Category: Candida Crusher FAQ Videos

Greetings. New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker. I’m the author of a book called Candida Crusher and I’m the formulator of a product range called Canxida. Thank you for tuning into my video today. I always get questions from people and particularly from my subscribers from all over the world. I have a question here from a lady in Sweden. The question is “Eric, is it possible to get rid of Candida with just probiotics?”

The difference between the possibility and the probability are quite remarkably different. Of course, it’s possible. Anything is possible, but the likelihood or the probability is quite remote. I’ll explain to you exactly why that is.

First thing I want you to understand that probiotics are bacteria. Bacteria are not necessarily bad. In fact, most of the bacteria in the body, the trillions of bacteria that we have are, in fact, very good and they’re beneficial. But like anything in life, it’s all about balance. Something I always try to teach my patients is about balance. Good, bad, ugly and somewhere in between. On top of the bacteria, our body also has to contend with many different kinds of viruses and parasites and also yeasts. Different types of fungi that can come in and on the body. On top of that, we’ve also got all sorts of poisons to deal with. There are hundreds of thousands of chemicals and toxins in our environment.

I’m straying from the point here, but we’re talking about bacteria. Anything is possible, but in my opinion, one of the most important things to recognize when you have a Candida problem is to understand it’s an imbalance and you really want to get the Candida numbers and the beneficials up at a similar kind of a time. Probiotics are very important for the body. And finally, in 2009, there was a study published in the States. I think it was the University of Pennsylvania. There was an important one from Yale in 2008 and an even more important one in 2009. The one in 2009 actually discovered that when they looked at mice and rats and rabbits and animals like this, they found a very interesting correlation between animals with good levels of beneficial bacteria in their body and poor levels. The animals with the higher levels of beneficial bacteria certainly had a much stronger immune profile. That’s the whole crux of the research today with probiotics is about immunity. We know that people with good levels of lactobacillus and bifida bacteria and many other kinds of bugs that we have in our system that we normally have got there. When we’ve got them in high amounts, we’ve got a very defense force there.

But the problem with human beings is we eat foods containing antibiotics. We go into high stress. We take antibiotics as pharmaceutical medications and particularly we suffer from stress, which reduces our immunity. Of course, the imbalance becomes quite evident and slowly but surely the Candida species build up. And all of a sudden, one round of antibiotics come in there and boom, we get a huge yeast infection. In those situations, when you certainly know you’ve got Candida, it makes a lot more sense to take an antifungal medication for a period of time to reduce the numbers. Note I didn’t say pharmaceutical antifungal. Because when you start taking those again, you’re very specific for the yeasts alone and that’s going to create more imbalances in the body. I believe broad spectrum effect products tend to be more effective. When used carefully and judiciously for a period of time, you’re going to eradicate these Candida infections. But not just the Candida infection, but also the bacterial and the parasite infections.

When you take a product to clean up the gut, make sure that it’s also going to target parasites, yeasts, and bad bacteria. Sure, some of the good bacteria will be affected, but you’re not going to wipe out the good bacteria like an antibiotic will do. When you take a probiotic, it’s also important to take an enzyme at the same time. Research in the last five years has validated that when people take enzymes and probiotics simultaneously, they have a much better effect. There is a lot of complicated reasons behind it. But I think one of the important reasons is because the enzymes kick starts the gut and they improve the acid/alkaline ratio of the stomach and the small intestine. They also create a more favorable environment for the beneficial bacteria to grow. They create a hostile environment for the dysbiotic bacteria and the fungi to grow. They annoy the bad stuff and they encourage the good stuff. Enzymes are a very smart thing to take along with probiotics. That’s part of the reason why I’ve created my Canxida Restore product with the seven enzymes and the six probiotics carefully formulated to match the anti-fungal product called Canxida Remove. Those two things as a tandem work very well together.

Probiotics have a very interesting effect on the immune system. The 2009 study also actually validated the fact that they are actually very beneficial to take on a daily basis. When big universities like Yale publish findings and actually validate a dietary supplement, you know that there is certainly some truth in the matter. A long, long time ago multivitamins where actually discredited by the medical profession. I can remember when I first started practicing and the doctors would say, “There is no need to take a multivitamin. You get everything you need from food.” We know now that’s not true.

I think it was back in 2007 or 2006 when the top doctor in the US released a statement saying that it actually made sense to take a multivitamin every day because we lack certain elements in our diet. That statement one day will be released with probiotics. You watch. It will be coming out. When statements will be released it makes good sense to take a probiotic every day because it will improve your immune function.

What’s happening. I’m not going to argue for or against global warming, but what I can see is people’s immune systems are declining. As climatic effects occur and we get increasing overpopulation, we’re getting increasing stress on the population. We’re getting more limited resources for food, for fresh air and clean water. All these things are going to be coming up in the future. Whether you like it or not, things like probiotics will be a natural part of what we take in every day. Because probiotics basically keep us alive. We need beneficial bacteria to perform multiple tasks. But when we get the bad bugs, it’s stepping over the line. Probiotics are not enough to get rid of a yeast infection. It’s important to remember that you need to take something to counter that.

I probably give the analogy of the probiotics to me are like the NATO people. You know these guys that walk around with those blue helmets on like peacekeepers. When the NATO forces are around in a lot of countries, the bad guys don’t tend to jump on top of people. “Ah, oh. We’ve got some NATO people here. We better be careful.” These are the peacekeepers. Beneficial bacteria are like that. When they mingle amongst good and bad people, the bad people tend to back off.

Anti-fungal/anti-parasite approach to me is like what I call a “smart bomb.” Antibiotics are the nuclear weapon. We just dropped the bomb and we wipe everything out. We don’t do that anymore in warfare. We don’t just drop bombs and just kill billions of people. The days of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are long gone. Now, we use smart bombs. This video is made in 2016. I hope this video is around long enough for someone to watch it and say, “That guy was right.” One day antibiotics will never be used because they will be considered the nuclear weapon of the gut. If this video is still around in 40 or 50 years, someone will watch it and say, “That guy was ahead of his time.” I’m not because a lot of people are realizing now how dangerous antibiotics are. Smart bombs where they can actually fire missiles from planes and laser guide them into a shaft and actually blow up one particular room.

That’s how I find a natural product. I find it’s more targeted and it has lower collateral damage. When you’re taking a natural anti-fungal, you’re not going to blow up everything and destroy everything. You’re going to target certain types of things in the body. And also, you’re not going to have this resistance issue that you’ve got with antibiotics where you get resistance. This is why the Taliban and a lot of these guys they dug out in the hills and why we couldn’t get Osama bin Laden. We started dropping bombs everywhere. These guys get smarter. It’s like drug resistance. They started digging in. They put up stronger shields and better barriers. It took years to get a hold of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden because they became drug resistant or bomb resistant.

This is something we don’t find with natural medicines. We can give people a good quality grapefruit seed extract. We can put some garlic in there or oregano in there. We can put many different quality herbal medicines in there. History has shown we don’t get that kind of resistance. To cut a long story short, if we’re going to use a quality anti-fungal/antibacterial and a probiotic together, we’re going to get more bang for your buck. You’re going to get a quicker result in a shorter period of time with the lease cost to you.

This isn’t a video about selling my products. You can check out my Canxida range if you want, but I want to encourage you. If you’re going to consider taking a probiotic and you’ve got a Candida problem, consider taking an anti-fungal/antibacterial at the same time. Thanks for tuning in.

Greetings. It’s Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand. Author of Candida Crusher and formulator of the Canxida range of dietary supplements. Thank you so much again for checking out this video. I’m not sure if I’ve completed a video on oregano, but I’m going to do this video anyway.

Oregano is one of my favorite herbs when it comes to digestive problems, gut dysfunction, yeast infection, SIBO, leaky gut, inflammatory bowel, irritable bowel, any kind of a gut related condition. I think it’s one of the best herbs you can use. Garlic and oregano are my two top favorites along with grapefruit seed extract. I just think they’re wonderful.

If we look at the historical use of oregano vulgar, the herb called oregano. People in the Mediterranean have use this herb for thousands of years, and they’ve use it alongside thyme, marjoram, basil and rosemary. These herbs all have one thing in common. They all have very interesting effects on the digestive systems and, of course, effects on other parts of the body.

If you think back a long time ago, people never had refrigerators, so how would they store meat? How would they store lamb? Lamb is very popular in the Mediterranean. If you look back, how they stored it was they would kill an animal and they would first consume the digestive organs, the lungs, the heart, the liver and those sorts of things. The animal would be skinned and the meat would be hung up, but they would use herbs often to preserve the meat. Because the herb has very powerful antimicrobial properties about it. Herbs were used to keep meat from spoiling for quite a long period of time and for flavor. But one of the big reasons they used it was to stop the meat from going off and spoiling.

Today, we know that these herbs are a wonderful addition to add to meat dishes like lamb and beef, chicken dishes, they’re really, really good. I’ve been using oregano in cooking now probably for about 30 years. I think it’s a wonderful herb to use. I grow different types of oregano. I grow really spicy hot ones. I grow mild ones. I often will get the herb at its peak in mid-summer when it has a very high oil content. You can smell it. Just around flowering time. Usually just before flowering is when I pick it. I will crush it in big bunches, clean it and crush it up and put it in jars and fill it with olive oil and leave that.

I’ll often also grow lots of tomatoes and then dry them in my dehydrator. I grow six different types of tomatoes. Dehydrate them and I put them large jars packed with artichoke hearts, garlic cloves, roasted bell peppers. Roast those. Put those in there as well. And then sprigs of oregano, sprigs of rosemary, thyme and then put black olives in there. Make large jars up. And then we will leave those typically for three or four months and usually by mid-winter, they taste fantastic. Because you’ve got all that wonderful herb, garlic and flavors of all of those Mediterranean foods coming into the oil. Very nice for pizzas or tapas and things like that that you’re going to eat.

Oregano contains different types of nutrients. Vitamin content, mineral content and also chemicals called phenols. Phenols have a particular property. There are different types of phenols. One is called thymol. One is called carvacrol. Carvacrol is very anti-microbial and some oreganos have got a low carvacrol content. Others have a very high carvacrol content. The carvacrol I tend to use in my oregano in my Candida formula, my Canxida Remove, for example, has a very high grade carvacrol from the Mediterranean. It’s about 60 to 70 percent carvacrol, so it’s quite potent. Many other brands will have a low quantity of the carvacrol, which gives them a lower microbial inhibition.

Other phenols like thymol, for example, tend to be immune boosting. Thymol is found a lot in thyme. Thyme is a very nice herb, which I tend to use a lot for people, especially with respiratory tract infections like coughs or sinus infections. Thyme is great for whooping cough or a cough that’s settled into the chest. Oregano tends to be more antimicrobial with its phenol compounds, so I would tend to use it more for small intestinal bacterial issues. It’s also shown in laboratory use and through studies that oregano oil has a very wide ranging anti-microbial action on parasites, fungi, bacteria, even viruses tend to be affected by oregano. It’s certainly something that you want to have when you’ve got a yeast infection. You can take oregano oil on its own, but I really believe it works best in a compound product alongside garlic with a high allicin content and also the long chain fatty acids like undecylenic acid and caprylic acid.

When you start putting these oils and fatty acids together, you tend to get a much more compound effect on a broad spectrum of multiple Candida species. Many people I see have anything from one to five different Candida species in their gut. They can also have up to 200 or 300 different types of fungi in their gut. Multiple parasites and different kinds of imbalanced bacteria. So taking a compound product, you’re going to have a much better effect on wiping out a wide range of pathogens at the same time. That’s exactly why I created the Canxida Remove formula to contain all of these ingredients in there.

Make sure that oregano is included in your anti-Candida regime. Also try to include oregano in your diet. It’s now March in New Zealand. We’re going into fall or autumn. Pretty soon it will be winter time. But for you guys in the States, the Northern Hemisphere, you’re going into spring, wonderful. I was just recently in America and I really enjoyed Canada, watching all the leaves just coming into spring. Now is a good opportunity for you to go to a garden center and buy some oregano plants and plant them and grow some oregano for summertime. Get some nice big oregano bushes happening and use those in egg dishes, in meat dishes and salads. Be sure to eat oregano in your diet regularly, too. While you’re there, get a big pot, put a couple of thyme plants in there, maybe some basil and grow all these herbs. They’re a wonderful anti-microbial addition to your spring and summer eating regime.

If you’re like me, you want to have them all year around, you do what I do. You preserve them in jars. You can grow large bunches, extract the goodness into the oil, and then use it for salad dressings or cooking. There are different ways you can preserve them. But think about it, you can extend the life of these all year around by doing things like drying them out or making some powdered herbal products for cooking. Either way, make sure that you include oregano into your diet in a supplement form and in an eating form if you’ve got any kind of gut problem.

Don’t forget to click on the link below for your free Candida report. It’s quite a good report that I’ve written for you. It’s quite a nice way for you to learn all about the foods you can eat and shouldn’t be eating when you’ve got a yeast infection. Also, if you’re not a subscriber, please subscribe. Thanks for tuning in.

Greetings. New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker. Author of Candida Crusher and I’m also the formulator of the range called Canxida. Thanks for checking out my video. It’s incredible how many emails I get over the years and also feedback I’m getting on YouTube. When people say, “Help, I’ve got bad breath. What am I going to do? My mouth is stinky. It’s affecting my relationships. I’m really embarrassed. My girlfriend or my boyfriend hates me. I can’t talk to people anymore. I’m staying inside. What am I going to do?”

If you go to sites like WebMD or all these other kind of sites, the Mayo Clinic and stuff like that, you’re going to find three, four or five pages all relating to bad breath. The causes, the treatments, all the potential things. I looked at one site and it talked about rectal cancer or something linked to bad breath. Be careful what you read. I’ll have to do some videos about be careful of Dr. Google because lots of people spend way too much time on the internet trying to find out what’s wrong with them. They go to Symptom Finder. The funniest one was I had a lady who thought she had a rare kind of brain tumor and she found it through Symptom Finder. Talk about that another time.

Bad breath is a condition called halitosis and it affects many different people. Bad breath can range from not so good to “Wow, go away from me. Don’t come near me.” From fecal breath to the point where you’re almost dry retching. I’ve been seeing patients now for some time and I’ve had over the years only a handful of patients. Some are in my room so bad that I just about dry retched. It was like really offensive. Seriously offensive.

The tragedy is many people with seriously bad breath are not even aware of it themselves. Some people have had breath so bad for so long that they’ve become used to this bad breath. A bit like body odor. A bit like dandruff. A bit like certain skin conditions. If you live with something long enough, it becomes part of who you are. It becomes part of your relationship with your body. And your partner may accept it. Your kids may accept it. It’s to the point where you think “Well, it’s normal. I’ve got dandruff like snowflakes all over my clothes. It’s normal. What’s your problem? Nothing wrong with dandruff.” I’ve got a friend like that. Every time I look at him, it’s almost like he’s been out in the snow. I’ve got another friend with breath that’s very offensive. I’ve spoken to him on a few occasions and he said, “There’s nothing wrong with my breath. There really isn’t.” When you pull your head back when someone talks to you, you know it’s pretty stinky.

What causes bad breath? What can we do about it? How can we remedy bad breath? We could set up a YouTube channel on bad breath alone. That’s how many videos I could do on this one particular topic. This will be one of a couple of videos I’ll eventually do on bad breath. Halitosis has many different causes as I mentioned. They can range from things like medications you take, foods you eat, gum disease. It could be a sinus problem. You could have issues with your stomach. There could be lots of different causes.

But the key thing that I’d like you to do if you’re watching this and you’ve got bad breath is to ask people to be very open and honest with you, family members and friends. Give people a scale from 1 to 10, 10 being like “back off,” “don’t come near this person,” to 1 being “okay.” Get them to put on a sliding scale from 1 to 10 what they think your breath is like. It’s good for people to be honest with you and for you to understand to what degree your breath could be affecting other people.

The second thing to do is to find out what is causing this bad breath. How many people in the family have got it? How many people around you have it? It could be a certain type of infectious reason why you’ve got it. The main thing is get your teeth checked out. Go to the dentist and find out what’s wrong with your mouth, if there is anything. Have you got gum disease? Have you been to a dental hygienist? Have you got any bleeding gums, any loose teeth, root canals, bridges, caps or anything with your teeth that could be suspect? That’s the very first thing that you check out. Root canals are a very big one because many people have anywhere between 1 to 5 or even more root canals. They can become really stinky and toxic in the mouth. It’s important.

Yeast infection in the mouth is not that uncommon, especially denture wearers. I’ve seen quite a bit of oral yeast infections. Look at the tongue. The tongue should be a nice clear color. There can be a slight white film on the tongue for healthy people when they wake up in the morning. But if the tongue is cracked down the center, if it’s scalloped down the sides, if it’s got huge white patches down the back, that can be a big problem. The tongue is a very good indicator of digestive health. Many different civilizations throughout the millennia have looked at tongues for a diagnosis. The Chinese and the Indians, Ayurvedic medicine, very big on tongue diagnosis.

I can remember when I was a kid, the doctor always looked at your tongue. They got this stick out. I remember I used to think it was like one of those big ice cream sticks. They put the tongue depressor in and they’d say, “Go, Ahhh.” And then they look at your tonsils, your tongue and everything. But they don’t do that so much anymore. That’s a good indicator of oral health, but also gut health. I believe your stomach plays a big role in what’s happening in your mouth. Many times I’ve actually people improve the odor from their mouth just by digestive enzymes alone. You can take a good probiotic enzyme formula and that can have a huge impact on your oral hygiene.

A couple of tips and tricks for you. Make sure you chew food properly. Make sure you brush your teeth regularly, at least two if not three times per day if you’ve got bad breath. Floss your teeth regularly. Get your teeth checked out. Make sure that you’re eating a whole foods diet and not some crappy McDonald’s diet. Every time you have a drink, you have a sip of Coca Cola. That’s not going to do a lot for your gut is it? What you eat will dictate to a big degree what you look like, how you feel, and also your gut health. Eating good foods and especially whole foods, you’ll have a lot less chance of having stinky breath. If you’re going to rely on nuggets, burgers, fries and Coke with meals two or three times a day, you’re probably going to end of up stinky and fat and have a lot of associate health problems.

Tea tree oil toothpaste is quite a nice one to use. Baking soda on a clean toothbrush can help quite a lot, too. Please keep away from those alcohol mouth rinses. I think they’re really crap for the mouth. They kill off the bacteria. Do you wash your whole body down in a bottle of methylated spirits when go have a shower? Do you do that? Do you get a half a gallon of methylated spirits and pour it over your head? That’s what you’re doing with your mouth with those oral rinses. I think they’re crap. I can’t understand why people use mouth rinses. When you’ve got a healthy diet like I have, you chew food properly, you’ve got good dental health, your breath smells quite sweet. There’s no stink and you don’t mind being around other people when they’re like that. Nothing worse than having offensive breath.

Try the probiotics. Try the enzymes. It’s going to help you quite a lot. Another one that you may want to try is zinc lozenges. Zinc and vitamin C because they can really add to the oral health as well. Those are just a couple of tips for you to try to get your head around the bad breath. But the investigation is the important part. Go and talk to your doctor or naturopath about the bad breath. It’s important for your practitioner to have a good examination of your lifestyle and diet to see where the potential is, the causes. Because I can tell you now, if you nail this cause, the stinky breath will go away. That’s going to really increase your confidence. I can’t tell you how many people I’ve seen over the years with bad breath that cost them their relationship, their occupation, everything. All because of the odor coming from the mouth. It’s not pleasant. Food for thought. Think about it. Thanks for tuning in.