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Hi there. New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker, author of Candida Crusher. Formulator of the Canxida range of products. We’re going to talk about the connection between inflammation and Candida today. It’s quite a well-known connection between different kinds of infections and inflammation, but let’s first talk a little bit about what inflammation really is.

Inflammation itself is not really that bad, in fact, it’s a necessary response from the body to heal itself. So when you get a cut or a bite or a wound or a sting, inflammation is normal and an acute inflammatory response will occur by way of the immune system. This is how we heal. Acute bronchitis, a mosquito bite, a cut to a finger when you’re cutting up something in the kitchen. Inflammation is normal. It can cause a bit of pain, a bit of redness, a bit of swelling, and this will usually subside in a few days or a week and it will be gone. That’s an acute inflammatory response.

A chronic inflammatory response, however, can go on and on and on. It can last for weeks, months, or even years. I try to liken a chronic inflammation a little bit to an explanation that was given to me a long time ago when I went to a medical conference and one of the doctors said, “Imagine flying over a rain forest. Sitting in this little airplane.” I hate airplanes, by the way, especially small ones that are all over the place. Imagine you’re flying in this little airplane.

Going over a forest and you look down out the window and you see a tiny little fire burning somewhere in the distance.

You see a tiny little plume of smoke coming out between the big trees. It’s this huge big rain forest and you’ve got a tiny fire burning there. A little bit of smoke coming up. You’ll go past and you’ll think nothing of it. And then you go on your vacation. You might have gone to a dinosaur park. I don’t if you’ve seen Jurassic Park with the dinosaurs. Go to Jurassic Park and then you’re flying back. But then all of a sudden, the rain forest is gone. It’s all gone. What happened? Well, the fire took off. In fact, that small fire took out hundreds of thousands of acres of virgin forest that got burned by that fire. That’s chronic inflammation, folks.

Chronic inflammation can sit there for days or weeks or months or even years and then all of a sudden, bang. It can take off. It can gallop away on you or it can continually secrete proteins or cause an upregulated immune response that can weaken the body and make it prone to further inflammation, infection and disease. Smoldering fire. The smoking gun, we call it. It could be a diseased tooth. It could be a little infection you’ve got there in the ileocecal valve between the small and large intestine. It could be something wrong with your tonsils. It could be a small little infection called a “nitis”, a tiny little infection somewhere we call a focal infection. I see them quite in the teeth. They can sit there for months and months and months. Hard to detect sometimes. And if you keep an eye on blood tests and look at things like C reactive proteins, CRP, keep an eye on your white blood cells, kidney function, and do a regular blood testing, you may be able to peek if there is inflammation. Especially if you’re tired, you’re sick, you’re weak, you don’t feel well, you may have unexplained fevers. Things like this could point you toward chronic low grade inflammation.

Chronic low grade inflammation also happens around the heart quite a lot. It can happen in blood vessels. Different parts of the body. Chronic inflammation has been called the architype of etiology. So what that means in English is the mother of all causes of disease. Most chronic diseases have some route cause in chronic low grade inflammation. Whether it’s cancer, diabetes, heart disease, many different autoimmune diseases. These are all basically diseases that can come from chronic low grade inflammation.

What’s all this got to do with Candida? Candida can be both acute and chronic in the body. You can have an acute Candida problem that will last a few weeks or a few months. You can have a chronic Candida problem that can last for 20 years. Some patients I see with Candida have multiple bacteria, various parasites, low levels of beneficial bacteria and high levels of inflammatory protein showing in the stool test results. I keep banging on about the stool tests. That’s because I like looking at stool tests. You might look at newspapers or blogs. I like looking at test results from patients because it will give me a really good idea on how we can help that person out. Most all people with long term chronic Candida will have some kind of level of inflammation in the body and will signify by elevation of circulatory IgA in the stool. This is an antibody.

And it can also signify with an elevation of a marker called lysozyme, which is basically a protein made by white blood cells. So if you see an elevation there, then I immediately go back to the parasitology page and I’ll often find elevated parasites along with yeast sitting there. There is certainly a relationship.

Let’s talk a bit about the inflammation in general. What do you do when you’ve got inflammation? The first thing to try to do is to track down where the inflammation is. There is no point in dumping buckets of water all over the bush unless you know where the fires are, is there? What’s the point of that? If I see smoke over there, I’m going to tell the pilot to fly there and dump some water on it. Targeted approach to chronic inflammation makes sense. Taking pharmaceutical medications for chronic inflammation is dumb. It’s a dumb idea. It’s a stupid idea. That’s like getting hundreds of people out with little garden hoses just hosing trees down and doing stupid things and not really being targeted and focused on the cause of that fire. You really want to try to find out where the problem is so you can deal with it.

You wouldn’t believe how many times I’ve seen patients with teeth problems or infections. Even a tiny little stone in the kidney can hold proteins or bacteria that can cause an upregulated inflammatory response. It’s good to do a kidney and liver detox. It’s good to get the digestive system in top shape. It’s good to make sure that your blood work is done and if everything is in perfect condition. Do the ground work first. Do a stool test to find out if there is any inflammation. If you’ve been howling around with a torch in the dark to corners to see if you can find where the smoke is.

The diet is a key thing to do with inflammation. Obviously following my Candida Crusher approach is going help you a lot because we’re going to take the sugars out of the diet. We’re going to get rid of alcohol. We’re going to get rid of all of the crap out of the diet. This is going to stop feeding any potential inflammation. Very smart idea. Don’t over exercise. Be kind to your body. Too many people go hard out when they’re feeling not well, thinking that “I’m going to go and run today. I’m going to do a marathon next month. I’m going to run 40 miles. It’s going to really improve my health.” Right. It’s going to really screw up your health because you’re only adding more inflammatory mediators into the pool of inflammation. Hard grade or consistently hard out exercise is actually pro-inflammatory. It’s a stress your body has to deal with.

Many people with long term low grade chronic inflammation have got an element of adrenal fatigue. They’ve had an elevation of cortisol for too long, which upregulates the inflammation response. Then eventually, they get a downregulation of cortisol and depletion as the gland gets more functionally exhausted and tired. With each increment of decrease in cortisol, we’re going to get an increase in inflammation. Initially, we can shut the immune system with high grade stress. Doctors are good at that. They give steroid to patients, which whips the immune system up. And then long term, we get depletion of cortisol and we get inflammation again because now we’ve got a weakening of the immune system. We’ve got an immune system that’s getting more and more powerful. The response gets stronger and stronger. This is why people love steroids when they’re not feeling well because they switch off these inflammatory signals.

Diet needs cleaning up. Lifestyle needs cleaning up. Sleep needs improving. Stresses need dealing with. These are all lifestyle changes I talk about in my program. Very clever idea. Deal with the parasites. Deal with the fungus. Get the bacteria right. Walking is fine. Never exceed your ability to recover when you exercise. Spend more time relaxing. More time trying to understand how to intelligently balance a work life approach. All clever things to do. Get the adrenal fatigue sorted. Smart thing to do.

I hope that explains a little bit about inflammation. Candida can cause many different kinds of problems in the body just by itself. Acetaldehyde, ammonia, uric acid, Gliotoxins, mannan. These are all different chemicals that Candida alone can produce. Of course, these things all fan the fire. All these things just make the fire hotter and more intense and burn deeper. These things all need cleaning up. If you get on top of your Candida infection, if you’ve identified it, that’s going to go a long way toward reducing chronic long term inflammation.

Consider taking my Canxida Remove as an antifungal/antibacterial. We’ve worked with a lot of patients now with that formula in particular and we’ve had outstanding feedback on its ability to help reduce the inflammatory response. I’ve seen this now with many hundreds of stool tests, pre and post. We’re starting to notice a trend now where this antifungal product is definitely driving the Candida down and driving the lysozyme down. It’s taking the circulatory IgA down. We’re getting a lot of people back into foods that they couldn’t previously eat for a long time. We’re noticing energy coming back. I’m quite pleased with the results we’re getting.

I hope that gives you a bit of an insight into inflammation and Candida. They certainly are bedfellows. They get on well together. They form a great relationship and it’s in your hand to break that relationship between those two. Thanks for tuning in.

Greetings. New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker, author of Candida Crusher, formulator of the Canxida range of dietary supplements. Thank you, again, for checking out my video. I’ve got an email here from a lady called June Tickell. June is from Florida and June has a 12-year-old son with eczema and she wonders if he has Candida as well, so she’s asking me if eczema and Candida can be together, cohabitate in a person. Can a person have both of these conditions?

They can. I’m going to do quite a lot of videos this year, hopefully, on eczema and also on psoriasis and explain these different kinds of presentations in the clinic. Eczema is quite a different skin presentation from psoriasis and dermatitis. Many people get these skin conditions confused. In fact, a lot of doctors get confused. They don’t even know the difference some of them between psoriasis and eczema or dermatitis and psoriasis.

Eczema basically is an immune problem where a person is going to have an issue with certain kinds of foods causing an inflammatory response. It generally involved leaky gut syndrome. As the person matures, usually by the time they get to about between 12 to 14, maybe 15, the immune system tends to settle down. Some white blood cells can take many, many years, 10, 12, even 14 years to fully mature. Younger children tend to have more of a problem with eczema than older children, but some adults can still get it.

Eczema can be inherited or acquired, but generally, you will find there is a strong element of hereditary there with eczema. We often talk about atopy. Atopy is a condition where a person will pick up the gene from one or both of the parents and it can be quite bad if it’s from both. So if dad, for example, had hay fever and mom had asthma and eczema, the child has got a 75 percent chance of picking up eczema, quite a bad case of eczema and will probably have multiple food allergies there. And I also find sometimes eczema can be acquired as well through serious antibiotic use when the child was quite young. They can develop it.

Eczema is not uncommon. We get a lot of it here in New Zealand and I put it down to a huge amount of dairy consumption because the cow is king here in New Zealand and lots and lots of people still drink way too much cow’s milk. I don’t think cow’s milk is a great food in general. I’ve never been a fan of people drinking cow’s milk. I do like a bit of whipped cream, though, with my strawberries at Christmas time and I do like a little piece of cheese here or there. I think mozzarella cheese is quite nice. But to drink glasses of cow’s milk is not a good idea.

June, the first question I ask you. Does your son drink cow’s milk because that’s the first thing that I take out of the diet when I know someone has got eczema? Eczema is really all about getting the gut right, restoring that leaky gut membrane. I certainly have seen Candida and eczema together in many different cases and it’s very important for your son to get his digestive system right and to take that allergenic food out. In fact, it’s the second phase of my Candida Crusher approach.

The first phase I put patients on. I put them on the MEVY, meat, eggs, vegetables and yogurt. And the second phase is the low allergy diet. You’ll say, “Hang on a minute. You’re telling people to have yogurt, but isn’t that a dairy product?” Yes, it is. But it is a cultured dairy product and a really good quality yogurt will have a large amount of beneficial bacteria in there. The lactose will be consumed by the lactobacillus. There will still be beta casein in there, which is a dairy protein that could upregulate the immune response, but generally, I don’t find that a problem with most people with eczema. And I’m not talking about the Yoplait or those yogurts with artificial sugars like aspartame or chunks of fruit or tons of sugar in there. Look at the packet of yogurt, if it says “sugar” ditch it. Don’t touch it. Yogurt should be a fresh, raw sour yogurt without any sugar added to it at all. There is a big difference between that kind of yogurt and the crap you get in the supermarket.

With eczema, it’s all about taking the allergenic foods out of the diet. So what are the top allergy foods? I used to work years ago, the first years of my practice, I worked with a pediatrician, a guy who is quite well known in Australia for working with a lot of children with allergies. My kids were quite young at that stage. We tested hundreds, I think we tested about 350 kids in a two-year period. We did blood testing on them, and these were kids from six months up to about seven years of age. And what we found out was that the children – these were the children particularly with eczema, asthma, and hay fever, a typical allergy kind of pattern.

We found that those children, the highest allergy, in fact, it was almost 70 percent was cow’s milk. Cow’s milk ranked high. I found most dairy products would rank to a degree. Butter was never a problem. Cheese was certainly there, but it was on the low end potential. Mozzarella cheese, I found, a usually quite low allergy. Oranges ranked quite high. I think bananas were 16 percent of the allergies. Oranges about 19 percent. Oranges, bananas, pineapple, chocolate, sugar, these are all allergy foods for children you need to watch out for. Milk is the big one. Fish, no, not really. Crustaceans, shell fish, fish, not really. I found it very rare for a child to have a strong allergy toward fish. In fact, if it was an allergy, it would be an anaphylactic or very, very strong response where the child would be hospitalized or need an adrenaline shot. These were very rare cases. I don’t find fish allergies to be common in children at all. There are always exceptions.

So it’s very important for a child with eczema not to have any antibiotics. I think it’s a dumb move because you just increase the permeability. You wipe out more beneficial bacteria. Antibiotics should not be given to children unless in extreme circumstances. I’ve seen way too many problems occur as a result of these stupid antibiotics given indiscriminately for things like a little cut finger or something where you can put a bit of tea tree oil on.

How would you go about treating a child with eczema and Candida? You need to be very, very good with the diet for starters. This boy needs to be able to have some treats that he can enjoy. Certainly, you need to think carefully about that. And also, have a look at the low allergy diet sheet that you can find in my book, June. I’ll send you a copy of that low allergy diet sheet, so you can have a good look at it. You might be able to read about that at yeastinfection.org. Take the allergy foods out of the diet, look at giving the boy a good probiotic enzyme formula.

Enzymes are very good to give with eczema because they allow the proper breakdown of protein foods to very small components. It’s generally the protein components that set up an immune response in a person, not always, but generally. And giving lots of beneficial bacteria is very important when it comes to eczema as well.

By fortifying the gut, helping to repair the leaky gut, you’re going to also make it much more difficult for Candida to get a foothold in the body, so certainly do that. The low allergy approach is a part, as I said, of my Candida Crusher approach. I think your boy is going to pick up quite nicely. Always look for the key food the child wants a lot of. I had a child in my room once that was given one and half kilograms, that’s three pounds of cheese a week, and this kid is like five years old and he’s jumping off the chairs. He’s kicking my books off the floor. He’s jumping up and down on the clock and everything. I couldn’t believe this kid. All I wanted was out of my room. I found out during the consultation. I said to this mom, “What are you giving this kid? He’s really wired up. What does he snack on?” “Oh, he likes cheese.” I said, “Well, how much do you give him?” She said, “Oh, just a couple of pieces a day.” And it ended up being three pounds of cheese a week. Of course, that food was on the off list. When that child was brought back in three weeks, I could not believe the difference how he sat there quietly with his hands on his lap all quiet. In fact, it was just a different child.

Foods can really cause a lot of behavioral disturbances, especially when they create this allergic potential. When it comes to your boy, June, my question to you is what food does he like to snack on? What is he sneaking when you’re not looking? What is he asking for all the time because that could be one of the foods that could be causing or really bringing the eczema right up in the body? Take that food out to start with or cut right back.

Check out my Canxida Restore product, June. One capsule per day should be enough for this boy at this age. That’s a probiotic enzyme. The Canxida Remove is the antifungal. I would just give him one tablet per day. That’s going to help with the Candida. Both those products should work quite well on him. You can get those at Canxida.com.

I hope that answers your question, June. You’re going to get a good result. Just make sure that you’re onto it with the diet and I think you should do fine with this boy. Thanks for your question.

Greetings. Naturopath from New Zealand, Eric Bakker, author of Candida Crusher, formulator of the Canxida range of products. Thanks for checking out my video. Today, we’re going to do an interesting video on always adopt dietary changes slowly with Candida. Make changes slowly. Don’t be one of these crazy people who do everything really quickly.

I can’t tell you how many people that have consulted me over the years that felt like crap after they started treatment and that’s because they went hammer and tongues. When I gave them some advice, they would go in and the next day make all the changes very quickly. It’s a stupid idea. I had a very interesting consultation with a lady in Australia today, a lovely lady from the Philippines now in her 60s who I’ve been seeing now probably for about I think six months whose been sick for some time. And she always wanted to eat rice for many rice for many years, but she said every time she went into rice, it made her sick. I think it’s because when she started, she would have a whole plate of rice with something on top of it and then start eating that and feel terrible. My suggestion to her was start with about a teaspoon of rice per day or half a teaspoon. She said, “What? One teaspoon of rice. That’s crazy. I like to eat rice.” What she did like a lot of people do when they start to incorporate a new food into the diet is they do way too much, way too soon, too quickly. You can’t do that. I really want you to get that through your mind. It is not a good idea.

Nor is it to do that when you are going to start an exercise program. You’re not going to go out and walk 50 miles the first day or go on a cross country hike up big mountain cliffs and down to ravines and then the next day say, “Crazy. I’m never going for a walk again. I feel like crap. All my muscles are sore.” What if you started with just a gentle walk around the block for a week? And then the second week, you maybe went around the block once and then twice? And then what about the third week, you did a bigger loop. And after a month, you did a small hike up a hill. And then after about three or four months, you did a large hike around the countryside? And then in six months, you did that big walk? Sure, you had some sore muscles, but you didn’t need to have hospitalization with extreme dehydration because you weren’t crazy because you gradually built things up over a period of time.

Your digestive system is the same. It needs slow adjustment. It needs slow change. It’s very clever for you to understand that principle. Why would that be so? Why do I want you to start slowly and build up? Lots of changes need to occur inside you. For example, people who’ve got leaky gut or SIBO or Candida often have been unwell for many, many years. They’ve got altering levels of pH in their digestive system. They’ve got different kinds of bacterial levels than they should have. They may have not enough beneficial bacteria. Too many bad ones. They’ve had different kinds of yeasts. So as soon as they start changing their diet too quickly, they’re going to upset all of those things. They’re going to feel bloated, have gas, feel sick, have headaches, have farting, constipation, all these sort of things. And then immediately they think, “Oh, can’t eat that food anymore. I’m allergic to that food.”

But what if they started with the smallest amount of that food and if they had a reaction, they backed off and they wrote it on a piece of paper and tried another piece of food. What if at that same time, they started to take some digestive enzymes and some probiotics and maybe a small amount of antifungal/antibacterial, but they put all the other supplements aside for a while? One of my patients today was taking around 19 different dietary supplements and she felt like crap. I said, “What the hell are you taking all this stuff for?”

We had another patient about two years ago that was taking 90 supplements per day; $4,000 per month in supplements. Plus, a whole page of medications and pharmaceuticals from their four different doctors. I asked her how she felt. She said, “I feel like crap.” I said, “Great. Go to the kitchen and I want you to bring me the garbage can.” She didn’t know what I was aiming at, but she came back with the garbage can. I said, “Now, open the lid and chuck everything in there.” “Why would I do that for?” I said, “Well, you feel like crap, so what difference is it going to make? Now, your bank account is not going to feel like crap. You’re going to feel a lot better because you’ll have more money in the bank and let’s start slowly again.” Again, she was overloading her system. Taking lots of pills is not the answer. Starting treatment too quick is not the answer.

Using an intelligent approach is the answer. Starting very slowly and then gradually building up and building up, so you’ve got to build up digestive fitness like you do musculoskeletal fitness. You can’t do a PhD if you can’t even read or write properly. It takes many years and sometimes it can take several years for a very sick person to gain amazing good digestive health, but generally, I would say between 6 to 12 months to get excellent digestive function, including no gas, no bloating, the ability to eat just about all foods, not be too hungry, all those things can be had but it takes time.

Always adopt dietary changes slowly. The most important point I want to emphasize right now is to start right away and adopt these new habits slowly. All too often I’ve found that when I make a recommendation in my clinic to a patient that these recommendations are adopted way too rapidly and almost overnight. Meaning that their whole diet and lifestyle is literally changed within 24 hours. You can imagine what misery this can bring about. Years of sloppy or bad eating habits changed in an instant, and the result can be bad headaches, nausea, lots of gas and bloating, constipation, diarrhea, insomnia, and fatigue. Doesn’t sound like fun does it? But it happens regularly in the clinic, so I must warn you again. Begin to adopt slowly the changes. Preferably over two to three weeks when you first start. Sometimes even a month.

Taking a good enzyme probiotic formula. You don’t have to take my product, but I’ve created a product called Canxida Restore and it’s going to do what it says. It’s going to restore gently the function of the stomach. Gently the function of the pancreas. The stomach has to work very efficiently before the pancreas can work. Consultation today with a patient with a bad helicobacter pylori infection, which is reflux, heartburn, gastroesophageal reflux like GERD, taking an acid blocking drug for years. What happens with these patients when they take drugs like Nexium or omeprazole or crap like that is they block the stomach’s ability to work. They put out the fire of digestion. They impair the way the pancreas works, so that can sometimes mean when you swallow food, it sits there like a lump or your cough doesn’t sit quite good in your chest. Things get a bit clogged up down here and that can often lead to constipation or bloating or farting or one hour after eating, you can have a lot of tummy pains. You wonder what the hell is going on there.

These drugs are not the answer. The answer is obviously to go to a bland boring diet for a little while. Take some enzymes and probiotics. Take maybe a good antibacterial/antifungal like the Canxida Remove. Again, you don’t have to take mine, but I’ve made a product from the best of my experiences that’s going to help kill a lot of crap here in the stomach. It’s going to work its way through and slowly but surely you’ll find as you willing to relax more, chew food better, rest more, you’ll find that your digestion will improve. You can slowly start to incorporate more foods into your diet. You need to learn to relax more while eating. Chew food better. Select the foods you can eat. Avoid the foods you can’t eat.

Another golden rule in my clinic is if something is working, you don’t change. You stick with that thing. If it’s not working, but only a little bit, you might need to tweak it until it works a bit better. If it’s working better, then you keep doing it. If it’s not working, you change it. If it’s not working at all, you change it completely. Of course, why would you want to stop when something is working? Many people take a supplement for 30 days and then stop it and they think, “Well, I just needed one bottle, but I feel like crap again, so what do I do?” I say, “Well, how did you feel when you were taking it?” “Oh, I felt great.” “Well, why don’t you get back on it again?” “Oh, that might be a good idea.” You know what I mean. If something is working, stick with it and stick with it and keep working until it gets better and better and better. Once you’re on a roll, it just gets bigger and bigger. Adopt change slowly.

If you adopt change slowly, the body will slowly improve and then it will improve more and more to the point where you feel pretty good about yourself. And then over time, you’ll know you can back off treatment and then stop it completely. But don’t be quick to make changes when it comes to starting treatment or stopping treatment. Don’t be quick either. Don’t be quick to stop treatment. You taper treatment off slowly and if you go backwards, then you need to go back again and keep on track. It’s common sense, isn’t it? Well, it is to me.

I hope this has been an inspiring video for you fans on YouTube out there. Thanks for tuning in.