Category: Candida Crusher FAQ Videos

Lots of frequently asked questions. Here’s another one I got from a lady in America. Erik, can Candida build resistance against antifungal supplements? This is a very good question.

Well, resistance is something that we’re really concerned about when it comes to trying to find something effective to counter a fungal infection in our bodies, so what do we do? Well, it’s not really so much of a problem with natural antifungals as it is with pharmaceuticals. Pharmaceutical antifungal drugs target yeast infection. We know that they target Candida albicans. But the problem with these cells is that they target, as we call them, eukaryotic cells. They are a similar sort of cell as human cells, so they have a cell membrane and they have a nucleus in the middle. These are called eukaryotic cells.

The antifungal drugs target cells that are eukaryotic, so they are going to have an effect on our cells. To a lesser extent than the Candida, but they’re still going to hurt a lot of our body cells. Natural antifungals don’t really do this.

The other problem is what’s becoming a real problem with antifungal drugs is the increasing resistance of the pharmaceutical drugs to Candida albicans because Candida is quite clever. It keeps changing, mutating and becoming smarter and realizing that something is chasing it. We’re getting this resistance problem with Candida albicans with drugs like fluconazole, also called diflucan.

In December 2012, there was an article published in an interesting gynecology and obstetrics journal in America. Wayne State University, I believe, did research on this and they found that over an 11-year period, an increasing resistance of Candida albicans developing towards fluconazole, so in years to come, this drug will be useless. Just like a lot of antibiotics are becoming obsolete and useless.

Natural antifungals don’t have this problem. They don’t recognize eukaryotic cells and kill them as such. They work by other clever mechanisms to stop yeast from forming in our body. We’ve been eating garlic for thousands of years. We haven’t had diflucan for thousands of years. People know that these natural substances like oregano oil, coconut oil, Caprylic acid, undecylenic acid, Neem, clove, there are many different natural things that we’ve grown up with for generations that inhibit yeast in the body, and they do it naturally. They do it with minimal fuss without killing a whole lot of natural bacteria in the body.

These are clever things for you to take. Make sure you take an antifungal that’s broad spectrum that contains things that inhibit viruses, parasites and bacteria, so you’re not just working on fungus in the body. A clever move and I’ll tell you why. Because when you’re working across a broad spectrum like this, you’re allowing the immune system a lot of breathing space. If you’re just going to take a straight antifungal, you’re going to work a little bit like a pharmaceutical. But if you’re looking at a general product to get rid of pathogens in the body, it’s going to work a lot better for you.

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Have you checked out yeastinfection.org yet? It’s an excellent website containing hundreds of articles regarding all types of conditions in terms of yeast infection. You’ll find lots of stuff there. If you’re a guy, you’ll find lots of stuff there on jock itch. If you’re a woman, you’ll find lots of stuff on women’s yeast infections. There’s lot of solutions, so go and check that site out.

Today, I’m going to talk a little bit about athlete’s foot and jock itch. Can athlete’s foot cause jock itch? Can jock itch cause athlete’s foot? Can this particular fungal problem be transferred from the groin to the feet or from the feet to the groin?

It’s not really likely. We’ve got two different types of fungal infections here. Athlete’s foot is called tinea pedis, and jock itch is called tinea cruris, so it’s not really likely this is going to occur. And if it does occur, if you’re going to get a shift in a fungal condition on the exterior surface of the body in different areas, I mean you can even get a fungal condition around the ears. You can get it on the scalp. You can get it anywhere on the body. In my ‘20s, I had these white spots, fungal rash, all over my torso and my arms. You can get fungal skin conditions involving many types and places in the body.

You’ve got to be pretty sick and have low immune system to transfer this skin condition all around the body like that. And there’s probably a big likelihood also that you’ve got a digestive yeast infection as well. You’ll have intestinal gut problems. If you’ve got it around the scrotum, around the anal region, you have really itchy inner thighs, and you’ve got athlete’s foot, there’s no doubt you’re going to have it in the gut as well. Your digestive system will be full of fungus, too, that will need cleaning out.

Healthy people who have just got a small amount of jock itch, just a little bit here or there, and no athlete’s foot have got a lot less chance of having it in the intestinal tract. But if you’ve got it on several parts on the skin, there’s a big chance, as I said, that you’ll have it in the gut.

It’s not likely you’re going to transfer it from the feet to the groin or groin to the feet. And if you do, you probably have got a high susceptibility and a low resistance. I write about this quite a lot in my book. So when you become very susceptible because you’re immune system is not good, you can transfer this yeast anywhere in the body.

If you want to beat this thing, you really got to get your immune system working really hard out. If you get your immune system working good like it should, just like if you’ve got a good defense force or a police force working well, you’re going to have a lot amount of criminal activity, and it’s the same with your immune system. If you’ve got a good powerful immune system, you’re going to have a lower chance of bacterial or fungal infections.

Make sure you read my articles on yeastinfection.org, and also don’t forget to do my quiz; my yeast infection quiz will give you an idea on how severe you’ve got this problem, whether you’ve got mild, moderate or severe. If you come back severe on the quiz, then you’ve got a higher chance of moving it from the foot to the groin or from the groin to the foot.

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They can. They can. You’ve got different choices. Pharmaceutical choices or natural choices. I recommend you do the natural thing. Mainly because you’re not going to get the terrible side effects or long-term problems that you will from a pharmaceutical drug. You won’t get the toxicity. And the other thing I like about the antifungal supplements is a lot of them are like foods, so you can include them in with what you’re eating and not have the same liver kind of reactions of toxicities as you would have with a pharmaceutical drug.

Antifungal supplements are very good to treat Candida, and they’re very effective. You just need to start slowly on them. Take a good tablet or formula once or twice per day; build up to three times per day. Stay on this for about three months. Let this medicine work quite well. Get something in a slow release in a sort of sustained release form. A tablet is preferable, I feel, than a capsule. Take it with food. Start maybe with one tablet a day and just gradually build up to three tablets a day. If you find that you get aggravations taking a good product, you can experiment taking before, during or after meals at different times, so it will affect people differently.

So generally antifungal supplements are a very wise choice if you’ve got a Candida yeast infection, regardless whether you’ve got a vaginal infection or a jock itch or toenail or infections of the skin or throat or tongue or gut, it doesn’t matter. An antifungal dietary supplement makes a lot of sense.

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