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Greetings. New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker, author of Candida Crusher, formulator of the Canxida range of dietary supplements. Thank you so much for checking out my video once again today. I also welcome everybody back for 2016. I completed hundreds of videos in 2015 and I expect to do the same for 2016, so please keep commenting on my videos. Make sure you subscribe to this channel. I do appreciate all you subscribers out there. The subscribers certainly I try to respond to all your comments as much as I can. I delete the stupid or crazy comments and I certainly appreciate the good comments. Keep those comments coming through.

I’m going to do a video right now on “How do you know if you’re recovering from Candida?” That’s a question that was recently asked to me through one of the YouTube subscribers. “Eric, can you please do a video on how do you know you’re recovering?” It’s not hard to know you’re recovering. But remember recovery is not just the absence of symptoms. That’s a very important point I want you to remember. The World Health Organization basically did a little bit of a write up on this quite a few years ago about what constitutes good health. Does good health constitute the absence of symptoms? No. It does not. Good health is a lot more than just being free from symptoms. Good health also means that a person has very good mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical health. It means that they feel really good on multiple levels. It means that they function well in society. They feel good about themselves and they feel good about their relationships with people around them. A healthy person is a balanced person. A person who feel optimistic about their life. They enjoy living. They really enjoy being alive and they appreciate the short amount of time that they’ve got while they are on earth.

How do you know you’re getting well? As I mentioned, it’s not just the absence of symptoms. It’s a lot more than that. But if you’ve got symptoms, I really do believe in what was written a long time ago. A guy called Dr. Constantine Hering who lived many years ago and he worked out what we now call “Hering’s Law of Cure.” You’ll be wondering, “Well, what’s this guy on about with this Hering’s Law of Cure? Think about it logically. Dr. Hering believed that symptoms will appear in the reverse order of their onset. A symptom that you’ve more recently had is one that’s more recently going to disappear. A symptom you’ve had for a long time is generally going to take longer to disappear. That’s logical common sense, isn’t it?

If you’ve had say a tummy ache for 10 years, but you’ve have a skin problem for six months, it’s more likely that the skin problem is going to clear up before the tummy problem will clear up. You don’t need to be a brain surgeon to work that one out. That’s part of Hering’s Law of Cure that symptoms disappear in the reverse order of their onset. Symptoms also tend to disappear for many other reasons obviously, but that’s one of the clever parts of the Law of Cure. I want you to remember that one always that symptoms will disappear in the reverse order of their onset.

If you’ve had symptoms disappear on you, try to work out when you first had that symptom. Something that I’d like you to do if you’ve got multiple complaints is to get a piece of paper. Just get a sheet of paper and write down all the complaints you’ve got on a piece of paper and try to work out roughly chronologically over a time period when you’ve actually had those symptoms, when they appeared. How long you sort of think you’ve had them before. If you’ve got 10 symptoms, you’ll find they weren’t all there at the same time. Some you will have had for longer and some for shorter duration. That’s a very important thing for you to do. Because when you’re truly getting well, the symptoms will slowly disappear in that Law of Cure as I mentioned.

Feeling well also means that you’ll have windows or periods of feeling really good and other times you’re feeling not so good and other times you’re feeling terrible. I wrote about this in Candida Crusher in the introduction right up at the beginning of book about what I call the window of opportunity. Many patients tell me when they recover, they’ll be some days where they wake up and they feel fantastic. They feel really, really good, but that feeling of goodness may not last any more than half a day or even one day, and the following day, they don’t feel good again.

My question to that patient is “When did you last feel like that?” “Oh, not for a long time. I haven’t felt that good for a couple of years.” That is very important because that means the window opens up for a brief period and then it closes again. But as the person keeps progressing along the road to recovery, the window stays open for longer and longer. And eventually, when the person is really good, the window can stay open for weeks or months or even years at a time.

Many people in great health like me often take that for granted because my window is open all the time. I only occasionally get the window shut. And my window will shut if I’ve had too much gin or tonic or if I’ve been stupid and I’ve had too much crappy food to eat or if I stay up too late at night on the computer or do dumb things or have too many fights with people, which I don’t have. You know what I mean? The point I’m making is the window will close because of a cause. Healthy people take good health for granted. Sick people don’t take good health for granted. They want good health. As you notice that window opening and staying open for longer and longer, don’t take it for granted.

That’s really one of the ways you’re going to notice the recovery is the window scenario. It will stay open for longer and longer, so don’t make the window shut by going to parties or going to weddings or doing dumb things. Going to the cinema and then after the cinema having five or six wines or beers and having a pizza on the way home and then waking up the next day, “Oh, my head. I feel like crap. What have I done to myself?” Remember. It’s all about cause and effect. Everything you do on the road to recovery will govern how long that window stays open or how long it stays shut for. It’s a very important concept I’d like you to always remember.

How do you know you’re recovering? Your sleep will get better. You’ll wake up feeling really refreshed. You’ll wake up feeling good. You’ll have a nice stretch when you wake up and you get up and you feel great. You’ll also probably wake up around about the same time most mornings without the alarm clock. You won’t wake up between 2 to 4 a.m., a key time for many people who are not so good, is to have disturbed sleep. You’ll also go to sleep quite easily. You’ll go to bed, you’ll be tired and you’ll fall asleep. Healthy people usually take about 5 to 10 minutes to fall asleep. I’m going to do plenty of videos this year on sleep and insomnia to explain a lot more concepts I’ve learned from a special friend of mine who is a sleep doctor. I’ve learned a lot about sleep. If you don’t get good sleep, your health is going to be crap. You need to get good sleep.

You’ll know you’re in good health when your sleep is good. When you wake up feeling nice and fresh. When the bowel function is good, so you’re going to go to the toilet roughly the same time each day, give or take an hour or so. You’re going to have well-formed bowel motions. You’re going to feel nice and good after you’ve had a bowel motion. Also the urine is probably going to be the color of a pale manila folder. Here is a patient folder. It’s going to be sort of manila folder sort of color. That means you’re well hydrated. If it’s too dark or smelly or foamy, it could mean a problem there with kidneys or problems with too much ammonia in the body or proteins not breaking down. The urine will be good. Bowels will be good. Your breath won’t be all stinky and smelly. You’ll have good gum and teeth health. You’ll have nice clear skin. Your skin will look quite good. And, in fact, many people should comment on how well you look. Your hair should look nice. Your skin should look nice. That’s a healthy person.

That all comes from good digestive health. Good gut health will mean good external health. It’s stupid to think you can cure problems on the outside of the body by ignoring the inside of the body. That’s a pretty dumb thing to do. That’s like painting a room and not worrying about the foundation underneath or wallpapering over the top of big holes, not worrying about the holes underneath it. We live in a very superficial world. So remember, the foundation of the body is the gut. That’s got to come right.

Good health, feeling good emotion, feeling happy, feeling optimistic about the future, enjoying today, looking forward to tomorrow and not worrying about the past because it’s been and gone. Not getting in argumentative states with too many people. Agreeing with people. Enjoying being around other people. Enjoying your own company. Enjoying your family and friends. That’s a good part of health.

Good health you can judge on many different levels, but remember, it’s not just the absence of physical symptoms mean good health. Medical doctors would like you to think that not having any symptoms means that you’re cured. You’re in good health because you’re taking this pill. That’s a load of crap. That doesn’t really mean that you’re in good health at all. It means that you’ve suppressed a symptom. But what happens when you stop that drug? Do the symptoms come back? Well, then maybe you weren’t cured at all.

Good health also means not relying on any kind of pharmaceutical medication. No Tylenol. No aspirin. No headache pills. No period pills. No arthritis pills. No pills at all from the doctor. That to me is good health. Good health means that you’re going to be around a couple of kilos around your own body weight, your ideal body weight. You’re not going to be overweight. You’re not going to be underweight. Good health means lots of energy. Waking up in the morning having plenty of energy and recognizing and reading your body. So when you’re tired, some days you back off and you rest more. Other days you’re energetic, you do more. That’s good health.

I hope you get the picture now of good health. As you improve all these things I’ve just spoken about, it should become more apparent to you and other people will point them out. That’s how you truly know that you’re getting well is when someone that knows you says, “Gee, you’re looking good today. You’re looking happy today. You’re looking like you’ve got a lot of energy today and you’re in an upbeat mood.” I want you to carefully remember that because when somebody else recognizes it, it probably means that you haven’t been like that for a long time, but now they’re noticing it. Now, if two or more people say this, you’re well on the road to recovery and it means that the window has been open for long periods of time, but you’re not even recognizing the window anymore because you’ve been sick or pessimistic for so long. You might even have sunglasses. Don’t even want to look at the window. People are recognizing you’re getting well. It’s a wakeup call for you and it also means that you are on the right track to recovery.

Again, I wish you all a happy new year out there and all of my fans and subscribers and I wish you all the best for 2016. Don’t forget to subscribe. Check out my yeastinfection.org. Have a look at my Canxida products at Canxida.com and please keep the comments coming in. And also if you have any requests for videos, I’ll be quite happy to take those now. Thank you so much.

Greetings. It’s New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker, author of Candida Crusher and formulator of the Canxida range of products. I’m going to talk a little bit about kidney problems this morning. It’s a beautiful day here in New Zealand. It’s still summertime. We’ve got actually wonderful weather at the moment. We’ve had some really strange weather as of late, though, and a lot of people I’ve spoken to in America and in the UK have had very similar strange weather patterns. Let’s get back into the kidneys.

Many people talk about liver detoxification, bowel detoxification, gall bladder flushes, getting the digestive system fixed up, but nobody talks about the kidney. You’ve got two kidneys and their role is critical and vital for maintaining excellent health. What do the kidneys do? What are they responsible for and why is it so important to look after them?

The kidneys are incredible. They’re a very high filtration unit. You’ve got two of them in the lower part of your back. We’ll talk a little bit about back pain later on. Many people feel kidney pain from time to time, but actually think they’ve got a lower back problem. The kidneys, as I mentioned, are a high filtration unit. They filter a staggering 400 pints of blood per day, so that’s probably around 200 to 230 liters of blood are filtered by the kidneys every day. They produce a staggering amount of waste that they actually pull out of the blood and put into the urine, so you can excrete them. It’s estimated around three to four pints, which is probably around 2 liters of waste get put out every day.

If the kidneys didn’t function properly, you’d be in big trouble in no time at all. Your blood pressure would be unregulated. You wouldn’t be able to produce red blood cells because the kidneys produce a hormone called erythropoietin and that stimulates the production of red blood cells, so you’d quickly get anemia and fatigue if you didn’t have good kidney function. More importantly, the kidneys not only help to cleanse the blood, the kidneys have glands on top of them called the adrenal glands. You’ve got two adrenal glands, and the adrenal glands are little mushroom shaped glands that sit on top of the kidneys that produce up to 50 different hormones. They produce some of the most powerful hormones in the body.

The kidneys are positioned very interestingly quite central in the body and also close to possibly one of the largest artery in the system where they can have access to a lot of blood there. But more importantly, the adrenal glands have access to the main circulation system where they can put their hormones straight into the main circulation. We’re talking cortisol. We’re talking sex hormones because the adrenals also produce estrogen and progesterone. They produce DHEA. Many hormones are produced, so it’s vital that the kidneys are in good shape to also keep the adrenal glands in good shape.

The kidneys have their own extensively detoxification system. And even the adrenal glands have got their own enzymatic detoxification system, which is a little bit similar to the liver detox pathway. So it’s critical that you keep your kidneys in really good shape.

How do you know if you’ve got kidney disease? What are some of the signs and symptoms? Things that you could be ignoring right now? Do you get itchy skin a lot? It might not be a yeast infection. If you get a lot of itchy skin around the thighs, around the legs, the back of the legs, you’re always itching the inner part of the thigh, itchy, especially if the skin is dry a lot. Dry skin, itchy skin, and I find particularly in the lower extremity carefully think are you drinking enough water? You may have the signs of kidney disease. Look for things like puffiness or fluid retention. If you’ve got that, that’s seriously bad kidney disease.

Things we’re looking at are consistent unexplained anemia. So if you’ve got low red cell count and you’re anemic quite a lot. If you’ve got low ferritin, which is a low iron storage protein that’s constantly low and yet they can’t explain why you’ve got low iron. They can’t find any iron in the stool. You haven’t been bleeding or haven’t had any heavy menstruation, so it’s unexplained loss of red cell production. You may want to check the kidney out a bit more carefully. Unexplained itching. Check carefully if you’re taking any medications that could upset the kidney. Alcohol really affects the kidney bad. In fact, I believe that most alcoholic hangovers and headaches occur from dehydration because you’re peeing out so much fluid and you’re stressing the kidneys out so much, it’s affecting you on multiple pathways. But many headaches with alcohol are not caused by the liver so much, but by the kidney dehydration. Check out those things. Itchy skin, unexplained anemia. There are other things you can look for that are a bit more complex like bruising and things like that. We don’t go into those kind of pathways.

The best kept secret I wrote about in Candida Crusher is called the kidney flush. How do you do a kidney flush? There are a couple of things the kidney really likes. We all know that we need to drink plenty of fresh clean good quality water. That’s a very good thing to do for the kidney. You need to back off coffee, tea and alcohol because those things affect the kidney really bad. They dehydrate the body and they stress out the very fine tubules in the kidney. They can cause a lot of problems. Coffee drinkers often end up with kidney stones.

The kidneys also regulate the pH of the body and they regulate the electrolytes and the potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium. They have a big effect on minerals in the body. And you’ll find that people who drink too much coffee end up with all sorts of problems with acidity and pH imbalances. The kidneys are responsible for excreting many different wastes, toxins and chemicals. These toxins are many and varied and come from a wide variety of sources, including chemicals and toxins in your food and water, pharmaceutical drugs, environmental chemicals, pesticides, alcoholic residues, pollution. When the kidneys fail to function optimally, these toxins can potentially cause many different problems like headaches, blood pressure, nausea, itchy skin, fatigue, many other different problems.

What are some of the key things you can take for kidney function? Watermelon is quite good. Celery is quite good. These are quite high water containing produce that really help to flush the kidney out. Watermelon is quite high in potassium, so it’s a good one to have. There’s an herb you can get called goldenrod. It’s also called solidago or goldenrod. It’s a very good one, especially for males to have. Cornsilk. When you open the corn and you’ve got all that little silky sort of stuff hanging down, you can actually keep that and dry that out and you can make a cup of tea out of that and that’s very soothing for the kidney.

Cherries are good. One of the best herbs is parsley. Green parsley, you just break off four or five stalks when you grow it, put it in a pot, a non-aluminum pot, and a bit of water and you simmer that and then you pour that into a cup and you drink that. Add a bit of water to it and you drink that. That’s very good at flushing out the kidney and at cleansing the kidney.

One of the best things for cleaning the kidney are parsley roots. So the parsley plant, especially the second year, the roots contain a lot more of the beneficial nutrients in them. You dry the roots out and you can use those. They’re very, very powerful for kidney cleansing. A good probiotic. Have a think about taking a product like my Canxida Restore. That’s got a lot of beneficial enzymes in it, as well as beneficial bacteria that are going to help improve kidney function because yes, you’ve actually got bacteria in the kidney as well.

A glass of pure apple juice, not the crap you buy in the shop, but you actually get green apples and squeeze them. Very good to have. The following kidney friendly foods. Watermelon as we mentioned. Cherries, red bell peppers or capsicums, cabbage, cauliflower, garlic, onions, green apples, cranberries, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, red grapes, egg whites and fresh fish. You’ll be thinking. “Hang on a minute. I can’t eat grapes. I’ve got Candida.” You can eat grapes with Candida, but you’ve got to wait a while. You can’t have them with the first stage of treatment. You need to possibly wait a few weeks, maybe even a month or two and then you can put a few red grapes in. Red grapes are more beneficial than green grapes for the kidney.

When you’re trying to clean out the kidney, you’ve got to really cut out red meat. Because red meat is really hard on the kidney function. It produces a whole lot of nitrogen wastes, which can really affect the kidney a lot. White meats are better for the kidney. Red meat is harder. If you eat red meat, drink a lot of water and don’t eat any more than 250 grams of red meat in a week. That’s my recommendation.

White flour, sugar, rich foods, fatty foods, deep fried foods, junk foods, pizzas, coca cola, peanuts, spinach. Be careful of spinach. The silver beet contains oxalic acid and that can be hard on kidney function. Chocolate is not good for kidneys, so ladies watch out for chocolate. I hope that gives you a bit of an insight into the kidney.

I spoke before about the back pain. Some people get a back pain and they get a nice dull low pain around the back and it can often be on the side that you’re sleeping on. So if you’re sleeping a lot on the left, you could a little bit of a dull pain on the left side or you can get it on the right. If you get a little bit of a very low dull pain in the back a bit like a dull toothache from time to time, it could be kidney pain and it’s not uncommon. And I bet that you will have had a kidney pain over time, especially in your 40s or 50s like me. You will have experienced a little bit of kidney pain here or there, but probably thought “Ah, I’ve got a lower back problem. My back’s hurting a little bit or the muscles.” But it was probably the kidney more likely, especially if it was off to the side.

Remember drink water, especially when you get up. Drink water around meal times. I don’t drink with food. I usually drink after I’ve had food to eat. Drink plenty of water when it’s hot and also drink water even if you don’t feel like drinking water, just try to have a few sips. It’s going to be so beneficial for your body. Try to cut out the alcoholic beverages entirely for a few weeks and increase your water intake and I can guarantee you you’re going to notice a huge difference in how you feel. Energy will come up.

That’s a bit of information on kidney function. Last thing I’ll leave you with is at least once per year go to your doctor and ask for a kidney function test. We look at a few different parameters there with kidneys. One is called creatine clearance and the other one is called GFR or glomerular filtration rate. Creatine is a waste product produced with the metabolism, so the muscles produce a waste called creatine and that gets excreted through the urine. We can actually measure the creatine to see if it’s high or low to see how the affective the clearance of the creatine is. If the clearance is poor, it could mean the kidneys need attention.
The kidneys work a little bit like all sorts of sieves or colanders all on top of each other. Glomerular filtration rate is basically how effective all those sieves are working. If the filtration rate is really poor and the creatine clearance is really poor and you’ve got a bit of blood pressure and a bit of fluid retention and itchy skin, you’ve got a bad kidney problem. I think you can start getting the picture now.

I hope that gives you a bit of information on kidneys. Thanks for tuning in.

Greetings. New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker. I’m the author of Candida Crusher and also the formulator of the Canxida range of supplements. I have a question here from a man called Angelo Macradakus. Angelo sounds like a Greek guy. I really like Greek people. I used to have a lot of Greek patients when I practiced in Brisbane in Australia many years ago and I really enjoy Greek festivals and Greek culture.

“Hi, Eric. I just want to say thanks for all your amazing content. Your videos have been extremely helpful alongside your book. I was just hoping you could make one of your extensive videos on what the differences are with the lifestyle, nutrition and supplementation when dealing with leaky gut as well as Candida, as opposed to just Candida, if there are any at all. I greatly appreciate this. Thanks for your good work. Keep up the good content.”

Angelo, this is for you, my friend. Not just because you’re Greek and I like Greek people, but also because it’s a very valid question. What is the difference with treatment if you look at lifestyle, nutrition and supplementation with leaky gut as opposed to Candida?

People with leaky gut and, in fact, many people have got leaky gut. I would go as far to say anyone who lives a diet based on western diet and lifestyle principles will have leaky gut to some degree. That’s because we all tend to eat food that contains some element of chemicals, preservatives, emulsifiers, all these sort of things in our food, including antibiotics, artificial sugars, they seem to permeate our lifestyle and diet to a big degree. Unless you’ve got an extremely austere lifestyle and you eat everything completely 100 percent unprocessed and you grow all your own food and live on a farm and where a straw hat and don’t have electricity and drink pure water that’s been purified and all this sort of stuff, you’re going to get some kind of element of chemicals into your diet. That can affect the membrane or the gut of the diet.

Some people have got seriously bad leaky gut. How do you know you’ve got bad leaky gut? If you’re drinking alcohol on a regular basis, you will have leaky gut, period. If you drink alcohol every day, you will have a major leaky gut problem. We know that. If you take pharmaceutical drugs, you’ll have leaky gut. You could be taking pills for headache, arthritis pain, NSAID, what we call non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. You could be taking drugs to block acidity of the stomach like Nexium, for example, omeprazole. You could be taking anti-convulsants. You could be taking antibiotics. You could be taking anti-depressants. Any pharmaceutical medication that you’re on in time is going to cause leaky gut. If you’re in that category, welcome to the leaky gut club. If you’re eating commercially raised poultry, you’ll have leaky gut. If you’re eating grain fed beef, you’ll have leaky gut.

How do I know all this stuff? It’s because I’ve been treating patients now for such a long period of time. I’ve done so many of these lactulose and mannitol digestive permeability tests that I’ve worked out that people who eat and drink like this will have leaky gut. Leaky gut predisposes you to a whole raft of potential different problems. It’s one of the major things that can underpin a lot of autoimmune disorders. These are diseases where the immune system starts attacking itself. No known cause they say. Well, welcome to the club if you live in the western country. I doubt that leaky gut is a condition that affects many people who live in underdeveloped countries, particularly people who live in India who just eat lentils and rice. These people don’t go to the corner shop and buy a can of coke every day. They don’t have energy drinks, Red Bull for breakfast. They don’t have fries for lunch. When you’re living a lifestyle based on an indigenous person who is living a very simple lifestyle, eating a very basic sort of diet, I doubt very much if you’re going to have a strong degree of leaky gut.

But let’s talk about the treatment differences. I don’t really think there are a lot of differences between treating leaky gut and treating Candida. The principles in my mind are the same. The big thing I like people to stay away from with leaky gut are the foods that have a high potential for allergenicity in the body. I tend to put people with leaky gut on a low allergy diet approach. Same thing I do with Candida. I tend to put people with leaky gut on a no-alcohol diet. Same thing I do with Candida. Probably the big difference with Candida and leaky gut is we’re dealing with a yeast infection. We’re dealing with an immune system that has a little bit more twists and turns about it than a person with digestive permeability. With digestive permeability also I would expect a much more allergic potential to the diet than I would with Candida. Many Candida patients can, for example, tolerate gluten. They can tolerate different types of foods that some food police say they can’t tolerate. Trial and error will tell the Candida patient that. Whereas with leaky gut syndrome and I know the person has got very bad leaky gut, I would be a lot tougher on their diet than I would if I had a feeling they had Candida and a very mild case of leaky gut.

How do I know the difference? Easy, I look at the case history. Has the patient been on antibiotics for a long period time? Does the patient have a huge amount of gut related problems that may not necessarily be Candida? How can you distinguish between Candida and leaky gut? Do a stool test. If you’re in doubt, do a permeability test where two sugars are basically assessed where a person basically drinks some sugars, particularly sugars, and then we can basically assess what comes out of the urine to see what’s being held back. There are different tests you can do, but I don’t do the intestinal permeability test anymore because I find that everybody has got leaky gut to a degree. It just varies. Some people have got it worse than others. I think the stool test is a more valid test for determining a wide range of digestive problems. Generally, you’ll be surprised how many people think they’ve got Candida when, in fact, they haven’t got Candida at all. They’ve just got bad bacteria and a low level of beneficial bacteria. These are often the people who have got serious leaky gut problems. I can pick leaky gut in the stool test without looking at the sugars, lactulose and mannitol, to see what aberrations as far as they’re concerned.

How I would treat leaky gut if it was just purely on its own compared to Candida? I would be tougher on the patient, a lot tougher. I would probably also be looking a lot more at the fermented and the cultured foods. I really like the person to get into some kefir, tiny bits of kefir and yogurt, and I’d probably have a stronger element of probiotics and digestive enzymes in the diet, as opposed to the Candida patient. The Candida patient I would tend to work a lot more with antifungal/antibacterial approach. The leaky gut, I wouldn’t do it so much unless a stool test warranted that. I would tend to look more at digestive enzymes and probiotics.

When it comes to the lifestyle, Angelo, what I would certainly recommend for both camps, leaky gut and Candida, is to assess the element of adrenal fatigue in the patient. If you’re very tired and you’re worn out, you’re fatigued, you wake up tired, you’re fatigued in the afternoon, you’ve got blood sugar problems, you want sweet stuff all the time, maybe some memory loss, confusion, sleeping disturbances. So if you’ve got the typical adrenal fatigue pattern, especially if it’s really bad, that definitely needs treatment and that will help the leaky gut to a large degree by getting the stress hormone cortisol balanced.

I find people with good cortisol balance have got a much easier ability to get a handle on their leaky gut as opposed to people who are adrenally fatigued and who are not diagnosed or that element is not corrected and they’re purely treated for the leaky gut. I find that they can stay like that for years. But if you correct that adrenal fatigue pattern and particularly if they’ve got hypothyroidism and hypoadrenalism, if you correct that alongside their leaky gut, i.e., correct the lifestyle along with the diet, you’re going to get a really good result and a much quicker outcome. It’s going to save the person a lot of money and a lot of misery. The lifestyle is a very, very important to get sort, which could underpin a lot of adrenal issues with a lot of people and often does.

Many patients that I see that have been sick for years have got adrenal fatigue and it’s generally never assessed, it’s never treated, and purely the gut is treated. So many doctors I know out there who just basically are one trick ponies. They’ll look at one particular thing. “Oh, it’s all Candida. It’s all mercury. We’ll get rid of all the mercury fillings and you’ll be cured. It’s all gluten. Stop eating gluten and the hemorrhoids will go. Stop eating gluten and you won’t hate your mother-in-law anymore.” All this sort of nonsense, you know. Don’t fall for the one trick pony practitioner. It’s important that you understand that people get dysfunction on multiple levels. Many people with leaky gut and Candida have got an endocrine imbalance as well or a hormonal imbalance. For females, it can affect them a bit differently than for males. If in doubt, these things need assessing by a health care professional.

I know I’m carrying on a lot here, Angelo, but you can see there are a lot of issues at stake here when it comes to leaky gut syndrome and Candida. Especially if the patient has been sick for many, many years. Generally, unresolved long term leaky gut and Candida will mean an element of hormonal dysfunction that remains unresolved. The unresolved hormonal dysfunction will generally mean unresolved lifestyle stuff. Things that haven’t been fixed up. Again, it comes back to lifestyle.

In my book, I write a lot about this that 75 percent of recovery is lifestyle. Three quarters. This is why a lot of people don’t take it seriously because you aren’t going to make a lot of money giving people advice, as opposed to selling them pills or tests or drugs or surgeries or stuff like that. When you spend time with patients and actually work out where their problems are and to help them or assist them, give them some guidance, so that they can correct these issues, then you’ve done a great service for that patient.

That was a long winded reply I hope to your question, Angelo. Dealing with leaky gut as well as Candida as opposed to Candida. So you are going to find some cases of people with yeast infection on its own with leaky gut, but more likely most people with chronic Candida, especially intestinal Candida or vaginal yeast infection or serious jock itch, will usually have leaky gut as well. Just remember, leaky gut, think more of along the lines of healing the gut, reducing the inflammation, getting the bacteria right again. With Candida, look a little bit more at an antifungal approach. Getting the bacteria right. With a leaky gut, look more at getting the digestive enzymes working more efficiently, upper GI and pancreas, to help break foods down, stop them from affecting the permeability of the gut too much.

Check out my product called Canxida Restore, which is an enzyme probiotic I specifically developed for leaky gut and Candida. It works quite well. Whereas, the Canxida Remove is the antifungal/antibacterial product that is going to help cleanse the gut. Get rid of all that crap. Both of those products work quite well together.

Thanks for your question, Angelo, and I do miss the Paniyiri Greek Festival I used to attend quite a lot in Brisbane. I really enjoyed the Greek culture, the music and the food, and maybe one day I can go to the Greek Islands and really enjoy that.