Author: Eric Bakker

Thanks for checking out this video today. I’ve got a question here from a guy in America. Is jock itch the same as thrush? Well, not really. These are two sort of separate conditions.

What you’ve got to try to understand with yeast infections is there are many different types of yeast involved. Yeast can live inside the body and outside the body. With jock itch, you’ve got really a type of a yeast called Trichophyton rubrum. Trichophyton rubrum lives in the upper layer of dead skin cells. They mostly live around hair shafts and around nails and those areas. It’s the most common one really to affect guys in the inner thigh or in the scrotum area called Trichophyton.

With women, with thrush, we’re looking more at Candida Albicans. Candida Albicans lives in the vaginal area of probably about 20 to 30 percent of women. Candida Albicans doesn’t normally live around a guy’s groin area.

You can see my other videos on how to get rid of this annoying condition called jock itch. Keeping that area dry and clean. Maybe shaving hair around there will help. Wear cotton underclothing. Using tea tree oil products to give it an antifungal barrier. These are all things that are going to help get rid of the jock itch.

Be sure to check out my other videos here on my YouTube channel, Candida Crusher channel. Be sure also to read some of my articles on yeastinfection.org.

These are two conditions that may seem similar and it may seem that a guy’s passed it to a woman or a woman has passed it to a guy, but they’re two separate organisms generally. A woman can pass thrush, a Candida infection, onto a guy, but it’s going to affect his penis more around the foreskin area rather than the inner thigh where jock itch is commonly found or the scrotal area. You’re not really going to get a Candida infection of the thigh and the scrotum like you would a Trichophyton infection. These are two separate things. They may seem similar, but they’re different. The treatment is quite similar. Diet and lifestyle and maybe some antifungal supplements and also make sure that you’re working on the skin itself with tea tree oil products, as I always recommend.

Check out my other articles and be sure to do my quiz. You can go to CandidaCrusher.com and complete my quiz to see if you’ve got mild, moderate or severe jock itch or thrush.

I hope that answers your question. Thank you.

Question today is is hair loss associated with Candida? Can Candida cause me to lose my hair? Not really. It’s not one of those things I’ve generally heard of. Hair loss can be associated with a whole raft of different medical complaints, but Candida is not usually one of them that’s going to be associated with hair loss.

Hypothyroidism or acute shock, I’ve seen this quite common with hair loss. With more prolonged plethoric symptoms, we can get a bit of hair loss at the outer edge of the eyebrow. We can get scalp hair loss with poor thyroid, but we can also find it with low estrogen levels and with various other endocrine imbalances we can get hair loss occurring. Hair loss can occur on the body also because of poor thyroid function.

I have seen psoriasis associated with hair loss for people in different stages. Psoriasis affecting around the ears or on the scalp, particularly people who are scratching and picking at the flaky skin. I have seen hair loss associated with that. And there is a strong correlation with psoriasis and yeast infection. Up to three quarters of patients with psoriasis, in fact, have a Candida yeast infection.

If you do believe you’ve got psoriasis, check out my website, ThePsoriasisProgram.com, that will give you a lot of good ideas on how to identify and how to treat psoriasis naturally. Because there’s certainly a big correlation between psoriasis and Candida. But Candida itself, I don’t really believe is directly responsible for hair loss.

I hope that answers your question. Thank you.

Thanks for tuning in. The question to today is, is gas a symptom of Candida die off? Yes. It is. In fact, it is a symptom.

There are many different symptoms of Candida die off that you can get, but people get confused with Candida die off. Because when many people go into a Candida diet, they can have varying kinds of reactions for many different kinds of reasons.

A typical one I would see would be someone who’s cut out caffeine or soda drinks or has come off sugar too quick. They’ll feel pretty bad and they can immediately think, “Well, I’m taking an antifungal or changed my diet, this is Candida die off.” When, in fact, it’s not Candid die off.

Some of the typical Herxheimer reactions that I see – Herxheimer reaction is the word we use for Candida die off – are much more systemic than you would experience coming off a particular food or beverage. Some of the quite strong patterns I see with people are things like chills, feeling cold in the extremities, tingling sensations, fevers or feeling flushed, especially at night time, sweating at night. You can even have enlarged lymph glands, having bad insomnia and, of course, all the digestive symptom manifestations that go with it like bloating, constipation, diarrhea, nausea or even vomiting, can be quite strong.

When Candida die off rapidly, they release many different chemicals into the digestive system which can move into the bloodstream. In fact, there’s about 80 or more different chemicals, but the common ones are acetaldehyde and ethanol, which is really alcohol, as a byproduct. Think about the last time you drank too much alcohol what it felt like when you woke up in the morning or before you went to bed at night, how you felt sick, you had a bad headache, you could’ve been flushed, you could’ve felt like you wanted to throw up, but you couldn’t quite do it or you did throw up. Feeling completely whacked, like the whole body whacked, completely tired. That’s a typical Herxheimer reaction. These are not that common because when I question people carefully with these reactions, they’re usually not as severe as this.

Die off does occur, but not as common as many people think that it does occur. But bloating and gas are definitely a sign of a Herxheimer reaction along with any other gastrointestinal manifestation. Think about what you took prior to feeling like this. Think about the changes that you made that led into you feeling like this. When you make change slowly, you avoid the Herxheimer reaction. Act at haste, repent at leisure. It’s like anything in life. Pay too much money for something on impulse. Jump into a relationship too quick. Anything you do too quick there’s always a price to pay.

It’s the same with a Candida cleanse. Have a good think about it before you jump into Candida cleanse, what the outcome would be in the first few weeks. If you want to feel like crap, then go head on into it and there’s a possibility you could feel like crap.

I hope that answers your question today and I hope you don’t feel like crap when you go into a Candida cleanse yourself. Thanks for tuning in.