Category: Candida Crusher FAQ Videos

Greetings. It’s naturopath Eric Bakker from New Zealand. I’m the author of a book called Candida Crusher. You can see that at CandidaCrusher.com. And I’m also the formulator of a range of products called Canxida. You can see those at Canxida.com. Today, we’re going to talk about biotin. Is biotin any good for Candida? This is a question that was asked by a lady called Andrea Hall from Perth, Australia. Andrea, I’m going to talk about biotin today. What it is. If it’s any good for Candida. It will be quite an interesting video for you to check out. And I’m sure there will be viewers on YouTube with Candida or that just have an interest in biotin.

Biotin is kind of a B vitamin. It’s really a co-enzyme like a lot of B vitamins and some people call it Vitamin B7. It’s required to help render fatty acids into energy. It’s very important also to allow certain types of amino acids to function properly. And folate, for example, functions really well when there’s sufficient biotin in the body. It’s a very important stimulator of healthy cells in your body. It performs multiple functions and it’s critical.

One of the key roles in Candida when I did a lot of research into biotin is that it helps to prevent the conversion or the change from the cell form of Candida, the round form, into the more mycelial or hypha form like the fine fungus like thread that Candida can convert to, and biotin actually will stop that process.

One thing I have to tell you at the beginning of this video is that don’t eat raw eggs. Raw eggs, particularly the egg whites, contain a protein called avidin, and avidin will actually bind to biotin and help to remove it out of the body. So raw eggs are not good at all, if you’ve got Candida. And also, they’re hard to digest. It’s much easier for the body to break down and render denatured proteins into amino acids than if they are in their raw form, so lightly cook egg whites before you eat them rather than to swallow them liquid or put them in blenders. It’s not a good idea to eat raw eggs. Just slightly cooking them is a way better idea. That way, you’re not really going to get the problem with the biotin deficiency.

Some people also have a biotinidase deficiency, a deficiency in the enzyme responsible for utilizing biotin. And that coupled along with poor diets high in fake foods that people eat today like white foods, soda drinks, ice cream, fries, MacDonald’s, that crappy food like that. These foods are depleted in biotin and often will have a biotin deficient diet along with high sugar and high stress. And then on top of that, they have antibiotics. Well, this is really like a Russian roulette for Candida, isn’t it. You’re a sitting duck for a yeast infection.

Dr. Orion Truss wrote a very important book called “The Missing Diagnosis” in 1983. I’ve just got some notes out of my Candida Crusher book because I’ve written quite a bit about biotin there. Truss noticed that people who had diets with sufficient biotin in them didn’t really have a seriously bad yeast infection, and he recommended people eat things like brown rice, egg yolks (cooked), liver and kidney and also organic soybeans. We didn’t have the G in genetically modified soybeans back in those days, and soybeans were considered once a healthy food. Now, they’re considered like toxic waste now by some people. Dr. Truss recognized 30 years ago that people were very deficient in biotin and lacking in the typical SAD diet, standard American diet.

Here’s a picture I’m going to hold up to the screen. I wonder if you can see it. And you can actually see here, if we have a careful look here, you can see the cell of Candida here, and here you can see the mycelial form, the spore form, so that’s how Candida can convert from this form to this form. When you have sufficient biotin in your diet, that’s going to really be halted. That was a 400 times magnification there of Candida. You can clearly see the two types of Candida there.

Dr. Luc De Schepper wrote quite a good book in 1974 called “Candida: The Symptoms, the Causes, and Cure,” and it’s well worth reading by anyone with a serious yeast infection. Luke was a big believer in recommending biotin to patients with yeast infections to stop the yeast infection from going crazy. Because the hypha forms actually can form like little spears, penetrate parts of the body, and implant more yeast in there, almost like little harpoons; whereas, the cell form can’t do that so much. It’s easier for the body to destroy the cell form than the hypha form, so you don’t want that conversion to take place. A Japanese doctor in 1974, Dr. Yamaguchi, noted that when Candida was cultured in a biotin poor dish, it quickly changed to the invasive mycelial form. And as soon as biotin was added, it would halt this progression.

How does biotin work to counter yeast infections? There are a couple of points here. Biotin has the ability to halt Candida from turning into a hypha or mycelial form, which is a lot harder to get rid of and potentially more serious. Dr. Luc De Schepper said to take three milligrams per day if you’ve got a bad yeast infection because it halts that progression. And I also mentioned the biotinidase deficiency. Some people have got a problem with biotinidase, and they can’t recycle or reutilize biotin properly with this deficiency.

And the other thing that is a big problem today is, unfortunately, people have got an issue with beneficial bacteria and they actually help to produce biotin in the gut. So people with very good levels of beneficial bacteria like the lactobacillus species will have more biotin in their bloodstream than people with a lower amount. And that’s why I always recommend probiotics when you’ve got Candida. Check out my Canxida Restore. I’ve made sure to put various types of lactobacillus in that product in a special capsule called Capsugel, which is going to really allow these bugs to get into the small intestine where they belong.

The low carbohydrate biotin self-test. A good friend of mine, Dr. James Wilson from Arizona, the world expert in adrenal fatigue said to me, “Eric, I’ve got the best test for determining biotin insufficiency in people.” Does that sound like an Arizona accent or what? Dr. Wilson said to me, “Strictly avoid carbohydrates and take 3,000 mcg or 3 mg per day of biotin for three days and see if any of your yeast infection symptoms improve. If symptoms improve, especially dramatically, you’re probably suffering from a mycelial Candida overgrowth in your intestines.”

I’m going to make a really top quality Candida multivitamin. It’s on the drawing board. It’s going to be Canxida Rebuild. It’s going to be a superb product. It’ll be in development, which I’ve been working on now for the last six months, but it’s going to contain plenty of biotin in it to stop that conversion. I hope that gives you some explanation there, Andrea, on what biotin is and its importance when it comes to Candida yeast infections and to stop the progression of serious yeast infections.

Thank you for checking out my video. Please subscribe to my channel. Check out my site yeastinfection.org. Do my quiz. And check out my Canxida Remove and Restore products. I think you’ll find those to be superb in your quest to get rid of your yeast infection. Thanks for checking me out today.

Greetings. New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker, and I’m the author of the book called Candida Crusher and the formulator of the Canxida range of dietary supplements. I’ve got an email from a gentleman called Gregory and Gregory lives in Kent in England in the UK. And Gregory wants to know if Caprylic acid is good for treating Candida, if it’s effective for Candida.

Gregory, it’s highly effective. Caprylic acid is a very good monounsaturated fatty acid. It’s a really fantastic approach for Candida. There are different kinds of fatty acids similar to this. There is lauric acid, Caprylic acid, Capric acid, undecenoic acid, so these acids have got a very good antifungal approach by interfering with the cell wall of Candida. Particularly effective to use if the Candida is not seriously bad.

Some people have got cell wall types of Candida and also the hyphal types because Candida can transfer from one form to another. It can change. And I’ve mentioned in a previous video by using biotin or B7, that you can actually prevent this change from the cell to the fungal form to the hyphal form. Caprylic acid doesn’t work so well on the hyphal or the fine filamentous form of Candida. It works more on the cellular form.

If you’ve got mild to moderate Candida, it’s going to work exceptionally well. It’s also good to combine Caprylic acid with undecenoic acid. Having both of these acids together in one supplement is going to give you a better kill on a wider range of Candida strains. Sometimes one form won’t work, but the other form will work. And then combining with biotin is an even more clever approach because it’s going to stop the change from one form of Candida to the other. Check out my product called Canxida Remove. It contains all of these and way more than that. Caprylic acid is very effective and it’s found primarily in coconut. By consuming coconut oil, coconut cream, coconut water, you’ll be getting Caprylic acid into your diet.

University studies in Japan have showed it to be highly effective against various Candida strains. So do I recommend Caprylic acid? I do. You can take it during any part of the Candida Crusher diet. You can take it at the beginning. You can take it during. You can take it after. So it’s quite safe and effective. Just be sure if you’re going to take it as dietary supplement that you don’t just take it on its own. Try also to consume a dietary supplement that contains things like grapefruit seed extract, standardized garlic, neem, clove, and oregano, all of these things combined. Because then you’ve got a much more broad-spectrum effect that’s not just going to target Candida like Caprylic acid does, because Caprylic acid does nothing for bacteria that are bad. The broad-spectrum effect is going to ensure you’re going to clean up the whole gut in general. That’s a smart approach.

And again, that’s why I’ve created Canxida Remove for this cleansing broad-spectrum effect to work on SIBO, Candida, IBS, IBD, a lot of these functional bowel disorders. They need a more broad-spectrum product. If you just had Candida on its own, Caprylic acid would work, but it might not necessarily work for the dysbiotic bacteria that you’ve got. In my opinion, most people with Candida have got dysbiotic bacteria as well, so they really need that shotgun approach rather than the rifle approach.

Gregory, I hope that answers your question about Caprylic acid. Is it good? Yes, it is good, but use it in conjunction with other antifungal/anti-bacterial agents. And also don’t forget to subscribe to my channel. I like making these videos and I really like to see some subscribers come up on the channel. I’ve got about 550 videos, but I aim eventually to have 1,000 videos on this channel. The more the merrier. Subscribe and then you’ll get to hear all of my latest videos coming out all the time, which are going to happen on a wide range of topics. Thanks for tuning in.

Greetings. It’s Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand, author of Candida Crusher and formulator of a range of products called Canxida. Thanks for checking out this video. I’ve got a question here from a guy on YouTube called Pro Chess Player. I think his name is Josh and Josh is asking me “Eric, can you please do a video on foods to avoid for Leaky Gut syndrome?”

Josh, one thing you and I have got in common. I think I’ve checked out your site. You love playing chess. So do I, but I keep getting beaten by my teenage son, which is really annoying for me. One thing I don’t get beaten by is questions for Candida, so we’re going to address that right now.

What are some foods to avoid with leaky gut? Well, I’ve just spent a little bit of time on the internet looking at a lot of sites on leaky gut syndrome to get a feel for what the general consensus is out there. Here’s quite a well-known website from a very well-known doctor in America who will remain nameless and this doctor is saying, “Foods that cause leaky gut, gluten, cow’s products, sugar, unsprouted grains, and GMO.” Very true, doctor, but there are a lot of things that you’re missing out on. I’m going to go into some detail with this video. Grains, I’ve got another site, in fact, I just went to Google and typed in foods to avoid with leaky gut, and the paleodiet.com came up. Grains, legumes, dairy, sugar, unhealthy oils, alcohol, caffeine, excessive carbohydrate consumption. This is a bit closer to the mark.

But when you’ve got leaky gut, basically, a good advice for you with foods to avoid in general is processed foods. Processed foods, in general. So when you go shopping, I’ve said this before in videos, if you do shop at a supermarket, buy your foods only from the outside perimeter. Meats, vegetables, perishable products because these are less likely to cause problems with leaky gut. It is true that alcohol and caffeine do cause leaky gut. Alcohol, to me, is the top of the “no” tree when it comes to leaky gut. If you would say to me, “What food is most associated with leaky gut?” I would say alcohol.

What out of everything I know is associated with leaky gut is antibiotics. That’s really the top of the biggest tree is antibiotics or all kinds of pharmaceutical medications, anti-inflammatories, steroids, anti-depressants, sleeping pills, any kind of a drug, for blocking stomach acid or reducing pain. All of these drugs are involved in leaky gut. Including Tylenol, paracetamol, any of these kind of drugs. Birth control pills, all involved with leaky gut. But antibiotics are the top of the tree.

But when we look at foods and beverages, alcohol is right at the top, so don’t even think about drinking alcohol if you’re worried about leaky gut. And even if your gut is healthy like mine, drinking alcohol occasionally will predispose you to leaky gut. You will make your gut increasingly leaky by drinking. Every drink you take increases your likelihood of making the gut leakier and leakier. And then on top of that if you put antibiotics and high stress in there, you’re a sitting duck for a serious leaky gut problem.

Grains, yes and no. I believe that most people can tolerate small amounts of gluten in their diet when they’re healthy like me. I don’t eat bread or flour products. I much prefer to have brown rice in my diet and grains like quinoa or millet. But I do have a piece of bread every now and then and I really enjoy a nice piece of toast with some tahini or an organic peanut butter. And I really enjoy the taste, the texture, the smell, and I’m sure most people do. I would not eat a piece of bread every single day with peanut butter on it. I wouldn’t do that. It’s just every now and then; these things are fine.

Grains in general. You need to be careful of refined flours, white flour, donuts, cookies, these sorts of foods. Every time I go to the airport and fly out, I see the donut stand and you see all the big large people sitting there buying donuts with all these sugar toppings. That’s crap. That’s the sort of stuff you want to avoid. Ice cream, refined carbohydrates, these sorts of foods. That’s the sugars. Chocolate bars full of sugar, candy, confectionary, lollies, licorice, all these sorts of things. These really help to breed lots of bacteria and lower immunity and really help to increase the leakiness of the gut there as well.

Coming back to grains. Everything’s Paleo today. I don’t really believe in the Paleo diet myself as such any more than I subscribe to any one particular religion. Because to me diets today are like religious beliefs. We’ve got the Muslims, the Catholics, Protestants, the Bahai, and Mormons. So we’ve got the Paleo people, the vegan people, and we’ve got the similar kind. They’re all belief systems. It’s up to you to believe what you want to believe. To me, a healthy diet is a balanced diet that includes a lot of these different belief systems. And you need to work out what the right belief system is for you in terms of your gut. Perhaps spiritually as well.

What am I trying to say? I’m trying to say that healthy people can tolerate small amounts of wheat and gluten quite okay. And if you’re very sick and you’ve got serious gut problems, you probably need to avoid most grains until you improve your gut flora to a degree where you can tolerate small amounts. I think psychologically it’s good to have small amounts of different kinds of grains in your diet. Legumes, in many cases, are fine with leaky gut providing again you don’t go overboard with legumes. And there are many different kinds of legumes and beans that you can eat. Sprouted legumes are probably the best ones to have in your diet. I like sprouts. I make sprouts up all the time.

Dairy products definitely a problem, cow dairy with people in terms of if they’ve got leaky gut to make it worse, but also stimulating the production of leaky gut when consumed in conjunction with alcohol and antibiotics and things like that. The better dairy products to have would be mozzarella cheese; goat’s cheese is usually okay. Mozzarella, I think, is one of the better cheeses to have, but drinking lots of cow’s milk is not a good idea because it leaves you wide open to stimulating the gut to become leaky. Even healthy people, I believe, should avoid cow’s milk. Even if it’s like organic, certified organic or non-pasteurized, non-homogenized, or milk with modified beta casein in it. I’m not a big fan of these kind of foods.

Sugars are certainly something you need to avoid if you want to avoid the risk of leaky gut. Most kinds of sugars. I don’t put honey in that realm. Honey does contain sugar, but honey has a different effect on the gut than refined sugars do a completely different effect. Again, they’re best avoided for people with leaky gut until they recover the gut function. But I’m also talking about artificial sugars, which I think belong in the toxic realm.

Unhealthy oils, I’m definitely for this. Avoiding corn oil, vegetable oil, soybean oil, canola oil, cottonseed oil, so these are really crappy oils. And hydrogenated fats, fats that become hard at room temperature to increase the shelf life of different processed foods. So the better oils really would be organic sunflower oil, macadamia oil, nut oils are beautiful oils, walnut oil, high quality extra virgin olive oil, very good. There are many different kinds of very healthy oils you can have, but they should be kept cool or refrigerated in sealed dark bottles away from light to stop oxidation. Coconut oil, of course, if it’s a good fermented coconut oil, a good quality one, is not going to create a leaky gut problem.

I’ve already spoken about alcohol. The biggest contributor of all is regular alcohol consumption. Caffeine. I don’t think caffeine is a no-no. I think one cup of coffee a day for most people is perfectly acceptable if they can tolerate caffeine. So one cup in the morning is usually fine and it makes you feel good. A lot of people like the aroma and taste of coffee. Avoiding all these things entirely from your diet because some Paleo person says so, I think, can be quite difficult for a lot of people to swallow.

Excessive carb consumption. Well, that goes without saying. But remember there’s carbs in a lot of foods. You don’t avoid all carbs. You just avoid the refined carbs. I hope that gives you some information, Josh, about foods to avoid if you’ve got leaky gut or to stop the development of leaky gut. Processed foods.

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