Category: Candida Crusher FAQ Videos

Good day, Eric Bakker, naturopath, author of Candida Crusher, here with another video for you today. This time we’re going to talk about garlic; about the benefits of garlic as a Candida crushing food. So this is video number one in terms of the Candida crushing foods.

Garlic would have to be one of my number one favorite foods to get a person to incorporate into their diet if they want to crush Candida. Garlic, along with other allium-containing vegetables, such as red and brown onions, spring onions, shallots, leaks; these foods are very good to fight a yeast infection. And, in fact, I’ve written in my book that I believe that when I can finally convince the person to incorporate these foods into their diet on a regular basis, is when they’re luck begins to turn in terms of eradicating the yeast infection.

So garlic has been used as a food now for approximately 7,000 years. The Egyptians used garlic. The Greeks used a lot of garlic. A lot of people think garlic was used to flavor foods, but in fact, it wasn’t. And like Oregano, garlic was originally incorporated into the diet to help to wipe out microbes, parasites, bacteria and yeast. People didn’t know what those bugs were back then, but they did know that when they ate those foods, it made them feel a lot better. So, we’ll talk a lot more about Oregano and then a Mediterranean connection there with microbial inhibition as well in another video.

Garlic is an interesting vegetable and is certainly one of my favorites. I tend to eat quite a lot of garlic in my diet. It has very powerful activities. Research, I think it was in 1979 at the Indiana University in America, showed very strong anti-fungal activity with garlic over many different strains of yeast. Research has also shown in 2000, not that long ago, that garlic, in fact, is just as powerful as Ketoconazole or Nystatin when it comes to eradicating yeast. So you don’t need to take these drugs; you just need to incorporate garlic into your diet.

So there are two particularly strong components of garlic which have this activity, allicin and alanine. Allicin seems to be quite strong and Alanine seems to be quite strong. And there are a lot of arguments as to which one is stronger than the other. I’ve also read a lot of research saying that when you cut fresh garlic, the content of these oils tends to increase and then decrease. It makes more sense to have this stuff fresh in your diet.

So what I like people to do with a yeast infection is to start off with just a small clove every day like I’ve got here. You can see this clove is not peeled. So what I’ve done is I’ve peeled a clove here; I’ve just crushed it and then what you can do is just crush a small clove. And when you crush it, it will generally break open and fall apart anyway like this one has. And you can just swallow it like a capsule or a tablet. Good to have this with a protein-containing meal. A bigger clove you can cut up in pieces and incorporate in your food and eat it or you can crush the juice out of it and mix that in with a salad or salad dressing. There are many ways you can use raw garlic. Crush it, get the oil out of it, mix it with a little bit of oil like Olive oil, rub it on your toenails. You can drop garlic juice directly on a nail. I know a lot of women who make garlic tampons. They actually thread the garlic which they’ve peeled on a piece of string and insert that and leave that in for several hours. So there are many ways you can incorporate garlic into a diet. And I’ve written extensively on garlic in Candida Crusher, Chapter 7, Section 4, you can read a lot more about it.

So tablets, capsules or fresh, what should I do? I think you should do fresh and I also think you should also do cooked and incorporate garlic into your supplement, into your anti-fungal regime as well. Something with a small percentage there of an active ingredient usually will be okay. Try and incorporate garlic in your diet on a regular basis.

So I hope that answers some of your questions on garlic. Thank you.

Good day, Eric Bakker, naturopath.

I want to talk today about a condition which many women tend to suffer with. A condition that I’ve been in contact with on many occasions by women who’d really love to get rid of this condition. And I’m sure many of you looking at this webpage right now may well be familiar with this condition. It’s called vaginal thrush or a yeast infection.

It’s more common than you think. And a couple of weeks ago, a lady spoke with me on Skype and said, “Eric, I’ve had this for a while now. Can you tell me what the consequences are if I don’t get rid of my infection? What could happen to me if I just ignore and treat it with things like Monistat or it keeps on recurring?”

And I’m sure that many of you women watching this will have had recurring vaginal yeast infections and probably think nothing of them and think, well, it’s just a bit of an irritation down there, a bit of an itch, and it’ll probably go away of its own accord.

In some cases, it will go away on its own accord, but in many cases it won’t and it’ll be chronic and recurring. So what do you do? You go back to the doctor and keep taking Monistat, fluconazole. What do you do if you can’t get rid of this yeast infection? You just keep relying on systematic treatment hoping one day it will go away forever? Hoping that the pain’s going to go? The embarrassing odor and itching? It won’t go away. In some cases, it will. In a small percentage of cases, a vaginal yeast infection will disappear in its own right. But in many cases, it will not go away and it can be chronic and recurring, and it can last for many, many years. Some patients I see have had this condition for 10, 15, even 20 years and it just doesn’t seem to go away.

The consequences can be quite severe for a chronic yeast infection. Think about it. They can be quite severe. Why would you keep on having a symptom that’s causing you so much discomfort and pain? It could even cost you your relationship. It’s really worth getting rid of this yeast infection. And for this reason, I’ve written a whole section in my book, Chapter 5, on how to get rid of these chronic yeast infections. I’ve helped many women get rid of these problems. And a lot of the tips in this chapter are priceless and absolutely worth the cost of the book alone.

One of the things that you may get as a consequence from a chronic yeast infection is endometriosis. It’s a condition I’ve written about at length in my book. There’s plenty of research. Some people have approached me and said, “Eric, this is not true. You’re speaking a lot of nonsense.” Well, you go and do the research and you’ll find endometriosis is linked with yeast infections in many cases. And endometriosis can even be linked with infertility. I’m not saying that yeast infections cause infertility, but what I am saying is many cases of endo have been linked with chronic vaginal yeast infections.

So doesn’t it pay to get more involved in preventive medicine to get rid of an embarrassing, itchy, smelly problem now or sooner rather than later or keep living with this chronic, awful problem that’s causing you so much discomfort? So think about it. If you want a solution, I’ve written extensively in my book, Candida Crusher, about this solution. Have a listen to one of the audio testimonials of a lady who got rid of her yeast infection using my method. You’ll find it on this page just down below. This is a real case. And there are many more of these cases going up.

I’ve had phenomenal success with these vaginal infections. So if you’re serious about beating your infection, you read Chapter 5, and you put my protocol into place. If it doesn’t work, you let me know. You’ll get a refund of my book and you’ll certainly get some personal attention from me because I’m convinced that if you really follow the protocol properly and you really do what it takes to beat this thing, you’ll finally beat it. And then you’ve gotten rid of that embarrassing situation that you’ve got down there. And it can make a huge difference to the quality of your life.

So take my word for it, do not ignore a chronic yeast infection because the consequences can be severe as they can with any problem that you tend to ignore.

Thank you.

Thank you for checking out this video today. A question I get asked sometimes is, is Candida an STD? Is it a sexually transmitted disease? Can it be passed from one person to another?

Well, it’s not an STD as such, but it can be passed from one person to another. I’m not quite sure what the criteria for a disease being a sexually transmitted disease, but I take it it’s mainly or only carried from one person to another in the sexual sense.

Candida is not really something that you consider to be an STD because Candida is something that normally occurs in our bodies. Unlike something like Chlamydia or Gonorrhea or Syphilis or many of the other sexually transmitted diseases like, for example, genital Herpes. These things don’t normally occur in our bodies. These are illnesses that are certainly transmitted from one person to another by intimate contact.

But Candida, for example, occurs in the vaginal area of about 20 percent of women normally anyway, and it occurs in the digestive system of most people, but it’s kept in balance by friendly bacteria and other bacteria we call commensals, so certain kinds of bacteria will keep these kind of fungus in check. But, of course, when the balance becomes disturbed by things like antibiotics or high stress or poor diets, then, of course, Candida can get the upper hand.

If you’re a woman, for example, and you have a vaginal discharge, it’s certainly worth getting checked out. It pays to go to your doctor and get checked out. The most common one that women get is BV or bacterial vaginosis. This is not really a sexually transmitted as such, but, yeah, it’s not really an STD, Candida.

And if you’re a guy and you’ve got some issues there in the groin and you’re concerned again, you’re not sure what it is, get it checked out. It’s certainly worth going to the doctor and getting checked out as a first line to find out what you’ve got.

If you’re not sure and you’re not sure if it’s an STD or Candida or what, once you get a diagnosis then you can look for the proper treatment. That’s important to do that.

So to answer that question again, is Candida an STD? It can be transmitted sexually, but it is not a sexually transmitted disease as such.

Thank you.