Author: Eric Bakker

Greetings! Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand, author of Candida Crusher, formulator of the CanXida range of supplements. Thanks for checking out my video. I have a question here which I discovered in the YouTube comments section from Donna. I believe Donna is a lady from Canada. And Donna has got an interesting question. She wants to know the mistakes to avoid on the Candida Cleanse. What are some of the classic mistakes that people make? Well, I thought about it, Donna, and I think there are four key things that we’re going to talk about.

The first key element mistake that people make is making assumptions they’ve got Candida. They don’t even know whether they’ve got Candida or not. They may read about it through some blog site or look at a YouTube video and think, “I’ve got Candida! I’ve got to get rid of it. That’s what I’ve got. That’s why my hair’s falling out. That’s why I’m going blind.

That’s why I’ve got an itchy bum. That’s why I’m getting fat. That’s why I’m tired. That’s why my libido’s gone.” All these reasons why you may have Candida. So be careful not to make assumptions because my old man used to say, “If you make assumptions, you make an ass out of you and me.” If you assume you make an ass out of you and me. Think about it, okay?
Just getting a glass of water and doing a spit test is not a Candida test. So, just for your information’s sake, Donna, check out our quiz on yeastinfection.org. That will give you some idea if you may have some kind of link with a yeast infection.

The other thing that I need to inform people of is the stool test. That’s actually a science, that’s a culture. The stool gets cultured in a lab to see if they can grow yeast off that stool. If you can actually grow yeast off a stool sample, especially all three samples and there’s many yeasts in all three, you’ve got a big Candida problem. You should not be able to culture live yeasts to do a sample from a healthy person.

While it’s true to say that Candida Albicans is a normally occurring yeast in many peoples’, but not all peoples’ digestive systems. It’s usually dead by the time you pass it out through the stool. So, if we find dead yeast in all three samples, we find live yeast in all three samples, we find multiple species of yeast in samples, we find poor levels of beneficial bacteria that are cultured, we find many different bad bacteria that are cultured, we find parasites, these are all answers which we will get when we do a stool test.

You can spit all you want in a glass of water; you’re not going to find squat about parasites. You’re not going to find anything about beneficial bacteria. You could’ve had three pizzas and a half a gallon of coke the night before-you spit in that glass and that could be all the mucus you built up for other reasons other than Candida in that glass. You may have a problem with your pancreas and stomach. You couldn’t break down all those sugars properly so you coughed up all this mucus. It may not be Candida with the spit test. Be careful. The spit test gives us some indication, but it is not an ironclad guarantee you’ll have a yeast infection.

There are many other tests you can do. You can do antibody blood determination. You can even go to people who do weird kind of stuff like get a little dousing thing over a hair sample. You might as well go to a tarot card reader if you’re going to fall for that sort of crap. Don’t make assumptions. As I said before, half the people that consult me when I test them have got no Candida at all. They’ve got a bad bacterial problem. They’ve been on antibiotics. They didn’t necessarily get Candida overgrowth; they’ve got a bacterial imbalance. Or they nuked or fried all of their beneficial bacteria and there’s nothing there. Or like many patients, they’ve got one big parasite problem. Many people who’ve got parasites in fact think they’ve got Candida. So don’t make assumptions, otherwise you may get… You know what I mean. So not testing and making assumptions is mistake number one. You need to avoid making that mistake. If you’ve been unwell for a long time, and you really believe you’ve got Candida, please do a comprehensive stool analysis including parasitology. Your functional medicine doctor or naturopath will organize that for you. I’m quite sure that he or she will-if not, contact me and I will help you out in that regard.

Number two, ultra-strict diets. This is a mistake many people make. They go on these amazingly tough diets. They’ll go on the SCD diet or the GAPS diet or the FOGMAPS. They’ll go absolutely, “We will eat like this, and we will eat nothing outside of these parameters.” What a load of crap. You live your life like that? Are you ultra-strict about other things in your life, apart from your diet? Are you like Dustin Hoffman in the Rain Man? “It’s nine o’clock. I’m going to go to the toilet.” You don’t live your life like that. Come on. Nobody can live with an ultra-strict regime. Not for long anyway. You’ll get bored, you’ll get sick, you’ll annoy the hell out of people all around you who think you’re a freak when you start eating like this. There’s a difference between eating a healthy diet and an ultra-strict diet.

Now some people I know have an ultra-anal diet, which is a bit different from an ultra-strict diet. Ultra-anal diets are where they weigh every little thing. This banana is weighing one half ounce more than this banana, so I can’t have that in my allowance. For God’s sake, don’t think like that. Don’t weigh everything you eat. Don’t look at packets and count every calorie on every food you eat. You’re not a robot. You’re not an android. You’re a human being. So, ultra-anal is out. Ultra-strict is out.

Once you start really getting highly selective of all the carbs in your diet-I’m talking like really selective, and you start chopping lots and lots of them out, you can actually start going into a ketosis state. Almost like what diabetics do. Many diabetics end up with a yeast infection. Research has also shown that people with very high protein diets who form ketones in their diet as a consequence of carb starvation can actually fuel a yeast infection. So there’s no proof that going on an ultra-strict carb diet is going to save your soul from Candida.

Any kind of food can feed Candida, especially what we’ll look at a little bit later on is when you’re diet focused and you’re not understanding about the stress connection. Because when you become very focused on diet, it becomes a stress in its own right. You annoy the hell out of people around you. You start annoying yourself after a while, it becomes a stress. You can’t live like this for long. Lots of these diets like GAPS and SCD were designed for you to be on for 19 years. They were designed for short duration and to get you the hell off that diet.

I had a patient in Sydney who’s been for nine years on the SCD diet. Nine years! Not only he, he forced his wife and all his children to the point where the son wouldn’t talk to him anymore. This guy annoyed everybody around him. I said, “Well, how do you feel? You’ve been on this SCD diet for nine years.” “I feel terrible!” I said, “Well, then maybe it’s time you got off this crappy diet.” Don’t become too strict with your diet. Loosen up a little bit. Breathe and smell the roses and enjoy different kinds of foods. There’s no proof that as strict avoidance of all carrots and all pumpkin, and all chickpeas, and all grains is going to cure your gut. There’s no proof at all. In fact, I’ve never found that to be the case. Most of the patients I see who fully recover from gut disorders in fact do eat small amounts of gluten and grains in their diet on a regular basis. It’s up to you, but I just don’t think it’s the way to go.

Okay. Point number three. Diet focused and not looking at lifestyle. This is a big problem with a lot of people. Lots of people live very stressed lifestyles today. I just read some interesting statistics on SM on social media and depression where people who check their SM feeds 58 times or more per week have a 29 percent increase in depression than people who don’t get involved with SM.

I was just talking to Tracy about this before about how when we grew up. Google came in when I was 38 in 1998, Google came in. Prior to that, we actually used to talk to people. Now, you talk to screens. You don’t talk to people anymore. It’s easy to get depressed when you’re talking to a piece of plastic the whole time with your fingers. Not actually having eye contact with people.

So, crappy jobs, crappy relationships, crappy lifestyles. Pretending you’re happy. Eating the best foods, but living a shit life. Is that what you really want? You think that food really makes you healthy? What about emotional food? What about being happy? What about enjoying being with other people? Think about that. Isn’t that food for the soul? Think about it.

I just looked at a very prominent American physician’s website about the mistakes people make on the Candida diet. There was not one word of a mention about stress, cortisol or adrenal dysfunction or staying up late at night because you’re on computers or having a shitty job that you don’t like or being with a shitty person that you don’t like, or having shitty relationships with people. No mention of that.

So I want you to think right now while you’re watching this video about that one person that annoys the hell out of you or how much you like your job or how much you like the place where you live, how much you been dreaming about a better future, or thinking about things like that. If that rings a bell with you, then that is what you want to focus on, not what kind of a carb you put in your mouth. Think about it.

Not testing was number one-making assumptions. Ultra-strict diets were number two. Diet focused while forgetting about stress was number three, and the fourth one was poor supplementation or no supplementation thinking you can get rid of all of these problems just by eating foods. Many people I see take dietary supplements to work with parasite cleansing/Candida cleansing, but in fact many of them are not effective. They’ll be adhoc with they’ll buy this and they’ll buy that and a little bit here from this website and that website and they’ll put everything together and it costs them a fortune. A whole lot of money. Many of these products just don’t give people the kind of outcome they’re looking for.

Now I’ve worked with patients now for 30 years. A long time. I’ve used all kinds of products. This is why I designed the CanXida range-exactly why. I wanted to put together a very simple system that was highly effective where you could get these three products that were going to do the job of 50 products, so think about it. I’m not here beating my own drum, but if you want to check out a nice range, check out the CanXida range. It’s a range I designed after treating lots of patients over a prolonged period of time. It’s not adhoc. It’s a system that works beautifully together. So that’s point four. So think about it.

First make sure that you’ve got Candida before you go for it, alright? Make sure also that you understand that going very strict with your diet particularly for prolonged periods of time is a load of crap. It’s not going to work. It doesn’t work for most of my patients. Think about point number three. We spoke about how you need to focus more on your lifestyle than you do what goes in here. Also think about point four about taking the right kind of products which can have a good effect.

I hope you got a bit out of this video, Donna. Thanks for the question. Now, as I mentioned previous, please check out the yeastinfection.org quiz if you haven’t already done the quiz. Click on the link below in the description box if you’re new to this channel and you want to get my Candida report. And last but not least, subscribe. Thanks for tuning in.

Greetings! Greetings! It’s Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand, author of Candida Crusher, and formulator of the CanXida range of products. Thank you again for looking at my video. Today we’re going to talk about mercury chelation and Candida. Do I have to get all my fillings out? Do I need to get a mercury chelation?

This is a very interesting question, and some of my views are quite controversial on this matter. So, I was one of those people about 25 years ago that had all his amalgam fillings removed a long time ago now when a lot of people thought it was a load of bologna that mercury had really no bearing on making you sick. My doctor thought I was an idiot. My dentist thought I was a fool, so I had to track down a dentist that really was good at removing fillings. They would use a rubber dam and do a proper job. Back then, it was pretty hard to get really good composite or white fillings, and a lot of my fillings broke which had to get replaced and I ended up with a lot of dental problems as a consequence.

Today that’s a different matter. Maybe you’re one of these people that really believes that mercury is the main source of your Candida. Well, don’t jump straight into this hoop like a lot of people do. Some practitioners that you’re going to go to, some doctors or naturopaths or chiropractors, and even some integrated or functional medicine doctors will really hone in on mercury as being the key problem. Now I call those doctors one trick ponies. Everything is a mercury problem.

We’ve got some Lyme disease doctors. You’ve got a hemorrhoid? Lyme’s disease. You’ve got erectile dysfunction? Lyme’s disease. Your hair’s falling out? It’s got to be Lyme’s. Be careful not to fall into the trap of everything is reduced down to a mercury problem. It may well not be. Mercury is certainly linked up with yeast infection, but it’s the chicken or the egg. You’ve got to be careful. Don’t really go for the line that all your mercury fillings have to be removed, because then your Candida will magically disappear. That can often be promoted by someone who wants to make a couple thousand bucks out of you.

Here’s my take on it. Get a hair analysis done with a reputable lab like Doctor’s Data for example in Chicago. There are many different hair analysis labs around in America. There are some very good ones. So, get some hair taken from the nape of the neck and send it in and get that checked out for mercury levels. You may even want to do a urinary provocation test where you can take certain substances internally like DMSA for example a sulfhydryl compound that will bind to mercury and then you’ll pee it out and then the urine can be analyzed to see how much of a spill there is.

You can also get what I did. You can get an IV DMPS. A small amount gets put into the blood, and that’s a little bit more aggressive form of sequestering mercury, chelating it. Pulling it out and then dumping it into the bloodstream and then urine gets analyzed. But I can tell you this: You can give me a 100 people and I can do a provocation on a 100, and every single one is going to come back with stuff. With mercury, probably some arsenic, lead, probably other metals. Does that mean all of those people have got a Candida problem because they’re showing mercury in their urine?

We live in a world that’s full of chemicals. We can’t separate ourselves from the environment that we’re in, from the air, from the water, from the food. If you’re eating any commercial poultry, you’ll have arsenic in your body. If you live near any kind of highway or road, you’ll have cadmium in your body. Where does this crap come from? Well, I learned that cadmium is a metal used in the manufacturing of tires, so if you live near a road or anywhere near a highway, especially a big highway and you’re breathing in the air, which you probably are unless you walk around with gas canisters on your face all day. You’re probably going to be breathing in the air, so you’re probably going to have some cadmium levels. If you’re around any kind of factory, you’ll have elevations of various compounds in your body: nickel, cadmium, mercury.

In America they discovered not that long ago that a lot of the internal lakes were being poisoned by mercury and the environmental protection agency started to work out why: because they weren’t sufficiently stopping the mercury emissions from cremation chambers. The average person who is cremated has got up to 13 different fillings. So of course that mercury gets vaporized and if you cremate enough people, you’re going to have mercury shifting in the air and being dumped in the water.

So, the point I’m making is you can’t separate yourself from heavy metals. They’re around you all the time. The question is: how do you know that the heavy metals are causing the problem with your body? That they’re actually invoking a mercury response? Then some people will say, “Bakker, you’re a fool. Everyone needs detoxing. We all need to be squeaky clean. We shouldn’t have any chemicals in our bloodstream at all.” Well, I’m sorry, but we can’t live like that on planet Earth. Maybe if we shift over to Pluto or Mars or some other country or world or whatever, we might be free from this stuff, but living here you’ll never be free of chemicals.

You can take precautions. You can get the amalgam fillings taken out, but how long will it be before other chemicals come into the body? So, what am I trying to say to you? I’m saying be careful and don’t jump into the hoop that I did is to spend $4,000 or $5,000 to get all your fillings removed and think that was the silver bullet. Now, that I think back, it was a very small part of the silver bullet for me to get well. The biggest part of my recovery from Candida was understanding the link between my shitty job and my crappy personal relationships with people and some of the crap I was eating by making changes. But not only that, it was also then working with many thousands of patients for many, many, many years and seeing the links. Multiple links with lifestyle, diet, and stress and toxins being consumed for example and their outcomes when it came to Candida or small intestinal bacterial overgrowth.

So mercury certainly is linked up with Candida, but don’t see it as the be it-end-all. Don’t think that if you get all your amalgams replaced, and get all composite fillings put in that ka-ching! you wake up in the morning and “Oh my God, everything’s so beautiful! I feel amazing!” It doesn’t work like that. It’s an expensive process. It may help you. It’s helped some of my patients as part of their recovery, but then again they made a lot of changes on many fronts, so it’s very hard to tell you, “Yes, it’s the biggest thing you need to do is get your fillings taken out.”

I tend to put it on the backburner for a while and say to people, “Let’s look at your lifestyle. Let’s look at how long you stay up on the internet. Let’s look at the kind of relationships you’ve got with people you’re close to or people you work with. Let’s look at the kind of shitty foods that you’re eating, how much alcohol you’re drinking.” These are the more important things to me, because we cannot separate ourselves from our environment. We can clean ourselves up, but ultimately toxins will come back in again to a high degree.

So that’s my take on it for what it’s worth. Do the homework. Do the hair test. Do the provocation test. Work out the costs of this. Work out also the cost to you in terms of making broad sweeping lifestyle changes and job changes, career changes, diet changes, attitude changes. All these things to me are more important than getting some fillings pulled out of your mouth and thinking that it’s Alice in Wonderland. You’re going to live in this fantasy land of fantastic health because you’ve done that one blooming thing. That’s my take on it.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this video, and I’ll be very curious to see some of the comments I get. I might have to turn some of the comments off because some of the comments I’ve been getting have not been too good. It’s incredible how many trolls are out there and some of the hate mail I’ve received from people. But folks, I’m doing all this for free. I don’t expect anything in return. Give me your views on what it was like when you got all your amalgams taken out. Did you wake up 500 pounds lighter, 10 years younger and the whole world changed for you? I’d like to hear about it.

Thanks for tuning in. Don’t forget to click on the link below if you haven’t got my report, and we’ll catch up next time.

Greetings! Eric Bakker, New Zealand naturopath, author of Candida Crusher, formulator of the CanXida range of supplements. Thank you so much for checking out this video. I’ve got a question here from a man in Chicago called Paul Shear, and Paul’s asking me a question: “Eric, are colonics good for Candida?” That’s a great question Paul, and I may have done a video on this one already, I’m not sure, but I’m just going to reply to your question that you asked me through YouTube.

So, colonics are excellent. I really think colonics are good. Now, let’s not get colonics confused with enemas, because there are a big difference between them both. If you’re going to get a colonic done, I want you to go to someone who’s registered, particularly with the International Colon Hydrotherapy Association. Somebody who’s actually good and knows what they’re doing. There are some backyard operators. You need to go to a person with a good skillset, preferably someone with a few more years on the clock. Someone in their 40s, 50s or 60s. Someone who’s done thousands of colonics. These people are fantastic.

I’ve got a few friends that are colon hydrotherapists and we often discuss cases. Interesting thing is we discuss over lunch, so that’s not really the kind of topic you want to talk about when you’ve got a mouthful of food, but I don’t worry about things like that. I’ve got a very good friend in Wellington, New Zealand who is New Zealand’s most experienced colon hydrotherapist. She’s a wonderful lady and we’ve discussed many cases. I’ve referred many patients to her. The outcomes have been absolutely fantastic.

Colonics work well when used in conjunction with the correct diet and lifestyle and supplementation. They form a beautiful adjunct to the diet. But Paul, I don’t want you thinking you can have three or four cups of coffee, five cigarettes a day, couple of beers at night, and then have a colonic and think it’s going to fix everything up. I want you to try and understand that colonics are the icing on the cake. They should only be used if you expect a high level of effectiveness of treatment with the correct therapy when all used at the same time.

It’s no different from going to the gym three or four times a week and expecting a good outcome if you’re going to have pizzas every night for dinner. You’re not going to do that, are you? If you’re going to spend money on gym fees, you’re probably going to want to have some good vegetables at night with some proteins. You’re not going to want to have this deep-fried muck that people eat. You get my point.

The point is a colonic hydrotherapy should be used as part of the overall treatment program, and I want you to follow the lead of the colon therapist. A good colon hydrotherapist will actually be able to very carefully guide you. He or she will have the experience to know how many sessions you need and when you need them and will also give you some very good dietary advice at the same time.

It’s good that you’ve also asked me about stool testing. I can certainly help you out with that regard. It’s quite clever to have a comprehensive stool test done as part of your treatment program as well, particularly if you’re going to incorporate colonics into that treatment program. Because you’ll be able to work out if you need beneficial bacteria, what types you need, how much you need, do you need to work on parasites and bacteria at the same time, do you have a yeast infection. So all of these questions will be answered with a stool test and then the colonics can be tailored to suit your particular treatment. Some people benefit from a colonic twice a week. Some people from once every fortnight, but that’s for the colon therapist to determine.

Good colon hydrotherapy will make you feel really good. You’ll sleep better. Your energy will be improved. Most of your digestive discomfort will disappear. It’s a fantastic treatment. I prefer people to get professional treatment rather than to try home treatments. When you’ve got experience with colon hydrotherapy, it’s okay to start using enemas. You can use enemas, but once you’ve had the experience of a really good colonic, you’ll probably want to go back regularly for a while to the colon therapist to get to a high level.

I’ve got a good friend in England who is an exceptionally good colon hydrotherapist. He’s an amazing guy. I really don’t think it’s a crazy therapy. I think it’s a fantastic therapy and it works quite well. Not just for Candida patients, but I recommend it for helicobacter pylori, small intestinal bacterial problems, irritable bowel syndrome, constipation, food poisoning people, many different types of inflammations, inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases, many of these conditions respond to a very good colon cleansing treatment regime. There’s no doubt about it. I’m all for it.

So I hope that answers your question, Paul. Go onto Google, find someone who’s registered, someone who’s very good. Hamish Tailyour is my English friend. I think he works in the southern part of England, I’m not quite sure. He’s very good. Hamish uses the gravity system which is the old fashioned method of colonics. There’s a new system and the old system.

As I said, find someone who’s good, and you’ll get a good outcome. Don’t forget to click on my link below if you haven’t got my report, and please subscribe. Thanks for tuning in.