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Greetings. Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand. Thanks for catching up with me on my video again. I’m going to talk about snacking today. I’ve had a few patients I’ve seen in my Skype clinic today and one interesting point I raised with a lady was snacking at night. Many people eat at night. Are you one of those people who has their evening meal and sits down, turns on the TV and then says, “Now, where’s that chocolate? Where are those chips? Where are those cookies? Where is that xyz thing that I like to snack on?”

If you’re one of those people who like to snack habitually on foods, it may be in the afternoon, maybe at night time. It could be at any kind of weird or inappropriate time. Think carefully what you’re doing. Usually people who snack at night don’t do it because they’re hungry. They do it because they’re bored. They’ve had enough of life. People in their 40s and 50s get into routines, they get married, they fall into relationships long term, and then she’ll do her thing, he’ll do his thing, she’ll have her snacks, he’ll have his snacks, she’ll have her friends and drinks and nibbles and he will have his mates and man cave, do his man kind of stuff, whatever it is what you men do. I don’t know. I’m a man, I should know.

But the point I’m making is be careful as you get older. I am now in my mid-50s. I can remember how different my life was when I was in my 20s and 30s and 40s, but now I’m in my 50s. Been in a long term relationship 30 years, you tend to get into rut. You get into routines. Is your life a little bit like that? Have you got a particular type of snack that you like to buy or have in the cupboard all the time? This is a classic way to gain a few pounds over 365 days. After 10 years, you’ve got that muffin top or that spare tire around here. It’s easy to gain weight as you get older.

If you find yourself a late night snacky kind of person or watching television snack kind of person, you need to break up your routine a bit and do things different. Many people associate football with beer or they may have their favorite sitcom they watch and then when they watch that, they might want to have some kind of food with that. I’m not really a TV person. My wife and I sit down once or twice a week to watch our favorite soapy kind of thing. We do that because it’s just something we like to do. We’ve been following a particular soapy for many years and we know the characters. I kind of enjoy that to get the time.

I used to fall into the trap of snacking on crappy foods and also with action movies. You watch Bruce Willis or Arnold Schwarzenegger. We will annihilate the planet and shoot everybody. Guys like watching guns and people falling down. Women like watching romance and stuff like that. If you’re one of these guys who likes to watch action movies, maybe your mouth is doing a bit too much action. Or maybe you’re watching people on sports, golf or football. Maybe the action is happening here, too, when you’re watching action on the screen. Think carefully. What are you doing when you’re eating? Is it because you’re hungry? It’s probably because you’re bored. It’s probably because it’s become a habit. Break this up.

My mum smoked right up until she almost passed away and I can remember a long time ago when mum used to type letters.

Remember typewriters? If you’re old enough to remember typewriters. She used to have a cigarette, put the cigarette down, pick up the cigarette, put the cigarette down. Okay, so that’s an associated habit. The cigarettes and the typewriter. Many people have associated habits. They’ll do one thing and they’ll have something else they’re doing with it.

I’ve got a very good friend in Australia and every time he’s out there watering the garden, he’s got a glass of wine in his hands, so he’s associated wine drinking with watering the garden. These association habits can be broken. Does it mean he’s got to stop watering the garden? No. It means maybe he should water the garden at another time of the day because he’s less likely to have a glass of chardonnay in your hand at 8 o’clock in the morning than you are at 5 o’clock in the evening.

Think carefully about the snacks you’re having. Why are you having the snack? Are you stressed? Are you bored? Are you frustrated? What’s the purpose of that snack? Are you having snacks every Friday and Saturday night? Are you having snacks every night of the week? Have you been gaining weight? Has the weight gain, fatigue, and gut problem been associated with this snacking habit? Maybe you’re buying a bar of chocolate every week. Maybe you’re snacking on chocolate every night. Many people develop digestive problems around their snacking habits. Makes sense? Makes sense. Think about it.

On the lighter side, I’m going to leave you with this one, “If you can’t be a good example, be a terrible warning to people.” You like that one? Be a good example, especially if you’ve got teenagers like me. If you don’t want teens to smoke and drink, don’t smoke and drink yourself. If you don’t want your teens to use profanity, don’t use profanity yourself. Think about the good example versus the terrible warning. You can’t change people. They have to change themselves. But by being a good example, you’re not going to be a terrible warning to people.

Same if you’re in a personal relationship with somebody. You might have a best friend. She’s drinking too much wine. He’s eating too much fatty chips or something like that. Again, by being a good example, your friend will be positively influenced by that. That’s going to really improve the relationship between you both.

I’ve got a very dear friend in Australia who drinks too much alcohol. He’s a really nice guy. But when I’m with him, I make sure that we don’t drink alcohol and his wife supports that. When he’s with me, he knows that we’re probably going to go for walk. We’re probably not going to drink alcohol. That’s a positive reinforcement. You can do that too in your personal relationships with your friends, with your family, with your partner. Think about that. You can either be a good example or a terrible warning. Think about it.

Greetings. It’s New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker. I’m the author of a book called Candida Crusher and also the creator of this YouTube channel called Candida Crusher. Thanks so much for checking out my video. I’ve done quite a lot of videos on different types of seeds, grains and nuts on this channel. Although I don’t think I’ve spoken much about quinoa.

Quinoa is a kind of a seed. It’s not really a grain. About 90 percent plus of the world’s production of this really nice seed comes from Bolivia and Peru in South America. In fact, an incredible amount of tonnage is coming out of those two countries. There is an increasing awareness of this particular type of a seed that many people are starting to eat in the western world.

This isn’t a new food at all. It’s been around in South America probably for a couple thousand years. Many people have eaten this kind of a seed for a long, long period of time. They’ve made flours and breads out of it. They’ve cooked in different kinds of savory and sweet dishes. There are many different ways you can eat it. There is no doubt it is a really good food to eat whether you have a yeast infection or not. It’s gluten free. Not that I really think that that makes a big difference when you’ve got a yeast infection. I quite like it cooked in chicken stock, so I’ll often make up a very nice beef or chicken stock and then drain some of that out and then use that stock to actually cook grains like brown rice or quinoa.

Quinoa is very nice cooked in a chicken stock and I often have it as a side serve or cook it and then mix it in with a salad with different greens and put some walnuts or some other kind of seeds like pumpkin or sunflower seeds through that. You can bake it. You can make a bread out of the flour. There are a lot of different things you can do with quinoa. You can even make little patties or cakes out of it or croquette things out of it. There are lots and lots of recipes on the internet on what to do with this beautiful seed.

You can get black quinoa. You can get a golden colored one. You can get a red one. There are different types you can get. When I went to Anaheim this year to Expo West, a very big nutritional expo, I couldn’t believe how many people I saw there from South America that were selling different types of quinoa. So it’s becoming a very big popular food in the western world. And so it should be.

It’s a very healthy food to eat. It’s also got traces of Omega 3 in it, I just discovered, alpha linoleic acid, so small amounts of Omega 3. It is very high in lysine, which is great, because that inhibits the viral replication of herpes viruses, so for cold sores and genital herpes. It’s very good for inhibition of those kinds of viral problems. It’s actually very good for the immune system because there are different studies that are showing it’s got a good anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant aspects about it. It’s high in manganese and zinc and copper and potassium and molybdenum and a lot of the trace elements that are hard to get from certain types of foods.

I totally endorse quinoa. I think it’s a great food to eat. And I think you should just buy a small amount and just try to add it into your diet. Try to cook it in the chicken stock. It’s quite a good tip. One of my patients told me about that a few years ago. Since I’ve done that, I found it to have a delicious flavor about it. Of course, you can just cook it in plain water.

Quinoa does contain stuff called saponins that can give it a foamy, soapy, bitter kind of a taste. Some people say rinse it under water and rub the grains a bit together under cold water and rinse them to clear a bit of the bitterness off of them. I’ve not really found it to be a problem, but again it could depend on the type of quinoa that you buy. Definitely get a good quality one from your health food store. Look out for some good recipes on the internet and experiment with it. It’s a great food for a Candida yeast infection. I highly recommend that you include a little bit of this into your diet. Start small. If you haven’t eaten it before, don’t start with large amounts every day. Just include it in your diet alongside other kinds of grains and seeds. I think you’ll go quite well.

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Hi there. Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand. Author of Candida Crusher. Formulator of the Canxida range of dietary supplements. Thanks for checking out my video. I appreciate you guys giving me support and looking at my videos and for people like you out there that I make these videos.

Today, we’re going to talk about quercetin. Weird name, quercetin. It sounds like some sort of clothing label or some kind of line of shoes or something. Quercetin. What the hell is it? We give lots of different types of chemicals found in plants strange names. There is a group of them called flavonoids found in plant and flavonoids form a very important role in plants. They help protect the plant against a lot of different types of damage like solar radiation, too much water, insect attacks, all kinds of things. Plants make lots of different types of chemicals. Cornell University in America has done many, many years of research into all types of plant compounds going back for quite a few years. I think they actually led the world at one stage in a lot of this research.

There are many different types of flavonoids. I’m not going to go right into the biochemistry of flavonoids, but there are lots of different types. Some of the more important ones if you don’t know about are quercetin, rutin, and hesperidin. We’re going to talk about quercetin today. Quercetin is a compound found in things like kale, broccoli, tomatoes, green tea. Red wine contains a lot of quercetin. I find that quercetin containing plants have got this taste on the tongue that’s like a stringent dry kind of a taste. Brightly colored vegetables and fruits will contain quercetin.

Why should you eat this stuff in your diet? Why is it important to have a very healthy diet containing high levels of flavonoids? Flavonoids perform very important roles for plants in terms of protective effects, but they also perform very powerful roles when we continually eat those plants ourselves. Those benefits get conferred to us.

Before we jump into quercetin, it’s important to say that it has a very poor absorption rate. Many companies have struggled for years to try to make a very effective dietary supplement as far as quercetin is concerned. But a lot of the research I’ve looked out shows that the absorption rate can be as low as 2 percent. If you’re taking 500 milligrams a few times per day, you may be only getting a smattering of that in your body. You’re way better off getting flavonoids from your diet.

Flavonoids get bound to different proteins in your blood. There is one called albumin that quercetin and rutin and these sort of compounds hook up to. Then they go the liver and the liver has to break this flavonoid off the protein and absorb it through different types of pathways. Some of these pathways are metalation, sulphation, glucoronidation. You need to have a pretty good liver function to absorb good levels of flavonoids and you need to have good amounts of proteins in your diet to create the proteins in your blood to hook these things up to.

As you can see, there is a lot more than meets the eye here than just “I’ll just pop a few of these tablets and get a lot of quercetin in my diet.” It doesn’t work like that. It’s not that easy. This is why I’m always trying to get my patients to eat healthy proteins, first class proteins. Eggs, fish, chicken, lamb, good foods like that. If you want to go vegetarian, of course you can eat different types of legumes, seeds, nuts, and grains. Eating protein is an important part of hesperidin because the uptake is dependent on proteins.

Hesperidin plays a major role in the body as being a very powerful anti-oxidant. Anti-oxidants, what that means in English, is it means it protects out body from damage created internally just through normal metabolic processes. There are hundreds of thousands of enzyme reaction that occur every minute in your body and a lot of damage is created. Not unlike a motor vehicle that’s driving that creates a lot of pollution and damage. In your body, a lot of damage is occurring as of normal bodily processes. Anti-oxidants like quercetin, vitamin E, vitamin C, all these different types of anti-oxidant minerals like selenium and zinc, they confer benefits by stopping those processes from causing accelerated aging and pushing us into high inflammation states, driving us toward cancer and heart disease and diabetes and all those things we don’t even want to talk about.

If you don’t want to get sick – I mean, we’re all going to die. Come on. We’re not going to live forever, but we’ve got to die slowly and very healthily don’t we? That’s how we want to die. We don’t want to die in a hospital bed in some terrible chronic inflamed painful state. Eating a very healthy diet is going to be a bid step in the right direction as far as reducing your risks of developing chronic diseases of the western world prematurely.

Many patients I know will live to 80 or 90 and not even go to see a doctor. Why? Well, part of it’s genetic, but a big part of it also is lifestyle and diet. Eating the right kind of food on a consistent basis containing high levels of flavonoids like quercetin is a very thing for you to do. I’ve got a list up here on my computer I’m going to read out to you. Apples, peppers, red wine, cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cabbage like Chinese vegetables, citrus fruits, grapefruits, lemons, especially raw cacao, whole grains, including buckwheat, capers, raw red onion, black and green tea, beans and legumes, dark cherries and all kinds of colorful berries, egg plants, bell peppers, all of these foods are packed with very healthy compounds including quercetin.

Quercetin we know from research is also an antihistamine, so it’s going to help you reduce the effects of allergies in the body. People who take quercetin regularly, you can even get it as nasal spray sometimes, I’ve seen it for sneezing attacks and things like. People who have quercetin regularly in their diet have got a much less chance of developing asthma. I think it’s also very powerful for Candida patients because it improves the gut function. It helps to repair the leaky gut membrane.

It stops the effects of circulating immune complexes, where your immune system is actually attacking the Candida residues and they create damage. The quercetin helps to mop that up and it downplays that inflammation. Quercetin is a very important part of your dietary consideration when it comes to SIBO, small intestinal bacterial issues or Candida or helicobacter or any kind of a gut issues. I’d really like you to consider eating these foods I just mentioned. All those brightly colored vegetables. The berries, the raw cacao, the green tea, a good quality green tea. These things are going to help you immensely improve when it comes to your recovery. Please bear that in mind.

If we look at other flavonoids, one called rutin. That’s quite a good one especially for the small capillaries of the body like the kidneys and the eye. Hesperidin is another type of compound altogether. That can be used even more to your advantage for certain types of immune dysfunction. Bu quercetin is the overall powerful beneficial flavonoid that you’re going to get from these foods. Any cancer, reducing your risk of heart disease, reducing your risk for diabetes, reducing inflammation. It has some ability, especially if you have turmeric in your diet, to reduce pain in the body as well. Important things for you to think about.

I think I mentioned most things. Do your own research. You can take dietary supplements. Usually 500 milligrams two or three times per day with food. But as I said, the uptake is quite poor. I prefer that you get your quercetin from colorful foods. Give that a go. Thanks for checking out my video. Don’t forget to click on the link below if you haven’t already got my free report and subscribe. Keep sending me comments. Thank you. I appreciate the comments. If you’ve got any more questions particularly videos you want me to make, I’ll be glad to help you out when I can. Thanks for tuning in.