Category: Candida Crusher FAQ Videos

Greetings, New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker, author of Candida Crusher, formulator of the Canxida range of supplements. Thanks for checking out my video and I hope you’re enjoying the helicobacter pylori series so far. So far, we’ve covered many different videos. I’ll just read out a list of some of the videos that we’ve completed. “What is Helicobacter?” “What are the signs and symptoms?” “What are the causes?” “How to test and diagnose.” “What are the risk factors?” “How to prevent it.” And now we’re going to talk about helicobacter natural treatment. What is the most effective natural treatment for this bacteria?

Before we go into natural treatment, I should talk a little bit about the medical treatment or triple therapy. I used to be a big fan of triple therapy for many years. Particularly, when I worked in medical centers, I’d often prescribe triple therapy for patients, and this basically means two different antibiotics and then either an acid blocker or a stomach shielding drug.
In fact, Dr. Barry Marshall never recommended one medication alone for helicobacter. He believed that it was important to alter the environment of the gut either by shielding the gut and giving a strong drug or by blocking the acid production and giving one or two drugs. And so eventually evolved the treatment called “triple therapy,” which has become very popular. Triple therapy is also used with drugs like rifaximin and drugs like that in a SIBO sense, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. And some naturopathic doctors are actually recommending antibiotics, too.

I’ve got mixed results, but I’ve been in practice now for nearly 30 years and what I did discover over a period of time was that three quarters or more of patients with an HP infection who had triple therapy would come back and say, “I’m feeling sick again. It lasted for six months or it lasted for one year or it lasted two years, but now, I feel like crap. I’ve got the same symptoms. I’ve got heartburn. I’ve got bloating. I’m just not interested in eating much and I’ve got a lot of diarrhea or constipation. What’s wrong with me? I went back to the doctor and he tested and he said everything’s fine, but I’m pretty sure I’ve got the same thing I had last time.”

What do you do in that case? These days, I just treat naturally and there are many different kinds of protocols that I recommend for patients, but I’m not going to be biased here and I also don’t really care what you take. I just want you to have a good result with what you do take, so I’m going to come up with a lot of different suggestions for you.

I had an interesting discussion with a lady when I was in Sidney, Australia in 2015 at a medical conference, a retired gastroenterologist, who told me, “Eric, I don’t treat with triple therapy anymore. I gave up after 20 odd years of using it. I found it just didn’t work with the majority of people.” And she said, “I found that most people who ended up getting it would come back saying, ‘It’s back again.’ I was always reluctant to give it two or three times over.” And she said, “The other thing I discovered was many people have strong side effects from the triple therapy. And the triple therapy can produce side effects like metallic taste in the mouth, headache, diarrhea, vaginal yeast infections or jock itch, so a patient can end up with a lot of yeast infections.”

But the big thing she said is you wipe out so many of the beneficial bacteria that they end up with a secondary problem. You potentially have a good kill rate on the upper digestive system, but eventually that comes back again, but then, you’ve killed off the stuff below and that can take a lot longer to come back. All you’re doing is you’re basically giving a person a very short term cash loan with a high interest rate. That’s what you’re doing when you’re giving triple therapy. You’re buying them a little bit of time, but there’s about 10 to 15 percent chance, in my opinion, that they’re going to be cured for this disease. There’s a bigger chance they’re not going to be cured. You’ll get a very good eradication, but you won’t get a complete elimination.

I said to this lady, “Okay, you’ve told me that, so what do we do? How do we get rid of this?” And she said, “Well, it’s about controlling the bug in the body. It’s about keeping the symptoms at bay by managing effective diet and lifestyle and making sure the patient eats the right kind of foods and has the right fermented and cultured foods.” I put my arm around this lady because she’s a nice old lady, she would’ve been about 69. I said, “You should’ve been a naturopath. What the heck are you a gastroenterologist for?” And she said, “I’ve always been a naturopath. I’ve always worked like this with people, but sometimes you need to use stronger medications than what you guys use.” But I asked her if she uses any antibiotics now and she said she would never recommend them. After all those 40 odd years of clinical experience, she said to me, she found in most cases antibiotics are a complete waste of time when it came to the digestive system. I thought, “Wow, that’s quite a powerful thing for someone to say whose been in conventional medicine for so long.” “A complete waste of time.”

But in this video, we’re going to talk about the natural treatment and the eradication and I assume that’s why you’re looking at this because you may have tried triple therapy and found out it was a complete waste of time. You may have had recurrent triple therapy treatment and had a long history of symptoms as a result of that. Don’t worry. The chances are good that you can still get your health back.

How do we eradicate this thing naturally? The really important thing for you to get through your mind is you are not going to get rid of this thing by just taking pills alone, end of. If you think that just taking a pill will eradicate this thing, just switch off the video now or go and watch some crazy cat videos or something or people falling off bicycles and stuff like that. Because that’s probably going to make you laugh because it’s laughable what you’re thinking. You can’t get rid of this bug with pills alone. Just remember that one. Write it down. It’s important.

You’re going to get rid of this bug by changing aspects of your diet and lifestyle. You’re going to get rid of this bug by getting to bed on time. When you’re tired and not liking people on your iPad in bed at one o’clock in the morning. You won’t get rid of a tummy bug doing that. Checking your mobile phone every 15 minutes for notifications or emails. You’ve got to learn to relax a lot more and go with your gut instinct or gut feeling. When you get tired, you need to chill out. I want people to have relaxation sessions most days where they have like a 10 to 15 minute complete break from everything and lie down. You just relax.

I have that seven days a week. I think they’re very, very crucial because they recharge your batteries. By you being more intuitive about your diet and lifestyle, by understanding the basic tenets of good health, you’re going to be miles ahead of anyone who thinks they can eradicate this by taking a pill. Pills are the icing on the cake and they will assist in complete eradication. I shouldn’t use the word “eradication.” I should use the word “control.” They will help to control the bug so it doesn’t become a problem. The rest is critically important.

The second thing is the alcohol intake. You cannot wish to get rid of helicobacter if you’re drinking alcohol on a regular basis. It’s not going to happen. You’ve got to stop drinking alcohol completely for at least 6 to 12 months. That’s the best way for you to go forward. If you’ve got any kind of stomach problem, stop drinking now. If you can’t stop drinking, again, please turn the video off because you’re probably wasting your time in going any further. Sleep, no drinking, and making wise food choices. Going forward, the foods that tend to aggravate need to be pushed to one side. If you’re starting to eat foods that create queasiness or nausea or bloating or burping or make you feel unwell in any way, push them aside and don’t have them for some time. Don’t get too restrictive with your diet, though. But it is important to stop eating out and making bad dietary choices.

I’ll say it again. You cannot get rid of this bug with a pill alone. You need to make choices across the board. You need to fix up those sloppy habits you’ve got. You need to fix what’s broken when it comes to your diet and lifestyle. You know what you’re doing is either good or bad, so you need to turn the bad into the good. Those are the sort of things that are going to help you get on top of the helicobacter infection. Even before we talk about treatment. This is common sense stuff. You’ve got to get that right first.

Once you’ve got that right, you can start putting increasing amounts of things into the digestion that are going to help counter bacterial infections. There’s a reason why people in certain countries eat the foods that they do. Have you ever thought, why, for example, in the tropical regions, they eat lots of chili and garlic and ginger and turmeric, cardamom seed, ajwain seed and all these special seeds and barks and nuts and roots and herbs? Particularly, endemic around the tropical region. And think of where some of the most powerful herbs grow for eradicating parasites, oregano, basil, rosemary, thyme. They grow in the warm climates, the dry climates, the hot climates. They’re climates that are conducive for bacterial infection.

These are the sort of foods that are good to include into your diet. Cloves, another spice, garlic, turmeric, ginger, the green herbs, oregano, thyme, rosemary, basil, marjoram. Include all of these into your diet, particularly fresh green herbs. You want to really add a lot to salads and to different things that you prepare. Steamed vegetables or bagged vegetables, put these sort of things in there. With meats you can use a lot of rosemary. Rosemary has got very powerful antibacterial qualities about it, too. Fresh garlic. I’m a fan of that. If you can’t tolerate it, you may need to steam it or cook it until you can tolerate it more. Remember, because you’ve got the infection, you may have a big problem tolerating certain kinds of foods. Tolerance comes over time. It doesn’t mean to say you’ll always have to avoid those kinds of foods. But incorporating those things into your diet is going to work.

Check out my videos on fermented and cultured foods. Yogurt is very, very good. Kefir is excellent for a problem with the stomach, so coconut kefir might be more effective. The water kefir is quite strong, but the milk kefir is usually okay as well, if it’s been made properly. Sauerkraut is another potentially good food for people with helicobacter. These are going to change the way the bug really lives and thrives in the gut. You’re going to change the acid/alkaline nature. These foods have got lactic acid in them. These foods tend to be favored by the beneficial bacteria that also live in the gut. Because, yes, you do have beneficial bacteria that live right from the mouth right through. So by eating fermented and cultured foods regularly, you’ll slowly turn the tide on this gut dysfunction.

Drinks are very important to understand with helicobacter. I don’t like people drinking really hot or really cold foods when they’ve got a HP infection, so coffee and tea is probably out. You can either drink things that are tepid or at room temperature. Icy cold ice creams or really hot drinks, not a good idea. Not a good idea. You’re just going to aggravate the stomach. Chewing food properly and eating at regular times is very important as well. Digestive enzymes may be of significant benefit for you with HP. Because remember what we said? A percentage of people have poor stomach function. The over acidity that you’re experiencing is the gas production of the bacteria and the inflammation it causes in the wall of the stomach, so anti-inflammatory foods are good to have in the diet. Try to understand the fact that HP is an inflammatory kind of condition. By having an anti-inflammatory diet, you’re going to go a long way towards working with the immune system, not against it. So if we look at inflammatory foods, red meats, soda drinks, ice cream, sugar, alcohol, these are all inflammatory foods. Green vegetables and lean meats and neutral or alkaline grains are anti-inflammatory.

I’ve made other videos regarding inflammation and other articles you can read on yeastinfection.org that will cover this quite nicely. It’s important that you eat the right kind of foods. Anti-Candida or the Candida Crusher approach is a very good approach for eradicating this particular bug as well. I’d also like you to take an antifungal/antibacterial product. Many people, in my opinion, with helicobacter have also got low levels of fungal problems in their body like a fungus. They can have different kinds of fungus. Rhodotorula, for example, is a particular type of yeast that can thrive and Candida species can move there. They can have parasite problems. They can have cryptosporidum. They could have Blastocystis. They can have many other associated problems with this. Taking one particular product as an isolate, to me, is not really a good idea. I prefer you to take a broad spectrum approach.

In the old days, I used to give people mastic and bismuth and particular herbals like licorice. A particular form of licorice I found would be very soothing for the stomach. I’m continually working with Candida patients and parasite patients. I’ve created a formula and I’ve found that formula works beautiful with helicobacter patients as well. And that formula is called Canxida Remove. That contains a whole bunch of different things in it and some of the best antibacterial you’re going to find in any kind of natural supplement.

I’ll often start a patient on a half of a Canxida Remove tablet per day when they’ve got an HP infection or any type of upper digestive problem. I’ll start them on a half a tablet. And then after three or four days, I go to a half a tablet twice per day. In three or four days, I go to one table in the morning, half a tablet in the evening. In three or four days, two tablets. Three or four days… You know what I mean. I just gradually, gradually build up until they can tolerate three tablets per day, morning, noon and night. And I’ll keep them on that for a six week block. If you can build up to three of those Canxida Remove over a six week block, you should notice a significant improvement in your upper GI systems. Not only that, but you’re going to also really go to town on any bacteria or parasites further down in the digestive system.

I’ve made three products that I think are going to work outstandingly for helico patients, the Canxida Remove, the Canxida Restore and the Canxida Rebuild. The Restore contains enzymes and probiotics, which is perfect for people with helicobacter infection. The Canxida Rebuild, I think it’s one of the first multivitamins ever created for people specifically with gut dysfunction. So I created the Canxida Rebuild for people with helicobacter, with Candida, with parasites, with SIBO, with food allergies, with leaky gut, with all of these kinds of functional gut problems.

The Canxida Rebuild is an excellent product. It contains things like thyme and oregano and also I put mastic in there as well. Mastic is a resin they use in supplements. It comes from a particular tree that belongs to the pistachio family. It’s been used in middle eastern countries for stomach and GI dysfunction, so I put that in there. The Rebuild is basically a multivitamin with an antibacterial/antifungal base and it works perfectly with the Remove.

The Remove and Rebuild work beautifully together as a tandem. But when you put the Restore in there, you’ve got the triad of what I think are the three best nutrients for the gut. Try them out. They’re available as a pack. You can get them online at Canxida.com. They’ll soon be available here in Australia and New Zealand for many customers and all my fan base in Sweden. Hello all you Swedish people and people all throughout Northern Europe and Asia as well.

I hope this video has been of some benefit for you today. What am I going to say to close? You can’t eradicate helicobacter with a pill alone. Thanks for tuning in.

Candida Albicans – and History Repeating Itself

Although we like to think that our current concepts and ideas are new and innovative – often we find that they simply aren’t.

Even in medicine, despite all the new technology and great advancements made in drugs and surgery, frequently we find that we can learn from the past.

For example, few people realize that Candida yeast infection has been well understood, at least by a few people, for over 30 years. And, when it comes to the issue of treating Candida with antibiotics, well, the problems were noted as far back as the 1950s.

The Pioneers

Dr Orian Truss was one of the first people to realize that yeast infections were, what has now become known as, ‘opportunistic.’ A well quoted case considered that of a man who was, apparently, dying of a systemic infection and who was not responding to treatment. Although the man appeared elderly it transpired that he was only 40 years old and, prior to becoming ill only 6 months previously, had been in good health. Dr Truss was intrigued and investigated the circumstances of the onset of the patient’s condition more deeply. As it turned out the man had simply cut his finger and been prescribed antibiotics, which at the time were a relatively recent drug on the market. The antibiotics had caused the man severe diarrhea and from that time his health had spiraled quickly downward.

Dr Truss had not only experienced that antibiotics could make the body susceptible to yeast infections, but also had a strong appreciation of what those yeasts could do once the problem became systemic – as it clearly had in the case of this particular patient. He treated the man for systemic fungal infection with, what would now be considered ‘alternative’ treatments, and the patient went on to make a full recovery!

Dr William Crook was certainly the authority on the subject of fungal infections and Candida back in the 1980s. I was first introduced to his work, not through my profession, but by my father who had bought Dr Crook’s book in an effort to cure his own digestive ailments. For me, even at a relatively young age, I came to appreciate the problems fungal infections could cause and how they could be exacerbated by modern drugs rather than alleviated, and from that time on never considered that conventional medicine was well-versed in the problems Candida could result in.

Dr Crook was a proponent of treating Candida with what are now considered to be ‘alternative’ medications, but which are really nothing more than treatments found in nature. They are not synthetic nor chemically altered and, as Dr Crook went on to prove with his many case studies, they do actually work.

Ailments and Antibiotics

Even back when I was training in one of the Mother Theresa Slum Clinic’s in Calcutta, I witnessed great success in treating conditions without resorting to antibiotic usage. One man, who had lost his leg in an accident with a tram, was treated simply by having the wound washed three times daily and layers of clean bandages applied. Within no longer than three days the stump was granulating and showed no sign of infection. Three months later the man, despite the loss of a limb, was in perfect health. Yet today we treat not only every physical injury with antibiotics as preventative measures, but also every disease – whether antibiotics are indicated are not. This leaves nearly every patient open to the alternative disease of fungal invasion, as it did with Dr Truss’s patient, without even good reason for doing so.

Candida and Symptoms

Patients often ask me what to look out for when diagnosing Candida, and I have to be honest and say, ‘more or less anything.’ The symptoms may manifest in a diverse range of ailments and patients often present to me with a condition that would, under ordinary circumstances, rarely be equated with Candida. It’s a little like the lucky patient who happened to encounter Dr Truss. If that acquaintance had never been made then the man would surely have died.

Yet there are things to look out for, and often they are historical symptoms rather than current. For example, the diarrhea following the cut finger and antibiotic treatment were the indicators for Dr Truss as to which path he should follow to reach a diagnosis. Many other patients too, find that they can trace their current condition right back to one initiating incident. Today we also have to take into consideration the birth control pill or NSAID use, in addition to the many other potential problems which may underlie a patient’s condition.

Look out for rashes, particularly nappy rash in children. Rashes on adults may often be in the genital region but they may also be in the crook of the arm or behind the knee, or, as in the case of Athlete’s Foot, in-between the toes. In fact anywhere on the body which is dark, warm and moist. Sometimes though the infection will hide in the hair on the scalp, or, more obviously, occur in the mouth.

Another frequent indicator is that of sugar cravings. This is particularly distinctive in patients who have never had a sweet tooth in the past but now find themselves seeking out sweet stuff and more-so after a meal. Candida just can’t get enough of the stuff.

Remember when it comes to Candida the symptoms can be diverse yet the history behind the illness, and particularly when it is related to antibiotics, is now long. Orthodox medicine sometimes takes a long time to catch up on such things and, what have you to lose by trying more natural treatments if prescription drugs have failed you so far?

Greetings. It’s New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker, author of Candida Crusher and formulator of the Canxida range of dietary supplements. Thank you, again, so much for checking out my video today. I really appreciate all my loyal fans, patients, people that I know, practitioners, doctors, naturopaths, chiropractors, there are a lot of people now who look at my videos, and I really appreciate you checking out my channel.

I’ve got a question here from a young guy in Canada and his name is Josh. His name on YouTube is ProChessPlayer. Josh has been looking at a lot of my videos for some time. Thank you for your email, Josh. I really appreciate your email and also thank you so much for giving me the awesome feedback on my Canxida range of products that you’ve been using on yourself and also on your mom there for a while. Thank you.

Josh’s question relates basically to Candida, of course, and it is, can you explain the top 10 reasons why people don’t recover or fail on the Candida diet. The 10 reasons why people don’t fully recover on it. I’ve done a video here and I’ve come up with 10 reasons and I’m sure there are 100 reasons, but these are 10 common ones I see in my clinic that relate to patients. Let’s just start off.

1. Thinking one little drink won’t do too much harm. This is something I hear from a lot of people. If you’ve got a problem drinking, but if you drink quite regularly and you want to cut out, you need to bear in mind that alcohol has a very powerful effect on the digestive system. In fact, I believe that if people are serious about recovering from any kind of Candida, regardless whether it’s a vaginal yeast infection or jock itch or a skin problem, tinea, they may have toenail fungus, whatever kind of a yeast infection you’ve got. Even more so if you’ve got SIBO, like small intestinal bowel overgrowth. If you’ve got bloating, gas, IBS, IBD, constipation, no matter what kind of gut problem you’ve got. If you’re not prepared to cut out drinking entirely for at least six months, it’s just isn’t going to happen. You’re not going to recover.

I couldn’t give a hoot what any doctor says, any professor says, what any book says, or what any Google says. I couldn’t give a hoot. And why wouldn’t I give a hoot? Because I see patients in my clinic every day now for nearly 30 years with these kind of problems. And I also see that they just don’t recover fully unless they’re committed to cutting out alcohol entirely for a long period of time. So the longer you’ve been sick, the more you’ve got to understand this concept that you need to make a permanent, long-term change in your diet and your lifestyle, particularly. Think about why you want that drink. How you have the drink. Under what circumstances. How often? The quantity. All those sort of things you need to think about. If you’re really committed to good health, as they say, if you don’t make time for health now, make sure you have plenty of time for sickness down the track. So now is the time to decide that one little drink is not a good idea if you want to recover.

And the danger is when you partially recover and you’re starting to think, “Oh, I’m not feeling too bad. I might just go down the road and have a beer.” Or your friends will call you up. They’ve got a barbecue on or there’s a party coming on and you turn up at the party and there’s wine all around the place, bourbon and coca cola and all this sort of junk. And all of a sudden, someone gives you a glass. So if you’re in my room now and I gave you a glass of alcohol right now, you’re going to look at it and think, “Mmmm, I might have a sip of this.” And that’s how easy it is. It’s very easy to drink alcohol. It’s very easy to drink alcohol when you’re starting to feel good. And of course, on the road to recovery, that’s when it often occurs. So be very careful and be fully committed to a full recovery, which means strict adherence, no alcohol, and not until you feel well. But until you feel well to the point where you know inside there’s a big chance you’re not going to aggravate.

And the last thing I’ll leave you with with the alcohol thing is you’re the one who decides when he or she wants to have a drink. Not people around you. Not friends or family. You’re in the driver’s seat. This is not a religious sort of bashing alcohol, anti-alcohol bashing kind of a thing at all. It’s got nothing to do with faith, belief or spirituality. This is purely to do with your gut microbiota. You must not drink for a long time unless you want partial recovery and then relapse.

2. Throwing caution to the wind when you’re dining out. Big mistake a lot of people make is when they go out eating. Now going out eating, this could be, again, in a family’s house or at friend’s. It could be at a diner. It could be at a take-away bar. It could be anywhere. It could be a picnic. So when you go out of your house eating somewhere, it’s easy to make mistakes. It’s easy to, again, throw caution to the wind and then next thing, your auntie or your sister-in-law says, “Come on. Have this nice piece of apple pie. Forget that Candida crap. You’ve haven’t got this stupid infection. You’re a hypochondriac. It’s all in your head. Come on. Just eat this pie and enjoy it with us. Stop being such a baby.”

You know what I mean. So a situation like that could come up and, of course, you may feel bad or harbor thoughts where you think, “Well, Auntie Thelma, I don’t really want to offend Auntie Thelma. I better have that damn pie,” or something like that. So then, you have the pie and then you feel bad later. Again, don’t let people decide what’s right for you. You decide what’s right for you on your road to recovery. You basically say, “Look. I don’t really want the pie.” You don’t have to argue about it. If Auntie Thelma’s got a problem, well, then it’s her problem, not your problem. Be careful when you eat out. And again, as you recover, it’s easy to throw caution to the wind.

3. Assuring you have to go 100 percent gluten free and dairy free. Not true. You don’t have to go 100 percent gluten free. Just because every blog site out there, everything, the Huffington Post and American Scientific and all these sites are saying that you should eat gluten free. You don’t have to eat gluten free. It’s not true. I really believe that gluten free is like a religion today. It’s almost like a belief system. Everyone’s jumping on the bandwagon. I’ve always been a fan of eating healthy, but I’ve never had extremist views about my diet ever. And I never have or will with my patients either. So I believe that gluten is perfectly okay for some people and it may not be okay for others, and it’s toxic for a minority. About one to two percent of the population has celiac. Now, for them, gluten is actually poison. Are you a celiac? Probably not. Are you gluten intolerant? Probably not. Do you have a disturbed gut? Probably.

So remember when you’ve got disturbed gut microbiota or you’ve got bacteria that aren’t very good, you’ve got Candida or parasites. You’ve got low beneficial bacteria. All those things may scream to you that you need to go off gluten. You may not need to go off gluten. I can tell you now after seeing thousands of patients; people get sick and tired of being gluten free. They hate it. Every label has got to be scrutinized. Every time they go out. Every single package they purchase, they look for gluten this and gluten that. What at pain in the butt! There’s a big chance you may not need to avoid gluten 100 percent. Big chance.

How are you going to find out? If you want to go gluten free, my view is cut right back on gluten to start with. Like take all the bread out of your diet. But if you occasionally eat oats with gluten, oh, goodness, you’re not going to die of toxicity, are you?

If you’re going to have a piece of sourdough bread with no yeast in it and it’s a good quality stone ground whole meal flour, I don’t think you’re going to drop dead the following day. And it’s going to give a little bit of variety to your diet. You’re going to enjoy your diet a lot more. You’re going to maintain weight, energy and feel good about what you’re eating. Remember, food is more than just stuff that you shove down here. There is also a huge psychological component to eating. You’ve got to feel good about your diet. It’s got to smell good, taste good, and look good. A huge part of food is enjoying food. How the hell can you enjoy gluten free, dairy free, this free, that free, kosher, and halal and all this sort of stuff? Goodness, you’d be down to five foods.

You’d actually develop anxiety disorder about what you’re eating, which a degree of my patients actually has. They actually developed serious anxiety about what they eat. Not a good way to live, is it? And remember that also the sickest patients I’ve got have got the best diets. The best and they’re still sick. They’ve been gluten free for 10 years and they look like crap. They look gray in the face. They look sick. “Oh, but I’m eating all this and I’m eating all that.” If everything is so good that they’re eating, then why are they so sick all the time. And I’ll talk about another point later, but there is a lot more to the Candida diet than just food.

Dairy free as well. Now, Dairy is a different kind of fish because you’ve got much more chance of having an allergy toward beta casein or one of the primary proteins in dairy. Gluten allergy is not that common. After looking at many thousands of different food allergy reports, I’m not convinced that gluten is anywhere near as allergenic as cow’s milk. Cow’s milk is the most allergy forming of all foods or drinks on the planet. Period. You can have lactose intolerance or you can have a casein allergy to different animals. Lactose intolerance means more diarrhea and bloating. The casein allergy will be a more dairy-related allergy. I’m not a fan of drinking cow’s milk myself. I do love a little bit of cheese here or there, especially mozzarella cheese or parmesan, a very high quality cheese. But apart from that, I’m not really into dairy. But again, your call. But don’t be extremist with gluten. Please don’t do it.

4. Assuming you have to eat 100 percent organic, biodynamic, certified this, and certified that. It’s not going to happen, guys. Come on. When you go out, you can’t always be anal about every tiny little piece of food, where it’s grown, how it’s grown. We’re starting to go back to the anxiety disorder again. Most people will tell you they eat certified organic and they may eat certified organic, but is it really helping them with their diet. I don’t really believe it is. I grow a lot of my own food because I really enjoy the outdoor experience. I feel I’m doing something for me and my family, and I’m a gardener anyways. But I also buy a lot of vegetables and fruits from the farmer’s market, good quality. Now, are they sprayed? I don’t know. Do they have chemicals on them? I don’t know. They look bloody good. They look healthy. They look clean. I’m not really that concerned about those sort of things.

I look at life a bit differently, perhaps, then you do. Non-smoking, non-drinking, exercising, not using any sprays or toxins around the house. I do my part in remaining free from as many poisons as I can, but I’m not going to go to the extent of avoiding every bit of produce that may come from a place that’s used a chemical. And the other stupid thing I want you to remember is a lot of these organic places can’t stop people from spraying up the road or using some type of a poison that may have landed on their crop. What are you going to do? Grow it in a dome or something? I think you’ve got to wake up to the fact that it’s very difficult, if not impossible, to eat 100 percent certified organic and biodynamic. It’s possible, but I think, again, you’re bordering a little bit toward the anxiety part. And remember what I said, the sickest people I’ve seen are the ones that tend to eat the healthiest. And it’s interesting how a lot of them stay sick for so long. So if occasionally produce creeps in that’s non-organic, don’t have a heart attack.

5. Including high sugar fruits at the beginning or not cutting out enough fruits. And the other component to part five, five B, is eating high sugar, starchy vegetables, if you have severe Candida. So let’s explain both of these. I’ve always been a believer that the best fruits to eat with Candida are green apples. I was recommending green apples for Candida 20 years ago before anyone talked about green apples with Candida. And now, every website says green apples. But a long, long time ago when I recommended green apples, the Candida experts of the day said I was nuts. All apples had to be avoided. But I knew from clinical experience that green apples were perfectly fine with patients.

I knew that because it was the only fruit I could tolerate personally when I had bad Candida over 20 years ago. And I started recommending to other people and I started noticing that they could tolerate green apple. Pomegranate, usually fine. Avocado, perfectly fine with people with Candida. Blueberries are the best berry to eat, but generally, strawberries and boysenberries are okay. So these fruits are usually fine. I find kiwi fruit is often tolerated quite well by a lot of people, so that’s another one that you could try out as well is the kiwi. Be careful again about reintroducing fruits into the diet as you recover. It’s a little bit like alcohol. Be careful. Wait until you recover, increasingly, increasingly. Because fruit can be one of those problematic foods where people won’t eat one orange or mandarin in a day, they’ll have five or six, and then they’ll create problems. Slow introduction when you feel better.

High sugar or starchy vegetables. Be careful. If you’ve got seriously bad gut problems, you need to avoid pumpkin, squash. Sweet potato, yes or no? I find sweet potato is often tolerated by a lot of people even with bad Candida. Sweet corn can be a problem for some people. Squash, pumpkin, potatoes, those sort of things. Now, here’s another interesting point you won’t find on the internet. How the food is cooked or how the starch is modified can have a big effect on your tolerance. Baking pumpkin may be entirely different from pumpkin soup. Frying or stir-frying starchy vegetables may react different in your gut from steaming or boiling it. You need to try different ways of cooking starchy vegetables to see if you can tolerate one way or another.

Now we’re coming back to the fruits. Different stages of ripeness will dictate how well you tolerate the fruit. A fruit that’s ripe may have a higher sugar content than a fruit that’s partially ripe. Fruit can also be cooked. Don’t forget. You can actually cook fruit. A lot of countries around the world actually cook fruits as part of their meal. I’ve got a really nice book called the “Fruit Cookbook.” It’s got some fantastic recipes in it. A lot of people will tell you that fruit needs to be eaten raw. Why? Who has the rulebook? I mean who are these kind of food police to tell you this sort of crap. You don’t need to always believe other people. You need to believe what you want to believe, but be careful about believing what other people want you to believe. Keep an open mind always.

6. Being extremist in your diet views and not flexible enough. Please don’t need to be one of these extremely full on sort of focused person who really believes their diet is the highway. I’ve seen way too many people over the years with very powerful extremist views. It’s almost like they’ve got this religious conviction that everything they eat that’s not on the “yes” list is toxic to them. So as you will see in a minute, diet alone will not cure Candida. If fact, diet is a small part of recovery and yet people tend to think that everything’s about diet. Well, it’s not. It’s quite a stupid belief to think that everything you eat is going to seriously improve your health or make it sick.

I’ve seen many, many patients over the years with very mediocre and bland diets in fantastic health and people who don’t eat organic. People who don’t eat a wide variety of foods. Likewise, I’ve seen many people on the most amazing diets that are so sick, so toxic, and so anxious that they can’t even leave their house and they eat the most incredible diet. Extreme views create extreme problems. So when you start to have this extremist point of view, you’re digging a hole for yourself. And you’re also alienating yourself from a lot of other people.

7. Thinking that your diet alone will cure your Candida. This is absolutely not true. Diet, as I’ve written in my book, I believe personally accounts for about 25 percent of recovery; 75 percent is the other stuff. This is the unseen stuff. This is the iceberg under the water that you can’t see. The tip on the top is the diet, and the rest underneath is the lifestyle. I’ve made many videos, if you look at my channel on lifestyle and Candida. I’ve talked about stress and Candida. I’ve talked about exercise and Candida. Unless you lead a balanced lifestyle and understand the importance of sleep, exercise, really good relationships with people around you, understanding stress, having some understanding of adrenal and thyroid function and their role in immunity, all these concepts need to be learned to a degree if you want a full recovery.

I’ve seen some patients who’ve been sick for 10, 20, 30 years recover in six months when they had the lightbulb moment. When they found out what their problem was, they made changes. And all of a sudden, the obstacle to cure is removed and the body recovered. Regardless of the diet. So don’t be a person who is extremist thinking that the diet is the make all break all because it isn’t that way. I don’t care what blog sites or so-called experts tell you. This is my personal experience based on nearly 30 years of practice. Diet plays an important, but a less important, role in recovery than your environment and your lifestyle does.

8. Failing to understand the relationship with stress, adrenal function, digestion, and recovery. I don’t think I’ll talk too long on this point because it’s a quite a big point to go into. There’s a lot to talk about. I could do a whole one-hour video just on one aspect of stress alone. But I want you to really understand there’s a big connection between the gut and the brain. There’s a big connection between stress, particularly the autonomic nervous function that controls stress. There’s a big relationship between that being balanced and recovery from Candida. The body has got its own in-built mechanism that can perfectly deal with pathogens, different kinds of yeasts, different parasite, bacterial imbalances, inflammation, and all these things can be controlled by the gut quite adequately. But remember that the brain controls the gut to a huge degree.

Check out my videos I’ve done on vagus nerve. I’m sure I’ve done some videos on the vagus nerve. That will explain about the gut/brain connection. When you understand this, you’re going to know more than your medical doctor knows about recovery. You don’t need a magic wand to understand why you’re not recovering. If you’ve got the best diet on the planet and you’re not recovering, this is what you need to understand is point eight. Failing to understand the relationship with stress, how your adrenals function to a degree and digestion. Try to look at some videos I’ve completed around this topic. Because this could be the big one for you.

9. Being the food police. What do I mean by being the food police? If you’re in a relationship with somebody and by looking at them and thinking that your diet’s perfect, “Why are you eating that for? Stop drinking that coco-cola. Put that chocolate bar away. It’s going to kill you.” So being the food police is trying to control other peoples’ diets, friends, or family around you, as well as controlling your own. Don’t be a bully. Nobody likes bullies around the house. Don’t bully other people. Keep your thoughts to yourself. Don’t be one of these – I wouldn’t say Bible bashing – I’d say Candida bashing people. Do you like it if someone comes around knocking on your door trying to convert the way you eat? You get sick and tired of them. You tell them to get lost. So don’t become the food police. Don’t think you can change other people. You have to change yourself first. And when you change yourself, other people will change. I learned that one a long time ago.

10. Taking lots of dietary supplements along with your Candida diet in the hope of a quick 24-hour cure. Well, it isn’t going to happen. Remember, check out my video on how to cure Candida in 24 hours. It’s had a lot of views. A lot of peeved off people looking at it who felt it was switch and bait. They felt they got ripped off with the title. You can’t cure Candida in 24 hours! I’ve said this 100 times. Maybe I need to take off all my clothes, jump up and down on a table, and do a video on this because I really want to get the message out there. It’s impossible to cure Candida quickly. It doesn’t happen. You can’t cure any disease. The body has to cure itself. The body has to correct the disorder that it’s created. And it will do so by you giving it the right conditions. Plenty of fresh water, breathing properly, lots of rest, all these sorts of things need to occur.

Supplements do help, but remember, supplements are a very small part of Candida recovery. I don’t want people taking tons and tons of supplements. It’s a waste of money and time. You only need to take a very small, few select supplements, along with a carefully planned diet and remember the lifestyle. As I said, 75 percent lifestyle, 25 percent diet. Supplements you take are a minority of treatment. You don’t need to take any more generally than two or three supplements at the most. Some patients I see take boxes of stuff. They’ll take 50/60 supplements. A waste of money. Are they feeling anybody? Have a look at the video I did. I think I did a video a while ago now on a lady who took about 65 dietary supplements in a day. And I can remember asking her how she felt and she said, “I feel like crap.” Well, it was costing her about $3,000 to $4,000 a month for all these dietary supplements. Basically, what I said to her was, “Have you got a garbage can?” I said, “Bring it here and let’s throw them all in the garbage can and start again.”

Supplements are important for Candida, but I think I’d like you to look at quality and not quantity. Check out my Canxida.com. I created a small range of really high quality products perfectly designed for complementing this kind of an approach, which I believe is one of the best around for getting people well with any kind of digestive problem.

When you take products to really cleanse the gut, you want something that’s broad spectrum. I often get videos of people saying, “I’m taking 30 parts per million colloidal silver. How many teaspoons per day?” or “I’m taking a garlic supplement. How many milligrams of standardized allicin should I take in this supplement?” Or “I’m taking undecenoic acid. Should I take 500 milligrams twice a day?” My reply to all of those people is “Hang on a minute. Why don’t you take a broad-spectrum product that’s got all of this stuff in it because it’s going to not just target the 19 different Candida species we commonly see in people, but it’s going to target about 50/60 different kind of parasites we commonly see. It’s going to target a whole lot of different species of yeast we commonly see because we see up to 400 species of yeast in people. It’s going to target a lot of bad bacteria. Bacteria that are going in transition from good to bad. It’s going to help to push them back to good. It’s going to create the balance again. This is what you need is a broad-spectrum product.

When you go out hunting, I don’t go out hunting, but let’s say you go out hunting and you want to shoot a duck down or a bird out of the sky. I think you’re better off using a shotgun than you are a handgun. Would you agree? A handgun is probably going to work, but you’d have to be damn good at aiming and know exactly what you’re doing. But the shotgun is just point and shoot and you’ve got it. And that’s what we call broad spectrum. It’s going to work much easier than something does with a very narrow focus.

The shotgun is my product called Canxida Remove. It’s got a very good broad-spectrum action. I produced it after looking at thousands of stool tests and looking at the sensitivity panels to see what kind of natural medicines would best target all the pathogens I found in peoples’ digestive system, and that’s why I made that product. I think it’s the only product of its kind on the market. It’s broad spectrum. It takes a good couple of hours to breakdown in the body to release its contents. It’s a tablet because I couldn’t get everything I wanted into a capsule. I had to make a tablet. And it works very, very well. So you take generally two or three per day.

The second product I made is called Canxida Restore. Now, I made that as an enzyme probiotic and it perfectly complements the Remove. So the Remove and the Restore work well together. The Restore improves stomach function, pancreatic function, and duodenum function, so it improves the way that the digestive system works. It helps to breakdown food to a higher degree. Plus, it contains the best probiotics in it that I could possibly find, and also the strains that I really wanted people to have with Candida. The combination of these two products has a very good restorative effect on Candida. And when taken together for a period of anywhere between two to six months, incredible improvements will occur when you apply the right kind of diet and lifestyle.

A long-winded reply, Josh. I hope I’ve given you good enough information on this video to really help you understand some of the mistakes that people make and the mistakes that you shouldn’t be making. Thanks for tuning into my video today.