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Greetings, it’s Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand and author of Candida Crusher, formulator of the Canxida dietary supplements. Thank you so much for checking out my video today. Today, we’re going to continue on with dysbiosis, but we’re going to talk about the most effective, natural treatment for dysbiosis. What can you do to nail this thing? How can you get your digestive system in really nice condition? How can you overcome these awful signs and symptoms of inconsistent bowel motions, bloating, gas, bad breath, Candida, SIBO, parasites? All these things contribute; they all form one big terrible awful situation that so many of my clients continue to consult with me from all over the world.

So let’s give you some really good information in this video today on how you can finally get rid of dysbiosis. This is based on 27 years of clinical practice. I’ve treated now in excess of 30,000 patients in my clinic with all kinds of different diseases relating to immune dysfunction, thyroid and adrenal dysfunction, gut dysfunction, parasites, autoimmune diseases, the list goes on and on and on. I can tell you now most people I see need to get a digestive overall. They need their gut fixed up. There’s no doubt about it. A lot of it’s got to do with the kind of lifestyles and diets that my patients have.

We live in the 21st Century. We live in a very stressful time when people haven’t got time to do a lot anymore. We were told that technology was going to solve all our problems and free up our time, but in fact, it hasn’t done that. It’s made us more hurried, worried, and stressed than ever before, so a lot of this contributes to our gut dysfunction. What are some basic things we can do to really get this condition sorted?

If you saw my video before about the causes of gut dysbiosis, we spoke about pharmaceutical drugs, we spoke about stress, and we spoke about diet. Those are three core things; so obviously, intelligent people when it comes to treatment need to tackle causes. So go back and look at that video on the causes of dysbiosis. If you’re a slave to a pharmaceutical medicine long term, you’re crazy because you’ll never get rid of dysbiosis. Any more than if you’re a person who’s got massive debt on a property and doesn’t want to pay it back or you’ll be a slave to that forever. You’ve got to understand that drugs are going to ruin your health and cause an early mortality if you stay a slave to them. So try to work out why you’re taking this drug and fix up the cause so you don’t need to take it. That’s rule number one.

If you’re taking a pharmaceutical, maybe a headache pill here or there, I’m not so worried. But if you’re taking a drug every day to block acid production or a drug every day for acne treatment, an antibiotic, or some kind of arthritis pill long term, you’re watching this, and you want to get your gut right, you’ve got to get off these drugs. If you can’t do that, then this is where the video stops and then you go and watch something else because we’re not really going to get anywhere with you. But if you’re committed and I take it you are or you wouldn’t be watching this now and you want to come right, go and see a health care professional about how you can get off that stuff.

For example, if we look at the drug Nexium for blocking stomach acid production. In North America in 2014, there were 6.2 billion US$ in sales. That’s a hell of a lot of people with gut reflux and you can’t tell me that all of those people have developed it for no darn reason. A lot of those people have been drinking beer and eating pizzas, eating crappy food, living high stress lifestyles, and not sleeping enough, this is part of the equation. I think you get the picture. So pharmaceutical drugs, if you’re on those, you need to get off them if you want to get a result.

The other big thing is stress, of course, the lifestyle. If you want to get a good result, you need to really understand that you need to make some changes with how you’re living. You maybe need to organize your time a bit better, the work/play balance. Try to understand that if you’re leading a very stressful and a hurried life, that you’ll probably never get a really good digestive system. The gut is very much affected by stress on multiple levels.

I did a video previously that you might want to look at about the causes. I talk about stress and the gut and how that actually affects it. Lots of women, for example, with young children find it hard to eat their meals themselves. They’ll eat very quickly while they’re with the kids. Lots of guys and women who work in corporate life drink too much coffee during the day and too much booze at night. They’re on their electronic devices all day and then they’re on electronic devices all night. It’s not very conducive for good health when you’ve got a diet that’s completely out of kilter, and there is little time for downplay. All work and no play – you know the rest, it makes Jack and Jill dull people, so you need to really understand that work/life balance is the key thing here. If we can’t get you to chill more, relax more, enjoy life more, we’re not going to get a result with dysbiosis. That’s number two.

Number three – the diet. You really have to eat the right kind of foods to get on top of dysbiosis. Needless to say, drinking diet Coke and having burgers and fries and takeaway food is not going to give you the outcomes you desire. I’m always recommending a really healthy whole foods natural diet for people full of plant-based fibers, fresh healthy foods with brightly colored foods, high quality proteins. I prefer not to drink any alcohol myself or have any fizzy drinks or things like that, any cola drinks. I like drinking green tea. I also have one cup usually of black tea per day, but the rest of the day, I drink a pot of green tea. If you want to have nice skin, drink green tea. If you want to have a good digestive system, if you want to have an outstanding digestive system, avoid alcohol for three months. Come back and talk to me and I think you’ll find you’ll agree with me that even drinking one beer or one wine a week will have a significant impact on your gut. If you’re serious about health, you need to make some serious changes.

One of my good mentors, Dr. James Wilson, used to say to me he told his patients “Take your health seriously or take it somewhere else.” So if you’re serious about health, why the hell would you want to wait until the doctors told you that you’ve got a tumor or cancer before you make those changes that you need to be making right now? You can still have fun, but you don’t have to be drinking booze to have fun, remember that. Always look for the most destructive habits in your life when it comes to eating and drinking and make those changes now. Don’t wait until you get the diagnosis.

What about natural treatment? This is part of the reason why I designed Canxida, the Canxida dietary supplements. And I did that because after many, many years of clinical practice, I found that using all kinds of different herbal medicines and nutritional medicines and homeopathic medicines and even allopathic medicines, I’ve used everything in my clinic. I worked in medical clinics for 15 years on and off. So after prescribing every kind of thing I could find on the internet and through companies, I decided to make my own products. And I did that for a very good reason because I wanted to give patients what I thought were the very best kind of products to make. And that’s why I developed Canxida.

The first product I made was called Canxida Remove, and I think it’s the best antifungal, anti-parasitic, antibacterial you’re going to find anywhere. And I’m not saying that lightly. I believe it’s the best in terms of the raw materials I’ve used, the formulation, and the proprietary method of how I put this together in a slow release form. So if it’s not the best product you’ve ever used for gut dysfunction, you need to email me and let me know why. And if it’s not working for you, then it’s because you’re not working for it. You’re doing something wrong.

You can’t have a can of diet Coke and then take a pill. You can’t stay up until 3 o’clock in the morning liking people on Facebook and then taking a pill. You’ve got to get the balance right. You’ve got to get the sleep improved. You’ve got to get the diet improved, and the supplements are the icing on the cake. That’s what I want you to think; they’re the icing on the cake. So when you do everything right and you take a very high quality product, you don’t need a whole bunch of stuff. You don’t need it. Thousands of patients from around the world now have sent me incredibly good feedback on Canxida Remove, so I know this product works, and I’m sure it will work for you, too.

The second product I made is called Canxida Restore. And again, what I did, how I usually make products is I have a look at everything on the market. I put them on a spreadsheet. I pull them apart and I start realizing the strengths and weaknesses of different things, and then I put my own slant on it. Canxida Restore is the finest probiotic enzymatic formula you’re going to find on the market. It’s also in a proprietary release formula. It’s in a very special capsule that’s slow release, and it’s going to work very, very effectively. It’s a perfect companion to the Canxida Remove. Apart from that, I’m working on a very special multivitamin right now with an antifungal back base, so that’s going to be perfect for people with any kind of digestive problem or even just someone like me that’s healthy who wants to avoid any kind of gut problem in the future. It’s perfect for travel. It’s just perfect for having at home. So it’s going to be the ideal multivitamin. Those three products are going to make up my Canxida system.

I’ve also have a cream that is being developed now, which hopefully will come out in the market within the next two months. It’s a cream that can be used for any kind of Candida problem, whether it’s a personal care problem for women or men, or just a skin irritation in general. So that’s my Canxida system I’ve developed. I believe they’re first-class natural medicines to use for these sort of conditions.

Just remember that when you’re treating gut dysbiosis and you want to get the best result, you need to look at a holistic treatment that embraces all sorts of aspects, i.e., eating, drinking, living, sleeping, stresses, it combines all of those factors. You can read more on yeastinfection.org. You can also go to ericbakker.com and have a look at the hundreds of articles I’ve written on there, and I hope that gets you on the right track. If you have any questions, you can email me, of course. Please go to my Candida Crusher YouTube channel, you’ll find now over 500 videos on that channel. I believe it’s probably the most comprehensive YouTube channel currently for gut health and Candida. And I’m going to keep on making these videos because I’m getting great feedback from you guys.

Thank you so much for taking the time to watch this video and I hope it’s given you some benefit. Thank you.

Greetings. It’s Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand and author of Candida Crusher. Thanks for checking out my video. Let’s look at the testing for dysbiosis today.

There are many different tests to determine if you’ve got dysbiosis and also what level you’ve got dysbiosis, like how good it is, how bad it is, how severe it is, so I like testing. Not because I test everybody, but testing with patients if they’re chronic and particularly if I haven’t seen them before will set a benchmark. It will give me an indication of where that patient really is, what their starting point is. It’s a bit like if you’re coming to me for weight loss. It pays to measure yourself and weigh yourself and then file that away and then dump your scales, get rid of them. I don’t like people weighing themselves every five minutes. And then let’s just have a look three or six months down the track to see what kind of changes have occurred. And it’s the same with testing. I’m not a big fan of testing all the time, but I like doing one good stool test upfront to give me a bit of a ballpark on where my patient is. It’s quite clever.

So what kind of tests can you do to determine if you’ve got dysbiosis? What’s a clever thing to do? My favorite test is the stool test. I’ve spoken about this on other videos before, but a CDSA x 3, including parasitology, comprehensive digestive stool analysis x 3, so it’s three samples, including parasites, is the gold standard for testing. These tests can vary between $300 and $500. They’re not cheap, but having crappy health long term is not cheap either. It’s going to wreck your life. You’re better off doing a really good test upfront and then getting an expert to go through the test results with you to give you an idea on what’s going on. I’m not an expert by any means. I’ve done stool testing now for 23 years. I think that I’ve got a reasonably good level of proficiency, but there are people out there that are way more expert than I am. But I’m certainly happy to interpret test results for you for a consultation fee. This is what I’ve done for a long time now. Stool tests give me a ton of information about your gut function, a ton. It’s like hooking up a modern car to a computer and analyzing the gases and the compression ratios and all these things. A good technician will get a printout and know exactly what’s happening with that car. And that’s why I like the stool test because I’ve gotten lots of very useful information. I can put it all together and come up with a very powerful protocol for dysbiosis or Candida or IBS or SIBO or whatever gut problem you’ve got.

Let’s have a look at dysbiosis and the stool test. What are we going to find? We’re often going to find low levels of beneficial bacteria. So a good stool panel will have the beneficials, the commensals, and the bad guys. Good people, bad people or ISIS, or telebomber if you want to call them, and I call them the politicians in the middle. Guys that will go either way depending on where the majority go. Not all politicians are like that. I’m not into politics. But from what I gather from politics, a political party can one day go left or one day go right depending on the majority.

I’m going to look in your stool test for three or four plus on the beneficial species. Many patients I see have got one plus and even NG, which is no growth. That is no good. You want to have lots of beneficial bacteria. If you’ve got lots of commensals or E.coli that have shifted from good into maybe not so good and low levels of beneficials, you’re going to have a likelihood of quite major SIBO on your hands and dysbiosis. The further we go down the panel, we start looking at Candida culture. Candida we look at with microscopy in the stool and also we culture the stool. If we can grow yeast from the stool, it’s bad. You shouldn’t pass out live yeast from the stool.

And then we go further. We look at another marker that I look at for SIGA or circulatory IgA. This is the body’s most abundant immunoglobulin or antibody. Your body makes up to a gram of this stuff per day in the bowel, mainly to bind with pathogens like parasites or bad cell fragments or all sorts of crap that wants to get out of the body. If you’ve got very high levels or it’s upregulated and very low levels if it’s downregulated, that gives me a lot of very important information on the kind of SIBO or dysbiosis you have.

I look at lysozyme, which is a marker for inflammation. I check mucous and red blood cells in the markers. There is a whole lot of stuff I can look at. I look at another panel at the back of the report we call short chain fatty acids, and these are a result of fermentation of beneficial bacteria. So if their levels are high or low, it tells me a lot about the colonic health. We can look at amylase or various kinds of enzymes in the stool to see how well the pancreas and other digestive organs are functioning. You can see, this is just giving you a snapshot of the complexity of the test and how much information we can get to determine where you are with your gut and how bad your dysbiosis may be.

What about the hydrogen breath test? This is another interesting test that will tell me a lot about you. They don’t do this one so much as they used to and it’s a shame because it’s a really good test. You drink this small amount lactulose, like a sugar, it’s not so bad for the gut. And then if you’ve got a lot of bacteria in your gut that will ferment this, you breathe into a tube, and we can measure a lot of hydrogen, we know you’ve got bad SIBO, small intestinal bowel overgrowth. We can also do an organic acids test. If you’ve got bad bacteria or Candida, for example, we’re going to find certain types of by-products of microbial metabolism, particularly things we call tartaric acid and arabinose. If they’re showing high amounts, we know you’ve got pretty bad Candida.

Leaky gut test is another test that they don’t do so much anymore. You drink two sugars, lactulose and mannitol, and then we can tell by what you urinate out how leaky your gut really is. There are tons of different tests we can do. But I think the stool test is about the best one you can do. It’s quite an interesting test and it’s one I would do all the time with patients from all around the world. It’s certainly the gold standard. I hope that’s given you a bit of information on testing.

Don’t expect your medical doctor to take you seriously when you talk often about SIBO or leaky gut or dysbiosis because they may just do a tiny little stool test for parasites and say, “Look, there’s nothing there.” Or they may even say to you something like, “If you’re not feeling good, we’ll put you on some antibiotics,” which is crazy. Because that’s only going to increase your amount of dysbiosis.

Functional testing to me is much more relevant if you want to determine the functional state of your gut than pathological testing that will purely look at parasites and diseases itself. And by then, it’s usually too late. You need to pick up stuff before then.

I hope that gives you a bit of useful information on testing for dysbiosis. Thanks for tuning in.

Greetings. It’s New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker, author of Candida Crusher. Thanks for checking out my video. We’re going to talk about testing for SIBO, so small intestinal bowel overgrowth. How do you test for it? How do you know you’ve actually got this bug?

If you know what the signs and symptoms are, you may identify with some of those that we’ve spoken about. But what are some of the medical tests we can do to determine the accuracy of our personal diagnosis? There are many tests you can do.

Breath tests have been used traditionally for some time now to measure hydrogen or methane gas that is produced by these bacteria inside. So if you breathe that out, we can measure that. But these are notoriously inaccurate, and I’ve actually given up on these tests now because I find many people, in fact, come back with false results. They can produce methane; they cannot produce methane. It’s not necessarily a 100% iron clad guarantee that they will have these bugs or even know exactly what bugs we’re dealing with.

A more accurate way to test for SIBO is a stool test. It’s a much more accurate way, and we take stool samples on three concurrent days. We can actually culture the stool and we do a microscopy, so we actually look at the stool through a microscope, and we can actually culture it in a lab in petri dishes to see what we can grow out of it. It’s a much more accurate way.

When you do these kinds of tests, you’re better off not having any pharmaceutical medications or dietary supplements that can influence the bowel, generally for about a week prior. I prefer it to work like that. And I usually let the patient eat what they feel like eating because that way we’re going to get a more true representation of what is really in the digestive system.

The first page I look at will be the bacterial panel to show me the beneficial, the commensal, and the dysbiotic, the three types of bacteria there. You should have high levels of all the healthy bacteria, the E.coli, the lactobacillus, the bifida bacteria. The various bacteria there should come back with 3 or 4 plus in a healthy stool in a stool test. Many people come back with very low levels. Enterococcus and other species I see. There are many species. We shouldn’t really see any dysbiotic bacteria. We shouldn’t be able to culture any bad ones, but with SIBO, we often culture multiple species of bad ones.

The next thing I look at will be the immunoglobulin circulatory IgA, and that should be at a healthy level. And we often see that at rock bottom levels with people with SIBO. If we want to look further, we can look at many other pages on the stool report to determine many other factors. This video is not really about stool testing, but it’s about testing for SIBO.

What you want to do also is clearly understand that many people with chronic Candida actually have chronic SIBO and Candida in combination. They have both of these infections combined, and that’s a real problem with some people. Particularly people who’ve had antibiotics recurrently. This is what I commonly find. Antibiotics will actually allow Candida to thrive and also kill off the beneficials and allow the dysbiotic bacteria to come back again along with the Candida, so they’ll have a whole mismatch of different types of bugs in their system.

The worst-case scenario when we do stool testing is multiple Candida species, low beneficial bacteria cultured, and high amounts of dysbiotic bacteria. Those are truly difficult cases to work with, and it’s taken me years of experience to work out how to deal with these patients. One of the reasons why I developed my own range of Canxida products to deal with these types of patients.

I’m going to do some videos shortly on why I don’t agree with prebiotics as part of dietary supplements. In fact, I was just listening to a very interesting podcast from Dr. Siebecker, the SIBO specialist in America, who agrees with me that prebiotics are not a good idea to add in with probiotics. And when I developed Canxida Restore, I purposely left inulin, FOS, and these other sugars out unlike other brands like Syntol, ThreeLac, Floracor-GI, all these products; they actually put prebiotics in. I’ve given up using those products now because I’ve just found that people with SIBO react too much to these products.

Just be careful what you’re taking. If you’ve got SIBO, avoid prebiotics. But testing, have a good think about it. Do my Candida quiz. That might give you an idea on Candida and dysbiosis in general. Generally, you don’t need to do a test to determine if you’ve got SIBO. A good idea for you is to take a good antifungal product to see what happens. That will be a good step in the right direction. If you start getting improvement, you know that you will have wiped out some bad bacteria.

You can do the methane or the hydrogen breath test if you want. But if you come back with negative, it’s not necessarily positive that you’ve got no bugs. I think the best way is to treat. If you’ve got the gut feeling you’ve got SIBO, just treat it. Take a good antifungal like my Canxida Remove product. Just take that for a week or two and you’ll soon know if you’ve got SIBO or not.

I hope this video was of some use to you today. Thanks for tuning in.