Category: Candida Crusher FAQ Videos

Good day, Erik Bakker, naturopath, and author of Candida Crusher FAQ.

Can talcum powder cause a yeast infection?

I don’t think it really can. I’ve never heard of that one before. I’m not a big fan of talcum though. I can remember reading a study in 2008 from the Harvard Medical School where 3,000 people were checked out; they analyzed over 3,000 people and found that women who were using talcum powder once per day in the genital region had a 40 percent increased chance of ovarian cancer. And they found that when women used talcum powder once per week, the risk dropped to 38 percent. This was quite an extensive study that collected information from two separate studies.

I’m not a big fan of talc at all on the body. If you want to use talcum powder as an agent, why don’t you use corn flour? Wheat and corn flour may be better ideas. I don’t think talc is good. I prefer people dry themselves with a towel and then use a hair dryer around the genital region if they want to really be dry.

Talcum powder doesn’t really cause a yeast infection. In fact, talc helps dry the body and it will help prevent a yeast infection. Because moisture, dark, warmth and moisture are the three things that yeast really likes to proliferate in. So in fact the opposite applies. Applying talc will probably help prevent yeast infections rather than exacerbate them or be a causative factor. But just be warned, there is a link now between ovarian cancer and talcum powder.

Do your own research. Don’t listen to all these people who market these products. Have a bit of a look around on the internet and talk to some expert people, make up your own mind. Hopefully, you stop using things every day on the genital region. Because you don’t want to have an increased risk of any cancer by some daily habit.

So I hope that answers your question. Thanks for your question.

Hi there, Eric Bakker. Here’s a question from a man called Tom Lewis in Florida.

Tom asks me. Eric, what should I do about Candida die off? What can I do to stop feeling terrible?

That’s a good question, Tom. This is a question I hear many patients tell me; also many practitioners are concerned about the levels of die off that they experience with their patients. Die off is generally when bacteria die and cell wall fragments are released into the bloodstream and also the immune system can attack Candida and also the metabolizer the Candida produce. This can come about also through weakened immune response and can make the person feel very washed out and wasted, and some people can aggravate from mild up to severe and debilitating where they can be bedridden for days on end. It’s particularly nasty to have a die off. And this is again another reason why I don’t like people to talk about killing and eradicating and wiping out Candida with all these very powerful types of drugs.

Nystatin, I’ve written extensively about Nystatin in my book, Candida Crusher, about the side effects from Nystatin. They can be quite devastating for many people. If you are a sensitive person, if you know you’re sensitive and you react to things, then be careful; use common sense and don’t take strong things and go very slowly when you start taking supplements, whether they are antifungals or probiotics or enzymes, go very slowly to start with. You can avoid most aggravations and most die off. Even if you’re a strong person like me, go easy into treatment. Step it up over time. Don’t go all hell bent and straight into it. You’re going to get a problem.

Second thing is, don’t undertake anything new like skydiving or bungee jumping or go-kart racing or go on a 20-mile hike or do things like that or start a gym membership when you’re trying to treat yourself with a yeast infection. Take some time out and rest up a bit. That’s good advice. So give yourself plenty of time to recover and ease yourself into treatment.

Those are two good things that are going to help you avoid aggravation to a large degree.

There’s a lot more questions that you can check out on my YouTube channel. If you haven’t got the answer to a question, please go to candidacrusher.com and ask me the question. Subscribe to my channel, that way you’re going to be the first one to find out all the new FAQs that come out on yeast infection. And also go to yeastinfection.org and do my survey. That way you’ll find out what level or degree of severity of yeast infection you’ve got.

So I hope that answers your question there. Thank you.

Hi there, here’s a question from Katherine Smith in Wellington, New Zealand.

Katherine’s asking me, Eric, are Candida tests accurate?

They are Katherine. They are accurate, but it depends really what test we’re talking about and how the test was performed and under what conditions the test was performed. You can get false results with testing, whether it’s a blood test, a urine test, or a stool test. There are a few things that you need to take into account to make sure that test results are going to be accurate.

There are many gray areas when it comes to testing; and many practitioners, unfortunately, just treat off test results. They’ll see a result and they’ll treat off it. They actually forget they’ve got a real living patient in front of them. And I call that paralysis from analysis. They tend to overanalyze bits of paper and forget that the person in front of them is actually a real living, kicking, breathing patient. I learned those things quite early on in practice. The results may actually be wrong and what then? You’re going to get a wrong result because you’re treating a patient with the wrong piece of paper in front of you.

So how can tests be deemed accurate or inaccurate? Well, to begin with, if a person’s been taking many pharmaceutical drugs like antibiotics right up until they test, it’s not a very good idea. If a person’s going to perform an allergy test and they’ve been on a very strong exclusion diet right up to the point of doing the test, it’s not a good idea. If a person’s been taking lots of probiotics and antifungal products right up until they do a stool test, it’s not a good idea. You need to really talk with someone who’s quite experienced with functional medicine testing to make sure that your test results are going to be accurate. The results are going to be accurate if the test is performed correctly, and if the sample is taken correctly, and if the test results are interpreted correctly.

So there are a lot of different loopholes when it comes to testing and areas where it could go wrong. The sample may be handled incorrectly. It may not be placed in the container properly. It may take too long to get to the lab. So you need to be careful when it comes to a test.

And the other thing with testing is never just look at the results; look at the patient; look at the totality of signs and symptoms and try and correlate the test results you’ve got there preferably with other tests. And for that reason, I’ve devised a whole set of home tests you can read in my book, Candida Crusher, Chapter 3. So you can read all about them. I hope that answers you question.

You’ll probably find the answers to a lot of other questions on my YouTube channel. If you can’t, please contact me on candidacrusher.com and I’ll answer your question. Subscribe to my channel, you’ll be the first one to know of the latest videos and also go to yeastinfection.org and complete my survey.

Thank you.