Category: Candida Crusher FAQ Videos

Thanks for checking out my video today. I’ve got an email here from a lady called Donna in Connecticut. I think that’s in America. If I’m correct, it’s on the east coast. Donna is saying here, I just had an ultrasound done on my gall bladder and liver and found out there’s something wrong with my gall bladder. Eric, I have fatty liver. Can you help me? Can Candida cause any of this? Is there something natural that I can do instead of having surgery to the gall bladder?

That’s an interesting question. Let’s have a look at this. There’s quite a few topics here. We could do literally 10 videos just on this one email here. What Donna is saying basically is there’s some issues with gall bladder and liver. Fatty liver is very common. Lots of people have fatty liver. In fact, in America, Australia and New Zealand and most western countries, I would say over half the population have some degree of fatty liver. This doesn’t necessarily come from drinking lots of alcohol all the time. You can get fatty liver from carbos, from eating bread, would you believe it, and sugar. There are lots of foods that can cause fatty liver. Eating too many Omega 6 in comparison to Omega 3, rancid fats, too many saturated fats in the diet, having a poor functioning stomach and pancreas are very common ways to develop a fatty liver even faster. Because if you can’t break fat down, it’s going to be much harder on your liver to deal with fat.

Your gall bladder stores about a pint, about 600 mils of bile, during the day. The liver makes bile and stores it in the gall bladder. The purpose of bile is basically to get rid of rubbish, spent blood cells and all sorts of rubbish, hormonal residues. All sorts of crap the body doesn’t want it will actually help to shunt into the bile canaliculi. It will get rid of a lot of waste products. The bile serves a very useful purpose to breakdown and emulsify fats in the body. It’s a very important organ to have.

I don’t recommend people get their gall bladder removed at all, and it’s not necessary in most cases. Cholecystectomies are performed by the tens of thousands in America every year, removing the gall bladder, and gall bladder operations are far too common. And in many cases, they’re performed needlessly without any real need for the gall bladder to come out.

Often when patients complain of digestive pain, the doctors are going to think about appendix problems or gall bladder problems. They’re very convenient little areas for the surgeons to get in and to pull these organs out on the laparoscopy. But in most cases, the problem is not resolved. That’s my opinion.

I’ve seen thousands of women over the years that have had gall bladders removed and have come back and told me that they’ve still got the same problems. It didn’t help. In fact, they got fatter. They put on more weight. They ended up having lots of different problems. You need to have good bile production and bile storage, in my opinion, also to be able to utilize the fat-soluble vitamins more effectively.

What can I do for fatty liver? To start with, you can really look at eating foods that are friendly to the liver, and these are the bitter foods. The liver loves bitter foods. You may have heard of Swedish bitters. Bitters are very important because they help to generate the production of more acids and enzymes in the body. They help to stimulate bile flow. The gall bladder doesn’t like sweet foods. It likes bitter foods. Sweet foods can lead and contribute to elevated triglycerides and also to gall bladder dysfunction and fatty liver.

Get a liver function test done by your doctor, an LFT, and look for alkaline phosphatase, ALT, AST, and GGT. These are various liver enzymes which will give you an idea if your liver is fatty or not. The ranges generally vary on these, but you can look at around 0 to 40 depending on the country you live in and the reference range. I think the alkaline phosphatase is up to 200. If you’ve got a higher end of the reference range or over, this could mean fatty liver. Fatty liver is very common. You’d be surprised how many people have it. And a good way also for you to assess your liver, Donna, to see if it’s painful or engorged is I’ll just stand up and give you a demonstration.

Your liver is obviously on the right side, so I’ve got my rib cage here. Just get four fingers like the blade, breathe in, breathe out, and then push hard up underneath this whole edge here. The top of the liver is here and it goes right through to here. By pushing underneath here, if you’ve got any pain in there or it’s very tender to touch, that could mean you’ve got a bit of an enlargement of the liver. It’s something again, I commonly see when I palpate patients is there will be pain there. Look at the stool. Lots of problems there with constipation or diarrhea can also be a prelude to fatty liver. The blood test is quite important to do. But if in doubt, get the doctor to check out the liver region.

There is certainly a connection with Candida and liver. Patients who’ve got major Candida problems often end up with a lot of bowel disorders and also congestive liver. The liver contains many different cells in it that help to filter the blood and clean it. There are these cells called kupffer cells which are liver cells. And the liver will often become burdened to a very high degree when the person gets quite toxic in terms of their diet and their lifestyle. The Candida metabolites or the by-products of Candida as it dies and bacteria and dead cells and pollens and viruses and all these things clog up the bloodstream, so the liver has to filter these things out. People with toxic bowels, lots of bloating and gas, are much more prone to having fatty liver than people with clean living. We don’t drink alcohol or eat a lot of sweet foods.

Coming back to the foods. Bitter foods are what the liver likes to have. When I think of bitter foods, I think about lemon, olive, olive leaf, olive oil, quite good.

Artichokes are good. Carrots are good to have. Anything that tastes bitter in the mouth. Chinese vegetables. Endive. Rocket. Salad. These are the sort of things that you really want to focus on with liver cleansing. And you want to avoid the junk foods in your diet, alcohols, soda drinks and these sorts of things. They’re going to contribute to liver congestion and ultimately fatty liver.

Low-grade nausea, sickness, bad taste in the mouth, headaches in the morning, feeling very tired, very emotional, very angry, these are all signs that you could have a fatty liver. You don’t need to get the gall bladder out. I’ll do some other videos on the liver and particularly the gall bladder flush on how to clean the gall bladder out because it’s one organ that can be cleansed in the body effectively. You need to take care when you’re going to do a gall bladder flush, but I can show you specific ways to achieve this and to get a very, very nice outcome to prevent you getting your gall bladder out.

Focus on the bitter foods. Kick the sugar. Kick the sweet and processed foods. I just actually shared a post on Facebook where they found out the processed foods now are absolutely linked to autoimmune diseases. Foods that are packaged and processed in boxes and this sort of rubbish from the supermarket. Fresh foods are always going to keep the gut and the liver clean. This is what you want to focus on.

I’ve written extensively about this in Candida Crusher in the section called the MEVY Diet. I’ve written hundreds of pages on diet and nutrition. You can read that on yeastinfection.org or you can purchase my book and you can read up to 700 pages of information on how to keep your health in top shape and how to get rid of Candida and avoid getting it in the future.

I hope that gives you a bit of insight into fatty liver and gall bladder, Donna. Thanks for your email.

The question today is, is molybdenum any good for Candida? There’s debate about that. Some people say “yes.” Some people say “no.” I used molybdenum a few years ago clinically on many different Candida patients and found no benefit at all. Other patients have reported significant benefit. It really depends, I believe, on the level of die off or how Candida toxins are produced in the body, how many occur, and how the body’s own system deals with those toxins.

To understand acetaldehyde, for example, is an important part of the molybdenum equation. Acetaldehyde is something that Candida toxins can’t produce. We can also find it as a by-product from alcohol consumption. Acetaldehyde is actually also found in some types of fruits, in bread, for example, in coffee it’s found. It’s a compound that can be naturally occurring or produced by the body as a consequence of ethanol. If you drink ethanol or basically alcohol, there is an enzyme in the liver called alcohol dehydrogenase that helps to break acetaldehyde down. But in some people, there’s a real problem. They have way too much acetaldehyde production in the body and that can contribute to the hangover or the drunk feeling that can hang around. Other people experience it in sore muscles or sore joints, for example, as a common occurrence.

Molybdenum can help to basically play an important part in the cycle. It can get a hold of acetaldehyde and break it down to acetic acid, and that’s very important. If you can bust something down into a smaller compound and acetic acid again forms part of an energy cycle in the body. It converts to acetyl enzyme, CoA, which helps to provide energy in the body.

Molybdenum, a few milligrams per day, is often lacking in people’s diets. You can take it as a dietary supplement. It’s pretty hard sometimes to find in different foods. But I have my doubts whether everybody with a yeast infection should take molybdenum to help break down some of the by-products of Candida. You’re really better off getting the liver to work effectively by taking in the right kind of foods and herbs to achieve this end. And also reducing the amount of antifungal product you take, so you don’t get massive die off in the body occurring.

Because the big mistake a lot of people make, they take too much antifungal and get a massive amount of death occurring with the yeast cells. If they do it slowly and methodically, it’s going to be much easier for the body to process and, therefore, a heck of a lot less chance of die off.

People who sell these supplements claim that everybody has die off, which is a load of crap, because not everybody has die off. Thousands of patients I’ve treated with Candida who’ve experienced severe die off have almost always told me that they made major diet changes and took lots of antifungals and lots of probiotics all within a matter of a week or so. Of course, you’re going to experience severe die off when you do silly things like that. If you do it methodically and slowly and carefully as I’ve outlined in my book, Candida Crusher, it’s not going to happen.

If you do want to go like a bull at a gate and like hard on into a Candida kill, molybdenum may be a benefit for you. But for the majority of people, it won’t be required. Molybdenum should be part of a multivitamin that you take every day just like cobalt, copper, selenium, zinc, all those other essential trace elements that are lacking in people’s diets. Manganese plays a vital role in Candida, biotin, zinc; there are so many elements that to single one out and say this is the silver bullet. This is the nirvana of Candida treatment is not really the right thing to do. Don’t fall for the line that molybdenum is going to make you feel loads better because in a lot of cases, it won’t do that. That gives you a bit of an understanding on molybdenum’s role in Candida toxin metabolism.

I hope this video is of use for you today. Thank you.

Thank you for checking out this video. I’m going to talk about fiber today. What are some of the best fiber supplements to take with Candida? I’m not so much going to talk about supplements. I want to talk more about foods. If you clicked on this thinking, “Ah-hah. I can take supplements with Candida.” I’m glad you’re watching because I’m going to talk about food when it comes to fiber. I think it’s more important that you eat the right kind of foods that contain the right kind of fibers if you really want to get the bowel functioning properly and get good intestinal microflora happening.

I’m just going to read a little bit from my book, Candida Crusher. This is actually around page 200 or 300. It’s in the Introduction to Healthy Eating section. Interesting thing with fiber before I begin is to let you know that people in developed countries probably eat between 20 to 30 grams per day maybe. If you go to underdeveloped countries, people eat 100 grams, 150 grams plus. They have lots of small bowel motions. They don’t have sinking motions. They have motions that float that are very fibrous. Bowel cancer is unheard of in the underdeveloped countries.

I spoke with an Irish doctor friend of mine who practiced in Africa for many years, for about 20 years, and then moved to Dublin to practice. He said, “You never saw bowel cancer in a lot of these African countries but saw plenty of it back home.” And he put the lack of bowel cancer in the underdeveloped nations to a high fiber diet. Dr. Alan Gabe, a past American president of the Holistic Medical Association, has got an interesting saying, “Small stools, big hospitals. Big stools, small hospitals.” Think about it.

You want to eat less, lose weight, feel full and improve your bowel tone, then eat more soluble fiber. These foods include pears, oranges, strawberries, kiwi fruit, carrots, psyllium hulls, slippery elm bark powder, lentils, rolled oats and cucumber. Soluble fiber fills you up and it swells in your tummy due to its ability to hold water. It makes you feel full and thereby eat less.

Before you start yelling at me saying, “But I can’t have oranges and I can’t have pears and I can’t have this and I can’t have that,” go back and listen to what I just said of the list. There will be foods you can have in that. As your gut improves and Candida becomes less, you’ll be able to eat that whole list of foods. In small amounts, but you will be able to eat them to a degree.

Soluble fiber is very important because it also provides a very good beneficial food for good bacteria to thrive on in the gut. More beneficial bacteria, less of the bad bacteria and less Candida. The bad bacteria will tend to outnumber Candida and the beneficial bacteria far outnumber the bad ones. These soluble foods are good to eat to increase good bowel tone. You can probably add papaya to that as well. Papaya and kiwi fruit and particularly Jerusalem artichokes are very good sources of prebiotic fibers.

You want to bulk up your bowel motions or perhaps clean out that lazy bowel. Maybe you’re going to have a bowel motion every two days like a lot of people. We had a patient a few days ago that has one every 14 days a bowel motion, but her doctor said it’s fine because it’s what she normally does. If you want to clean out the lazy bowel, include insoluble fiber into your diet. These foods include brown rice, onions, leafy green vegetables like broccoli, spinach, celery, bulgur, cracked wheat, chia seeds, various nuts and seeds, and whole grains. The insoluble fibers contain fibers that bulk the stool up. Remember, big stools, small hospitals. Small stools, big hospitals. You’ll remember that by the end of this video.

You want to reduce the amount of gas and bloating you have and feed up the good bacteria you’ve got. Now we’re going to talk more about foods that really help to feed the beneficial bacteria in particular. I recommend you consume a combination of fermented and cultured foods, as well as foods which contain prebiotics. Basically, these are beneficial sugars, which feed the friendly bacteria. The prebiotic feeds the probiotic. These foods include Jerusalem artichokes, artichokes, garlic, onions, shallots, scallions and spring onions. These foods also contain a lot of sulphur which helps to cleanse and purify the body. That whole allium family is fantastic to eat if you’ve got Candida. Garlic, onions, shallots, chives, spring onions. Try to eat some of those cooked and also raw every day, and that will significantly help to cut down on gas and also feed up the good bugs. Jerusalem artichokes contain a lot of inulin. Inulin is one of the best of the healthy sugars to feed up the lactobacillus species. Try to get some Jerusalem artichokes. It’s going to save you a ton of money because you won’t need to buy handfuls of these probiotics all the time.

Probiotics are useful, but try to get your prebiotics from food. I’m developing a probiotic product right now, but I will never include prebiotics in there. I think it’s a load of crap to put prebiotics in a capsule. I think you should get this from your diet. Not from a capsule. It makes a lot of sense. The small amount you put in a capsule is not really going to be a benefit. You need to get this from your food.

By eating the right kind of fibers in your diet, it’s going to really provide you a lot of good health. It’s going to improve the bowel tone. It’s going to improve the beneficial bacteria, which will crowd out the Candida. It’s going to stop bloating and gas. It’s going to give you the ability to pass good bowel motions every day and that’s very important.

I’ll leave you with one more thing. Small stools, big hospitals. Big stools, small hospitals.

Thanks for tuning in.