Although we like to think that our current concepts and ideas are new and innovative – often we find that they simply aren’t.
Even in medicine, despite all the new technology and great advancements made in drugs and surgery, frequently we find that we can learn from the past.
For example, few people realize that Candida yeast infection has been well understood, at least by a few people, for over 30 years. And, when it comes to the issue of treating Candida with antibiotics, well, the problems were noted as far back as the 1950s.
The Pioneers
Dr Orian Truss was one of the first people to realize that yeast infections were, what has now become known as, ‘opportunistic.’ A well quoted case considered that of a man who was, apparently, dying of a systemic infection and who was not responding to treatment. Although the man appeared elderly it transpired that he was only 40 years old and, prior to becoming ill only 6 months previously, had been in good health. Dr Truss was intrigued and investigated the circumstances of the onset of the patient’s condition more deeply. As it turned out the man had simply cut his finger and been prescribed antibiotics, which at the time were a relatively recent drug on the market. The antibiotics had caused the man severe diarrhea and from that time his health had spiraled quickly downward.
Dr Truss had not only experienced that antibiotics could make the body susceptible to yeast infections, but also had a strong appreciation of what those yeasts could do once the problem became systemic – as it clearly had in the case of this particular patient. He treated the man for systemic fungal infection with, what would now be considered ‘alternative’ treatments, and the patient went on to make a full recovery!
Dr William Crook was certainly the authority on the subject of fungal infections and Candida back in the 1980s. I was first introduced to his work, not through my profession, but by my father who had bought Dr Crook’s book in an effort to cure his own digestive ailments. For me, even at a relatively young age, I came to appreciate the problems fungal infections could cause and how they could be exacerbated by modern drugs rather than alleviated, and from that time on never considered that conventional medicine was well-versed in the problems Candida could result in.
Dr Crook was a proponent of treating Candida with what are now considered to be ‘alternative’ medications, but which are really nothing more than treatments found in nature. They are not synthetic nor chemically altered and, as Dr Crook went on to prove with his many case studies, they do actually work.
Ailments and Antibiotics
Even back when I was training in one of the Mother Theresa Slum Clinic’s in Calcutta, I witnessed great success in treating conditions without resorting to antibiotic usage. One man, who had lost his leg in an accident with a tram, was treated simply by having the wound washed three times daily and layers of clean bandages applied. Within no longer than three days the stump was granulating and showed no sign of infection. Three months later the man, despite the loss of a limb, was in perfect health. Yet today we treat not only every physical injury with antibiotics as preventative measures, but also every disease – whether antibiotics are indicated are not. This leaves nearly every patient open to the alternative disease of fungal invasion, as it did with Dr Truss’s patient, without even good reason for doing so.
Candida and Symptoms
Patients often ask me what to look out for when diagnosing Candida, and I have to be honest and say, ‘more or less anything.’ The symptoms may manifest in a diverse range of ailments and patients often present to me with a condition that would, under ordinary circumstances, rarely be equated with Candida. It’s a little like the lucky patient who happened to encounter Dr Truss. If that acquaintance had never been made then the man would surely have died.
Yet there are things to look out for, and often they are historical symptoms rather than current. For example, the diarrhea following the cut finger and antibiotic treatment were the indicators for Dr Truss as to which path he should follow to reach a diagnosis. Many other patients too, find that they can trace their current condition right back to one initiating incident. Today we also have to take into consideration the birth control pill or NSAID use, in addition to the many other potential problems which may underlie a patient’s condition.
Look out for rashes, particularly nappy rash in children. Rashes on adults may often be in the genital region but they may also be in the crook of the arm or behind the knee, or, as in the case of Athlete’s Foot, in-between the toes. In fact anywhere on the body which is dark, warm and moist. Sometimes though the infection will hide in the hair on the scalp, or, more obviously, occur in the mouth.
Another frequent indicator is that of sugar cravings. This is particularly distinctive in patients who have never had a sweet tooth in the past but now find themselves seeking out sweet stuff and more-so after a meal. Candida just can’t get enough of the stuff.
Remember when it comes to Candida the symptoms can be diverse yet the history behind the illness, and particularly when it is related to antibiotics, is now long. Orthodox medicine sometimes takes a long time to catch up on such things and, what have you to lose by trying more natural treatments if prescription drugs have failed you so far?
Greetings. It’s New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker, author of Candida Crusher and formulator of the Canxida range of dietary supplements. Thank you, again, so much for checking out my video today. I really appreciate all my loyal fans, patients, people that I know, practitioners, doctors, naturopaths, chiropractors, there are a lot of people now who look at my videos, and I really appreciate you checking out my channel.
I’ve got a question here from a young guy in Canada and his name is Josh. His name on YouTube is ProChessPlayer. Josh has been looking at a lot of my videos for some time. Thank you for your email, Josh. I really appreciate your email and also thank you so much for giving me the awesome feedback on my Canxida range of products that you’ve been using on yourself and also on your mom there for a while. Thank you.
Josh’s question relates basically to Candida, of course, and it is, can you explain the top 10 reasons why people don’t recover or fail on the Candida diet. The 10 reasons why people don’t fully recover on it. I’ve done a video here and I’ve come up with 10 reasons and I’m sure there are 100 reasons, but these are 10 common ones I see in my clinic that relate to patients. Let’s just start off.
1. Thinking one little drink won’t do too much harm. This is something I hear from a lot of people. If you’ve got a problem drinking, but if you drink quite regularly and you want to cut out, you need to bear in mind that alcohol has a very powerful effect on the digestive system. In fact, I believe that if people are serious about recovering from any kind of Candida, regardless whether it’s a vaginal yeast infection or jock itch or a skin problem, tinea, they may have toenail fungus, whatever kind of a yeast infection you’ve got. Even more so if you’ve got SIBO, like small intestinal bowel overgrowth. If you’ve got bloating, gas, IBS, IBD, constipation, no matter what kind of gut problem you’ve got. If you’re not prepared to cut out drinking entirely for at least six months, it’s just isn’t going to happen. You’re not going to recover.
I couldn’t give a hoot what any doctor says, any professor says, what any book says, or what any Google says. I couldn’t give a hoot. And why wouldn’t I give a hoot? Because I see patients in my clinic every day now for nearly 30 years with these kind of problems. And I also see that they just don’t recover fully unless they’re committed to cutting out alcohol entirely for a long period of time. So the longer you’ve been sick, the more you’ve got to understand this concept that you need to make a permanent, long-term change in your diet and your lifestyle, particularly. Think about why you want that drink. How you have the drink. Under what circumstances. How often? The quantity. All those sort of things you need to think about. If you’re really committed to good health, as they say, if you don’t make time for health now, make sure you have plenty of time for sickness down the track. So now is the time to decide that one little drink is not a good idea if you want to recover.
And the danger is when you partially recover and you’re starting to think, “Oh, I’m not feeling too bad. I might just go down the road and have a beer.” Or your friends will call you up. They’ve got a barbecue on or there’s a party coming on and you turn up at the party and there’s wine all around the place, bourbon and coca cola and all this sort of junk. And all of a sudden, someone gives you a glass. So if you’re in my room now and I gave you a glass of alcohol right now, you’re going to look at it and think, “Mmmm, I might have a sip of this.” And that’s how easy it is. It’s very easy to drink alcohol. It’s very easy to drink alcohol when you’re starting to feel good. And of course, on the road to recovery, that’s when it often occurs. So be very careful and be fully committed to a full recovery, which means strict adherence, no alcohol, and not until you feel well. But until you feel well to the point where you know inside there’s a big chance you’re not going to aggravate.
And the last thing I’ll leave you with with the alcohol thing is you’re the one who decides when he or she wants to have a drink. Not people around you. Not friends or family. You’re in the driver’s seat. This is not a religious sort of bashing alcohol, anti-alcohol bashing kind of a thing at all. It’s got nothing to do with faith, belief or spirituality. This is purely to do with your gut microbiota. You must not drink for a long time unless you want partial recovery and then relapse.
2. Throwing caution to the wind when you’re dining out. Big mistake a lot of people make is when they go out eating. Now going out eating, this could be, again, in a family’s house or at friend’s. It could be at a diner. It could be at a take-away bar. It could be anywhere. It could be a picnic. So when you go out of your house eating somewhere, it’s easy to make mistakes. It’s easy to, again, throw caution to the wind and then next thing, your auntie or your sister-in-law says, “Come on. Have this nice piece of apple pie. Forget that Candida crap. You’ve haven’t got this stupid infection. You’re a hypochondriac. It’s all in your head. Come on. Just eat this pie and enjoy it with us. Stop being such a baby.”
You know what I mean. So a situation like that could come up and, of course, you may feel bad or harbor thoughts where you think, “Well, Auntie Thelma, I don’t really want to offend Auntie Thelma. I better have that damn pie,” or something like that. So then, you have the pie and then you feel bad later. Again, don’t let people decide what’s right for you. You decide what’s right for you on your road to recovery. You basically say, “Look. I don’t really want the pie.” You don’t have to argue about it. If Auntie Thelma’s got a problem, well, then it’s her problem, not your problem. Be careful when you eat out. And again, as you recover, it’s easy to throw caution to the wind.
3. Assuring you have to go 100 percent gluten free and dairy free. Not true. You don’t have to go 100 percent gluten free. Just because every blog site out there, everything, the Huffington Post and American Scientific and all these sites are saying that you should eat gluten free. You don’t have to eat gluten free. It’s not true. I really believe that gluten free is like a religion today. It’s almost like a belief system. Everyone’s jumping on the bandwagon. I’ve always been a fan of eating healthy, but I’ve never had extremist views about my diet ever. And I never have or will with my patients either. So I believe that gluten is perfectly okay for some people and it may not be okay for others, and it’s toxic for a minority. About one to two percent of the population has celiac. Now, for them, gluten is actually poison. Are you a celiac? Probably not. Are you gluten intolerant? Probably not. Do you have a disturbed gut? Probably.
So remember when you’ve got disturbed gut microbiota or you’ve got bacteria that aren’t very good, you’ve got Candida or parasites. You’ve got low beneficial bacteria. All those things may scream to you that you need to go off gluten. You may not need to go off gluten. I can tell you now after seeing thousands of patients; people get sick and tired of being gluten free. They hate it. Every label has got to be scrutinized. Every time they go out. Every single package they purchase, they look for gluten this and gluten that. What at pain in the butt! There’s a big chance you may not need to avoid gluten 100 percent. Big chance.
How are you going to find out? If you want to go gluten free, my view is cut right back on gluten to start with. Like take all the bread out of your diet. But if you occasionally eat oats with gluten, oh, goodness, you’re not going to die of toxicity, are you?
If you’re going to have a piece of sourdough bread with no yeast in it and it’s a good quality stone ground whole meal flour, I don’t think you’re going to drop dead the following day. And it’s going to give a little bit of variety to your diet. You’re going to enjoy your diet a lot more. You’re going to maintain weight, energy and feel good about what you’re eating. Remember, food is more than just stuff that you shove down here. There is also a huge psychological component to eating. You’ve got to feel good about your diet. It’s got to smell good, taste good, and look good. A huge part of food is enjoying food. How the hell can you enjoy gluten free, dairy free, this free, that free, kosher, and halal and all this sort of stuff? Goodness, you’d be down to five foods.
You’d actually develop anxiety disorder about what you’re eating, which a degree of my patients actually has. They actually developed serious anxiety about what they eat. Not a good way to live, is it? And remember that also the sickest patients I’ve got have got the best diets. The best and they’re still sick. They’ve been gluten free for 10 years and they look like crap. They look gray in the face. They look sick. “Oh, but I’m eating all this and I’m eating all that.” If everything is so good that they’re eating, then why are they so sick all the time. And I’ll talk about another point later, but there is a lot more to the Candida diet than just food.
Dairy free as well. Now, Dairy is a different kind of fish because you’ve got much more chance of having an allergy toward beta casein or one of the primary proteins in dairy. Gluten allergy is not that common. After looking at many thousands of different food allergy reports, I’m not convinced that gluten is anywhere near as allergenic as cow’s milk. Cow’s milk is the most allergy forming of all foods or drinks on the planet. Period. You can have lactose intolerance or you can have a casein allergy to different animals. Lactose intolerance means more diarrhea and bloating. The casein allergy will be a more dairy-related allergy. I’m not a fan of drinking cow’s milk myself. I do love a little bit of cheese here or there, especially mozzarella cheese or parmesan, a very high quality cheese. But apart from that, I’m not really into dairy. But again, your call. But don’t be extremist with gluten. Please don’t do it.
4. Assuming you have to eat 100 percent organic, biodynamic, certified this, and certified that. It’s not going to happen, guys. Come on. When you go out, you can’t always be anal about every tiny little piece of food, where it’s grown, how it’s grown. We’re starting to go back to the anxiety disorder again. Most people will tell you they eat certified organic and they may eat certified organic, but is it really helping them with their diet. I don’t really believe it is. I grow a lot of my own food because I really enjoy the outdoor experience. I feel I’m doing something for me and my family, and I’m a gardener anyways. But I also buy a lot of vegetables and fruits from the farmer’s market, good quality. Now, are they sprayed? I don’t know. Do they have chemicals on them? I don’t know. They look bloody good. They look healthy. They look clean. I’m not really that concerned about those sort of things.
I look at life a bit differently, perhaps, then you do. Non-smoking, non-drinking, exercising, not using any sprays or toxins around the house. I do my part in remaining free from as many poisons as I can, but I’m not going to go to the extent of avoiding every bit of produce that may come from a place that’s used a chemical. And the other stupid thing I want you to remember is a lot of these organic places can’t stop people from spraying up the road or using some type of a poison that may have landed on their crop. What are you going to do? Grow it in a dome or something? I think you’ve got to wake up to the fact that it’s very difficult, if not impossible, to eat 100 percent certified organic and biodynamic. It’s possible, but I think, again, you’re bordering a little bit toward the anxiety part. And remember what I said, the sickest people I’ve seen are the ones that tend to eat the healthiest. And it’s interesting how a lot of them stay sick for so long. So if occasionally produce creeps in that’s non-organic, don’t have a heart attack.
5. Including high sugar fruits at the beginning or not cutting out enough fruits. And the other component to part five, five B, is eating high sugar, starchy vegetables, if you have severe Candida. So let’s explain both of these. I’ve always been a believer that the best fruits to eat with Candida are green apples. I was recommending green apples for Candida 20 years ago before anyone talked about green apples with Candida. And now, every website says green apples. But a long, long time ago when I recommended green apples, the Candida experts of the day said I was nuts. All apples had to be avoided. But I knew from clinical experience that green apples were perfectly fine with patients.
I knew that because it was the only fruit I could tolerate personally when I had bad Candida over 20 years ago. And I started recommending to other people and I started noticing that they could tolerate green apple. Pomegranate, usually fine. Avocado, perfectly fine with people with Candida. Blueberries are the best berry to eat, but generally, strawberries and boysenberries are okay. So these fruits are usually fine. I find kiwi fruit is often tolerated quite well by a lot of people, so that’s another one that you could try out as well is the kiwi. Be careful again about reintroducing fruits into the diet as you recover. It’s a little bit like alcohol. Be careful. Wait until you recover, increasingly, increasingly. Because fruit can be one of those problematic foods where people won’t eat one orange or mandarin in a day, they’ll have five or six, and then they’ll create problems. Slow introduction when you feel better.
High sugar or starchy vegetables. Be careful. If you’ve got seriously bad gut problems, you need to avoid pumpkin, squash. Sweet potato, yes or no? I find sweet potato is often tolerated by a lot of people even with bad Candida. Sweet corn can be a problem for some people. Squash, pumpkin, potatoes, those sort of things. Now, here’s another interesting point you won’t find on the internet. How the food is cooked or how the starch is modified can have a big effect on your tolerance. Baking pumpkin may be entirely different from pumpkin soup. Frying or stir-frying starchy vegetables may react different in your gut from steaming or boiling it. You need to try different ways of cooking starchy vegetables to see if you can tolerate one way or another.
Now we’re coming back to the fruits. Different stages of ripeness will dictate how well you tolerate the fruit. A fruit that’s ripe may have a higher sugar content than a fruit that’s partially ripe. Fruit can also be cooked. Don’t forget. You can actually cook fruit. A lot of countries around the world actually cook fruits as part of their meal. I’ve got a really nice book called the “Fruit Cookbook.” It’s got some fantastic recipes in it. A lot of people will tell you that fruit needs to be eaten raw. Why? Who has the rulebook? I mean who are these kind of food police to tell you this sort of crap. You don’t need to always believe other people. You need to believe what you want to believe, but be careful about believing what other people want you to believe. Keep an open mind always.
6. Being extremist in your diet views and not flexible enough. Please don’t need to be one of these extremely full on sort of focused person who really believes their diet is the highway. I’ve seen way too many people over the years with very powerful extremist views. It’s almost like they’ve got this religious conviction that everything they eat that’s not on the “yes” list is toxic to them. So as you will see in a minute, diet alone will not cure Candida. If fact, diet is a small part of recovery and yet people tend to think that everything’s about diet. Well, it’s not. It’s quite a stupid belief to think that everything you eat is going to seriously improve your health or make it sick.
I’ve seen many, many patients over the years with very mediocre and bland diets in fantastic health and people who don’t eat organic. People who don’t eat a wide variety of foods. Likewise, I’ve seen many people on the most amazing diets that are so sick, so toxic, and so anxious that they can’t even leave their house and they eat the most incredible diet. Extreme views create extreme problems. So when you start to have this extremist point of view, you’re digging a hole for yourself. And you’re also alienating yourself from a lot of other people.
7. Thinking that your diet alone will cure your Candida. This is absolutely not true. Diet, as I’ve written in my book, I believe personally accounts for about 25 percent of recovery; 75 percent is the other stuff. This is the unseen stuff. This is the iceberg under the water that you can’t see. The tip on the top is the diet, and the rest underneath is the lifestyle. I’ve made many videos, if you look at my channel on lifestyle and Candida. I’ve talked about stress and Candida. I’ve talked about exercise and Candida. Unless you lead a balanced lifestyle and understand the importance of sleep, exercise, really good relationships with people around you, understanding stress, having some understanding of adrenal and thyroid function and their role in immunity, all these concepts need to be learned to a degree if you want a full recovery.
I’ve seen some patients who’ve been sick for 10, 20, 30 years recover in six months when they had the lightbulb moment. When they found out what their problem was, they made changes. And all of a sudden, the obstacle to cure is removed and the body recovered. Regardless of the diet. So don’t be a person who is extremist thinking that the diet is the make all break all because it isn’t that way. I don’t care what blog sites or so-called experts tell you. This is my personal experience based on nearly 30 years of practice. Diet plays an important, but a less important, role in recovery than your environment and your lifestyle does.
8. Failing to understand the relationship with stress, adrenal function, digestion, and recovery. I don’t think I’ll talk too long on this point because it’s a quite a big point to go into. There’s a lot to talk about. I could do a whole one-hour video just on one aspect of stress alone. But I want you to really understand there’s a big connection between the gut and the brain. There’s a big connection between stress, particularly the autonomic nervous function that controls stress. There’s a big relationship between that being balanced and recovery from Candida. The body has got its own in-built mechanism that can perfectly deal with pathogens, different kinds of yeasts, different parasite, bacterial imbalances, inflammation, and all these things can be controlled by the gut quite adequately. But remember that the brain controls the gut to a huge degree.
Check out my videos I’ve done on vagus nerve. I’m sure I’ve done some videos on the vagus nerve. That will explain about the gut/brain connection. When you understand this, you’re going to know more than your medical doctor knows about recovery. You don’t need a magic wand to understand why you’re not recovering. If you’ve got the best diet on the planet and you’re not recovering, this is what you need to understand is point eight. Failing to understand the relationship with stress, how your adrenals function to a degree and digestion. Try to look at some videos I’ve completed around this topic. Because this could be the big one for you.
9. Being the food police. What do I mean by being the food police? If you’re in a relationship with somebody and by looking at them and thinking that your diet’s perfect, “Why are you eating that for? Stop drinking that coco-cola. Put that chocolate bar away. It’s going to kill you.” So being the food police is trying to control other peoples’ diets, friends, or family around you, as well as controlling your own. Don’t be a bully. Nobody likes bullies around the house. Don’t bully other people. Keep your thoughts to yourself. Don’t be one of these – I wouldn’t say Bible bashing – I’d say Candida bashing people. Do you like it if someone comes around knocking on your door trying to convert the way you eat? You get sick and tired of them. You tell them to get lost. So don’t become the food police. Don’t think you can change other people. You have to change yourself first. And when you change yourself, other people will change. I learned that one a long time ago.
10. Taking lots of dietary supplements along with your Candida diet in the hope of a quick 24-hour cure. Well, it isn’t going to happen. Remember, check out my video on how to cure Candida in 24 hours. It’s had a lot of views. A lot of peeved off people looking at it who felt it was switch and bait. They felt they got ripped off with the title. You can’t cure Candida in 24 hours! I’ve said this 100 times. Maybe I need to take off all my clothes, jump up and down on a table, and do a video on this because I really want to get the message out there. It’s impossible to cure Candida quickly. It doesn’t happen. You can’t cure any disease. The body has to cure itself. The body has to correct the disorder that it’s created. And it will do so by you giving it the right conditions. Plenty of fresh water, breathing properly, lots of rest, all these sorts of things need to occur.
Supplements do help, but remember, supplements are a very small part of Candida recovery. I don’t want people taking tons and tons of supplements. It’s a waste of money and time. You only need to take a very small, few select supplements, along with a carefully planned diet and remember the lifestyle. As I said, 75 percent lifestyle, 25 percent diet. Supplements you take are a minority of treatment. You don’t need to take any more generally than two or three supplements at the most. Some patients I see take boxes of stuff. They’ll take 50/60 supplements. A waste of money. Are they feeling anybody? Have a look at the video I did. I think I did a video a while ago now on a lady who took about 65 dietary supplements in a day. And I can remember asking her how she felt and she said, “I feel like crap.” Well, it was costing her about $3,000 to $4,000 a month for all these dietary supplements. Basically, what I said to her was, “Have you got a garbage can?” I said, “Bring it here and let’s throw them all in the garbage can and start again.”
Supplements are important for Candida, but I think I’d like you to look at quality and not quantity. Check out my Canxida.com. I created a small range of really high quality products perfectly designed for complementing this kind of an approach, which I believe is one of the best around for getting people well with any kind of digestive problem.
When you take products to really cleanse the gut, you want something that’s broad spectrum. I often get videos of people saying, “I’m taking 30 parts per million colloidal silver. How many teaspoons per day?” or “I’m taking a garlic supplement. How many milligrams of standardized allicin should I take in this supplement?” Or “I’m taking undecenoic acid. Should I take 500 milligrams twice a day?” My reply to all of those people is “Hang on a minute. Why don’t you take a broad-spectrum product that’s got all of this stuff in it because it’s going to not just target the 19 different Candida species we commonly see in people, but it’s going to target about 50/60 different kind of parasites we commonly see. It’s going to target a whole lot of different species of yeast we commonly see because we see up to 400 species of yeast in people. It’s going to target a lot of bad bacteria. Bacteria that are going in transition from good to bad. It’s going to help to push them back to good. It’s going to create the balance again. This is what you need is a broad-spectrum product.
When you go out hunting, I don’t go out hunting, but let’s say you go out hunting and you want to shoot a duck down or a bird out of the sky. I think you’re better off using a shotgun than you are a handgun. Would you agree? A handgun is probably going to work, but you’d have to be damn good at aiming and know exactly what you’re doing. But the shotgun is just point and shoot and you’ve got it. And that’s what we call broad spectrum. It’s going to work much easier than something does with a very narrow focus.
The shotgun is my product called Canxida Remove. It’s got a very good broad-spectrum action. I produced it after looking at thousands of stool tests and looking at the sensitivity panels to see what kind of natural medicines would best target all the pathogens I found in peoples’ digestive system, and that’s why I made that product. I think it’s the only product of its kind on the market. It’s broad spectrum. It takes a good couple of hours to breakdown in the body to release its contents. It’s a tablet because I couldn’t get everything I wanted into a capsule. I had to make a tablet. And it works very, very well. So you take generally two or three per day.
The second product I made is called Canxida Restore. Now, I made that as an enzyme probiotic and it perfectly complements the Remove. So the Remove and the Restore work well together. The Restore improves stomach function, pancreatic function, and duodenum function, so it improves the way that the digestive system works. It helps to breakdown food to a higher degree. Plus, it contains the best probiotics in it that I could possibly find, and also the strains that I really wanted people to have with Candida. The combination of these two products has a very good restorative effect on Candida. And when taken together for a period of anywhere between two to six months, incredible improvements will occur when you apply the right kind of diet and lifestyle.
A long-winded reply, Josh. I hope I’ve given you good enough information on this video to really help you understand some of the mistakes that people make and the mistakes that you shouldn’t be making. Thanks for tuning into my video today.
Hello. It’s Eric Bakker. Author of Candida Crusher. Thank you for tuning into this YouTube video today. Today, I’d like to talk to you a bit about Candida yeast infections. What is Candida? What are Candida yeast infections?
Candida is a type of fungus. It’s basically a type of yeast. It is quite common for these yeast to appear and grow inside peoples’ bodies, as well as on the surface of their body. Candida is commonly found in the gastrointestinal tract of people and also in the vaginal area of women. It can also be found in the throat, mouth, and on the skin surfaces of people. It can become quite a problem when it becomes an invasive infection, and particularly in those who have got a compromised immune system.
As I mentioned, it’s a normally occurring yeast that inhabits the gastrointestinal tract of more than 90 percent of people. It’s commonly kept in check by beneficial bacteria and other beneficial yeasts. It can migrate quite easily from the vaginal area of women, from the rectal area into the vaginal area and cause vaginal thrush. This is quite a common occurrence with many women. The overgrowth can also affect men, women, as well as children. This condition can underpin many different chronic illnesses.
It’s frequently misdiagnosed by many people in the health care profession. It’s commonly misdiagnosed as irritable bowel syndrome and even inflammatory bowel syndrome by lots of practitioners. One of the leading causes as you’re going to see in this presentation is antibiotics. Low-grade stress, in particular, chronic ongoing stress is often one of the big causes of a yeast infection. But so are diets that can be laden in sugar and yeasts.
Here, you can actually see a picture of Candida, the particular form. You can see the little buds here that can break off and grow into new yeasts. Candida is quite an amazing organism with how it can reproduce and spread through the body, and it can evade detection by the immune system. It’s very clever how it can mutate, change, grow, and evade destruction by the immune system.
What are some of the main causes of a Candida yeast infection? Well, these are the main 11 causes, and you can also see another YouTube video on this particular slide here. Antibiotic drugs are one of the leading causes of yeast infection. Since the advent of antibiotics, there has been a very big increase in yeast infections in people right across the board.
Antibiotics in meat are quite incredible how much antibiotics are used in poultry, for example. Many thousands of kilograms of antibiotics are used every year in America and many countries across the world in the food chain, as well as pharmaceutical drugs. Antibiotics found in foods are big causes of yeast infections because they kill beneficial bacteria and allow yeast to thrive.
Underlying immune deficiencies. Some people are actually born with immune weaknesses that can predispose them to a yeast infection. Steroid drugs or other pharmaceutical drugs can undermine a person’s health and be a causative factor. Alcohol is a huge cause of yeast infections. Men who drink beer regularly and women or men who drink wine or beer can be particularly prone to yeast infections. Particularly those who are under stress, taking antibiotics, consume reasonable amounts of alcohol. You don’t have to be a big drinker to get a yeast infection. But maintaining regular alcohol consumption along with sweet foods, breads, candies, chocolates, these things can all predispose you to a yeast infection. Candida friendly diets are diets high in soda drinks, ice cream, bagels, donuts, packaged cereals, jelly, or Jell-O; take away foods, all these sorts of diets can contribute to a Candida yeast infection.
Stress can be a huge causative factor. Stress actually can cause a depletion of the hormone “cortisol” long term, and cortisol is a very important steroid hormone produced by the adrenal gland, which has a very powerful effect on creating a strong immune presence in the body. With chronic ongoing stress, we can commonly find a person has an increased susceptibility to a yeast infection.
Exposure to toxins, chemicals, heavy metals, mercury fillings has been linked with the liberation of methyl mercury in the mouth. Some experts argue that there is no association with yeast infections, but many other experts believe there is a clear-cut association with methyl mercury and yeast infection.
Diabetes. Of course, people with particularly Type 2 diabetes will have elevated blood sugar levels that can make a person more prone to having a yeast infection. As they maintain unchecked levels of blood sugar, it makes it easy for Candida to grow. And, of course, they urinate out large amounts of sugar and that can cause all sorts of yeast problems in that part of the body.
Chlorinated water has been implicated. Chlorine can be anti-bacterial and allow yeast to thrive. And, of course, mold exposure. We find in New Zealand and many other temperate zones where people use a lot of heating inside that mold can be a big causative factor and help to increase yeast infection in many people.
What are some of the typical signs and symptoms of a yeast infection? You can read them here and you can also look at yeastinfection.org. I’ve got quite a few pages up on that website showing you the common signs and symptoms and the less common signs and symptoms. But these are the common ones you’ll find with digestive problems like bloating and gas, food allergies, vaginal thrush, mood disorders, poor memory, poor concentration, brain fog is a key symptom we find quite a lot, tired and malaise, toenail fungus, tinea, athlete’s foot, urinary candida manifestations, menstrual problems, libido issues, painful muscles and joints, constipation and diarrhea are very common symptoms, many sorts of respiratory allergies and issues, sinusitis, hay fever, persistent cough, phlegm, even heart arrhythmias have been linked with yeast infections. And poor nails and skin are typical signs and symptoms. Lesser common ones can be headaches, but I see them quite a bit, too, in people with chronic infections.
Candida can affect your body in multiple ways. Here, you can see a typical concern with the feet, athlete’s foot here, very common with people. And toenails can look quite distorted and quite terrible. Libido can be affected because when a woman has vaginal thrush or a guy has jock itch, it can undermine the ability for people to be intimate in their relationship. Skin manifestations, very, very common with yeast infections and commonly misdiagnosed as being psoriasis or another kind of a skin condition.
Anxiety, depression, lots of stressed people can get this condition. Lots of bloating and gas. We commonly see this with people. Lots of burping. Lots of farting. Very common with beer drinkers and ice cream eaters and people who crave sweets. They get a lot of fermentation dysbiosis, so poor bacteria and yeast will thrive in this whole gut area.
Here, we’ve got periorbital around the mouth kind of a rash. This could easily be misdiagnosed as being dermatitis, but a skin scraping and culture will soon reveal that it is, indeed, a yeast infection. Here, we have a gentlemen with probably a sinus headache, not feeling good at all, maybe taking pain relief, probably not knowing that he’s probably got an aspergillus or a yeast kind of infection there in the maxillary sinus or in the frontal sinus. A very common manifestation of a yeast infection is a sinus infection.
Here, we have a lady with a skin rash of the hand, another yeast kind of infection. Here, we have a gentlemen who’s coughing. It’s common to have mucous, phlegm, and post-nasal drip with a yeast infection. And, of course, stomach cramps, bowel issues, gas, constipation, diarrhea, bloating, pain in the small joints.
Candida can cause lots of low-grade inflammations in the body. It can cause a lot of pain. You can see particularly common here. They have pain on the left side lower down in the abdominal region. The descending colon, the sigmoid colon, is a key area I find where people will often have issues. It can commonly be misdiagnosed as constipation or bowel pockets, diverticulitis, when, in fact, it can be a yeast infection common in the bowel.
These are some quite awful toenails that I see from time to time in people. Patients sometimes use drugs like Lamisil, but tea tree oil will be found quite effective in this case. Here, we have a typical case of jock itch. I see jock itch in many males. Here, we have a psoriatic lesion. I’m currently working on an e-book on psoriasis because I see psoriasis to be mainly a yeast infection. Once I clear Candida up in a psoriasis patient, the psoriasis disappears. I have verified this in well over 100 cases.
The common medical approach of Candida infections, Candida, is generally undiagnosed. A proper stool test is not really performed on these patients. Sometimes they’ll have a urinary culture or smear test for thrush, but it’s seen as a nuisance illness, as a sort of side effect from antibiotics. It’s treated often as a local problem and it’s actually seen by many doctors mainly as a female problem, not even as a men’s potential issue. And as I mentioned earlier, it’s often incorrectly recognized as irritable bowel syndrome.
Natural medicine or natural doctors aren’t much different from conventional doctors, unfortunately, when it comes to chronic Candida because it’s sometimes misdiagnosed by natural medicine practitioners. And if it is diagnosed, it’s not treated adequately. It’s not given the respect that it deserves. I really believe this and you can read this in my book, Candida Crusher, that I talk that Candida, when chronic, needs to be treated with a lot of respect.
Blood testing can be performed to look at various antibodies in the blood to determine if there is an antibody production, although I’m not really that keen on antibody testing with Candida. I believe that the comprehensive stool test is really the gold test to do in this case, if you want to really know about yeast. You can actually determine it microscopically, visual analysis for a microscope, or it can be cultured. Urinary indican testing. We’re looking for a urine test to discover bad bacteria. And wherever there are loads of bad bacteria, we’re generally going to find some element of a yeast infection.
Treatments are not sufficiently followed through. Treatments are not prolonged or strong enough. It’s seen as small intestinal bowel overgrowth or allergies, leaky gut syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel syndrome, etc. Many naturopaths, chiropractors, and herbalists will diagnose Candida as being gluten intolerant or an allergy that the patient will have some sort of gluten issue. Not enough emphasis is placed on stress and lifestyle. There is a capability of curing a chronic yeast infection. I have no doubt. I’ve helped many people overcome this condition.
Conventional testing. These are the four general tests that a convention doctor will do if he or she does deem Candida to be a problem. A urinary cultural smear, conventional stool test for a narrow range of pathogens, an antibody blood test, and a gut fermentation test, a particular blood test. But a functional medicine practitioner or a naturopath will be more interested to do the enzyme-linked blood test to determine various antibodies of Candida such as IgM, IgA, and IgG. These things may not mean much to you, all these terms I’m using, but I will certainly elaborate on these terms in other more comprehensive video clips, in time, on the Candida Crusher YouTube channel.
The comprehensive stool test, I believe, is the best way to determine, not just Candida, but a whole raft of other dysfunctions in the digestive system that many patients with Candida actually present with. We can actually determine by what kinds of foods are broken down and passed out; we determine these to be organic acids. Certain sugars, for example, will break down to certain organic acids, and we can determine by the level in the urine to what degree a patient will have a yeast infection. I find this simple test called indican to be quite a good test to determine how good or poor the bacteria are. This can be done in-house. It takes five minutes in my clinic and it’s quite a good test in general to determine how poor the gut is functioning.
Why do I like stool testing? Well, it’s a non-invasive diagnostic test for assessing the gut. It gives me a very comprehensive picture of a patient’s gastrointestinal function. I can determine from a few stool samples what the bacteria levels are like. Yeast can be cultured. We can discover parasites. We can look at various digestive markers. For example, amylase or pancreatic enzymes can be picked up. We can look at various absorption markers to see if the body actually is taking foods into the system. There are various metabolic markers and inflammation as well to see if there are any inflammatory responses going on in the gut. Again, I’ll be talking more in-depth about the stool test on other YouTube videos.
One point I would like to bring up is the circulatory IgA, which is the key immune marker in the stool test. And if we find it low, we’ll often find this in conjunction with chronic yeast infections and also food allergies and low beneficial bacteria. Pharmaceutical drugs or viral infections can often cause this. We can often find it with inflammatory bowel disease like colitis or Crohn’s as well. And stress and low-grade infections are commonly found. Patients who have had past viral infections will often show low IgA.
IgA is made in the small intestine. The body will make between one to two grams of this antibody per day. And one of the key roles is to grab hold of pathogens, bugs, and things like that and to pull them out of the digestive system. So IgA is a very important policeman for want of a better word. They look after the integrity of the small intestine, in particular. It’s important to have good levels of IgA. When it’s high, we can certainly suspect inflammatory bowel disease if we find elevated inflammation markers such as lysozymes, but I’ll discuss that in another video.
How do we boost IgA? Well, colostrum is quite good. Prebiotics, certain types of fibers, cayenne pepper, saccharomyces boulardii, which is a beneficial yeast that you can have with Candida. Don’t confuse this with a Candida yeast infection. Reducing elevated cortisol when a person is stressed is very important to increase IgA.
So let’s look at some of the drugs that are commonly used with a yeast infection. Nystatin, named after New York State. This drug was discovered by two women quite a few years ago. I believe it was in the 1950s or 60s this drug was discovered. It’s a widely promoted drug by Dr. William Crook in his book, “The Yeast Connection,” as one of the best antifungals. It’s not absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract, so the body will pass it out. It interferes with the cells of Candida. It helps to destroy them. It can cause quite severe reactions.
I’ve had many patients through Skype consultations that have told me that after taking nystatin, they got very ill, indeed. I developed quite a strong reaction to Nystatin when I took it myself, so I’m not a big fan of this particular drug. It can create a quite strong side effect. And Dr. Crook said, “Side effects are good. Strong side effects mean strong kill.” But I’m not really keen for patients to have very powerful die off reactions. I don’t think it’s really necessary with Candida to have these heroic treatments.
The common drugs used by many doctors, the “zole” drugs. Fluconazole, for example, or diflucan, is a very common drug that’s used for vaginal thrush. Fungizone, amphotericin, I think it’s called, is a very powerful drug that’s often used intravenously. It’s a very powerful drug that can create very strong side effects. But Fluconazole can make you quite sick, too. It can have liver toxifying effects. These drugs inhibit enzymes necessary to convert something into yeast.
By taking a zole drug, you’re interfering with the function or the structure of the membrane of yeast, so you’re destroying yeast by inhibiting the reproduction and growth of it. It’s not really recommended by me. The body can develop resistance to these drugs and also Candida can change, mutate, be quite smart, and become resistant to the “zole” drugs, which means you need to take higher dosages and stronger drugs to get the same effect.
Antibiotics are actually used for yeast infections because many practitioners confuse Candida with a bacterial infection. Not a good idea. In medicine, many doctors are trained with infection, just give antibiotics and watch and wait approach. Give these drugs first and let’s see what happens. But I don’t really like this idea at all.
Antibiotics actually have a very powerful disturbing effect on the normal bacterial level of the large intestine, and they create the proliferation of a lot of bad bacteria. And then, of course, yeast will start thriving in the absence of good bacteria. It’s not a good idea. Good bacteria, bad bacteria get killed. Yeast start coming up. And as I mentioned earlier, they’re found widely in the food chain. My recommendation for foods is to eat clean meats. Preferably, free from antibiotics.
Look at this graph here. This is quite interesting. This is in 2011; 29.9 million pounds of antibiotics were sold for meat production in North America. Antibiotics to treat sick people in the USA in 2011 were 7.7 million pounds. So let’s say two pounds is a kilogram, so you’re looking at about 3.5 million kilograms of antibiotics in one year in America, which is phenomenal.
This will give you some idea of reasons why we’ve got such a big problem with Candida yeast infection in North America. We’ve got a high amount of high fructose corn syrup consumption. We’ve got lots of artificial sugars being consumed. We’ve got lots of alcohol being consumed. We’ve got lots of antibiotics being consumed. We’ve got lots of low-grade stress. So now you can understand how yeast infections can be really rife and why 60 to 70 million Americans suffer from a yeast infection.
Stress reduction is very important and you’ll read all about this in Section 5 of Chapter 7 of Candida Crusher. I’ve written extensively on stress. Acute short-term stress appears not to be as aggravating as long-term, low-grade stress when it comes to gut problems. There’s a study that was done here in the American Journal of Gastroenterology in 2000. I won’t go into these pathways here about interleukins, but you can read more about this in my book.
I recommend the big cleanup in my book. Before people go on the Candida diet, I recommend that they start with what I call the “warm turkey” approach. I slowly take them off of junk food and caffeine. I do that over a 14-day period. I wind them down slowly. This minimizes aggravations and the typical healing responses people get, and it improves retention rate for a patient. This is mainly something I would use for people who live a conventional wasted lifestyle of buying supermarket foods, working a normal 40-hour a week job, and being under low-grade stress.
These are the three stages to my Candida Crusher diet approach. The meat, eggs, vegetables diet. The low allergy phase and the reintroduction phase. Again, you can read about this in more detail in Chapter 7 of Candida Crusher. I’ve written over 200 pages on diet. It’s one of the most comprehensive Candida books you will find regarding dietary advice. I go into many aspects of diet.
The MEVY diet, I recommend because it is really an anti-Candida diet. It takes away the food source of the yeast. Yeast does not like to thrive on meats, blueberries, avocados, green apples, yogurt, fresh vegetables, and eggs. These seem to be key foods. They’re tasty foods. It’s a good diet. You’re not going to starve on this diet. You shouldn’t lose a great amount of weight, so I recommend this approach for several weeks before we start introducing other foods.
Then we look at a low allergy diet approach. Most people with a chronic yeast infection will have leaky gut syndrome, which you can read more about on yeastinfection.org. Many people with a yeast infection have had a background of antibiotics or the oral contraceptive pill. They’ll have poor levels of bacteria. They’ll have all sorts of gastrointestinal distress. It’s best for them to come off the key allergy foods. And the key food on this picture is cow’s milk.
I can remember doing a lot of work testing young children, in particular, finding that nearly 70 percent of 350 food allergy tests, I found kids to have a problem with cow’s milk. Bananas came back about 14 percent. Pineapples come back reasonably high. Shellfish, things like prawns and crabs and lobsters will come back relatively often. Oranges, peanuts and bread and gluten is not as common as you think. The finger’s always pointed at wheat and gluten when, in fact, many people have bacterial and yeast problems that need clearing up before they start taking gluten out of their diet. I’m not a big fan of eliminating gluten from people’s diets to be honest.
The reintroduction diet is something that you look at once you start feeling a lot better and a lot of your key signs and symptoms start disappearing. Now, this may take four months. This may take six months. This may take 12 months. This may take two months. You can read about why there is such a swing in duration in my book. I explain this in more detail. But the foods that you need to reintroduce first are generally the foods that you discontinued that gave you the least aggravation. So you’re not going to really, for example, introduce cow’s milk straight up. The foods you want to have the most back in your diet are the foods you’ve got to introduce last. Because they’re often the key foods that will have caused you an issue in the first place. Many people like alcohol. Many people like cow’s milk. They like bread with lots of yeast in it. They like cakes, biscuits, coffees with sugars in them and milk, lots of citrus, lots of bananas, alcohol, so all these sort of items that we like to consume, you need to be careful and introduce them last.
Let’s look at some special foods. And you can read about this in Section 4 of Chapter 7 of my book. I’ve got a great amount of detail about the special foods. Sauerkraut, for example, a very good food to eat here because of the lactic acid content that encourages the proliferation of lactobacillus good bacteria. Oregano contains a component called carvacrol, a particularly essential oil that’s a very powerful antifungal. Coconut contains Caprylic acid, a very good antifungal medium chain triglyceride. So one tablespoon of coconut oil per day is a very good antifungal. Cloves also contain a powerful essential oil that is antifungal, so I usually recommend the consumption of one or two cloves per day. Yogurt and kefir. These are very good foods that you can have. Foods with cultures in them are simple to make. I’ve done video YouTube clips on these you can look for about the benefits of yogurt and kefir. The allium family, foods high in sulphur, good cleansing detoxifying foods, and garlic, in particular, is very antifungal.
Various supplements I recommend, probiotics, very important to take for many different reasons. Probiotics are often beneficial bacteria found lacking in many people with a yeast infection, and these levels need to be built up again. Digestive enzymes are critical. I’ve written extensively on reasons why people need to supplement with pancreatic enzymes to help break down starches, in particular. You’ll realize that starches are a big problem when you read the GAPS diet book, for example. Starches are a big issue with Candida. People need to break them down, digest them and absorb them and excrete the waste properly. And when enzymes help to break food down properly, bacteria can start feeding on the waste produced as a consequence of digestion and form a very healthy digestive tract. This can often hold the key for recovery for many people, particularly people with bloating, flatulence, constipation, and diarrhea will benefit often from a well-placed enzyme in the diet. Antifungal/antimicrobial supplements are required by all Candida patients. These are the three key products you can read more about in my book.
Leaky gut syndrome. I don’t think we’ll go into this too much on this video. It is a condition that many people with Candida suffer from. They start developing problems with the small bowel. Breaches occur and imperfectly broken down proteins, in particular, can bypass in through the intestinal wall and affect the immune system and cause all sorts of immune responses. Leaky gut syndrome is a key thing you’ll find with food allergies. Once we overcome this syndrome, your ability to consume an increasing amount of foods you will find will certainly be satisfying for you. Many people with so-called gluten problems have got leaky gut syndrome that needs fixing up. Once the membrane of the small bowel is repaired, gluten should not really be a problem for many of these people. I’ve helped hundreds of patients back into gluten that were told they could never eat wheat products again.
What are some symptoms of leaky gut? Well, abdominal pain. The sensations of pain on the left or right-hand side. Bloating, constipation, gas is a big one. Heartburn, brain fog, mood swings, nervousness, poor memory, wheezing, shortness of breath. You may recognize some of these things if you’ve got Candida. And once you clear this leaky gut up, you won’t suffer so much from these problems anymore.
Here, we can actually see a picture of these tiny things called microvilli. You can actually see here the lymphatic system running up through each microvilli and the blood vessels running around it. And here, you can actually see the cells lining this area here. Here’s a picture again of the villi. These tiny little villi. And we’ve got this tiny little area around it called the “brush border.” These are tiny little hair-like projections with mucous that sits in there. In this area here, the circulatory IgA is king. This is an area that we want to build up is the health of these cells lining these villa. And once we build these cells up nice, plump, and fat, they can do their job of absorbing nutrients inside the gut and digestive area. We’ll talk more about this on another video.
A couple steps to healing the leaky gut. You need to give up alcohol for three months. It’s realistic. If you can’t stop drinking alcohol for this period of time, you need to turn this video off and go and look elsewhere for some type of a quick fix, which is probably going to be full of rubbish anyway. Because if you can’t give alcohol up with gut problems, I can’t help you. I’m sorry. Then my book wasn’t for somebody like you. Most people that are serious about getting well with Candida have got no issues about entirely stopping alcohol for a minimum of three months. You have to stop using non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Certain types of medications like aspirin, Tylenol, paracetamol, Ibuprofen, you’ve got to get rid of these drugs. These drugs wreck gut function. Don’t believe me. Go to Dr. Google and have a good look around and you’ll see that what I’m saying is correct. Non-steroidal drugs destroy digestive function.
A stool test for parasites, yeast, or bacteria. You can contact me if you want at Eric@naturopath.co.nz or “nzed” for those people living in Australia or New Zealand, so eric@naturopath.co.nzed and I can give you some more information and pricing on stool testing. This is a test I recommend people have who’ve got chronic problems.
Anti-inflammatory diet is a key thing for people with leaky gut. No sugar. Watch out for white flour, in particular. Not because I’m against gluten, it’s because these foods may really play up with leaky gut. And to heal it, we need to get your diet tidied up. You need to watch out for lots of meat with fat in it, vegetable oils. I prefer extra virgin olive oil. Fruits and vegetables and usually white meats like organic chicken or fresh fish is a good approach. And there are a few dietary supplements you can use as well. L glutamine, in particular, is a good amino acid to help heal the leaky gut. But if you suffer from high anxiety, you probably want to avoid glutamine. Because glutamine can turn into glutamate and it can cause problems with people with high anxiety.
Malabsorption and maldigestion are things we’ve spoken about and they’re common in people with Candida and leaky gut syndrome conditions. This is where a lot of digestive pains will come from in bloating, gas, and constipation and diarrhea, also brain fog is quite common in these people. These things tend to clear up once we start eradicating Candida.
Irritable bowel syndrome is what I call a “garbage can” diagnosis. It tends to be where we lump people into when we don’t know what the heck is wrong with them. IBS is another term I see commonly in people with low-grade chronic stress and also with food allergies. And irritable bowel syndrome is a condition that will generally clear up to a remarkable degree once we get rid of the bad bacteria and we reduce Candida to low levels.
Here’s a picture of a patient’s fingernails. You can see here with the white flecks on the nails. Many patients who think they’re getting a heart attack, in fact, have heartburn and low levels of stomach acid, which we call hypochlorhydria that can be easily fixed up with a digestive enzyme. Flaky nails, dry nails, hair that lacks luster. These things often respond well to digestive enzymes.
You also need a good functioning stomach to convert pancreatic enzymes from their inactive form to the active form. And remember, we mentioned that pancreatic enzymes are very important to break starches down, so you don’t end up pushing partially broken starches into the small bowel to create lots of bad bacterial areas for them to grow on, so we don’t produce lots of gas and bloating and bowel issues further downstream. The better things work upstream, the better things work downstream in the gut.
If you’ve got any questions, you can email me at info@yeastinfection.org. Again, my name is Eric Bakker. I’ve been in practice for 25 years now and treated over 15,000 cases of Candida yeast infection. This is my book, Candida Crusher. You can certainly have a good look at this book and if you’re interested in purchasing it, it’s only $47 US dollars. It’s taken me three years to write this book. I’ve been told my many practitioners who have a copy that it’s one of the best books they’ve seen on yeast infection.
You can also do my comprehensive, online yeast infection evaluation here by clicking on this link and YouTube. The YouTube channel. We’ve got quite a few videos I’ve uploaded with many more to come. I hope you found this video informative and it’s answered some of your questions about yeast infection. I do welcome your questions.
And if you have got a chronic yeast infection, you can always consult with my through Skype. I have patients now in over 30 countries. You can read a lot more information on my yeastinfection.org site. I’ve got some of the best articles on the internet regarding Candida yeast infections. I’ve got my comprehensive book, YouTube channel, and the yeast evaluation test. I welcome you to use these resources. They’re all at your disposal. Thank you for your time and consideration.