Category: Candida Crusher FAQ Videos

Today, I’d like to talk to you about processed foods versus natural foods or foods that are unrefined and unprocessed.

Many people out there will be eating foods today that come out of cans or boxes or packets or perhaps being bought at a supermarket. I’ve noticed there’s an increasing amount of these foods being consumed over the last 10, 15, 20 years. I’ve also noticed an increase in digestive problems in people in that period of time.

These digestive problems, obviously, occurred for reasons other than eating processed foods. But I can tell you now that when you start moving toward a more healthy kind of diet and eat more natural, unprocessed foods, there’s going to be a big change in your health, regardless of what condition you might have. Whether it’s a yeast infection. Whether it’s an inflammation in the body. Whether it’s heart disease. Whether it’s insomnia. Whether it’s being overweight. I don’t care what it is. If you start moving yourself more toward a natural way of eating, you’re going to notice a lot of changes occurring in your body. It may be uncomfortable at first, you may even notice some detoxification or cleansing taking place, but the changes are going to be profound.

Let’s have a look first at why processed foods are not really good. I remember when I was a boy growing up in the ’60s and supermarkets were first starting to come in. It was incredible. The person who sold the fruits and vegetables would come to the door. These people would actually come to our house and we would buy fresh produce. And then people started to realize that they could build bigger shops and sell all these goods in one area, one point of contact. And I believe in that 30- or 40-year period that this has occurred, people’s health has certainly declined.

Processed foods? Why? Well, it’s convenience. If you think about it, a company can make food and put it in some type of a packet or can or whatever and put it on the shelf and have a shelf life for one to two years and then market that product. But doing that, the foods are often cooked at a high temperature. And many additives are included in these foods. We get various flavorings and colors and emulsifiers and all sorts of preservatives go in there. They can’t be good for your system. Eating all these chemicals is no good.

A big problem with processed foods also is they contain a lot less vitamins and minerals than freshly grown produce. Eating vegetables and fruits and meats straight from nature makes a lot more sense.

A big thing I find are digestive problems with people occur in processed foods. And I think part of this is because these processed foods, especially canned foods, they lack enzymes. If you’re going to have deep-fried foods, if you’re going to eat food out of a packet all the time, you’re going to lack a lot of enzymes in those foods. Enzymes in these foods are there for many different reasons in natural foods, but enzymes also will speed up the rotting or break down that food in nature. But those enzymes in our digestive system improve our enzymatic ability and our ability to break that food down and absorb it.

Natural foods also from nature contain more fibers than foods do that are processed, so we end up having a better bowel motion and better beneficial bacteria because of those fibers. Processed foods contain high levels of salt and sugar as well.

These are just a few reasons why you don’t really want to go for processed foods and go more to natural foods.

Start cooking foods like you did or your grandparents, perhaps, would have done. I don’t buy the excuse that people haven’t got enough time to cook food. That life is too hurried and too busy. Maybe if that’s the case in your life, you may want to reevaluate your life and go back to a bit of an easier lifestyle where you have got the time to cook foods that are going to build up your health.

As you can see, I’ve got a lot of health books. A lot of these books are from the ‘60s and ‘70s. A well-known author called Adele Davis wrote in the ‘60s that every day when you make food choices, you’re either building up your health or you’re breaking your health down. Each and every day you’ve got that choice to make a healthy choice or an unhealthy choice. And it’s a combination and a culmination of all those choices over a long period of time that are going to determine your health.

So what’s it going to be? Misery, poor health, sickness when you get to your ‘50s, ‘60s, ‘70s or retire in style and have good health to enjoy the things that you’ve built up over a lifetime. Your grandchildren. Your assets. Have holidays. All those things that you can do in good health.

The ball is in your court. It’s your call. I would like you to have a look at a healthier, unprocessed diet if you want to build up good health. Have a think about it.

Thanks for your time.

Here’s a question. Will a male yeast infection go away on its own? It can. In fact, it is possible if it’s a very slight yeast infection and not much is done about it. Particularly, if the guy makes a few changes to his diet and lifestyle and starts to realize that he’s really gone off track and makes a few changes and then the body will pick up; the immune system will get on top of it. But in most cases, it will not go away unless the guy makes a significant change or starts using some kind of cream or pill to suppress the symptom, but those treatments are only temporary, and they can harm your body in the long term because you’re still doing the things that maintain the Candida and now you’re taking a drug, whether it’s topical or oral, to try to get rid of the problem.

I’ve always been a great believer in identifying the cause and treating the cause, and if you understand that with Candida we’ve usually got an exciting cause or something that starts the yeast infection and then we’ve got a maintaining cause, something that keeps it going. For example, you may have had an antibiotic for an illness or an infection and that could’ve started your jock itch like it did with me. I had a chest infection. I worked in a flourmill as a young guy doing rotating shifts, I got very sick and developed a bad bronchial infection and the doctor gave me antibiotics. And I went on a few rounds of them and then I started getting itchy skin and the jock itch and it didn’t go away.

And how did I maintain it? Well, I was drinking beer like all guys do. We all drink beer. And I drank stupid things like Coca-Cola and I had a poor diet back in those days. I lived in a house that was quite moldy. It was in a low-lying area and when it rained I used to get sometimes water in my bedroom. There was even like a black mold on the walls, so I was sleeping in a moldy environment. I was eating poor foods. I was living in a high stress sort of job with rotating shifts, midnight, working days, and the midnights and crazy hours, so all these stresses on the body maintained the jock itch.

These are the sort of things that you’ve got to look at. You won’t get rid of this problem unless you make major changes, so I got rid of my job, just got rid of it. I moved out of that house, moved away, and I saw a naturopath, which was the start of my naturopathic career. The naturopath helped me to understand that all that Candida was was a combination of all of these factors that I had to make changes. And when I made the changes, the jock itch slowly went away after about a year.

So this is what you need to do. Identify what caused it and what’s maintaining it and deal with this problem correctly. When you do that, you’ll put an end to this nightmare. That’s how you get rid of it. It won’t go away on its own accord. You need to make those changes.

Check on my other videos and do the yeast infection quiz, the world’s best one, on yeastinfection.org you’ll find links to that or CandidaCrusher.com will take you directly to my quiz. Thanks for tuning in.

This is going to be part three of Does Stress Feed Candida? What I’m going to talk about now is a concept called gluconeogenesis, so the production of new blood sugar; “gluco,” meaning blood; “neo,” meaning – whatever it means, I’m not sure – “genesis,” meaning basically “new,” so I know that gluconeogenesis means the production of new blood sugar.

What happens is when your energy drops and you’re feeling tired, the brain starts telling the hypothalamus, I can stimulate the pituitary to get onto the adrenals to produce more amounts of cortisol. Because what cortisol does in the presence of low blood sugar is to stimulate the release of fatty acids, which these fatty acids get converted into eventually in a long convoluted process into blood sugar.

Stress, we know that high stress particularly in the alarm phase, initiates the production of increased blood sugar. If you’re going from one stress to another or in the alarm phase quite a lot, if you’re phone is ringing all the time, your children are placing demands on you, your employer is placing demands on you, you get pissed off or stressed out quite a lot, you’re going to be in the alarm phase of stress quite a lot. I see this commonly in my patients, so these sort of people have too much blood sugar elevated.

Unfortunately, with high blood sugar, we also got insulin elevated. Insulin is produced by the pancreas gland that allows blood sugar basically to be pushed into the cells. In the initiating phases where people have too much stress, they get too much blood sugar, too much insulin. I guess what too much blood sugar means for Candida, it means if you’ve got systemic Candida, it can really help the Candida to grow. It can really promote Candida.

We’ve had emails before about people asking if ketosis induces Candida. Ketosis being a condition when the body is in a very low, extremely low, carbohydrate state, when the body produces energy from stored fatty acids produced by the liver. But in this case, the fatty acids are not produced because of starvation. They’re produced because of low cortisol. Low cortisol or low cortisol state when the patient has an issue there and blood sugar is produced in abundance there; it gives you high cortisol.

We can get a problem with Candida, and I often see the patients who get the most severe Candida aggravations are the ones often who get the most anxiety and stress, vaginal infections or jock itch, toenail fungus are recurrent, systemic infections, tinea cruris, tinea vulgaris, all kinds of microsporum. Various kinds of fungal reactions we see in patients are often as a result of high cortisol levels and continual production of too much blood sugar.

So keeping your blood sugar under control can be arranged by making sure that you’ve got a handle on your stress by eating three square meals a day, taking time to relax, and identifying what the stressors are in your life. I hope you understand the concept that high stress or continual low grade stress punctuated by events of high stress will eventually mean relatively high cortisol levels, stimulate the liver to produce products basically which get converted to glucose, which can certainly have an effect on continuing Candida.

Always remember stress certainly does feed Candida. It’s the best-kept secret, and it’s one that you really need to look at if you want to get a handle on your chronic or severe Candida.

I hope that sort of rings a bell with you. Thanks for tuning in.