Author: Eric Bakker

Greetings. It’s Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand, author of Candida Crusher and formulator of the Canxida range of dietary supplements. Thanks for checking out my video today.

I’m going to do a series of videos regarding chronic Candida yeast infection. I did one yesterday, I think, an FAQ, frequently asked question. How do I know if I have chronic Candida? I’ve got another question here from a guy in Sydney, Australia. How do I treat a chronic Candida yeast infection? Well, let’s talk about that today. How you actually can effectively treat a chronic Candida infection. What are the steps you need to take in order to nail this thing? Let’s go over this now.

First thing I think is important to spell out to you. It’s really important for you to look at the holistic picture of your health, your life and health, in general. Many people who come to me for treatment of yeast infection, they basically just want to treat yeast infection. They want to treat the toenail fungus, they want to treat the vaginal infection, they want to treat the jock itch, or they want to treat some sort of skin rash they’ve got. Now that’s what they want to treat. They want to treat one particular thing. Now many practitioners are symptom prescribers. They will just placate to the patient’s need and treat that symptom. Medical doctors are renowned for doing this. You come to a doctor. They will treat the symptom.

I may have mentioned in a previous video. When I was in Australia years ago, I visited a medical clinic, a friend of me, and there was a sign hanging up “Please present with only one symptom today,” which shows you how stupid the medical system is when today they treat the headache. You come back tomorrow for maybe a period pain. You come back the following day for arthritis or something. As if, nothing is connected in the body. And there are still many people who are looking for like natural cures. They’re looking for pills for ills.

Well, if that’s you, get the hell away from my Candida Crusher channel. I don’t really want you watching my videos if you think that I’m going to give you some magic cure or some magic answer for Candida because it’s not going to happen. So switch off now. Go and have a look at a lot of the other channels. There are a lot of other people that will certainly tell you how you can cure this thing in five minutes or in half an hour or the 24-hour Candida cure. What a load of crap! These things are not possible. You can’t cure Candida in 24 hours. If you really believe that, switch off now. Because I’m going to tell you, it’s not going to happen, especially chronic Candida. You need to look at the whole picture.

You need to look at everything that is going on in your health right now. And we’re going to go over a couple of important points that I’ve written about in Candida Crusher, in my book. The first thing I want you to look at, which I think is 80 percent of recovery for not just chronic Candida, but any kind of chronic condition is you need to look at your lifestyle. You need to look at what’s going on in your life right now. So I’ve written a few points down here on paper, and we’ll go through these bit by bit.

The big things I like people to look at are where the stresses in your life are. What are the holes that need plugging up? Do you have issues with people around you? Our biggest stresses in life tend to be people. People that we work with or work for. People that work for us. People that we’re close to in relationships, either professionally or personally. People that we’re related to, friends, neighbors, all sorts of people, but people tend to be our biggest stress. Most people I know who come to see me as patients have got one person that’s stressing them out. So these are the sort of frictions that need to be resolved because stress has an incredible way of undermining your health by working on slowly eroding your adrenal and thyroid health. By creating hormone imbalances, and these hormone imbalances lead to lots of different problems. So you need to sort these kind of stresses out. You can read a lot more again about stress on ericbakker.com or yeastinfection.org.

The second area that we’re going to look at would be sleep, as sleep really falls under that work/life balance doesn’t it. That’s an area that really needs sorting out. Thirty to forty percent of people we see now don’t sleep properly. So getting to bed on time, not drinking too much alcohol, these are the sort of things that need fixing up. If you’ve got issues affecting your sleep, you need to get it sorted out. People with poor sleep patterns usually have poor health. Poor health increases susceptibility to Candida infection.

I just watched a really interesting video yesterday by quite a well-known American doctor with an incredible amount of views on his channel. He never spoke about sleep. He basically said, “You need to treat the gut. You need to treat the spleen. You need to treat the intestines.” It was all about the different body parts that needed treated, but there was no real talk about lifestyle changes that need to be made.

Often poor lifestyle habits underpin many chronic illnesses that people have or lead them to develop eating patterns that develop poor organ systems. The stresses are the big thing. Sleep, you need to get that nailed. If you can’t sleep properly, get it sorted. It can make a huge difference to your life. Eighty to ninety percent of the body’s recovery and repair occurs during deep sleep. So if you can’t sleep, you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to work out, you can’t recover. End of. Move on. So get your sleep sorted.

Work/life balance. Maybe you’re working too much. Maybe you’re not relaxing enough. Maybe you’re relaxing too much. Maybe you’re not working enough. So again, you need to get this work/life balance sorted. It’s very important for you to be happy with your work to earn sufficient income. You’re starting to get the picture now, right. Lifestyle needs a lot of attention. It needs fixing up. Many patients I see also need what we call digital detox. They need to get away from these devices. Eating over laptops and liking people on iPhones and things like that when they’re eating foods. You can’t chew food properly. You can’t digest food properly if you’re constantly using digital devices, so you’ve got to get away from these kind of things.

I grew up in an era where we never had smart phones. We had smart people, not smart phones. Now, we’ve got smart phones and dumb people. Think about it. You might need to make a few changes there. Eighty percent lifestyle, twenty percent we need to really look at the dietary modifications. I’ve written a huge amount about diet. If you go to yeastinfection.org, there is probably about 500 plus articles on diet. There are many YouTube videos I’ve also done on diet, so again, you can go and watch those. I’ve made those for people like you. Suffice it to say, diet changes are in order.

Again, this video I watched yesterday from this doctor didn’t mention how important it was to avoid all forms of alcohol, so you’re not going to recover from any kind of Candida infection if you drink alcohol on a regular basis. Even one alcoholic drink per week is too much, so that’s got to go. Soda drinks, fruit juices, all those sorts of high fructose, high sugar drinks, carbonated beverages; you’ve just got to can all those. Get rid of them out of your life. Green tea is one of the best teas to drink with yeast infection. It’s got a lot of polyphenols in it. It helps to restore the gut.

What else can we talk about? Well, again the diet change is everything. You probably need to make considerable changes in your diet if you want to get a considerably good outcome. And I’ve written many times in my book the definition of insanity is eating the same stuff or making slight changes and expecting a really favorable outcome. You probably need to make a lot of change in your diet.

A patient I had yesterday on Skype from Australia has got major constipation because he’s eating fried food all the time. Well, that needs changing. There is no one single diet that’s going to help you recover from a yeast infection. It’s usually a combination of different things that you put in and take out that will make all the difference. Some people argue that you should go all carb free. Other people say fruit is fine. Other people say all grains have to go. To be perfectly honest, it doesn’t make a huge bit of difference if there are small variations from one diet to another. I’ve seen people recover eating a considerable amount of fruit, and I’ve seen other people recover when they take all the fruit out of the diet. And as I always write in my articles that if something is working for you, you need to increase that. And if it’s not working, you need to change it. If it’s not working at all, you need to completely change it. So a lot of experimentation is required on your part if you really want to recover from a yeast infection.

Check out my article on ericbakker.com. I’ve written a considerably long article on antibiotics and natural alternatives. And I think there is an article I wrote also regarding probiotics, which is quite a good one for you read. And you can also have a look at the FOS and GOS foods, the fructooligosaccharide foods and the galactooligosaccharide foods. So that’s an article all about prebiotic foods. Prebiotic foods, in fact, it was only as recent as 1997 that a doctor discovered what prebiotics really are. And we know now that prebiotics form an extremely important part of recovery from SIBO, Candida, parasites, and many of these kinds of problems.

In fact, I attended a very interesting presentation in Australia. It was put together by a very clever guy from Tasmania, Australia, who has studied probiotics now for nearly 20 years. And in this doctor’s opinion, the fermented and cultured foods make hardly any difference to a person’s digestive system because they only have a very temporary ability to recolonize the gut. In fact, this doctor believed that the FOS and GOS foods were much more relevant and important for a person to eat. These prebiotic foods supply sugars called oligosaccharides that help to build up lots and lots of beneficial bacteria in the colon. Check out my article on prebiotic foods on ericbakker.com. It’s quite a long page. You can read a lot more about it.
Supplementation is the last part I would like to talk about. So remember the 80/20 rule, 80 percent of the time look at lifestyle changes, including sleep and stress, working habits, relationship habits, all those sorts of things; and about 20 percent you need to focus on your diet, not the other way around. Many people believe that 80 percent of the time they spend thinking about what they eat and 20 percent of the time about the other stuff. It’s not my experience at all that way in clients. Supplementation forms a very important, but minor, role in full and complete recovery from a chronic Candida yeast infection.

I’ve used many, many different supplements over the last 25 years with patients. All the leading practitioner brands, most of the retail brands. And for that reason, I’ve basically designed my own product brand because I really wasn’t happy with the outcomes I was getting with patients. I want you to check out Canxida.com. Canxida.com is just a small website, but we developed it to showcase the products. I’ll just write down the domain here. So you’ll see in the middle, it’s got an “X,” Canxida.com. So a lot of people don’t know how to spell it.

The reason I developed that product range was really to get superior outcomes with patients. Outcomes I wasn’t really achieving using all the different brands on the market, and I used them all. Allergy research, corn[?] research, Metagenics, Bio Research, and NutritionTech. I mean the list goes on and on. I’ve tried all of these different brands, and usually the practitioner ranges are superior to the crappy ranges you’ll find on Amazon, IHerb, or junk websites like that. Often these websites sell retail products that are made from very cheap Chinese raw materials of inferior quality, and the outcomes are very hit and miss. This is why a lot of naturopaths like me tend to buy practitioner ranges and sell those onto patients. These are often made from a higher-grade raw material from companies in like Germany. Raw material suppliers like DSM in Germany, in Dema. These are people who make very high-grade products, but I found that many of these products also didn’t work. Well, they only worked sort of partially for some people, but not for others.

So how I designed my product is I look at everything on the market and I can see all the small mistakes that many companies make and I just make a better product. And then I trial that product out on patients. And if I’m not happy, I modify it and change it, and just change it and tweak it and make it better and better over time. And that’s what I’ve done with the Canxida range. So far, I’ve created Canxida Remove, which is an antifungal product, anti-parasitic, it works for SIBO. It’s, I think, probably the best broad-spectrum product of its kind currently on the market. I’ve seen no products that have come even close to Canxida Remove. You can use it for constipation, food allergies, diarrhea, irritable bowel, inflammatory bowel disease. I’ve had fantastic success with Crohn’s patients and colitis. I’ve used it for many different kinds of people. Bowel cancers, I’ve use it for all sorts of things.

And the second product I’ve developed is called Canxida Restore, so it’s got seven different enzymes in it and six different probiotics. There are no prebiotic sugars in this product. I don’t believe in putting inulin or FOS in with a probiotic. I think it’s bad news. And you can read about that also, and I’ve written about that why I don’t think it’s a good move. Many studies now validate that using prebiotics along with probiotics can actually support SIBO and increase brain fog and aggravate people, so I’ve given up using these. That’s why I developed Canxida Restore. I’ve got in it six different digestive enzymes that target proteins, carbs, and fats. And I put a systemic enzyme in there, serapeptase, that helps to mop up and get rid of the small proteins formed when Candida die. It helps to clean and mop up the Candida mess basically. It’s a fantastic product. It’s taken me 12 months to develop this product, Canxida Restore. Painstaking research went into selecting the exact right probiotic and enzyme blend, and I think it’s a perfect companion for the Canxida Remove. They work together as a pigeon pair.

You will be able to read a lot more about that very soon at Canxida.com, so hopefully the Canxida Remove will be released again, my new batch. We’ve had issues with the first batch because it’s a very, very difficult product to make. It’s a tablet involving 12 separate ingredients. And to get the sustained release in this tablet form is very tricky, so I’ve had to already reject one batch, dump a whole lot of stuff, and remake a new batch because I want it to be absolutely perfect for people.

I hope that gives you some good information today on chronic Candida treatment. You can read a lot more again on yeastinfection.org, ericbakker.com, don’t forget to do my survey; it’s the best survey in the world to determine whether you have mild, moderate, or severe yeast infection. And check out my Candida Crusher YouTube channel. There are close to 500 videos on there now. All designed for people like you to give you some quite good information. Will you leave me some comments please? Subscribe to my channel. And also let me know what kind of topics you’d like me to discuss because I’m always happy to introduce new topics.

So this is a long-winded reply to a question from a gentlemen in Sydney, Australia. How to treat chronic Candida infection.

Greetings. It’s New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker, author of Candida Crusher and formulator of the Canxida range of dietary supplements. Thanks for checking out my video. We’re back again talking about SIBO. This time we’re going to look at the signs and symptoms of the small intestinal bowel overgrowth or SIBO infection.

There are many different signs and symptoms. And this is a problem that, in fact, recent research in the U.S. has found between 6% and 15% of the population have some kind of SIBO problem that remains undiagnosed. Up to 80% of people with irritable bowel syndrome have got SIBO as well. Probably the reason why it remains undiagnosed is because a lot of people suffer from gas, bloating, reflux and burping, constipation, diarrhea, abdominal discomfort, and they’ll put it down to drinking too much alcohol or having pizzas or chicken burgers or whatever kind of food that some people eat. Many people will put it down to that.

These symptoms are very, very common, and they’re actually a functional complaint, so they don’t really create a lot of pain in your life. They don’t create a lot of financial or relationship problems. Well, gas sometimes can create some relationship problems, but I think you get my point. It’s not really a life-threatening problem. And that’s why a lot of people who have SIBO don’t even go to the doctor. And for that reason, it remains largely undetected.

What are some of the typical signs and symptoms we would see with SIBO? Well, abdominal discomfort is one. When you’re going “Ahhh,” then you have to loosen your belt after you’ve had a meal. Gas is a very common one. Passing gas is quite normal, although we all know that and a lot of people make fun of it. But some people actually have got it really bad. Terminally bad, so it’s shocking.

Bloating, abdominal distension, so the pain or what we called incarcerated flatulence or gas pockets bubbling away inside. Sometimes you’ll feel it. And another term for that is called bulgarismus[sp?] for gas or feeling like something must be alive in your abdomen moving around. It’s usually gas. Diarrhea and IBS like symptoms like constipation or diarrhea are quite common. Anybody with irritable bowel syndrome will know all about inconsistent bowel motions. They did research in England years ago on irritable bowel and found that over half of all cases were stress related, which is quite interesting.

Constipation. Constipation is so common in America; it’s incredible. Many people still follow the SAD or the Standard American Diet, and the bowel turnover is approximately every three days or at least every 72 hours, which is not very good. Over half of the patients I see from the U.S., in fact, don’t pass bowel motions every day. They pass every second or third day. That’s pretty unhealthy, so you really want to be looking at improving your diet, but basically improving the bacteria in your gut to facilitate a better transit time. You’ll find incredible improvements occur when you get that transit time improved.

Belching or lots of burping. You’ll notice that some people are always belching or taking peppermints or mints or things like that. In more severe cases, we’re going to get weight loss and appetite issues with that. What you’ll also find long term some of the signs and symptoms of SIBO will also be fatigue and sleeping disorders and also cognitive dysfunction and mood swings, these people will have. Because once you start messing around with the bacteria in the gut, you’re going to get a lot of problems with production of folic acid and B vitamins and Vitamin K, for example. You can even get bone disorders and many other long-term ramifications of having poor digestive health.

If you look back at medicine in the Chinese medical books going back thousands of years, the digestive system is really the center of the person’s well being. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to work out that if you’ve had a poor digestive function for many years, you’re going to have very poor health overall. It really pays to improve that.

The next video we’re going to do will be on testing for SIB. What tests are available and are they accurate? I’ll catch you in that video. Thanks for tuning in.

Greetings. It’s Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand, author of Candida Crusher and formulator of the Canxida range of dietary supplements. I have a very interesting question here from a patient in California. Eric, what if my SIBO is left untreated, what will happen to me?

It’s like anything else in life. If you tend to turn a blind eye to something that’s a small problem in the beginning, in the end it will become such a big problem that you can’t turn a blind eye to it anymore. And you get to the point where you’re going to seek medical treatment. But the problem with medical treatment is if you presented a doctor with SIBO signs and symptoms, what do you think you’ll be given? You’ll probably be given antibiotics, which is the last thing that you need. It’s a crazy thing to do. It’s like someone who’s got no money at all that is going to take out a huge big loan at an interest rate they’ll never be able to afford to pay back, and eventually, they’ll end up on the street with nothing.

When you start taking antibiotics for digestive problems, it’s a stupid thing to do. You get nowhere with this long term. The best way to treat any kind of a gut problem is initially by trying to identify the cause of the problem, particularly like the diet and the lifestyle change that you need for your gut to return to health again. It makes a lot of sense. What do they say, “A stitch in time saves nine.” So if you fix something now, down the track it’s not going to be unfixable.

I urge you to have a look at some of my writings at yeastinfection.org and read some of my other articles on dysbiosis and SIBO in particular. Do my Candida Crusher quiz, which I think is one of the best on the internet. And also have a think about my book, Candida Crusher, in general. Look at the diet that I’ve written there in the lifestyle suggestions. A lot of my writing is already published. There are over a thousand articles now published on the internet regarding the naturopathic gastroenterology work that I’ve done in the last 27 years, so you can benefit from a lot of free information. If you’re stuck, you can always have a consultation with me through ericbakker.com. Just go to my .com website. I’m always willing to see patients. I’ve seen a lot of patients now, and it’s really great that I can help so many people out through this medium, the internet.

I urge you if you’ve got a functional problem with the gut is to get onto it sooner rather than later because you can turn these things around. And if you get there in time, you’ll be able to save yourself a lot of problems. In New Zealand, we have four people dying every day of bowel cancer. Now, those people had no idea they had bowel cancer. And in this country, 34% of the people that get diagnosed with bowel cancer are terminal. When they’re diagnosed, they have metastases through various parts of the body. Now, they never had any pain. They had no problem. They just went through life with bloating, gas, with no problem at all until one day they’re passing blood, and then it was too late.

I’ve had patients like this that are no longer alive today because they chose to ignore these signs and symptoms. So I urge you if you have digestive problems, fix them now and don’t wait until you get a diagnosis that you might not be happy with because then it’s your own fault because you didn’t want to do anything about it.

Yeah, it’s not really a nice video today, but it’s one that I really want you to think about. Problems need solving sooner rather than later. Thanks for tuning in.