Author: Eric Bakker

I’ve got a question here I’m going to answer today. How to stop candida cravings. I’m not sure what that question means. It may mean how do I stop sugar cravings? People with Candida often have cravings for certain kinds of food. These foods can often be sweet foods. They can be sugary foods. They can be alcohol. They can be coffee with sugar in it. It can be bagels. It can be donuts. It could be bread with peanut butter and jelly on it; jam on it. Often they crave sweet kind of foods.

Generally, it will be a carbohydrate kind of food that you’re craving. I’ve found that it generally takes about 12 weeks, about three months, to overcome a sugar craving. About 12 weeks is the norm. Here’s what you do. Here’s a clever move. In my book, I write about going “warm turkey” not “cold turkey.” You know what “cold turkey” means. You’ve just got to stop something entirely. I think it’s a dumb idea. You don’t just stop things in people’s diets because they usually revert back to what they were doing, so you slow people down. This is what I tend to do.

Let’s say, for example, now you are having three coffees a day and a glass of wine at night. I’d probably cut you back to two coffees a day, initially, for the first week and then eventually the one coffee a day. I keep patients on one coffee. I don’t believe that taking coffee away from people entirely is a good thing. Same with alcohol. Whatever you’re drinking now, you cut that by 50 percent for the first two weeks, and then we make some small reductions over time.

Remember what I said? It takes three months to overcome the craving. If we just go cold turkey, how long do you think it’s going to be before you have a cookie again or something sweet? You’re probably going to have it within two weeks, so it’s not a good idea because then you set up this guilt thing where you’ve had that cookie and you think, “Oh, my god. I feel so bad. I’ve had this cookie. I was stupid. I should have been avoiding these foods.” Don’t do that to yourself. Don’t stop everything cold turkey.

The first thing you phase out is the obvious crap from the diet, you know, like soda drinks, putting sugar in foods, these are the things that you cut right back and eventually phase out. And then the second thing you eventually phase out are things like sauces and condiments with lots of sugars in them. Stopping takeaway food. Takeaway food you should have stopped ages ago, anyway. I mean these are just crappy sort of foods that you shouldn’t be eating at all.

Eventually, you’re going to get to a point where you can start looking more carefully at sugars in your diet in terms of fruit. Fruit is not the first thing you chop out of your diet when you’re trying to cut sugar out. Fruit is one of the last things you cut out when you’re going into the MEVI diet or the Candida diet. Fruit sugars are still sugar, but they’re not as bad as having sugar inside Coca-Cola, which is a different kind of sugar. But eventually, we’re going to cut the sugar in fruits out as well, and the fruits I like people to have with Candida usually are green apples, blueberries, kiwi is usually okay, one kiwi a day, pomegranates, you know, there are different fruits that you can eat.

This is a good way for you to slowly cut sugar out of your diet. Then you’ll get to a point where the brain doesn’t have that strong pull on you anymore to keep wanting to have sugar every two or three hours. If you do it intelligently and wisely and slowly over a period of probably about a month, you won’t have the withdrawal of the cravings for sugar. You’re going to lose a ton of weight in time and you’re not going to feed the Candida up and that’s a really good thing.

Check out my articles on yeastinfection.org. If you want to know a lot more, buy my book, Candida Crusher because it’s all in there.

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In this video, I’m going to share with you a rather unusual story about Candida yeast infections. I’m going to show you how you can completely cure your yeast infection symptoms in 12 hours. How within 30 days you can get rid of all of the causes of your Candida. And how after, I don’t care how many years, one, two, five or even 20 years of suffering with yeast infections, you can become completely restored and fully cured in no time at all.

What do you think about that? I just watched a video with a lady making these kind of statements, and it’s incredible how many views this video has had. I think it’s because people are actually buying into the story of cure.

This video title may disappoint you because what I’m about to say isn’t about how you can cure your yeast infection because I don’t really like using the “cure” word. I really don’t because I think it gives a lot of people false hope. In fact, many people that I’ve seen over the last 20+ years with Candida yeast infections don’t become fully cured, and that’s because they don’t really address the root causes of their problem. And that’s because they’re looking for that magic pill. They’re looking for that instant cure.

These sorts of videos that portray that you can cure, you know, get rid of your symptoms in 12 hours and get rid of all the causes in 30 days, these kinds of videos, I believe, give people false hope and promise. They paint a rather easy picture. What you may be aware of in life, depending on how long you’ve lived, there’s no easy road to any success. It takes a lot of hard work following clearly defined principles for long enough until you can really overcome that problem.

I’m not saying that every problem hasn’t got a solution. It has got a solution, but it’s the intelligent people that apply clearly defined principles, get to that solution faster than people who are looking for short cuts. That’s like putting up a video saying, “Look, I’ll sell you a lottery ticket and within 30 days, you’ve got a very big chance of winning millions of dollars with a ticket.” It’s a lot of crap. It doesn’t really happen. We know it’s a very small percentage of people, an incredibly tiny percentage of people that ever win a significant amount of money.

You can overcome your yeast infection. You can cure it. It is possible. No matter how bad it is, it is certainly possible, but it’s not as easy as it seems. It’s not that easy. It is possible.

So how do you get rid of a yeast infection? Take a look at yeastinfection.org. I’m not going to give you any false hope or make these ridiculous promises about cures. I’m not interested in that. I’ve seen patients now for 26 years and I’ve worked with thousands of people with Candida yeast infections. I believe it takes four to six months before you start getting any major breakthrough. It takes one year for your digestive system to recover on average, and it can take several years before you become fully cured.

Many people slide back in that period of time, so they’re a lot of lessons to be learned if you want to overcome your yeast infection, but don’t fall for the ridiculous statement about curing yeast infection in a quick impossible time. There is no such thing.

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I’ve got a whole list of FAQs here from various patients around the world, and I’m going to answer these questions. A lot of these relate to male yeast infection. How do I know I suffer from a male yeast infection?

The signs and symptoms will usually give you an indication if you’re suffering from a male yeast infection. Signs, basically objective, we can see the signs. A doctor can measure the signs. So this can be obtained through a skin scraping, for example, or you can see a visible red rash or a sort of bronze patch there around the inner thigh or the scrotal region. These are signs of a male yeast infection.

Symptoms are more subjective. They’re what you’re feeling. You can’t really see symptoms. You can feel symptoms. Symptoms usually include things like burning, itching or redness, so these are some of the key things you’re looking for, discomfort in the male area. Look for the signs and symptoms.

Other things you may want to look for would be craving sweet foods, for example, a strong craving for sweet foods. A lot of perspiration could be an indication you could be heading towards that way. If you’re in coveralls a lot, if you’re not good on hygiene, you’re not showering a lot; these things contribute to it.

That’s how you’ll know. If you’re living a lifestyle where you’re perspiring a lot, eating a lot of sugar, drinking a lot of beer, doing all the things that can contribute to a yeast infection; you’re more likely to suffer from one. How you will know if you’ve got one really are the signs and symptoms.

Check out my male playlist on the Candida Crusher YouTube channel. That will give you lots of different videos to look at, which will explain more about male yeast infection.

I hope that’s answered your question. Thanks for tuning in.