Author: Eric Bakker

Thanks for checking out my video today. The question today is can Candida become resistant to grapefruit seed extract?

That’s a very good question. And this is a question I’ve answered before with various other natural antifungal compounds like garlic and clove and various things like that. It’s not really going to happen with a natural compound.

Let’s have a look at a 1990 study that was completed. You can find this published in the Journal of Molecular Medicine. If you do a Google search for GSE or grapefruit seed extract 1990 study, you’ll find it. And what you’ll find is that the grapefruit seed extract was found both in vitro and in vivo, which we’re talking about test tubes, as well as in human beings, to be more effective than 30 different types of antibiotics and 16 different types of antifungals. These are pharmaceutical drugs. That’s quite a powerful thing. This was a small study completed with 30 different people when they found no side effects at all with grapefruit seed extract, which is quite remarkable. You can’t say the same with antibiotics or antifungals.

Resistance doesn’t usually occur with something like GSE because of the complexity of the compound. You’ve got many different ingredients in grapefruit seed extract that have a hand in helping to kill and eradicate Candida.

Dr. Jacob Harich was a doctor who ended up living in Florida who really discovered grapefruit seed extract in the ‘70s and found it to be exceptional for keeping swimming pools clean, for example. And there was a government contract at one stage where large municipal Olympic pools were being supplied and sterilized with GSE. This wasn’t all that long ago when they had a lot of other chemicals at their disposal, but they decided to use grapefruit seed extract.

Grapefruit seed extract has also been used for sterilizing equipment in different medical facilities at some stage. It’s an extremely potent antimicrobial, antifungal, and antibacterial. It’s bitter, so it helps to stimulate gastric juices and that alone will help to overcome Candida. It’s exceptional when used with garlic extract and clove and various other natural extracts.

It’s one of the reasons why I put grapefruit seed extract in my antifungal called Canxida. I put a 45 percent flavonoid-containing GSE in my product in a high quality dry form. It’s very difficult to take in liquid extract over one to two drops per day. But when you take it in a dry compound, you can take more of it in. You should not take an antifungal in unless it’s got GSE in it. That’s my recommendation.

Regardless of what you’ve got, it’s proven to be effective against many different types of yeast, whether it’s Candida, Aspergillus, Geotrichum, Trichophyton, it doesn’t matter; it’s effective against all of them. It’s definitely worth including in your regime against Candida and resistance is not something you’re going to find a problem with grapefruit seed extract. I guarantee you’ll have success with it.

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Thanks for checking out the video today. I’ve got a question from a patient in Japan, of all places. Can Candida become resistant to garlic?

No. It can’t become resistant to garlic, and there are many, many studies both from your country, in Japan, as well as China, Russia and America that validate garlic as probably one of the best natural antifungals you can use. There are many different compounds in garlic that are proven to have various effects on Candida. From the research I’ve read, it doesn’t appear that a good quality garlic is going to become ineffective against Candida.

One of the most powerful chemicals in garlic is actually created by one of the ingredients itself and an enzyme, so it’s called Ajoene. Ajoene is created when garlic is crushed and a chemical called allicin, which is inside it, mixes with an enzyme called Amylase. It’s a combination of these two things together that create the Ajoene. American research has shown that Ajoene actually is a cell wall disrupter, so it actually disrupts the cell walls of Candida preventing it from forming. Plus allicin itself has shown to actually have very powerful Candida killing effects.

Russian studies from the ‘70s and also more recently from Japan, I believe there was an author called Benjamin Lau, Dr. Benjamin Lau, who wrote a very good book on garlic and showed that garlic had incredibly powerful antifungal effects on many different levels. So it’s not going to be an ineffective product, unlike Nystatin, unlike many of the “zole” drugs, Fluconazole, drugs like that, for example, that become ineffective after a while. The pharmaceutical companies will never match the power of things like grapefruit seed extract or garlic, so garlic can be incorporated into your diet and also taken as a dietary supplement.

I’ve created a product called Canxida and put a two percent allicin containing aged garlic extract in that product along with grapefruit seed extract and other things. The two percent allicin is going to make sure that you’re going to get sufficient antifungal activity in its own right. Make sure that when you do take a garlic extract, it does contain a high percentage of Allicin. Allicin and Alanine together are even better, so that’s why I like people to have raw fresh garlic in their diet, one small clove per day, chopped very finely, or also a small clove swallowed actually as a capsule. That’s another way you can take garlic. And make sure if you do, just gently crush it or scratch it so the digestive juices can get in there and open the garlic up. Garlic will always remain one of the best antifungal treatments for Candida.

I hope that answers your question. Thank you for tuning in.

Thank you for tuning into this video today. Many of you out there may be aware of colloidal silver, a product called colloidal silver. Colloidal silver is often maligned by western medical practitioners. They basically say that it’s bogus. It doesn’t work. That people should stick with antibiotics. Not all medical doctors are like this, but many I speak to rubbish colloidal silver.

Now these people may want to have a think about this because in 1934, penicillin was discovered. But prior to that, what was the number one thing that was used for sterilizing and for killing bacteria? It was colloidal silver. Colloidal silver has been used for hundreds of years. It’s still effective today and it’s not something that really Candida can have a resistance against. And that was Gary’s question from Los Angeles.

Eric, can Candida become resistant to colloidal silver? It can’t and there are many reasons why it can’t. But probably one of the most interesting ones is because colloidal silver in a solution when it comes in contact with Candida, you’ve got two entities there and you’ve got this polarization, this electrical kind of charge, which is set up and it basically kills Candida on contact. It’s also a very powerful sterilizing agent, so it helps to sterilize. It helps to reduce inflammation. It speeds wound healing. It’s antibacterial and antifungal.

In fact, there was an interesting study published by a Korean researcher in the Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology quite a few years ago now, but this study showed that colloidal silver was, in fact, just as effective, if not more effective, than one of the most potent antifungals on the market, Amphotericin B, which is a really potent, strong antifungal with also very powerful side effects. What they discovered was that colloidal silver, in fact, was just as effective as the most powerful antifungals. It’s more effective than fluconazole or diflucan.

So why aren’t you using colloidal silver? You should use it. You should try it out. Now you may have also seen a YouTube clip regarding the Smurf man or the guy with the purple face. Well, this person was drinking large amounts of colloidal silver for many years on end without a break. That’s not something that you want to do. You don’t want to drink gallons and gallons of colloidal silver. Anything you take in excess is going to be damaging. Small amounts work very, very well. It’s great to use also for jock itch, for toenail fungus, for scalp fungus, any kind of wounds or cuts or abrasions, or vaginal douching it can be used for.

Don’t let the medical people put you off colloidal silver. It’s a fantastic cleansing agent. Used carefully in the amounts that they recommend, there’s nothing wrong with colloidal silver. In fact, if you look at the poisons register, it’s not registered with the poisons register because it’s not a registered poison either, so it can’t kill people or make them sick. Anything can kill if you’re going to drink in excess, of course, but it’s not something that really makes people sick and kills them.

Unlike pharmaceutical drugs that apparently from what I’ve been told and the research I’ve looked at, I believe it’s the third or fourth leading cause of morbidity and death in America today is properly regulated and prescribed pharmaceutical drugs. So these guys can’t turn around and tell us that colloidal silver makes people sick and kills them. When at their own hands, they’re giving drugs like Amphotericin. They need to be careful.

Can you use colloidal silver? Will Candida become resistant to it? No. It won’t become resistant to it. But like any antifungal, make sure that you’re using it in small amounts, increase it here and there, stop taking it here and there. Use it in conjunction with grapefruit seed extract, standardized garlic extract and things like berberine, undecylenic acid, and all these sorts of things.

I developed a very good antifungal product called Canxida. If you go to Canxida.com, you can read all about it. Now that antifungal used in conjunction with some liquid colloidal silver is going to give you a very good powerful Candida killing effect. A bit of food for thought there.

So I hope that answers your question, Gary from Los Angeles. I’d be quite comfortable in saying that I really don’t believe that colloidal silver will be problematic against Candida. The resistance isn’t really there.

Thank you for your inquiry.