Greetings! Greetings! Greetings! It’s New Zealand naturopath Eric Bakker. It’s winter time. It’s wonderful here in New Zealand. We had a very mild winter. I hope you are enjoying your summer in the U.S if you’re watching this right now or in Canada or in Europe or in many countries that we’re getting wonderful feedback from. I really appreciate all the support I’m getting from all my subscribers there on YouTube, and I really enjoy making these videos. I really do. I sincerely mean that. It’s amazing to be in a position to where I can help so many people out, and the feedback I’ve been getting has been absolutely truly wonderful, so I do appreciate it.
Today we’re going to be talking about papaya or pawpaw. It’s one of my favorite fruits, and it’s one of the things I don’t like about New Zealand is we don’t really get papaya here because it’s too bloody cold! It’s freezing down here in-well not freezing but it’s not really the right climate for growing pawpaw. We’re right down the bottom of the planet.
When my wife and I lived in Brisbane, Australia, we grew papayas, we grew bananas, we grew pineapples, we grew passion fruit, we had all the lovely tropical fruits growing in our garden. We had a wonderful garden-a big tropical garden. And here, we’ve got really a more of a temperate garden. I’ve got all my fruit trees, but now I’ve got apples and pears, and I’ve got peaches and plums, and apricots, nectarines, grapes, and all those sorts of things. Wonderful fruits, but I miss the pawpaw. I really miss it. The beautiful, yellow, juicy pawpaw.
Now here’s a tip: I found pawpaw not to be a real big issue with lots of people with Candida. I don’t know what it is about pawpaw, but even though it’s sweet, it’s got certain types of nutrients in it that don’t seem to flare lots of people up. So if you’ve got a yeast infection and you’re watching this from a tropical country where you’ve got availability for pawpaw, do try pawpaw-one good slice of pawpaw per day to see if it affects your gut. I think pawpaw, in my opinion, has got to be one of the healthiest fruits you can eat for your digestive system. And for your heart and brain, and liver in general. It’s an amazing fruit! It tastes great! You can cook with it, you can bake with it, you can do all kinds of things with it.
Now pawpaw contains an enzyme called papain, which is a proteolytic enzyme. I remember a long time ago I had a patient years and years ago-an elderly man who used to live in the Islands-I think it might’ve been Fiji. And he said to me, “Eric, get a hold of a big, tough piece of steak and then get a couple of big pawpaw leaves.” I don’t know if you grow pawpaw, but the big pawpaw leaves. And he said, “What you do is you just get a couple of leaves, and then you wrap the steak in it and then you crush the leaves up a little bit around the steak and then leave that for several hours.” And he said, “Watch what happens when you cook up that piece of meat.” Well I can tell you now, it was tenderized. It was amazing how tender that old tough piece of beef was. So that shows you the enzymes in the leaf got into the meat and they tenderized it, they softened the meat fibers up. So that’s the proteolytic part.
Now the black seeds of the pawpaw that we call a vermifuge actually kill parasites and worms, would you believe it? In places like Vanuatu, Fiji, Cook Islands, what some people have done for many generations is they dry all those black pawpaw seeds. They look like little pepper kernels. And then what they do is they dry them in the sun for quite a while and they put them in a grinder and actually grind them on top of food. So it’s actually like a medicine. It kills worms. So there you go, another use for pawpaw. The leaves can tenderize tough meat. The seeds are great for parasites like particularly worms because remember they contain an enzyme that helps to break the protein coat down of the worm. And the yellow-the flesh of the fruit is very high in beta-carotene, which is an exceptionally good vitamin to have for many different aspects of your health.
There’s lots of phosphorous in it, there’s potassium, there’s magnesium. There are many trace elements. It’s also high in B5, so pantothenic acid is the most important B vitamin for energy production. It does contain sugar, but I don’t find that this fruit, as I mentioned, really flares up people with candida so I think this is a really good fruit for you to try out. But if you do live in a colder place like me like New Zealand, then you might buy a small, crappy imported pawpaw-it’s disappointing. It’s not really nice. It’s awful. So, to me, papaya is best enjoyed when you’re actually in a tropical country where it’s grown.
That’s like we’ve got some of the really nicest apples in the world here. I grow apples on my tree and if you taste one of those, you’ll be blown away how nice and sweet and juicy and crunchy and beautiful that apple is. It’s a far cry from the crap that you’re gonna buy in supermarkets in countries a long way from where apples are produced. So, good tip here again is to eat what’s grown locally, alright? It’s not good to really buy bananas that are imported from South America if you live in New Zealand and eat them. It’s just not the same.
When I grew bananas in Australia in my own backyard-I mean the taste, the smell, it was just heavenly. When you’re eating produce grown, particularly as close to you as possible and it’s harvested and it’s fresh, if you think about it, common sense, it’s going to have the highest nutrient level. Makes a lot of sense doesn’t it? It’s much better for you eating food that’s grown right under your nose than it is way away from your nose in another country. And shipped on boats and trucks and all that stuff.
So, if you’ve got pawpaw at your disposal, definitely eat it. Anti-inflammatory effects, antioxidant effects, immune modulating effects, improves digestive function, contains lots of fibers. It’s also a great prebiotic food for encouraging the production of beneficial bacteria in the small and large bowel. I cannot speak highly enough of pawpaw.
Pineapples a different kettle of fish. It contains a lot more sugar in it than the papaya, but it does contain bromelain, which is another enzyme. I might do another video on pineapple. Pineapples are wonderful. It’s really good cooked on the barbecue. I love it. So, I hope that gives you a bit of information on pawpaw. So if you can get it, try it out and let me know the feedback on papaya.
Greetings. Eric Bakker, New Zealand naturopath, author of Candida Crusher and formulator of the Canxida range of products. Thanks for checking out my video. Today, we’re going to talk about the five steps toward a successful parasite cleanse. What you can do to clean up your body if you’ve got parasites. This is going to work for Candida, but even more specifically for parasites. This is a particularly useful video if you’ve been positively diagnosed with parasites, especially after a stool analysis.
I want you to be very careful with many kinds of tests when it comes to the determination of parasites or Candida. I’ve had an amazing number of people that have contacted me over the years that have said, Ive been diagnosed with Candida. I’m full of this stuff. I’ve got to get rid of it. I’m sick of having all this yeast in my body. I’ve got worms. I’ve got parasites. I’ll say, Hold on. How did you find out about this?” “Oh, well, a guy told me. He had one of these little dousing pendulums and hung it over my belly and said I’ve got worms crawling around inside me.” Or another person may say, “Well, a guy hooked me up to this machine. I had wires hanging off me everywhere. One of these biofeedback machines.” Or another person may say, “I had it done via muscle testing or kinesiology.”
There are many different methods, but the only method in my opinion that’s scientifically validated and that can really nail the parasite determination is PCR, polymer chain reaction. It’s a special DNA testing to determine that if stuff inside you actually is a parasite or not. Be very careful if someone tells you something because it may be a load of crap. Do you believe everything they say? I certainly don’t. Just be very careful what you’ve been told my people. A stool analysis performed by a lab that will do PCR technology, yes or no. Just remember that before you go further.
This video is for those who’ve determined they actually have got parasites. What you believe to have or have been told may be far from the truth from reality is. I’ve been told a lot of weird stuff over the years, but whether it was reality or not, got to use common sense. Let’s look at the five steps.
Step one is preparation. I look like Donald Trump doing this. Have you seen Donald Trump doing this on the TV? I won’t do that anymore. Preparation is everything when it comes to doing anything in life, whether it’s getting married or it’s starting a new business or anything. You need to have some kind of plan and prepare yourself properly for what you’re about to do. It’s no different from doing a parasite cleanse. What’s the point in trying to get rid of parasites if you’re going to have three glasses of wine every Friday night? “I’ve cut back. I don’t drink anymore during the week. You can’t take wine away from me on Friday nights.” If that’s how you feel, turn the video off. There’s no point watching any further. If you can’t forego these kinds of treats like chocolates, McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, gin and tonic, Mars bars, and all that crap that you may be eating, there’s no point going any further. Preparation is paramount.
I want you to really understand that this is part of my Candida Crusher protocol. What I try to do first for the first couple of weeks is I do what’s called “the big cleanup.” It’s get people off crap. Get them off crap in their diet. Stuff like alcohol, caffeine, crap that you know that you shouldn’t be eating. You know inside in your own heart what you should and shouldn’t be eating. I don’t need to tell you that. The doctors don’t need to tell you that. Your husband or wife don’t need to tell you that. Your next door neighbor doesn’t need to tell you that. You know. If you don’t know, please check out some of my other videos, but also have a good look at yeastinfection.org. There are many articles I’ve written and many videos I’ve done on the correct way to eat. I’ve also done videos on “the big cleanup.”
Get rid of the junk out of your diet. That’s stage one, is preparation. If you’re drinking even once a month, stop it. You’re not going to get rid of parasites by doing all these kinds of things. Preparation is paramount. I want you to eat a basic, common sense healthy kind of diet. Vegetables, low fat meats, grains are acceptable. Again, check out my other videos on grains and starches and things like that. I’ve done a lot of work on that. If you’re not prepared to do the preparation, turn the video off and go and look at funny cat videos or something because this is not for you.
Let’s assume that you’ve done the preparation. You’re eating good food. You’re eating a healthy diet. You’re making good choices. And also, let’s assume that you’re serious about a parasite cleanse because you may not be. You’ve got to be serious. Preparation is number one.
Number two is the actual cleanse itself. Now, we’re actually going to get into eating particular kinds of foods that are going to facilitate and help that process along. You may think what I’m about to say is a load of crap, but based on my clinical experience, it’s not. I want you pay attention the moon cycle and aggravation of symptoms. I know for a fact from my clinical experience that many patients I see with parasites get worse in the week leading up to full moon. Don’t ask me why, but I’ve seen it. I read it in many books. I’ve talked to many expert people who say they’ve also noticed some similar things happening. You may find if you start paying attention to that that what I’m saying is correct. Obviously, a really good time to increase certain types of spices and foods in your diet to facilitate removal or the cleanse is to do it in the week leading up to the full moon.
Is this science? Maybe not. Is it mumbo jumbo? Definitely not. There’s a lot to be said about growing plants and sowing seeds to the moon cycle. There’s a lot to be said about harvesting firewood with the moon cycle. But I also know that with parasites, it makes a big difference. Particularly the week leading up, I find there’s heightened activity. You can read more about that in Candida Crusher. I’ve written a whole section on the moon cycle. Just a tip. If you’re going to increase stuff, have a look before full moon because it could make a little bit of a difference.
Let’s look at some of the extra foods you can add into your diet that really help to annoy the hell out of parasites. I assume you understand what parasites are. If not, check out my other videos. I did one a few days ago on the 10 signs of parasite infection. I’ve done other parasite videos on blastocysts and things like that. Please check those out. I assume you already know what parasites are. Parasites are not worms crawling through your intestines. Parasites, in most cases, you can’t even see them. They’re so tiny and microscopic. Very difficult to determine. The parasites are all around us. The cleanse itself, food. Food is your medicine and medicine is your food.
If you look at work done by a Dr. Hulda Clark, parasite cleanse, she talks about things like black walnut. She talks about clove. These are things that you can take into your diet. Don’t buy the things. Just go out to the local Asian store or grocery store and buy some cloves. You know the little black spice cloves? The stuff they put in cookies or in cakes and things like that. Not garlic cloves, but clove, the black spice clove. Clove is very, very good for Candida. Clove tea, but also just to put in cooking. I’ll throw cloves in a lot of different types of dishes I make. Very, very good anti-parasite spice to use. Cinnamon is good to use. Quassia, another herb you can get called Quassia. These are things you can buy at the grocery store. You can add them to your diet.
Pumpkin seeds, very, very good, especially before a full moon. Have about a tablespoon of pumpkin seeds per day. Chew on them really well. They work particularly well on worms, but they also have an effect on other kind of parasites as well. Think about that. Grated beet root and grated carrot, 50/50 mixed together. Yes, beet root is okay with a yeast infection. Yes, grated raw carrot is okay with Candida and particularly affective against parasites. A small quantity every day ongoing for several weeks is a fantastic food. Cultured and fermented foods, a good quality sour yogurt, maybe some kefir, very good. Coconut kefir, very, very good. Water kefir even more powerful. Be careful with kefir. Check out my video on kefir. Make sure it’s made properly because it could make you sick instead of healthy. Lots of people stuff up kefir cultures all the time. They don’t make them properly. If you’re going to make your own cultured or fermented, make sure it’s done properly. Those are good building foods.
You need good killing foods. You need good inhibition foods. I don’t often use the word “killing,” but with parasites, I do. Parasites can be killed off effectively in the body by taking away their food source. That’s number one, the preparation. And they can be inhibited and killed by using the treatment phase, which is stage two. You’ve got to stop giving them food and you’ve got to start annoying the hell out of them with spices and herbs. Take their food source away and then put some supplements in there that are going to help eradicate them.
How long does it take to get rid of a parasite in the body? How long do I have to do step two, the treatment phase? That really depends. How long is a piece of rope? Is it three inches? Is it three meters? That depends on the extent of the parasite infection. It depends on how long you’ve been sick for. Depends on other health complaints you’ve got. It depends on a lot of factors. I always say to people you need to treat as long as it takes to get well. Keep an eye on the symptoms.
Garlic, as I mentioned, but also onions, chives, shallots, that whole allium family is quite good, too, consumed steam or partially raw is better. Many different foods you can do, but even basic green stuff like brassicas, broccoli, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, these are all really good foods to have because they aid in liver detoxification. They improve the glucoronidation or phase two for liver. A lot of people misalign brassicas like cauliflower, say that they stuff up the thyroid function, which is a lot of crap. I’ve talked about that in previous videos.
Raw kale is what you should not eat. Cooked kale is fine, but raw kale is no good. Steamed broccoli is perfectly fine and I have it on very expert authority that these kind of foods do not ruin your thyroid function. People take everything out of context when they go to Dr. Google.
With food, go more into my Candida Crusher approach. It’s a three stage dietary approach. This is perfect for parasite cleansing. We talked about “the big cleanup” first. Now, we’re going to talk about the MEVY diet. You can see that in another video, MEVY, meat, eggs, vegetables, yogurt. The second stage is the low allergy diet, the hypoallergenic phase. Then we do a reintroduction. That’s number three. Check out my Candida Crusher eating approach, which is perfect for step two, the cleanse.
Also, what I want you to do is to take some dietary supplements. Now, it’s not mandatory, but supplements have a very good effect on eradicating parasites when taken properly in the correct dosage. Watch my video on the 2/4/2 protocol. This is not my idea. The 2/4/2 protocol was designed by a very clever friend of mine, Dr. Joseph Collins in America. A really wonderful doctor who does incredible work, particularly with hormones in women. Dr. Collins suggested the 2/4/2 protocol, which I’ think is a fantastic idea. Two weeks’ introduction. And then there’s the four, which usually means four weeks, but it could mean two months. That’s the treatment phase. Then the other two is the coming out phase. Introduction, treatment, reintroduction or coming out. Reintroduction of a normal diet and coming out of supplement treatment phase.
If any practitioner tells you to take supplements continually for a long period of time without this 2/4/2 protocol, there’s no real rhyme or reason to that. Every person who has a parasite problem should have a slow introduction of a supplement. Then they should ramp it up to their tolerance level, what you can tolerate, which could be low, medium or high. Then when they keep treating and treating along their intolerance level, they’ll find that usually over time, they can increase the product a little bit more, which pushes the kill and inhibition further. Then they can slowly back off as symptoms improve. They can back off more and more. They can back right off and then slowly they slide into the second two, which is the coming out phase. Then they go back to a lower dosage. Does that make sense? Makes sense to me. Start off slow. Build up to your tolerance. Find out what it is. Keep treating it. Slowly back off and then go into a coming out phase.
Canxida Remove, Canxida Restore, Canxida Rebuild. The three Canxida products are perfect for people with parasites. You can check that out at Canxida.com. Canxida Remove is incredibly good for many different types of parasites. I’ve had feedback from people in many countries around the world who’ve had a very successful eradication with blastocysts and Dientamoeba and many other kinds of parasites. Many of them. Give that a go. That’s step two is the cleanse.
How long does it last? “Eric, you’re not giving us specific timelines.” Well, I can’t because I don’t know you particularly as a patient. If I knew you as a patient or I’d seen you, I could give you a pretty darn good guideline, which is usually reasonably accurate. And a lot of it depends on your stool test results and your previous history. But my advice is to keep treating in step two until you feel better and better. It could be one month. It could be six months. It really depends on a lot of factors, as I say.
Step three. Reintroduction of foods. Now, you need to come back to normal again. That doesn’t mean to say that when you improve, you rush out to McDonald’s and you start having Happy Meals every day. It doesn’t mean to say that you can drink three cans of beer every night while you’re playing Xbox. It means that you need to reintroduce foods slowly. Does that make sense? Slowly you reintroduce the foods that you were eating prior. Remember, I want you to maintain a healthy, clean diet from this point forward. That’s going to go a big step toward stopping you from getting sick again with parasites. It’s going to keep improving your gut health. It can take a year for your digestion to get to a very high state of health.
There’s a huge surface area with trillions of bacteria inside here. It’s like a big lawn. It can take a long time for a garden to become beautiful. I know that from experience. I love gardening. It takes years for a garden to become absolutely stunning. Lots of little bits or work here and there. A bit of weeding here and there. Sometimes you’ve got to pull stuff out. The digestive system is no different. You’ve got to keep weeding it and feeding it, looking after it. It takes time. Please be patient.
Step four. Assessment long term. What I want you to do long term as you improve, which you should, is to assess your state of health on a regular basis. There would’ve been why you went into the parasite cleanse. There could’ve been a diarrhea. It could’ve been constipation. It could’ve been gas. It could’ve been one of a 100 reasons. Check out my video, if you haven’t please, on the 10 signs that you may have a parasite infection. If you improve with a parasite problem, all those things should disappear. There should be no itchy skin. There should be no headaches, no muscle fatigue, no joint pain, bowels should work perfect, should be no bloating all, there should be minimal gas. Everyone farts, but you shouldn’t be farting like a horse or a dog. You should be farting a small amount. It’s normal.
These things will become apparent to you as you improve. If they’re not apparent to you, they’ll be apparent to your partner or friends or people around you who may say, “Wow, you’re looking good lately. What have you been doing? Have you had Botox? Have you had a holiday? Have you got a new man or a new woman? Have you won the lotto or whatever?” But if people come up with a statement like that, it usually implies that you are definitely improving in health. Even though you may not think so yourself.
Long term assessment. Very clever. Perhaps another stool test. Six months down the track repeat the stool test. Maybe you don’t need the comprehensive test. Maybe you just need to do the bacteriology and the parasitology panel. It’s a couple hundred bucks. File both of those test reports away. The first one and the second one. Because down the track if there’s recurrence, you pull it out. Bang. You’ve got a pretty good idea what’s going on. Remember. Test and measure. Treat and then measure the response. That’s what intelligent people do. That’s step four. Assessment long term.
Step five. The last step is prevention. Why would you want to go back to feeling like crap again? Why would you want bloating and gas and headaches and feeling terrible? Nobody wants to live like that. I wouldn’t want to live with something like that. It would be awful. Prevention. Remember washing your hands. Hygiene. Especially if you travel. I’m very careful when I do air travel. I’m not anal. I don’t wear gloves on airplanes and stuff like that. Some people do crazy things. They put masks on their face all the time. I’ve seen people on airplanes wear gloves. That’s the kind of Michael Jackson phobia. You don’t need to be like that. What you do need to do is wash your hands. Many people don’t. They go from the bathroom straight out and shake your hand. Not a good idea.
I think if you travel a lot like I used to, is I’d always wash my hands once or twice at the airport and particularly when I was on the plane again. Maybe when I disembark and go through customs and I’m going out. I go to the lavatory and wash my hands again. These are important things to do because you’re touching all kinds of surfaces. You’ve been around people who’ve been in many different countries. You don’t know what you’re dealing with. Every time you eat, you wash your hands. You be very careful. Common sense. That’s prevention. If you have got a tummy that can be a bit on the funny side and you’re going to go traveling, maybe take the Canxida Restore with you. Just take one tablet per day. That’s going to go a long way toward prevention of sickness.
I hope this video gives you a little bit of an insight into what I would consider the five steps on how to eradicate parasites. I’ll just quickly go through them again. Preparation, we spoke about. The cleanse itself, diet, lifestyle, some supplements. Step three, reintroduce foods again. Step four, assessment of long term health, what you’ve got now and what you’ve had, and where you’re going to. Step five is prevention. Make sense? Thanks for tuning in. If you haven’t got my report, please click on the link below and get your free report. Thanks for watching. I do appreciate it.
Greetings. New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker. Author of Candida Crusher and formulator of the Canxida range of products. Thanks for checking out my video. I have a request here from a lady called Natalie in Sweden. Natalie is quite a remarkable lady who set up a Facebook page for people with Candida yeast infections, but also all different kinds of problems and health issues related to Candida. Natalie has asked me, “Eric, can you please talk about urethritis?”
Urethritis belongs to a category of problems called urinary tract infections. There are different kinds of UTIs or urinary tract infections. Urethritis relates more to an inflammation of the urethra, which is a conduit for the little tube that runs from the bladder to the outside of the body. We’ve also other conditions of that. We’ve got cystitis, which is really the bladder infection or the reservoir of the urine to which the urethra is attached to. They move on out to the body toward the urethra. We’ve got prostatitis that males can get. We’ve got pyelonephritis, which is a kidney inflammation. A person will get fevers and chills and pain in the back like being kicked in the back by a horse or something like that.
Urethritis is actually quite a common condition and it can affect men and women both equally. It can affect young people and old people. There are different reasons why these particular type of age groups will get it. Let’s go into that a little bit.
Men can be quite prone to urethritis even if they’ve got a longer urethra, they can certainly be prone to it. They tend to have a thinner mucous membrane lining the urethra than women do who tend to have a shorter and thicker one. Women tend to have urethritis particularly as they older. Much more prone due to estrogen and progesterone. Estrogen has a very big effect on maintaining the integrity of the urinary tract. Older women can be much more prone to urinary tract infections than younger women. I feel because they have these big problems with estrogen and progesterone. It may pay to get your hormones checked out and maybe balanced or fixed up if you are certainly an older type of person.
With the younger ones, most cases of urethritis, I find, is after having intimate relations or after sex. It’s important to go straight to the bathroom to urinate after that. Make sure that the hygiene is very good. If you get this infection, try to find out what it is. Is it a Candida problem? Is it a bacterial problem? Is it virus? What’s causing the actual infection. Doctors will routinely give antibiotics, which is crazy. Because if you don’t know what you’re doing your just given antibiotics routinely. You could be causing a big problem for yourself and destroying a lot of normal flora while not even affecting the bug that’s causing the problem in the first place.
If it is bacteria or e-coli, try a powder called D-Mannose powder. Mannose is basically a particular kind of sugar. Don’t worry about Candida because you’re not going to have a big issue with Candida with Mannose. You can buy this quite easily. If you can’t, contact me. It’s a type of powder you get in a little tub and you take that once or twice per day if it’s an e-coli infection. You can use D-Mannose for any kind of e-coli urinary tract related infection. E-coli is a very common cause of a lot of these urinary infections. It’s a common bacteria and it can be transferred from the rectal region to the urethral region quite easily, especially with intimate relations.
Mannose actually acts a little bit like Velcro. You know what Velcro is. That stuff that when you rip it apart, it’s got all of the little plastic hooks on one end and that funny stuff on the other end. Pull it apart. What the Mannose does is it actually hooks up to the e-coli and pulls it out of the body. D-Mannose sticks to it and can’t be separated and you pea out these compounds of the D-Mannose and e-coli bound together. It’s very effective. If you keep taking D-Mannose with an e-coli urinary tract infection regularly, you’ll find the symptoms will go down and be gone.
Cranberries are also very good for this particular problem. But here’s the problem. Most of the cranberry juice you buy in the shop is crap. It’s crap. It’s like you may as well drink coca cola. It’s full of sugar. If you’re going to go the alkaline way for urine and try to nail this infection through that alkaline cleansing of the urinary tract, then I recommend you buy the proper cranberries from the health food shop. Make sure they’re cranberries and not some Chinese import moo-moo berries or whatever you get. Make sure they’re the proper real thing. They have to be cranberries.
You’re going to use one tablespoon of these and you’re going to put it in quite a large cup. You put probably a level tablespoon into that. Poor boiling water on top and then cover and leave it for a good 10 or 15 minutes. That can work quite effectively and you can use the cranberries at least twice, if not three times, doing that or you can make a small pot of tea with the cranberries. Put a couple of tablespoons in there, boiling water, cover it. If you make herbal teas, don’t put the cranberries in pots you’ve had herbal teas. Buy a brand new ceramic pot and just keep that for that one particular herb. It’s much better.
The standard dose for something like a cranberry, if you look at the old fashion herbal way, we used to prescribe a wine glass full. I’m sure some people happen to drink wine. How much wine would you put it in a glass? It depends on the glass and how much you like wine, I suppose. How much you would drink in one wine glass is the dose for the cranberry and you have about three or four wine glass fulls of that herbal tea per day. You can make an infusion or a decoction. The infusion is when you let it steep like tea. The decoction is when you simmer the cranberry. You put it in a stainless steel pot on the stove and boil it and turn right down to a gentle simmer for about a good 10 minutes. That’s a more powerful way to take it.
You can also do cat’s claw. Cats claw is a very good antifungal herb, especially for Candida, but I know it’s very successful for urethritis. You can buy cat’s claw powder or bark. I hope you can get it in Sweden or you can import it. I know that it might be tough there in customs. Cat’s claw comes from South America. Uncaria is the other name for it. It’s very, very effective for urinary tract issues and bladder problems in general.
Those are a couple of good tips for you to use. I’m not a huge fan of alkaline when it comes to diet, but when it comes to urinary tract infections, I am a fan on alkalizing. You need to alkalize. The best way to do that is herbal medicines. Much more so than foods. As I mentioned, if you’re peri-menopausal or menopausal like 45 or 50 or older, get your hormones checked out, especially if you get regular urethritis, you want to get that checked.
I’m just going to read some notes I’ve made here. Some other tips here. Another one is a sitz bath. You can just sit in a nice small bathtub. Fill it up with quite warm water and that’s going to really help to settle the symptoms right down quite a bit. Hygiene we spoke about. With guys, if guys have not the urinary issues, urethritis, anything like that, they should obviously use condoms or things like that if they’re going to have sex. It makes sense until any kind of infection clears up.
It’s the same with females. You need to be careful with intimate relations with infections that you don’t pass the parcel from one person to another. We don’t want that. That’s not really nice. Of course, drinking a lot of water. Water is a good thing to do when you’ve got a UTI. Lots and lots of water. Any kind of urinary issue. I don’t recommend that you drink lots of coffee and tea and schnapps and vodka and all that other stuff. I know in Sweden; they like to drink alcohol. When you’ve got any kind of infection, you want to really stop drinking all alcohol and cut your coffee down to one per day and drink green teas.
When it comes to food and urinary issues, I think you should back off the protein and eat lighter. Eat fish or even eat legumes or go vegetarian for maybe a good week or 10 days. The thing is you need rest, rest, rest. You need lots of rest when you’ve got any kind of infection, so your immune system can get stronger and more viably fight the infection.
So far, we’ve mentioned some different natural aids. We’ve mentioned particularly the cranberry. We’ve mentioned the sitz bath. We mentioned resting. We mentioned ceasing alcohol. Cutting coffee and tea consumption back and drinking a lot of water. Those are all very good tips for urethritis. Give those a go.
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