Author: Eric Bakker

Thanks for checking out my video. Is Epsom salts good for thrush? Epsom salts is also called magnesium sulfate. In fact, it’s a very common preparation used by a lot of people, particularly for things like detox baths or to sooth aching muscles. It can also be used as a dietary supplement to increase magnesium in the body, although it’s not really as good as other forms of magnesium like gluconate or citrate, for example, or magnesium taurate. Mainly because it can disassociate easing the bowel and cause loose bowel motions or even diarrhea with many people. But for thrush, it’s not really affective.

I don’t think it’s something really you’re going to get a lot of benefit from. You could use it as a detox bath. Epsom salts is also commonly used in flotation tanks. People have got a lot of Epsom salts in there with a small amount of water on top, which allows you to float on top of the water.

Why don’t you try boric acid for thrush? Boric acid is a much more effective product to use than magnesium sulfate. Boric acid, you can read more about boric acid at yeastinfection.org. Also you can do my yeast infection quiz through yeastinfection.org to see what the severity of your thrush is like. Just click on the female tab and go through the different screens to give you an idea if you’ve got mild, moderate or severe thrush. It’ll give you some good indication.

Tea tree oil for thrush, boric acid for thrush, check out my two-stage kill and build protocol for vaginal thrush, which is over 95 percent effective in eradicating and yes even curing, I’ll use the cure word, in curing vaginal thrush. It’s super effective. Make sure you check that out.

Epsom salts for thrush is not really a good idea. I wouldn’t really recommend that you do that internally at all. Thanks for tuning in.

Thanks for checking out my video. I’ve got a question here from a patient in Europe, from a small country in Europe. Eric, are all yeast infections related to Candida Albicans?

Well, they’re not. And, in fact, after completing over a thousand stool tests on patients over the years, I can tell you particularly with a culture, Candida Albicans will come back probably about 70 percent, sometimes 75 percent. I would say when I get batches of stool tests back, I find sometimes patients have mixed types of Candida strains which is showing in the stool test.

Candida Albicans is very common, but we have other types of Candida as well. There are over 250 strains of Candida, but the common ones I would find over and above Candida Albicans would be Candida Glabrata, Candida Tropicalis, and Candida Parapsilosis. One that comes back a little bit more rare would be Candida Krusei. Candida Krusei comes back with a few of the Australian stool tests, in particular, and so does a Tropicalis. I believe that the Tropicalis is a lot tougher strain to eradicate than the Albicans.

But what you’ve got to bear in mind is it’s not only the Candida Albicans we’re talking about because many patients with Candida also have various other kinds of fungi in or on their body and bacteria as well. So we’re looking at a whole lot of different types of bugs that potentially affect the person internally.

It’s not uncommon if someone’s got chronic vaginal thrush or jock itch to have various kinds of Candida in their system and also lots of different types of bacteria and sometimes parasites as well. And this will often come about from the routine treatments that they have taken over the years, especially if the patient’s been on multiple rounds of antibiotics. They have tried all sorts of strange and weird diets. They’ve been to many different doctors. These patients can sometimes develop resistant strains of Candida and also multiple types of Candida. It’s not uncommon. And then they land on my doorstep and they want to get well. It can take some time.

One of my favorite sayings when it comes to eradicating Candida is persistence breaks resistance. This is just a short video to explain that there are different types of Candida strains that you’re going to find in the body. It’s not just all about Candida Albicans, which is the common one. If in doubt, a good idea is to take a comprehensive stool test performed on three stool samples over three concurrent days will often give the practitioner a good idea of what’s really going on. Make sure that the stool is cultured, so to see if they can grow anything off the stool, as well as microscopies performed so they can actually look at the stool. Looking at it microscopically is using the microscope to look at it and that’s the best way to have the stool test performed.

I hope that answers your question regarding the Candida. It’s not just all about Candida Albicans. Thank you for your attention.

I’ve got a question here today from a patient from America. Is brown rice okay on the Candida diet? Can I eat brown rice?

You can eat brown rice. I can remember when I started studying Candida earnestly many years ago. I read many different books on the topic. And one book that always struck me was a book that I received from a naturopath back in the 1980s was The Yeast Connection by Dr. William Crook. This book was quite interesting for me because Dr. Crook recommended that brown rice was okay, but white rice was not okay. And I’ve always eaten brown rice myself and I found this is a good idea and it was part of my recovery plan. But not just my recovery plan, but thousands of patients I’ve treated I’ve recommended them to have brown rice not white rice.

If you look at Dr. McCullough’s website, he recommends no grains at all. He’s one of these no grain people. There are some people out there who believe that all grains are bad. They’re all toxic. You shouldn’t eat them. And some people believe that brown rice helps to feed a yeast infection. I’ve not found that to be the case at all. Makes me question if Dr. McCullough actually selectively treats patients or he just regurgitates information that he picks up online.

Interesting thing is when you treat people consistently and try different dietary approaches, you soon know what works and what doesn’t work. Lots of information you read online for people comes from people who gather information and throw it out on forums or webpages or YouTube clips that actually never engage in seeing patients. They never get the feedback. They just read information.

I can tell you now brown rice is not a problem. People don’t tend to eat large amounts of brown rice. They eat small amounts of it. It’s not unlike white rice. It’s quite filling. It’s high in fiber. And it helps to stabilize blood sugar, so it can be quite a good addition to the diet if you have a yeast infection. Get a high quality organic brown rice. It takes generally about 30 to 40 minutes to cook it. And you’re going to find it’s quite an acceptable food, a fiber, as part of the Candida diet. I would give thumbs up to brown rice and say definitely include it.

Quinoa, amaranth, millet, buckwheat and brown rice are all perfectly good additions in small amounts for the Candida diet. So I hope that answers your question.