Category: Candida Crusher FAQ Videos

Thank you for checking out this video. How long it takes to recover from Candida. How long does it take to get well? Can I get well in 24 hours? Can I get well in 12 hours? Will it take 12 years? Will it take one year? How do I know how long is it going to take? If I start a particular treatment, how do I know?

Well, it really is all up to you. Some people will say to me, particularly those who’ve been chronically sick for a long time, “You never get well. It’s impossible to get well from Candida. I’ve been sick for 10 or 20 years and this is a condition you’ll take to the grave.” I’ve had a few people tell me that. I’ve had other people who tell me “I’m surprised I got well so quick. I turned this thing right around quite fast.” But I can tell you now; there are no hard and fast rules for how long it will take to recover from Candida. It could take three months. It could take six months. It could take one year.

On average after seeing thousands and thousands of yeast infection patients, I form the opinion that it takes about a year. Between six to nine months for you to feel really, really good and improve your health, but probably about 12 months before you start feeling very, very, very good, and it can take even a little bit longer for your digestive health to improve to a very high degree. Because when you start improving from Candida, your digestive health very slowly improves to start with and then it starts ramping up that improvement. You’ll improve more and more and more and more. And as you progressively improve, you’ll find a lot of things peripherally to the gut will improve.

What I mean by that is the nutrition has to basically be improved to all the cells of the body for you to start feeling really well. That’s why it can take a long time because there are trillions of cells in your body. Even the bone cells will improve, the muscle cells, the nerve cells, everything will improve over time as your digestive health improves.

Most people with Candida have got digestive problems. They have things like food allergies, leaky gut syndrome, many of them have parasites, they have bacteria, and they have multiple strains of yeast in their gut. These things take time to get rid of. Many people with Candida have digestive enzyme insufficiencies. They have hormonal imbalances. A lot of them even have muscle and nerve weakness as a result of their nutritional deficiency underpinning the Candida. These things don’t fix up in 12 hours, what a load of crap. If you think you can be cured in 12 hours, well, if you’ve come down with the last rainstorm. It ain’t going to happen. You’re not going to cure a chronic yeast infection in a matter of days or weeks. It’s just not feasible. And if you really believe that, then you’re quite foolish to believe that. So when you see these books and programs for sale “Cure Your Yeast Infection in 12 Hours,” it’s a load of nonsense and people fall for these scams all the time. There is a lot of trickery and con artists on the internet.

I’ve never ever made the suggestion that you can quickly cure your yeast infection. What you can often get rid of quite quickly are many of the acute symptoms, but what you’ll find is, it’s only symptomatic treatment. As soon as you stop that symptomatic treatment, the symptoms will come back. This is how pharmaceutical medicine has made all its trillions of dollars by symptom suppression and symptom eradication. They give you pills or shots or treatments to get rid of symptoms, but the underlying problem remains. So as soon as the treatments stop, the problem comes back again.

Intelligent people don’t want to treat symptoms. They want to eradicate causes, so they don’t have the end result which are the symptoms. And that’s how we as naturopathic physicians gain our expertise over time is we help people identify the core triggers in their life, and once these are met and its understood about the maintaining and the exciting triggers, people deal with these adequately, make the right changes, they’ll find their health comes on track steadily and surely.

Really, it’s all up to you. The ball’s in your court. The more you apply the correct principles, eat the right foods, have the correct balanced lifestyle, the quicker you’re going to recover. There’s no doubt about it. There is absolutely no doubt about it. It’s all up to you. It’s not up to me. It’s not up to your doctor. It’s not up to your mother-in-law or your sister or whatever. It’s all up to you. You’re the one who decides which direction you’re going to as far as healing is concerned.

Please check out my website, Yeastinfection.org, do the quiz on CandidaCrusher.com, and let’s take it from there. Read some of my articles and you’ll find there’s a lot of interesting information that will help accelerate and fast track your recovery from Candida.

Thanks for checking out my video today. How is Candida diagnosed? How do we know we have it? How do we know we’re not just imagining we’ve got this disease?

I think the best way to diagnose chronic Candida, particularly, is the stool test. I think it’s the ultimate way. There are different ways you can test for Candida in the body. You can do blood testing, for example, for particular antigens, Candida antigens in the body. You can do what we call organic acids urine test to look at the metabolites, the products broken down in the body that tell you if Candida has been there. There are different ways we can test, but I think the ultimate test is the comprehensive digestive stool analysis test. Three samples. Three concurrent days. I work with a couple of labs. If you go to ErikBakker.com, you can find out more about testing there. I work with a couple of labs in America. My favorite lab is Doctor’s Data in Chicago.

I’ll tell you why I like the stool test. It’s because it just doesn’t tell me if the patient’s got Candida or not. It tells me a lot of information. They do a really good microbiology panel to show me the level of beneficial bacteria, what we call the commensals and the bad bacteria. So the beneficial bacteria should generally in a healthy patient be a three or a four plus behind the beneficial. Many people, in fact, have a zero like NG, no growth, or one plus.

The commensals are bacteria that can turn good or bad. Healthy people have got no commensals or very low levels. People with severe Candida can have 9 or 10 different strains of commensal bacteria, and the pathogenic ones are the nasty ones. These are the terrorists of the gut. I call the commensals the politicians of the gut. They can change. Go good or bad depending on what’s happening around them at the time, so you’ve got the good guys, the politicians, and the ISIS militants or the terrorists. These guys are downright nasty, so you don’t want to have those in the gut at all.

So this is a culture, so they actually try and grow these bugs in the stool. They do a microscopy as well, so they actually microscopically – so they look at the stool to see if they can see any white spicules or Candida there. They also try and culture the stool for yeast, and I’ve seen anything up to 5 or 10, even 15 strains of Candida grown in stool samples. Just imagine if you’ve got low beneficials and you’ve got Candida albicans cultured in all three stool samples, it’s quite bad. That’s a serious yeast infection.

When you pass out a stool sample, you should not be able to pass out any viable live yeast. If you can culture Candida from a stool sample, it means you’ve got active growing Candida in the stool itself, which is a pretty serious yeast infection.

The other thing I like about the stool testing is the fact that we can look at the immunology of the bowel. We can look at what we call the circulatory IgA, which is an immunoglobulin A, which is one of the most abundant immunoglobulins or antibodies found in your whole body. The body makes a couple of grams of it, one to two grams of it per day. You’ll find it in the stool in set levels, so if we find the levels very high or very low, it will give us an idea that you’ve got serious immune activity happening in the digestive system. The body is trying to bind to things and take it out. If it’s very up regulated or down regulated in conjunction with these bacteria, it gives me a lot of useful information about you, what’s going on in your life.

We can even do a cancer marker in the stool, so we can see how high your risk is for bowel cancer, if you’ve got a risk there at all. There are many other things we can look at. They also look at a fat stain, for example, and they check for fibers and meat fibers and things, so they can see how well your digestive system is working, to see if the enzymes are breaking things down properly. It’s very important for good health to have very good digestive function, to break down food properly to the smallest substrates that allow the beneficial bacteria feed on those things and thrive. We need to feed them up.

Fiber to me is like compost in the garden. We know that if you’ve got a vegetable garden, you know, I’ve got a nice veggie garden so I put compost in there and I grow good vegetables. So if the soil is barren and there’s no compost in there or no food, we’re going to grow crappy vegetables.

Your health is the same. Lots of good fibers, different types of fibers in your bowel allow beneficial bacteria to thrive, keeps gas down, keeps bloating down, and these beneficial bugs produce things like Vitamin K, for example, and B vitamins that sustain good health. So it’s important to have these, and the stool test will assess all of that and more. Isn’t that amazing? This is how I like to test patients for Candida is I like to do the CDSA times three. It’s a stool test, so that’s a good test that you might want to consider if you’re interested in a Candida diagnosis.

I hope that gives you better insight into how to diagnose Candida. Keep away from these cheap budget tests. Go for the stool test. It’s the best one. And check out my home test. You’ll also find some videos I’ve done on the several different home tests, the spit test, the tongue test, the taste test, the sound test, so you can see all those videos as well. It’s all no charge at all to do the home testing. Stool test costs money, but it’s the Rolls Royce of tests. I do several of them every week on patients all around the world and it helps to solve problems. Some patients have had these conditions for 10 or 20 or 30 years, and the stool test will just throw it all up and say, “This is what’s wrong.” It allows me to pinpoint the treatment for that client.

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

How do you know when Candida is gone? How do you know when your yeast infection is no more? How do you know when your health has improved to the point where you can relax and not worry about thinking, “Oh, my goodness. I’ve got a yeast infection.” Well, if you think about it, it’s not really hard to answer that question, is it? The way you’ll know is you’ll start feeling a lot better inside yourself. The symptoms will improve.

You’ve probably heard me talk before about a symptom tracker. It’s important for you to track your symptoms on a regular basis. I developed a Candida symptom tracker that’s in my book, Candida Crusher.

I’m not sure if you’ve got a copy of this book yet, but the book’s got a huge amount of information in it, all about the different signs and symptoms of Candida and, particularly, I’ve created this form called the “Symptom Tracker” that you can record your symptoms down on the left side or tick the appropriate ones and add your own down at the bottom. And then each week in the columns, track your symptoms over a 12-week period. Each symptom can get graded one, two or three, mild, moderate or severe, so what you’ll find is as you obviously improve, your score starts decreasing. The severity rating goes down, so the threes become twos, become ones, eventually over time, but what you’ll also find is other people will pick it up in you. If you’re in a relationship or if you’ve got close friends or family around you, they’re going to notice some changes in you.

Generally, I believe in what’s called “Hering’s Law of Cure.” There was a doctor a long time ago called Dr. Hering, a famous homeopath, and Dr. Hering believed that symptoms disappear in the reverse order of onset. So let’s just say you had a headache 10 or 15 years ago that developed and it’s been on and off there for about 10 or 15 years. And then you had a symptom develop more recently, say a lot of bloating or flatulence, but that’s only happened two or three years ago. Well, if you think about it, that’s probably going to disappear before the headache is. The digestive problem is probably going to clear up and get better before the headache will clear up and get better, and that’s how the body works. It gets rid of symptoms in this particular manner, so the symptoms you had a long time ago are usually the last ones to go. In some cases, we can even see a return of all symptoms, so you may not have had a headache for 10 or 15 years, and then as you recover, the headaches may come back, which may freak you right out. This is actually a favorable sign.

Homeopathic physicians a long time ago were very clever in observing patients, particularly their recovery from chronic illness and worked a lot of these things out. I always am quite happy when a patient gets a return of all symptoms. Many times these symptoms come back because the patient suppressed them originally with a pharmaceutical drug. They took some kind of pill or drug and the symptom went away. As they recovered and detoxified and cleared rubbish out of their body, the symptom came back.

Now doctors laugh at these sort of things, but I couldn’t care less what doctors say when it comes to recovery of patients. Because my only relationship in healing is with the patient. The patient pays me a fee. The patient makes some sort of contract with me they want to get well. I partner with that person. I couldn’t give two hoots what doctors or specialists say. I couldn’t care less if they say it’s placebo or it’s only a temporary recovery. Who cares? Because if the patient feels well and they’re happy and their quality of life comes back, that’s all I care about. And I know when Candida is gone when that patient starts making monumental changes in their life as a result of their improvement. I’ve seen patients get remarried and take on promotions, start a family, all these things. Now people don’t do those things and really feel happy about it unless their health comes back.

So call it placebo, call if what you want, I couldn’t care less. If a patient feels great, that’s what matters to me regardless of the therapy that we use to get that patient to that position. Right?

We must never forget that the word “doctorea” or “doctor” means to teach or teaching, so it’s important to teach our patients how to get well and the steps they need to take to recover. The true healers do that. They don’t care about the money. They don’t look at the ego or the methods of healing. They look at how the patient is and if they’re recovering or not, and they take impediments away. By taking impediments away, obstacles to cure, the patient will improve, and that’s all that matters. And that’s when the patient will improve when they’ve made those changes in life. They’ve taken those barriers away. Good health only comes from change. It doesn’t come from pills or drugs or surgery. It comes from change. Usually a change the patient has made.
So I hope that answers your question. Thanks for tuning in.