Category: Candida Crusher FAQ Videos

Greetings there. It’s New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker. I’m author of Candida Crusher and I’m also the formulator of the Canxida range of dietary supplements. Thanks for checking out my video. I’m going to do another video today for one of my subscribers. This is a lady called Donna Collins. Donna is from Canada. Donna’s husband had a very successful result with the Candida Crusher program. Donna is asking me to do a video on die-off, so she’s saying “Eric, can you do a video all about die-off? Die-off 101. What are the signs and symptoms? Can you clear up the confusion for the subscribers about die-off and what it really is and separate fact from fiction?” Let’s talk a bit about die-off, Donna, and explain to you a bit about what it is, so it’s going to be a benefit to the subscribers out there.

I’ve just had a look at different blog sites on die-off on many different sites. There is a huge amount of confusion with die-off. Just like there is a lot of confusion when it comes to food allergies and food intolerances, which are completely different things. Lots of people get confused when it comes to understanding the terminology die-off and they’re very quick to jump onboard. I get lots of emails and have many patients telling me, “Oh, I had terrible die-off. I had a bit of pizza and I had die-off. I took supplement xyz. I had immediate die-off. I changed my diet. I started to eat more eggs. I got die-off. I took a probiotic. I had die-off. I went to the museum. I had die-off. I changed my job. I had die-off.” I’m hearing this die-off crap all the time. People are telling me all the time they’re getting die-off. I think people are getting confused. They don’t really understand what die-off is and how it really occurs and how it’s not that common to get classic die-off.

So let’s just explain a bit about die-off. I made a few notes here. Went to Wikipedia. Did a bit of research actually on the guy who really brought this whole concept to light back in the 1870s. A guy called Carl Herxheimer. Carl Herxheimer and Adolph Jarisch were two friends. They knew each other quite well. Both of these guys were dermatologists or skin specialists.

Unfortunately, Carl passed away in a concentration camp. He got placed in a concentration camp when he was 81 years old because he was Jewish, which is really unfortunate and passed away at 81 years of age. These guys basically treated a lot of skin problems.

They’re quite well known for treating syphilis, which is a venereal disease that was very common in those days, more so than today. Syphilis is quite well known to have a lot different kind of skin problems, so these guys would commonly use mercury. Would you believe mercury? Mercury was a medicine back in those days. They would give mercury to people with particularly secondary syphilis and it had a marvelous effect on the skin, but almost immediately the patient would suffer from terrible side effects. The underlying bug or spirochete that people with syphilis have was killed quite quickly with mercury, and it created horrific side effects with these people. So they would get fever, chills. I’ve got a list down here of different problems that they would experience. Fever, chills, muscular aches, skin rashes, flushing, tachycardia, so fast heartbeat, headaches. They would get very sick, extremely sick. This is what a typical Herxheimer reaction is, is getting hot and cold, fever, profuse sweating, fast heart rate.

Some sites say that brain fog is a part of die-off. I believe it is, but it’s very rare to get brain fog from die-off. Brain fog can occur with die-off, but it’s a much more delayed reaction as a result. I’ll explain what I mean in a minute by that. If you do get a classical typical die-off, it’s going too often occur very quickly after you take a very powerful antifungal and I’m talking like really quick. It could happen within hours. Certainly within 24 hours of taking that product. It will happen very, very strongly. You’ll get a strong reaction. And you’ll have those reactions that I just mentioned. Things like fevers, chills, muscle aches. If your nose is itchy, that’s not die-off. If you fart or bloat, that’s not die-off. Please don’t get confused with a lot of minor symptoms or fatigue, tiredness, a bit of headache. That’s not die-off. I’ll explain why these occur and how to really clearly define the difference between typical die-off reaction and generally what 99 percent of people experience but call die-off.

What people typically do that create problems that they think is die-off, they change their lifestyle. They alter the dosage of their supplements. They come in too high or too low with a supplement to start with. They start with generally way too high. They take on new foods or they do too big of a change. Hello? I’ve talked about this before in a video. You need to make change slowly. Please watch that video about making change slowly because that is a key thing if you want to avoid die-off, which it probably isn’t. If you want to avoid feeling like crap when you’re going to start the Candida Crusher approach, you need to do things slowly to start with, very slowly, then you won’t feel awful.

Another key thing that people get is inflammation. Inflammation can make you feel pretty crappy and that can often be misconstrued as die-off. Let’s break these things down now, this list I just read out to you and explain to you one by one the events that can lead to what you feel is die-off that actually isn’t really classic die-off. And then later on, we’ll come in and explain to you a bit more about some of the cases I’ve seen with real die-off and how serious they can be.

I get patients all the time on Skype now who say, “I suffered terrible die-off the other day. I took this supplement and I felt very sick. I had a bowel problem after that. I felt very spaced out. Surely, that’s got to be die-off.” When you start a supplement, you must begin – just to recap. You must see the video I’ve completed recently on going slowly. Any kind of supplement you take; I like you to start it very slowly. There is a whole lot of reasons why you can feel terrible after you take a supplement. But oftentimes, the body will not be used to that supplement, particularly if it’s an antifungal/antibacterial product like my Canxida Remove product. That’s quite a potent product. When you take that one right away, lots of different reactions can occur in the body. It can kick the immune system in the butt and upregulate it, make it a lot stronger. That’s one.

Two, it can have a very profound effect on liver function and kidney function. Both of those functions, in turn, can make you feel hot, cold, weak, tired, sick, faint, they can create lots of reactions in the body. Any time you have any kind of stimulatory effect on a major organ, it can certainly change the way you feel. That’s not die-off. When you start taking a supplement, it will often be also that you make changes on multiple levels, i.e., the lifestyle change, the diet change. So when you’re making changes on three or four different levels, of course, you’re going to feel different. You’re going to feel entirely different. It’s quite natural to feel different. If you moved to a new country and go on holiday, you’re probably going to eat different foods. You’re probably going to sleep in a different bed. You’re probably going to talk to different people. You’re probably going to do a whole bunch of stuff that’s different. The funny thing is, you’re going to feel different. That’s because you’re doing different things. Please bear that mind.

Coming in too high with a dosage, too high for you, not necessarily for Paul or Peter or Jane or Mary over there because every one’s dosage is going to be different. Every single person will require a slightly different incoming dosage. And then over time, the person will work out what the right dosage is for that kind of person. If you go shopping with 10 people, they’re not all going to buy a red shirt or a red dress. One will want a black one. One will want a green one. Everyone will want something different. People have different needs and suit different kinds of things. It’s the same with dosages. Even though a supplement may suit a wide range of people, the dosage will certainly not.

I’ve got many patients who gain great benefit from taking a quarter of the Canxida Remove I make per day. Quarter of a tablet and they feel fantastic on it with a good outcome. I’ve got other people who take three to six per day. So you need to feel your way around. If you’re a sensitive person, you start low. You take maybe a half a tablet per day if you react to a lot of things.

Don’t come in with three or six per day if you react. Of course, you’re going to feel like crap. Don’t blame it on die-off. Don’t immediately blame everything and say, “It’s die-off. It’s die-off.” It probably isn’t. It’s probably just because you upregulated your liver. It’s probably just because you stimulated your immune system. You may have even had a very powerful effect on your stomach or pancreas with that product for many different reasons. And that, in turn, will affect the bowel, the small intestine, the large intestine. It could have caused gas or bloating. You could have upset the bacteria in your digestive system. You may not have sufficient beneficial bacteria. And again, when you’re taking a strong antifungal product there, you’re going to get a lot of reactions there as a result of that.

A big thing that many people forget with “anti” kind of products, particularly antifungals, is the liver. Because many of these supplements like black walnut, berberine, clove, neem, they have a very powerful effect on a phase two liver detoxification pathway. There are several pathways that get stirred up by these herbs. This, in turn, can create a bottleneck of toxin. It can up or downregulate your liver function. This may hold toxins back in the body and your immune system is going to go to town on these toxins. Or it could increase or facilitate the release of these toxins on the body. This, in turn, can make it tougher for the digestive system to handle these toxins, especially if the bowels aren’t working well or it can make it tougher for the kidneys to operate and that can cause a lot of fatigue and skin itching and many different things.

Check out my video I did on urinary problems and particularly the one on kidney function. Best kept secret is getting the kidneys working well. Many people have kidney problems and that can make you feel tired, wasted, sick, itchy skin, dry skin. You can feel like partially hungover. That could be a kidney problem. It may have nothing to do with die-off at all. You may not be simply drinking enough water with your detox.

Inflammation. Let’s talk about that one. With a typical Herxheimer reaction generally what happens a drug like mercury killing a lot of things in the body. You’re much more prone to getting a classic die-off if you’re going to take a drug like tetracycline or a very powerful antibiotic. That’s because you’re killing huge amounts of beneficial bacteria and not the friendly guys. You’re killing them. You’re just machine gunning them all down. Wiping everything out. Way more potent than using an antifungal. Those drugs may well put you into die-off. What happens is you kill off all the stuff, the immune system has to start dealing with all that damage. The both beneficial damage as far as you’re concerned and the collateral damage.

A lot of these dying bacteria will release chemicals themselves. The immune system will pick up on this. It will be on high alert. It in turn will release chemicals called cytokines, particularly there is one called interleukin. There is one called tumor necrosis factor. They’re the typical interleukins that go town on these endotoxins, endo, they’re in internal, they’re inside. Toxins inside the body, so interleukins six and eight attack these endotoxins and that’s what typically creates a lot of awful feeling in the body. This is a typical die-off scenario and that reaction ramps up very quickly after you take that antibiotic.

Anaphylaxis like from penicillin, acute allergic reaction, that is a typical immune reaction that can kill you. It can actually kill you. Die-off won’t kill you, but it can make you feel like death warmed up. At least you feel at near death and really sick and crappy to the point where you need to go to the ER and you feel like you’re dying, you probably haven’t got die-off. Did you hear when I said “die-off”? If you feel like dying, it’s probably die-off.

Most people who contact me and think they’ve got die-off don’t feel like dying. They just feel like crap, but they don’t actually feel like near death. There’s a big difference between, so please don’t get die-off confused with a reaction in the body.

Introducing new foods into the body. Maybe your body can’t cope with those new foods. Maybe you’ve reintroduced them too quick. Maybe you’ve introduced new foods too quick. Maybe your digestive system can’t cope? Maybe your enzymes in your gut haven’t got sufficient power to break those foods down, creating bloating and gas. As I mentioned, coming in too high.

Supplements, lifestyle events, all the changes, inflammation, we spoke about that. I hope you’re getting a bit of a feel for what I mean. These are typical things that underpin feeling awful but don’t constitute die-off. We talked about the cytokine response.
Now brain fog. So many people think that brain fog is actually a result of die-off. I don’t believe it is. I believe brain fog is more related to the beneficial bacteria or lack of. I believe there’s a big relationship with the vagus nerve and the gut and the brain and it has got a lot more to do with a sympathetic/parasympathetic imbalance. People with brain fog often have stress. People with brain fog in most all cases when we do stool testing show really weird levels of beneficial bacteria. I don’t commonly find brain fog in people with three, four plus beneficial bacteria in the stool test. Don’t commonly find it. So I believe that in the future, research will validate what I’m saying right now to you guys is that brain fog, in my opinion, is more related to the beneficial bacteria than it is to die-off.

That’s not to say that endotoxins can’t create that feeling in the brain. Because when you’re hungover, you certainly got that brain foggy kind of feeling from the liver and kidneys trying to clean the body out. But I believe that in time research will validate that. That that foggy brain feeling – and how do I know that? I know that because in many cases when I’ve helped to restore the beneficial bacteria in patients, the brain fog disappears. Sometimes within a week it’s gone. I’ve seen that.

I think that just about covers most of things I wanted to talk about die-off. I hope it wasn’t too confusing this video. Again, just to recap. Die-off is severe. It’s extreme. It can last anything up to about a week in patients. It’s like a storm. It can come out of nowhere and it can disappear very rapidly. That’s my experience with die-off. I’ve only ever seen true die-off probably about a dozen times in all the years I’ve practiced, in the nearly 30 years. That’s not a lot of times, but I have seen it and it’s been very severe. In most cases, it resulted in the patient being hospitalized or going to the doctor feeling that they’re actually going to die. There is a severe reaction and it did have the things like chills, fever, terrible skin rashes, all of those things. That is true die-off.

Hello there. It’s New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker, author of Candida Crusher and I’m the formulator of a range of products called Canxida. Thanks for checking out my video. I’ve got a question here from one of my subscribers, a nice guy called Angelo Macadaras, which is a Greek name for all of you people who don’t understand Greek names. Angelo has got a question here. “Hello, Eric, I was wanting to know if you could make a video about what to do if you do have any of these food intolerance reactions due to a lack of enzymes or beneficial bacteria. For example, I want to adopt a vegan lifestyle, but can’t because any time I eat a grain, my skin flares up. Does this happen more so because of lack of enzymes or because you’re feeding Candida? And if it’s just a lack of enzymes, should you just continue eating these foods in small amounts to slowly get your digestion used to it or should you just avoid it completely until you can stomach it without any issues at all? Sorry about this lengthy question. Angelo.”

Well, Angelo, let’s talk about this problem. Lots of people email me with similar kinds of questions. “I can’t tolerate this food. I’ve got an allergy toward this food.” Let’s get one thing clear right from the start. There is a big difference between a food allergy and a food intolerance and a lot of people get these two animals confused. They think that a tiger is a leopard and a leopard is a lion. Everyone gets these big cats confused. But when you look a little bit deeper into the animal and you see the environment it lives in, if you very carefully observe the animal, you’ll understand they’re entirely different creatures. What’s tigers got to do and lions got to do with food allergies? Well, let’s get into it. I’m just being silly there.

The point I’m making is if you read my book, there was a big article I wrote in my book and also on my blog site, yeastinfection.org. I’ve written quite a few articles on the difference between allergies and intolerances. Allergies, remember, are immune mediated. You need to have an antibody reaction that sets up in the body to counter a response of an antigen. An antigen is anything that comes into the body that’s perceived as foreign by the body’s immune system, so it’s going to cause a problem.

We’ve got a big problem in the world at the moment with global terrorism. This is almost like an antibody response isn’t it. People go a bit crazy with ISIS. Unfortunately, a lot of really nice Muslim people are getting attacked and affected really bad by citizens, by law abiding people who don’t understand the difference. Your immune system is a little bit like that, too. It can also get confused. It can get trigger happy. It can start blaming foods when foods aren’t really at fault.

I remember seeing on the new a report about a dark-skinned man who was taking device out of his bag. I think it was an iPod with a red cable on it or headphones. In fact, I think he was a medical student. Probably because of his race, his color and the fact that he pulled a device out of a bag, a woman immediately contacted the police and said, “Oh, my god. It’s a guy with a bomb. A bomb. A bomb.” People go nuts when you use the word “bomb”. Don’t use it at airports by the way. It doesn’t go down too well. Anyway, this poor guy got harassed by the cops because they thought he had an explosive device. When, in fact, it was a flipping headphones with an iPhone.

Your immune system can get so trigger happy and so on red alert that it can react to tons of stuff. What we’re going to do is calm the immune system right down. That’s going to stop a lot of unwanted reactions in the body. Many people have an overexpression of their immune response. This isn’t spoken a lot of or written a lot, but my clinical experience has shown me this through my understanding of cortisol and the adrenals and the response of this powerful hormone and how it affects the immune system.

People with high stress are much more prone to getting inappropriate reactions than people who are more chilled and more calm. So if you suffer with high cortisol levels, you’re more likely to have inappropriate immune reactions to foods that you may not have had previously. This can be happening when you’re going through a crappy relationship breakdown or something or your mother-in-law is annoying you again. I’m always talking about mother-in-laws. My mother-in-law is nice by the way. But you may have one of those mother-in-laws from hell. We don’t call them the in-laws. We call them the outlaws. If you’ve got a family member that’s really annoying the hell out of you, have a good look at yourself to see if you’re inappropriately reacting to foods are things in your environment. It could be cortisol upregulating your immune response creating this crazy reaction.

Angelo, I don’t know if you’ve got crazy neighbors or a crazy girlfriend or I don’t know what your situation is, so check that out first. That’s the upregulation. With continued stress, you can have a down regulation on immune response and that can also cause untold reactions. Many people suffer who some kind of stress can have a crazy reaction. Immune mediated, the allergies, intolerances are usually enzyme mediated. And I’ll find this will have to do with some kind of a problem with your pancreas. It’s a very common organ that will create food intolerances. This is when you can’t tolerate a certain kind of food or it sits there and you get bloating, gas, heavy feeling, weird bowels, and you could get skin reactions. You’re much more likely to have a very powerful reaction when it’s immune mediated as opposed to an intolerance. In my opinion, food intolerance reactions are nowhere near as strong as the immune mediated food allergies.

Food allergies come in two types of animals. We’ve got the immediate one, the cheetah, pretty fast animal and then we’ve got the slow one, maybe the lion. Cheetahs are really quick, 60 mph. They’re the world’s fastest land animal. Type 1 response or IgE or Type 1 anaphylactic is like a cheetah. It goes gangbusters. You can have a person with a very powerful allergic response to peanuts or shellfish. I had a patient, a guy, who found out that he had a problem with fish when he walked past a shop selling fresh fish and he ended up waking up in the hospital. He ended up waking up in the hospital. He had an anaphylactic shock from breathing in the fish.

I had a woman bring me this girl, 14-year-old, and every time she went shopping, she’d come home, she’d break out in hives. She couldn’t work out why. Apparently what we worked out was when she walked past the dairy aisle, past these big refrigerators with milk and the mom would open up that. Usually what happened is about five minutes later, the girl started to get itchiness. What I had to do was a bit of investigation work to find out at what time of the shop did this occur. And I worked out it was five or ten minutes after the shop started that the itchiness started and it was the flipping milk aisle. How we proved it was I got her to go home and to open up a cap of a milk bottle and take a couple deep inhalations of it. Absolutely right. I was bang on. Within 10 minutes, she was scratching herself all over. And then within about two or three hours, she had hives on her body. That’s how powerful an immune reaction can be. It can be super powerful. That’s an extreme case, but remember, a lot of people are not like that girl. They may be 2 percent or 5 or 10 percent that reaction.

Food intolerances don’t generally have such extreme, powerful Type 1 allergic responses. They’re usually more delayed. I find them more insidious. They can be skin related. Often there is a huge element of fatigue with a food intolerance. A person will get all sorts of gut problems with intolerances. Because there’s no doubt about it, diarrhea is a classic lactose intolerance.

Typical. Again, that’s a problem where the body hasn’t got the enzyme lactase to break milk sugar lactose down. Nothing to do with allergies. It’s a problem with a deficiency with an enzyme. See how we talked enzyme again?

We talked about the cheetah. Now if you’ve got a lion, a lion tends to be a lot slower in its approach. It’s going to sneak up on the prey. It may follow a prey around for a day or even two days and weaken it and then attack. That’s what a Type 3 response is, IgG 4, we call it. That’s a delayed response. A delayed response, in my opinion, can occur quite often with multiple triggers coming into the diet. It could be two or three things overlapping that cause just the right conditions and then the person may get a headache three or four days after consuming the food. They may get joint pain. They may get skin rashes. Something will happen.

IgG reactions tend to me more acquired, in my opinion. I don’t know what you guys think out there or what the experts will tell you. But I believe that IgE responses tend to be more inherited. IgG more acquired. Most people when they get a food allergy report back and it’s full of Type 3 responses, IgG, my first question is “Did you take an antibiotic?” “Yes, I did, sir. I took an antibiotic.” I very commonly see an association between wiping out beneficial bacteria and elevated IgG response.

I didn’t even answer your question, Angelo. What was your question again? Let’s have a look here. “What do I do?” You talk about here the food intolerance reaction due to lack of enzymes or beneficial bacteria. First thing you’ve got to work out do you have an allergy or intolerance because we haven’t even established that yet. I don’t tend to waste my time with patients anymore doing FAPs or food allergy profiles. I prefer to cut to the chase and do the stool test and get the bacteria right first. I find if I can get the bugs right and get the enzymes right, the rest takes care of itself.

Taking foods out of the diet is a stupid thing to do or do a food allergy test and let’s just take this and that out and this and that. That’s like paint by numbers. People think if they take all the foods out of their diet that show high on a panel, they’re going to feel better, but they never do. They never do. They’re only $300 poorer and they’re still no closer toward getting a resolution of the cause of the problem. The foods didn’t cause the allergy. Something else caused it.

Here’s what I want you to do. I want you to get a piece of paper and I want you to write down all the foods you eat, Angelo. Just get a piece of A4 paper, make a column, write down the foods. All the foods. Milk, butter, eggs. I don’t know. You might eat a certain type of bread. You could be eating all sorts of foods. Write them all down. Tomatoes, celery, lettuce, whatever you eat. Not just the compound foods that you cook for yourself, but the ingredients in those foods. And then what I want you to try to establish is have three columns next to that and then write down a column called “mild”, a column called “moderate”, and a column called “severe or strong.” Strong is 3, moderate is 2 and the mild is 1.

Each food I want you to write down your desire or wanting that particular food. Some foods will be 3. Steak could be 3 because you’re a guy. I mean guys like steak. Beer might be a 1 or a 2. You know what I mean? So write all of these foods down. And then what we want to do is total up and see what your totals are. Try to work out what foods come back to the highest ranking of 3. Get maybe one of these things. Get one of these highlight pens and just highlight each food that comes back with a 3. So you could have 20 foods you’ve got quite a good desire for.

The first thing you do when you see the food is you tick a box, 1, 2, 3. You don’t think about it. You immediately tick that box. We want to work out what the 3s are. The 3s are the foods most likely to cause you the problem. The 2s have got a moderate to cause a problem, and the 1s have got a much less ability. I’ve always found this to be true with people. I don’t know why, but it’s just that my experience has shown me that we’re always drawn towards the stuff that doesn’t really serve us a good deal when it comes to digestion. Be careful, Angelo. Work out the grade 3s. And then out of those grade 3s, I want you to systematically go through them and try to work out which food potentially is causing you the problem. Try to eliminate some of those foods or have them far less frequently. Move the 3s to the 2s and move the 1s to the 2s. The foods you like the least try to move them up a little bit up the chain. Eat them more often. The 3s move them down the chain. Eat them less frequently. Makes sense, doesn’t it?

And then what we’re going to do at the same time is keep an eye on the bowel motions. This is a guide. Chew your food properly. Keep an eye on gas, bloating, energy, a whole bunch of different things. Analyze yourself to see how you feel. And most importantly watch the stool every day. Is it well formed? Is it coming out easy? Does it smell like a death trap when you’ve been to the bathroom or is it not too bad? Healthy stools should have minimal odor, easy elimination, you should feel very satisfied after full elimination. You should be passing out quite a lot of stool every day. One or two pieces is acceptable. When it’s all sheep pellets or like cow pats, you’ve got a problem.

The stool is a good indication often of the bacteria and will tell you often what the colon is doing. If you’re going to find undigested food particles, it’s going to tell you that your small intestine is not working properly. If you’re going to find a lot of looseness, it’s often telling you that you’ve got parasites or bad bacteria. I’m going to do some videos coming up specifically on stool odor, texture, all those sorts of things. It’s a pretty “shitty” topic I know. But I think people need to hear this.

It’s very important to understand. Keep an eye on the stool. Make some changes. In time, I believe you’ll be able to go back and eat all the foods that you like to eat. I’ve told people many times I don’t bind to that gluten is like radioactive waste. We shouldn’t eat it. Everyone will die and we all need to eat large amounts of meat and fat, which will save us. I think it’s a load of crap. I really don’t believe it. Most people do like a bit of gluten in their diet. Strictly avoiding foods for the sake of trends or because you read it on Huffington Post or some crap like this, it doesn’t mean to say you’re going to get better at all. It could mean that you’re going to piss off people around you and that you’ll end up becoming the food police yourself, so just be careful. Small amount of gluten, in my opinion, for most people is totally acceptable. But eating five pieces of bread a day is not a good idea either. It’s all about balance, moderation and common sense. It’s what it is.

In time, you’ll be able to eat that grain. Now you mentioned here “Anytime I eat a grain, my skin flares up.” Cool. So what we’re going to do now is we’re going to write all the grains down that you and then we’re going to grade them, 1, 2, 3, as I mentioned. And then you’re going to eat the grains. With a 1 grain, you’re going to shift them up to 2, and the 3s you’re going to move down to 2 and maybe eventually 1. The stronger the desire for the food, the more you need to put it on the back foot. The weaker the desire for that grain, the higher you’ve got to push it up. I also want you to include more grains into your diet, Angelo, that you previously haven’t been eating. Maybe you haven’t had buckwheat before. Let’s put a big of that into the diet.

Now, once you’ve done all this, if you still have issues, I want you to start including some digestive enzymes into your diet or probiotics. Give my Canxida Restore a go, Angelo. It’s got seven different enzymes in and six different probiotics and it was designed for people just like this with gut issues. It’s going to help to stimulate the breakdown of various carbohydrates and it’s going to increase the production of various kinds of bacteria that allow the proper fermentation of the breakdown products and a good stool, minimum gas and bloating.

That was a long video. I hope that gives you a little bit of an insight into allergies and intolerances, into my grading system, how I like to work with people, and give it a try. Thanks for tuning in and thanks for that question, Angelo.

Greetings, it’s Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand, author of Candida Crusher and formulator of the Canxida range of dietary supplements. Thanks for checking out this video today.

This is going to be one of several videos I’m going to do on comprehensive digestion stool analysis, so that’s comprehensive stool testing and its relevance with Candida yeast infections. You may have read some of my articles at yeastinfection.org or perhaps even looked at my book, Candida Crusher, or maybe even looked at some of my videos. You will probably notice that I’m a person who’s not really all that interested in just killing Candida as such.

I think it’s pretty dumb trying to build harmony in the body by killing anything. It’s all about getting balance back in the body again by making it difficult for yeast infections to thrive by taking foods away that allow yeast to really encourage the proliferation of yeast, actually make Candida grow in the body. You’ll do that by having a big imbalance in your diet, particularly, if you love eating lots of sugars, processed foods, candy, ice cream, alcohol, and those sorts of things. You know, all those crappy kind of foods. Foods that we know that we shouldn’t eat.

But what about the beneficial bacteria? You know, people talk about taking probiotics. People talk about eating fermented and cultured foods. What about assessing beneficial bacteria. Have you ever thought about that? Assessing the good guys in your digestive system. I think it’s very, very relevant. If you’ve had a chronic Candida yeast infection for a long time, it’s very smart to have a stool test done. Because a stool test, unlike many people say “Well, why would you do a stool test? Why not do a blood test to look at antibodies? Why not do a urinary test to look at the metabolites or the organic acids?

Those tests are okay, but I think stool testing is far more relevant because it gives you a lot more useful information.

Particularly, you’re going to start assessing the beneficial bacteria. I’m going to read a little bit out of my book here. It’s not just about a positive Candida result. What is your level of beneficial bacteria? The other thing I look for in the CDSA test is the level of other bad bacteria and particularly the level of beneficial bacteria. Is there a 1, 2 or 3 plus of good and/or bad?

You’re going to be considered, for example, if you have positive results with Candida after stool analysis that have failed to look at the amount of beneficial bacteria. Because the people in the lab, the technicians, they actually culture the stool for the good bacteria as well. You may discover that you may have NG or “no growth,” and then you may turn around to me and say, “Well, that’s crap. I’ve been taking these probiotic pills for six months or one year. I’ve been taking two or three a day. I’ve been eating yogurt. I’ve been having kefir. How come I’ve got no growth there?” I will come to that in a minute.

I want you to remember. It’s not all about killing Candida. It’s about restoring digestive harmony. And by assessing your level of the good and bad bacteria, as well as yeast, you’ll be in a powerful position to restore digestive harmony. No other pathological or functional test can give you this incredible level of balanced information. Now, you can see why I believe this to be the Rolls Royce of tests.

If you’re serious about getting rid of a yeast infection, get a stool test done, a CDSA. If you go to EricBakker.com, my website, you can click on “lab tests.” You can actually access one of those through the company I deal with, Direct Labs. I’m quite happy to help interpret this test for you for a fee, naturally, to spend time with you.

Many naturopath or functional doctors will do this test with you. But make sure if you’ve got a chronic Candida infection, to get a stool test done to assess what the heck is going on. Is there inflammation? Are there immune dysfunctions? What are the beneficial bacteria like? Do you have parasites? There is loads of information you can pick up from the stool test. But the beneficial bacteria are very, very important to assess. Be sure to check out yeastinfection.org and do my quiz to see if you’ve got mild, moderate or severe yeast infection. And check out my website, Canxida.com, for really good quality antifungal and a probiotic enzyme supplement. I’m a big believer that if you take probiotics, you take enzymes at the same time. And I’ll go into that in a subsequent video.

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