Category: Candida Crusher FAQ Videos

Thanks for checking out my video. I’m going to talk about zinc and Candida today. Zinc deficiency is very common with a lot of patients with recurring yeast infections. In fact, I read an interesting article recently online, a 1996 Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, a U.S. journal. They found that most women with recurring vaginal yeast infections had a zinc deficiency.

What I started to do years ago is started to test a lot of patients through a zinc taste test and found the same thing. In fact, most all patients with chronic and recurring yeast infections were deficient in zinc. Zinc is one of the most important minerals when it comes to your immune system. It’s also critical for actually making the correct amount of stomach acid. And most people my age and over have got a deficiency in stomach acid and oftentimes they’ll need more zinc. Zinc allows the body to produce hydrochloric acid.

For that reason alone, I recommend that you take zinc every day as part of your multivitamin or as a supplement in its own right. Particularly experiment with about 20 or 30 mg per day to see what happens. What you’ll find is many times your sense of smell will improve. Your skin will improve. Your hair and skin will improve, but particularly, your immune system will improve. Coughs and flus go away. You don’t get colds anymore. Lots and lots of people have zinc deficiencies contributing to immune dysfunction.

One of the ultimate ways to power the immune system up is to make sure you’ve got adequate selenium in the body, zinc, iodine and Vitamin D. Those four in particular have a potent effect on many different aspects of cell mediated and humeral immunity. Zinc is particularly important also for breaking proteins down and forming good muscle tissue in the body. It’s vital for good neuro health, good brain function. It plays so many different roles in the body that I believe that you should make sure you’ve got plenty of zinc in your body all the time if you’ve got a yeast infection.

I hope that answers your question about the importance of zinc and a Candida yeast infection.

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Thanks for tuning into my video. I’ve got a question here today from a gentleman called Steven in Arizona in America. Steven’s asking me if selenium, the trace element selenium, is any good for Candida yeast infections.

Let me tell you a bit about selenium there. Selenium is critical when it comes to immune function health. Some of the most important minerals for immune function health would have to be iodine, selenium and zinc. And there are a host of vitamins like Vitamin D and various other vitamins that are important. Selenium in particular helps to really power up many different enzyme systems in the body. And selenoproteins are produced when a particular antioxidant enzyme helps to work with selenium to convert it into selenoproteins. Selenoproteins help to power up many aspects of cell, humoral and mediated immunity. Cell mediated immunity being the front end of the immune system, and humoral being the back end, the lymphocytes. Phagocytes, neutrophils, for example, cells which power up the cell mediated to help gobble up bacteria and help to work on fungus.

According to the Candida Institute in America, bacteria outnumber yeast cells in the body by about 10 to 1. And a very powerful immune system, particular the cell mediated, will keep this balance heavily in check. When the cell mediated starts dropping off, yeast can start multiplying more rapidly and takeover the body, particularly if there are bad levels of beneficial bacteria, which also further help to police the body and create special chemicals that keeps this balance in careful control.

German research has found when it comes to selenium, we initially thought we needed about 150 to 200 mcg per day to saturate certain enzymes and make the body very effective. But now we know there are many more enzymes we recently discovered that are selenium dependent that require up to 300 to 400 mcg per day. People with a major yeast infection I recommend they usually start with 150 to 200 mcg and build up to about 300 mcg or 350, don’t exceed 350, 400. You don’t need to. And this is going to help to really make hundreds of different enzyme systems power up to really boost immune function to fight Candida.

Selenium is an extremely important trace element. It’s also important to help prevent heart disease and many types of cancers. Particularly, if you take selenium in conjunction with Vitamin E because these antioxidants work very well together, 300 mcg of selenium, 400 IU of a good mixed tocopherol, tocotrienols and tocopherols combined even better, take 12 mg of Vitamin E every day along with this mix, some Vitamin D and 20 to 30 mg of zinc per day, keep the copper in balance. Now you’re talking really good immune boosting power for the body to help fight Candida yeast infections.

Selenium is often lacking in a lot of different places around the world, particularly countries here like in New Zealand. Countries that have been heavily glaciated in the past have very low levels of trace elements. A lot of them got washed out to sea millions of years ago. If you live in an area with a lot of glaciation that occurred a long time ago like Scotland, Norway, New Zealand, you’re going to have major selenium problems.

Same around America. Many states have got low levels of selenium. And there’s a lot of scare mongering about selenium about nails dropping off and things like this. Skin turning weird colors. I’ve never seen it happen with selenium even in amounts 500 mcg per day sustained. I’ve never seen it happening. It’s funny how all this scare mongering occurs often by medical people who willingly dish out toxic pills to people, but then they point the finger at vital elements like selenium.

Make sure that you’re taking a good multivitamin with selenium in it every day. If you want an antioxidant formula, be sure that it’s got sufficient levels of selenium in it as well. I hope that answers your question. Thanks for the question.

Thank you for checking out this video today. I routinely get asked questions from people from all around the world regarding what are the best antifungal products to use when it comes to yeast infections. The best probiotics. The best dietary supplements. The best oils. External treatment. Internal treatment. The best foods. I get asked many questions on YouTube, on Skype, through consultations, and also through emails from patients in almost 100 countries now. Thank you for all your amazing feedback. And also, I do apologize if I can’t personally respond to all of your many thousands of emails I get. I do have people helping me out, but with just the sheer volume of emails, it sometimes precludes me from answering every single email.

I get many questions regarding ThreeLac. Here’s a whole sheet on just ThreeLac questions. Can ThreeLac cause bloating? One lady asked. Another person asked here. Is ThreeLac involved with maybe causing my diarrhea? I’m getting constipation. Could ThreeLac be the cause of this because it started since I started taking ThreeLac? Gas, bloating, headaches, all sorts of problems I get with ThreeLac.

This is one of the reasons why I stopped using the ThreeLac. Now the people at Global Health Tracks will call me a fool and say that I’m wrong. But I can tell you now, I’ve used ThreeLac for many years with clients and I gave it a good run. I purchased it. I started using it on clients all around New Zealand and Australia. I was sending it different places, and I found very limited results with this product.

I do find, however, there are advantages to ThreeLac, which I haven’t seen with other products and I quite like the little straws or packets that it comes in. It’s a fantastic delivery system. Unfortunately, the product in my opinion doesn’t really live up to its expectations. I think it’s been pushed on people too hard with a promise of curing Candida. Some websites I’ve seen here in New Zealand and Australia claim you don’t even need to have a proper diet, just take this product and this will get rid of Candida.

I can tell you now; I’ve treated thousands of patients with yeast infections. This is a load of garbage, absolute garbage. Without the proper lifestyle and diet change, dietary supplements are a complete waste of time. In fact, three quarters of your attention needs to be drawn toward lifestyle and diet. Dietary supplements make up a small part of the equation when it comes to getting rid of a yeast infection.

Bloating with ThreeLac. Why is it a reality with a lot of people that I see? I must have had a dozen emails just in the last three months alone with bloating and gas with ThreeLac. Predominantly from the U.S. where a lot of this is sold, but also in Australia and New Zealand I get this quite a bit.

If we look at this product, it’s not hard to see why. They’re actually putting different kinds of sugars in this product. They even put canola oil in it and they even put casein, 30 parts per million, casein. An ingredient derived from milk, it says here. Why on earth would you put in casein, which is a highly potentially allergenic protein, in a product that’s supposed to help with bloating and gas? This is going to cause bloating and gas. It’s ridiculous to do this. Be aware. You’ve also got these sugars in there, erythritol, beta-Cyclodextrin. Now correct me if I’m wrong, but dextrins are kinds of sugars.

I’m not a big fan of ThreeLac and I give it the thumbs down as far as a Candida yeast infection is concerned. If you buy ThreeLac and you get bloating or gas, you send it straight back for a refund because it shouldn’t do this. Just be warned if you’ve got any kind of milk allergy or if you want to avoid sugars completely in your diet, especially sugars like this, and you’re not a big fan of canola oil like I am, avoid ThreeLac because I really don’t think it’s a fantastic product.

I hope that answers your question about ThreeLac and bloating. Thank you.