Author: Michael

Thank you for checking out this video. I’m going to talk about fiber today. What are some of the best fiber supplements to take with Candida? I’m not so much going to talk about supplements. I want to talk more about foods. If you clicked on this thinking, “Ah-hah. I can take supplements with Candida.” I’m glad you’re watching because I’m going to talk about food when it comes to fiber. I think it’s more important that you eat the right kind of foods that contain the right kind of fibers if you really want to get the bowel functioning properly and get good intestinal microflora happening.

I’m just going to read a little bit from my book, Candida Crusher. This is actually around page 200 or 300. It’s in the Introduction to Healthy Eating section. Interesting thing with fiber before I begin is to let you know that people in developed countries probably eat between 20 to 30 grams per day maybe. If you go to underdeveloped countries, people eat 100 grams, 150 grams plus. They have lots of small bowel motions. They don’t have sinking motions. They have motions that float that are very fibrous. Bowel cancer is unheard of in the underdeveloped countries.

I spoke with an Irish doctor friend of mine who practiced in Africa for many years, for about 20 years, and then moved to Dublin to practice. He said, “You never saw bowel cancer in a lot of these African countries but saw plenty of it back home.” And he put the lack of bowel cancer in the underdeveloped nations to a high fiber diet. Dr. Alan Gabe, a past American president of the Holistic Medical Association, has got an interesting saying, “Small stools, big hospitals. Big stools, small hospitals.” Think about it.

You want to eat less, lose weight, feel full and improve your bowel tone, then eat more soluble fiber. These foods include pears, oranges, strawberries, kiwi fruit, carrots, psyllium hulls, slippery elm bark powder, lentils, rolled oats and cucumber. Soluble fiber fills you up and it swells in your tummy due to its ability to hold water. It makes you feel full and thereby eat less.

Before you start yelling at me saying, “But I can’t have oranges and I can’t have pears and I can’t have this and I can’t have that,” go back and listen to what I just said of the list. There will be foods you can have in that. As your gut improves and Candida becomes less, you’ll be able to eat that whole list of foods. In small amounts, but you will be able to eat them to a degree.

Soluble fiber is very important because it also provides a very good beneficial food for good bacteria to thrive on in the gut. More beneficial bacteria, less of the bad bacteria and less Candida. The bad bacteria will tend to outnumber Candida and the beneficial bacteria far outnumber the bad ones. These soluble foods are good to eat to increase good bowel tone. You can probably add papaya to that as well. Papaya and kiwi fruit and particularly Jerusalem artichokes are very good sources of prebiotic fibers.

You want to bulk up your bowel motions or perhaps clean out that lazy bowel. Maybe you’re going to have a bowel motion every two days like a lot of people. We had a patient a few days ago that has one every 14 days a bowel motion, but her doctor said it’s fine because it’s what she normally does. If you want to clean out the lazy bowel, include insoluble fiber into your diet. These foods include brown rice, onions, leafy green vegetables like broccoli, spinach, celery, bulgur, cracked wheat, chia seeds, various nuts and seeds, and whole grains. The insoluble fibers contain fibers that bulk the stool up. Remember, big stools, small hospitals. Small stools, big hospitals. You’ll remember that by the end of this video.

You want to reduce the amount of gas and bloating you have and feed up the good bacteria you’ve got. Now we’re going to talk more about foods that really help to feed the beneficial bacteria in particular. I recommend you consume a combination of fermented and cultured foods, as well as foods which contain prebiotics. Basically, these are beneficial sugars, which feed the friendly bacteria. The prebiotic feeds the probiotic. These foods include Jerusalem artichokes, artichokes, garlic, onions, shallots, scallions and spring onions. These foods also contain a lot of sulphur which helps to cleanse and purify the body. That whole allium family is fantastic to eat if you’ve got Candida. Garlic, onions, shallots, chives, spring onions. Try to eat some of those cooked and also raw every day, and that will significantly help to cut down on gas and also feed up the good bugs. Jerusalem artichokes contain a lot of inulin. Inulin is one of the best of the healthy sugars to feed up the lactobacillus species. Try to get some Jerusalem artichokes. It’s going to save you a ton of money because you won’t need to buy handfuls of these probiotics all the time.

Probiotics are useful, but try to get your prebiotics from food. I’m developing a probiotic product right now, but I will never include prebiotics in there. I think it’s a load of crap to put prebiotics in a capsule. I think you should get this from your diet. Not from a capsule. It makes a lot of sense. The small amount you put in a capsule is not really going to be a benefit. You need to get this from your food.

By eating the right kind of fibers in your diet, it’s going to really provide you a lot of good health. It’s going to improve the bowel tone. It’s going to improve the beneficial bacteria, which will crowd out the Candida. It’s going to stop bloating and gas. It’s going to give you the ability to pass good bowel motions every day and that’s very important.

I’ll leave you with one more thing. Small stools, big hospitals. Big stools, small hospitals.

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Thank you for tuning into this video. The question I get asked from time to time is what are the long-term side effects of fluconazole? Fluconazole is an azole antifungal drug commonly used by medical practitioners to treat vaginal Candidiasis, but also systemic or mucosal Candida infections.

It can be used sometimes for HIV patients or people with like full-blown Aids to keep on top of yeast infections. It can be used prophylactically to prevent yeast infection or it can be commonly used to treat vaginal infections and often used routinely dose after dose, month after month, even year after year. I’ve seen patients on this drug sometimes weekly or monthly for even 10 years at a stretch, which is ridiculous.

All too often, Candida becomes resistant to the effects of these azole antifungal drugs. It will build a stronger, new generation of succeeding Candida strains, which will become increasingly resistant to this drug. Just like antibacterial drugs, antibiotic drugs. When we look at them, we’re getting to the point now where we’re getting such major resistance with these bacteria that even the top shelf drugs are becoming ineffective with a whole lot of people. We’re getting to the point where we’re creating “super bugs” or bugs that are going to be resistant to even the strongest drugs, and that’s going to be a really big problem.

I’ve got a drug guide here which is commonly used in New Zealand called the MIMS New Ethicals. I’m just going to read out to you some of the side effects of fluconazole and then I’m going to discuss the long-term effects. What this drug actually causes.

It says here precaution if you’ve got hepatic impairment. If you’re kidneys are a little bit weak or tired, you need to be very careful with this drug. Careful also with prior arrhythmic condition like if you’ve got irregular heartbeat. If you’ve got electrolyte abnormalities like problems balancing potassium and sodium in the body. People with severe adrenal fatigue should not use this drug at all. Precautions with structural heart disease or underlying heart problems. How would you know you’ve got an underlying heart problem? You wouldn’t even know this.

Precautions with cancer and Aids. Precautions with previously associated fluconazole or associated hepatic toxicity. If you’ve previously been made sick on this drug, you shouldn’t really be taking it. Especially if you’ve had skin rashes. If you’ve ever taken this drug and you’ve had a skin rash or developed a skin rash, you should definitely avoid fluconazole.

Also, be careful if you’ve got fructose malabsorption. How would you know? Sucrase also maltase deficiency, lactose intolerance. How would you know you’ve got these conditions? You wouldn’t know half the time.

Precaution for women of childbearing age because there can be a danger with this drug during pregnancy. And women on this drug if they’re likely to conceive, they need to take precautions. You need to be careful.

Let’s look at some of the side effects of fluconazole. Common ones are gastrointestinal upsets, skin rashes, headaches, elevated liver function test. If your liver enzymes are going to be elevated when you take this drug, basically it means that your liver is becoming toxic. It’s becoming sick.

Elevated LFTs are commonly associated with a whole wide range of pharmaceutical drugs. The doctors will typically test for three or four different liver enzymes, and many of them are between defined ranges of about 0 to 30. The doctor believes if you’re anywhere between that range, you’re okay. But what about if you’re on the upper end of that range or slightly over? Many doctors don’t mind that. I think that’s pretty stupid because what they’re saying is they don’t mind if your liver becomes a bit toxic or sick or is starting to actually become damaged and spill these enzymes into the circulation.

That’s like basically the doctor condoning alcohol. Look, you’re showing some mild degree of alcoholic toxicity here, but we’ll be okay with that as long as you don’t make it too toxic. Gamma glutamyl transferase or GGT is the common marker that doctors look at for alcohol related toxicity, and I know quite a few doctors don’t mind if the GGT becomes slightly elevated. ALT and AST are other transferase liver enzymes. And again, these are the particular markers that we look at for chemical induced toxicity from pharmaceutical drugs, and many doctors again don’t mind if they become slightly elevated, which I think is pretty stupid. You don’t really want to make your liver toxic.

Let’s have a look at some of the further adverse effects you can get on this medication. Polyuria, so urinating too much, kidney pain, numbness or tingling in extremities, dizziness, seizures, skin itching, sweating, fevers, drug skin eruptions, sleeping disturbances, insomnia, nervousness, pain, female sexual dysfunction, menstrual disorders, deafness, respiratory disorders, high blood pressure, kidney and liver damage. Patient information. Finish the course. May cause dizziness or seizures. Do not drive or operate machinery if affected.

Why the hell would you want to take this drug when it creates all those potential side effects? Some are common. Some are less common. Some are rare. But I’ve learned from experience treating thousands of women and men who’ve taken fluconazole that a lot of these so-called uncommon and rare symptoms actually occur a lot more commonly than you would expect.

If you’ve been on fluconazole and you experience any of these kind of side effects, you need to immediately discontinue the drug. If you take fluconazole and you start experiencing symptoms after, you need to stop the drug. The long-term effects are kidney and liver damage, and that can create a huge amount of problems for you long term.

Taking this drug and drinking one or two alcoholic beverages is like a person not taking the drug drinking several alcoholic beverages. The damage on the liver compounds. Please understand that taking a drug like fluconazole, long term effects, in my opinion, create severe gastrointestinal damage, particularly liver damage, and that’s the last thing you want with Candida is to create liver damage.

The liver is the seat of improving the immune function of the body. It contains millions of kupffer cells which are basically immune cells. The liver also has an incredible amount of functions in the body, over 500 functions, in fact. It helps to restore your health to such a large degree that in my mind you’d be crazy to take drugs that impair its function. Particularly long term.

As you get older and your body declines, these effects compound even further. Please understand taking this drug short term or long term is not really a wise option. Have a think about your natural options when it comes to Candida yeast infections. Think about something that’s not going to create resistance and toxicity in the body. That’s a wise decision to make. I hope that’s given you some insight into the long-term possible effects of fluconazole.

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Thanks for checking out my video today. We’re going to talk about magnesium today. I had a question from a guy in Australia a couple of weeks ago asking me if magnesium is any good for taking as a supplement when you have a yeast infection.

Magnesium is superb to take whether you’ve got a yeast infection or not. In fact, I’ve been taking magnesium for over 30 years. It’s one of my “must have” dietary supplements, and I’m going to explain to you why. It’s so darn important to take magnesium on a regular basis.

Magnesium is required to drive well over 300 to 400 enzyme systems in your body. It’s a crucial mineral that plays a role in multiple areas of the body. Very important for neuronal function, for neurotransmitters or brain function. It’s important for mood control, blood sugar control, and immune regulation. It has a big effect on relaxing the heart to allow it to fill properly, to contract properly. Calcium aids in contraction. Magnesium aids in relaxation of all the muscles in your body. So for relaxation, common sense, you need magnesium.

Magnesium also is important for your immune system in that we call it a DNA auditor, so it actually audits DNA and it makes sure that if you’ve got cells that are going haywire, it’s a bit like a conveyor belt. It will actually stop the conveyor belt and get rid of the turkey that’s no good to be packaged. It will go “eeee” delete that turkey like it will delete a cell that’s going to go haywire, so it actually audits whether cells go crazy or not. Apoptosis is programmed cell death and magnesium plays a crucial role.

Magnesium also plays a crucial role in getting rid of Candida’s by-products. There are several different by-products that Candida has. Ammonia is one of them. Ethanol.

There are many different by-products as a result of a yeast infection. But one of the most important enzymes I’ve written down here from my memory is called aldehyde dehydrogenase and that’s driven by magnesium. When you’ve got enough magnesium in your body, you can drive this enzyme system that helps to breakdown acetaldehyde, which is one of the potent toxins produced by Candida when it dies. You need to get rid of this out of the body. Acetaldehyde is also produced as a result of drinking alcohol, so it’s a potent neurotoxin. It kills brain cells, makes you sick and tired, fat and lazy and this is part of the reason why people with Candida get “brain fog”, too, is the acetaldehyde. Magnesium helps to power up the enzyme to get rid of this stuff.

Magnesium is also the most easily excreted mineral under any kind of stress. They did research at Harvard University way back in the ‘60s and they found out that when they applied stress to rats, a rabbit or a human in different controlled studies and even meta-analysis showed this, research based on multiple studies, that when a stress was applied to a living organism, the magnesium was excreted in direct proportion to the stress applied. It’s incredible.

Many people with yeast infections are stressed, so they’re going to urinate out large amounts of magnesium. The tragedy today is in our diets, we’d be lucky to get 200 mg in per day. If we look back a long time ago when people didn’t eat processed foods, it wasn’t uncommon to consume 1,000 to 2,000 mg per day. Now the average American or British person is lucky to consume between 200 to 300 mg, so we’ve got a huge deficit here.

Magnesium you can get from a wide variety of foods providing they’re organically grown in soils that are rich in trace elements and minerals in the soils. Superphosphates tend to pull a lot of these elements out of the plants, so you don’t really want to buy store or commercially grown produce, which is going to be depleted in these elements. Grow your own food like I do. Deep, leafy greens contain magnesium. Nut, seeds, and good quality grains. And there are many dietary supplements you can take.

Magnesium is a key mineral that you need to help fight Candida.

I hope this answers your question about magnesium. Thank you.