Category: Candida Crusher FAQ Videos

Today, I’m going to talk a little bit about jock itch. I’ve got quite a few guys that have been emailing me regarding jock itch, and I’ve had quite a few consultations with male patients all around the world regarding this condition. Today, the question is going to be does alcohol cause jock itch?

Well, it doesn’t really cause jock itch as such, but it can be a hell of a big aggravating factor, and a continuing factor. Guys often drink alcohol. I mean we like alcohol, us guys. We like beer. We like wine. We like spirits like whiskey. We like bourbon. We like all those sorts of things. And we like naughty foods. We like sugars. We like pizzas, and we like all the good stuff, ice cream, donuts, bagels, all that kind of stuff. We like having barbeques with our friends and a couple of cold beers, some nice hot steaks; these are things that guys like to do. I mean I’m no different. I’m a guy. I like these sort of things, and I’ve had bad jock itch in the past, really bad jock itch, so I can talk a little bit about this condition with some experience.

I can tell you now, if you’ve got bad jock itch, you don’t want to be drinking a lot of alcohol because it’s one hell of a big factor in the continuation of jock itch. So are sugary foods and sweet foods. While it doesn’t cause jock itch necessarily because there are a lot of guys that drink alcohol who don’t get jock itch. If you’ve got it, it can certainly keep it going.

If you’ve got this condition pretty bad, that’s probably one of the first things that you want to stop doing or cut right back on. If you look at my book, Candida Crusher, I’m not a big fan in stopping people doing things overnight. If you’re drinking beer at the moment, you probably want to cut back by at least 50 percent. That’s the first thing that you want to start doing.

The other thing you want to start doing is probably treating it locally by wearing boxer shorts instead of briefs and by washing the area at least twice per day having showers morning and night. Once a day is not going to cut it. You need two showers a day. If you’ve got this condition and you’re drinking alcohol, especially if you’re drinking alcohol three, four, five times a week, you definitely want to cut back, and you’ll definitely notice a reduction.

Use some tea tree oil products. Take an antifungal like Canxida. Go to Canxida.com. That’s a pretty darn good antifungal that’s going to help you a lot, and cut that alcohol back, just reduce it. Every glass of beer you have less is one less aggravating factor. So give it a shot and see how you go.

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

Today, I’d like to talk about making change. Undergoing some changes in your life to see if that is going to be effective in helping you to shift your chronic yeast infection.

Many people come to see me regarding Candida yeast infections, and they think that they can maybe make a diet change or take a few supplements and that’s going to help cure their Candida. And in some cases it works, but in many chronic cases, it simply won’t work. So they’ll come back time and again and try different supplements or maybe different diet changes or undergo this test or that test or maybe even change practitioners. But the sad matter is many times they’ll come back in many years and say, “Eric, I’ve still got this yeast infection. What am I not doing right?” And in some cases, these patients need to make a change.

You’ve probably heard the saying that “change is as good as a holiday.” An interesting thing that’s come to my attention in many chronic cases is when patients shift, they move house, maybe they live in another part of the country, maybe they even shift the country entirely, maybe they get rid of their job, maybe they get rid of their partner, maybe they get rid of their mother-in-law, maybe they get rid of some kind of stress in their life.

Living in New Zealand now, I’ve seen lots of patients move to England or America or Europe or different countries, even Australia, and then after several years, come back again. And in quite a few of these cases, I’ve seen people shift chronic – not only yeast infections, but many other chronic conditions that they’ve held for many years. And they’ve found that when they move to the country, got a new job, maybe a new relationship, new friendships with people, that their condition disappeared entirely. Isn’t that strange?

Now we’re all creatures of habit and most of us tend to gravitate around the same kinds of diets. In a lot of these cases, the people would’ve consumed a similar kind of diet. In some cases, though, I’ve had people say to me, “I could even drink alcohol or eat fruit or eat bread again, and my yeast infection disappeared. How did that happen? How did that happen, Eric? How come it disappeared and yet when I lived in New Zealand or wherever and I lived in a certain pattern for many years, it wouldn’t shift?” Well, in my experience, it’s because that person got rid of some kind of big stress in their life.

Now stress is one of the best-kept secrets to understand if you want to shift a chronic yeast infection or chronic psoriasis or chronic colitis or chronic heart disease or chronic whatever you got. If you’ve got a chronic illness you want to shift, you might want to think about shifting some kind of stress in your life.

Now, you may have seen some of my other videos. The biggest stresses in our lives are interpersonal stresses or emotional stresses. So relationships that we hold with other people can sometimes cause us a lot of stress. Think about one particular person in your life now that’s really causing you a lot of stress, and I’ll bet you that a lot of you people out there can immediately think about one particular person. It could be your employer or employee. It could be your mother-in-law. It could be your husband or wife. It could be your teenager. It could be the next-door neighbor. I bet you there’s someone that’s causing you stress.

Now those sorts of stresses are quite incredible in terms of their effect on your health a lot more than “Is this food organic? Can this vitamin C cause gut irritation?” Many people start to look too close at home with tangible, physical things that manifest stress in their body, but they don’t look at the emotional causes of stress.

So that’s a bit of food for thought for you today. Think about something that’s really getting up your nose, causing you a lot of problems, something that you worry about, have anxiety about, those are the sort of things that I want you to consider carefully if you can’t shake a chronic yeast infection.

Dr. Edward Bach, a very famous doctor who lived in England in the 1920s, gave a public address on the emotional causes of stress in London, and he was virtually laughed at. Because back in those days, they had no belief that stress caused any kind of physical problem. But one of Bach’s favorite quotations is “No true healing can take place unless there is a change in a person’s outlook, their mode of living, their way of life.”

Maybe you need to make some changes if you can’t shake that chronic yeast infection. So that’s a bit of food for thought for you today. Thank you for tuning into my video.

Greetings, Eric Bakker, naturopath, author of Candida Crusher.

Today, I’d like to do a video about parasites. Particularly about Blastocystis hominis and Dientamoeba fragilis. Now those names maybe sound a bit funny to you, and some people may even think that I’m reading a few lines out of Harry Potter or a book like that. But I can tell you now; I’m not really talking about witchcraft or giving you any false leads here.

Blastocystis hominis is a very common parasite found in third-world countries. But not just third world, we find it also in many western countries. In fact, it’s estimated that 25 to 30 percent of people with irritable bowel syndrome have a Blasto infection, so they’re relatively common. These are tiny little parasites and just like Candida albicans, Blasto lives in the digestive system of many, many different people, many healthy people, but it lives in balance and it’s kept in check by the beneficial bacteria. But when out of balance, Blasto can create a lot of problems for people.

Many times I pick up Blastocystis hominis on a stool test. It’s relatively common. This is why I’m a big fan of CDSA times three or Comprehensive Digestive Stool Analysis times three stool samples. Stool is collected on three concurrent days and checked. So you can see on the screen the link now. You want to take note of that link. If you’re interested in doing a stool test, you can work with that link and get a stool test performed much cheaper than you will through your doctor. Let’s have a little bit more of a look at Blasto, what it is, what it does, how we can eradicate it, and take it from there.

How do you know you’ve got a Blasto infection or a Dientamoeba infection? How would you know? You don’t really know because the symptoms are quite similar to a chronic yeast infection. They can be bloating, gas, irritability, you can have lots of mushy stools, you can even have explosive diarrhea. Constipation can alternate with diarrhea. So you may think that you, in fact, have got a Candida infection, but you could well have a Blastocystis infection. The only real way you’re going to find out is by doing a stool test. And oftentimes, you’ll find that if you have got Blasto in all three stool samples, you’ve probably got Candida as well and other kinds of bacteria and parasites.

We haven’t got enough time in this video to explain stool testing in detail. When we do a stool test, we can check for the beneficial bacteria, the commensals, and the pathogenic, the bad bacteria. The commensals can go either way. I call them the “politicians” of the gut. They can go good if there’s good people around. They can go bad if there’s bad people around, so they’re influenced by what’s occurring around them to a degree. But Blasto in great numbers is very bad, and they create a lot of problems with people, lots of headaches and tiredness, and an increasing amount of food allergies.

Many people I see with chronic Blasto infections, in fact, they’ve got their diet down to five or six foods. They think they’ve got really big problems with food allergies. They can even have bits of blood coming out in their stool or mucus. They can feel completely stoned or spaced out and feel very sick. These are very sick patients when they’ve got severe Blasto infections. And I’ve had many people contact me from around the world thinking they have Candida when, in fact, they have a Blasto infection.

How do we treat Blasto? How do we eradicate this thing? Doctors will tell you, in fact, that Blasto infections don’t really cause anything apart from diarrhea. Some doctors I’ve spoken to say, “Well, it’s a bit of a nuisance infection, but it doesn’t cause any problem.” The problem is it causes a real problem with people because the recurrence rates are high. We can nail this thing. Seventy-five to 90 percent we can eradicate, but the recurrence rate is quite grave on it. That’s why I usually say retest after several months with effective treatment.

There’s medical treatment, pharmaceutical; we’ll often use what I call triple therapy, three drugs, a bit like Helicobacter infection; and there’s natural treatment. Natural treatment, of course, is what I’m going to promote. Grapefruit seed extract is one of my favorites for Blasto infections, so you may want to look at another video I’ve completed on grapefruit seed extract to hear me talk more about that one. Suffice it to say, this is a serious problem. You may not have Candida. You may have Blasto.

Dientamoeba fragilis is another bug which you often find with Blasto – quite similar – it creates the same problems. You can get on top of it. The recurrence rate is high, but don’t give up. It will often need two or three treatments to successfully eradicate it.

So I hope that was some good information there for you today. Thanks for tuning in.