Greetings. New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker, and I’m the author of the book called Candida Crusher and the formulator of the Canxida range of dietary supplements. I’ve got an email from a gentleman called Gregory and Gregory lives in Kent in England in the UK. And Gregory wants to know if Caprylic acid is good for treating Candida, if it’s effective for Candida.
Gregory, it’s highly effective. Caprylic acid is a very good monounsaturated fatty acid. It’s a really fantastic approach for Candida. There are different kinds of fatty acids similar to this. There is lauric acid, Caprylic acid, Capric acid, undecenoic acid, so these acids have got a very good antifungal approach by interfering with the cell wall of Candida. Particularly effective to use if the Candida is not seriously bad.
Some people have got cell wall types of Candida and also the hyphal types because Candida can transfer from one form to another. It can change. And I’ve mentioned in a previous video by using biotin or B7, that you can actually prevent this change from the cell to the fungal form to the hyphal form. Caprylic acid doesn’t work so well on the hyphal or the fine filamentous form of Candida. It works more on the cellular form.
If you’ve got mild to moderate Candida, it’s going to work exceptionally well. It’s also good to combine Caprylic acid with undecenoic acid. Having both of these acids together in one supplement is going to give you a better kill on a wider range of Candida strains. Sometimes one form won’t work, but the other form will work. And then combining with biotin is an even more clever approach because it’s going to stop the change from one form of Candida to the other. Check out my product called Canxida Remove. It contains all of these and way more than that. Caprylic acid is very effective and it’s found primarily in coconut. By consuming coconut oil, coconut cream, coconut water, you’ll be getting Caprylic acid into your diet.
University studies in Japan have showed it to be highly effective against various Candida strains. So do I recommend Caprylic acid? I do. You can take it during any part of the Candida Crusher diet. You can take it at the beginning. You can take it during. You can take it after. So it’s quite safe and effective. Just be sure if you’re going to take it as dietary supplement that you don’t just take it on its own. Try also to consume a dietary supplement that contains things like grapefruit seed extract, standardized garlic, neem, clove, and oregano, all of these things combined. Because then you’ve got a much more broad-spectrum effect that’s not just going to target Candida like Caprylic acid does, because Caprylic acid does nothing for bacteria that are bad. The broad-spectrum effect is going to ensure you’re going to clean up the whole gut in general. That’s a smart approach.
And again, that’s why I’ve created Canxida Remove for this cleansing broad-spectrum effect to work on SIBO, Candida, IBS, IBD, a lot of these functional bowel disorders. They need a more broad-spectrum product. If you just had Candida on its own, Caprylic acid would work, but it might not necessarily work for the dysbiotic bacteria that you’ve got. In my opinion, most people with Candida have got dysbiotic bacteria as well, so they really need that shotgun approach rather than the rifle approach.
Gregory, I hope that answers your question about Caprylic acid. Is it good? Yes, it is good, but use it in conjunction with other antifungal/anti-bacterial agents. And also don’t forget to subscribe to my channel. I like making these videos and I really like to see some subscribers come up on the channel. I’ve got about 550 videos, but I aim eventually to have 1,000 videos on this channel. The more the merrier. Subscribe and then you’ll get to hear all of my latest videos coming out all the time, which are going to happen on a wide range of topics. Thanks for tuning in.
Greetings. It’s Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand, author of Candida Crusher and formulator of a range of products called Canxida. Thanks for checking out this video. I’ve got a question here from a guy on YouTube called Pro Chess Player. I think his name is Josh and Josh is asking me “Eric, can you please do a video on foods to avoid for Leaky Gut syndrome?”
Josh, one thing you and I have got in common. I think I’ve checked out your site. You love playing chess. So do I, but I keep getting beaten by my teenage son, which is really annoying for me. One thing I don’t get beaten by is questions for Candida, so we’re going to address that right now.
What are some foods to avoid with leaky gut? Well, I’ve just spent a little bit of time on the internet looking at a lot of sites on leaky gut syndrome to get a feel for what the general consensus is out there. Here’s quite a well-known website from a very well-known doctor in America who will remain nameless and this doctor is saying, “Foods that cause leaky gut, gluten, cow’s products, sugar, unsprouted grains, and GMO.” Very true, doctor, but there are a lot of things that you’re missing out on. I’m going to go into some detail with this video. Grains, I’ve got another site, in fact, I just went to Google and typed in foods to avoid with leaky gut, and the paleodiet.com came up. Grains, legumes, dairy, sugar, unhealthy oils, alcohol, caffeine, excessive carbohydrate consumption. This is a bit closer to the mark.
But when you’ve got leaky gut, basically, a good advice for you with foods to avoid in general is processed foods. Processed foods, in general. So when you go shopping, I’ve said this before in videos, if you do shop at a supermarket, buy your foods only from the outside perimeter. Meats, vegetables, perishable products because these are less likely to cause problems with leaky gut. It is true that alcohol and caffeine do cause leaky gut. Alcohol, to me, is the top of the “no” tree when it comes to leaky gut. If you would say to me, “What food is most associated with leaky gut?” I would say alcohol.
What out of everything I know is associated with leaky gut is antibiotics. That’s really the top of the biggest tree is antibiotics or all kinds of pharmaceutical medications, anti-inflammatories, steroids, anti-depressants, sleeping pills, any kind of a drug, for blocking stomach acid or reducing pain. All of these drugs are involved in leaky gut. Including Tylenol, paracetamol, any of these kind of drugs. Birth control pills, all involved with leaky gut. But antibiotics are the top of the tree.
But when we look at foods and beverages, alcohol is right at the top, so don’t even think about drinking alcohol if you’re worried about leaky gut. And even if your gut is healthy like mine, drinking alcohol occasionally will predispose you to leaky gut. You will make your gut increasingly leaky by drinking. Every drink you take increases your likelihood of making the gut leakier and leakier. And then on top of that if you put antibiotics and high stress in there, you’re a sitting duck for a serious leaky gut problem.
Grains, yes and no. I believe that most people can tolerate small amounts of gluten in their diet when they’re healthy like me. I don’t eat bread or flour products. I much prefer to have brown rice in my diet and grains like quinoa or millet. But I do have a piece of bread every now and then and I really enjoy a nice piece of toast with some tahini or an organic peanut butter. And I really enjoy the taste, the texture, the smell, and I’m sure most people do. I would not eat a piece of bread every single day with peanut butter on it. I wouldn’t do that. It’s just every now and then; these things are fine.
Grains in general. You need to be careful of refined flours, white flour, donuts, cookies, these sorts of foods. Every time I go to the airport and fly out, I see the donut stand and you see all the big large people sitting there buying donuts with all these sugar toppings. That’s crap. That’s the sort of stuff you want to avoid. Ice cream, refined carbohydrates, these sorts of foods. That’s the sugars. Chocolate bars full of sugar, candy, confectionary, lollies, licorice, all these sorts of things. These really help to breed lots of bacteria and lower immunity and really help to increase the leakiness of the gut there as well.
Coming back to grains. Everything’s Paleo today. I don’t really believe in the Paleo diet myself as such any more than I subscribe to any one particular religion. Because to me diets today are like religious beliefs. We’ve got the Muslims, the Catholics, Protestants, the Bahai, and Mormons. So we’ve got the Paleo people, the vegan people, and we’ve got the similar kind. They’re all belief systems. It’s up to you to believe what you want to believe. To me, a healthy diet is a balanced diet that includes a lot of these different belief systems. And you need to work out what the right belief system is for you in terms of your gut. Perhaps spiritually as well.
What am I trying to say? I’m trying to say that healthy people can tolerate small amounts of wheat and gluten quite okay. And if you’re very sick and you’ve got serious gut problems, you probably need to avoid most grains until you improve your gut flora to a degree where you can tolerate small amounts. I think psychologically it’s good to have small amounts of different kinds of grains in your diet. Legumes, in many cases, are fine with leaky gut providing again you don’t go overboard with legumes. And there are many different kinds of legumes and beans that you can eat. Sprouted legumes are probably the best ones to have in your diet. I like sprouts. I make sprouts up all the time.
Dairy products definitely a problem, cow dairy with people in terms of if they’ve got leaky gut to make it worse, but also stimulating the production of leaky gut when consumed in conjunction with alcohol and antibiotics and things like that. The better dairy products to have would be mozzarella cheese; goat’s cheese is usually okay. Mozzarella, I think, is one of the better cheeses to have, but drinking lots of cow’s milk is not a good idea because it leaves you wide open to stimulating the gut to become leaky. Even healthy people, I believe, should avoid cow’s milk. Even if it’s like organic, certified organic or non-pasteurized, non-homogenized, or milk with modified beta casein in it. I’m not a big fan of these kind of foods.
Sugars are certainly something you need to avoid if you want to avoid the risk of leaky gut. Most kinds of sugars. I don’t put honey in that realm. Honey does contain sugar, but honey has a different effect on the gut than refined sugars do a completely different effect. Again, they’re best avoided for people with leaky gut until they recover the gut function. But I’m also talking about artificial sugars, which I think belong in the toxic realm.
Unhealthy oils, I’m definitely for this. Avoiding corn oil, vegetable oil, soybean oil, canola oil, cottonseed oil, so these are really crappy oils. And hydrogenated fats, fats that become hard at room temperature to increase the shelf life of different processed foods. So the better oils really would be organic sunflower oil, macadamia oil, nut oils are beautiful oils, walnut oil, high quality extra virgin olive oil, very good. There are many different kinds of very healthy oils you can have, but they should be kept cool or refrigerated in sealed dark bottles away from light to stop oxidation. Coconut oil, of course, if it’s a good fermented coconut oil, a good quality one, is not going to create a leaky gut problem.
I’ve already spoken about alcohol. The biggest contributor of all is regular alcohol consumption. Caffeine. I don’t think caffeine is a no-no. I think one cup of coffee a day for most people is perfectly acceptable if they can tolerate caffeine. So one cup in the morning is usually fine and it makes you feel good. A lot of people like the aroma and taste of coffee. Avoiding all these things entirely from your diet because some Paleo person says so, I think, can be quite difficult for a lot of people to swallow.
Excessive carb consumption. Well, that goes without saying. But remember there’s carbs in a lot of foods. You don’t avoid all carbs. You just avoid the refined carbs. I hope that gives you some information, Josh, about foods to avoid if you’ve got leaky gut or to stop the development of leaky gut. Processed foods.
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Hi there. It’s New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker, author of Candida Crusher and formulator of the Canxida range of dietary supplements. I’ve got an email here from a guy in America who wants to remain anonymous. Then he asks me, “Can I eat rice on the Candida diet? Is rice suitable? Will it affect my yeast infection?”
This is a question I get asked all the time about rice. I’ve just had a look on several websites and different forums about rice. Half the people say yes; half the people say no. A lot of experts say no. But in my opinion, a lot of these experts have never had the kind of experience I’ve had treating tens of thousands of people with yeast infections or bowel problems. They’ve treated all kinds of conditions, but they haven’t specialized in gut disorders with people.
I can tell you now, eating rice on the Candida diet is very interesting for some people in terms of the effects it can create. For many people that I see, they have no issues at all eating rice when they’ve got Candida and that includes white rice, brown rice, wild rice, basmati rice, all kinds of rice. But I’ll be quick to add that you’re better off avoiding white rice on the Candida diet until you get a very good gut function back. Until the bowel motions improve. Until the bloating and gas disappear. Until your weight’s under control. Be careful with rice because some people eat much too much rice, just like they eat much too much bread or potatoes or these kinds of starchy carbohydrates.
I prefer to eat brown rice. I like brown rice with some wild rice thrown through it, the black rice. You can also eat red rice. In fact, brown basmati is quite a nice rice to eat, so there’s a rice you can get called basmati rice. I prefer to use a basmati rice for making Palou dishes, which is really a steamed rice dish with vegetables mixed through it. That’s called a Palou and then you can put different kinds of things like peas or carrots, some cardamom, some cloves, and some cinnamon sticks. You can put different spices and vegetables through the basmati and a bit of water in there.
And I usually put a little bit of water that’s about one knuckle or even a half to one knuckle joint above the rice in the pot. I use a cast iron pot and I use clean water. Usually just cold water. I don’t usually rinse the rice. You’re supposed to rinse it and all this business. I don’t do that. And then I’ll get it on high, get it boiling, and then turn it right down to low. I’m going to put a lid on the saucepan. Again, a heavy lid, I usually wrap a small tea towel around there. And I’ve learned that putting a small cloth under the lid absorbs a lot of the steam and moisture and it also gets the top of the rice nicely steamed. When you are going to eat rice, make sure you don’t use those aluminum saucepans. Rice cookers tend to be aluminum. Throw them out. You don’t want to have aluminum in your diet in a saucepan or in a rice cooker. Do the steaming method using a heavy saucepan. A stainless steel saucepan with a heavy copper base is also good to use.
Brown rice is preferable. You can steam that or boil it. If you do want to stick with white rice, there’s nothing stopping you from using an 80/20 blend of 80 percent brown, 20 percent white, a long grain. Basmati’s a better kind of white rice to eat than other kinds of white rice. Some people say one cup per day. No more. I mean it’s up to you. If you’re used to eating rice, you’ll sort of know how much you need to eat. Just don’t eat too much rice. Keep your amount down and make sure that if you do have rice, you have it alongside plenty of vegetables and protein. Don’t just eat a large plate full of rice. That’s a big mistake.
Can you eat rice on the Candida diet? That’s the question. Well, if you are getting symptoms like brain fog, joint pain, bloating, gas or you’re not feeling good and you are eating rice, stop the rice temporarily to see if it improves your gut function. If you are eating rice and you get none of those symptoms, try to switch over to brown rice, which has got a higher fiber content. There are a lot of B vitamins. Some experts even believe that brown rice contains digestive enzymes. I know that when I eat more brown rice, I have better bowel function than if I eat white rice. I think it’s a really good food, a good quality organic brown rice. It’s a fantastic food. Particularly, the B vitamins are rich in the brown rice. Don’t be afraid of eating rice on the Candida diet if you can tolerate it. It’s also going to help you maintain weight and stop you from starving. Because if you do what all these experts say like Dr. Joseph Mercola and take all grains out of your diet, you’re going to be looking for food. You’re going to be hungry more often and you’re going to find it difficult to control your appetite and your diet.
I don’t care what these experts say; I don’t really believe it’s healthy to maintain a diet purely on vegetables and meats. To me, it just doesn’t make sense to do that. It’s a boring diet. And you can’t maintain it for years on end. Having some carbohydrates in the diet makes sense, whether it’s millet, rice, or buckwheat, so try to add some kind of grain in there, and brown rice to me is a very good grain to have included in your diet. Don’t forget the wild rice, the black rice; it’s quite tasty. A small amount of that gives your rice a bit of color and a bit of extra flavor.
I hope that answers your question about rice on the Candida diet. Last thing I’ll leave you with is as your bowel function improves and you get very good bacteria in the intestines, you’ll find you can easily tolerate rice. If you can’t tolerate it, you need to work on the bugs, the parasites, and the Candida and help to clean the gut up and repopulate with beneficial bacterial, and then you should not have much problem. Particularly if you chew the rice properly, you’ll have even less problems.
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