Author: Michael

Thank you for tuning into this video today. Today we’re going to talk a bit about enzymes and probiotics. I’ve got a question here from Frank in Boise, Idaho. That’s in America, I believe, Idaho. Frank wants to know a little bit about acidophilus probiotics and enzymes. Are they good? How should we use them and things like that?

Lots of websites you look at promote probiotics for a Candida yeast infection claiming that they’re very good. They boost up immune function. They often will market certain types of probiotics. Other websites will talk about enzymes. They’ll talk about antifungals. They’ll talk about oregano. All different kinds of products.

Probiotics are commonly known by a lot of people now. It’s common knowledge that they are, in fact, a very good supplement to use with a Candida yeast infection or any kind of a gut problem, and in fact, any kind of immune problem. And lots of research is coming out now. There was a recent paper published in 2009 by the University of Pennsylvania, I believe, actually mentioning that probiotics have now shown to have a very good boosting effect on a person’s immune function. There are similar research papers that came out anywhere between 1999 right up into 2010 that show the same thing from many universities around the U.S., Germany, Switzerland and even Japan. Japan’s been studying probiotics for a long time now.

Why they’re good for Candida. How should you take them? Are they necessary? I think they are necessary for several reasons. One of the main reasons is as you’re probably well aware of is they boost immune function because they allow the digestive system to produce the correct pH, for example, and also help to release small amounts of acetic acid, tiny little bits of that get released, which help to adjust the pH of the gut to allow the beneficial bacteria to grow.

Lactobacillus acidophilus is probably one of the most common probiotics that people take. And a good quality lactobacillus acidophilus is going to help you quite a lot. Lactobacillus plantarum is another very good strain. But don’t get sucked into products like Yakut, for example, like these probiotic drinks or people who really try to say that their way is the highway. If you know what I mean, like their probiotic is the only one. Some people say this one contains so many trillions of zillions of bacteria more than this one and it works better.

Generally, you need to be careful when you buy a probiotic and make sure that it’s from a reputable company or a person that you can trust. Because research in America showed not long ago that over half the probiotics sold most of them are, in fact, dead or contain not even viable organisms. This created a huge shake up of the whole industry, so you need to be very careful.

Probiotics and enzymes work well together when they’re put in a very good formula. Enzymes, I believe, are a very necessary part of Candida recovery. They really allow us to improve our digestive function to a marked degree, particular when our stomach and our pancreatic function needs to be improved. Most people my age, 50 plus, usually have got a poor functioning digestive system from stress, alcohol, eating at weird hours, all those sorts of factors that can really affect their digestive health. And if digestion is not working well, it allows the bad bacteria and the Candida fungi to really take off and come into their own right.

Throw on top of this mix meat containing antibiotics because there’s so many antibiotics used in meat now in America and in Australia and different countries, especially in the poultry industry. They use an incredible amount of antibiotics. It’s not just the antibiotics we take in through the doctor, but also through our food chain. This is going to compromise our gut quite a lot. So probiotics and enzymes do form a necessary part of supplementation for a yeast infection.

I’m currently working on an outstanding probiotic enzyme combination. Don’t waste your money by just taking probiotics on their own. Waste of time. Don’t waste your money taking enzymes on their own. Take a combined product with enzymes and probiotics. It’s going to work much more powerfully. It’s going to save you money. The three core products I recommend you take with a yeast infection, antifungal, probiotic enzymes, and a special multivitamin developed to help build up the gut and the overall health after a yeast infection or in the terminal stages, so you can really build up good health.

I just had a look at Lisa Richard’s Candida diet website, and she says there, there are three core elements that you need to look at with Candida yeast infection recovery. She says, ‘Diet, antifungals, and probiotics.’ Well, I think she’s wrong. I would say lifestyle first and foremost is a priority. That usually needs to be changed. Diet needs to be improved. Antifungals. Probiotic enzymes, multivitamins. So I think these five core elements are what it’s all about.

Many people like Lisa Richards tend to completely forget about lifestyle with patients. Without correct lifestyle modification, you’re not going to permanently recover from a yeast infection. You’re going to improve. And then what’s going to happen within one to two years? You’re going to get it back again. You’re going to need more treatment.

If you look at Candida Crusher, the book that I wrote, it talks a lot about lifestyle in there. Lifestyle is one of the core factors involved in recovery. And, of course, diet’s important, but I don’t really believe it’s the overriding factor. Supplementation is important, but it’s not the number one thing you need to look at. In my opinion, probably 20 to 25 percent of recovery hinges on a good quality supplement regime. It’s not the be all end all. But if you haven’t got the lifestyle and diet right, you’re wasting your time, absolutely wasting your time.

I hope this answers your question, Frank in Idaho there about the probiotic enzyme. It certainly makes a lot of sense. Take it twice per day, particularly for the first month or so. Usually with breakfast and with dinner. Always take probiotic enzymes with food. And after a few weeks, we usually bump it up to three times per day depending on your gut function.

I hope that explains a few things to you. Thank you.

Thank you for checking out my video today. This is an important video, so try to watch it all the way through. It’s about insomnia. It’s about something that one in three people have got that I see. In New Zealand, about one in three people suffer from sleeping problems. If you’re watching this in America or Europe or whatever country, you’re going to find the same thing in your country. Probably one in three people have got some issue with sleeping.

Most people throughout their lives, in different stages of their lives, will have sleeping disturbances. This is quite common. I’ve got four children and I can remember how disturbed my sleep was when we had very young children. Children crying and being breastfed at night, so this can disturb you. There’s other times when I got upset. I couldn’t sleep properly when my father passed away. That affected my sleep for a few weeks. These are quite normal events that occur with this. I’m not saying that everyone should have a perfect sleep every night. But many people have inappropriate sleeping patterns that disturb them long term. Particularly people that are intelligent, that work hard, that have got families, mortgages and things like that.

It’s very important to tell you that if you’ve got chronic Candida and you’ve got a sleeping problem, you’re probably not going to recover. You need to get your sleep sorted if you’ve got Candida because it has a very big effect on boosting your immune system, a very big effect on your overall health and wellbeing, on your cognition and on the way you think, on your moods, on your immune function, on many other aspects of your health. Sleep is very, very important for good health. If you have poor sleep, forget about diet. I don’t care what kind of food you eat, how much gluten you avoid, or how many carbs you don’t eat. Just forget about it. If your sleep is not good, you’re wasting your time. You’ve got to have good sleep.

There are two types of insomnia that I see in the clinic, sleep onset insomnia, these are people that go to bed, their mind will sometimes take over, and they’ll be thinking about all sorts of stuff. Can’t go to sleep. They can be restless for a half an hour, even an hour, before they go to sleep. And then we’ve got sleep maintenance insomnia, so these are people who wake up between about 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. They seem to go off to sleep okay, but then they wake up and then they have disturbed sleep after that.

I’ll give you a couple of tips on both of these types. With the sleep onset insomnia, it’s important for you to exercise, particularly exercise in the morning and also maybe go for a walk in the afternoon. And learn how to relax more. Have a relaxation session in the afternoons around 2 p.m., 3 p.m., or 4 p.m. for about 15 or 20 minutes. I’ll do more videos on what I call TPM or twenty peaceful minutes to give you an insight on how important these relaxation sessions are.

By chilling out in the early hours of the afternoon, by exercising in the morning, your body is going to get more tired. You’re going to be in a more relaxed state and especially if you get a piece of paper and start writing down tasks and things that you have to do sometime in the late morning or early afternoon. And then just before you nod off to sleep, tell yourself that everything is going to be fine. You’ve written everything down. You can relax now.

When you lie down, whether you’re having a relaxation session or sleep, never think about problems that require solutions. Think about pleasant things. You don’t have to think about counting sheep but think about something nice and this will often allow your mind to wander and start preparing itself for the sleep cycle. When you think about problems, it stimulates the production of hormones required to solve those problems, and those hormones can be quite stimulatory, so it’s not a good idea to think about problems at all. Think about problems when you wake up in the morning because that’s when your hormone called cortisol is at its peak usually around about 7 a.m. to 9 a.m., and this hormone will really help sharpen your brain, so think about problems in the morning. This is usually the best time to exercise. The best time to think. The best time to plan is morning. Not nighttime.

The other thing with the sleep onset insomnia is don’t take your iPad to bed. Don’t sit in bed with a laptop or watching TV. These are dumb things to do because they’re stimulating your mind. Again, you’re creating hormones that will keep you awake and fired up. Watching shooting movies or what I call pedophile serial killer films and all this crap on TV, it’s not a good idea to watch this stuff at night. It just stimulates the brain too much. Drinking alcohol. Having caffeine. Arguing with people. All these sorts of things disturb you and keep your brain active for hours after, so not a good idea.

The sleep maintenance insomnia tends to tell me that you’ve got high levels of stress hormones usually in the early part of the morning when you should have low levels, so cortisol should be at the low point until about 6 a.m. or 7 a.m. You should have plenty of melatonin working there in the brain to keep you in a rested state. Take 400 milligrams of magnesium just before bedtime. That will help a lot with the sleep maintenance insomnia. Sometimes it can also be caused by low blood sugar, so having a little piece of meat or cheese or some sort of protein will often help just when you’re going to bed. If you do wake up and can’t go to sleep, get out of bed. Go and sit down in the lounge and read the telephone book, the Bible, or a boring book like that and you’ll fall asleep pretty quick.

Again, if you’ve got high levels of stress hormones early in the morning, it’s best that you do these relaxation sessions in the afternoon for about 15 to 20 minutes. I call them twenty peaceful minute sessions and they work quite well. Again, stimulants are not a good idea. Any kind of sleeping problems just drop the caffeine. Drop the alcohol. Don’t take sleeping pills. It’s easy to become dependent on pills. It’s not good for your long-term wellbeing.

I hope that gives you a few insights into sleeping problems. Remember, if you can’t sleep well, you can’t be well. You have to get your sleep sorted. This is a very important video for those who can’t recover from Candida and you have sleeping problems. This could be the thing you’ve been looking for. If you get the sleep fixed, your immune system will power up a lot more and you’ll be able to conquer this thing a lot more easily.

Thanks for tuning in.

Thanks for checking out my video today. I’ve just spent the last 20 minutes or so looking at various blog sites, YouTube videos and information online regarding Candida cleanse, about how to undertake a Candida cleanse, how to restore your health when you’ve had a yeast infection.

Some of this information wasn’t too bad, but again, there’s a lot of this information lacking that I’m going to tell you today. And this is again one of the reasons why I think this Candida Crusher YouTube channel is so important for people who’ve been sick with a yeast infection for a long, long time, and they’re just not getting well or partially recover and relapse and get sick again.

Some of the information that I looked at on YouTube is actually stupid information. It was crap! It makes me wonder where people get this information from and why they give this advice to people because it’s got no real basis in fact, clinical experience. These people don’t treat patients. They obviously don’t see the sort of terrible results in the clinic that I do.

So what I’m going to tell you today is very important to know. I want you to try to keep watching this video if you’ve been sick on the yeast infection cleanse. You tried something and you became unwell. You’ve stopped it and you’ve restarted it again, and you just can’t seem to get on top of your yeast infection. And every time you attempt to do it, you get sick. So it’s important to pay some attention.

One of the first points I want you to get is it’s important in life anything you undertake, you put a little bit of thought into it. You take your time when you do something. You don’t jump head on into things. Let’s just assume that you’ve been sick with Candida for 10 or 15 years, and you’ve made very strict diet changes. You partially recovered, but you’ve still got these symptoms, so you try to push yourself harder and you keep getting sicker and sicker. So then you back off and you eat other foods that you used to eat then you slide back again the way you were a few years ago. These are the typical cases that I tend to see with patients. And then they will tend to undergo a new program and they’ll be head on into something brand new. They’ll make a major change within a week, and they’ll feel very sick. And after a while, they become very disillusioned. And, in fact, they develop anxiety or depression because they don’t seem to be getting well.

It’s crazy to undertake big changes too soon for the body, particularly digestive changes. There are some changes you can do very rapidly that are not going to make you feel bad. And those changes involve learning how to relax more and learning how to do that faster. I’ve never experienced people who get headaches or vomiting when they learn to relax. But I have experienced many patients who develop major anxiety, insomnia, and digestive upsets from going from three or four coffees and a few beers or wines a day to all of a sudden none of that. People who are eating all these carbohydrates in their diet and then a week later none of that. They just make a huge big, very quick turnaround in their diet and think that this is the way to do it.

I had a patient on Skype about a week ago who went from eating a normal diet like processed foods, supermarket foods, bread, toast with breakfast, a cup of tea, salad sandwich for lunch and she went straight into a juice diet. For about 10 days, she just drank juices four or five times a day. And I said, ‘How did you feel?’ She said, ‘I felt terrible. I felt like crap. And my naturopath told me I was going to feel fantastic and all I had was diarrhea and headaches for like four or five days.’ Well, again, this is not good advice.

Let’s just look at a hypothetical situation where you’re my age, mid-50s, you’re carrying a bit of weight around the tummy, you’re tired, you’ve got some sleeping problems. You’re feeling okay, but you’re sort of below par. And then you have a talk with a friend one day and she says to you, ‘Why don’t we get fit together? We’ll both go on a fitness program. I’ve got this great idea because one of my girlfriends has just joined a gym and she’s got a really good personal trainer, so let’s get into that.’ Then you think, ‘Wow, this is great. I’m going to feel awesome.’ So you join the gym. You spend $1,000 and you join a gym for a year, and all of a sudden, you’re in a boot camp and someone’s up there yelling at you. ‘Get off your butt! Run faster! Fifty more pushups!’ You start pushing yourself really, really hard. And after three or four days of doing this, if you last that long, you’re going to feel terrible. You’ll have aches and pains. You might have headaches, sore back. You’re not feeling good. Because that personal trainer also told you to cut out all caffeine, drink juices, take these protein powders, do all this stuff, and you’re going to look really sexy within a month or so. But you know what? It just didn’t work for you. After about a week, you felt like crap.

Do you know the mistake you made? You went too quick, too soon. If you had that same conversation with that friend and you thought to yourself, ‘Well, I’m going to take it easy for the first two weeks. I’m just going to go walk around the block. I’m going to go to a good shop and buy a pair of decent shoes that fit me well. Get some lose-fitting clothing. I’m going to go for a walk every day. I’m just going to get up a little bit earlier and go for about 10 or 15-minute walk, 20-minute walk, take it nice and easy. I’m not going to run. I’m just going to walk. And at the same time, I’m going to cut those four coffees or three coffees down to one or two coffees a day. I’m going to take away maybe a slice of bread in the morning or I might switch to something healthy, cereal or something. I’m going to drink one extra glass of water a day.’ You’re going to do slow changes for the first 14 days.

That’s a clever move because you’re easing yourself into this regime. This will mean you won’t feel like crap. You’ll feel tired, which is a natural consequence, but you won’t feel like crap. This is an intelligent approach to making change. It’s the same with the Candida diet. When you use intelligence and think carefully about making change slowly and not jumping into a rapid change, you’re going to get what you want in the long run. And the other thing is you’re educating yourself. You’re making those changes with thought and with intelligence. And hopefully those patterns become habitual long term. And eventually you’ll walk every day.

I’ve got patients that walk every day 365 days of the year, rain, hail or shine, they’re walking. It’s amazing. And it all started with that first step. So that could be you, too. And it’s the same with your diet. It all starts with cutting that one coffee back. It all starts with cutting that one glass of wine back. And eventually that one glass of wine, you’re only drinking one glass instead of two or three. Instead of three pieces of pizza, you’re having one piece of pizza. Instead of four or five hours of watching TV a day, whatever you do, you’re watching half an hour a day.

Make change slowly because that will mean in the long term, it’s going to be a permanent change. And that’s what we’re looking for when we’re looking for you to overcome your yeast infection. We need permanent change for about 12 to 18 months. This will mean in the long term, you won’t get the yeast infection back. You’ll lose weight. You’ll have more energy. Your libido will go up. Your sleep will improve. All of these things will improve because you made change slowly, and these habits became a fixed part of your lifestyle. And that’s what we’re looking for.

Thanks for tuning in today.