Category: Candida Crusher FAQ Videos

Thank you for checking out this video. What is Candida brain fog? I often get asked by people. Why is my brain feel like cotton wool and more foggy up there? I’ve got mental confusion. I can’t think clearly. I seem to be in a world of my own. I feel stoned or spaced out. Eric, help me out. I’m a bit worried here. Brain fog is a term that’s used by people when there’s a certain element of mental confusion where they can’t really think clearly or rationally. They don’t know what the heck’s going on.

There are many reasons why you could be feeling like this that may not be Candida related. We could be looking at heavy metal toxicity. Mercury, for example, in higher amounts can cause brain fog and it commonly does. The term “mad as a hatter” came from years ago when people used to use mercury for putting felt inside hats, and hat makers used to go crazy because the mercury would cause neuro toxicity.

If you’ve got brain fog, a hair analysis is probably quite a good idea to determine what your level of mercury is or cadmium or arsenic or lead, one of those four sulfhydryl metals is very important to determine if you’ve got heavy metal toxicity. High calcium levels, low potassium and low zinc levels are often found in a hair analysis as well. This will give you an indication also if you’ve got a copper imbalance. A copper imbalance is something that is commonly found, too. Zinc to copper ratios can be pretty screwed up in people with bad mental confusion.

The other thing with brain fog, probably much more common that I see in the clinic, is bowel toxemia or toxins in the bowel, so bad bacteria producing indoles and skatoles and cadaverine and various types of chemicals that get liberated in the blood stream by these bacteria that get into the brain. Lack of beneficial bacteria is the number one cause of brain fog, I can tell you now. It’s not Candida. It’s the lack of beneficial bacteria.

How do I know this? Well, I’ve completed many, many, many hundreds of stool tests over the years, over 1,000 stool tests on Candida patients, and in most cases, when the patient had severe brain fog, I found NG or null growth on the lacto bacillus species, no growth, none. We couldn’t detect any on culture. The people with the lowest beneficial bacteria levels had the worst brain fog of all.

Some of these people didn’t even have Candida. We couldn’t culture it in these people, but because they had such low beneficial bacteria, it allowed the bad bacteria to go crazy. It’s a little bit like the police or the military presence isn’t there and these ISIS militants or these crazy terrorists just get out of control and start dropping bombs and chopping people up.

The bad bacteria in your bowel can do a similar thing. They create a lot of gases and by products that can make you feel all spaced out in the presence of low beneficial bacteria. You really need to get the beneficial bacteria up when you’ve got brain fog. And sometimes, it’s not just a matter of taking probiotics because probiotics can make some people much worse. You may be one of those people watching this video now with brain fog. You took a probiotic and got 10 times worse. This is where you need to get expert help from somebody to really determine what’s going on in the bowel, what level of beneficial bacteria you’ve got and commensals, which are what we call transitional bacteria going from good or bad and the bad guys you’ve got. This needs to be determined first before we can decide what we’re going to do.

I can tell you now. Brain fog can be cured 100 percent. I’ve helped many hundreds of patients get rid of their brain fog. I’ve got really, really grateful patients as a result. Because you can’t work, you can’t even drive a car sometimes when your brain fog is that bad.

Let’s just recap on that. Check for heavy metals. Urinalysis is probably a good thing to do if you’ve got brain fog. Check for gut dysbiosis. Make sure that you do a stool test and a hair test if you’ve got severe brain fog. These are two very clever things to do to give you an indication on what’s going on. There’s no doubt 20 other reasons why people have brain fog, but what I just mentioned in this video is a very good explanation of some of the prime causes of brain fog and what you can do about it.

I hope that answers your question.

Thank you for checking this video out. Is leaky gut Candida? Is leaky gut Candida itself or is it associated with Candida? Can you explain this please?

Well, what you’re going to find is leaky gut or intestinal permeability is not generally caused by Candida, but there’s often a big association between them both. Many people develop leaky gut syndrome as a consequence of their diet or lifestyle. In fact, most patients I see have some type of intestinal permeability.

This is a real problem today, and we see it particularly with people with poor lifestyles. People who aren’t resting up enough. People eating the wrong kind of foods. People who are relying on medications, all sorts of medications for the stomach, for their joints for inflammation, headache pills, all sorts of pills. They can affect the digestion quite a lot.

Some foods that contribute to leaky gut in my opinion are commercial poultry with quite a lot of antibiotics in it. You’d be surprised how many antibiotics are put in commercial poultry that’s quite inexpensive, so these foods destroy a lot of the beneficial bacteria and contribute to leaky gut. You may not be aware of that.

How do you know you’ve got leaky gut? What are some of the signs and symptoms of it? Food intolerance, bloating, a lot of gas, flatulence, these are typical signs and symptoms of leaky gut syndrome. Change in bowel habit when the bowel’s a bit all over the place can be a sign there as well.

I would say that in my opinion that most people with Candida have some degree of leaky gut. A quick way to overcome this, of course, is to include some fermented or cultured foods into the diet. Remove the poor dietary choices that you’re making, particularly sugars and alcohols and foods like that. Abstain from all pharmaceutical medications is a good step in the right direction. Eating a lot more fresh foods and in summer, I like people to eat raw foods like fresh salads. Cut up your own foods. Grow your own foods if you can.

I’ve got a large vegetable garden, so I tend to grow a lot of leafy greens and all the brassicas, all the solanaceaes and tomatoes, egg plants, capsicums, all the herbs. I grow large amounts of parsley and mint, basil, oregano, thyme, rosemary; I grow all of the herbs. We tend to cook with lots of fresh foods. I have usually stir-fries every day for lunch, which are partially cooked foods and I put in there lots of spring onions, the Chinese vegetables that go in there. This is a good dietary approach. These sorts of foods are going to heal the leaky gut.

Fresh foods contain enzymes. Enzymes allow the body to break the foods down rapidly and extract more goodness from them. Cooked foods don’t do that. Cooked foods are harder to digest, so easy to digest foods. A good way to look and understand if your bowel is healthy is to look at the bowel motions themselves. Well-formed bowel motions and easily eliminated is a sign of a healthy bowel generally. Especially if there’s no bloating and there’s minimal gas. That tells you that you’re not eating a lot of bad sugars. That you’re eating plenty of fiber and you’ve got a good water content to the diet as well. These are manners to overcome leaky gut syndrome. And also Candida hates a diet that is full of these sorts of fresh vegetables and fruits.

Initially with Candida, you need to be careful of the fruits, but over a period of time, you can eat all the fruits again. Fruits generally can upset a person with severe yeast infection, so that’s just a couple of good ideas for you.

Last tip that I’ll leave you with is to really try to increase the amount of cultured or fermented foods you eat. This will really help you overcome leaky gut, particularly if you like foods like sauerkraut that I do. I recently cut up eight cabbages and made up a large amount of sauerkraut. I also enjoy kefir culture. Kefir is very simple to make at home and so is sauerkraut. Yogurt’s easy to make at home. Kimchee is easy to make at home. You’ll find all of these foods on yeastinfection.org. I write a bit about them.

By the way, don’t forget to do my quiz, my Candida quiz, on yeastinfection.org or on CandidaCrusher.com.

Thank you for tuning into this video today.

I’m going to talk a little bit more about Lufenuron now, the chitin synthesis inhibitor again and how ridiculous it is for Candida patients to take this product.

In 2005, there was an article written by the University of California, I believe, I think it was in a veterinary journal saying that it clearly showed that Lufenuron did not work against inhibiting chitin development, basically. It didn’t really work. They found this really through microscopy and through various other ways of research. It was proven it was not an effective product.

If you’re going to look at trying to get rid of Candida, why would you want to use a product that was designed to kill fleas in cats and dogs? Why would you want to do that? This is crazy! I really believe the old saying that it is “morally wrong to ask suckers to keep their money” and “a fool and his money is soon parted.” Think this through carefully, folks. Why would you want to take a product designed to kill fleas you think is going to eradicate Candida?

I’ve told you many times before in these videos that the only real way to get rid of a yeast infection is by looking at the causes and tackling the causes, killing is a waste of time. Inhibiting the Candida makes a lot of sense, but I firmly believe that the best way to inhibit and eradicate Candida is not just by focusing on Candida. It’s by focusing on your digestive system in general. Improving the beneficial strains. Eradicating various types of bacteria as well.

Many patients who I do stool analysis on have all kinds of bacteria in their bowel like clostridium that need eradicating. And many people have this false belief that the only thing they’ve got to kill is Candida. This is a stupid belief. It’s about bringing the good ones up and the bad ones down. It’s about eating the right kind of foods that support the beneficial bacteria. It’s about understanding the connection between high or low cortisol levels and how they affect your immune system, which increases your susceptibility to getting and maintaining Candida.

There’s a whole lot of things you need to look at if you want to get rid of Candida for good, but taking a product to kill Candida like Lufenuron is plain dumb. You’re going to waste your money. And like a whole lot of patients that I see, you’re probably going to get sick, headaches, vomiting, nausea, diarrhea, itchy skin, liver toxicity, the list goes on and on and on. So don’t fall for Lufenuron or these products with false promise.

Look at the website, Candida Cleanser website, for example, how they make out that diets don’t work. You’re wasting your time with diets. Anyone that tells you that diets don’t work in eradicating yeast infection to me is like some radical militant organization telling you that you’ll be shot dead if you can’t read from the Koran. This is just insanity. It doesn’t work like that. Just avoid these kind of people.

These people that market these products are clearly not medically qualified. They’ve never seen patients. They’re just trying to push a product for a high price to make a quick buck. These people are fly-by-nights. Think it through carefully. Do they offer you lots of free information like I do? No, they don’t.

Have a look at yeastinfection.org. You get tons of free information. No cost to you. Just by following the information on yeastinfection.org, you’ll probably get rid of Candida without even spending a dime. I’m not here to make bucks out of patients. These videos aren’t designed to generate high profit at all. I wouldn’t spend many hundreds of hours writing a book, thousands of hours writing a book, or doing all these videos purely thinking about profit.

I’m also concerned about patients. I’ve been seeing patients for 26 years now. I’ve seen these scams come and go over the years. Don’t fall for Lufenuron or this Candida cleansing chitin product. Think about it logically for a minute. Keep your money. Try different ways to get rid of Candida.

I hope this gives you some information. Thanks for tuning in today.