Thanks for tuning in. I’ve got a question from a guy called Jake who lives in the U.K. in England, and Jake’s asking me if MSM is any good for Candida.
Well, MSM is a compound that you can buy quite widely and it’s often promoted for joint health. It’s a natural sulfa compound, methylsulfonylmethane, MSM, and sulfa is quite an important building block for the body. In fact, it’s a very key structural component of collagen, which forms a lot of our tissues. Also sulfa is required for every cell of our body. It’s a prime detoxification mineral as well. It helps to clean and purify the body. MSM’s often found in joint supplements, but it can also be used for wound healing, arthritis. Some people say it’s good for the immune system.
Is it any good for Candida? I’m not really that sure. I can’t really say I know yes or no one way or the other, but they claim that it’s good for balancing the pH. And on that basis, they believe that because it balances pH. It really stops the body from becoming too acid and it stops the body from becoming too alkaline like it balances. PH is a scale from 1 to 14, 7 being neutral and the body sort of works on a pH of about 6 to 6.8 that is considered to be optimal. Every part of the body really has a different pH depending on how it functions and operates.
The pancreas releases bicarbonate, for example, with a very high pH or alkaline to neutralize the stomach acid. The stomach has a very low pH, 2 to 3, and it needs to do that in an acidic environment to break protein down, to denature protein, to break it down and help to bust it up into peptides and then eventually amino acids.
Is MSM going to really function well? I think there are a lot better supplements to take for Candida than MSM. Balancing the pH, in my mind, is not really a highly effective way to counter a yeast infection. You’re better off focusing on foods and beverages when it comes to pH adjustment. If you eat the right kind of foods, avoid a lot of meat, for example, too much red meat, soda drinks, sugary foods, these are the things that will create an acidic environment in the body.
Vegetables and the lighter meats tend to create a more alkaline environment. But this whole pH debate is really all up in the air. The Paleo people will tell you that eating meats and fats is the way to go. And then you’ll get the vegans on the other hand with the vegetable people saying that their diet is the way to go. I believe common sense to me is the middle path and is the way to go.
Eat a wide range of healthy foods. Avoid all the crap in your diet and you’re going to have a reasonably well balanced pH when it comes to your blood and digestive organs, spinal tissue, and nervous tissue, all those sorts of things. You don’t need to take supplements to balance the pH. You need to eat good food. Good food. Good drink. Check out yeastinfection.org. I’ve written all about what constitutes a very good diet when it comes to Candida yeast infection.
I hope that answers your question, Jake. Thanks for tuning in.
Thank you for checking out this video today. Today we’re going to talk about Candida, including multiple deficiencies of vitamins and minerals that we see in patients. I’ve just read some interesting blog posts on Candida and magnesium deficiency. Other posts I’ve looked at talk about Candida and molybdenum, Candida and biotin, these trace elements have quite specific actions when it comes to yeast infections.
Biotin, in particular, stops really Candida turning into its invasive form. A guy called Dr. Luther Shepard did a lot of research on this and found that a few milligrams per day can have an incredible effect. Molybdenum helps die-off and can help people escape a lot of this brain fog and spaced out feeling. I’m talking two trace elements here. There’s many, many, many trace elements, including the macro minerals, amino acids, fatty acids, there’s a ton of stuff that people with Candida need.
To just basically say that people need magnesium along with Candida to me is really a narrow-minded approach. Magnesium is one of the most important macro minerals, one of the larger minerals that our body needs in quite large amounts. In fact, we probably need just as much magnesium, if not more so, than calcium in our diets.
Calcium, magnesium, potassium and sodium are the four macro minerals. There’s about 17 trace elements or smaller minerals that we need, too. I’m a believer that people need all of these things in their diet for many, many different reasons. Especially, the minerals. The vitamins are hard to get, but if your diet is good, you’ve got an abundance of vitamins in your diet. But minerals are much more difficult to get because they’re often lacking from the soil. They’re stripped out with the super phosphates that we tend to use with our commercial produce unless you grow most of your own produce like I do.
I try to grow most of my own vegetables, particularly, and make sure I use good organic composting methods and seaweed to enrich the soil. Unless you do those sorts of things, you’re not really going to get a very large base of trace elements and minerals in the soil. I can tell by the health of the plants that I grow and their taste and the feedback I get from other people, these are first class vegetables. So they will be very high in a lot of trace elements that are hard to get, particularly when we start using things like seaweed. You can just see the size and the difference with the tomatoes and the taste of the fruits and the of vegetables. It’s phenomenal.
When you’re buying commercial produce, things from the supermarket, you’re often lacking these sorts of things. These vegetables are quite tasteless I find, quite bland, insipid. The hydroponic ones are the same. They tend to use all these artificial kinds of products to grow these things. They tend to grow them in crowed environments and spray all sorts of chemicals on these foods. So not only are you dealing with a lack of sufficient minerals in your diet, you’re also having to deal with the abundance of pesticides and crap that people spray on this food to try to make it grow.
The point I’m trying to make in this video is you need lots and lots of good and abundant amounts of vitamins and minerals from fresh produce to really help you overcome Candida. If you can’t do that, a good multivitamin is certainly something that you want to add into your dietary equation on top of eating good food. I take a multivitamin every day and I have so for about 30 years. I still believe that it’s easy to lack one or two trace elements no matter how good the diet is. Same with Vitamin E. I take 400 units a day for the last 25 years. I think Vitamin E is one of the most important vitamins you can take for circulation and immunity and other things. I take 800 milligrams of magnesium every day. Occasionally, I stop taking magnesium for a few months and then I find when I start taking it again, it’s incredible the differences I feel with more magnesium.
One thing I will say in defense of magnesium, it is certainly a mineral that I believe everybody needs that lives in the western world, particularly. It’s the mineral that has been proven with research to be the one most easily excreted on any form of stress. They did a lot of research at Harvard University years ago with magnesium with rats and guinea pigs and humans. They tested the magnesium input under various forms of stress, and they found that the magnesium output was directly related to the type and amount of stress applied to the organism. There’s no doubt about it. Magnesium is a key thing to have in your diet.
But we could go on and on. We could talk about selenium and iodine. We could talk about zinc, for example. There are many, many different minerals that you need in your diet, so be sure to take a good multivitamin. A Candida multivitamin is something I’ve been working on now for the past 12 months, and I hope to release this in 2016. A very, very important product, a specially developed multivitamin just for Candida patients or people with small intestinal bowel overgrowth and Candida. It will also contain an antifungal backbone in it to keep giving you a small amount of antifungal ingredients there as well. And it will be in a sustained release form, which I think is the best for a tablet.
So in the interim, just take a good multivitamin once or twice per day on top of your diet. Drink plenty of water and you should be starting to notice some changes in your health, skin, hair, nails, sleep, energy, and all those things should start to pick up if you’re lacking even one trace element.
I hope that gives you some information that if you’ve got multiple deficiencies, which many people have that I see, you’re going to be behind the eight ball and you’re not going to recover rapidly from a Candida yeast infection.
Thank you for tuning into this video today. Today we’re going to talk a bit about enzymes and probiotics. I’ve got a question here from Frank in Boise, Idaho. That’s in America, I believe, Idaho. Frank wants to know a little bit about acidophilus probiotics and enzymes. Are they good? How should we use them and things like that?
Lots of websites you look at promote probiotics for a Candida yeast infection claiming that they’re very good. They boost up immune function. They often will market certain types of probiotics. Other websites will talk about enzymes. They’ll talk about antifungals. They’ll talk about oregano. All different kinds of products.
Probiotics are commonly known by a lot of people now. It’s common knowledge that they are, in fact, a very good supplement to use with a Candida yeast infection or any kind of a gut problem, and in fact, any kind of immune problem. And lots of research is coming out now. There was a recent paper published in 2009 by the University of Pennsylvania, I believe, actually mentioning that probiotics have now shown to have a very good boosting effect on a person’s immune function. There are similar research papers that came out anywhere between 1999 right up into 2010 that show the same thing from many universities around the U.S., Germany, Switzerland and even Japan. Japan’s been studying probiotics for a long time now.
Why they’re good for Candida. How should you take them? Are they necessary? I think they are necessary for several reasons. One of the main reasons is as you’re probably well aware of is they boost immune function because they allow the digestive system to produce the correct pH, for example, and also help to release small amounts of acetic acid, tiny little bits of that get released, which help to adjust the pH of the gut to allow the beneficial bacteria to grow.
Lactobacillus acidophilus is probably one of the most common probiotics that people take. And a good quality lactobacillus acidophilus is going to help you quite a lot. Lactobacillus plantarum is another very good strain. But don’t get sucked into products like Yakut, for example, like these probiotic drinks or people who really try to say that their way is the highway. If you know what I mean, like their probiotic is the only one. Some people say this one contains so many trillions of zillions of bacteria more than this one and it works better.
Generally, you need to be careful when you buy a probiotic and make sure that it’s from a reputable company or a person that you can trust. Because research in America showed not long ago that over half the probiotics sold most of them are, in fact, dead or contain not even viable organisms. This created a huge shake up of the whole industry, so you need to be very careful.
Probiotics and enzymes work well together when they’re put in a very good formula. Enzymes, I believe, are a very necessary part of Candida recovery. They really allow us to improve our digestive function to a marked degree, particular when our stomach and our pancreatic function needs to be improved. Most people my age, 50 plus, usually have got a poor functioning digestive system from stress, alcohol, eating at weird hours, all those sorts of factors that can really affect their digestive health. And if digestion is not working well, it allows the bad bacteria and the Candida fungi to really take off and come into their own right.
Throw on top of this mix meat containing antibiotics because there’s so many antibiotics used in meat now in America and in Australia and different countries, especially in the poultry industry. They use an incredible amount of antibiotics. It’s not just the antibiotics we take in through the doctor, but also through our food chain. This is going to compromise our gut quite a lot. So probiotics and enzymes do form a necessary part of supplementation for a yeast infection.
I’m currently working on an outstanding probiotic enzyme combination. Don’t waste your money by just taking probiotics on their own. Waste of time. Don’t waste your money taking enzymes on their own. Take a combined product with enzymes and probiotics. It’s going to work much more powerfully. It’s going to save you money. The three core products I recommend you take with a yeast infection, antifungal, probiotic enzymes, and a special multivitamin developed to help build up the gut and the overall health after a yeast infection or in the terminal stages, so you can really build up good health.
I just had a look at Lisa Richard’s Candida diet website, and she says there, there are three core elements that you need to look at with Candida yeast infection recovery. She says, ‘Diet, antifungals, and probiotics.’ Well, I think she’s wrong. I would say lifestyle first and foremost is a priority. That usually needs to be changed. Diet needs to be improved. Antifungals. Probiotic enzymes, multivitamins. So I think these five core elements are what it’s all about.
Many people like Lisa Richards tend to completely forget about lifestyle with patients. Without correct lifestyle modification, you’re not going to permanently recover from a yeast infection. You’re going to improve. And then what’s going to happen within one to two years? You’re going to get it back again. You’re going to need more treatment.
If you look at Candida Crusher, the book that I wrote, it talks a lot about lifestyle in there. Lifestyle is one of the core factors involved in recovery. And, of course, diet’s important, but I don’t really believe it’s the overriding factor. Supplementation is important, but it’s not the number one thing you need to look at. In my opinion, probably 20 to 25 percent of recovery hinges on a good quality supplement regime. It’s not the be all end all. But if you haven’t got the lifestyle and diet right, you’re wasting your time, absolutely wasting your time.
I hope this answers your question, Frank in Idaho there about the probiotic enzyme. It certainly makes a lot of sense. Take it twice per day, particularly for the first month or so. Usually with breakfast and with dinner. Always take probiotic enzymes with food. And after a few weeks, we usually bump it up to three times per day depending on your gut function.
I hope that explains a few things to you. Thank you.