Category: Candida Crusher FAQ Videos

I’m going to talk about another home test today, which a lot of you might be familiar with. I call it the “tongue test.”

So have a look at your tongue in the mirror and have a look. It should be a nice pinkish color all around the front and the middle and the back and the sides. This indicates a good digestive system with healthy levels of bacteria.

So a tongue that’s quite whitish coated and particularly at the back of the tongue. If it’s real yellow coating or a really dark sort of white or brown color coating, it means usually a heavy amount of bad bacterial and fungal problems in the bowel, particularly the lower part. So the more towards the front of the tongue, the higher up the digestion. The more towards the back, the lower the digestion.

In Chinese medicine they worked this out thousands of years ago. The sides of the tongue represent the liver. The tip of the tongue represents the stomach. The middle part of the tongue represents the small intestine. And the back of the tongue represents the colon or the large intestine. So a healthy tongue should be pink.

Look at a dog or a cat’s tongue; they’re generally pink. We don’t have a lot of white coating on the tongue of a dog unless you’re going to feed it a lot of crap food. But adults often have these white coatings because of sugar in their diet, so sugar feeds up the bad bacterial and fungal problems and, hence, we get this dysbiosis occurring and we get this white coating. The white coating is a good indication on the level of intestinal overgrowth or bad bacterial and fungal infection.

As you go through the Candida Crusher program, your tongue will get more pink and more pink and eventually a beautiful pink color just like your dog.

Keep an eye on that and do that test weekly and then write that down in the column of the home symptom tracker that you’ll find in my book. This is a very good test to do in conjunction with the smell test, the itch test, the spit test, the sound test, and all the other tests that I recommend.

Check out my other YouTube clips on all these other home tests and you should really do them all once a week. This will give you a very good indication on your level of Candida in the privacy of your own home and no cost at all, so definitely worth doing in that case.

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Eric Bakker, author of Candida Crusher. Thanks for tuning into this video today.

Today, I’d like to talk to you a bit about aggravations. What are aggravations? How do they come about? How can we minimize them?

Let’s first try to understand a little bit what aggravations are. When you’re unwell, you’ve got aggravations as it is. You’ll have different symptoms produced by a yeast infection. They can range from itchy skin or jock itch or vaginal thrush or itchy ears or itchy scalp. They can be itching anywhere in the body. It could also be bloating or gas, uncomfortable digestive problems. For some people it could be brain fog. For others, fatigue. For other people, it could be pain in the joints, the small joints or the larger joints. Or just a feeling of not being well at all. These are what some people would term aggravations. Of course, they’re aggravations.

When you start a natural medicine treatment, there often will be some form of aggravation. And for those people who hold on dearly to the belief that western conventional medicine is the be-all, end-all that it cures disease, they find that quite strange that you would aggravate or feel worse before you feel better.

Many people who hold onto the tenets of conventional medicine believe if you’re not feeling well, you take a drug and you feel better and the problem is solved. But is it really? Is that what constitutes cure in your book? A disappearance of all symptoms. I would believe it’s more a suppression of the symptoms. And, of course, when you stop that drug and you start cleaning up the body, what are you going to get? Aggravations. Many patients that I treat, but particularly ones who’ve been taking non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drugs like Advil or paracetamol, aspirin or people taking drugs to lower cholesterol or blood pressure, many times when we treat them, particularly if we get them off those drugs, their body’s going to throw out toxins and that’s going to cause an aggravation.

Let me just grab my book, Candida Crusher, which you may well be familiar with, and just go over some of the likely scenarios that can cause aggravations. As I mentioned, aggravations can come about for many different reasons. But these are six of the common reasons.

Drug side effects that we call iatrogenic disease, but we just covered that really. When you take a drug, it’s going to suppress the symptoms. And in many cases, the drug will actually create symptoms in its own right. We call that iatrogenic disease. For example, patients I know with psoriasis, a skin condition, may take a drug called methotrexate. This drug is known to cause itching and skin problems, a feeling of tiredness and headaches and digestive problems. Certain types of pharmaceutical drugs to lower blood pressure we call beta blockers have also been known to cause skin itching in about 25 percent of patients who take them. Many different drugs cause iatrogenic disease. Antibiotics when taken can cause a yeast infection, which is a disease in its own right.

Coming off any medications or detoxing from pharmaceutical drugs. We covered that a little bit as well. When you come off a medication and you clean the body up, you’re going to experience discomfort we call an aggravation. Don’t confuse aggravations from coming off drugs to aggravations being produced when you clean the body up from Candida die off or Herxheimer reactions; they’re entirely different. It’s easy to get confused there.

A change in diet after commencing treatment. When you change your diet, you’re going to experience some type of aggravation. If you’ve gone from a pretty crappy diet to a healthy diet. If you’ve lived on take-away food, coca cola, ice cream, donuts, foods like that and you decide to clean up your act, you’re probably not going to feel too well for a couple of weeks. It’s no surprise. All that hydrogenated fat, sugar, excess salt, colors, all the rubbish and chemicals in those foods, the body’s going to throw those all out. They’re all toxins to the body, so it’s going to be detoxifying. Especially if you start drinking fresh juices and eat a high protein diet with good lean meats, lots of fresh organic produce, you’re going to clean up and you’re not going to feel too well. If you’ve cut down from seven coffees a day down to one per day and then cut coffee out, you’re going to feel not too good. These are aggravations with a diet change.

Combining several different treatments, drugs and dietary supplements all at the same time. How many people watching this video will be taking the oral contraceptive pill or maybe Advil or a drug like that regularly and taking a B vitamin or a multivitamin or an Omega 3 fish oil. You need to be careful when you combine drugs and supplements because you can get yourself into a lot of hot water and create additional symptoms and aggravations.

Improperly combining drugs and natural medicines at the same time. For example, you have to be careful if you’re taking a blood thinning drug called Coumadin or Warfarin and taking lots of fish oil; not really a flash idea. Particularly if you’re going to be on a diet that’s also going to have your blood a little bit on the thin side. You need to be careful with certain pharmaceutical medications with dietary supplements and herbal medicines. Talk to your naturopath or doctor about that. They’ll give you more information.

Cleansing reactions of the body after commencing natural medicine treatment. Oftentimes, this will be drug residues clearing from the body. This is a bit similar to the drug side effects to a degree. Just be aware that there are various cleansing reactions that occur in the body for different degrees of medications and supplements you take.

You can read a lot more about this in Candida Crusher, my book. I’ve written extensively on iatrogenic disease, i.e., drug-induced disease, aggravations from Candida, aggravations from improperly combining drugs and supplements. If you’re educated in that area, it could save you a lot of discomfort. If in doubt, I recommend you either read my book or go and see your medical practitioner or naturopathic practitioner for some expert advice. Because he or she will be able to expertly guide you in this area.

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

Hi there, Eric Bakker, naturopath, FAQ. This one’s from a lady in France, in some small place in France. It looks like a French name.

The question here is Eric, what are the consequences of a long-term chronic yeast infection if left untreated?

I may have done a video on this before. I’m not sure. But the consequences of any condition left untreated are not usually that good. This is going to allow all sorts of disease processes to take place.

So if you look at a yeast infection, for example, if left untreated, a yeast infection could turn out to be a chronic problem, which can lead to all sorts of long-term complications. Just like any infection of the genital tract, it needs prompt attention and it needs a resolution.

It’s important first to diagnose what you’re dealing with, and after what you know what you’re dealing with, treat it and get it over and done with. Any condition in the body left to become chronic is asking for a lot of problems.

You know, they say that yeast infections are self-limiting, but even the experts can’t agree whether a yeast infection of the female area is going to lead to infertility or conditions like endometriosis. We don’t really know. A lot of people are divided over that. But in my clinical experience, I’ve certainly seen it be the link between infertility, endometriosis and chronic yeast infections, which are basically just treated time and again, only to resurface.

And it’s the same with the male. If a male get a penis yeast infection or a genital condition, it would pay to treat this condition because, again, it could lead to all sorts of complications. And I’ve certainly seen chronic prostatitis linked with male yeast infections.

Intestinal yeast infections can lead to all sorts of complications for the gut. Liver disorders, diabetes, many different conditions can come about from this. It can be very debilitating and cause you a lot of discomfort, pain and cost you a lot of money down the track in medical bills and time off work. So it would pay for you to treat any chronic condition promptly rather than waiting for it to get out of hand and become very chronic.

Yeast infections can often go from the digestive tract into the system itself, into the circulation. There’s certainly studies which agree that this can take place. I wrote up one of these particular studies in my book of an American gentleman who swallowed some capsules of Candida albicans and within only a few hours, it could be cultured from his bloodstream and produced from the urine. So we know that yeast infections can spread from the GI tract into the circulation itself quite rapidly, even under the right conditions.

So Candida is generally held in strict control in the body in accordance with the microbial balance which is occurring in the GI tract. But if Candida is given the upper hand through antibiotics or the pill or high stress, high sugar diets, for example, it can go rampant and become quite a severe major condition which certainly needs treatment.

So my recommendation for you is if you’ve got a chronic infection is certainly get onto it today rather than tomorrow and do something about it, so it doesn’t become a condition which is unmanageable even by the very best clinician. Any condition is best treated right now and nipped in the bud before it gets out of hand and becomes chronic.

So I hope that answers the question there about the consequences of long-term chronic yeast infections if left untreated.