feel like crap.” I said, “Great. Go to the kitchen and I want you to bring me the garbage can.” She didn’t know what I was aiming at, but she came back with the garbage can. I said, “Now, open the lid and chuck everything in there.” “Why would I do that for?” I said, “Well, you feel like crap, so what difference is it going to make? Now, your bank account is not going to feel like crap. You’re going to feel a lot better because you’ll have more money in the bank and let’s start slowly again.” Again, she was overloading her system. Taking lots of pills is not the answer. Starting treatment too quick is not the answer.
Using an intelligent approach is the answer. Starting very slowly and then gradually building up and building up, so you’ve got to build up digestive fitness like you do musculoskeletal fitness. You can’t do a PhD if you can’t even read or write properly. It takes many years and sometimes it can take several years for a very sick person to gain amazing good digestive health, but generally, I would say between 6 to 12 months to get excellent digestive function, including no gas, no bloating, the ability to eat just about all foods, not be too hungry, all those things can be had but it takes time.
Always adopt dietary changes slowly. The most important point I want to emphasize right now is to start right away and adopt these new habits slowly. All too often I’ve found that when I make a recommendation in my clinic to a patient that these recommendations are adopted way too rapidly and almost overnight. Meaning that their whole diet and lifestyle is literally changed within 24 hours. You can imagine what misery this can bring about. Years of sloppy or bad eating habits changed in an instant, and the result can be bad headaches, nausea, lots of gas and bloating, constipation, diarrhea, insomnia, and fatigue. Doesn’t sound like fun does it? But it happens regularly in the clinic, so I must warn you again. Begin to adopt slowly the changes. Preferably over two to three weeks when you first start. Sometimes even a month.
Taking a good enzyme probiotic formula. You don’t have to take my product, but I’ve created a product called Canxida Restore and it’s going to do what it says. It’s going to restore gently the function of the stomach. Gently the function of the pancreas. The stomach has to work very efficiently before the pancreas can work. Consultation today with a patient with a bad helicobacter pylori infection, which is reflux, heartburn, gastroesophageal reflux like GERD, taking an acid blocking drug for years. What happens with these patients when they take drugs like Nexium or omeprazole or crap like that is they block the stomach’s ability to work. They put out the fire of digestion. They impair the way the pancreas works, so that can sometimes mean when you swallow food, it sits there like a lump or your cough doesn’t sit quite good in your chest. Things get a bit clogged up down here and that can often lead to constipation or bloating or farting or one hour after eating, you can have a lot of tummy pains. You wonder what the hell is going on there.
These drugs are not the answer. The answer is obviously to go to a bland boring diet for a little while. Take some enzymes and probiotics. Take maybe a good antibacterial/antifungal like the Canxida Remove. Again, you don’t have to take mine, but I’ve made a product from the best of my experiences that’s going to help kill a lot of crap here in the stomach. It’s going to work its way through and slowly but surely you’ll find as you willing to relax more, chew food better, rest more, you’ll find that your digestion will improve. You can slowly start to incorporate more foods into your diet. You need to learn to relax more while eating. Chew food better. Select the foods you can eat. Avoid the foods you can’t eat.
Another golden rule in my clinic is if something is working, you don’t change. You stick with that thing. If it’s not working, but only a little bit, you might need to tweak it until it works a bit better. If it’s working better, then you keep doing it. If it’s not working, you change it. If it’s not working at all, you change it completely. Of course, why would you want to stop when something is working? Many people take a supplement for 30 days and then stop it and they think, “Well, I just needed one bottle, but I feel like crap again, so what do I do?” I say, “Well, how did you feel when you were taking it?” “Oh, I felt great.” “Well, why don’t you get back on it again?” “Oh, that might be a good idea.” You know what I mean. If something is working, stick with it and stick with it and keep working until it gets better and better and better. Once you’re on a roll, it just gets bigger and bigger. Adopt change slowly.
If you adopt change slowly, the body will slowly improve and then it will improve more and more to the point where you feel pretty good about yourself. And then over time, you’ll know you can back off treatment and then stop it completely. But don’t be quick to make changes when it comes to starting treatment or stopping treatment. Don’t be quick either. Don’t be quick to stop treatment. You taper treatment off slowly and if you go backwards, then you need to go back again and keep on track. It’s common sense, isn’t it? Well, it is to me.
I hope this has been an inspiring video for you fans on YouTube out there. Thanks for tuning in.
Greetings. It’s New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker. I’m author of Candida Crusher and formulator of the Canxida range of supplements. Thanks for checking out my video. I’ve got a fan called prochessplayer. His name is Josh and Josh has asked me a few times now to do a video called the 10 Signs of Candida and how to treat them, so I’m going to have a go at this, Josh. Thanks for your ongoing support and I trust you’ll get some good information out of this. I think Josh might live in Canada. I just got that feeling that he’s a Canadian person judging from some of the comments I received on YouTube.
What I’ve done, Josh, is I’ve broken this down into different categories. I’ve got a few gastrointestinal symptoms. I’ve got a few genital urinary symptoms, a few ear, nose and throat, a few skin ones and a few central nervous systems. Because there are so many different signs and symptoms of Candida, I’m not going to go into all of the different signs and symptoms of Candida. I’m just going to really pick on 10 of the most common presentations that I would see in the clinic, then I’m going to explain a little bit about some of the best ways to treat these particular kinds of symptoms.
Bear in mind that when you’ve got a yeast infection, it’s good, obviously, if it’s a bad symptom to get symptom relief, but you’re better off really treating the condition as a whole in terms of lifestyle and diet as I’ve explained in Candida Crusher. The quiz that we have created at yeastinfection.org also will give you a very good idea on how severe the yeast infection really is and it will also show the different kinds of signs and symptoms as you grow through the screens. A lot of those signs and symptoms on that quiz I’m going to talk about here right now on this video.
The first three signs and symptoms really relate to gastrointestinal, so GI or gut issues tend to be some of the most common things that people talk to me about when it comes to a yeast infection. Yeast tend to ferment. They love sugar. They cause fermentation and that naturally causes bloating and gas, which is probably one of the most common symptoms I hear people talking about is abdominal issues. It could be pain. It could be gas. It could be bloating. It could be farting. It could be lots of burping. We get that occasionally with people if they tend to get a lot of yeast in the upper part of the gut. Yeast can also thrive in the stomach, the small intestine, the large intestine, in the junction between the small and large intestine. Yeast have been known to flourish throughout the digestive system, so it’s quite a fallacy to believe that they just live in the colon or the large intestine. They can live anywhere in the gut. They’ll thrive anywhere. Especially if they find a good sugar source or a nutrient source and a lack of opposing beneficial bacteria.
Lots of gas and bloating is number one. A good way obviously to treat that is to cut back immediately on the kind of foods that can promote gas and bloating, so sugars in your diet, fruits in your diet, take away food in your diet. In the Candida Crusher book, I talk about the seven-day induction diet before you actually start going into and get serious with the three-stage Candida Crusher diet will try to do what I call “warm turkey.” That’s very appropriate coming out of Christmas to talk about the warm turkeys. Cold turkey is not that pleasant. Cold turkey means you stop things right away. Warm turkey means that you have a seven-day period of grace before you cut the crap out of your diet, so just gently over a seven-day period take foods out. Swap over to a fresh, clean kind of a diet. That’s what I call the “warm turkey” approach and that immediately is going to help cut back on gas and bloating.
What about if you have gas and bloating now and you’ve got a perfect diet? Well, you might want to take some digestive enzymes and some probiotics. I’ve created a product called Canxida Restore, which is perfect for gas and bloating. So the Canxida Restore product you can get at Canxida.com. You would take two or three of these per day and that’s going to help significantly with the gas and bloating if you’ve got a very good diet. If your diet is not good, make the change, swap to good food, and then take the Canxida Restore. There’s no point in taking a good probiotic enzyme formula if you’re having pizzas and swallowing it down with Coca-Cola all day, is there. Pretty dumb thing to do, isn’t it? But some people do crazy things.
Number two. Bowel change. Bowel changes commonly occur with people with stress, with Candida, with SIBO, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth and parasites, people on various medications, IBS or irritable bowel syndrome. About 50 percent of people with IBS usually suffer from stress. Stress has an incredible effect to bowel change. It can cause change in many different ways, but particularly in how the bowel moves food and stool through peristalsis, the movement and the passage of things through the bowel, and that’s very much affected by stress. The autonomic nervous system that controls digestion and gut motility very much gets screwed up with stress. Especially if you’ve got skinny motions at times or bigger motions or you’re going at different times of the day. It’s all over the show. It could well be stress underpinning it. Make sure if you get bowel changes, that you try to relax more, chew food better, don’t eat your main meal in front the horror movie every night at six o’clock, which is the six o’clock news about who just got beheaded or something. Not a good idea to eat dinner in those circumstances.
Bleeding from the bowel, pain, all those sorts of things may need checking out with your doctor. So if you’re really concerned about a recent bowel change, you need to get checked out. Go to the doctor, get some blood testing done. A sudden bowel change can signify some structural changes. Bowel changes commonly occur with Candida. In that case, if you get lots of constipation and diarrhea, think about taking the Canxida Remove product, the anti-fungal/anti-bacterial/anti-parasite tablet. Take one, two or three per day. That’s going to help tone up the bowel because it’s going to help remove a lot of these pests and encourage the beneficial bacteria to come back again, which is what the Canxida Restore does. It improves the ability of the body to break food down and it also gives you a lot more beneficial bacteria that is going to help a lot to create better bowel motions.
Bowel changes, also think about eating good food like point one. Chewing properly. Eating lots of fresh products in your diet. Having good protein. Chewing it properly. Exercising or walking every day. These things will encourage good bowel formation, good bowel tone.
Number three. Sweet cravings. Many people I see crave sweet foods and you’ll know you’ve got Candida when you crave sweets on a regular basis, especially after food I find is a key time for sweet cravings for some people with bad Candida infections. How do you treat a sweet craving? Well, there is a couple of ways you can treat it. A good way to treat it to start with is to cut back on the amount of sweet foods you eat and eat more protein in your diet, more fresh foods.
Also take the enzyme probiotic that I mentioned before, Restore, because that’s going to increase the way that your stomach and small intestine work. You’ll break food down better. It will affect the receptors in your brain positively because it reduces the ability for your brain to want glucose. It’s supplying your brain and the cells of your body with superior nutrition. When the digestion works well, the N cells and target cells get the nutrition more efficiently.
Sugar cravings I find occur often with people with faulty digestion, poor levels of beneficial bacteria, and particularly poor levels of digestive enzymes. Many people with pancreatic dysfunction crave sweet stuff. And the more sweet stuff you get, the more you will crave it and the more bloating you will get, the more burping, the more weird bowel motions. It’s basically a Catch 22 that you’re going to get out of. Slowly swapping to a fresh, healthy diet, chewing properly and taking a good enzyme is going to really help reduce sweet cravings.
There is also an herb called Gymnema Silvestre that I’ve written about in Candida Crusher. Taking a few drops of Gymnema liquid on the tongue. It tastes really bitter, but it blocks the ability of the tongue to send a signal to the brain that it wants sweet food. It’s almost like a switch that gets turned off. It’s fantastic. Chromium picolinate, 500 mcg capsule, maybe a few times a day will also help with wicked sweet cravings. And I encourage eating things like capsicum or sweet kinds of vegetables to chew on that are going to help a bit with sweet cravings. Sometimes an apple will help with the sweet craving. You will find that it will diminish over time as your diet changes and your digestion changes. That’s the three gut symptoms.
Now let’s talk about a couple of genitourinary symptoms associated with Candida. Common signs. Kidney or bladder infections, especially recurrent. Many people get recurring bladder infections and kidney infections. Is it linked with Candida? I think it is in many cases. And many people with recurring bacterial or e-coli infections often have a yeast infection as well. And that’s because they often take antibiotics to counter these infections. Trimethoprim or different kinds of antibiotics will kill the beneficial flora and yeast will thrive. Yeast will often partner up with bad bacteria. By cleaning up yeast in your body, changing your diet, drinking more water, it’s going to really help significantly to nail these infections.
I’ve written a whole page on UTIs, urinary tract infections, on ericbakker.com. You can read that page. It’s one of my very commonly read pages. There is a powder called d-mannose. Usually taking one to two teaspoons per day of that will help to get rid of the e-coli bacteria. The mannose sticks to e-coli almost like Velcro and it helps to pee it out of the body more efficiently. Cranberry juice is good. Quite alkaline. Also has a similar ability to stop bacteria adhering to the bladder wall and to the urethra. When you have the cranberry, I prefer that you buy the whole berries from the health food shop and simmer them for five minutes in some hot water and then drink that tea. Don’t buy bottles of cranberry crap from the shop because it’s usually full of sugar, which defeats the purpose.
The golden rule with UTIs and kidney and bladder problems. Drink tons of water. Stop alcohol. Keep away from sugary foods. Be careful with intimate relations. Honeymoon cystitis is common in young people. They get recurring infections from sexual contact. And of course personal hygiene is a key way to get rid of these infections.
Thrush or jock itch, number five. Very common. Lots of people contact me for recurring thrush with females and also jock itch. I’ve done many videos on jock itch for males and I get lots and lots of questions regarding burning scrotum and burning balls and burning penis and burning this. It may seem like a crazy job I’ve got, but I kind of enjoy helping people out with these personal problems. You can read a lot about this in blogs I’ve written on yeastinfection.org or check out my videos. The big thing with jock itch is personal hygiene. It’s very big. Regular showering. Again, targeting the gut fungus using my Canxida Remove and Restore. You can see the videos I’ve done on that. It will tell you exactly how to use it.
Using tea tree oil or coconut products regularly will help to allay the itch. Lots of sunlight, salt water. There are many ways you can get rid of a jock itch.
Thrush, boric acid capsules. Check out my two-stage vaginal treatment program that I talk quite a lot about. You can read that in Candida Crusher. You can read it at yeastinfection.org and you can see the videos I’ve created on vaginal thrush. Thrush can be nailed beautifully by targeting internal treatment. If you’re menstruating, especially menstruation, you do the kill phase and post-menstruation, do the build phase. Three menstrual cycles back to back along with correct diet and lifestyle, you’ve nailed the condition in 90 percent of cases. I’ve worked with well over a thousand women that had vaginal thrush and had fantastic results with the protocol. Be sure to take the Canxida Remove and the Canxida Restore to really assist in regulating the internal environment. Because getting rid of thrush or jock itch is not just about treating the local area. It’s about getting your lifestyle right, getting your diet right, and using just a small amount of high quality supplementation as the icing on the cake.
Number six. Now we’ve got a couple of ENT, ear, nose and throat issues. Six is nasal condition, phlegm, coughing, clearing up phlegm, all those awful sounds that some people make. People with nasal congestion, stuffiness, phlegm, coughing, all that kind of stuff is very much yeast related. A lot of these people crave sugar or have a lot of carbohydrates in their diet like lots of bread. They might have a few slices of bread and they cough up phlegm later. Very common. Milk can be associated with this, too. Many people have got allergies toward milk. That can create excess mucous and then bacteria and yeast like to thrive in that environment. But I find a lot of throat clearing and nasal congestion especially to be Candida related. Once you’ve cleared the bugs from the gut and you’ve got the balance back, the sinus in the nose should be nice and clear.
How do we get rid of the nasal congestion? Well, again, you need to get the inner environment right. There is no point in taking steroid nasal sprays and antihistamines and crap like that if you’ve got an infection underpinning it and then a poor diet. That’s just encouraging it. You need to get the causes addressed.
Tinnitus, headaches, sinus, teeth pain, they’re all related to yeast infection. I’m not saying that all of these things are caused always by yeast infection, but there is an association there. Tinnitus, how the hell can that be causes by Candida? Or teeth pain, I mean this guy is really off his tree by saying that isn’t he? I’ve done videos recently on the vagus nerve explaining about the connection with the nerve and the base of the brain. The vagus nerve is the largest nerve that controls the parasympathetic dominance in the body. Basically, it helps to balance the stress response. It sends information from the gut up to the brain and the brain in turn gets that information back to the gut again. There is a big connection there. There are tiny little nerves called oracular branches that run off the vagus nerve. People with bad gut problems can actually get fluttering sounds in their ears and dizzy spells. I do associate tinnitus also with anxiety and I see it particularly in people in their late 50s up to mid-60s in women more so than men. There are other causes with tinnitus. I might do some videos just to explain tinnitus in more detail. I associate that with gut problems in general, but also anxiety and other kinds of issues.
Tension headaches. Very common with Candida. Tension headaches are often caused by stress. Headaches can also be caused a lot by sinus congestion and liver congestion. Headaches that are caused by liver pain, you’ll often get pain around the top of the head, pain around the eyes. Headaches caused by Candida can be all around the face. It can be on the side. It can be behind the eyes. It can be the head in general. Candida also produces a lot of byproducts as a result of its interaction with the immune system. And when Candida dies, it will create all kinds of cell fragments that tend to jam up the immune system. These things affect immunity quite a lot that upregulate the immune response and cause inflammation. Inflammation can cause heat, flushing, redness and pain, sweaty, all common signs of yeast infection in many people that I see.
Sinusitis. If you’ve got nasal congestion, phlegm, it’s easy then for it to be a breeding ground and then bugs will take off and you’ll get an infection. What does the doctor give you? More antibiotics and then you’re going to get more yeast infection.
Teeth pain. When you get a lot of swelling of the maxillary sinus in different areas as a result of infection, it puts pressure on facial nerves. You can actually feel pain all around the teeth even. That can be as a result of a yeast infection. Yes, it can. Especially if you’ve got root canals or dead teeth causing bacterial infections even more so. These things can be alleviated a lot with cloths against the face, like nice hot packs are going to help significantly. There are different herbal aids that we can use to alleviate pain, homeopathic medicines, but we can’t specifically go into that with this video. Tinnitus can be alleviated greatly with acupuncture and especially if you start really working on relaxation exercises. There are particular exercises to correct your balance to get relief.
Two more problems here. Eight and nine relate to skin and nail. Toenail or nail fungus is a very common sign of Candida. Number nine is psoriasis or white patches under the skin. Take the socks off and have a look if you’ve got any fungal toenails. Many people have got fungal toenails. In fact, it’s huge. There are a lot of advertisements on TV in many countries for treatments targeting toenail fungus. People with recurring toenail fungus usually have got gastrointestinal yeast infections. So again, it’s not just local treatment for the toenail, you need to address the gut and get the gut right.
It’s incredible how many times I’ve heard a guy say that when he stopped drinking beer altogether, within six months, the toenail fungus cleared up. Or a woman drinking wine or people eating a lot of sugar in general or alcohol. These are often tied up with promoting the yeast infection. Don’t kid yourself for a minute that you will have only toenail fungus and no fungus in other parts of the body. You will. I guarantee you. I’ve seen this many times. The way to treat toenail fungus is treat the body systemically for yeast infection. Again, have a look at the Canxida Remove that I’ve created and the Canxida Restore. These two products because they’re going to help quite a lot. Target the internal environment on the toe try tea tree oil. Another tip that I’ve recently discovered is using a bit of boric acid powder. I’ve got some boric acid powder here. Here it is. No, no. It’s not what you think. I’m not into methamphetamine or stuff like that. This is boric acid powder. Boric acid powder, you can actually mix up a little bit with coconut oil and just gently poke that in and around the toenail. Make up a paste and smear that around the toenail. One of my patients said it was absolutely fantastic in getting rid of the yeast infection. That’s a tip to use the boric acid powder. Also tea tree oil. Put a few drops of tea tree oil every single day on the toenail or oregano oil. That’s going to really help to treat that infection indeed.
The psoriasis. Very common for people with psoriasis to have a yeast infection. In fact, three quarters of psoriasis patients, if not more, suffer with Candida. That’s a fact. You can google it and have a look. There are research papers actually now that actually validate that statement. White skin patches. Check out a product I’ve recently created called Canxida Cream. You can get that on Amazon. Canxida Cream is a kind of unique product that I formulated after requests from many people that wanted a cream that was gentle, perfect for dry skin, that could be used on cracked skin, and I’m finding it fantastic for psoriasis patients. Really, really effective. But I’m also recommending it now for jock itch and white skin patches. Some people get white fungal skin patches. It can be used on the scalp. It can be used on the private areas. It can be used anywhere. I wouldn’t use it internally, but it can be used all around the vaginal area and around the penis and scrotum. All those areas are affectively treated with Canxida Cream. Check the cream out. You’ll find it on Amazon. It’s quite inexpensive and it’s a nice product with apricot kernel oil it. It’s got tea tree oil in it. It’s a very effective product.
How do we treat psoriasis? How do we treat skin patches? Again, like the toenail fungus. Treat the gut. Treat the internal environment. Take an antifungal product like the Canxida Remove. Take a probiotic enzyme like the Canxida Restore. Correct the diet. All of that diet information I’ve made multiple videos on. You can look at all that for free. Check out my blog yeastinfection.org. I try to give you guys as much free information as I can to really help you out there.
Number ten. Central nervous system. Poor concentration, decreased memory, loss of self-confidence and self-esteem, mood swings, irritability. All of these things are potential issues that a lot of Candida patients face. When you’ve been sick for a long time, when people lose confidence in you, close family and friends think you’re nuts, the doctor thinks you need to see a psychiatrist, of course, you’re going to lose self-confidence. You’re going to feel like you’re a screwball. You’re going to think there is something wrong with you. In fact, there isn’t. There is something wrong with a lot of other people. You’ve lost the confidence in you. This is how I felt when I was in my 20s. People thought I was crazy. They thought I need to see a psychiatrist with Candida. Then I started to realize that this condition made me feel terrible. But what made me even more terrible was the loss of confidence that people had in me. That made me feel really depressed. Depression can be a part of long term Candida, especially when you feel too sick to go outside. Too sick to work. Too sick to have bright lights coming in on you. And you feel pissed off. You feel angry. You feel irritable when you’re like that. That keeps people away.
How do you get on top of this? How do you improve these bad moods and how you feel as a result of Candida and the result of a lifestyle caused by Candida? You need to have the ability to understand that you will improve bit by bit. Improve what you can and understand there are things that you can improve that will take time. As your confidence and self-esteem increases, you’ll find you’ll get better and better and better. It will take time to do that. Keep working on the digestive system and everyday make the right kind of choices. You call the shots in terms of what you eat, what you drink, people you mix with, your ability to exercise or sit in front of the TV, the kind of movies you watch. All those things influence your ability to heal to great degree.
Really when you think about it, healing is in your hands. Not in the doctor’s hands. That’s a very important message I like to bring across as we come to the close of this video that you’re responsible for your own health. You’re also responsible for your own healing. As you improve, you’ll be amazed that how your friendships will be restored again and you’ll actually your job. You’ll enjoy your intimate relationship and you’ll enjoy living again. That’s what I call the upward spiral. When things improve, everything improve. When things go down, everything goes down. It’s your call.
I hope that gives you some information on the ten signs, typical things that I would see if Candida yeast infection and how to treat them. Don’t forget to sign up for my YouTube channel. I appreciate the support. Prochessplayer or Josh who requested this video is already a big fan. If you’re watching this video and you’ve managed to watch beyond the three and half minutes that most people watch, please become a subscriber. Check out yeastinfection.org. Do my quiz and check out my Canxida.com products because I think they are some of the best that you’ll find.