Category: Candida Crusher FAQ Videos

Greetings. It’s New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker, author of Candida Crusher and formulator of the Canxida range of dietary supplements. Thanks for checking out my video. I really appreciate you looking at my channel. I’m also overwhelmed by the amount of really nice comments I’m receiving from people all around the world now in many countries that are watching my videos. It’s for you that I make these videos so you can get a couple of little gems or nuggets here or there that may help you change your life. How can we protect our microflora? What can we do that’s going to really be of benefit for the beneficial bacteria inside our digestive systems?

What I want you to think of – I’ve spoken about this many times before – is really our digestive system is like a beautiful garden. It’s a very, very big rain forest. So think about what we’re doing in the world today, chopping down rain forests, and spraying poisons all around the place, killing things. Not planting things back in its place. This is exactly what’s happening in a lot of people’s digestive systems. We’re swallowing all kinds of crap. We’re eating junk. We’re not chewing properly. We’re eating at weird hours. We’re embracing technology too much. We’re staying up late. We’re not getting enough sleep.

A big part of what I want to impress on you is eating good food is only a tiny little cogwheel in the whole machine. I’ve seen way too many videos that are just focused, focused, focused on food, food, food. You get all these raw foody people online. All these 18 year old, slim sexy girls, raw vegans. And then you get other people online that claim that you need Paleo and you get other people online, it’s all about body ecology kind of diets. Everyone has got this spin on it. But not enough emphasis or focus is on food that plays a role in good health, a significant role. But I believe what plays an even more significant role is using food along with a very balanced, healthy lifestyle to really improve people’s health.

There are many spokes to the wheel. And there are many aspects that will make a garden beautiful. It’s not just about sunshine, water, and nutrients. People actually have to care for the garden. If you want to keep the rainforest from dying, we have to look after the planet in general. We have to understand. We’ve got to stop chopping things down and spraying defoliants and being greedy. It’s the same with human health. You have to really nurture and culture the gut. You have to stop putting things in there that kill it and put things in there that benefit it. But also understand that the way we think and stress has a fantastically powerful effect on the gut. And when you can put that lifestyle and diet together properly, you’re going to have an amazing digestive system that’s going to keep you in great health well until your eighth/ninth decade and even beyond that. That’s the key thing in this video today that I want to impress on you.

How can we protect and maintain a healthy gut function? Diet advice is the key thing that people like me as naturopaths give to people. We’ve got to eat the right kind of food. There are over 1,000 articles now on yeastinfection.org, so I’m not going to beat the same drum with each video. You need to read some of my articles to understand how to eat properly and the types of foods you need to eat to maintain good health.

Stress management techniques. I really want you to try to learn how to relax properly. I had a relaxation session today for half an hour. There is not a day that goes by that I don’t incorporate some kind of relaxation technique into my life and some exercise. To me they’re as essential as good daily care of the body when it comes to showering, clean clothes, and sleeping. All those things are important. Learn calmness and stillness. Learn sometimes not to talk but to listen. Learn sometimes to turn the TV off and not be stimulated by all these murder movies.

I recently saw Jurassic World, it freaked the hell out me, and I wondered, my heart rate must have gone up, my blood pressure went up, and in fact, I didn’t sleep well that night. It’s incredible. I don’t watch these films quite often, but my son said, “Come on, dad. We’ve got to watch this film.” It spooked me. You can imagine the people who watch violent movies all the time or play violent video games, what’s going through their mind. How it’s affecting their stress axis that in turn is affecting their gut function. You can’t really meditate or relax when you’re watching people getting trampled on by dinosaurs. It might make $1.5 billion at the box office, but it’s not really doing much for your digestive system.

Supporting your gut with any kind of medical treatment. So if you’re having chemo or radiotherapy, if you’re taking a medication long term, you need to really support the gut and understand that you are going to kill quite a lot of stuff there. Taking a probiotic is a clever idea for you to do. A very clever idea, long term. That’s going to help put some seeds back in that lawn that’s been selectively killed. That’s an important thing I want you to do. Remember, you can take medical treatment, but you need to counter that with something very healthy and beneficial.

Avoid the use of medications, in particular, antibiotics that actually kill the beneficial bacteria. Antibiotics are necessary in a very, very small amount of cases, but they’re used as a cure all by a lot of doctors still. A small cut on the finger, 10 days of penicillin. A sore throat, 10 days of penicillin. My son had a sore throat recently and it was incredible how friends were saying, “Look, he needs antibiotics. He needs antibiotics.” But I put him on a couple of herbs for four or five days, sore throat is completely gone, so antibiotics not required. I’ve never ever used antibiotics on my four children. I haven’t taken them myself for 40 years. You don’t need these kind of drugs in your life. Unless you’ve got a serious illness, you don’t really need them.

Encouraging you to eat the kind of foods that build up the beneficial bacteria. That’s going to be a whole set of videos in its own right. I really believe that taking a probiotic without understanding the need to eat FOS and GOS foods, fructooligosaccharides, or inulin foods, this is FOS. And GOS is galactooligosaccharide. So these are foods that contain particular sugars that have a very powerful effect on building the lactobacillus and the bifida bacteria. These foods are a fantastic fertilizer for your lawn. We can throw this lawn seed in there, which is the probiotics. What about the fertilizer? What about that?

Don’t take a supplement that contains FOS. I’m no fan of that. I found ample research to show that people with SIBO or bad Candida when they take FOS along with a dietary supplement, it can make them quite sick. They can get bad aggravation and brain fog, pain and gas, all sorts of things. So when I developed my probiotic product called Canxida Restore, I basically made sure I put no FOS or inulin in this product. It took me six months to develop my probiotic enzymatic formula called Canxida Restore and it should be on the market any day now.

FOS and GOS. It makes more sense to eat foods that contain these things rather than to take it as a dietary supplement. It makes a lot more sense. And when you start incorporating these particular categories of polyphenol rich colored foods into your diet along with a really good probiotic enzyme formula, you’re going to get fantastic effects. Let’s leave it at for this video and we’ll catch up with you in subsequent videos where I explain FOS and GOS foods.

Greetings. Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand, author of Candida Crusher. Thanks for checking out my video today. Today, we’re going to talk about toxic people. They are people that literally make you sick.

You’ve probably seen some of my previous YouTube videos where I talk about stress, particularly stress and yeast infection. Stress and the inability of your immune system to properly power up to counter a yeast infection.

One of the big reasons why a lot of people get sick with stress is people. It’s other people. In fact, I think one of the most common stressors for people is relationships that they have with other people around them. Particularly, if they’re close. This can also be in a working situation. It can be at home. It can be socially. It can be at work. There can be many different scenarios where you come into contact with people.

What I’d like you to do, particularly, if you’ve had a long-term chronic yeast infection or you’ve been unwell for a long time is try to have a good look at the relationships of people that you’ve got around you right now. You may even want to write down the names of about 10 or 15 people and then just jot down behind those names a little bit about that person. If you like that person, if you don’t like that person. This may sound like a queer exercise, but I did this with a patient recently, a lady with very bad psoriasis. In fact, with a bad vaginal yeast infection. She had a lot of digestive problems. I got her to do this exercise and she came back and said, “It’s my partner.” I said, “What do you mean it’s your partner?” She said, “My partner lives overseas and it’s giving me a lot of grief. I’ve been with this partner a long time, and I’m not really happy with the relationship at all.”

Then I said, “What are you going to do about it?” And she said, “Well, I know what I should be doing, but my heart tells me different from what my head tells me.” We had a bit of a discussion about it. I recently had a Skype consultation with this patient and found that she’d improved 100%. Her skin looked amazing. Her digestive system had improved to a very high degree. And why? Because she got rid of this toxic person out of her life.

What we can learn from this is that relationships with people around you are a bit like being outside in the garden. Gardens need maintenance just like relationships need maintenance. Sometimes we need to do a bit of serious pruning in the garden. We need to get a chainsaw or some big slashing tool and just chop whole things out. Other times, we just need to do a little bit of pruning, just a bit of light trimming. Other times, we need to do a bit of fertilizing. That’s how we’re going to get rid of some stuff or we’ve got to build some stuff up. You can extrapolate that through your relationships.

In this case, with this lady, she got a hold of a chainsaw and she cut this whole relationship out of her life. And as I said to her, “When you take a big tree out of the garden, make a bid decision in the garden, it’s a lot of work initially to do that. But once you’ve done that, it’s incredible how much light comes into the garden, how much new growth can occur. It’s the same in your relationship.” And as I said to her, “Once the pain of the breakup is gone and you eventually get on top of it, you may notice that a whole lot more light will come into your life and eventually who knows a new relationship could come in there.”

As I’ve always said in my book and also on videos, when you bring about a change, a whole change in your life occurs. When you finally make up your mind to get rid of this toxic person, your whole life will change. As painful as it may seem at the beginning, it’s going to be incredible when a light does come into your life. And sometimes people need a little bit of light pruning. You just need to talk to the person about some conflict you’ve got or some friction and overcome that. Whether it’s someone in the workplace or at home. You’re the one who makes the decision who you allow into your life. Life is precious and life is short.

In my life, I just associate with people that I like, that I get on well with. People that build me up. People that are kind to me. People that I’m kind to in return. But I will no longer have relationships with people that annoy the hell out of me or that make me sick or toxic or they get me all worked up. I just don’t allow this anymore. Sometimes it can mean letting go of jobs or dissolving businesses or getting rid of relationships. But if you take stock of these relationships and finally have the courage to make the change, you watch what happens to your health long term. All of a sudden, those symptoms that you had of 10 or 15 years duration, they’re gone. The gut problems go away. The bloating, the flatulence, the cramping in the gut, the sore shoulders or neck, the headaches, the lower back pain. All these problems, small niggly problems you’ve had for a long time, they disappear. Because many of them are, in fact, stress related problems.

Relationships cause in some cases conflict and tension inside our body. And once that relationship goes, the tension and conflict disappear. We no longer have to put up all these defense mechanisms. We no longer have to produce the stress hormones that reduce our immune function and cause pain in the body and tightness and sleeping problems. Those things all disappear.

Have a think about that. There’s a little bit of food for thought for you there. Take stock of your relationships. Do a bit of gardening. Maybe a bit of weeding, a bit of pruning, maybe a little bit of a chain sawing. Make some changes and watch what happens to your relationships long term. No pills required. No tests required. Just look at your relationships. Thanks for tuning in.

Greetings. It’s naturopath Eric Bakker from New Zealand, author of Candida Crusher. Thanks for checking out my video today. We’re going to talk about probiotics today.

This is one of many, many videos I’m going to complete on probiotics just to inform you and just sort of separate fact from fiction because there is so much BS out there when it comes to probiotics. I hope this is going to be one of many different videos to come. I’ve got some notes I’m going to read off here and then speak along with those. I want you to appreciate that your gut microbiome, the stuff that lives here in the gut basically, is an organ in its own right. It’s estimated to weigh between 1 to 1-1/2 kilograms. That’s 3 pounds of bacteria, 10 to the power of 14 plus. So Imagine 10 with 14 zeros behind it. That’s how many bacteria there are potentially in your gut.

It’s estimated that we have anywhere up to 1,000 or more species of bugs in our gut. And it’s also estimated that people who live in underdeveloped countries can have even twice this amount. People who don’t drink Coke Zero. People who don’t listen to iPhones with music screaming all day or check their emails constantly. People who don’t drink coffee five or six times a day. Who don’t go to MacDonald’s. People who tend to live more according to the laws of nature. These people tend to have a more complex ecosystem of their digestive system. They tend to have a more powerful effect in their gut when it comes to protecting their health, unlike us people.

It is also estimated that as we progress through successive generations from now, we’re going to have less and less bacteria. Because every time we have offspring with future generations, it’s believed that we’re going to have less and less bugs as we go along through the kind of crazy lifestyles that we lead. The gut microbiome or this massive organ rivals the liver in a number of biochemical reactions, which is incredible when you think about it.

We also live in a mutually beneficial relationship with these bugs. We need them and they need us. It’s very important that we have bacteria because they perform an incredible amount of functions in our digestive system. So we really rely on these things to keep us healthy. The gut has been termed the “second brain,” which is interesting. And we know, for example, that more serotonin is produced in the small intestine than actually is in the brain. That’s worth thinking about. Because you know that serotonin is a hormone responsible for making us feel good, so now you can understand why if you’ve got a terrible digestive system, you might not really feel good about life in general. There are two types of dysbiosis. You’ve heard of SIBO, but what about LIBO. What about large intestinal bowel overgrowth? So the colonic bacteria tend to be more important for human health than the bacteria that reside in the small intestine according to a lot of experts.

I attended a very interesting conference in Australia last weekend where we had two professors and one PhD, all these academics, talking on the gut. And all these academics are arguing amongst themselves. But one guy wasn’t arguing because he was a clinician and researcher. And the other two guys were arguing about who was right and who was wrong. In the end, it doesn’t matter. It’s ridiculous all these arguments that these researchers have.

Let’s have a look at what these bacteria actually do inside our digestive system. What are some of the functions and roles they play, and why is it so important for you to have a very good presence of beneficial bacteria in your gut? These bacteria modulate our immune system. If you’ve got very low levels of lactobacilli, for example, you’re going to have a low ability to really keep your immune system powered up. Non-specific immunity is very reliant on good bacteria. So the ability for you to kill a lot of bugs in your system is dependent on how many probiotic bacteria you’ve actually got there in your gut. Very important.

Upregulated non-specific immunity and IgA production. Circulatory IgA is an immunoglobulin or antibody that is produced. There are several grams produced per 24 hours in your gut to help protect against invading pathogens, bacteria, parasites, and things like that. It protects us also against things that may cause us allergies. The bacteria in our gut also play an important role in GIT motility. Peristalsis or the ability of stool to move through the bowel is dependent on good bacteria as well. You’ll find with very good bacteria levels, you’ve got minimal gas, no bloating, no cramping, and no pain. You should have no sensation in your gut. You should not feel any pain. If you feel pain, it can often be a sign of gas, pockets of gas pushing on various nerve Plexi here in the gut, creating that kind of pain sensation.

Bacteria, the good ones, also improve nutritional status, so they’re very important for the production of Vitamin K that really helps our blood clot quite well. They also produce B vitamins. So this is why people with lots of bloating and gas and constipation and diarrhea are tired all the time. They just haven’t got a lot of energy. Their brain is not functioning well. They get mood swings. Because B vitamins play key roles in all these different areas. Vitamin B6, B2, niacin, riboflavin, pyridoxine, all of these B vitamins can be produced to some extent in the gut. So now you understand why gut problems can lead to fatigue because B vitamins are particularly important for energy production.

Mineral absorption. Experts believe that calcium, magnesium, and particularly zinc, require good colonic bacteria to be absorbed and function really well in the body. And energy salvaging because you’ll find that people with very good digestive function have an ability to produce energy and maintain energy as well and restore energy, it’s like recycling energy. And they’ll do so by things I’ve mentioned here, by proper absorption, digestion of nutrients.

Xenobiotic metabolism. Xenobiotics are basically chemicals that are not really good for the body or foreign to the body. Foreign to life. Xenobiosis. Phytoestrogens, polyphenols, glycosides, so different chemicals can be metabolized more easily. Some of these chemicals if they’re not broken down more easily can result in the potential for colon cancer.

Production of short chain fatty acids. These are particular types of things that happen in our bowel. Short chain fatty acids are produced by bacterial fermentation in the colon, and we need them for really good health. And they’re also dependent on good bacteria. Weight management, mood management; help us live longer, so the list really goes on and on. So you can start seeing the picture now of how important it is that we have bacteria in the gut and why we need them to thrive.

I hope that gives you a little bit of an insight into the importance of the human microbiome. Thanks for tuning in.