Category: Candida Crusher FAQ Videos

Thank you for checking out this YouTube channel and thank you for tuning into this video today. Heres a question Ive been asked from a lady in Australia. How long is Candida die off? How long does it take for me to finally overcome these dreadful feelings that Ive got a die off?

Ive done a few videos on Candida die off and lets get one thing straight. Are you sure that its Candida die off? Are you sure its not something else? Many people I see and have consultations with swear that theyre getting Candida die off, but in fact theyre not getting that at all. Theyre getting a totally different reaction. Theyre getting a detox reaction or theyre getting a reaction to a change in diet or theyre getting a change in the way they feel because theyve withdrawn certain foods from the diet.

So there are different reasons why you could be getting the feelings that youre getting, and you may misconstrue these feelings and believe that its actually what we call a Herxheimer Reaction or a die off. True die off occurs when lots of Candida die and release their contents into the digestive system. Not in the bloodstream. Youre not going to kill millions of Candida in the bloodstream and theyre going to create a toxic reaction. Its usually always in the gut.

When that occurs, you can feel pretty sick and toxic. Normally, its going to last anywhere between two days up to about 10 days. Generally, I would find five to seven days, and usually the first 24 to 72 hours are the most intense and toxic experience, and then it will taper off, then youll feel fine again.

How can you avoid die off? You can avoid die off with common sense like anything in life, but remember, Ive told you guys this before. Common sense isnt very common with a lot of people out there who are treating for Candida.

If youve got severe Candida, if youve got major brain fog, if you feel spaced out and youve got joint pain and youre very sick, youre tired, youve got a lot of gut problems, then you need to be very careful when you start on a course of treatment, particularly a strong antifungal treatment. If you go too quickly into something and take like a mega dose, there is a possibility youre going to set yourself up for a fall. Youre going to feel pretty crappy. What you want to do is go into it nice and slowly, nice and gently.

I look at the sensitivity of the patient. I mentioned before there are three types of patients I see. Theres the normal people like me and you most probably. They account probably for about 75 to 80 percent of people, and these people dont usually have violent reactions to things that they take. They can take B vitamins. They can take fish oils. They can take multivitamins, vitamin C; they can take all sorts of things. Theyre not allergic to pharmaceuticals. They dont generally react to things quickly. They can generally find that they wont usually experience die off, and if they do, its very mild.

The people who experience die off the most are the ones who are sensitive and particularly what I call the supersensitive. The supersensitive are people that react to everything in life. They can take one vitamin C tablet and feel sick for two days. They can take a B vitamin and they can have like a bad headache or not sleep for two or three days. Theyve got known allergies and reactions to multiple foods, chemicals, drugs, all sorts of things. If you know that youre very, very sensitive, then you need to be very, very careful if youve got Candida because youre the person most likely to experience the strongest reaction when you go on the correct course of treatment.

The regular patient will not experience this unless they do something dumb like take 50 antifungal tablets in one day, which some people do, by the way. Ive had some patients take 30 to 60, even 90 tablets per day thinking that theyre going to get rid of it fast. Theres no real benefit to that. All youre going to do is make yourself feel sick.

How do you know youre not experiencing an aggravation in terms of your diet? How do you know youre not experiencing a withdrawal from caffeine or another food? Many people who start on an anti-Candida approach make multiple changes at the onset too quick, too soon, too many. That is a silly thing to do because then youre not really sure where these feelings are coming from. Lets just say you were drinking three or four cups of coffee a day or five or six and you stop all of a sudden, you started to change your food quite rapidly in the same week and you took an antifungal and perhaps a probiotic all in the same week and then you get sick and then you turn around to me and say, “Its a die off.” Well, hang on a minute. What about the caffeine reaction? Maybe that could account for the skull-piercing headache you had for three days. What about the fact that you stopped bread or gluten all of a sudden? That could make the gut change. Bowel flora can change quite rapidly, too, with a diet change and that can make you feel quite spaced out, sick and bloating.

If you really want to know whether youve got die off or not is make the diet change very, very slowly and then very slowly introduce an antifungal. If you really want to know whether its die off or not, dont make any changes to the diet, just take the antifungal itself and then maybe take three or even four, even six doses per day. If you experience bad feelings with the antifungal medication, this could well be related to die off, but dont get confused. Too many people I see get confused and dont really understand what die off is. If its true die off, its going to last as I mentioned between two days to about seven to ten days max, but normally around five or six days.

I hope that answers your question. Thank you.

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Is Candida a parasite, has been asked recently. A guy wrote in on email and said to me, “Eric is Candida a parasite? Is it parasitic?”

Yes, it is. It is parasitic because it feeds off the body and it doesn’t off the host and it doesn’t give anything back in return. That’s the definition of a parasite. I’ve just had a look at Killzone and various other websites to read people’s explanations of Candida whether it’s a parasite or not. There’s some pretty dumb stuff written on Killzone, by the way, by people self-proclaimed what I call “armchair experts.”

“Candida” one guy said, “must be killed at all costs. We’ve got to get rid of it. We’ve got to annihilate it entirely from the body.” That’s pretty dumb. You can’t do that. Candida is a normally occurring organism in the body of most people. It occurs in the vaginal area of 30 percent of women as a normal organism. Even though it’s parasitic, it lives in a normal balance inside the gut of a lot of people. There are many different yeasts that live inside our bodies and bacteria. It’s a silly idea to assume that we’ve got to eradicate Candida. We don’t. We’ve got to keep it under control.

It’s the same as criminals. You’ll never eradicate criminals, but we can control them with the right kind of legal, the police and things like that around them, they’re under control. They’re kept under check. Most people won’t do bad things if there are a lot of good people around. It’s the same in your digestive system. If you’ve got a lot of good bacteria, the bad ones aren’t going to get up to much mischief.

Inside the gut we’ve got the good, we’ve got the not so good, and we’ve got the ugly. There’s a whole lot of species of beneficial bacteria that live perfectly well in harmony with the not so good and the bad. You’ll never get a gut that eradicates all bad and all mischievous bacteria and just have good. It doesn’t work like that. Everything in life is ying and yang. It’s night and day. It’s black and white. It’s a balance. The gut is no different. There needs to be a semblance of order there.

Candida should not be killed off. It should be kept under check and controlled. When you’re out of control with stupid diets and weird lifestyles and staying up until 3 o’clock in the morning, not sleeping enough and stressing too much, when you’re way out of control, you’re going to get sick, and this is how Candida gets the upper hand.

When you’re eating crappy foods and drinking sodas and skipping breakfast and having maybe a beer and a bit of pizza for dinner at night and paying no attention to your lifestyle, this is how you get Candida. When you get sick and you repeatedly take antibiotics or you take the oral contraceptive pill or you pay no attention at all to what you’re eating or drinking, this is how you get Candida. When you live in a moldy house. When you work late nights or do shift work like a nurse as a patient I had yesterday working weird shifts and wondering why she’s always coughing and sick. Major thyroid and adrenal dysfunction because she’s got a complete problem with work/life balance, got divorced five years ago, living alone with a child, very unhappy, more stress, eating carb foods because she’s unhappy, eating chocolate before her period every month, not happy. This is why she’s got Candida.

People get sick for a reason. Nothing happens in this life per chance. Everything happens for a reason, and if you can work out that reason, if you can try to work out why you got sick, the things you did that contributed to the Candida overgrowth, get the balance back again, then you’re the intelligent patient I’d like to see because you’re going to get well.

The stupid patients I see are the ones who get well with drugs or antifungals and they go back to the same lifestyle. They get sick again and they try to nail it again. Some people are on this roller coaster for years. Don’t be one of those people. Try to understand the link between cause and effect. It’s intelligent. That’s how you get well.

Forget eradicating Candida. It doesn’t work. Think about the balance. That’s the intelligent approach.

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Thank you for looking at my video today. Is a white tongue a sign of Candida, is a question that was asked of me by a lady in Hungary. Let’s have a look at what a white tongue really is.

When people talk about a white tongue, generally, what they mean is a coating on the inside of the tongue, a white coating. What you’ll find is it will tend to be a bit thicker and darker at the back of the tongue and a little bit lighter in the middle of tongue.

Having a white-coated tongue is not necessarily an indication of Candida. It’s an indication of dysbiosis or bad bacteria, so bacteria are often a really big problem with many people who eat the wrong kind of foods. You’ll typically see this with people that eat sugar-laden foods, have soda drinks, that smoke cigarettes, that have a high carb rich diet. You’ll also see it in people who tend to be very stressed out, have a lot of anxiety. People who take lots of pharmaceutical medications. You’ll see it in shift workers because of their erratic lifestyles. You’ll see it in many different kinds of people. You’ll often see it in babies, too, particularly younger children who’ve had a round of antibiotics. You’ll see white tongue coating in them.

Many people on different medications affecting their liver or kidneys can have a yellow coating on the tongue, so a color on the tongue indicates a sick digestive system. A digestive system that needs rejuvenation, that needs overhaul. When I see a patient with a white coating on the tongue, it’s probably like what a green keeper if he or she would got out and look at a lawn that’s in serious need of renovation. A lawn that’s got weeds on it, dead patches on it, that’s been compacted that needs rejuvenation. That lawn keeper would look at that lawn and think, “What am I going to do here? I’ve got quite a lot of work on my hands.” But eventually that lawn will look beautiful with a lot of care and attention.

Just like a person’s tongue can be lovely pink and clean with the right kind of attention to eating the right kind of foods, chewing food properly, drinking plenty of clean water, all the basic things that we recommend to build good health back up again.

A white tongue is often a sign of bad bowel flora. The bad bowel flora may encompass Candida; it may not. I’ve seen many patients with serious Candida with a pink tongue, so you can’t always say that a white tongue always is a red flag for Candida. It is not. The quickest way to clean up the tongue is not to focus on the tongue itself, but is to focus on the stomach first, the pancreas or central region of digestion, and then work your way lower down.

Many people my age, 50+, have got a low functioning stomach. A low functioning stomach will mean you’re not breaking food down properly. You’re not creating the right pH level up here to activate the proenzymes in the pancreas to the active form; therefore, you’re not giving the small bowel and the large bowel the right kind of substrate. If the food isn’t broken down properly in the other part of the digestive system, it’s going to cause a lot of problem further downstream because the beneficial bacteria need food sufficiently broken down to thrive on. If the food’s broken down properly, you can extract all the goodness out of it and build your health right up again.

These are the sort of things that contribute to the white tongue. Eating in front of the television. Eating late at night. Skipping meals. Not having breakfast. Having a coffee and a cigarette for breakfast instead of a meal. These are things that contribute to white tongue. Stay on Facebook at night or using your iPad in bed when you should be sleeping. These are things that contribute to white tongue.

White tongue is often also associated with gas and bloating, so if you’ve got bloating and gas or a lot of flatulence or farting and white tongue, we know you’ve got serious dysbiosis. Worst-case scenario is people who actually have wind or gas when they’re walking or standing up. These people usually need to seriously work on their gut function. If that’s you, check out some of my other videos regarding digestive system health and Candida because that’s going to give you a lot of good information.

Don’t forget to complete my quiz, my yeast infection quiz, on yeastinfection.org or CandidaCrusher.com. That will give you some very good indication on what your level of severity of Candida is.

I hope that’s answered the question today. Thank you and have a great day.