Author: Eric Bakker

Thanks for tuning into this video. I’ve got a couple of frequently asked questions I’m going to go through today. This video is basically going to cover how do you choose a good Candida supplement? What’s the criteria for selecting a dietary supplement that’s going to help with my yeast infection? That’s not really that simple to answer. There are many different criteria, but let’s look at the types of Candida supplements which I feel are best to use when you’re dealing with yeast infections.

An antifungal, obviously, makes a lot of sense to use. Something to counter the yeast infection. I don’t really like using the word “killing” so I prefer to use the word “inhibition” or “balancing.” Killing is not a good word. Killing is used a lot these days on TV and on video games and doesn’t really achieve much. It creates a huge amount of mayhem and destruction, and we could potentially get a lot of side effects in the body by killing.

Don’t just think of the word “antifungal” think of the word “antibacterial, anti-parasitic” as well because most people with Candida also have bad bacteria. They have potentially many different parasites. There’s all different types of organisms in the body. What we’re trying to achieve with this antifungal product, as I’ll call it, but it’s more than that. We’re trying to bring around a balance inside the digestive system.

The criteria for a good “anti” product if you want to call it that which western medicine likes to use. It needs to be broad spectrum. I just had a look at a website, the Candida Diet website, and the person on that website is saying, “Take several antifungals at once. Rotate them in different fashions. Start lower and build up high.” I don’t think that’s correct. You don’t take several antifungals at once, and you don’t need to rotate them. If you take one product that’s very comprehensive and very broad spectrum, you don’t need to take several products, so you’re saving yourself a lot of money. You’re not swallowing handfuls of pills every day. You’re just taking a few. That’s number one. Take a broad-spectrum product.

Number two. Take something that’s sustained release. Capsules work completely different than tablets do. I’ve been in the dietary supplement business now for nearly 30 years, a long time. Unlike a lot of these other websites or books on Candida, a lot of these people basically don’t really understand the dietary supplement industry. I don’t think they use them on a daily basis like I do with thousands and thousands of patients. You soon work out what works and what doesn’t work.

Tablets work the best when it comes to antifungal/antibacterial, particularly if they’re cold compressed. They’re made really properly, and they’ve been put together with a proprietary sustained release agent. This allows the product to break down very slowly in the stomach and small intestine over about a three-hour period. This is very smart because if you’re taking the doses three times per day, if you think about it, you’re going to get six to nine, ten hours of activity there with the product. Rather than swallowing a capsule, get a big effect, and then no effect. A sustained release makes a lot of sense and I haven’t really seen any sustained release products on the market, so I had to create one myself when it comes to being an antifungal. Those would be the two big criteria is look at a comprehensive product that contains everything, and look at a sustained release product.

The third one is look at a product that’s based on a lot of clinical experience, not something that’s been cloned or copied. Because a lot of products are copies or clones. A lot of automobiles are basically – in Japan they’re great at doing that. They look at a motor vehicle and they just copy it. So copies are just copies. That’s all they are. There’s nothing really unique about them. They don’t work any better than the original. Making something totally unique based on a lot of experience to me makes a lot of sense to do that. And there aren’t many products out there on the market that are like that. Those are some criteria that you really want to think about. Broad-spectrum products, sustained release, unique, based on clinical experience.

The second product we need to look at is a probiotic enzyme product. There are many of these on the market as well and many of them don’t have quite the right strains of probiotics in them or the correct types of enzymes or have the correct balance. And again, you need to look at something based on clinical experience. The antifungal is entirely different from the probiotic enzyme combo. Don’t take probiotics on their own. Don’t take enzymes on their own. Take it as a combined dietary supplement. Enzymes and probiotics work very, very well together for many different clinical reasons. And again, you’re cutting down on the amount of supplements you’re taking. You’re taking less pills. You’re saving more money. Common sense. It’s common sense to me. Antifungal, probiotic enzyme.

The third product which I think is very prudent in your choice is a product that helps to build up the integrity of the cell lining of the gastrointestinal tract, so it’s a specific multivitamin that’s created, again, based on experience, the right kind of nutrients with a very small antifungal backbone in this product. All those three products I’ve created based on nearly 20,000 Candida patients now.

Sure there’s a ton of products on the market, but the first product I’ve released so far is called Canxida. That’s an antifungal. It contains 11 different things. It’s very broad spectrum. It’s going to target all sorts of bugs, campylobacter, blastocystis, dientamoeba, many different types of staph, strep bacteria, e-coli when they’re in way too high abundance in the gut, and many different species of Candida it’s going to target, and various kinds of worms and other parasites it’s going to really work on. That’s the feedback I’m getting from thousands of people who’ve used that product that it works exceptionally well. And again, it’s based on experience. It took a long time to develop this product.

When you choose your Candida supplements, don’t just choose them on some flash website, nice pictures and cheapness here or there. Choose it based on someone who’s worked in the industry a long time, got a lot of experience in manufacturing dietary supplements who knows the industry. Somebody who understands the raw materials. Somebody who understands the interaction of these materials with patients. That’s how you choose a good product.

When you buy a good motor vehicle, like a really good top end motor vehicle, if you look at an Aston Martin or a vehicle like that, those vehicles are created by people who race vehicles, who know vehicles; know everything about the vehicle, inside and out. They’re not just copies or clones of other motor vehicles. These are unique motor vehicles. And the people who buy them are extremely happy with their purchase. These are discerning people who want the best. And when they get that product, they usually know and understand. Sometimes they’ll pay a little bit more for this product, but they end up with the best.

You don’t necessarily have to pay a lot of money for a good Candida dietary supplement, but base it on a few good criteria and I don’t think you can go wrong.

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Thank you for checking out my video today. Can Candida become resistant to Caprylic acid?

Resistance doesn’t usually occur with natural antifungals at all. We’ve routinely found that with garlic, grapefruit seed extract, undecenoic acid, Caprylic acid, clove, many different things. It’s just not really happening. It happens with pharmaceutical drugs because they’re highly synthesized and resistance can occur. The reason why it doesn’t occur with natural things is that they tend to work on more of a broad-spectrum activity. Even though Caprylic acid works by interfering with cell membranes, Caprylic acid is a fatty acid that contains many different compounds in it that tend to have quite a good shotgun effect on Candida itself, on the cell wall.

If you’re going to look at something like Nystatin, Nystatin is just one purely refined chemical compound with a very narrow band of action. Candida’s not stupid. It can soon work out how to fool this one specific action. It’s probably like a sniper or person with a single bullet firing at a target versus multiple bullets going for that target. There’s a big difference there. Much more chance that the multiple bullets are going to hit the target than the one bullet.

It’s not something I really see as a problem with the Caprylic acid. Undecenoic acid and Caprylic acid are both fatty acids which are best used together to target Candida. These are really long chain fatty acids and the coconut contains lauric acid and different kinds of acids like Caprylic acid. It’s good to include coconut oil in your diet when you’re taking an antifungal supplement for that reason.

Die off doesn’t usually occur. If you’re very careful with these things and start very slowly, you’re not going to get much of a problem. You can incorporate the Caprylic acid any time as an antifungal really in your Candida regime, right at the beginning, the middle, or the end; it doesn’t really matter because this is a food. Don’t see it as a dietary supplement. See it as a food.

The resistance is not really a problem. Go easy on it when you first start and use it in conjunction with other multiple kinds of foods like oregano, thyme, basil, parsley, all these other kind of herbs are good to have in your diet as well. Lots of fresh garlic, include those in your diet. And make sure that your supplement contains Caprylic acid and undecenoic acid at the same time. Even better still, if your supplement contains a little bit of hydrochloric acid in there to help to keep the pH of your stomach low, which will allow better uptake of these things.

I developed a product called Canxida for that exact reason to make sure that you’re going to really absorb this stuff. Because most people who take antifungals don’t usually have the sufficient pH of their stomach or the correct activity to allow it to work really efficiently. Enzymes will work quite well, too, in that regard.

I hope that answers your question about the Caprylic acid. Thanks for tuning in.

Thanks for checking out my video. Today I’m going to talk about juicing, juicing and thrush, juicing and yeast infection. What are the best juices? Tell me a bit about juicing. What do you know about juicing?

Let me explain. Juicing is quite a clever idea for people with a yeast infection. There are different kinds of juices you can take that will benefit you from different angles. I usually talk about juicing in three separate categories. Beginner, intermediate and advanced juicing. Like exercise you’re not just going to jump into doing a marathon right away. You’re going to build up until you get more fit. Your gut has to really become like “fit” before you can have the more advanced juices. Advanced juicing entails bitterer juicing, stronger product, and that can create a lot of digestive upsets for people, particular with indigestion that we see a lot of in Candida.

Juicing has a lot of benefits. There are a lot of advantages toward juicing. And I also like people to juice and retain the fiber and not just squeeze the vegetable or fruit and get the juice out and throw the pulp away. I think that’s a silly idea. You may as well go down to the shop and go and buy a can of tomato or orange juice and drink that.

The fiber is clever because it helps to slow down the release of sugar in the bloodstream. It also creates more dietary fiber, which is going to aid the bowel. It’s going to reduce the chances of constipation and also give the beneficial bacteria a good substrate to build on. It reduces flatulence and bloating. It also regulates the appetite more efficiently as well as how it’s going to help you control what you eat if you have more fiber in your diet. It even pulls cholesterol out of the body. So they’re many advantages of having healthy levels of fiber in your juices when you consume juices. A Vitamix is one of the best machines, I believe, to create it. It’s one of my favorite kitchen appliances. I have a fresh juice every day made with a Vitamix.

I’m going to read some information out of my Candida Crusher book. Category 1 juices. These are juices to have if you’re not that experienced, if you want to start juicing. You might have one of those NutriBullets you see on TV or just some kind of juicing machine, and you might just play around with juices. Celery, carrot, fennel, if you like the anise seed flavor, cucumber, green apple, and tomatoes, these are all good starting products for you to make juices with. You don’t have to blend all these together. You can try one on its own or combinations of these. There are multiple combinations.

Category 2. It won’t be long before you want to experiment with different kinds of foods to put in your juicer, so this is Category 2. Now you’ve done a bit of juicing with Category 1. We can move into Category 2. Lettuce, red, green or romaine, bitter endive, spinach, salad greens, bok Choy or Chinese vegetables, pepper, beets, coriander and kiwi. We call that kiwi fruit in New Zealand. Now you’re adding some other products in there. These are all quite suitable for Candida patients or people with thrush. They’re fine to have.

When you get experience with Category 2, then we’re going to move into the stronger stuff. This is going to be more beneficial, particularly for liver and gall bladder function. Broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, collards, leeks, garlic, onions, shallots, radishes. You can also add a bit of kale in there. These are quite bitter. They’re not for the faint hearted. These really will improve your liver and gall bladder function to a degree and are very, very good for constipation.

Try these three different categories of juices out and let me know with some comments on this video what you think of those juices. You can mix and match and combine as long as you stick with those recommendations I made because they tend to be, in my experience, the best things to juice. Those would be some of the better things that you can juice with a yeast infection.

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