Category: Candida Crusher FAQ Videos

Thanks for checking out my video. I’ve got a question here from a patient in New York. How do you take Nystatin?

Have you seen my other videos on Nystatin, by the way? I’ve completed a couple of other YouTube clips on Nystatin and also I’ve written some good articles on yeastinfection.org about Nystatin. It was a drug developed in the ’50 by two American lady researchers. It’s named Nystatin after the New York State Laboratory where it was developed in 1954 and widely promoted by Dr. William Crook in the ‘80s who wrote The Yeast Connection. Quite a famous book that really started the whole understanding of how serious yeast infections are. Crook was a pediatrician and a good friend of my stress mentor, Dr. Wilson, Billy Crook. He used to be called Billy Crook. Not a good name for a doctor is it, Crook? It sounds a bit suspect. But apparently he was a lovely man with quite a profound understanding on the effects of yeast, particularly on children, but also on adults. Widely ridiculed by a lot of people.

But Candida, as we know today, is widely known and researched. It’s in many research papers you’ll find online. If you go to SNL and M-Base, many different databases, you can read an incredible amount of research. The Japanese and Koreans have done an incredible amount of research on Candida in the last 20, 30 years, in particular.

Nystatin in my mind is a drug that is probably like the safest pharmaceutical drug to use because it’s based on a bacteria. Like a lot of antifungal and antibiotic drugs, it actually comes from a bacteria as a starting point. But this one’s particularly safe because it doesn’t get absorbed by the digestive tract. It gets passed through. Billy Crook would recommend anything up from 500,000 up to 1 million units per day for anywhere from four to six weeks, sometimes even three months. Dr. Crook would say often to take Nystatin until symptoms are reached. And as long as symptoms have been reached, Candida is being killed.

I don’t really like that approach to create a lot of symptoms in people. But Nystatin is certainly a powerful product for many people; however, products like that can create serious side effects with people, too. Remember, it targets Candida. It doesn’t target anything else in the body. And if you take too high a dose, you can get very, very sick on Nystatin. Oral doses, usually we’re looking at about 1/8 teaspoon taken in about four ounces of water, which is about 100 mils of water, I believe, or about half a glass of water. Stir it in quite well and generally you’ll take a few sips, you’ll rinse the mouth with it, swallow and take a few more sips and rinse it. It’s taken away from food. And it’s taken usually once per day, sometimes twice per day. You can also get it in pasteels[?] which can be sucked on. You can get like creams and lotions for topical. It depends really on the delivery and the type of Nystatin you’re looking at. And also make sure that you talk to your doctor about how exactly to use it and how long to use it for.

When you’ve finished taking Nystatin, it’s important to take a good probiotic, probably for a good two months after that. I don’t think probiotics and Nystatin are really good at the same time. When you take Nystatin, don’t take it with Canxida, which is the product I developed. It’s not a good idea. I believe Canxida is a far superior product than Nystatin because it’s going to target parasites, bacteria and yeasts and you can get it at Canxida.com. I think it’s better priced and more effective and has far less potential for side effects long term. It’s going to give you a more broad-spectrum effect than Nystatin. Nystatin doesn’t touch parasites or bad bacteria. It just targets Candida which is quite narrow in scope.

Remember, narrow scope, powerful effects. With a broad spectrum, you’re going to take out a hell of a lot more with a shotgun than you are with a rifle. I always say that with people. Not that I go shooting, but I’ve seen the kind of damage that shotguns do compared to handguns, and I think Nystatin is a bit of a hand gun.

I hope that answers your question about Nystatin today. Thank you.

Thank you for checking out this video today. The question today is, is it okay to take probiotics and antifungals at the same time?

Many people think that you need to separate these things. That you need to take a probiotic when you get up and then an antifungal a bit later in the day. You don’t need to do this. That’s like saying to me, “Should I eat yogurt well away from food? Should I have sauerkraut well away from food?” These fermented and cultured kinds of foods are best eaten with a meal, and it’s the same with the probiotics. Probiotics you take with food. Don’t take them away from food. I don’t care what the manufacturer says. Take them with food. They’re bacteria and bacteria thrive in an environment that’s warm and moist.

If the company tells you not to take a probiotic because they’re going to get killed by the stomach acids, don’t take the product because these guys obviously don’t know what they’re talking about. Bacteria do survive the stomach bypass. In many cases, they do.

What I should say also is don’t take a probiotic and antifungal when you’re having three glasses of wine and couple of pieces of pizza. That’s a pretty dumb thing to do, isn’t it? You’re not going to do that. Why would you even want to take products when you’re eating and drinking those sorts of crappy foods? Probiotics and antifungals work best when you’ve got a very good quality diet. When you’re eating lean meats, steamed vegetables, cultured and fermented foods. You’re drinking plenty of water. Exercising regularly. Going to bed on time. Spending not too much time on the computer. Understanding the connection between stress and disease. When you’re using an intelligent approach like this, you’re going to get the best effect from your antifungal and probiotic product.

Take them together. Take them with meals. Take them twice to three times per day as a norm. There are some exceptions with some people, but generally with most people, I recommend they take them with food at regular intervals. If you skip one here are there, don’t worry. It’s not a big problem. That’s like if you don’t go for a walk one day, it’s not a big problem. Just go for a walk the next day. You don’t have to be anal about things. Some patients actually set their iPhones beeping off to take pills at certain times. That’s a bit over the top. You don’t need to do that kind of ridiculous stuff. Take them with food at regular intervals and you’ll be fine.

Thanks for tuning in.

Question today is when should I take an antifungal? What’s the best time of the day to take it? Should I take it with food? Away from food? Should I take it at breakfast, lunch or dinner? Should I take it every second day? How often should I take it? When should I take it?

Let’s look at that now. I believe the best time to take most products is with food. This is when your digestive system is at its most active. When you’re going to be producing acids and enzymes to help break things down and absorb things. Probiotics are best taken with food.

Dr. Khem Shahani from Nebraska, one of the original researchers of lactobacillus, I remember talking to Michael Shahani, his son. And Michael said, “Dad studied lactobacillus for nearly 30 years and said that it should always be taken with food.” Because it’s a bacteria. It likes to be in a warm moist environment. I believe antifungals are the same. You need to take them with food. Don’t take them with snacks so much, but take them with breakfast, lunch and dinner. If you’re a sensitive person, start with a low dose; even break a tablet in half.

Canxida is a good product to take, which I helped develop with a company in the States, and I think it works extremely well. It’s got a sustained release quality about it. Most people can take one tablet twice per day straight up, and in most cases, three times per day. But if you’re sensitive, just break it in half. Start maybe with a half of a tablet with lunch and a half with dinner and slowly build up.

Breakfast and dinner are often the times people remember to take things, and they’ll often forget at lunchtime. It’s easy to forget a lunchtime dose. But when you get into the habit, you can soon remember to take a tablet at lunchtime as well, particularly if you’ve got the tablets where you’re preparing food. It’s all about habits. Habits take about three weeks to build up, and then you’ll be okay.

The answer is always take an antifungal with food for a better result. Thank you for tuning in.