Author: Eric Bakker

Good day there, Eric Bakker, naturopath, author of Candida Crusher with a question.

My breath is really bad and I have a yeast infection. Will the bad breath go away when I’m cured?

Well, bad breath can come from many different reasons. Look at your diet, for example. Are you eating the right kind of foods? Are you keeping your teeth and gums clean? What does your tongue look like? Is it pale; is it white?

I’m going to do a lot more videos on tongue signs and symptoms, but suffice it to say, if you’ve got bad breath, look at your tongue. If there’s a white coating on it, you’ve probably got poor bacteria and yeast in your digestive system. So coating at the back of the tongue will signify a problem further down; the sigmoid colon or rectum.

So with bad breath, try these tricks. Look after your gums and teeth quite well. Don’t forget to brush your tongue, something a lot of people don’t do. Pop your toothbrush in a bit of water with hydrogen peroxide at night to kill any bacteria, and make sure you floss your teeth quite well and look after your gums. It’s very important. Chew your food properly. Take some digestive enzymes. Don’t eat in front of screens. One in five people in America now have one of their meals of the day in front of Facebook, and a lot of people have their evening meal watching the six o’clock news. It’s not a good idea. So make sure you develop some good habits and chew food properly and slowly away from screens. And take your time when you’re eating your meal.

Eating a good wholesome, fresh foods diet is going to help a lot to prevent bad breath. I’ve seen quite a few patients just live on meat and potatoes, for example, and have not many vegetables in their diet. Seventeen percent of people in England don’t even eat any fruit or vegetables. That’s quite a lot isn’t it? Try and develop some good healthy habits first before you start looking further afield with halitosis, another word for bad breath.

A key thing I look for in people is stomach problems. You could well have an infection called, helicobacter pylori or H-pylori, and I’ll do some videos on H-pylori and explain this concept more in detail.

So there’s a big chance that your bad breath will go away when your digestion’s cleared up. So I hope that answers your question about bad breath and yeast infections. Thank you.

Good day there, Eric Bakker, naturopath and author of Candida Crusher. Here’s another question I get asked from time to time.

Can a yeast infection cause bloating?

Very much so; bloating is one of the key digestive problems that many are likely to encounter with a yeast infection, bloating, gas and burping.

These are key things I find with people. People with bloating have to loosen the waist band after a meal. Are you the kind of person who wants a dessert after your meal or like ice cream or pudding or something sweet or like a biscuit with a cup of coffee or a cup of tea or a cookie? These are reasons why people get bloating. They have a meal and they put sugar on top of the meal or they have sugary meals between meals. So you’re basically feeding up the yeast and causing what I call fermentative dysbiosis. So you’re causing fermentation in the gut, which creates gas and bloating. And how does it get out? Through the anus there, through flatulence.

Are you a person who passes a lot of wind? It could well be a yeast infection. And you may well have other signs and symptoms as well. Look at some of my other videos to see if you can recognize any of the other signs and symptoms of a yeast infection.

I hope that clears up your question because a yeast infection can certainly cause bloating and you can read a lot more about all these digestive signs and symptoms in Chapter 3 of my book, Candida Crusher.

Thank you.

Good day there, Eric Bakker, naturopath here, author from Candida Crusher. Here’s another question.

Eric, could my excessive drinking be the reason I’m getting yeast infections?

Well, have a good think about it. Alcohol is, in my opinion, one of the chief reasons why people maintain yeast infections. Have a think about that; one of the key reasons why people maintain it.

I’ve seen thousands of people with yeast infections over a long period of time, and I find that if a person is resistant about stopping alcohol, it could well be one of the major factors why they can’t get rid of their Candida yeast infection. But not only that, it could also be one of the major reasons why they can’t save enough money or they can’t get rid of their pot belly or why a lot of women are what I call in the BBC, the big bum club. And they’re women who often like eating bread, drinking wine, guys who would like a six pack, maybe some pizza when they’re watching football.

So we all like our own particular type of poison; there’s no doubt about it. We all like alcohol, but some of us like alcohol a little bit too much. Some of us drink too much; we know that. Some of us are alcoholics. My stepfather was an alcoholic. He drank a bottle of whiskey a day for 20 years. Well, that’s a real problem.

So this is something I’d like you to think about. How I define a person who has a drinking problem is I would look at their want and need for drinking. So let’s just say four or five o’clock comes around, if you’re starting to think in your own mind, oh, I’m looking forward to that glass of wine; I really want that beer. And this is a repetitive thought you have; it may well be a problem. Because it’s not the quantity of alcohol you drink, it’s the fact that you want that drink. That’s the problem; it’s the fact that you want it.

This could be chocolate. This could be alcohol. This could be a cookie. Or like in my dad’s case, it could be ice cream. And some folks may eat five or six scoops of ice cream per day and not see it being a problem. So it’s the desire for that particular sweet food that will determine whether you’ve got a problem or not. It’s an addiction. The addiction needs dealing with. And there are reasons why you have that addiction. Maybe you’re not happy.

I’ve written about eating for emotional comfort in my book. There are many of these sorts of things I’ve written about in my book to help you determine whether you’re eating for emotional comfort or you’ve got an addictive personality. And these are the key things that underpin a yeast infection in many cases.

I’ve not read about a lot of these in many books, but I’ve seen these things in a lot of patients and that’s why I’ve written about them. So in Candida Crusher, you can read all about addictions, emotional reasons for eating, and many other of these factors. If you think that you drink too much, you probably do.

So a good thing for you to do is to stop all alcohol for a little while and to see how your digestion goes, how your jock itch goes, or your vaginal infection. And that’s the key time to treat when you finally sever that addiction.

I’d like you to tackle it slowly, and I use a particular type of approach in my clinic called warm turkey. Warm turkey means you slowly lead into something and take it out. Cold turkey means, wham, you stop doing it and that can be pretty hard. I’m going to talk a lot more about warm turkey in another video.

So I hope that answered your question. Thank you.