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Greetings! It’s Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand. Thanks for checking out my video. I’m going to talk about yoga and Candida today. Can yoga cure Candida? Is it some sort of magical treatment that help you eradicate a yeast infection? What do you think? Is yoga some sort of mind control? Some sort of paranormal extraterrestrial kind of anti-Christian mind control system like some patients have told me? Some people are really skeptical of yoga. Don’t be skeptical. Yoga has been around for a long time and it’s been practiced by millions of people for such a long time now. An incredible number of people in the west are taking up many different forms of yoga. There is an incredible amount of forms of yoga that you can do.

So how does yoga work? Is yoga some kind of a system that helps you to change the way you think about things? Does it improve the way your body functions? Does it help you to relax more? Yoga does lots of different things for lots of different people. I’ve just been looking on the internet, and I’ve found some really nice websites on people who have spoken about their experiences with yoga and yeast infection or yoga and small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. Yoga and autoimmune disease or yoga and thyroid dysfunction, adrenal fatigue, many different things.

What I want you to understand is many people believe that Candida comes from eating the wrong kind of foods. Many people believe that Candida comes from antibiotics. Some people have got strange belief systems and really look for external causes for the yeast infection when they’re forgetting all about their inner world.

I’ve written many times in my articles, and also spoken on this YouTube channel, written in my book about the stress connection. Yoga is one of the most profound stress release therapies that you’ll ever find. When practiced properly, it has a very beneficial effect on balancing the autonomic nervous system. It helps to reduce sympathetic overload, helps to push up parasympathetic dominance. The sympathetic nervous system is the “fight or flight.” You may be aware of that. The parasympathetic is the “rest and digest.”

Many people have an imbalanced life. Every day in my clinic, I hear stories from people under a lot of stress. Their father died, their sister got murdered, their mother died of cancer, they went bankrupt, their son’s in jail for drugs. You think about it, everyone has got their own stress. We all have our own story to tell. It’s the culmination of all of these stresses in a person’s life, coupled with many other factors that will account for stress and will account for how that person is going to cope with the stress. We all cope in our own different way. Some people cope with booze, some people cope with sex, some people cope with drugs, some people cope with running away to another country. Some people I meet cope by getting a parrot. What a dumb thing to do. I’ll introduce you to my parrot one day in my videos. I’ve got a lovely parrot, which I spend a lot of time with.

The parasympathetic nervous system is the system that very much controls the body’s ability to come back from a stressful state. Yoga has an ability to really increase parasympathetic dominance. That’s what we’re really trying to look for with people. Any kind of chill pill we can give someone to me is very much worth it. Yoga is a beautiful system that increases a person’s ability to relax. I’ve got this website I’m looking at that has a couple of silly statements when it comes to breathing. A lot of people are still under the illusion that we need to get deep breathing to get as much oxygen into the system as possible. That’s not correct.

I want you to try and understand breathing is not about deep breathing. It’s in fact very slow breathing where the breath is almost imperceptible. I’d like you to check out Buteyko breathing. I’ve spoken a lot about this. I have a very good friend up in Auckland, Glenn White, who’s spent many years studying breathing and was trained by Professor Buteyko from Russia. This video is not going to be about Buteyko, but I want to emphasize that one of the most powerful ways for you to relax is to learn how to breathe properly. Deep breaths – ramming oxygen down is not the way to relax.

Many people in sympathetic overload find themselves catching their breath. They can’t quite get the air down there. The sympathetic nervous system will do that. As cortisol and adrenaline increases, it’ll quicken the pulse, the heart beats faster. The breaths become more shallow. The mind becomes more alert. The immune system shuts down. The blood even thickens and changes viscosity under stress. Cortisol does all that. Cortisol creates anxiety under high stress. It has the ability to even eliminate white blood cells from the circulation, increasing chances of infection.

There are many reasons why you don’t want to be in a sympathetic state. Sympathetic state also reduces peristalsis – it slows the bowel function down. It reduces production of digestive enzymes. This is why people bloat, fart, burp and get constipated under stress. Rest and digest. Parasympathetic dominance – cortisol becomes more balanced. Breathing becomes much more natural and not shallow. The mind becomes more relaxed and anxiety drops off. Digestion improves. Constipation disappears.

The burps, farts and bloats go away. Your sleeping gets better. All the things that you’re looking for you can get with the sympathetic/parasympathetic balance.

I’ve spoken about this on many videos about the sympathetic is the accelerator pedal or the gas pedal, whereas, the parasympathetic is the brake. Very nice people to be in a car with understand the balance between the gas pedal and the brake pedal. Inexperienced drivers will take you on a hayride. They’ll fly around corners and hit the brakes when they see something. Experienced chauffeurs understand to anticipate the corner coming up and to slow down gently and very gently turn around the corner then gently accelerate. Same with a person who can anticipate stress in their life. They’ll see the corners coming up; they’ll understand that they need to back off the sympathetic and increase the parasympathetic.

Yoga is going to allow you to negotiate the roads to see what’s coming up. See the potholes, see the pedestrians jumping in front of you. Yoga will take an edge off anxiety when you’re driving the car. It’ll take the edge off anxiety in your life, with your job, with your partner. I’m a very big fan of people who practice yoga regularly, or meditate or do tai chi, or pray, or whatever they find helps them cope with life in general. Whatever they find that can help them get that autonomic balance back again. I’m a very big fan of that. Why am I a fan of that? Because it gives the person the ability to not to have to take things to feel better, because they’re making changes in their life. They’re anticipating what lies ahead. It’s understanding that stresses can affect you very bad. In turn, the stresses affect your immune system, increasing your chances of you getting sick and staying sick.

Most doctors will tell you nearly all patients that come to their clinic just need a chill pill. An aspirin, a dummy pill/placebo, then they go home, and ring me in the morning. Usually things are all right. You think about that carefully. Yoga is clever. It has nothing to do with religious belief systems. I’ve had some Christian patients being very worried about me talking about yoga, saying that “It’s satanic. It’ll convert your mind and make you sacrifice goats. You’ll burn in hell.” Well, I’m sorry, it’s not going to happen. I want you to separate your belief systems from yoga, and see it a meditation, a relaxation. Meditation has got nothing to do with religion. Let’s keep religion out of this YouTube channel. Let’s keep politics out of it. We’re just looking for ways and means to allow people to improve their lives. Put belief systems in a pot over here, put the lid on it. I respect your belief systems, and I don’t want you to think that yoga is some kind of mind control or some sort of anti-Christ kind of movement because it’s not. I’ve got many patients who do practice this from all kinds of denominations.

It’s important that you find the right yoga to suit you. There are different types and styles of yoga. I’m not familiar with all the names of them, but I have patients often mentioning these names, these yoga systems. You need to find something that works for you. To me, it’s like tai chi. It’s meditation in motion. It improves all aspects of your being. Spiritual being, the psychological part, the biochemical part, the structural part, all of these parts of you as a human will be improved with regular application of yoga in your life.

Am I a fan of yoga? Absolutely. I’d like you to think carefully about yoga or tai chi. I’m similar about tai chi. I find this to be wonderful as well. If this is something that you’d like to take up, I highly endorse it, and think it’s a huge step in the right direction for you. Not just to get on top of the Candida, but to get on top of health problems in your life in general. Thanks for tuning in. Click on the link below please if you haven’t already downloaded my Candida report, and don’t forget to subscribe. Thank you for watching.

Greetings! Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand. Author of Candida Crusher and formulator of the Canxida range of products. Thanks so much for checking out my video. Today, I’m going to talk about “Stop worrying about your health.”

I’m going to read something out of my book, “Candida Crusher.” I wrote a couple of paragraphs about how people go crazy about their health. They worry about every little thing. Every tiny little fart, every little burp, every little freckle, every tiny little white spot on their private parts or tongue or whatever. They just worry, worry, worry. Unbelievable, the emails I get from people. They worry about the smallest, tiniest little thing. If they worried about their car like that, their house, their job, their lawn, anything, they would die of worry. It’s crazy how people worry.

Here’s something out of my article: “Have you had your gluten-free, low caffeine, biodynamic spray free, non-irradiated breakfast yet? Have you had eight hours of sleep? Had five servings of vegetables? Cut back on saturated fats? Read all the packets of everything you eat? Made sure everything is home-cooked from scratch, and that you buy nothing in any kind of packet, because you might die of an awful cancer?”

Have you noticed that there are so many different magazines, e-zines, columns, talk shows about health? About how everyone has become the health police? “Don’t eat that, you’ll die! Oh my God! Don’t breathe that in, you’ll die!” Everything’s dying, dying. A friend of mine about a year or two ago told me that he gave up a subscription on a very good international health journal. He gave up on it. He said, “All this thing talked about was your risk of cancer. Don’t eat this food because your risk of cancer increases. If you eat peanut butter, if you eat apples, if you take dietary supplements.

Everywhere I looked, there was some kind of risk of cancer involved.” Basically he thought, “I ain’t got cancer now, I’m going to blooming well get it, if I keep reading this stuff because they’re waving it under my nose so much, I might as well develop cancer.”

If you keep thinking continually about how sick you are or how awful you feel, what do you think the cells of your body are going to do? What do you think your stress system is going to do? You become disease-focused and not wellness-centered. Focus on health and well-being, on happiness. Those are the kind of people that stay healthy. By continually thinking about sickness every minute of the waking day, you’ll blooming well get sick if you’re not sick now. Makes sense, doesn’t it?

Think about successful people. You think they constantly think about sickness? I don’t think so. They think about how they’re going to be successful. Success doesn’t have to be money in the bank, success can be a very good relationship with your partner. Success can mean a fantastic family life. Success can mean all sorts of things. For me, it’s my family. It’s my beehives, it’s my vegetable garden. It’s my lifestyle. That’s success for me. It’s not my health and wellness.

When I grew up, my mother used the word “hypochondriac” a lot. Because a friend of our family was continually and perpetually complaining about his health to anyone who would listen. He would visit the doctor almost weekly with another symptom like palpitations or bad breath. Gurgling sounds in his tummy. Itchy back. The list went on and on. Some patients I’ve seen are exactly like this. They worry and fuss over their health continually and just don’t seem to get on with their lives. Ironically, but I’ve noticed that some people I see with the most amazingly healthy diets appear to be the ones in the worst state of health. They seem to do everything just right, but can’t get their health together.

Many folks live in the belief that they must continually strive to attain perfection in health. “Perfect health” is a myth. Most of us live far healthier lives than we realize. Once you develop a yeast infection, Candida or SIBO or IBS or you pick an illness that you want to put a tag on, we certainly become more focused on our health. Failing to live by the health rules set by the health police can be a major source of stress, anxiety and guilt, especially for women I’ve found this.

The goal is to live as long as you can with the best quality of life, but some people I meet are absolutely scared to death about their diet and their lifestyle. They must exercise every day. They’ve got these strict regimes. They’ve got to get up at 6:15 on the nose. They go ahead and they’ve got to walk for so many steps. They’ve got to power-walk with their headphones in to listen to a certain type of meditation music to get a certain brainwave pattern going. They’ve got to get home. They’ve got to have the perfect breakfast. It’s got to have the right berries in it. It’s got to have the right blender. The right non-lactose, non this, non that, blah blah blah kind of milk. Everything’s got to be perfection.

A lot of people believe that there’s always someone sexier and healthier and nicer and richer. Bigger boobs, bigger bums. I think the bum’s a big thing now with Kim Kardashian. Everything’s got to be just perfect. If you don’t fit in that mold, well you’re fat and ugly and sick. That’s what a lot of websites will make you believe. That’s not health. Health is not really just about symptoms and the lack of symptoms, it’s a lot more than that.

Common sense is what I always talk about on this channel. Don’t become overwhelmed with the ocean of health information written by armchair experts. Enjoy your life for what it is. Your recovery will be much quicker if you can stop worrying about your health. If you worry less, verbalize it less, and think less about it, and you hold less onto those anxious thoughts, chances are you’re going to feel a hell of a lot better, a hell of a lot quicker.

I’m going to leave you with this very interesting quotation that was written a long time ago. “Common people ascribe all ills they feel to others.” Average people talk to everybody how sick they feel. The neighbors, their partner, their kids, anyone who will listen. “Oh my God, I feel so terrible today.” “How are you today? I feel terrible!” People of little wisdom ascribe ills to themselves, but people of much wisdom ascribe their ills and problems to nobody. They keep it inside because they realize that a lot of these small things are self-limiting and they’ll fix themselves up.

A very good doctor will tell you that they’re there for the one percent. What’s the one percent? One percent of people associate with bikers and outlaws, but no. I’m talking about the one percent-the rare, the weird, the crazy, the wacky. Because 99 percent of people who go to the doctor have got a problem that will fix itself up. Why do you think the doctor will say, “Take an aspirin and call me in the morning?” Most doctors know that people who come to them have got stress, worry, they drink too much, they fall, they have accidents. These are things that happen to people commonly.

It’s incredible how many people I’ve talked to who think they’ve got this weird brain tumor or some crazy type of cancer when they go to symptomfinder.com. They’ll start going down these pathways. Starts off with maybe a tiny little mole on the ear, next thing they’ve got inoperable brain cancer or something. Please do yourself a favor: Stop worrying about your health.

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Greetings! Eric Bakker. Naturopath from New Zealand. Thanks for tuning in to my video. I’m going to talk about wheat grass today. Wheat grass and Candida yeast infections. Wheat Grass is an interesting topic. I’ve been in this business for almost 30 years now and I’ve seen a lot of trends come and go. I think wheat grass is a very good food, but I also think that it’s very overrated. Just like barley grass, spirulina, all these green kind of drinks.

Bernard Jensen, the well-known iridologist and chiropractor from Escondido in California. He was a big fan of Ann Wigmore’s work; I think she came from Baltimore originally. Wigmore is a Lithuanian nutritionist with a very big interest in detoxification and cleansing. She had the Hippocrates Center on the Gulf Coast in Australia for many years. What a remarkable lady. I remember reading an article in a magazine: “Sexy at 60,” and there was this really stunning looking lady – I think she was about 65 years of age. It was Ann Wigmore. Ann Wigmore was one of the big promoters of wheat grass in the early days when we really promoted “green” drinks. Jensen said, “If it’s green inside, it’s clean inside.” Everyone’s got their take on different things, and there’s a lot of trends. Spirulina was very big in the 70s. Wheat grass became very popular in the 80s and 90s in particular. It was a very big thing. Wheat grass shots. Then a little bit later the barley grass came in.

You want me to be honest with you? I agree with Dr. McCullough that it’s very overrated. I think you’re going to get a lot more benefit from eating sprouts in your diet. Just go buy some mason jars with screw-top lids – you can get them from the health food shop with some fine mesh in there. I’m working on my kitchen – next year we’re going to renovate and revamp our kitchen and extend it right out. A big part of it is I love cooking – it’s a passion of mine. I’m going to show you folks a lot about how I eat. I’m going to talk about sprouting, I’m going to talk about how I make the sauerkraut and just show you my kind of thing, my take on it all. I think sprouting is phenomenal, and I do agree with McCullough that sprouting is cheap, easy, simple. You don’t need all this crap with trays of soil and grasses in it and stuff like that. If something’s really difficult to do, you’re not likely to do it and get enough benefit from it.

Wheat grass does contain lots of vitamin C. It does contain a lot of calcium. It contains a lot of polypeptides and amino acids. It’s actually high in protein and minerals. It inhibits things like superoxide dismutase or things in the body you don’t really want activated. It’s a very powerful antioxidant. Wigmore’s take on it was that “Well, cats and dogs eat grass, and they puke it up and it makes them healthy.” That was her theory. If animals would eat it and become sick, she believed it could be part of a human detoxification regime. Ann Wigmore was also “no dairy, no meat, no this, no that.” Just one of those “no everything” people. They get their diet down to a few things.

I can’t live like that, and I’m sure you don’t want to live like that either. I like to be able to go to a friend’s house where they’re having a nice beautiful outdoor pizza oven going and have a nice cold craft beer and a piece of pizza. That’s the type of naturopath I am. Saying that tonight, I’ve got a nice piece of salmon and a beautiful fresh green raw salad. I believe in common sense and balancing my diet with occasionally eating crap, but for the bulk of the time eating good food. I wouldn’t call craft beer and pizza crap, especially not when you’re with a lot of friends and you enjoy the company.

Is wheat grass good for Candida? That’s the question. I think it certainly has a place, but I wouldn’t say it’s “good” for Candida. I wouldn’t say it “cures” Candida or it’s going to eliminate all the parasites and bugs in your body. But I think that when people do go to the extent of having green shots regularly or actually growing their own wheat grass in containers and then juicing it, those people are very health conscious. Therefore, I think it is good, because people who go to that trouble to do that usually don’t drink alcohol, don’t smoke tobacco, don’t go down to Kentucky Fried Chicken and have greasy stuff. They’re usually very health-minded people. That’s why it is good.

Do you see my take on it? It itself plays a role, but I think the more important role is the mindset of the person taking it. That’s the more important role – how they incorporate that juice or that product into their dietary and lifestyle regime. That’s the important part. I really want you to understand that. There’s no magic silver product that’s going to magically cure you or transform you into an amazingly healthy person like Superman or something like that. Don’t start thinking like that.

I keep telling you folks on my YouTube videos – I’ve seen many people with very average basic diets that are in very good health. I’ve seen plenty of people with the most anally clean tidy diets that are as sick as can be, too. Just by drinking wheat grass juice is no guarantee you’re going to live to 140 and never get a hemorrhoid. Don’t think like that.

I love wheat grass shots, and I think they’re a very powerful adjunct. I think having one or two shots per day to me is like walking around the block for three or four miles. It’s a perfect adjunct to add into your dietary regime. Will it cure Candida? If you take three gallons of wheat grass juice a day, will you get rid of your cancer and arthritis? I don’t think so. Doesn’t work like that.

Same with spirulina, which is a freshwater alga. There are a lot of people who swear by spirulina tablets. A lot of people who drink “green” barley drinks all the time and swear by that. I’m going to do some more videos on my take on “green” juices and juicing all the time. We’re living in this juice craze at the moment. I think a lot of people are overdoing these juices. Getting really loose with juice, it’s crazy. Too much juice. You shouldn’t be drinking all these green juices every morning instead of breakfast. I just don’t think it’s the right thing to do.

Protein is what you need for breakfast. Chewing is what you need to do. People who chew better, poo better. I don’t think people who drink, poo better. I really don’t think that drinking juice is the be all, end all like non-gluten in the diet is supposed to be. I know I’m raving on with this video, but just to basically summarize everything: wheat grass juice is healthy, I will not deny that. But, I don’t believe it’s going to cure Candida or eradicate it. People who take wheat grass juice in regularly or daily tend to be very health conscious people. It’s the totality of all the things they’re doing in their diet and lifestyle including the wheat grass that will improve their health, not just those shots.

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