Category: Candida Crusher FAQ Videos

Greetings. New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker, author of Candida Crusher, formulator of the Canxida range of products. Thanks for checking out my video. I’ve got some questions here regarding vegetable juicing. Eric, is vegetable juicing any good for Candida. Let’s talk a little bit about juicing. I’m going to read a little bit out of my book, Candida Crusher. Because I wrote probably about 10 pages on vegetable juicing, the different types of juices, the benefits, and advantages. Let’s talk a bit about that.

I’ve written here. After having worked with many Candida patients over the years, I’m absolutely convinced that juicing can be one of the most successful nutritional options in giving yeast infection patients a radiant energetic life and a truly optimal digestive system function leading to excellent health. Juicing may not agree, however, with some people with Candida. But with others, it’s perfectly fine. It’s a case of trial and error.

I’m not there to assist you with your particular case, so I recommend you give it a try, particularly as you improve. Here are some of the main reasons why juicing is so good.

1. Juicing is good because you’re taking in all those valuable and essential micronutrients locked up in the fresh foods that become damaged with the cooking process. They even become destroyed. Especially if you cut it out of the garden like I do, just straight out of the garden and put in the juicer, you couldn’t get a much fresher source of vitamins and minerals into the body. Because as soon as you heat up this food, you’re going to destroy a lot of these things.

2. You may have well heard that we all need to eat between five and eight servings of fruits and veggies daily if we want to maintain optimal health. And what an easier way to do it than by juicing.

3. Nutrients are more easily absorbed from juices as opposed to eating cooked. Many reading this will have an impaired digestive system and consuming vegetable and fruit juices allows your body to more easily access all those critical minerals, trace elements and nutritional factors.

4. You’re going to eat a larger variety of vegetables and fruits by juicing them than you normally would by cooking them. It’s a fact that most of us tend to eat the same kind of vegetables all the time. But when we go to juice them, it’s much easier for us to throw everything into the blender and to make juice out of that and to consume that.
Keep an open mind and don’t think that juicing is not for you because you have a yeast infection and because you’ve been told or read online that you should strictly avoid all fruits and limit many vegetables because the yeast will thrive off all the sugars in the juices.

Just imagine one moment when all of those cells in your body that are screaming out for nutrition and how they’re going to feel when they get a lot of this premium nutrient into them. You’ll be absolutely amazed at the difference it can make to any underlying chronic health condition. Regardless of whether it’s diabetes, heart disease or a bad yeast infection.

I want you to avoid 100 percent fruit juices. In fact, I find that when people drop the soda drinks, they move across to drinking straight fresh orange juice. When, in fact, they’re swapping one sugar for another. I’m not suggesting at all that you drink lots of fruit juices. And, in fact, I prefer 80/20 blend, 80 percent vegetable, 20 percent fruit. You’ll also get a faster uptake in your bloodstream by these nutrients than you would – it’s much easier for the digestion process to facilitate the uptake of something in a liquid form than in a cooked form.

There are different categories of juices. I’ve got three main categories I’m going to talk about. The Category One are really for the people just starting to juice. Celery, carrot, fennel, cucumber, green apple, and tomatoes. You don’t need to blend them altogether. Try one on its own to get a feel for the taste and combine what you like. My favorite, for example, is a green granny smith apple, a stalk of celery, and a carrot. It’s a really nice combo. Try that combination of celery, carrots, and green apple. Always buy organic celery. I grow all my own celery. I would never buy any celery. Celery is the most heavily sprayed of all vegetables. Pears, by the way, are the most sprayed of all fruits. If you’re going to get celery, make really sure you’re getting certified organic celery from a proper green grocer where no chemicals are used. What’s the point? You may as well put a bottle of chemicals to your mouth and drink that. All the more reason to grow your own food if you can, grow some veggies. I really would appreciate that you could do that because it will make a big difference.

I’m going to be trying to shoot some footage this summer of my garden with my fruit trees, my vegetables and my beehives to show you what I’ve got here in my front garden here in the little village I live in in New Zealand. I hope it inspires other people to also grow some food for themselves. The difference is incredible.

Category Two juices. Now, you’re moving into the more intermediate phase. You’ve got a bit of experience with Category One. Now, you’re going to want to try something different. Category Two, lettuce, red lettuce, green lettuce, romaine lettuce. Remember the red vegetables or the colored ones are the ones with the more nutrition in them. They contain a lot of phyto protective factors in them, so red lettuce is very good, indeed. Red carrots, you can get them. Endive, spinach, rocket or salad greens, bok choy, Chinese vegetables, peppers, beets, coriander and kiwi fruit. This is Category Two.

Are you ready to take the plunge and jump into the deep end now with me and go for Category Three? Category Three is for the more experienced person. Vegans often have got a lot of experience with raw foods and juices and know exactly where I’m coming from. If you’re “green” in juicing and not really experienced, you’re not going to do these straight up because you’re going to gag on them. Broccoli, cauliflower, Brussel sprouts, collards, leeks, garlics, onions, shallots, and radish. Note I didn’t mention kale in there. Kale and collards possibly also are not very good to juice because they can inhibit the TPO of enzymes. They contain a very special compound called isothiocyanate.

I’ve done a video on this recently. Isothiocyanate can inhibit the thyroperoxydase enzyme, block the conversion and the manufacture of thyroid hormones, so please don’t have raw kale or raw collards. Broccoli is fine. Cauliflower is fine. And Brussel sprouts are fine. I’ve been told by some very expert people that you need to literally drink a bathtub of raw broccoli juice to get that same effect on the thyroid that you would with a small amount of kale. Leeks, garlics, onions, excellent to have in raw juicing in your diet.

How can I make my juices taste better? “Eric, they taste like crap. How am I going to make them taste better?” Occasionally, somebody asked me how they can make juices taste better. I’ve heard the odd person over time that juices are unpalatable. This need not be so. As you gain more experience with juices, it will become apparent that this becomes much less of an issue in time. Here are a few things you can do to make juices taste better.

Lemon or lime juices. Citrus juices add a bit of zing to your juices. It might be a really good option for you. I love lemon and lime. We grow a lot of lemon and lime trees and I really like including it in stir fry’s, drinks, all kinds of dishes. Berries. You’d be surprised how a few berries can really jazz up a boring old drink. Pineapple. If you can tolerate pineapple, you’re lucky. I love pineapple, so maybe a couple of pieces of fresh pineapple. Before you start saying, “I can’t have that. I’ve got Candida.” You can have a small piece of pineapple. Remember 80 percent vegetable juice, a small piece of pineapple to make it palatable should be perfectly fine.

Ginger. Try a piece of fresh ginger, very, very zingy and tasty and gives your juice a bit of a bite. I found that ginger can go with just about anything. What about a few drops of organic vanilla extract? Very tasty. Ice cubes. Ice cubes are very important. You can add them to lots of different drinks and they give it a bit of texture and a bit of flavor. It can change the whole experience of having the juice. Many people put ice cubes in by default and then put the other stuff on top.

There are green vegetables. There are red vegetables. Don’t forget the beet roots. Beet roots are a really good blood purifier and they’ve got the ability to improve the oxygenation and the oxygen carrying capacity of red blood cells. They’re fantastic for fighting diseases.

Health tip. Don’t throw away the fiber when you make your juices. Why add fiber? There are four good reasons to add fiber to your juice. Your blood sugar will become more stable. Fiber is your intestinal brew. It improves bowel function. Whole foods are best consumed over just straight juices. Juices containing fiber will make you feel more satisfied and help you to maintain your appetite for longer, so you won’t be wanting to eat food all the time. You want weight loss? Drink one or two juices a day. You’ll feel full and you won’t want to be going to cookies or the refrigerator all the time. You want to lose a lot of weight. Drink one to two juices per day.

I’ve got a really nice email from a guy whose wife lost 40 pounds, which is phenomenal. Juicing can be a really powerful way for you to lose weight, boost your health, and get rid of any kind of gut problem that you’ve got.

I hope that answers a few questions about Candida, fiber, juicing, if juicing is healthy and if it should be a good adjunct to the Candida diet. It should be. A very powerful adjunct. Don’t forget to check out my Canxida.com website for the best Candida supplements on the market, and subscribe to my channel. You’ll get plenty more of these videos.

Greetings. New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker, author of Candida Crusher and I’m the formulator of a range of products called Canxida. Thanks for tuning in. I got a question here today from a lady called Pauline Berry from Kent in the UK. It’s in England. Pauline is asking me if hair testing is valid for Candida diagnosis.

Pauline, that’s a really good question and it’s one I get asked from time to time if that is okay. It’s an interesting email you’re sending me here. You’ve got lots of different questions here regarding testing. Another thing that you point out is about immune testing. You’re confused about doing saliva or blood tests regarding immune response to determine Candida. That’s not a valid way to determine if you’ve got a past or a present Candida infection because there are many reasons why you can get these inappropriate antibody responses relating to Candida infection.

Hair testing is very valid when it comes to analyzing toxic metals in the body and minerals and it’s a valid science and there are many different labs around the world that are very expert in determination. A hair tissue mineral analysis is an excellent science. I’ve got a lot of friends that are really good in this particular field and learning how to read these reports, looking at the potassium/sodium ratios and the zinc/copper balances, what kind of levels of mercury a person may have in their body. But when it comes to determining a yeast infection from hair analysis, to me it’s a little bit sort of foreign and bizarre to think that you can actually determine allergic responses or the presence of microorganisms from hair testing. I mean to me it’s almost a little bit like holding one of those little pendulums over an apple to give you a “yes” or “no.” “Can I eat this food? Yes or no.” What a load of crap. What kind of science have we got involved with that? You may as well pull a Ouija board out and start walking around the room and asking if there are spirits in the room and junk like this.

This is what gives natural practitioners a bad name, I believe, in my opinion. When you’ve got these weird bizarre kinds of testing that people really actually believe in. While I have no doubt there will be valid means of testing, there are also plenty that border on the sublime to the ridiculous. I really think that hair testing to determine a yeast infection is a ridiculous notion.

The other things in your email, you’re asking specifically about Candida determination from hair testing. Remember when we’ve got a person who potentially thinks that he or she has a yeast infection, they may not have a yeast infection at all. Many people go onto blog sites or on YouTube. They’ll actually start listening or reading information and think, “Yeah, that’s what I’ve got.” Because of all the signs and symptoms they’ve got. But they may have any one of a hundred different things or even a thousand different things. So when you go to a person specifically for a Candida test determination, it’s either going to be a “yes” or “no,” and that’s not going to give you a lot of other information there. It’s junk information. It’s quite useless.

Other testing that is more valid in my opinion, which I’ve a lot of experience with and can vouch for how well it works in a clinical sense, is comprehensive stool testing, Pauline, in your situation because of the way you describe all your digestive symptoms. You’ve got like gas, bloating, constipation one minute and diarrhea the next and you’ve got headaches, fatigue, joint pain, you’ve got all these different symptoms here. And you’ve been sick for quite some time.

My recommendation is to do a comprehensive digestive stool test, including parasitology. Three stool samples concurrently on three separate days and that’s going to give you a huge amount of information. You may not have Candida. You may have a very low amount of beneficial bacteria, which is very common these days. Regardless of how many probiotics you take. You may have all kinds of other imbalances there. You could have a problem with one of your pancreatic enzymes. It may not be producing sufficiently.

Before you start running off and getting a hair test done for Candida determination, think more about a stool test to give you a broader picture and potentially shine the light in the area where it’s quite dark or murky. I’ve always been told that if you want to find something, look around the room. If you still can’t find it, put new batteries in the torch and look in all four corners of the room because most people will look in one or two corners. They don’t look around the whole room. And if you really can’t find anything, turn the flippin’ light switch on, so you can have a much better look and throw the torch away. The light switch, I think, is the stool test.

The flashlight with faulty batteries is something that you’re looking at apparently is a hair test for Candida determination. Be careful about people who claim they can diagnose Candida accurately. I’m not saying I can do that, but what I’m saying is I can show you with the stool test, we can get a much broader picture and show you potential things that are a problem and may not be Candida related at all.

That’s my take on it. I hope that answers your question, Pauline. Do I think that hair testing is valid for Candida? I think it’s a lot of bologna and I think you should avoid it. Hair testing is a valid science, but not really determination of a yeast infection.

Hi there. Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand, author of Candida Crusher, formulator of the Canxida range of products. Thanks for checking out my video. We’re back again. We’re going to now have a look at men. How to recognize the man with a yeast infection? Men are different from women as we all know. How do you know that a guy’s got a yeast infection? Let me read something out of my book and then we’ll explain a bit.

In my clinical practice, 75 percent of patients presenting with yeast infection related problems are females. Yet guys develop yeast related problems as well. In fact, I suspect there are a lot of men out there with a yeast infection, yet do very little about it to get well. They may even pass the problem on to their female companions and then they may get it passed back to them. Women tend to be more keen to get their health onboard than guys.

I saw my father try to conquer his yeast problems for many years. And it was only after many years that he went from doctor to doctor who prescribed drug after drug, finding nothing wrong with him. This was in spite of several trips to the gastroenterologist, where he was examined by way of an endoscope and had a barium enema performed in addition to having every other test thrown at him. The diagnosis was there was no abnormal disease and dad was prescribed yet more antibiotics. That was in 1982.

And unfortunately, almost 30 years on, nothing has changed. Yeast infected patients are still diagnosed by the mainstream doctor as having no abnormal disease if they present to their medical doctor with several yeast related signs and symptoms. If you’ve been to many different people and they can’t find what’s wrong with you, if you suffer from bloating, gas, abdominal discomfort, constipation and diarrhea, if you’ve been on antibiotics. If you can relate to this, do a stool test or go and see someone like me or anyone else who knows about Candida to get checked out because you may have this problem.

How do we recognize a male patient with a Candida yeast infection? I carefully check the toenails and see if there is any athlete’s foot. It could be a fungal nail or there could be infection between the toes. I find that men, for some reason, are known to more commonly complain of athlete’s foot than women do. I’ll often check the hands and scalp carefully, too. Particularly, if they’re manual workers. Guys, in general, tend to be less interested in hand and foot care than female patients. Shoes and socks off and we’ll often find something if we have a good look.

Guys who adjust their groin regularly, so men who move their things around a bit. If you know what I mean. Just go to a bar and look around, especially where alcohol is served. Many men subconsciously touch their groin area and I’ll bet that they’re either oblivious to the fact that they have a yeast infection or too embarrassed to seek treatment. Many of the typical male patients I see are blue collar workers, so these are going to be guys who drive trucks, work as building people, they do physical manual work. They’re working class men who typically enjoy a beer or wine after work. A social drink at the weekend and they snack on sweet stuff. They may not have the best diet and when carefully questioned, you’ll find they burp, bloat and fart, which is quite typical for a guy that drinks beer and has a yeast infection.

White collar office workers, so these are guys that maybe earn a bit more money. These guys also work under high stress especially. They work long hours at the office. Many of them often drink alcohol and they eat over computers. They might eat take away food or eat out commonly with their colleagues. Some spend time with clients and conduct business over lunch and dinner or at conventions and go to business meetings and typically alcohol is served. They’ll go out. They’ll spend the night out drinking again and partying. It’s all quite common.

Men with yeast infections are typically the ones who consume lots of beer, bread and sweet foods. Those who crave alcohol in general are prime candidates for Candida. And if they don’t crave alcohol, they’ll crave sweet things like candies, chocolates, licorice. It could be cookies or cakes or sweet foods or soda drinks. These are all commonly consumed.

Men whose wives suffer from vaginal thrush or yeast infection. The problem gets passed from the female to the male and then back to the male again. Men are typically troubled by recurring digestive problems like abdominal pains, diarrhea, constipation, bloating, heartburn, flatulence. Men who’ve taken recurring courses of antibiotics for prostatitis, for acne, for sinusitis, for chest infections or any kind of infection. The doctor may have given them antibiotics and then may have given them another round and another round.

Psoriasis. Check to see if a man has any of the typical or not so typical signs of Candida if he has psoriasis. If a man comes to my clinic with psoriasis, the first thing I check are digestive problems and I check for a yeast infection. When I did write my book on psoriasis, I found that three quarters of people with psoriasis, in fact, have Candida yeast infections. There is, in fact, strong research linking both these conditions.

Prostatitis. I have seen time and time again the male’s prostate problems often disappear entirely once his yeast infection is cleared up. Guys with prostatitis or urinary issues respond very well to Candida treatment. These need to be aggressively treated. These cases are especially hard to solve. If they’re beer or bourbon drinkers, or whiskey drinkers or whatever, they have to stop. You can’t clear prostatitis up in a male if he drinks alcohol all the time. And, of course, poor motivation, depression or anxiety, ongoing stress related issues. These are things you need to look out for. If a guy does get depressed or anxious long term and he’s got problems, he needs to be checked out for this condition.

I hope that gives you a bit of an insight into men and yeast infections. Don’t forget to subscribe. Don’t forget also please to do my yeast infection quiz if you’re a guy watching this or a female who suspects her male partner may have a yeast infection. Go to yeastinfection.org and do my quiz. And also, check out Canxida.com for some good natural solutions on yeast infections.