Greetings. It’s Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand and author of Candida Crusher and formulator of the Canxida dietary supplement range. Thanks for checking out my video.
We’ve been talking about dysbiosis. Let’s just go a bit further and look at what the signs and symptoms of dysbiosis are. There are many different kinds of signs and symptoms you can develop as a result of having an imbalanced gut flora.
If we look at the more obvious ones, they’re conditions that a lot of people have. Lots of patients in the clinic will complain to me of gas, lots of farting and bloating. Pain. Because when you’ve got what we call incarcerated flatulence or gas trapped inside, it can push on different parts of nerves internally causing a bit of sharp pain here or there. So key areas that you want to look at for gut dysbiosis. You’ll often find a bit of pain here or up here. You can get pockets of gas along the top of the bowel and down the side here.
When you go to bed at night and you lie down, you might pass wind. That’s quite common for healthy people. But when you’re standing upright and passing wind when you’re walking, you’ve way too much gas production. You shouldn’t be farting throughout the day. Some patients fart all the time. They’ve got way too much gas production. That means that they’re fermenting. They’ve got bad bacteria inside their gut. Healthy people pass a small amount of gas by default. People with gut dysbiosis can pass huge amounts of gas. Lots and lots of gas and bloating signify gut dysbiosis. It’s one of the common things that you’ll find.
Some people can develop nausea, a mild nausea, or a sensation of being sick as well. Some people also can get more upper digestive problems, which can mean heartburn or reflux or having a disordered appetite. Other people will tend to get lower abdominal issues, including constipation and diarrhea or IBS, irritable bowel syndrome. IBS almost always has gut dysbiosis. Constipation in many cases has gut dysbiosis. If you’ve been away to say the Caribbean or Bali and places like that and you picked up some type of a parasite, gut dysbiosis. If you’ve got inflammatory bowel disease, gut dysbiosis. It goes a long with a whole bunch of different kinds of diseases.
However, the subtle and less obvious signs of gut dysbiosis can also be fatigue or just a low lingering tiredness. Brain fog is what I commonly see with gut dysbiosis as a symptom. Now why did brain fog occur? If you think about it, the healthy bacteria, which are probably lagging in numbers, are not really there sufficiently to produce B vitamins, folate, and Vitamin K. These bacteria are also not there to produce the right kinds of antibiotic like substances like acidophilus that help to counter parasites and yeast in the bowel. These bugs will start taking the upper hand. And they can dig in and they can sit there in these biofilm colonies and play a lot of havoc with you. And they can also produce different types of gases like cadaverine and skatols and indols, these things can get into the bloodstream and create a lot of problems in the head. They can make you feel dull and tired. They can switch off cognitive function. You can’t think properly. You’re forgetting names. You’re getting confused easily. You think you’re stoned all the time. It doesn’t have to be necessarily a die off reaction; it can be bad bacteria.
Many times when I get a person’s gut in great health, all of these cognitive dysfunctions disappear. Their mood improves. Their sleep improves. Their energy improves. We call the gut the second brain, so now you can understand why if you want to be a smart person with an upbeat mood; you need to get your gut in great condition. Big link. And it will all come out in the future on how incredibly massive the link is between how we feel, think and how our gut really is.
But it goes further. If we haven’t got sufficient beneficial bacteria in our gut, we can also have more inflammation. We can have aches and pains in the body, muscle pain, joint pain. We’re certainly going to have a poor immune function because it’s estimated that 65% plus of our immunity resides in the first three inches of our small intestine. If we’ve got very poor levels of beneficials and dysbiosis, it stands to reason we’re going to have a higher incidence of acute infectious disease. We’re going to have more allergies and hypersensitivity. We’re more prone to autoimmune disease. Take your pick; there are about 170 autoimmune diseases. And if we keep getting a disordered gut, we can end up with cancer. And many experts now around the world believe that many cancers originate in dysbiosis, endotoxins.
This video could go on for half an hour. There are so many other signs and symptoms, subtle and obvious ones, of dysbiosis. But I think I’ve painted a reasonable picture for you. So if you’re gut’s playing up, it could well be linked with a lot of the issues that you’re facing right now. So let’s do something about it. Check out my Candida Crusher program and take a look at my Canxida range of dietary supplements because they were targeted for people just like you to get rid of this gut dysbiosis and to get you on the path of good health again.
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 we’re going to talk about the causes of gut dysbiosis.
You may have seen my video on what is gut dysbiosis and now we’re going to actually drill down into some of the reasons why people develop this condition that’s so common in the western world. I can safely say that well over half, if not three quarters, of my patients today have some form of gut dysbiosis. What causes this condition? What makes us develop symptoms like bloating, gas, farting, burping, and needing to take Rolaids or these proton-pump inhibitor drugs to soothe this sort of burning tummy? Stuff to stop us from feeling bad in the gut. Stuff to stop us from having constipation. All these sorts of things are often linked up with gut dysbiosis. Let’s just go over a couple of different reasons why this condition can come about. What causes it?
Pharmaceutical drugs are a really big one. There are many different classes of pharmaceutical drugs that can cause gut dysbiosis. In fact, I would go as far as to say most drugs to some degree cause gut dysbiosis. If we look at some of the most commonly prescribed pharmaceutical medications today, nearly all of them are implicated in causing a disordered gut flora, leading to gut dysbiosis.
Proton-pump inhibitor drugs. If we look at some drugs like Nexium, $6.2 billion US sales in 2014. That’s a phenomenal amount of money spent; $9.4 billion US spent in total last year on drugs to stop reflux, heartburn, and GERD, gastroesophageal reflux disease. How stupid is that? Why would you take a drug to stop acidity in the stomach? It’s a dumb thing to do. We need good levels of hydrochloric acid to break down proteins, fats, carbs, and things like that. If we break food down properly, we’re going to be able to digest it, absorb it, and excrete the waste properly. If we’re going to screw up our stomach with taking drugs to stop heartburn, we’re stupid enough to not look at the cause; we’re going to get a lot of problems as a result.
If you’re a person watching this who is taking some kind of a pill or liquid or something like that to stop heartburn, try to find out what the cause of this heartburn is. It makes a lot of sense, doesn’t it? Because if not, you’re going to get a lot of problems downstream. Things occurring further down. If you can’t break protein down properly, you’re going to get putrefaction further down here, which is going to cause bloating, gas, pain, headaches, tiredness, and aching everywhere, so it’s not a good idea to do that at all. PPIs or these sorts of drugs like Nexium are not good. They’re certainly linked up with this condition called dysbiosis.
Antibiotics are very, very powerful drugs that are one of the main drugs that cause gut dysbiosis because they’re non-selective, and they kill lots of beneficial bacterial, as well as pathogenic bacteria. There are two ways that antibiotics work. They can rupture the beta lactam ring or the cell wall of the membrane of the bacteria allowing your immune system to get in there, or they can disrupt protein synthesis, or if they interfere with what we call ribosomes in the bacterial cell, stopping the cell from actually forming. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out if you’re going to mess around with cells like this at that kind of level; you’re also going to mess around with a lot of beneficial bacteria as well. And you’re going to promote the production of a lot of yeast in the body and other kinds of bugs like clostridium. You’re going to encourage Blastocystis and other parasites in your gut. Taking antibiotics for different conditions, you’re on a course basically for disaster down the track. Taking them routinely is just crazy. It’s going to lead to all sorts of diseases.
There are many other pharmaceuticals implicated with dysbiosis. I haven’t got time in this video to cover all of them.
Another key one that I would see would be NSAIDs or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, Ibuprofen or Advil, paracetamol. What’s another one, aspirin, diclofenac? All these drugs are non-steroidal, so they’re not really steroidal based, but they’ll ruin your gut. They cause dysbiosis. They destroy gastric health. They switch off pain, but at a huge cost to you.
Again, why would you want to take these drugs long term because you’re undermining your health? If you take pharmaceuticals routinely, you will get gut dysbiosis. There has got to be another way. Talk to your health care professional on other ways you can look at.
Stress. Stress has got an incredible way of causing gut dysbiosis long term, and there are several mechanisms by which stress operates to achieve this. One key thing that happens in the alarm phase or the acute phase of stress is it starts to reduce the blood supply to the digestive organs, favoring the blood to go to the larger muscles so you can run away from dinosaurs, the boss, your mother in law, or whatever threat is hanging over your head. Stress has another ability in different stages of the stress cycle to actually reduce the output of digestive enzymes, to inhibit peristalsis or the movement of feces through the digestive system, so it increases the likelihood of constipation, it increases the likelihood of bloating and gas, all of these things occur because of stress.
Not chewing food properly and eating it too quick is a key thing I see in my clinic. If you’re sitting there with your mobile phone liking somebody on Facebook while you’re eating a burger, you’re going to get dysbiosis. Get rid of these bloody electronic devices out of your life when you’re eating food. Don’t associate eating and technology. It’s a big mistake that a lot of people make today. Chewing food properly, taking your time to eat food, slowing down. Do what your grandparents did. Spend time eating. Not looking at Twitter, Facebook, or junk like that. I haven’t got time again in this video to go over a lot of the ramifications or effects of stress, but needless to say, if you’ve got stress, you’ll get dysbiosis.
Diet. This could be a half an hour video in its own right. There are multiple ways that diet increases your likelihood of dysbiosis. A lot of people today eat a highly processed diet. In fact, statistics show that people in England, for example, up to 30 percent of people don’t even eat fruit or vegetables anymore. It’s incredible. People eat so many different kinds of processed foods in their diet now in America, Australia, and New Zealand. I’ve got patients now in about 40 countries on Skype and face time, and it’s incredible how many people now all around the world in different countries are just eating a highly processed diet.
The patients I’ve got, however, that are older that grew up more with mom and dad cooking proper food, that come from backgrounds of cultivating vegetables and fruits and chickens and bees and things like that, which is my background. Which is why that’s the kind of lifestyle I like to lead. But those people tend to have better quality diets that lead to a lesser likelihood of dysbiosis. The fresher the diet, the cleaner and greener the diet, the cleaner and greener the gut. If you base your diet around diet Coke and burgers, you’re going to have bad dysbiosis. I encourage you to eat a good healthy food, to avoid soda drinks. I believe alcohol is not really a good part of health. But if you want to drink alcohol, that’s up to you. But I don’t see it playing much role in human health. Sugars, yeasty foods, processed foods, and refined carbohydrates in particular, they’re going to cause dysbiosis.
Those are three core things that are going to increase your likelihood of dysbiosis: pharmaceutical drugs, stress, and the kind of foods you eat. Have a think about those things. Thanks for tuning into my video today.
Greetings, it’s Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand and author of Candida Crusher, formulator of the Canxida dietary supplements. Thank you so much for checking out my video today. Today, we’re going to continue on with dysbiosis, but we’re going to talk about the most effective, natural treatment for dysbiosis. What can you do to nail this thing? How can you get your digestive system in really nice condition? How can you overcome these awful signs and symptoms of inconsistent bowel motions, bloating, gas, bad breath, Candida, SIBO, parasites? All these things contribute; they all form one big terrible awful situation that so many of my clients continue to consult with me from all over the world.
So let’s give you some really good information in this video today on how you can finally get rid of dysbiosis. This is based on 27 years of clinical practice. I’ve treated now in excess of 30,000 patients in my clinic with all kinds of different diseases relating to immune dysfunction, thyroid and adrenal dysfunction, gut dysfunction, parasites, autoimmune diseases, the list goes on and on and on. I can tell you now most people I see need to get a digestive overall. They need their gut fixed up. There’s no doubt about it. A lot of it’s got to do with the kind of lifestyles and diets that my patients have.
We live in the 21st Century. We live in a very stressful time when people haven’t got time to do a lot anymore. We were told that technology was going to solve all our problems and free up our time, but in fact, it hasn’t done that. It’s made us more hurried, worried, and stressed than ever before, so a lot of this contributes to our gut dysfunction. What are some basic things we can do to really get this condition sorted?
If you saw my video before about the causes of gut dysbiosis, we spoke about pharmaceutical drugs, we spoke about stress, and we spoke about diet. Those are three core things; so obviously, intelligent people when it comes to treatment need to tackle causes. So go back and look at that video on the causes of dysbiosis. If you’re a slave to a pharmaceutical medicine long term, you’re crazy because you’ll never get rid of dysbiosis. Any more than if you’re a person who’s got massive debt on a property and doesn’t want to pay it back or you’ll be a slave to that forever. You’ve got to understand that drugs are going to ruin your health and cause an early mortality if you stay a slave to them. So try to work out why you’re taking this drug and fix up the cause so you don’t need to take it. That’s rule number one.
If you’re taking a pharmaceutical, maybe a headache pill here or there, I’m not so worried. But if you’re taking a drug every day to block acid production or a drug every day for acne treatment, an antibiotic, or some kind of arthritis pill long term, you’re watching this, and you want to get your gut right, you’ve got to get off these drugs. If you can’t do that, then this is where the video stops and then you go and watch something else because we’re not really going to get anywhere with you. But if you’re committed and I take it you are or you wouldn’t be watching this now and you want to come right, go and see a health care professional about how you can get off that stuff.
For example, if we look at the drug Nexium for blocking stomach acid production. In North America in 2014, there were 6.2 billion US$ in sales. That’s a hell of a lot of people with gut reflux and you can’t tell me that all of those people have developed it for no darn reason. A lot of those people have been drinking beer and eating pizzas, eating crappy food, living high stress lifestyles, and not sleeping enough, this is part of the equation. I think you get the picture. So pharmaceutical drugs, if you’re on those, you need to get off them if you want to get a result.
The other big thing is stress, of course, the lifestyle. If you want to get a good result, you need to really understand that you need to make some changes with how you’re living. You maybe need to organize your time a bit better, the work/play balance. Try to understand that if you’re leading a very stressful and a hurried life, that you’ll probably never get a really good digestive system. The gut is very much affected by stress on multiple levels.
I did a video previously that you might want to look at about the causes. I talk about stress and the gut and how that actually affects it. Lots of women, for example, with young children find it hard to eat their meals themselves. They’ll eat very quickly while they’re with the kids. Lots of guys and women who work in corporate life drink too much coffee during the day and too much booze at night. They’re on their electronic devices all day and then they’re on electronic devices all night. It’s not very conducive for good health when you’ve got a diet that’s completely out of kilter, and there is little time for downplay. All work and no play – you know the rest, it makes Jack and Jill dull people, so you need to really understand that work/life balance is the key thing here. If we can’t get you to chill more, relax more, enjoy life more, we’re not going to get a result with dysbiosis. That’s number two.
Number three – the diet. You really have to eat the right kind of foods to get on top of dysbiosis. Needless to say, drinking diet Coke and having burgers and fries and takeaway food is not going to give you the outcomes you desire. I’m always recommending a really healthy whole foods natural diet for people full of plant-based fibers, fresh healthy foods with brightly colored foods, high quality proteins. I prefer not to drink any alcohol myself or have any fizzy drinks or things like that, any cola drinks. I like drinking green tea. I also have one cup usually of black tea per day, but the rest of the day, I drink a pot of green tea. If you want to have nice skin, drink green tea. If you want to have a good digestive system, if you want to have an outstanding digestive system, avoid alcohol for three months. Come back and talk to me and I think you’ll find you’ll agree with me that even drinking one beer or one wine a week will have a significant impact on your gut. If you’re serious about health, you need to make some serious changes.
One of my good mentors, Dr. James Wilson, used to say to me he told his patients “Take your health seriously or take it somewhere else.” So if you’re serious about health, why the hell would you want to wait until the doctors told you that you’ve got a tumor or cancer before you make those changes that you need to be making right now? You can still have fun, but you don’t have to be drinking booze to have fun, remember that. Always look for the most destructive habits in your life when it comes to eating and drinking and make those changes now. Don’t wait until you get the diagnosis.
What about natural treatment? This is part of the reason why I designed Canxida, the Canxida dietary supplements. And I did that because after many, many years of clinical practice, I found that using all kinds of different herbal medicines and nutritional medicines and homeopathic medicines and even allopathic medicines, I’ve used everything in my clinic. I worked in medical clinics for 15 years on and off. So after prescribing every kind of thing I could find on the internet and through companies, I decided to make my own products. And I did that for a very good reason because I wanted to give patients what I thought were the very best kind of products to make. And that’s why I developed Canxida.
The first product I made was called Canxida Remove, and I think it’s the best antifungal, anti-parasitic, antibacterial you’re going to find anywhere. And I’m not saying that lightly. I believe it’s the best in terms of the raw materials I’ve used, the formulation, and the proprietary method of how I put this together in a slow release form. So if it’s not the best product you’ve ever used for gut dysfunction, you need to email me and let me know why. And if it’s not working for you, then it’s because you’re not working for it. You’re doing something wrong.
You can’t have a can of diet Coke and then take a pill. You can’t stay up until 3 o’clock in the morning liking people on Facebook and then taking a pill. You’ve got to get the balance right. You’ve got to get the sleep improved. You’ve got to get the diet improved, and the supplements are the icing on the cake. That’s what I want you to think; they’re the icing on the cake. So when you do everything right and you take a very high quality product, you don’t need a whole bunch of stuff. You don’t need it. Thousands of patients from around the world now have sent me incredibly good feedback on Canxida Remove, so I know this product works, and I’m sure it will work for you, too.
The second product I made is called Canxida Restore. And again, what I did, how I usually make products is I have a look at everything on the market. I put them on a spreadsheet. I pull them apart and I start realizing the strengths and weaknesses of different things, and then I put my own slant on it. Canxida Restore is the finest probiotic enzymatic formula you’re going to find on the market. It’s also in a proprietary release formula. It’s in a very special capsule that’s slow release, and it’s going to work very, very effectively. It’s a perfect companion to the Canxida Remove. Apart from that, I’m working on a very special multivitamin right now with an antifungal back base, so that’s going to be perfect for people with any kind of digestive problem or even just someone like me that’s healthy who wants to avoid any kind of gut problem in the future. It’s perfect for travel. It’s just perfect for having at home. So it’s going to be the ideal multivitamin. Those three products are going to make up my Canxida system.
I’ve also have a cream that is being developed now, which hopefully will come out in the market within the next two months. It’s a cream that can be used for any kind of Candida problem, whether it’s a personal care problem for women or men, or just a skin irritation in general. So that’s my Canxida system I’ve developed. I believe they’re first-class natural medicines to use for these sort of conditions.
Just remember that when you’re treating gut dysbiosis and you want to get the best result, you need to look at a holistic treatment that embraces all sorts of aspects, i.e., eating, drinking, living, sleeping, stresses, it combines all of those factors. You can read more on yeastinfection.org. You can also go to ericbakker.com and have a look at the hundreds of articles I’ve written on there, and I hope that gets you on the right track. If you have any questions, you can email me, of course. Please go to my Candida Crusher YouTube channel, you’ll find now over 500 videos on that channel. I believe it’s probably the most comprehensive YouTube channel currently for gut health and Candida. And I’m going to keep on making these videos because I’m getting great feedback from you guys.
Thank you so much for taking the time to watch this video and I hope it’s given you some benefit. Thank you.