Author: Eric Bakker

Greetings. New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker, author of Candida Crusher and formulator of the Canxida range of dietary supplements. Thanks for checking out my videos. I really appreciate it out there. I’m getting lots of subscribers. I’m getting good comments. I really appreciate your support. And it’s for people like you that I do these videos. I’ve seen patients for a long time now, and I’m really enjoying sharing some of my knowledge and information with you folks out there. This is going to be quite a different video. Quite an unusual one in that it doesn’t fit the mold. It doesn’t really fit what you would normally expect someone to talk about with health.

I read quite a lot of different books. Different books on various aspects on health and motivation, and I’m always trying to find new ways to break through to people. We had a meet and greet day the other afternoon, actually. We caught up with the neighbors and I met some new neighbors that have moved in our street and a very cool guy. I asked him what kind of a job he had and he said, “I was a parole officer for 20 years.” And I said, “Well, what’s that all about? That’s working with prisoners and stuff like that, isn’t it? And working with offenders, rapists and murderers and robbers and all sorts of weird people.”

And he said, “Yeah.” And then he said, “I really like my job because it gives me a chance to help reform people. It gives me a chance to get people back on the right track.” He said, “I love my job because I really like helping people out.” I said, “That’s quite interesting because I quite like my job and I think there are a few parallels here between my kind of work and your kind of work.” And he said, “Well, what do you mean by that?” I said, “Well, actually a lot of people I see need to go on probation or on parole, too, with the kind of work I do.” And he said, “Well, how is that?” And I said, “Well, sick people often need the time to readjust and get back into society again because they’ve been unwell for some time.”

So I consider my work a little bit almost like what he does. Not that I’m calling you guys criminals out there. Please don’t take that the wrong way. I often see people who’ve been sick or have developed an illness almost like a crime scene. You could almost say that you’ve developed some kind of problem and a part of my role is being like a kind of health detective to try to find out all the facts surrounding that crime scene for want of a better word. If we put that whole criminal aspect together with disease, we could almost think about it that people who’ve been sick for a long, long time almost need to go on parole. And people who’ve been sick for not such a long time or haven’t got like seriously chronic Candida or gut problems need to go on probation.

Let’s explain a little bit about the difference between parole and probation. Probation and parole are both alternatives to incarceration or a prison term. However, probation occurs prior to and often instead of jail or prison time, while parole is an early release from prison. In both probation and parole, the party is supervised and expected to follow certain rules and guidelines. Did you like that? Expected to follow certain rules and guidelines.

When you’re trying to recover from chronic Candida and you’ve got an early release from prison time, i.e., many people in my business I think are what I call the “food police” or the “Candida Nazis” as I call them. “This is forbidden. You can’t do this and you can’t eat oats for breakfast. You can’t eat gluten.” It’s almost like they’re the sergeant major and you’re in jail and you’re told what to do. That’s not how I work with people. I would prefer for patients to find their own way and to find out what works for them and what doesn’t work for them. Because you’re not in jail in the terms of “incarceration,” but sometimes when you’re chronically sick, you almost feel like you’re in prison. You’re alienated from society. You will become smaller. You develop more anxiety and depression. You cut yourself off from a lot of people around you. That’s almost like a kind of jail term, wouldn’t you agree.

The chronically sick people, I think, who’ve been sick a long time and who are starting to slowly improve, need to have some sort of a release back into society, as they improve. I think I would work more with probation with patients than I would with parole. Because parole is quite a touchy one, isn’t it? But probation is, I think, a good alternative to incarceration.
And also, did you note how I said here, “Expected to follow certain guidelines and rules and supervision?” Supervision, a big part of the work I do is consultations with patients, so I supervise patients. I watch what they do. I like to look at their lifestyles. I like to look at their jobs, occupations, their mode of living, how they sleep, how they eat, how they relate to people. I look at all that kind of stuff. What works them up? What stresses them out? It’s not just all about what you eat. I’m getting sick and tired of all these videos that I look at that’s all about food and food and food. I can tell you guys out there that food only forms a small part of well-being.

All these blog sites you look at. All the social media stuff. Everything online is targeted towards food, but what about eating in front of the TV, watching murders, and all this ISIS stuff, bombings, planes getting shot down and stuff like that as you’re eating your food. Should you be doing that? Should you be eating food over a computer? This to me is part of the supervision I have as being a responsible practitioner to help integrate you back away from a life of crime or Candida, back into a life of a healthy, functioning normal person like me.

That’s what I try to do is to assist with this probation process. Is to get you away from this disease mode. Is to get you away from thinking about sickness, talking about sickness, researching sickness, going onto Facebook, community groups, going onto Twitter, buying into all this stuff. The more you become sickness focused, the harder it will become for you to become wellness oriented. That’s one of the important points I want to bring across with this video.

Part of my handholding approach as a practitioner is to guide you away from a lot of this Dr. Google. I can see so many people making the same mistakes, calling me up, “Oh, my god. I saw some white specks in my stool. Have I got liver flukes?” Or people start panicking and they freak out. One lady started to take a B vitamin complex and then emailed me saying that she was dying of kidney cancer. I said, “Why is that?” And she said, “Well, my urine is coming out all yellow and green. I must be dying of some kind of kidney cancer. Went onto Symptom Finder on the internet and I went right through the whole symptoms thing and it said I could have kidney cancer.” Be careful.

Certain rules and guidelines. Certain rules and guidelines you can read about at yeastinfection.org. You can read about the different guidelines, which I like patients to follow on their step to recovery. Parole, the provisional release of a prisoner who agrees to certain conditions prior to the completion of the sentence period. Some practitioners you see like chiropractors or acupuncturists or people like me may give you a sentence and say, “It’s going to take you one to two years to get well.” Let’s look at that metaphorically. That could be almost like a sentence.

A provisional lease for you if you are on parole is to abide by certain terms and conditions on that release. Let’s just say you’ve been very sick and you’ve seen a few practitioners, a couple of good people have given you some good advice on your recovery. If you are a prisoner and you repeat offend, you’ll go back to jail. If you’re on parole from Candida or a seriously bad illness and you’re improving and you start doing some dumb things, you’re not going to go back to jail, obviously, but you could plunge back into a severe Candida problem again. And that’s going to put you into a tailspin and create a lot of anxiety and a lot of problems.

This is the trap lots of patients fall into whether they’re on probation or parole. They recover. They partially recover. Events occur in their life. Could be weddings. Could be birthdays. Could be Thanksgiving. And they go crazy. They go crazy. They’ll have 10 beers and they’ll have three pieces of cake and they’ll stay up late and they’ll do that one or two nights and then they’ll plunge back again and they’ll get very sick and very depressed. Be very careful because this is big flaw that many people make, and I think people make this in the criminal world and they make it in the real world without talking about crimes. They actually do that as well when they’re noncriminal like me, and they’re recovering, they commit these partial offenses. They don’t stay clean long enough to really fully recover. That’s the point I want to make in this crazy video about parole and probation.

You need to prove to yourself and to the community around you and your friends and family that you can stay good, inadvertent offenses. Get plenty of rest. Drink plenty of water. Keep away from people that pull you down or the negative people, the energy suckers. Make sure that your job doesn’t piss you off too much. That you’ve got a job that you enjoy. Make sure that you don’t push yourself too hard. That you don’t have these crazy expectations of yourself to do so many things in one day. Make sure you follow a good healthy diet. Don’t eat to excess. Make sure you avoid alcohol and avoid stupid things like smoking tobacco or taking drugs.

Be careful of the friendships you cultivate. Because you may hang around with some people that have committed crimes, bad crimes, again, inadvertent offenses. People who drink a bottle of wine three or four times a week, committing these offenses around you, which drag you back down into that pool of crime again. And that’s why probation is a good thing. That’s why parole is a good thing. Supervision. You can supervise yourself or have a close friend supervise you. And say, “Hey, come on. You’re slipping off the track her. You need to tidy things up again.”

Think about this video carefully if you are a person who is recovering or really wants to recover. Do you need supervision? Can you supervise yourself? Do you need a close friend to help supervise you? That’s the message I want to bring across in this video.

It’s Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand, author of Candida Crusher. Formulator of the Canxida range of supplements. Thanks for checking out my video. I’ve got a question here from a guy called Josh in Canada and Josh is a body builder who reckons he’s got a yeast infection. I haven’t really checked his email properly yet, but Josh’s question is “Is whey any good for Candida? If I’ve got Candida, can I have whey protein powder?” Let’s talk a little bit about whey protein powder, Josh.

Whey protein powder is a good powder to take for energy and body building overall in general. It has been for a long, long time, but I’m not a big fan of dairy products in general. Especially these sorts of like filtered whey protein isolate drinks. I just don’t think they’re really good. I think they’re quite refined. It’s almost as bad as really getting a hold of cow’s milk and then heating it up and pasteurizing it and homogenizing it and then giving it to people in a plastic bottle and say, “Here, drink this.” And I just didn’t really know, but I discovered a few years ago that all the milk that we drink is, in fact, reconstituted milk powder, so it’s actually milk that’s been completely dried out and then reconstituted back into a liquid again. Milk’s is not really a good product.

Whey protein is allergenic for quite a few people. Now, whey is a protein and casein is also a protein, and generally, they’re separated when whey protein isolate is made. Particularly like these body building powders. The casein is the highly allergenic component of cow’s milk. Casein allergies, casein intolerances are quite common with a lot of people. It’s very difficult to separate all the casein from the whey, so many people who take a whey protein powder still get allergies. So therefore, I would say don’t have it if you suspect you’ve got a gut problem or a yeast infection.

I’ve written down the four chief things that you need to look out for if you’re taking whey to see if it could be causing your problem. Gassing or bloating, so if you get really gassy inside or bloating, this is a problem. You may want to temporarily stop the whey to see if the gassing or bloating disappears. Farting or gas production, so lots of farts and gas. If you have a lot of this, especially offensive flatulence and lots of it, you could be going through a protein overload or have an allergy towards the casein component of the whey.

Stuffy nose and catarrh, all blocked up in here. Waking up in the morning being blocked up in the nose or coughing up phlegm or catarrh. These are typical signs of a problem with casein intolerance. Excess mucous in head, nose and throat. Doing this and then getting all this mucous back or spitting up mucous all the time, having partially blocked ears, having recurring sinus infections. These are all signs that you need to give whey the flick, so it’s not good.

Dairy contains lactose as well, which is a sugar, and some people have got lactose intolerance. They haven’t got lactase or the enzyme to break the sugar down. Diarrhea is a chief symptom of lactose intolerance. So is whey good for Candida? Give it the flick. And move maybe across to something like a yellow pea protein or a brown rice protein. There are other kinds of protein powders you can have. If you want protein, Josh, just start eating good quality eggs. I’m a big fan of soy, of non-genetically modified soy products. I think tofu is a good source of protein. Very lean cuts of grass fed beef and bison and animals like that are very good. Not so much red meat in your diet. I tend to go more for fish. If you’re looking for protein, you can’t beat fresh fish. Good quality, young white filets. Fish is a superb protein.

Whey does contain quite a lot of cysteine and other good amino acids in it. Cysteine, as we know, is one of the building blocks for a tripeptide called glutathione, which is a very, very powerful combination of three amino acids in the body that has an incredibly powerful effect to help prevent a lot of different kinds of diseases and reverse free radical damage. Glutamine is also part of this tripeptide, but you can get cysteine from eggs and from many other sources as well. You don’t need whey in your diet at all.

As I mentioned, gas, bloating, farting, stuffy nose, catarrh, excess mucous in head and throat. If you’ve got any of those, stop whey to see if there’s a link between them. Again, just to reiterate on the answer. No, I don’t think whey is a good choice if you think you’ve got a gut problem or a yeast infection or this catarrh.

Greetings. New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker, author of Candida Crusher. I have a question here from a lady called Teresa Neal in Oklahoma in America. I’m not sure if it’s on the east coast or the west coast. I’ve heard it’s a very beautiful place.

Teresa is asking me a question today, “Eric, is vitamin C good for Candida?” Teresa, vitamin C is excellent, not just for Candida, but excellent for the body in general. I’ll give you a bit of an explanation why it’s so darn good.

First we have to understand we’ve probably been told for a long, long time that vitamin C is one of the best things we can take to counter the common cold or to boost your immune function. But why does this occur? Why is it such a potent vitamin to take? Why are doctors so dismissive of it and think it’s a load of nonsense?

Well, a good friend of mine, Dr. James Wilson taught me a lot about vitamin C. Dr. Wilson, of course, is the person who came up with the phrase “adrenal fatigue,” and Dr. Wilson said that the highest concentration in the body of vitamin C, there are two places, the adrenal cortex or the part of the adrenal gland that makes cortisol, and the lens of the eye. When you think about it. If the body puts vitamin C in a particular organ or tissue, it will do so for a very specific reason.

Vitamin C is in the adrenal cortex so it can help to produce cortisol. Cortisol is probably the most important hormone when it comes to boosting your immune function. It boosts multiple aspects of immune function. All the cells of the body contain receptor sites for cortisol, but the white blood cells contain hundreds of times more receptor sites than any other cell. The only cells that don’t contain sites for being activated by cortisol are hair and nails, because they’re dead tissue. But all other cells contain areas where cortisol activate them. But the white cells, in particular, have a very powerful affinity for cortisol, and cortisol can’t be manufactured without adequate levels of vitamin C in the body. Now you understand why vitamin C helps people with the common cold and the flu and cancer and many different immune problems.

Dr. Linus Pauling and Dr. Matthias Rath are two doctors who did most of the early work on vitamin C. Pauling, I think got two Nobel Prizes in his day. Very clever man. Pauling worked out that the average person needs right about 3000 to 4000 milligrams of vitamin C per day. Check out Dr. Pauling’s YouTube video on vitamins creating expensive urine. It’s a very good video and it will make you laugh when he was asked about vitamin C, if it was any good for the body.

Coming back to Candida. Vitamin C is exceptionally good for Candida, but I think along with many other different vitamins and minerals. You shouldn’t just take it on its own in exclusion from anything else. It forms a very important part of the diet. If you’re eating a lot of good vegetables, things like spinach and good green vegetables all the time, you’re going to be getting plenty of vitamin C. But if you want over and above, it pays to supplement.

The product I’m going to make very soon, which I’ve formulated already. I’m just waiting to find the right person to make it for me is called Canxida Rebuild and it contains plenty of vitamin C. Vitamin C must always be buffered. Meaning if you’re going to take straight ascorbic acid as a source of vitamin C, it could create a lot of heartburn and reflux and digestive problems, so you want to make sure that you’ve got some calcium/magnesium there to buffer it a little bit in the right form and also that you take it with something called bioflavonoids. Bioflavonoids are vitamin C like compounds. Anywhere in nature you find vitamin C, you’ll find a bioflavonoid. And the main ones are rutin, quercetin, and hesperidin. Bioflavonoids are very protective kind of vitamins. Plants have them along with the vitamin C to stop them from insect attack and to improve microcirculation. That’s what they do in our body as well.

Vitamin C also has a good effect on improving our gut function. It actually helps to boost production of stomach acid. It also increases the way that our body circulates blood and lymph fluid. It has a very good effect on helping to build various neurotransmitters or hormones in the body. It helps to stabilize blood pressure. It improves kidney and liver function. There are multiple effects. We could spend a whole hour just talking about the different health benefits of vitamin C. You can’t build good bone tissue without vitamin C, for example. It’s exceedingly important.

How much is enough? It all depends on what you’re trying to achieve with vitamin C, but I’m quite happy with people taking a minimum of 500 milligrams to 1000 milligrams per day. That’s usually a good dose in a supplement. But if you’re eating plenty of vegetables, you’ll be getting adequate amounts in. Fruits containing vitamin C you need to be careful of in the early stages of the Candida diet. But as time goes on, you can increase the amount of fruits you eat. Kiwi fruit are very high in vitamin C, and I don’t find them a problem with most people with a yeast infection. One kiwi fruit per day for many patients now I find has no real concern.

That’s my take on vitamin C, Teresa, it’s fantastic for yeast infection. It works very well. Take it as a multi-vitamin. You can take a bit on its own, but make sure that bioflavonoids are there with it and drink plenty of water. The other fallacy or bit of nonsense about vitamin C you will here is it creates kidney stones. There is no proof at all that vitamin C creates kidney stones. Intravenous is what I recommend for cancer patients up to 20,000 or 30,000 milligrams per day intravenously works very well for many people. I’ve got incredibly good cases I could mention regarding very sick people who recovered literally within a week with IV vitamin C. So I’m a huge fan of vitamin C myself.