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Greetings. It’s Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand, author of Candida Crusher and formulator of the Canxida range of dietary supplements. This video is going to be about dysbiosis again. It’s in the dysbiosis series. We’re going to talk about the ramifications or what will happen if you don’t treat dysbiosis. If you leave it untreated.

If you look back in history, a lot of famous people like Norman Walker and Bernie Jensen and even Kellogg, the guy who ended up creating – I think his brother ended up creating Kellogg’s Corn Flakes. These people were pioneers of natural health. These people were big believers that digestive health was everything. People with very good gut health had very good health in general. And you don’t need to be a brain surgeon to work out if you’ve got very, very good gut health you’re going to have very good health in general. Your overall health will be good. Your mental health. Your emotional health. Your immune health. Your endocrine or hormonal health. Your musculoskeletal health. Everything about you will be health. Your skin health. Everything will be health.

If you look at the flip side, if you’ve got a very bad gut function, nothing is going to work well in time. It’s like a building that’s crumbling slowly but surely because the foundation is not right, everything will fall apart. And that’s what happens to people with poor gut health. And how it happens is age catches up with them. They may be able to get away with poor gut health in their 20s, 30s, and 40s, but when you get to your mid-50s like me, 60s, and 70s, that’s when the cracks really start showing. That’s when you’re noticing you’re taking a half a dozen or up to a dozen different pharmaceutical pills from the doctor. That’s when you notice that you start getting weight issues and fatigue and insomnia, erectile dysfunction, all of these things occur.

Good health starts in the digestive system. That’s the key thing I want you to get out of this video. If you want to have outstanding health in your 70s and 80s, you need to cultivate the inner garden. You need to really understand that by getting the microbial balance right, by eating the right kind of foods, by having the right kind of lifestyle habits, you’re going to get very good digestive health. It doesn’t come per chance. It comes with hard work. It comes with commitment. The single most important thing you can do in your life to improve your health and well-being is to be committed to working on your health on a regular basis.

It’s like if you want to be a millionaire or build a massive business. It doesn’t happen per chance. If you talk to entrepreneurs who’ve really got a lot now, they’ll tell you that they had to work their backsides off to get where they are. And once they got where they are all they had to do is to maintain it and it looked after itself.

I wouldn’t consider my health to be outstanding, but I would consider it to be excellent. I’ve had to work to get it to this point, and now all I do is maintain it by eating good foods, going for walks every day, getting lots of sleep, drinking plenty of water, just the basic tenets of good health. There is no magic formula. There is nothing secret about it. It’s common bloody sense. And that’s what most of my videos are about, common sense.

So if you’re looking at this expecting me to give you some type of a magic ingredient or pill or something, there is nothing like that. It’s all common sense. But remember, common sense isn’t very common with a lot of people. They’re always expecting the latest or greatest diet book or a wonderful new pill that will just change their world. The things you need to do today to maintain good health are the things people needed to do 500 years ago to maintain good health, and they’re things people will do for another 1,000 years from now, unless we’ve all turned into robots by then.

If you don’t treat the gut and you let it go, it’s not going to be pleasant for you when you get to your 60s or 70s. You’re going to notice lots and lots of problems, and often then it’s too late to turn back the tide. Once you start getting diagnoses for bad polyps in the bowel and they start taking pieces out here and there and putting you on medications, it’s going to be quite difficult for you. The earlier you make the positive changes, the more benefit you’re going to reap over time. As a tree is bent, so shall it grow? If the tree is trained to grow nice and straight, when that tree is a majestic 100-year-old oak, it’s going to be in great shape. It’s the same with a human being. That’s why I’ve always been a big fan of getting my four kids to eat really good food, and it’s paid off now that they’re adults. It’s the same with you. It’s never too late to start. Even if you are 60 and you’ve got digestive problems, you can still turn things around. It all depends on your level of commitment.

So I hope this video has been a bit of a challenge for you and a bit of an eye opener. No matter how old you are, what job you’ve got, what level of income you’ve got, you can always improve your health, and it starts with the bowel first. Work with your digestive health. Eat the right kind of foods. Get rid of stress out of your life as much as you can, and particularly, get rid of dysfunctional relationships around you as much as you can. That’s a big step in the right direction.

Greetings. It’s Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand and author of Candida Crusher and formulator of the Canxida dietary supplement range. Thanks for checking out my video.

We’ve been talking about dysbiosis. Let’s just go a bit further and look at what the signs and symptoms of dysbiosis are. There are many different kinds of signs and symptoms you can develop as a result of having an imbalanced gut flora.

If we look at the more obvious ones, they’re conditions that a lot of people have. Lots of patients in the clinic will complain to me of gas, lots of farting and bloating. Pain. Because when you’ve got what we call incarcerated flatulence or gas trapped inside, it can push on different parts of nerves internally causing a bit of sharp pain here or there. So key areas that you want to look at for gut dysbiosis. You’ll often find a bit of pain here or up here. You can get pockets of gas along the top of the bowel and down the side here.

When you go to bed at night and you lie down, you might pass wind. That’s quite common for healthy people. But when you’re standing upright and passing wind when you’re walking, you’ve way too much gas production. You shouldn’t be farting throughout the day. Some patients fart all the time. They’ve got way too much gas production. That means that they’re fermenting. They’ve got bad bacteria inside their gut. Healthy people pass a small amount of gas by default. People with gut dysbiosis can pass huge amounts of gas. Lots and lots of gas and bloating signify gut dysbiosis. It’s one of the common things that you’ll find.

Some people can develop nausea, a mild nausea, or a sensation of being sick as well. Some people also can get more upper digestive problems, which can mean heartburn or reflux or having a disordered appetite. Other people will tend to get lower abdominal issues, including constipation and diarrhea or IBS, irritable bowel syndrome. IBS almost always has gut dysbiosis. Constipation in many cases has gut dysbiosis. If you’ve been away to say the Caribbean or Bali and places like that and you picked up some type of a parasite, gut dysbiosis. If you’ve got inflammatory bowel disease, gut dysbiosis. It goes a long with a whole bunch of different kinds of diseases.

However, the subtle and less obvious signs of gut dysbiosis can also be fatigue or just a low lingering tiredness. Brain fog is what I commonly see with gut dysbiosis as a symptom. Now why did brain fog occur? If you think about it, the healthy bacteria, which are probably lagging in numbers, are not really there sufficiently to produce B vitamins, folate, and Vitamin K. These bacteria are also not there to produce the right kinds of antibiotic like substances like acidophilus that help to counter parasites and yeast in the bowel. These bugs will start taking the upper hand. And they can dig in and they can sit there in these biofilm colonies and play a lot of havoc with you. And they can also produce different types of gases like cadaverine and skatols and indols, these things can get into the bloodstream and create a lot of problems in the head. They can make you feel dull and tired. They can switch off cognitive function. You can’t think properly. You’re forgetting names. You’re getting confused easily. You think you’re stoned all the time. It doesn’t have to be necessarily a die off reaction; it can be bad bacteria.

Many times when I get a person’s gut in great health, all of these cognitive dysfunctions disappear. Their mood improves. Their sleep improves. Their energy improves. We call the gut the second brain, so now you can understand why if you want to be a smart person with an upbeat mood; you need to get your gut in great condition. Big link. And it will all come out in the future on how incredibly massive the link is between how we feel, think and how our gut really is.

But it goes further. If we haven’t got sufficient beneficial bacteria in our gut, we can also have more inflammation. We can have aches and pains in the body, muscle pain, joint pain. We’re certainly going to have a poor immune function because it’s estimated that 65% plus of our immunity resides in the first three inches of our small intestine. If we’ve got very poor levels of beneficials and dysbiosis, it stands to reason we’re going to have a higher incidence of acute infectious disease. We’re going to have more allergies and hypersensitivity. We’re more prone to autoimmune disease. Take your pick; there are about 170 autoimmune diseases. And if we keep getting a disordered gut, we can end up with cancer. And many experts now around the world believe that many cancers originate in dysbiosis, endotoxins.

This video could go on for half an hour. There are so many other signs and symptoms, subtle and obvious ones, of dysbiosis. But I think I’ve painted a reasonable picture for you. So if you’re gut’s playing up, it could well be linked with a lot of the issues that you’re facing right now. So let’s do something about it. Check out my Candida Crusher program and take a look at my Canxida range of dietary supplements because they were targeted for people just like you to get rid of this gut dysbiosis and to get you on the path of good health again.

Greetings. It’s Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand, author of Candida Crusher and formulator of the Canxida range of dietary supplements. Thanks for checking out my video. Today we’re going to talk about the causes of gut dysbiosis.

You may have seen my video on what is gut dysbiosis and now we’re going to actually drill down into some of the reasons why people develop this condition that’s so common in the western world. I can safely say that well over half, if not three quarters, of my patients today have some form of gut dysbiosis. What causes this condition? What makes us develop symptoms like bloating, gas, farting, burping, and needing to take Rolaids or these proton-pump inhibitor drugs to soothe this sort of burning tummy? Stuff to stop us from feeling bad in the gut. Stuff to stop us from having constipation. All these sorts of things are often linked up with gut dysbiosis. Let’s just go over a couple of different reasons why this condition can come about. What causes it?

Pharmaceutical drugs are a really big one. There are many different classes of pharmaceutical drugs that can cause gut dysbiosis. In fact, I would go as far as to say most drugs to some degree cause gut dysbiosis. If we look at some of the most commonly prescribed pharmaceutical medications today, nearly all of them are implicated in causing a disordered gut flora, leading to gut dysbiosis.

Proton-pump inhibitor drugs. If we look at some drugs like Nexium, $6.2 billion US sales in 2014. That’s a phenomenal amount of money spent; $9.4 billion US spent in total last year on drugs to stop reflux, heartburn, and GERD, gastroesophageal reflux disease. How stupid is that? Why would you take a drug to stop acidity in the stomach? It’s a dumb thing to do. We need good levels of hydrochloric acid to break down proteins, fats, carbs, and things like that. If we break food down properly, we’re going to be able to digest it, absorb it, and excrete the waste properly. If we’re going to screw up our stomach with taking drugs to stop heartburn, we’re stupid enough to not look at the cause; we’re going to get a lot of problems as a result.

If you’re a person watching this who is taking some kind of a pill or liquid or something like that to stop heartburn, try to find out what the cause of this heartburn is. It makes a lot of sense, doesn’t it? Because if not, you’re going to get a lot of problems downstream. Things occurring further down. If you can’t break protein down properly, you’re going to get putrefaction further down here, which is going to cause bloating, gas, pain, headaches, tiredness, and aching everywhere, so it’s not a good idea to do that at all. PPIs or these sorts of drugs like Nexium are not good. They’re certainly linked up with this condition called dysbiosis.

Antibiotics are very, very powerful drugs that are one of the main drugs that cause gut dysbiosis because they’re non-selective, and they kill lots of beneficial bacterial, as well as pathogenic bacteria. There are two ways that antibiotics work. They can rupture the beta lactam ring or the cell wall of the membrane of the bacteria allowing your immune system to get in there, or they can disrupt protein synthesis, or if they interfere with what we call ribosomes in the bacterial cell, stopping the cell from actually forming. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out if you’re going to mess around with cells like this at that kind of level; you’re also going to mess around with a lot of beneficial bacteria as well. And you’re going to promote the production of a lot of yeast in the body and other kinds of bugs like clostridium. You’re going to encourage Blastocystis and other parasites in your gut. Taking antibiotics for different conditions, you’re on a course basically for disaster down the track. Taking them routinely is just crazy. It’s going to lead to all sorts of diseases.

There are many other pharmaceuticals implicated with dysbiosis. I haven’t got time in this video to cover all of them.

Another key one that I would see would be NSAIDs or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, Ibuprofen or Advil, paracetamol. What’s another one, aspirin, diclofenac? All these drugs are non-steroidal, so they’re not really steroidal based, but they’ll ruin your gut. They cause dysbiosis. They destroy gastric health. They switch off pain, but at a huge cost to you.
Again, why would you want to take these drugs long term because you’re undermining your health? If you take pharmaceuticals routinely, you will get gut dysbiosis. There has got to be another way. Talk to your health care professional on other ways you can look at.

Stress. Stress has got an incredible way of causing gut dysbiosis long term, and there are several mechanisms by which stress operates to achieve this. One key thing that happens in the alarm phase or the acute phase of stress is it starts to reduce the blood supply to the digestive organs, favoring the blood to go to the larger muscles so you can run away from dinosaurs, the boss, your mother in law, or whatever threat is hanging over your head. Stress has another ability in different stages of the stress cycle to actually reduce the output of digestive enzymes, to inhibit peristalsis or the movement of feces through the digestive system, so it increases the likelihood of constipation, it increases the likelihood of bloating and gas, all of these things occur because of stress.

Not chewing food properly and eating it too quick is a key thing I see in my clinic. If you’re sitting there with your mobile phone liking somebody on Facebook while you’re eating a burger, you’re going to get dysbiosis. Get rid of these bloody electronic devices out of your life when you’re eating food. Don’t associate eating and technology. It’s a big mistake that a lot of people make today. Chewing food properly, taking your time to eat food, slowing down. Do what your grandparents did. Spend time eating. Not looking at Twitter, Facebook, or junk like that. I haven’t got time again in this video to go over a lot of the ramifications or effects of stress, but needless to say, if you’ve got stress, you’ll get dysbiosis.

Diet. This could be a half an hour video in its own right. There are multiple ways that diet increases your likelihood of dysbiosis. A lot of people today eat a highly processed diet. In fact, statistics show that people in England, for example, up to 30 percent of people don’t even eat fruit or vegetables anymore. It’s incredible. People eat so many different kinds of processed foods in their diet now in America, Australia, and New Zealand. I’ve got patients now in about 40 countries on Skype and face time, and it’s incredible how many people now all around the world in different countries are just eating a highly processed diet.

The patients I’ve got, however, that are older that grew up more with mom and dad cooking proper food, that come from backgrounds of cultivating vegetables and fruits and chickens and bees and things like that, which is my background. Which is why that’s the kind of lifestyle I like to lead. But those people tend to have better quality diets that lead to a lesser likelihood of dysbiosis. The fresher the diet, the cleaner and greener the diet, the cleaner and greener the gut. If you base your diet around diet Coke and burgers, you’re going to have bad dysbiosis. I encourage you to eat a good healthy food, to avoid soda drinks. I believe alcohol is not really a good part of health. But if you want to drink alcohol, that’s up to you. But I don’t see it playing much role in human health. Sugars, yeasty foods, processed foods, and refined carbohydrates in particular, they’re going to cause dysbiosis.

Those are three core things that are going to increase your likelihood of dysbiosis: pharmaceutical drugs, stress, and the kind of foods you eat. Have a think about those things. Thanks for tuning into my video today.