Author: Michael

Thank you for checking my video out. I’ve got a question this time from a medical doctor, Dr. Chris Shearer from South Australia. And Chris is asking me, Eric, could you please explain the use of oxygen therapies or oxygen dietary supplements, in particular, for the use of eradicating Candida?

Thanks for this question, Chris. Interesting thing is I used an oxygen therapy product from a company called Global Health Tracks in the U.S. several years ago, many years ago now, in fact, hearing that it was “super” for Candida and it was going to be fantastic. So it’s a liquid product containing basically ionic minerals, various colloidal minerals, amino acids, various other things. I think there was hydrogen sulfide in there or something like that, some compound. It did nothing. It was just a waste of money for my clients like a lot of these sham products, to be quite honest.

Having specialized in Candida now for coming up 30 years, I’ve tried every single product on the market, thousands of products. Some products work incredibly well. Some products work average, and some are just complete crap! And I think this is one of these crap products. Absolute bullshit. Don’t fall for it, folks. Especially, if something makes wonderful claims and the person who’s marketing it comes up with these amazing testimonials.

I’ve never used testimonials for my products that I developed. If you want testimonials, come to my clinic. I can show you a folder with thousands of testimonials in it from emails and letters from patients. I don’t need to broadcast them all over the internet. I’m not interested in that. It’s clinical experience that counts. When you use a product repeatedly and repeatedly and you’re getting amazing results continually with the product and patients are going to tell you that, you know that you’re onto something. But when you’re going to use a product and you get no feedback from people or you never see the client again or you ring them up and they say, “Look. I’m still the same. Nothing’s happened.” And you hear this from dozens of people, you know that the product’s usually worthless. And I believe this is one of these worthless expensive products that’s probably not really going to make a difference with the majority of people who take it.

I don’t care what the manufacturers say. It’s what happens in the clinic that counts to me. When someone spends their hard-earned dollars on a product, they want to get a measurable result. And in these cases, I’ve never found measurable results occurring from these oxygen therapies. If you want to oxygenate the body, talk to a Buteyko practitioner. Talk to someone who can show you how to breathe properly. Most people can’t even breathe properly. They just breathe with the upper third part of their lung. They hyperventilate. They’ve got an imbalance in oxygen and carbon dioxide. Breathing properly. Slow belly breathing. This is oxygenating the body. Having proper hydration. Drinking sufficient water. This is oxygenating the body. Having sufficient red blood cells. Plenty of iron in your body. This is oxygenating the body. Now you’re talking chemistry and medicine. You’re not talking scams.

Products that supposedly help your body carry more oxygen are a load of crap. Learn how to breathe properly. Drink sufficient water. Improve your digestion. Eat the right kind of foods and exercise regularly. Optimize your health, basically, because this is how you’re going to carry more oxygen through your body. Common sense? It is to me.

So I hope that answers your question, Chris, about the oxygenation. Thanks for the question. Thank you.

Thanks for tuning in. I’ve got a question from a guy called Jake who lives in the U.K. in England, and Jake’s asking me if MSM is any good for Candida.

Well, MSM is a compound that you can buy quite widely and it’s often promoted for joint health. It’s a natural sulfa compound, methylsulfonylmethane, MSM, and sulfa is quite an important building block for the body. In fact, it’s a very key structural component of collagen, which forms a lot of our tissues. Also sulfa is required for every cell of our body. It’s a prime detoxification mineral as well. It helps to clean and purify the body. MSM’s often found in joint supplements, but it can also be used for wound healing, arthritis. Some people say it’s good for the immune system.

Is it any good for Candida? I’m not really that sure. I can’t really say I know yes or no one way or the other, but they claim that it’s good for balancing the pH. And on that basis, they believe that because it balances pH. It really stops the body from becoming too acid and it stops the body from becoming too alkaline like it balances. PH is a scale from 1 to 14, 7 being neutral and the body sort of works on a pH of about 6 to 6.8 that is considered to be optimal. Every part of the body really has a different pH depending on how it functions and operates.

The pancreas releases bicarbonate, for example, with a very high pH or alkaline to neutralize the stomach acid. The stomach has a very low pH, 2 to 3, and it needs to do that in an acidic environment to break protein down, to denature protein, to break it down and help to bust it up into peptides and then eventually amino acids.

Is MSM going to really function well? I think there are a lot better supplements to take for Candida than MSM. Balancing the pH, in my mind, is not really a highly effective way to counter a yeast infection. You’re better off focusing on foods and beverages when it comes to pH adjustment. If you eat the right kind of foods, avoid a lot of meat, for example, too much red meat, soda drinks, sugary foods, these are the things that will create an acidic environment in the body.

Vegetables and the lighter meats tend to create a more alkaline environment. But this whole pH debate is really all up in the air. The Paleo people will tell you that eating meats and fats is the way to go. And then you’ll get the vegans on the other hand with the vegetable people saying that their diet is the way to go. I believe common sense to me is the middle path and is the way to go.

Eat a wide range of healthy foods. Avoid all the crap in your diet and you’re going to have a reasonably well balanced pH when it comes to your blood and digestive organs, spinal tissue, and nervous tissue, all those sorts of things. You don’t need to take supplements to balance the pH. You need to eat good food. Good food. Good drink. Check out yeastinfection.org. I’ve written all about what constitutes a very good diet when it comes to Candida yeast infection.

I hope that answers your question, Jake. Thanks for tuning in.

Thank you for checking out this video today. Today we’re going to talk about Candida, including multiple deficiencies of vitamins and minerals that we see in patients. I’ve just read some interesting blog posts on Candida and magnesium deficiency. Other posts I’ve looked at talk about Candida and molybdenum, Candida and biotin, these trace elements have quite specific actions when it comes to yeast infections.

Biotin, in particular, stops really Candida turning into its invasive form. A guy called Dr. Luther Shepard did a lot of research on this and found that a few milligrams per day can have an incredible effect. Molybdenum helps die-off and can help people escape a lot of this brain fog and spaced out feeling. I’m talking two trace elements here. There’s many, many, many trace elements, including the macro minerals, amino acids, fatty acids, there’s a ton of stuff that people with Candida need.

To just basically say that people need magnesium along with Candida to me is really a narrow-minded approach. Magnesium is one of the most important macro minerals, one of the larger minerals that our body needs in quite large amounts. In fact, we probably need just as much magnesium, if not more so, than calcium in our diets.

Calcium, magnesium, potassium and sodium are the four macro minerals. There’s about 17 trace elements or smaller minerals that we need, too. I’m a believer that people need all of these things in their diet for many, many different reasons. Especially, the minerals. The vitamins are hard to get, but if your diet is good, you’ve got an abundance of vitamins in your diet. But minerals are much more difficult to get because they’re often lacking from the soil. They’re stripped out with the super phosphates that we tend to use with our commercial produce unless you grow most of your own produce like I do.

I try to grow most of my own vegetables, particularly, and make sure I use good organic composting methods and seaweed to enrich the soil. Unless you do those sorts of things, you’re not really going to get a very large base of trace elements and minerals in the soil. I can tell by the health of the plants that I grow and their taste and the feedback I get from other people, these are first class vegetables. So they will be very high in a lot of trace elements that are hard to get, particularly when we start using things like seaweed. You can just see the size and the difference with the tomatoes and the taste of the fruits and the of vegetables. It’s phenomenal.

When you’re buying commercial produce, things from the supermarket, you’re often lacking these sorts of things. These vegetables are quite tasteless I find, quite bland, insipid. The hydroponic ones are the same. They tend to use all these artificial kinds of products to grow these things. They tend to grow them in crowed environments and spray all sorts of chemicals on these foods. So not only are you dealing with a lack of sufficient minerals in your diet, you’re also having to deal with the abundance of pesticides and crap that people spray on this food to try to make it grow.

The point I’m trying to make in this video is you need lots and lots of good and abundant amounts of vitamins and minerals from fresh produce to really help you overcome Candida. If you can’t do that, a good multivitamin is certainly something that you want to add into your dietary equation on top of eating good food. I take a multivitamin every day and I have so for about 30 years. I still believe that it’s easy to lack one or two trace elements no matter how good the diet is. Same with Vitamin E. I take 400 units a day for the last 25 years. I think Vitamin E is one of the most important vitamins you can take for circulation and immunity and other things. I take 800 milligrams of magnesium every day. Occasionally, I stop taking magnesium for a few months and then I find when I start taking it again, it’s incredible the differences I feel with more magnesium.

One thing I will say in defense of magnesium, it is certainly a mineral that I believe everybody needs that lives in the western world, particularly. It’s the mineral that has been proven with research to be the one most easily excreted on any form of stress. They did a lot of research at Harvard University years ago with magnesium with rats and guinea pigs and humans. They tested the magnesium input under various forms of stress, and they found that the magnesium output was directly related to the type and amount of stress applied to the organism. There’s no doubt about it. Magnesium is a key thing to have in your diet.

But we could go on and on. We could talk about selenium and iodine. We could talk about zinc, for example. There are many, many different minerals that you need in your diet, so be sure to take a good multivitamin. A Candida multivitamin is something I’ve been working on now for the past 12 months, and I hope to release this in 2016. A very, very important product, a specially developed multivitamin just for Candida patients or people with small intestinal bowel overgrowth and Candida. It will also contain an antifungal backbone in it to keep giving you a small amount of antifungal ingredients there as well. And it will be in a sustained release form, which I think is the best for a tablet.

So in the interim, just take a good multivitamin once or twice per day on top of your diet. Drink plenty of water and you should be starting to notice some changes in your health, skin, hair, nails, sleep, energy, and all those things should start to pick up if you’re lacking even one trace element.

I hope that gives you some information that if you’ve got multiple deficiencies, which many people have that I see, you’re going to be behind the eight ball and you’re not going to recover rapidly from a Candida yeast infection.

Thanks for tuning in.