Category: Candida Crusher FAQ Videos

Greetings, Eric Bakker, naturopath, author of Candida Crusher. Thanks for tuning into my video today.

Today, I’d like to talk a bit about treating the cause of a Candida yeast infection rather than just focusing on the symptoms.

I’ve just spent probably a good hour looking at many different YouTube clips on Candida yeast infections. Most all of them talk about treatment. How to eradicate Candida. How to clear up vaginal infections. How to get rid of jock itch. How to treat toenail problems. But what none of them look at is the cause of Candida.

Is the cause of Candida getting a fungal yeast infection? Yes, but the cause, folks, is susceptibility. You’ve got a yeast infection because you’re susceptible to a yeast infection. You don’t just walk around and a yeast infection drops into your lap from above somewhere. You get a yeast infection because you contract a yeast infection.

It’s the same as if you drink alcohol. If you drink alcohol and you drink a bit too much, you’re going to wake up with a hangover and a headache because you caused that hangover to occur due to excess alcohol.

It’s the same thing if you lie in the sun outside and you get sunburned. You can’t blame anyone. You’ve got to blame yourself because you’re the person that chose that.

Yeast infections don’t just happen, they occur because of a cause. In my book, I’ve written extensively about causation, about the many different types of causes. Most all yeast infection books I’ve looked at are very scant on causes. It’s all about treating the symptom and so-called cures and eradication in 12 hours. What a load of bologna. You can no longer cure up a yeast infection in 12 hours than you can pay off a mortgage in 12 days. It’s absolute rubbish, and I can’t buy that for one moment. And I think it’s giving people false hope.

Please don’t buy into these false statements on sales pages of “I can cure your yeast infection in one day or one week,” it’s a lot of rubbish. I don’t even like using the word “cure” because really to get rid of an infection depends on you. You need to do different things to get rid of it. You need to look at your diet and lifestyle. Eighty percent of recovery is lifestyle related. I mentioned this many times before, 80 percent.

One of the big causes of yeast infections which remains basically untreated is stress. Stress is one of the biggest causes, I believe, because it undermines your immune function. It causes your immunity to suffer because it helps to pull down levels, in particular, of cortisol. Cortisol is the main hormone secreted by the adrenal gland, which has an incredibly powerful effect on white blood cells.

As soon as a person has had stress for some time, whether it’s short term, high-grade stress or long term, chronic low-grade stress, their immune system is going to suffer. What happens is they become more susceptible. Their susceptibility increases and their resistance drops. And this is when you’re more prone toward a Candida yeast infection, and it’s fueled by sugars and alcohols and take-away food. We know all the dietary triggers for Candida, but one of the big ones I’d like to talk to you about in this video is looking at the silent causes, the underlying causes that are never spoken about, the stress.

In my book, I’ve written extensively on adrenal fatigue burnout, particularly adrenal issues undermining immunity allowing a person to be much more susceptible to yeast infections. I’ve treated thousands of patients with Candida and I can clearly and emphatically tell you that, in many cases, the patient had a lot of stress in their life; they had an ongoing problem with stress. They developed insomnia. They developed bowel and digestive issues. They developed energy problems. Many of them have thyroid and adrenal issues, and these often underpin a yeast infection and they’re never treated. They dealt with the separate or side issues.

I just had a Skype consultation with a patient in the US with an incredibly bad yeast infection. And when we spoke, we saw all these stresses coming up in her life, relationship problems and bankruptcy, and the list went on and on. I have consultations every day with patients and hear about the problems that are never addressed. If you want to get on top of the problem, you need to look at the underlying causes.

There are many other videos which are produced on YouTube regarding these causes. I’d like you to have a look at some of the other videos on cause and effect. I think you’re going to learn a lot of useful information.

I hope this video was of use to you today. Thank you for tuning in.

Thank you for checking out the video. You may have seen some of my videos regarding Candida yeast infection, and a question I ask you is have you completed my yeast infection quiz yet? It’s the world’s best online quiz for Candida yeast infection determination whether you’ve got mild, moderate or severe, so please go there right now if you haven’t done that, Yeastinfection.org or CandidaCrusher.com.

This frequently asked question today, is toenail fungus Candida? It’s a question I got asked by a lady in America a few weeks ago, so I think I’ll reply to that question now.

Toenail fungus is Candida. It is a form of fungal or yeast infection. And another term for toenail fungus is onychomycosis; try to remember that name. You probably see it on some sites like WebMD or Mayo Clinic website, onychomycosis. Tinea unguium or tinea pedis, so these are other terms we tend to use for toenail fungus.

Toenail fungus will commonly occur on one or more of your toenails. A clinical observation I’ve got is you’ll often find it on the large toenail of the leading foot, so the leading foot being the foot that you step off with. If you’re right handed, check out the large right toenail carefully for little specks of discoloration of toenail. If you’re left handed, check out your left large toe. I believe that it’s got to do with an increasing blood supply to this toe because it’s more active because you’re stepping off with it and using that foot a little bit ahead of the other foot. It may seem like crazy logic to medical doctors, but that’s just my clinical observation.

Many people have got toenail fungus. It’s a very common condition. In fact, so common, people tend to ignore it and they don’t think it’s a problem. I think it is a problem. It’s a bit like rust in a car. Once it sets in small areas, sometimes people tend to forget about it, but eventually it spreads and gets bigger and bigger until sometimes it’s irreparable.

So make sure you get onto small things before they become big things in life. Whether it’s an argument with somebody or a debt you owe or toenail fungus, if it’s small, it’s easy to treat, so get onto these things first.

So tea tree oil is a very, very good way to treat, Australian tea tree oil. Just a drop of oil on the toenail once per day, but make sure that you follow my Candida Crusher diet and read my book to get a good understanding on how to tackle the “beast called yeast.”

Thanks for tuning in.

Is hummus any good for Candida is a question I got asked recently by a lady in Canada. Erik, can I have hummus to eat if I have a yeast infection? Yes, you can. Absolutely you can.

Let’s have a look at what hummus really is. We’re looking at chickpeas. We’re looking at tahini. We’re looking probably at a bit of – you might want to put a bit of raw garlic in there, a bit of salt, so various things like that. Hummus is actually quite okay to have when you got Candida. It’s a nice dip to have with celery sticks and carrot sticks and radishes and things like that, all these sort of yummy foods you can have on the Candida diet, so don’t refrain from eating hummus. Be careful with the commercial hummus you buy in the supermarket because it can contain a lot of unwanted ingredients in there. Best to make it yourself.

How do you make hummus? It’s pretty simple. Just get some chickpeas, get the real big plump ones, get about a cup and soak them for about five or six hours in water. That’s all I tend to do. I’ve had some friends tell me that when you’ve soaked them and they’re plump, freezing them brings out the flavor more in them. If you want to stop gas associated with hummus because some people develop bloating and gas when they got Candida, just put one drop of iodine extract in there. It could be Lugol’s solution. It could be super saturated potassium iodide, so just one drop in that water and just let it soak, the water, the chickpeas, and one drop of potassium iodide in there. Now what that does is it helps to reduce the ability of that chickpea to produce gas in your intestinal tract. Don’t ask me how it works, but apparently it works fantastic.

Once you’ve soaked these things, then you drain them. Then I tend to put them in a small cast iron pot and I simmer them. I get them boiling, then turn it down and simmer it for a little while. Let that simmer. Then I take them off, strain them of the water, I put them in my blender, mash them all up, and then I put a little bit of tahini in with it to get the right consistency. This could be maybe a third of a cup or half a cup of tahini and blend that through. With a spatula, scrape the sides, then throw in a couple of cloves of garlic, raw fresh garlic chopped and fine and throw them in, blend that all up, and that’s quite tasty, and it’s antifungal.

I’ve got a patient that sent me a recipe also regarding putting coconut oil in with it, so you may want to experiment with some coconut oil in with the hummus because coconut oil and the garlic are quite antifungal. Hummus will store in the fridge. Don’t forget. If you put hummus in the fridge, you can put a tiny little bit of coconut oil on top to stop any mold, the fungi growing on it, because I’m not keen on people having things out of the refrigerator, putting their minute out for several days or a week because molds and fungi can grow on these sort of foods. If you don’t heat them up properly, you’re contaminating your gut again.

So try all those tips and see if they work for you, and thanks for tuning in today.