Author: Eric Bakker

Thank you for checking out my video today. I’m going to do another review on a Candida dietary supplement, which I have used on occasion and recommended for patients, my US and Canadian patients. It’s called CandiGone by Naturacraft.

It’s a nice product. I quite like this one, but there are, like a lot of other products, a lot of flaws and gaps in it and reasons why I wouldn’t use it for Candida patients. Oregano oil, Caprylic acid, lactobacillus acidophilus, protease, cellulase, aloe vera, larch arabinogalactan, anise seed 4 to 1 extract, black walnut, wormwood and reishi.

So let’s have a look at this product and analyze it a little bit and see what these guys were trying to create when they designed this product. I think they’ve gone a bit overboard and put too many ingredients in there. They’ve mixed and mashed a lot of things. They’ve put probiotics with enzymes with antifungals. They put carminative herbs in there to try to calm the gut and stop gas and bloating. Goodness knows why they put reishi mushroom in there. That should have been kept out of there completely, which is a very powerful immune modulating herb. I don’t believe it plays any role in this product at all.

I think the oregano oil and Caprylic acid combination is very good, but unfortunately, they missed that boat. These guys missed the boat. They didn’t put grapefruit seed extract in this product, which is a real shame. They also failed to put undecylenic acid in there. Undecylenic acid and the Caprylic acid and the grapefruit seed extract together, in my opinion, form the triad. And if you put a standardized garlic extract in there, you’re going to get the biggest, powerful punch you’ll ever get really when it comes to an antifungal approach.

So these guys are really using a shotgun approach. They’re trying to sort of achieve multiple things with one dietary supplement. But unfortunately where they’ve really missed the boat is they’ve also recommended a product alongside this one, hyperbiotics, which contain FOS. Why the hell would you give FOS, fructooligosaccharides? You’re going to give a soluble fiber to someone. It’s literally a sugar. FOS given on top of this product, in my opinion, is going to be very disadvantageous for patients. It’s not a good idea.

I gave up using FOS years ago on patients. I found that it made them too stoned, too spaced out. It made people too gassy. It created more problems than I wanted in the clinic. Any probiotics I have now contain no FOS. I’ve thrown them out. I don’t use them anymore. I don’t think FOS plays any role really, and I think that in time you’ll find a lot of companies will really understand it when they hear more from clinicians like me that FOS just doesn’t work with the bulk of Candida patients. With some it works, but with the majority it doesn’t.

So on the one hand they’ve got a semi-reasonably good formula. But on the other hand, they’re actually destroying that by recommending FOS with a probiotic.
It’s not a good idea. This product will certainly help some people, but I don’t think it’s as effective as many others I’ve seen. I have had reasonably good feedback from it, but I haven’t had fantastic feedback from it. It’s better than some, but it’s not the best.

Be careful taking this product particularly if you’ve got a lot of parasites because you could get a lot of bad aggravation on this, and that’s why they put the anise seed in there to help calm the gut and to stop the gas and the bloating. I would never put anise seed in a product. I would also use it as a separate to treat a patient if they experience that problem rather than to actually throw it in the dietary supplement. I think they’ve wasted space in this supplement by putting reishi and anise seed in there. It plays no role.

The arabinogalactan is not a bad addition in there, but again it is a kind of a sugar that you need to be careful of. It’s very good for sore throats. It was used a lot in Switzerland and Germany a long time ago. Dr. Alfred Vogel, the father of naturopathy in Switzerland, in fact, was the one who discovered chewing on larch buds of the tree helped with sore throats. And larch contains a particular kind of a sugar called arabinogalactan, which has a good immune modulating effect.

The protease and cellulase is a nice addition in the product, but I don’t really believe it plays any benefit in the product alongside the antifungals. So this person who designed it would have been better off having the probiotics and enzymes together and then giving a separate antifungal. And that’s the problem in our industry; people try to throw everything in one basket and say “Take this.” It doesn’t really work. You’re better off really treating patients individually and creating highly targeted supplements to achieve that end. That’s how you get the right effect in Candida.

Lifestyle, diet and highly specific supplements, bingo, you get a beautiful result. And I tend to get them time and again with patients because I target supplements specifically to suit the patient. I would not just use a shotgun approach.

So I hope that gives you a bit of an idea on CandiGone by Naturacraft and the hyperbiotics, which I would not recommend you take at all.

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Thanks for checking out my video today. I’m going to do another expert review today on a Candida product. This one is Candidate. It’s in a small liquid bottle. I think it’s probably a two-ounce bottle it comes in. It contains pau d’arco, marigold, and lemon grass extract. But the problem with this product is also it’s made in vegetable glycerin, which is a dumb idea for somebody, particularly, with a vaginal yeast infection. I really don’t like women or guys, for that matter, with jock itch taking glycerin or glycetract formulas.

So when you look at a number of herbal medicines, they are made either in alcoholic extracts or they can be made in glycerin extracts. Herbal medicines can also be extracted using water by what we call decoctions like in boiling or infusions like in making a cup of tea. Alcoholic extracts usually contain 25 up to 40 percent alcohol as a norm, but glycerin is often used as well, particularly with the pediatric or children formulas.

Glycerin plays no role in a yeast infection. Patients who’ve got a yeast infection should not take glycerin. It’s too sweet. It’s too sugary. Even small amounts, dropperful in a glass of water once or twice a day, so this is not really a good product for anyone with a yeast infection. They say that it promotes balance and probiotic flora and this is probably because of the sugar that they’ve got in this product, remember if it tastes very sweet, avoid it with Candida.

This goes for a lot of the added sugars that you’ll find in all kinds of drinks and chewing gum, and many things now contain all those artificial sugars. You want to avoid all of those as well. It’s not really a good idea to have sugar, particularly in the first four to six weeks of Candida treatment when you’re making diet changes.

So I’ve got thumbs down on this product. I would not recommend you get Candidate at all. And anyone that promotes it should clearly look at the label and if they see vegetable glycerin, they should think twice about why they’re recommending you take this product. They’re probably recommending you take the product because they’re making a profit on it.

There are some Candida websites that promote this product, and I don’t really like it when people promote products that they’re not clinicians themselves. If these websites actually have someone affiliated with the site who actually treats patients, they’ll understand that these products aggravate people. And I’ve certainly found Candidate to aggravate particularly women with vaginal yeast infections and also guys with jock itch. So for that reason, it’s got the thumbs down for me.

I hope that gives you information on Candidate. Thanks for tuning in.

Thank you for tuning into my video today. Doing another expert review today. This time on a product from NOW Foods called Candida Support Formula. Not a bad antifungal. The problem is it has too many weak points about it. It’s probably going to help some people, but it just hasn’t got that punch. To me, this is like using a 9 millimeter handgun on an elephant when, in fact, you want to use a 50 caliber, so you want to pack something with a lot more punch.

Does that mean if you’re going to use a stronger product, you’re going to get more aggravations on patients? No. It doesn’t mean that. Not if it’s in a great delivery form and given in the right dose, you’ll have no problem at all with patients.

This product contains Caprylic acid, pau d’arco, black walnut and oregano oil, and it’s in a capsule. But the problem is it’s only got four ingredients in it, so it’s quite weak. If you’re going to take something, as I said, you want to take something more balanced. Being in a capsule, unfortunately in my opinion, is not really good as an antifungal. I think a tablet is the way to go. It’s going to last longer. You’re going to be able to compress more into the tablet, and you can also add some sustained release ingredients in there that help to slow down the rate of breakdown and absorption of the product.

When you give a capsule to someone, a multi-vitamin, I think, is better delivery for a capsule rather than an antifungal. When the body takes the capsule in, the dissolution is quite quick in the stomach. There’s a rapid release of ingredients there and then there’s nothing. When you’ve got a sustained release in a tablet form, it breaks down more slowly over a period of a couple of hours, which gives your body more of a drip feed of the active ingredients which is going to have a prolonged, in my opinion, activity when it comes to yeast infection.

The other thing I’m not really happy about with this product from NOW is none of the ingredients are standardized, so you’re looking at a cheap Caprylic acid, cheap pau d’arco. We don’t know the country of origin of these ingredients. We don’t know how strong the ingredients are or the activity of them. And there are too many missing links in this product.

I have used this product on numerous Candida patients with very average to poor results. This is one of the reasons why I created a product called Canxida. Canxida is a tablet which you’re going to find on Amazon, and it’s the most powerful product of any antifungal you’ll ever find on Amazon.

How can I make that claim? I can make that claim because it’s based on over 25 years of treating Candida patients just like you. I’ve used every product I’ve been able to get my hands on and created what I believe is a super antifungal. Two percent allicin containing garlic, Caprylic acid, 45 percent flavonoid containing grapefruit seed extract, which was missing in NOW, which is unfortunate. Four to one pau d’arco, so I’m using a very strong pau d’arco extract to give that extra punch that your patient requires. Undecylenic acid which goes beautiful with Caprylic acid and most antifungals never contain those two acids together. Black walnut, 4 to 1 again, strong. Neem extract, never seen it before in an antifungal, but very good for all those little bacteria that you want to eradicate in the large intestine. Butane hydrochloride because you want to acidify the environment of the gut to allow particularly the undecylenic acid to work more effectively. I’ve not really seen it before in any other product but a very important requirement. Eighty-five percent berberine, berberine is used as a natural antibiotic, so we use it again for wiping out bacteria. I also put clove extract in this product as well, and a bit of biotin to stop basically Candida getting out of control.

While I don’t believe NOW is a bad product, I don’t think it’s a good product. And I think it’s too weak to be really taken seriously by you if you’re wishing to purchase an antifungal.

So consider the product Canxida which took me a long time to design and make and even longer to get a hold of all these ingredients. It took a long time. Anything worthwhile takes time. Anyone can slap a product together in a couple of weeks. But the thing is, is it going to be effective in the clinic? Is it going to be worth your while spending that money on? So the dietary and lifestyle advice I give in Candida Crusher along with a very good antifungal is going to have an incredible effect on restoring your health, and that’s what it’s all about. Recovery in the shortest possible time, spending the least amount of money.

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