Thank you for checking out this video. How do you know when thrush is gone? How do you know when you haven’t got a woman’s yeast infection anymore? What are some of the key indications?
Of course, one of the main indications for knowing that the symptom is gone is not having the itching and the irritation in the private region. That is a key indication. But sometimes it could be a problem in not knowing whether it’s one thing or the other.
Many women find that pre-menstrual they tend to get more of a problem than any other time in their cycle. It could be mid-cycle or at ovulation, but often it will be two or three days before the period and sometimes being a real problem just the day before.
I find it takes between three to six cycles of treatment with a pre- and post-menstrual treatment to really get a handle on this problem, particularly if the diet has been done properly, if you’re taking a good antifungal and you’re doing a good thing with the diet and you’re treating it locally.
Chapter 5 in my book, Candida Crusher, explains all about vaginal treatment and eradication of yeast infections. You can also read more on yeastinfection.org.
A key thing you’re going to find is the irritation will be gone. The itching will be gone. Any discharge will be gone. You’ll be getting a normal discharge.
All those sort of things will be gone. Be careful to distinguish between bacterial vaginosis and Candida. Those are two separate types of conditions. But you can read more about that on my site, too.
How does Candida make you sick? How does it cause pathogenesis?
The word pathogenesis means basically the beginning of sickness. There are multiple ways Candida can make you sick, how it can make us unwell, how it can keep us sick, and how it can keep us unwell for many, many years, in fact, decades. Some people never recover from a yeast infection.
In this video, I’m going to explain some of the key concepts behind how Candida can make you sick. One of the key ways, I say the first way, is it’s going to compete with a lot of the other bacteria in your body. Candida is not a bacteria; it’s a fungus. But when it overgrows, it starts to compete with a lot of beneficial bacteria.
I find, in my experience, that people with multiple Candida strains in their body and large amounts of Candida tend to also have dysbiotic bacteria; they have a lot of bad bacteria in their gut as well. They also tend to have lower amounts of beneficial bacteria. So it’s really like too many criminals, not enough police. You get the point. You’re going to get a big imbalance there. You’re going to get a lot of problems, a lot of crime committed internally, including a lot of bloating, a lot of gas, and a lot of other associated problems.
The other big issue you’re going to find with Candida is it helps to promote leaky gut syndrome. You can read about leaky gut on my site, yeastinfection.org. Leaky gut means more intestinal permeability, particularly of the small intestine, which is going to allow the immune system to set up an antibody/antigen challenge response potentially with foods that are coming through the digestive system, challenging the immune system on the other side without being digested. Candida tends to be present with people often who have leaky gut. I’m not sure whether it’s the chicken or the egg, whether one causes the other, but there’s certainly an association there with them both. People with lots of Candida and major overgrowth often have multiple food allergies as a result, too, from the leaky gut.
The third aspect is when Candida dies or it gets attacked in the body and it tends to break up and release these particular types of chemicals in the system. This one particular type of glycoprotein is called mannan, the cell wall fraction. I’ve spoken about this before in some videos. Mannan, it’s a bit like dropping a champagne glass, you get millions of shards of glass all around the place, and that’s what happens to Candida. And each shard will attract the attention of the immune system, which will go after that and try to mop it up. So the immune system, again, will try to produce antibodies to clean up the mannan and produce antibody/antigen complexes, a bit like something floating around in the body. We call these things circulating immune complexes. CICs or circulating immune complexes, again, attract more attention from other particular white cells that secrete chemicals with weird names like dermonecrosis factor and interleukin 1 and interleukin 8. These chemicals are sent after things to fully eradicate them from the body. These things will produce inflammation and pain and redness and swelling and all sorts of symptoms.
As you can see, it’s a bit of a nightmare what Candida can potentially do. Candida can move into parts of the body that bacteria, for example, have a hard time going into. Parasites and various other products in the body that may have difficulty moving around; Candida doesn’t seem to have too much of a problem moving around freely through the body. And part of this mechanism is a chemical it secretes to evade capture by the immune system. It’s Gliotoxin.
Candida is a very smart organism that knows how to evade capture. It knows how to clog up the immune system. It knows how to compete. It knows how to thrive off the human organism, and it’s been around for a long time.
Check out my other videos on how to eradicate this thing and get it back into balance again. Unfortunately, the medical profession doesn’t even view Candida as being a real problem. But I can tell you now; it certainly is a problem. And if you don’t get on top of the imbalance, it can make you very, very sick.
I hope that answers the question about the pathogenic aspect of Candida. Thank you for tuning in.
Thank you for tuning into this video today. Today I’d like to do a little bit of a review on a product called ThreeLac. A product which is quite popular. It’s become very popularized, particularly in the US, in the last five years for the treatment and eradication of Candida yeast infection.
I’m not going to spend a great deal of time on ThreeLac, but what I am going to tell you is going to be quite important if you’re considering buying this product or have used this product. It might make a lot of sense, and my comments and opinions are purely based on my clinical experience spanning over 25 years.
As you can imagine because I specialize in yeast infection, I’ve used every kind of product on the market that I could find, including ThreeLac, FiveLac, many different types of products. I’m not going to go into a whole bunch of technical jargon on why this particular bacterial strain with this particular research shows this particular outcome. I think a lot of that might be good for academics, but when it comes to the clinic, I think it’s all bologna. It doesn’t make any difference what any kind of research shows. To me, all the nonsense stops in the clinic. So when you use a product on a patient consistently and get a consistently good outcome, that’s what matters to me. Not what some Harvard University shows or what some testimonial shows. That’s all bologna to me.
Let’s first have a look at this product and I’ll give you a couple of my critiques on why I don’t think this is a really viable product whatsoever for a yeast infection. It contains a couple of sugars in it, which immediately to me rings alarm bells. Now some experts out there will look at this and say, “This Mr. Bakker guy is stupid. He’s gone too far because the sugars that are used in ThreeLac are quite safe. They don’t feed yeast infection.”
Well, I don’t believe that’s the case. Cyclodextrin and erythritol, and really erythritol, it’s a particular type of sugar that’s used in things like confectionary. It was discovered in the 1840s. It’s found in this particular type of sugar, particularly the erythritol is found in fruits, so it’s extracted out of these foods. It’s also chemically made. I don’t really like any kind of yeast infection product where sugars are put in there to flavor the powder. So ThreeLac are sachets, basically, I think you get about 60 sachets in a box. So you tear open a sachet and you mix it in with water and drink that.
This product also contains some dried lemon juice powder and goodness gracious it even contains Canola oil. Why would you want to consume Canola oil? So lemon juice powder, Canola oil, it’s got three different types of bacteria in here which are probably reasonably useful. But there’s no lactobacillus acidophilus in here, which I’m really at a loss. They also put fructooligosaccharides in here, which is in my mind, not a good move. When you’re putting a saccharide and other kinds of sugars like dextrins in with a yeast infection product, I think it’s quite dumb. Because you’re not only potentially creating a problem where you’re feeding Candida, you’re also feeding bacteria in there. We know that FOS, for example, feeds certain types of bacteria like Klebsiella, so I don’t like this at all.
I have certainly conducted stool testing on patients after they’ve taken ThreeLac and found no benefit at all of them taking this product. I’ve had hundreds of patients on ThreeLac over the years and you want my perfect honest opinion? I think this product gets the thumbs down from me. I don’t really see the benefit except for you spending lots and lots of your hard-earned cash on boxes of this sweet tasting product.
I used it in the clinic for about four years non-stop and I gave it a very good trial. And in that four-year period, to be honest, I had one patient come back and say that she felt fantastic on it. But all the patients who spent money on this product gave me bad feedback on it. I had patients with headaches, increasing brain fog, worsening diarrhea. I didn’t really see the turnaround, so I stopped using it. When I consistently get bad feedback from people, I stop using it.
Now I’ve printed off reams and reams of paper on the internet of all these people with so-called good testimonials on this product. Well, you know what? A lot of these people who put these testimonials up on websites are not clinicians like me. They don’t actually see patients. They just peddle supplements. They sell products. Half of these testimonials are fake or sham. I don’t even believe them.
You make up your own mind, but if you want to buy a product that’s going to help eradicate Candida yeast infection, the first and foremost thing you need to do is to look at your diet and lifestyle. This is number one.
ThreeLac even mentioned on their website when you look at people marketing this product, you don’t even need to worry about diet they say. This product will gobble up and eat Candida. When you hear people talking about diet’s irrelevance with eradication of Candida, you turn and walk the other way. Diet is everything. Lifestyle is everything. Unless you’ve got those two things nailed, you’re wasting your time even looking at a product.
So that’s my expert opinion. Thanks for tuning in today.