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Greetings. Eric Bakker from New Zealand back again. We’re talking about irritable bowel syndrome. This time we’re going to talk about the causes of IBS. The way I see it, I’m just going to read some stuff I’ve got in my other computer on the four main causes of IBS the way I see it.

Infections, especially if you’ve had a SIBO or a Candida problem, could be a real big issue. Number two, lactose intolerance. Number three, food allergies and food intolerances. Number four, stress. Let’s have a look at those four things because those are four huge areas. The four big reasons why people get irritable bowel syndrome.

I also write in my book if you go to a doctor, there’s a big chance that you may be diagnosed with NAD or no abnormal diagnosis and be sent away with Metamucil or some kind of bulking agent or something like that. That’s okay. It may work for some. But if you keep getting this problem coming back, you better darn well find out what the cause is because you don’t want to have this problem for a long period of time.

Most of my IBS patients know all the lavatories in town. They know where all the toilets are, all the restrooms. A lot of these people don’t even like going out in the morning for shopping or running errands or doing things like that. This can really mess up your life. This problem. One of the worst things you can have is to have a bowel that’s not functioning optimally, so it’s imperative that you find out what the cause is. Causes addressed make a lot more sense than just treatments. Why would you want to shoot in the dark at something? You’re better off putting the spotlight on it and then just getting it in your scope and shooting it and taking it out with one hit because you’ve identified your target.

It’s very important that you understand the causes need to be sorted out. For each person, those causes may be individual. There is no such thing as one cause fits the boat for everybody. Just like saying that everybody needs to wear a red jacket or black shoes. What a load of crap. Everybody will want to wear different kind of clothes. What do you think of my groovy shirt this morning? Tracy doesn’t like this shirt. She thinks it looks a bit crappy on me, but I quite like it. She’s away today so I can wear what I want. Yeah.

As I mentioned, the four main areas I look at are infections, lactose, food allergies and food intolerances, and stress. What they found through research is nearly 80 percent of people with irritable bowel syndrome have SIBO, had SIBO or have had SIBO, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth; 80 percent. About 25 to 30 percent of people with irritable bowel syndrome have Candida or had a Candida infection. There is a big chance someone with IBS had some kind of a gut problem.

Remember we talked about infections? Yeast, bacteria, parasites. You can have Candida, which many people have in their bowel not presenting a problem because it’s in balance. We’ve got hundreds of species of bacteria in our gut and these are kept in check by other bacteria, particularly beneficial bacteria. But when the balance goes out through antibiotics or stress or for another reason, this is when an infection or an overgrowth can happen.

Up to 18 to 20 percent of people with IBS have got a parasite problem. That’s nearly like 1 in 5 who’ve got a parasite. I can tell you from over thousands of stool tests I’ve done that many, many people I see with IBS have got a yeast infection, will have a bacterial problem, or a parasite problem. When we do the stool test, we get the results back. Bingo! We found the cause. We address that immediately and often in cases, there’s a big resolution of the symptoms. Maybe not a complete disappearance because it takes some time for bowel to come back into its own.

If you’ve had a problem higher up in the small intestine or you may have had a helicobacter infection of the stomach, you may have taken a drug for that, triple therapy or antibiotics, you may have also taken a drug like Rifaximin for SIBO. In about 40 to 50 percent of cases that will work, but I can’t tell you how many hundreds of patients I’ve seen that have been through a Rifaximin treatment or a different antibiotic treatment that initially worked but then it came back again. It’s like the alcoholic. “I’ll not drink it anymore. I swear I won’t drink.” And then they stop and then they start again. Infections are often like a recovering alcoholic. They will lie to you. They will tell you they’re not going to do it again, but then they come back and haunt you again and again. Just be careful.

When promises are made that if you take an antibiotic that you will conquer this thing, you will kill it. It will not come back. I can tell you a lot of people fall for this like and it comes back. The only way you’re going to get on top of an infection and nail it permanently is by first understanding what led you into that problem in the first place. That’s A. B, effective treatment to eradicate and get things in balance, and C, the most important one is to maintain a good lifestyle and diet for a long enough period of time, which stops a recurrence. That’s the intelligent approach. The dumb approach is just to take a drug and then to go back out there again and drink all your beers and have all your crappy foods and then have crappy relationships with people and not sleep and be on Facebook all the time liking people and stuff like that. When you’re leading a balanced lifestyle, you cannot get that gut back again.

The causes. Remember we talked about the infections. We talked about SIBO. But what about lactose? Lactose is a big problem with a lot of people. If you’ve got a lactose problem, you’ve got diarrhea. Generally, diarrhea. You can get constipation from lactose, but usually you’ll be farting, bloating, and loose stools. That’s the clear one with lactose.

I can’t really tolerate cow’s milk at all. I like a little bit of cow’s milk when I have porridge in the morning. I’ve had a habit for a while of putting raw milk onto my porridge, a creamy raw milk, but then I’m sniffing and clearing my throat. In some of my videos, you may have heard me sniffing or clearing my throat. That’s particularly so if I’ve had porridge that morning and I’ve had some raw milk. I’m one of those people who can’t tolerate milk. I don’t have any milk anymore in my life. I’ve just kicked it out completely. Hopefully, it will be the end of my sniffing and throat clearing.

Be careful of lactose and if you’ve got IBS, especially diarrhea and bloating, stop any dairy products for a while and see if that could be the cause. Simple. Just stop. Stop for about two months and see what happens to your gut. That includes cheese, all kinds of milks, just be careful, particularly cow’s milk. I wouldn’t go as far as to say stop goat’s milk. Butter is always fine. I don’t find butter a problem. I’ve never seen a butter allergy, but I’ve seen plenty of dairy allergies. That’s the primary one I want you to think about is lactose when it comes to IBS for many people, especially Asian people, fair skinned people. There are a lot of people who can’t really tolerate lactose. They may be drinking milk now and not even understanding the link between that and their diarrhea.

Third one, food allergies and food intolerances. People who’ve had SIBO for a while often develop leaky gut. People who drink alcohol. There are many reasons why you could get leaky gut. Leaky gut often leads to a big problem with tolerating foods. Many people get issues with their pancreas. You might see my little microscope thing here in the corner and wonder what the heal that is. I’ve been looking at eyes now for nearly 30 years, so I do eyedeology. One of the interesting things I find with many people is pancreatic dysfunction. That’s one of the glands that often shows up in the eye. The kidneys show up. The pancreas shows up.

I had a very interesting case a few days ago of a lady. I looked at the eyes and she was 63 and I said, “Something doesn’t add up here. I can’t see kidney function showing up. I can’t see pancreas showing up. It’s almost like you’re in your 20s or 30s. What’s happened?” She said, “I’m a Jehovah’s Witness. I don’t drink any coffee or tea. I have no alcohol. I eat an extremely clean diet and I only drink water and occasionally herbal teas.” You could see it in the eye. That kind of lifestyle had paid off. Cause and effect. Food allergies, food intolerances. Check out my videos on those because you can see a lot of information I’ve already done on that.

Stress. Stress accounts for about 25 up to 30 percent of IBS. Did it initially cause IBS? No. I believe that it came along. There was a trigger. The person had a dysfunctional lifestyle for a while with their gut and because they were stressed often. Stress comes along and it just keeps the bowel in a dysfunctional state. When you’ve got IBS really bad like some of my patients have, it’s almost like living like a person whose got cancer on chemotherapy. Your quality of life is not really there. You become asocial. You don’t like going out eating. I wonder if there’s a Google ap where you can find all the toilets because that might be a good business idea for me to make an irritable bowel syndrome ap for people where all the toilets are.

The point I’m making is when you’ve got stress, you get autonomic dysfunction. I will have completed some videos on this topic already no doubt. Stress plays a massive role in initiating the problem to get out of hand and to maintain it to keep it in a bad position. Particularly if you’ve got a thyroid or an adrenal problem as well and you’re a nervous person, irritated person, you have insomnia, you have mood issues or cognitive dysfunction. If you’ve got those kinds of patterns and you’ve got irritable bowel syndrome, you don’t just want to target the gut. You want to target other causes that are higher up, which is going to help the bowel come back into its own good form again.

There is a huge link between the bowel and cognition. Many, many people I see with brain fog or can’t think with clarity have got a bowel problem. I’ve seen this quite a lot. Get your comprehensive stool analysis completed. I can’t stress that enough. If you want to really understand the cause of IBS, one of the first things I recommend you do is a comprehensive stool analysis, including parasitology, three samples. Get that done. It’s going to cost you a couple of hundred dollars, but you’ll have some answers. You’ll at least be able to eliminate that line of inquiry or say, “Hang on. What have I got here? I’ve got blastocysts. What the hell is that? Some kind of a weird food or something. What kind of bug is this?”

Establish the cause and then think about the treatment. Think about that. The next video we’re going to do in this series will be “Signs and symptoms of IBS.” Catch up with me in the next video. Click on the link down below if you haven’t already got my free Candida report. Thanks for tuning in.

Greetings. Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand. Author of Candida Crusher. Thanks for checking out my video once again. I also want to thank everybody for all the wonderful comments I’m getting on the YouTube channel. I really appreciate them. I try to answer them as much as I can. Apart from the crazy ones that I just delete, which I only get every now and then.

Today, we’re going to talk about pharmaceutical medications. Pharmaceutical drugs and their interactions. This is an area that not many people talk about and it’s also an area that I don’t think many people in the natural medicine business are familiar with, dabble in, or get involved in and that’s pharmaceutical medications.

Many people take pharmaceutical drugs. I’m not one of these people who are either for or against pharmaceutical medications because many people long term will take some kind of a drug, whether it be a sleeping pill, an antidepressant. It could be drug to regulate thyroid function. It could be a drug for epilepsy, an anticonvulsant. It could be insulin to regulate their Type 1 diabetes.

There are many reasons people take pharmaceutical medications. People can also take pharmaceutical medications to switch off pain like headaches or period pain or back pain. If you live in the States, how many times have you seen an advertisement just to take a pill if you’ve got a headache or just to take a pill if you’ve got period pain? We get these ads here on TV in New Zealand as well. It’s crazy how many advertisements I see for pharmaceutical drugs. They’re even advertising anti-psychotic medication on TV. “Check to see with your doctor if you’ve got schizophrenia and this drug might be suitable for you.” Then you see all the tiny little side effects down at the bottom. That is inappropriate.

What we’re going to talk about is the interactions of pharmaceutical medications, particularly with diet and lifestyle and also natural medicine supplements. This is something I see a lot of patients being affected by. Only the other day I had a young man I saw who developed convulsions. He came to me and he said, “Eric, I’m in my 50s.” And he developed convulsions. It’s something he’s never had before. He had it about three or four weeks ago and I was quite alarmed so I said, “Well, let’s just have a look what’s going on.”

When I took the case and I had a really good look at the medications he was taking, he was taking an antidepressant and a sleeping pill. Then when I inquired further about his lifestyle, I found that he was drinking beer. The doctor didn’t actually tell him that you couldn’t drink alcohol with the strong medications he was on. A few weeks prior to the convulsions he was drinking beer on a regular basis and then he was working with his son hard out working in the yard building a fence or something. It was quite warm weather. He drank about 10 or 15 beers over a period of a weekend. Then he developed a major convulsion. Lying on the ground writhing away. His son had to call the ambulance. Of course a trip to the doctor and the doctor basically said, “Well, that’s it. You’ve lost your driver’s license for 12 months.” This guy was pretty devastated about that. But when we had a good look at the case, it was clear cut interaction between the antidepressant and the alcohol.

If you’re drinking alcohol, even small amounts of alcohol, let’s just say a glass of wine once or twice a week, a couple of cans a beer once or twice a week, and you’re taking any kind of pharmaceutical medication, you’re really walking a tight rope. It’s a very dangerous risky game. Why is that? That’s because drugs have to be metabolized by the liver. But the liver is also the same organ that helps to metabolize alcohol. Those two things often clash. If you look in the drug guide, your doctor will have one of these drug guides and the drug guide clearly states with many medications that you need to avoid drinking alcohol. But this is not told to many people. It’s not just alcohol. You may be eating far too much of one particular food. I’ve seen interactions with a high fat and even a Paleo diet with people taking multiple medications at the same time.

If you’re taking a pharmaceutical medication, what I’d like you to do is go to Drugs.com or go to a different website than that and carefully print out all the information on adverse effects and reactions. Just print out all the pages and then get yourself one of these highlighters and then I want you to highlight all of the relevant areas, all the areas that stand out to you.

When I spoke with this young man who had the convulsion, I looked the drug up in the book and I said, “Do you suffer from da, ta, da, ta, da, all these side effects?” He said, “Eric, I’ve got all of those. Every single one of them.” And I said, “Why didn’t you talk to your doctor about it?” “I did, but the doctor didn’t see a link.” Many doctors don’t see the links between side effects and drugs. What they will do is give a subsequent drug to treat that new disease. Then sometimes I’ve seen people being treated for side effects of drugs that were given to treat side effects of drugs. That’s how crazy it is.

Also be careful taking natural medicines when you’re taking pharmaceutical medicines because there can be an interaction there as well. You need to check with your practitioner first if you’re taking any kind of drug long term to see (a) is it interacting with any kind of food or drinks you’re taking on a regular basis. It could be tea, coffee or alcohol. It could be different kind of food you’re eating. You may have noticed that when you started taking that drug, the symptoms got worse that you already had or other symptoms appeared. You need to talk to your doctor about that; (b) you need to make sure that the drugs you’re taking if you’re taking more than one don’t interact together. This is a very, very important thing to do; and (c) if you’re coming to someone like me for a consultation or a naturopath or a doctor and you’ve developed these symptoms, make sure they’re not related to the drug that you’re taking.

Classic symptoms are attached to classic drugs. For example, I’m interested in growing roses, so I notice that some roses have got a very strong fragrance. Others have got quite unusual habits. How the petals will drop with a little bit of wind. Other roses clash when you put them together. The scents will clash. It’s the same with pharmaceutical drugs. A little bit of studying up and a bit of reading up and you’ll soon become an informed and aware person. Knowing what he or she is taking to see if there is any link between that and how you’re feeling. It’s very important to do that. Go back to your doctor and talk about these effects that you could be getting. They may be able to switch you to a drug, decrease the dosage, or take you off that drug altogether, and that would be a really good thing for you to do.

I’d just thought I’d put this video up to alarm you about pharmaceutical drugs. I get these reports from people, particularly women taking the oral contraceptive pill, antidepressants, tablets like Zopiclone, sleeping pill, I get lots of people complaining about those with the side effects. Many medications. You could even be looking at acetaminophen, drugs like that, paracetamol can cause a lot of problems. In fact, one of the leading causes of hospital admissions for liver failure in America is not alcohol, it’s in fact paracetamol or acetaminophen, you guys call it over there. That drug does work at all with coffee, tea or alcohol. You can get very sick doing that. That’s very much Russian roulette. Check out the drug you’re on.

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Greetings! It’s naturopath from New Zealand Eric Bakker. I’m the author of Candida Crusher. Thanks for checking out my video today. We’re going to talk about Taheebo or Lapacho or Pau D’arco, which is the beautiful brownish red colored inner bark from a big rain forest tree that grows in Brazil in the rain forest. It’s been used for a long, long time by a native Indian people in South America for a wide range of conditions. Bowel conditions, colitis, hemorrhoids, constipation, and many different types of cancers of the head, the neck, the throat, the digestive system. So this is a plant that’s been used for a long, long time. It’s been researched quite well, too.

Now the problem with Taheebo or Pau D’arco is the adulteration with inferior species. They’re chopping whole trees down and using the inner heartwood when they should be using the inner bark. It’s a little bit like the sandy climb of the slippery elm tree in Canada and the northern parts of America. They’re used by many different Indian tribes for many generations and now, unfortunately, just about disappeared out of the wild because of fools coming in there and just chopping all the trees down.

The slippery elm is one of my favorite herbs. It’s a beautiful deep pink colored powder, which is a fantastic product for the digestive system, but Taheebo or Pau D’arco you can use very effectively as an anti-fungal. So here’s what you do. Just get yourself some of the tea and then this is just a packet I’ve got here, but I’m sure you’ll find it in your country as well. Now I don’t want to make a mess all over my computer so I’m going to put the paper down. This is what the stuff looks like. So, I’ll hold it up-it’s sort of like a browny colored bark. You can see in here a nice bark. I’ll bring that up a bit closer to the screen. There you go. That’s the bark of the Taheebo.

What you want to do is you want to probably get around about a good three level tablespoons of this powdery stuff. Just get one of those plastic baking teaspoon measurements. Get about three tablespoons and level them off and then chuck that into a pot. Get a stainless steel or glass pot. Don’t use aluminum. It’s crap. Don’t use aluminum saucepots at all. A cast-iron pot is okay, too. So three level tablespoons you put in there, and then you put in about three to four cups, usually about four cups, about 1,000 mils or one liter. Four 250 mil cups of cold water you put in on top of it. And use a good quality water. Don’t use fluoridated or tap water or some junk like that. Use preferably bottled water-a good quality water. Make sure it’s cold water. Don’t put boiling water on it at all. Bad idea. This is not how you make Taheebo tea. Cold water on top of the bark, put the lid on it, and bring it to the boil.

So turn it up, I generally stir it in really thoroughly. Get my hand in there and just crunch it all up, get the water in there. It’ll start discoloring a little bit at that stage, and then I will just get the heat up to it and then bring it up gently to the boil. When it’s rolling boil, turn it right down to simmer, to the lowest possible setting. And then keep the lid on it and you leave it simmering for about 20 minutes to half an hour. This is how you make a good Taheebo tea. And then keep checking it so it doesn’t boil dry and make sure that you have it on a low setting. You can partially take it off the elemental flame so it’s not covering it all. You just want to have it heating nicely.

Other people I know will just actually put the bark like I showed you into a blender and make a powder out of it and then actually put one or two teaspoons of that in a ceramic teapot and make like a tea out of it and then strain that because it’s also going to sit for 20 minutes. As long as you’ve got the powder or the bark in contact with the nice warm to hot water for a period of about half an hour, then you’re going to strain it through a piece of fine clean cotton cloth. It could be through some sort of coffee/tea strainers, one of those plunger pots, you could strain it through that kind of mechanism. Strain that and then what you’re going to do is keep that in the refrigerator. Now because it’s anti-fungal, no molds or fungi will really grow in that stuff, so you can keep that in the fridge for days and days on end.

Now what’s the average dose? Well, that depends on you, but I recommend that you would start maybe with a couple of tablespoons of Taheebo tea per day. You gradually build it up to a 250 mils or one cup per day, which means that what you’ve got in the refrigerator will only last you for five days. Some people say it’s best to make the tea fresh every day. Other patients I know who have drunk Taheebo for a long time say it’s not necessary and you can make up a large batch and keep it in the refrigerator for up to two or three weeks. Then take it out, then drink it cold, or you can reheat it. I don’t like the microwave to reheat it. That’s the only problem. Drinking it cold.

The other one I know of I’ve got a few people who actually make it and leave it at room temperature in a big jug and they’ll put mint leaves with it. They’ll put a couple of peppermint leaves with it or other kinds of herbs or lemon juice in there or a couple of pieces of lime or lemon. Especially in the summer months that’s quite a nice thing to do. So every day you walk past your urn, put the tap open and have one or two glasses of the Taheebo tea. It’s a very powerful tea. It’s going to work very effectively in conjunction with the Candida Crusher protocol.

Now, I’ve also put the Pau D’arco-a very powerful four-in-one extract in the Canxida Remove tablets. I actually made a Canxida Remove product. It’s a very broad spectrum anti-microbial product. Perfect for the gut. It’s got really a good quality Pau D’arco extract in that tablet. So if you were going to take a couple of tablets per day of the Canxida Remove, you won’t need to drink the tea at all because you’re going to get a very potent anti-fungal activity.

I’m going to do another video in a minute showing women how to use Taheebo tea as a vaginal cleanse because it’s very, very good for that as well. So if you haven’t already got some of this tea, you can buy it online or you can just go to a health food shop and buy it. And if you don’t want to have the tea but you want the benefits of Pau D’arco, just take the Canxida Remove tablets because you’ll get plenty of activity in those. I hope that gives you a little bit of understanding on Taheebo.

Last thing I’ll leave you with is if you do buy Pau D’arco make sure you’re getting an authentic Pau D’arco. You’re not getting ripped off or scammed by some crap quality product, because you need to get the real stuff. Thanks for tuning in. Don’t forget to click on the link below if you haven’t already got my report. And please subscribe. Catch you next time.