Author: Eric Bakker

Good day, Eric Bakker, naturopath, author of Candida Crusher.

A patient asked me a couple of weeks ago “Eric, why are you recommending I take digestive enzymes with my yeast infection? What’s the benefit of taking a digestive enzyme? What am I going to get out of it? I’m already taking a magnesium supplement, fish oil, vitamin C, what benefit am I going to get from an enzyme really? I chew my food properly. I don’t think I need this product.”

Now this lady’s had a yeast infection for about 15 years, and my reply to that was you do need a digestive enzyme. And these are some of the reasons why you will really benefit from this digestive enzyme.

When Candida really gets a foothold in the body like it has in this patient, we did a stool test and we found she had a major yeast infection. She also had poor levels of beneficial bacteria. She also had poor levels of amylase, which is a pancreatic enzyme. She had pancreatic elastase 1, which is a particular marker I found to be very affected. And I told her I said, “Allison, you need this digestive enzyme. It’s going to help you big time. It’s going to allow you to break food down better.”

So I put her on a product with protein, fat and carbohydrate enzymatic activity to really improve her digestive system functionality. Digestive enzymes in probiotics, in my opinion, will one day be more important than multivitamins, much more important because we don’t really live in a natural world anymore. We eat the wrong foods. We eat too much food. We eat food under stress. It’s now found that 1 in 5 people in America have one meal of the day in front of Facebook. We tend to use our mobile phones all the time. There are too many reasons why we’re distracted from eating properly. But when we’ve got a yeast infection, we tend to also have an altered digestive system in general with a reduced functional capacity to digest these foods, so we really need these enzymes. They make a big difference.

Digestive enzymes to me are a bit like when your battery of your car is flat and you get three big guys at the back at the car to give it a good push and then drop the clutch and then all of a sudden the engine starts. You’re giving it a boost. And that’s what enzymes do to your gut. They give it a boost. They kick-start it. They allow you to break foods down, healthy foods down to better substrate, which in turn will allow better absorption and digestion and utilization of these nutrients into the cells. But, furthermore, they also allow these foods to move down to the lower regions of the gut where the beneficial bacteria can thrive on their residues. Also if you break foods down properly, it’s going to stop some of these partially digested foods going through the leaky gut and setting up a food allergy response.

So those are just three reasons out of many I could tell you why enzymes are required. Some people say that enzymes help to break up Candida cells and eradicate them and wipe them out. They may do all that, but I don’t really care about that much. I care more about improving the gut function of the patient. And I’ll do that by lifestyle, education, and enzymes.

Now my book, Candida Crusher, is full of these recommendations. So if you’re watching this video, I highly recommend that you have a look at a copy of my book and incorporate the methods I’ve outlined particularly in Chapter 7. You’re going to find a lot of good information on eating properly, what foods to eat, how to eat them, how to incorporate special foods into the diet, the right way to take dietary supplements; all these tips and tricks you won’t find in these phony and fake books that are currently on line which don’t explain these at all. Because these people never saw patients. It’s just a book full of information basically. If you want the real deal, have a look at Candida Crusher.

So digestive enzymes are important for Candida eradication, and it’s something I’m working on right now. So watch this space.

I hope that answers your question about digestive enzymes and Candida. Subscribe to my YouTube channel and there are many more videos coming your way.

Thank you.

Hi there, Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand with a Candida question.

Eric, I’ve followed your program, but why does my yeast infection keep coming back again? Why do I keep getting all these symptoms all the time? Why can’t I get rid of it? I’ve tried your program. I’ve tried Doctor X’s program, Doctor Y’s program and Doctor Z’s program. It keeps coming back. I’ve taken supplements from this health food shop. I’ve listened to the neighbor next door who told me to take this product. My mother-in-law told me to eat this food, and it keeps coming back again. Why can’t anybody cure me?

I love it when people ask me these stupid questions. Nobody can cure you; you’ve got to learn to get yourself fixed up. So let’s get one thing straight. I’m not here to cure you, all right? Because your body has got the ability to heal itself, but you’ve got to give your body the right conditions in order for that to be achieved. There’s no magic. There’s no magic pill. If you really believe that, then maybe you would believe in Alice in Wonderland. There’s nothing like that at all. Every person who’s alive, who’s got a pulse and a heartbeat has got the ability for their body to return to a state of health, so the innate healing capacity of the body is very strong. Cut your hand; it’ll heal up fast. Have a cold or cough or flu, it should disappear and go away in time with a good powerful immune response. Develop Candida, it should go away if you do things right.

If you’ve got a cough or a cold, would you consider smoking five cigarettes a day and drinking three glasses of wine when you’re sick? No, not usually. Usually when you’ve got a cold or flu or a cough, you think to yourself, “Well, maybe I’ll give the beer or the wine up for a few days. Maybe I shouldn’t smoke so much tobacco or eat so much chocolate.” Normally when people are sick – depending on how sick they are – they’ll make the right kind of changes to allow their body to restore capacity.

So when you’ve got a chronic yeast infection, you need to make these changes. You need to allow the body to build up and get its own health restored by giving it the correct conditions in order for it to achieve this. And how are you going to do that?

Well, my book took three years to write and contains 700+ pages and is written exactly for somebody like you to explain what I’m trying to tell you in my video. If you follow the instructions outlined in my book, particularly in Chapter 7, you’re going to beat this thing permanently once and for all and you’re never going to get it back. It is possible to get rid of that yeast infection 100 percent permanently to eradicate it, but you need to give your body the right conditions.

Don’t believe in the lady next door or mother-in-law or a health food shop. Believe in yourself and by following a really good protocol and by staying on track and keep on doing the right things, making adjustments, you’re going to get rid of those symptoms permanently.

Over time, symptoms should improve, but may initially aggravate. I’m going to do quite a few videos on aggravations and die off and these are topics to teach you and help you understand what I mean and why a lot of people experience originally die off in treatment and then confuse this with an aggravation thinking they’re on the wrong track.

Look at many people in life who have tried to achieve something highly successful. They’ve had setbacks. Did they throw the towel in and say, “I can’t do this anymore. It’s not going to work”? No, they kept on track, and they did what it took to get where they are today. And that’s exactly what you can do no matter how sick you are with Candida. When you first start noticing aggravations, don’t just pass the treatment in, but stay on track. Winners never quit; they just keep on going. And that’s why I wrote my book for people like you, so you’re not going to quit either.

Please subscribe to my YouTube channel and have a look at candidacrusher.com. And if you’re serious about beating that yeast infection, have a look at my book because it will outline a lot of different tips and tricks to show you how to achieve this end.

I hope this video was of use to you. Thank you.

Good day, Eric Bakker, naturopath and author of Candida Crusher.

I’m going to talk to you today about another Candida crushing food. This is the sixth food. You may have seen my other videos outlining the other foods. This food is the cruciferous vegetables. So what are cruciferous vegetables?

Well, cruciferous vegetables incorporate a group of leafy greens in particular. You may be familiar with some of these: bok choy, brussel sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, rutabagas, turnips, kale, radishes, there may be a few more; cabbages, I think, are another one. So these are very nutrient dense foods, very powerful nutrient laden foods, and good to eat and incorporate into your diet. They’re often popular with people who get more experience with juices. They may juice kale and these sorts of things. Many people don’t like the taste of these foods, particularly brussel sprouts is not really a favorite food of a lot of people, but I love brussel sprouts. I like them steamed up, grated with a bit of nutmeg on top. They taste quite nice.

There is some controversy about these particular foods in that they block the production of thyroid hormones. And there is certainly some truth in this, but eating them raw is not a very good idea for this reason. In research I did, I found that if you cook them or steam them or just cook them partially, you’re going to help reduce this goitrogenic ability by up to three quarters. So juicing kale, for example, or eating raw broccoli all the time is perhaps not a really good idea if you suffer from hypothyroidism.

So if you do have thyroid tendencies to have low thyroid activity, (A) make sure that your iodine is checked and in the correct range, that you’re consuming sufficient selenium and zinc and all the cofactors required for thyroid hormone production, (B) make sure that you cook or steam the cruciferous vegetables properly, and (C) have seaweed in your diet. Clever, because by having seaweed in your diet, you’re ensuring you’ve got sufficient iodine to allow the thyroid to make these thyroid hormones.

We’re getting off the beaten track here. We’ve talked a bit more about thyroid today, but so be it. So the thyroid hormones, when you think about it – like thyroidiodine and thyroxin – are very iodine dependent, so you need to have iodine in the diet. But when it comes to Candida, however, it’s very clever to incorporate these foods into the diet, as well, because they’re nutrient dense and also they contain a lot of fiber. And Dr. William Crook in the Yeast Connection spoke a lot about these particular foods as well, the cruciferous vegetables.

So these foods allow your digestive system to contain the correct kind of fibers to allow the beneficial bacteria to grow. These are prebiotic foods. I’ve noticed there’s a whole range of new supplements coming out with all these new fandangle prebiotics in them with all these trademarks and patents and all this nonsense, but this is all rubbish. Why don’t you just eat these kind of foods because then you’re going to incorporate the prebiotic tendencies of food naturally in your diet instead of again supplementing with stuff.

Remember what I said before. Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food. So eat more of these foods. I grow a lot of broccoli and kale in my vegetable garden. They’re wonderful foods to eat on a regular basis. But just bear those three points in mind I mentioned previously about the cruciferous vegetables. And if you do that and incorporate them, even with thyroid, you should be fine.

So I hope that answers any questions about cruciferous vegetables. And this now completes my six-part series on Candida crushing foods. So thanks for your time.