Author: Eric Bakker

Greetings. New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker. I’m the author of Candida Crusher and the formulator of the Canxida range of supplements. Thanks for checking out my video. I’ve got a question here from Edward Caper in Poland. Edward is saying, “Eric is the yeast spit test reliable? Is the spit test a reliable indication for Candida?” Let’s talk a little bit about that right now. About if it’s good, if it’s trash. Because some people online say it’s junk. Other people say it’s good.

I’ve written about the spit test in my book. The spit test is not exactly perfect or bonafide science. But what I can tell you is what I’ve found from the spit test with a lot of patients, thousands of patients I’ve seen over the years, it’s a very good general indicator of overall oral and digestive health.

You can’t say if you do the spit test and you see strings or mucous hanging there in a glass of water first thing in the morning that you’ve got a bonafide case of Candida. That’s crap. But what you can say is you’ve got problems, and those problems need addressing because healthy people don’t have that. They’ll tend to have things floating on the top of the water rather than hanging down or having particles in the bottom of the glass.

In most all cases of extremely healthy people I’ve seen, they don’t have a lot of mucous in their mouth. They don’t cough up mucous. They haven’t got mucous in their nasopharyngeal region. Mucous can be a sure sign that’s somethings wrong with your digestion. It can be an allergy. It could be a problem with your pancreas. You’re not producing enough enzymes in the mouth.

You can have gut issues. Many, many different reasons why you can have mucous. Mucous is a great breeding ground for bacteria, but it also can mean if you’ve got bacteria, that Candida may not necessarily be found behind. There’s a relationship of dysbiosis, in general, and food allergies and the spit test.

So if you’re positive for the spit test, you need to clean up your diet, improve your digestion, get the right kind of bugs into your digestive system, make sure you observe very good oral health, tongue brushing, brush your teeth twice a day. I tend to use sea salt or baking soda, but also I like using tea tree oil and look after the gums rather than the teeth. Good oral hygiene is very, very important. Because if you keep this clean, it’s going to keep stuff further down clean as well. It’s often been said that the mouth and the anus are the two dirtiest parts of the body. It’s not a good thing to say, but it’s a fact.

The spit test is not a reliable indication of Candida as such. You may have read about the different types of home tests I recommend in my book. There’s the smell test, the taste test, the itch test, these are all different kinds of tests that will give you an indication if you’ve got a yeast infection when you put them all together. No single test is good. The only test that I find is really good and accurate is a very comprehensive stool test when done properly. When done properly, it’s a very accurate indication of a yeast infection in the gut. Not necessarily systemically, but definitely in the gut. There are other ways we can pick up if you’ve got a systemic yeast infection.

Just to summarize your question, Edward. “Is the spit test a reliable indication for Candida?” No. It’s not. You’ve got to use it in conjunction with other kinds of test. But what I do like, again, just to finish up on. You can use it as a yardstick, as an indicator for improving health. So if it comes back cleaner and cleaner over a period of time, you know that you’ve taken potential allergenic food out of the diet or you’ve cleared up a potential food intolerance. You’ve reduced the amount of oral bacteria and your health is going to pick up. I hope that answers your question. Thank you.

Hi There. It’s naturopath Eric Bakker, author of Candida Crusher and formulator of the Canxida range of dietary supplements. Thanks for tuning into my video today. A question I get asked from time to time is “Eric is colonic irrigation good for Candida? Do colonics work? Are they necessary? Do I have to do them?”

Some people find it embarrassing. Some people find it uncomfortable, and other people just find it plain crazy doing a colonic. I can tell you now; colonics are fantastic when done properly by someone who really understands colonic irrigation. But before you jump into thinking, “Well, I’m going off to get a colonic,” you need to do preparatory work first. Many people I see with Candida or SIBO or IBS or IBD or constipation or diarrhea, they’ve got problems. They’ve got problems with their bowel. They’ve got problems with their digestion in general. If you do a bit of prep work before you do have a colonic, it’s a really clever idea.

By prep work, I mean by going on a bit of a cleanup. Changing your diet. Getting rid of the crap out of the diet. Cutting out alcohol and caffeine for a while. Eating a lot more fresh foods, especially summertime, spring or summer, is a good time to consider a colonic because you’re going to increase your intake of water, salads, steamed vegetables, good time. Wintertime, we tend to chow down more on cooked foods and casseroles and heavier kind of winter items. This is also when we have availability of pumpkin and squash and a lot of the root crops that are high starches and sugars. These foods probably are best avoided if you’re thinking about a colonic, particularly during the prep before the colonic. Think about that idea.

If you’re going to consider some colonics, I think they’re great to do in the spring or summer. You can do them anytime, but it just makes sense to do that. It’s a bit like your garden. We’ve used a lot of analogies on the digestive system and the garden. Most people who love gardening like me will tell you that the key time of activity is spring and summer. That’s when you’re out there doing most of the work.

Why is a colonic so good and what are the beneficial aspects from having a colonic irrigation? The colon is considered the tail pipe of the body. It’s where all the wastes basically get passed out. So a lot of rubbish gets accumulated in the colon. It’s quite a large tube. It connects up to the small bowel. And generally, what it does is it will concentrate all the wastes and bacteria, and the stool contains quite a bit of water, which the colon will reabsorb with a lot of nutrients. The colon contains most of the bacteria in the body. Trillions of bacteria live in the colon. And also its often a place where Candida tends to thrive and also bad bacteria.

The reason why the colonic is so good, a really good colonic therapist will understand exactly how to do this procedure. It takes about 45 minutes to do a proper colonic. Go to someone preferably whose qualified in the Colonic Association. There are different associations locally like in England. I have got a very good friend, Hamish Taylor, who’s an expert in colon hydrotherapy and I believe that Hamish practices in New Plymouth, UK. So Hamish has been doing colonics for a long, long time and we used to share a lot of clients together with fantastic outcomes. I have other practitioner friends here in New Zealand who are experts in colonics. I’ve got a friend in Wellington who does it. I know other expert people in Australia who do it. I’m not so sure about people in the US. I haven’t got any colon therapy friends over there.

The interesting thing about knowing colon therapists, I’ve been in the business a long time and sharing clients between two practitioners is hearing about the outcome. And I’ve had amazing feedback from colon therapy patients. Feedback like “Not had this kind of energy for years.” “Brain function really good.” “Moods improving.” By cleaning out the gut, you’re going to really allow the body to work much more effectively at eliminating and also at absorbing foods on a much higher level.

Water is inserted into a tube into the rectum, so a clean plastic tube is used, of course, for every client. And water is gently introduced. There are two types of systems that a colon hydrotherapist can use. There are new systems and old systems. Hamish, for example, uses the older kind of gravity system. Newer people use quite large big flashy machines, stainless steel machines that work slightly different. But the outcome is still the same. Patient lies down in a private room. Water is gently introduced and the tummy is really gently sort of massaged to break up any deposits or adhesions. And the stuff that comes out is phenomenal that actually drains out of people.

Many people feel completely invigorated after a colonic. You may feel a bit tired or weak. You may need to be careful for the first day thereafter. And there are different ways a colon therapist may actually work with you. You may need to detox before having a colonic irrigation treatment. You may not need to detox. I prefer to really do a liver cleanse on a patient prior to having the colonic irrigation. But consider colonic irrigation for many different types of conditions. If in doubt, just talk to a qualified colon hydrotherapist, preferably one that’s certified and a member of a good association and you can’t go wrong with these people.

Do I endorse them with Candida yeast infections? I certainly do. And when performed correctly, they have got an amazing effect of rejuvenating the whole digestive system, an incredible effect. Also, it will put you on the path towards good health and give you incentive to really work on your health probably from a much higher level than you have previously.

Having a colonic once or twice a year to me is like taking your car to the mechanic once or twice a year. Getting the oil change and oil filters. It’s very smart long-term maintenance for the body to keep the waste disposal system clean and tidy. It could prolong your life, but it will certainly increase your wellness by quite an amazing rate.

So have a serious think about colonic irrigation. It forms a really good part of an overall cleansing program for Candida. Particularly, if you do it in conjunction with a liver detoxification, diet change, and the correct lifestyle changes like drinking plenty of pure water, exercising regularly, sleeping on time, all those things are foundations for good health. Don’t immediately ridicule colonics if you’re unsure about it or think it’s too embarrassing or disgusting like some people have told me. Not at all. It’s a fantastic treatment program that will make you feel quite good.

I hope that answers the question hopefully for a few people. Thank you for tuning into my video today.

Greetings. It’s naturopath Eric Bakker from New Zealand. I’m the author of a book called Candida Crusher. You can see that at CandidaCrusher.com. And I’m also the formulator of a range of products called Canxida. You can see those at Canxida.com. Today, we’re going to talk about biotin. Is biotin any good for Candida? This is a question that was asked by a lady called Andrea Hall from Perth, Australia. Andrea, I’m going to talk about biotin today. What it is. If it’s any good for Candida. It will be quite an interesting video for you to check out. And I’m sure there will be viewers on YouTube with Candida or that just have an interest in biotin.

Biotin is kind of a B vitamin. It’s really a co-enzyme like a lot of B vitamins and some people call it Vitamin B7. It’s required to help render fatty acids into energy. It’s very important also to allow certain types of amino acids to function properly. And folate, for example, functions really well when there’s sufficient biotin in the body. It’s a very important stimulator of healthy cells in your body. It performs multiple functions and it’s critical.

One of the key roles in Candida when I did a lot of research into biotin is that it helps to prevent the conversion or the change from the cell form of Candida, the round form, into the more mycelial or hypha form like the fine fungus like thread that Candida can convert to, and biotin actually will stop that process.

One thing I have to tell you at the beginning of this video is that don’t eat raw eggs. Raw eggs, particularly the egg whites, contain a protein called avidin, and avidin will actually bind to biotin and help to remove it out of the body. So raw eggs are not good at all, if you’ve got Candida. And also, they’re hard to digest. It’s much easier for the body to break down and render denatured proteins into amino acids than if they are in their raw form, so lightly cook egg whites before you eat them rather than to swallow them liquid or put them in blenders. It’s not a good idea to eat raw eggs. Just slightly cooking them is a way better idea. That way, you’re not really going to get the problem with the biotin deficiency.

Some people also have a biotinidase deficiency, a deficiency in the enzyme responsible for utilizing biotin. And that coupled along with poor diets high in fake foods that people eat today like white foods, soda drinks, ice cream, fries, MacDonald’s, that crappy food like that. These foods are depleted in biotin and often will have a biotin deficient diet along with high sugar and high stress. And then on top of that, they have antibiotics. Well, this is really like a Russian roulette for Candida, isn’t it. You’re a sitting duck for a yeast infection.

Dr. Orion Truss wrote a very important book called “The Missing Diagnosis” in 1983. I’ve just got some notes out of my Candida Crusher book because I’ve written quite a bit about biotin there. Truss noticed that people who had diets with sufficient biotin in them didn’t really have a seriously bad yeast infection, and he recommended people eat things like brown rice, egg yolks (cooked), liver and kidney and also organic soybeans. We didn’t have the G in genetically modified soybeans back in those days, and soybeans were considered once a healthy food. Now, they’re considered like toxic waste now by some people. Dr. Truss recognized 30 years ago that people were very deficient in biotin and lacking in the typical SAD diet, standard American diet.

Here’s a picture I’m going to hold up to the screen. I wonder if you can see it. And you can actually see here, if we have a careful look here, you can see the cell of Candida here, and here you can see the mycelial form, the spore form, so that’s how Candida can convert from this form to this form. When you have sufficient biotin in your diet, that’s going to really be halted. That was a 400 times magnification there of Candida. You can clearly see the two types of Candida there.

Dr. Luc De Schepper wrote quite a good book in 1974 called “Candida: The Symptoms, the Causes, and Cure,” and it’s well worth reading by anyone with a serious yeast infection. Luke was a big believer in recommending biotin to patients with yeast infections to stop the yeast infection from going crazy. Because the hypha forms actually can form like little spears, penetrate parts of the body, and implant more yeast in there, almost like little harpoons; whereas, the cell form can’t do that so much. It’s easier for the body to destroy the cell form than the hypha form, so you don’t want that conversion to take place. A Japanese doctor in 1974, Dr. Yamaguchi, noted that when Candida was cultured in a biotin poor dish, it quickly changed to the invasive mycelial form. And as soon as biotin was added, it would halt this progression.

How does biotin work to counter yeast infections? There are a couple of points here. Biotin has the ability to halt Candida from turning into a hypha or mycelial form, which is a lot harder to get rid of and potentially more serious. Dr. Luc De Schepper said to take three milligrams per day if you’ve got a bad yeast infection because it halts that progression. And I also mentioned the biotinidase deficiency. Some people have got a problem with biotinidase, and they can’t recycle or reutilize biotin properly with this deficiency.

And the other thing that is a big problem today is, unfortunately, people have got an issue with beneficial bacteria and they actually help to produce biotin in the gut. So people with very good levels of beneficial bacteria like the lactobacillus species will have more biotin in their bloodstream than people with a lower amount. And that’s why I always recommend probiotics when you’ve got Candida. Check out my Canxida Restore. I’ve made sure to put various types of lactobacillus in that product in a special capsule called Capsugel, which is going to really allow these bugs to get into the small intestine where they belong.

The low carbohydrate biotin self-test. A good friend of mine, Dr. James Wilson from Arizona, the world expert in adrenal fatigue said to me, “Eric, I’ve got the best test for determining biotin insufficiency in people.” Does that sound like an Arizona accent or what? Dr. Wilson said to me, “Strictly avoid carbohydrates and take 3,000 mcg or 3 mg per day of biotin for three days and see if any of your yeast infection symptoms improve. If symptoms improve, especially dramatically, you’re probably suffering from a mycelial Candida overgrowth in your intestines.”

I’m going to make a really top quality Candida multivitamin. It’s on the drawing board. It’s going to be Canxida Rebuild. It’s going to be a superb product. It’ll be in development, which I’ve been working on now for the last six months, but it’s going to contain plenty of biotin in it to stop that conversion. I hope that gives you some explanation there, Andrea, on what biotin is and its importance when it comes to Candida yeast infections and to stop the progression of serious yeast infections.

Thank you for checking out my video. Please subscribe to my channel. Check out my site yeastinfection.org. Do my quiz. And check out my Canxida Remove and Restore products. I think you’ll find those to be superb in your quest to get rid of your yeast infection. Thanks for checking me out today.