Author: Eric Bakker

Greetings. New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker, author of Candida Crusher and formulator of the Canxida range of dietary supplements. Thank you again for tuning into my video. I really appreciate you watching my videos. This is the third one in a three-part series on how to recognize the Candida patient. I did one previously on how to recognize the female patient who you suspect has Candida. I’ve just done one on the male and this is the third one. How to recognize a child with a yeast infection. I’ll read a bit more out of my book.

A child with Candida can be mislabeled hyperactive or learning disabled by a practitioner who does not fully understand the true significance of pediatric yeast syndrome. Dr. William Crook, who wrote the Yeast Syndrome, was a pediatrician who noticed that many of his young patients would improve significantly once the yeast overgrowth was eradicated. It’s a pity that many pediatricians today do not have the same level of clinical experience with intestinal dysbiosis and children’s health that Dr. Crook had.

Children who have Candida may manifest multiple allergic syndromes that can affect them on many different levels. These children can even display behavioral and learning difficulties as a result of individual reactions to foods, chemicals and preservatives and may be linked to a Candida yeast infection. In my clinical experience, some children do not need drugs like Ritalin after all. Particularly, if they are first assessed and treated for allergies and carefully screened for Candida and yeast infections or SIBO, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. Like Dr. William Crook, I’ve certainly noticed over the years that children who have both behavioral and learning disabilities as well as yeast infections display a marked reduction of symptoms once the Candida is eliminated, much to their parents’ relief.

A very important part of Candida treatment with children is getting them away from sweets as much as possible. And a good way to start is by eliminating all soda drinks, candy, sweets, and unnecessary food and drink items. This can present as a challenge and you will find it an easier task with younger as opposed to older children. Believe me, I have four children, and I know how difficult it can be, but it is achievable. Especially if you offer your child fruits instead of highly processed sweets, ice cream, candy and soda drinks. Even though fruits contain sugar, they don’t contain the same kind of sugar as you would give straight out candy or ice cream. Give them diluted juices to step them down.

A case comes to mind. About a year ago, of a lady who brought me a five-year-old boy with an incredible attitude problem. In my room, he was pulling all my books off the shelf. He was jumping on the furniture and he was very disruptive. The mom told me that she was feeding him one and half kilograms of cheese a week. That equates to I think about three or four pounds of cheese in a week. Just giving him big slices whenever he was screaming. I mentioned to her about this connection with the molds, potentially the allergies and the behavior, and she was a little bit. “How can that cause any problems?” But the amazing thing is when the child was brought back in about six weeks, he sat there on the chair with his hands folded on his lap and didn’t move. And she said to me, “It’s incredible how he’s changed.” And it was just the cheese. Food is really, in some cases, linked up to behavioral problems, so just pay attention to that.

How do you recognize a child potentially with a yeast infection? Let’s read some things out of my book here. The case history will often tell you if you’re dealing with a child who has Candida or not. I regularly have naturopathic students who sit in for observations in my clinic, and I like them to be aware of the importance of case taking when it comes to children in the clinic, especially. A case well taken is a case half solved. What happened in the past is probably one of the most important questions you can ask a mother? It’s surprising how when you ask a mother when her child was prescribed an antibiotic in relation to her child’s health problem, time and again, we will see the relationship with the antibiotic and the effect on the bowel, skin, immune, behavior or other problem. Many children I see have had recurring antibiotics given, and you can actually see the breakdown in health each time these were given.

Look for the child who has a strong sweet or sugar craving especially. Careful questioning during the case taking will illicit this crucial information. While it is not true all children who crave sugar will have Candida, it is true that most all children with Candida have very strong sugar cravings. Don’t just look for a craving or a strong desire for candy or sweets. Look for the desire to consume orange juice, soda or fizzy drinks, dried fruits, dates, figs, lots of chewing gum, biscuits and a host of foods high in sugar. And often with this craving, you’ll see the behavioral attitude with it. If the child’s not given this, you’re going to get crying, screaming and you’re going to get all these problems associated with not giving or placating to that child’s desires. Look for the child who eats many pieces of fruit every day.

If there has been a history of recurring antibiotic prescribing before the onset of the digestive problem, you can almost guarantee there will be some kind of a yeast problem or SIBO, a bacterial problem. A child with recurring worm infections or worm infestations. Itchy anus, for example. Does the child have an itchy anus or complain of sore tummies routinely? There could be sweet craving underlying again. Suspect the yeast infection in children who get recurring worm problems.

Children who live with one parent. Listen to this one. And then spend every second weekend with the other parent. This is often the case with separated or divorced parents. Therefore, always ask the question, “Does Johnny live with one or both parents?” It is surprising how many times I’ve heard, “Oh, no. In fact, he lives with his father half the time.” In cases such as this, you may find the child will be spoiled with one of the parents with lots of sweets or things that the child desires, and the other one may be ultra-strict. That could be an issue.

The child may be very awful at the mom’s place, for example, not getting the sweets and very nice at dad’s where he or she is getting the sweets. Beware of grandparents or what we call the outlaws. They sometimes feel it is their right to be able to give the child special treats “sweets or ice cream or candy.” I found that when the child stays with one parent, on the alternate weekend swap, or with a grandparent, there may be behavioral changes or worsening of the symptoms. In this case, you want to carefully assess the diet. Again, ask the questions.

Abdominal pain that is undiagnosed by a bowel specialist. Think about dysbiosis, including parasites and/or yeast infections. Once you’ve concluded there is not fecal loading like severe impaction or constipation, treat for a yeast infection. Sometimes an abdominal x-ray or an ultrasound is required to see if there is any abdominal obstruction going on there.

A child living in a cold, damp or moldy environment who is always sick. He will need to be moved to a better environment before you begin to work on the Candida eradication. In New Zealand, we’ve got a lot of children who live in drafty, cold, leaky homes. I had a consultation with a lady in Denmark yesterday whose house was also quite moldy. Because I put up a video on mold, she realized that that was her problem. And then she carefully looked in the bedroom and she saw some mold up on the top. She started to understand that she was always getting worse in the beginning of winter and in spring and summer she cleared up. She put one and one together and she worked out it was the mold that was causing the problem.

Any child on pharmaceutical drugs long term. Does the child take asthma drugs like Ventolin, salbutamol, or a steroid preventative inhaler? Perhaps a recurrent prescription of an analgesic, anti-depressant or other medication. Routinely, you’ll see children with drug induced sickness and yeast infection. And a lot of children’s medications can be high in sugar as well. You’d be surprised to know how many cough medicines contain sugar.

Any child with a current bladder or urinary tract infection. Obviously, you’ll want to rule out diabetes or other blood sugar issues. Any underlying urinary issues that can be ruled out by a urologist, for example. But if there are recurrent urinary tract infections or bladder issues, then you may want to treat for a yeast infection. Any kind of recurring infections in the gut of bacterial or yeast in origin. Carefully check them out.

A child with recurrent ear, nose, throat, respiratory or sinus infection. Once again, suspect antibiotic use and in some cases, you’ll be surprised to learn that the child was never well since antibiotics. Any child you suspect of being celiac. Always check for bacterial, yeast or parasite infection long before you consider a gluten allergy or intolerance. Because it’s more likely the child will have an issue with yeast rather than gluten. Does the child crave sweet foods or drinks? Has there been a history of antibiotic use? Has the child traveled or been on holidays before diagnosis of being celiac? Did the kid pick up a parasite somewhere? More importantly, was the celiac diagnosis based on a biopsy or was it just basically through a blood test? Because blood testing is not always an accurate indicator of celiac.

Last but not least. The child with the terrible attitude. I’ve often seen children in my clinic presenting with behavioral problems and sometimes severe. No doubt like many naturopaths, I’m not saying for one moment that all children with behavioral issues have a Candida infection, but a surprising number do. How do you distinguish between a child with a yeast infection who does not appear to fit in with the family dynamics and a child who has autism?

What I do is look at the child’s diet and how strongly the child craves certain food items as a starting point. Many yeast infected children will have a craving for certain foods as strong as their attitude and they even rule the household and simply demand these foods. These are the children with food allergies as well. Many of them have an allergy toward sugar. Dr. Crook picked that one up a long time ago that the sugar craving is the strongest craving. And often the strongest craving can dictate the strongest allergy. And the strongest allergy can dictate the strongest behavioral problem. So if you’ve got that food sorted, you may well have the behavioral problem sorted and be more easy to manage the child.

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Greetings. New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker. I’m the author of a book called Candida Crusher and I’m also the formulator of a range of products called Canxida. Thanks for checking out my video. I’ve got an email here and I’ve got many emails, many, many, many emails. In fact, I’ve got about 130 emails from people just in the last few weeks asking me the same kind of questions, so that’s why I’m going to do this video today to really cover the replies to these questions I’m getting from people consistently. The questions are mainly revolving around the Canxida products, which I’ve made and are available online. That’s Canxida with an “x”.

These products were created basically after many, many years of seeing patients and struggling with trying to find something that really had a great effect consistently on people time and again after using many different products. You can read more about the Canxida story on Canxida.com or you can also check out some of my videos on this Candida Crusher YouTube channel. There will be other videos on Canxida as well.

The primary thing I’m going to address with this video is the questions, “When do I take Canxida Remove? When do I take Canxida Restore? Can I take them together or should I take them apart? How long should I take them apart? Can I take them with food? Can I take them before food? Can I take them after food?” Lots of different questions here. There is another question here from somebody. “I have an allergy against black walnuts. Is it still okay to use the Canxida Remove?” Let’s cover some of these things now in detail and give you a good explanation on the Canxida range and the best way to take these products.

We’ll start off with the Canxida Remove. Canxida Remove has been just recently reformulated, so the brand new formula available also contains oregano oil. I challenge you people out there to find a better anti-fungal/anti-bacterial/anti-parasite product than Canxida Remove. I don’t think you’re going to find something as comprehensive as this or made quite in the same way. There are different little tips and tricks I’m going to explain to you now on how to get the best out of this product.

I’ve learned over the years that there are different sensitivities of people. Some people are normal, don’t super react to products. They can take products. Other people react reasonably strongly and other people super react. For the super reactors, if you know you’re reacting to everything your take. If you know you’ve got multiple food allergies and you can only eat maybe about five or six foods and you react to vitamins, you react to paracetamol or you react to Advil. You react to everything. You react to your mother-in-law, in fact, you know what I mean. You react to everything. Then you need to start with the smallest possible dose with Canxida Remove. We’re not talking normal people.

We’re talking super reactive people. You would start by cutting the tablet maybe in four or five pieces even. You can buy at Wal-Mart or Costco a tablet cutter. Tablet cutters are quite handy because you can even take small slices of a tablet. If you’re in doubt and you know you react to things, start with a very small dose. And then always start with food. Don’t ever start a supplement away from food if you super react. Take it with food.

If you find that when you take a small amount and you don’t react as violently as you thought you would, then you can probably double that dose. You would take a small dose for three days. And then after three days, you would take a small dose twice a day, etc., until you can actually take perhaps half a tablet or a whole tablet. That only really covers maybe five percent of people. Five to eight percent, not even at quite ten percent.

A smaller group of people who react are the sensitive people. They’re not super sensitive, but they’re sensitive. In your case, you would simply break a Canxida Remove tablet in half and take it in the middle of the meal, and you would do that for three days. You just snap a tablet in half. You’re eating away at your food, stop, swallow half the tablet and keep on going. That’s if you’re a sensitive, but not super sensitive person.

What is the difference between a super sensitive and a sensitive? A sensitive person has got probably a few food allergies. They may have had some quite strong die off reactions to other kinds of Candida products. They are a sensitive person. They may at times take an antihistamine. They may get eczema. They could have skin rashes. They could have a lot of external manifestations of the Candida problem. In that case, just be cautious. Break a tablet in half. If you’re okay on half a tablet with any meal, breakfast, lunch or dinner, for three days, then you double the dose. Then for the following three days, you would take half a tablet twice per day. And then a week after that, you can probably take one tablet per day, and then two tablets, building up to one tablet two or three times per day with meals. That’s about 20 percent of people.

Probably about 75 percent of people can usually go into one tablet twice per day immediately of the Canxida Remove. Usually with breakfast and with lunch or with breakfast and dinner or with lunch and with dinner. It doesn’t make that much difference. If you’ve got a sleeping problem, maybe not take the product with your evening meal. Take one with breakfast and take one with lunch. That’s if you’ve got bad insomnia. If you’ve got a little sleeping problem or you’re not too disturbed by it, have your meal probably around 6 p.m. and have your last dose with your evening meal as long as you’re not eating at 8 or 9 o’clock at night like some patients do.

Let’s just recap what I just said. If you’re an extremely sensitive person, start with the smallest possible amount for three days and I’m talking maybe about an eighth of a tablet even. If you’re a sensitive person, break the tablet in half. Take a half a tablet once per day for three days and then build up on that dosage. If you’re normal like me and don’t super react or have really bad die off, chronic headaches or feel sick when you take something, then you can generally take one tablet two to three times per day.

When would you take two tablets and when would you take three tablets? One tablet twice per day is a great starting point for the majority of people. You don’t need to go immediately into three. Now, you can take anywhere from one tablet up to 12 tablets per day of Canxida Remove. I wouldn’t probably go anything beyond about six or eight personally, but I have got a few patients that take large doses. Sometimes they break through barriers when they increase the dosage. That’s not something I recommend.

You don’t generally need to go beyond three, maybe six tablets per day, maximum. Three is usually fine. Start with two. And particularly if you’re just making some diet changes, starting with your diet change, start on two tablets per day. If you’ve got a very good diet and you’ve had it for some time and you’re happy with your dietary intake and you’ve been disappointed with other kinds of formulations like many of my patients have, you can take Canxida Remove right away, one tablet three times per day with meals. Always take Canxida Remove with meals. You’re not going to benefit from this formula taking it between meals or two or three hours away from food. There will be little benefit.

Why would there be no benefit? Canxida Remove is made in a very special way. Unlike other products you’re going to take. Any other kind of anti-fungal or anti-bacterial. This product is made in a very special way in terms of how it breaks down in the body. It takes two to three hours to break down. Unlike most tablets that break down very quickly. I’ve learned a very special proprietary way to sustain release a tablet. When you swallow this tablet, it breaks down slowly in the gut over about a two to three-hour period. Best with food because that’s when the digestion occurs. That’s when the body is secreting enzymes and acids. There is no harm taking that with food at all. I find a better patient response rate with food than when I’ve tried it away from food. Don’t chew the tablets. Just swallow them whole. I mean I chew them. I quite like the flavor of the different herbs and things like that. Swallowing them whole is perfectly fine.

Children. Depending on the body weight, but generally young children under five, you need to be very careful with very young children. Also, if you’re nursing or pregnant, you’re probably better off not taking the formulas to be honest. I’d rather you wait until you finish breastfeeding or if you’re contemplating conception or having a baby or carrying a baby, don’t take the formulas. Go and see your health care professional when best not to take them. With children, depending on the body weight of the child, anything over about five, you can probably give half to one tablet per day. Depending on how many pounds or kgs they are. Robust larger children can often take higher dosages than very small ones. Children tend to be more sensitive when they’ve got yeast infections, so you need to be very careful with dosage and always underestimate rather than overestimate. I prefer for most kids up to about 14, I would say one tablet per day, but we’ve got some large Pacific Island children here in New Zealand from Tonga or Samoa or Mali children. They can easily take two tablets per day. Some of these kids can get quite big.

You need to gauge that depending on the robustness of the child and their weight. If you’ve used medications on them before and you know they can handle different medications in larger dosages, then give larger dosages. You’re quite safe with this formula with children. You’re not going to get any violent reactions with them at all. Kids don’t mind these products. Tablets that are big, just cut them in half. Children over about 14, I would treat like an adult. I would give probably two per day. Up from about 7 to 14, anywhere between half to one and half tablets per day is generally about the rule. With food that product adjust the dosages accordingly.

Duration of treatment. Anywhere from three months to six months or even longer. Some people have been on Canxida Remove with our initial doses that we made for up to eight months or even longer. And they did that in a very long slow dosed fashion and got very, very good results. Other people have taken shorter courses of higher dosage. You can also chop and change. You can do a short course of high dosage. Then you can stop for a week or so and then do a long term dosage of say three months or so taking one per day or two per day. There are no rules here. It depends on your aggravations. It depends on your energy levels. It depends on the benefit you get from the product. You need to adjust the dosage according to how you feel.

I would generally recommend you take Canxida Remove in a probably four to six-week block. Work out a dosage. Stick to the dosage and then push it through for about four to six weeks then maybe give your body a spell for a week and then do another block, either a lower dose or a higher dose. It’s quite clever, especially if you’ve got parasites, to do so. With successive generations of bugs, sometimes it pays to hit them harder then to back off a little bit if you’ve got aggravations. Don’t be afraid to change the dosages at all on Canxida Remove. Short term high dose, long term low dose. Very smart move. I hope that gives you enough information on the Canxida Remove products.

Let’s talk a bit about the Canxida Restore product now. Again, you can read a lot about this on Canxida.com on the formula, on the enzymes, and the probiotics and why I’ve created this formula to be like that. I’m not going to go into the formulations on the video. You can read about those. The Canxida Restore was designed exactly for what it says, to restore the gut function. It’s a product that you can use very advantageously at the same time that you’re taking the Canxida Remove. In fact, both products are best taken together. You don’t need to take them apart. You don’t need to spread them apart by 10 minutes or half an hour. You can have the tablet and capsule and swallow them both at the same time.

How do I know that? I know that from working with tablets of this nature and capsules like this for nearly 30 years. I’ve worked with products for a long, long time. I worked with probiotics way before they became fashionable and I’ve discovered that a good probiotic works even better when taken with a good anti-fungal product. I’ve had no problems with that at all. But more importantly, I’ve also discovered you get much better results when you mix enzymes with probiotics rather than take them separate. You get an even better result with the majority of people when you give a probiotic with no prebiotic, and I’ve got very specific reasons why I don’t like prebiotics. And again, look at my video on Restore and you’ll hear all about that.

When do you take it and what’s the dosage? Well, this is in a very special capsule that is quite an expensive capsule to manufacture. This is why this product does cost a bit of money because it’s a quality product. It’s not a cheap, crappy, cellulose capsule. It’s made in a very special capsule that tends to break down only when it gets into the small intestine. It won’t break down in the stomach. It survives the stomach bypass. Nearly all probiotics you buy won’t do that. They will actually be destroyed, a lot of them, before they even get to the intestine. This particular capsule is specially designed to get to the right spot. And therefore, when you think about it, it’s also clever to take this with the Remove and with food because it’s not going to be affected by digestion.

This product is a bit different. Two doses per day is the norm. You take one with breakfast and you take one before bedtime. Now, why would you do that? When you just told us to take it with food. Why would you take one before bedtime? Well, this product contains an enzyme called serratiopeptidase, which is a very, very expensive enzyme if you buy the quality one that I’ve got in this formula. Serratiopeptidase works best on an empty stomach. And what it does is it gets into the bloodstream and helps to hunt down these circulating immune complexes and bits of debris caused when Candida and bacteria die off. It helps to gobble up antibodies bound to fragments of bacteria and Candida wall. It’s clever. It’s a very clever approach.

It’s also got multiple digestive enzymes in it that work well with food and work okay without food. There is no problem taking this product with food or without food. I recommend one dose with breakfast and one dose before bed. As you start to improve, you can also increase the dosage to breakfast, lunch and then before bed. Some patients have taken it at breakfast, lunch, dinner and before bed. You can’t take too much of that product. You can take anywhere between one to six doses per day. No problem. But when you start with the Canxida Restore, I would like you to take one with breakfast and one before bed.

With the Remove remember, breakfast, lunch or lunch and dinner or breakfast, lunch and dinner and with the Restore, breakfast and before bed. And you’re going to get a great result doing that. Both products are best taken together consistently for three to six months at a minimum, so take advantage of these packages that are available because you’re going to find them quite handy and you’re going to save yourself a bit of money.

The product is currently only available online predominantly through the States, but next year, I’m working on getting it shipped down to New Zealand, Australia, to look after all our Aussie and Kiwi customers down here. And I’m also going to work on British distribution to get throughout the EU because I’ve got many clients in Scandinavia and a lot of people in Germany and Holland who want the formula. To make it very expedient in terms of cost for you for shipping, we’re going to really try hard to get it into the EU and down here in what we call the antipodes or at the bottom of the world.

I think that’s given you a bit of good information now on how to use this product range. If you have any questions, please ask them through YouTube. That way many other people will benefit from the replies as well. I’m quite happy to reply. I try to reply to all YouTube comments and the channel is moderated. I have kicked a few people off the channel that came in with crazy replies, and I like to keep the channel clean for users to use. Please let me know if there is anything that you really do want to know. I get these kind of emails all the time.

I’ve got one here also. “I have an allergy against black walnuts. Is it okay?” It’s fine. Nut allergies, this is the green hull of the walnut. This isn’t the nut itself, so juglone is the active ingredient found in the hull of the walnut. Walnuts contain a peel around them when they grow. What they do is when they drop to the ground, the green peel shrivels up and turns black. That’s why they call them black walnuts. The hull itself contains the very strong anti-parasite ingredient called juglone.

As far as I know, there are no juglone allergies. There are nut allergies, but you can’t blame the hull of the outside of the nut on an allergy. I believe that it won’t be a problem. The smallest amount of this in this formula, you’d have to be so sensitive to nut indeed. I’ve rarely seen nut allergies like that. Of all the people I’ve tested for allergies, nuts come up every now and then. But in all the years I’ve seen patients, I’ve only ever seen maybe one or two people that were hospitalized from breathing a nut or that ate a peanut butter sandwich and immediately got anaphylaxis. They are very rare.

They can occur. If you’re one of those extreme creatures like that, then you may need to avoid the product. But in my opinion, 99.97 percent of people will be able to take this product without fear of black walnut allergy.

Greetings. New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker, author of Candida Crusher, formulator of the Canxida range of dietary supplements. Thank you so much again for checking out my video. And thank you also for all my fans out there, all the emails I’m getting. I’ve been getting lots of good comments on YouTube. I’m getting lots of comments on Facebook. Yeastinfection.org, we’re getting some nice feedback. I’m also now a member of various closed group communities on Facebook. One recently that I’ve joined is the Swedish Group, so that’s at Candida Cleanse Sweden, and I think we’ve got about 2,500 members on that Facebook page. I’m quite happy to be part of different Facebook forums. If you’re involved in any Facebook groups, please let us know.

We’ve got an email question from a lady called Linda Dearsly and Linda lives in Connecticut in the USA. Linda is asking me about the different colors of stool. What do they mean? She’s a bit alarmed because her stool sometimes is quite a light color and she wants to know what the heck that means. I was going to call this video the 50 Shades of Poo. I thought I better not do that because it might offend a few people. Instead of calling it the 50 Shades of Poo, we’re just basically going to call it What’s wrong with my stool? It’s a funny color.

Let’s talk a little bit about different colors of stool. Normally, a bowel motion will be brown color. If you’ve got that brown tan color to the stool and you’re passing out 12 to 18 inches of bowel motion a day, cigar shaped, low odor, easy to pass, you’ve got good bowel function. You’ve generally got good bacteria. You’re eating a reasonable amount of fiber. You’ve got a good balance in your autonomic nervous system. You’re probably not under too much stress. Stress has a significant effect on the shape of the stool. I’ll probably discuss it in another video.

For example, irritable bowel syndrome, we know that 50 percent of IBS is stress related. People with IBS can sometimes have diarrhea, constipation. People with normal bowel like me will generally have a bowel motion in the morning and generally have a bowel motion in the afternoon. I consider two bowel motions a day to be quite good. Very good indeed.

A good friend of mine that practiced in Africa for many, many years and then went over to the UK, the Island to practice, noticed some massive changes in what he found in bowel function. Indigenous people living in underdeveloped countries eat five, six, seven, ten times more fiber than people who live in the western developed nations. Consequently, they pass out more, cleaner, smaller, more frequent motions and they don’t have to wipe their bum. Because they’ve got a clean, dry stool.

In the western world, we’re one of the very few creatures that actually use toilet paper. Probably the only creature. You don’t see dogs or cats wiping their bottoms with toilet paper or certainly you wouldn’t see birds or any animals doing it.

The humans have got this funny desire every time we go grocery shopping to throw the toilet paper in the shopping trolley and to use that. I hope this isn’t embarrassing you too much. Part of my job with patients is to talk a lot about poos and urination and stool odor and all that sort of stuff, so I don’t find that foreign. My apologies if you’re getting offended by this, but it’s all part of normal human health is to have a good bowel motion. And I can tell you, there’s nothing more satisfying than having a good poo, getting up and feeling like you’ve cleaned right out. It’s really a sign of good health is to have good bowel function.

The brown color as I mentioned before I got off track is really what happens. Red blood cells die and they form part of the bowel pigment that gets produced by the liver and stored in the gall bladder. Bile is secreted into the small intestine during the digestive process. An increase or decrease in bile can certainly change the color of stool. Excess bile can make it greasy, yellowy, greeny color sometimes. Insufficient bile can make it a very pale or white color. It can signify liver disorder. It can signify a biliary obstruction. It’s an obstruction of the bile passage or bile traveling through it. We see that sometimes with gall bladder problems, with gall stones we will see that.

Let’s start with the color green, green poo or green stool. That could mean that you’ve had something like a green smoothie where you’ve had a high chlorophyll load. You’ve drunk something. You’ve had spinach. I eat a lot of spinach, so it’s not unusual to have a green colored stool. Don’t freak out. You’re not Kermit the frog. Think carefully what you had to eat prior to that bowel motion or even what you had two meals prior because that can usually give you an indication for color. It’s not unusual for teething babies to have green stool.

I noticed when I practiced earlier as a homeopath that children that required the homeopathic medicine chamomile, would sometimes have that green spinach, chopped up stool. Children who teethe have a problem with eating food and they can be quite picky and fussy and that can dictate the color of the stool. It can sometimes be green in children.

Generally, green will mean spinach or leafy greens, so it’s the way your body processes the food. It’s not really a big problem. Food may be moving through the large intestine too quickly. It could be due to diarrhea. The bile pigment might not be breaking down properly, especially if you’re eating quite a heavy load of green food. You may not be producing sufficient bile to really help to render the color of that different from green, so don’t freak out too much with that.

Light colored, white or clay colored stools. We just spoke about that before. Lack of bile pigment. That needs investigating. If you consistently got white bowel motions or very pale or chalky – you’ll find dogs sometimes have that. If you give a dog a lot of high fatty foods to eat or too much meat consistently, it can have chalky white stools. I’ve noticed that with dogs sometimes. My wife likes her dog. We’ve had dogs for a few years. Of course, what you feed the dog, you’ll notice what will come out the other end. A big thing with bowel motions is observation. What you eat is what you excrete. Just be a good observer. And a lot of people won’t look into the toilet pan after they’ve had a motion. It’s important to do that from time to time.

Another tip that I mentioned on a previous video. Flush the toilet. Have a motion. And then if you see any oil slicks or that bluey, yellowy, oily color in the water around the stool, it will generally mean you’ve got an issue with your bile. You’ve had potentially too much fat to eat or more fat than your body can break down. Again, you may need a liver cleanse or a gall bladder flush. Many women when I ask them that question, they say, “Yes, Eric. I’ve got a lot of oil floating in there.” And that can coincide with burping, reflux, lots of farting and gas, bloating and all these things. If you have that with that oil slick, then you need a gall bladder flush. Yellow, greasy, foul smelling stool and sometimes have a really smelly stool. Excess fat in the stool. Malabsorption. Celiacs can often get these greasy, smelly stools, especially if they have gluten. They can really notice this stool. Protein in bread can really do that.

Black stool. What if it’s black? You’re not Darth Vader. You’re not coming from outer space or something. Black stool can mean for some people something like eating too much licorice. Licorice can produce black stools. Some medications. Pepto Bismol, for example, can do that. Bismuth is a supplement some people take as part of a bacterial eradication for helicobacter, so that can produce black stools. Black stools can also signify a blood loss. You could be passing out blood higher up in the digestive system and it’s mixing with digestive enzymes, turning it black or dark color. So by the time you excrete it, it’s black. If you’re passing out red in the stool, especially around the outside of the stool, it’s more likely to be a hemorrhoid.

Red in the stool. Be careful. If you see red particles in the stool, it could be a bit of tomato. It’s not uncommon. Sometimes people email me “I’ve got liver flukes. I’ve got weird stuff crawling in my stool.” When I tell them to look at it carefully, it could be little bits of rice that they’ve just swallowed that weren’t digested properly. Bits of corn or bits of tomato. Be careful not to think you’ve got some evil bugs crawling inside your digestive system. It may be that you haven’t chewed food properly. You’ve got to really chew food properly. Chew, chew, chew. That will help to break down the food properly and out to mix with enzymes, so you’ll digest it and absorb it properly and excrete the waste properly. Chewing will be good pooing. If you know what I mean.

Bright red. Bleeding in the lower intestine, the large intestine in particular or the rectum, often from hemorrhoids. Red food coloring can do it. Beets is a classic. If I eat beets, I’ll even urinate out a red color. The red from the beets can come out through the urine. It can come out through the stool. If you eat beets, don’t freak out. You’re not bleeding to death internally. It’s just the beet color. And that may occur for one to two days after eating beets. Drink mixes sometimes can also create that problem.

I think we’ve gone through just about everything. Red stool. Cranberry can sometimes cause the red stool as well with people. I think that gives you a little bit of information there for the person who asked me that question. I hope that gives you a satisfactory reply to the colors of stool. One of my favorite sayings, “Small stools, big hospitals. Big stools, small hospitals.” I’ll leave you with that. Thanks for tuning in.