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Thank you for checking out this video today. I’ve got a question from a person in America. What is the difference between a white tongue and having oral thrush? Are they the same? Is there any difference between them both?

Yes. There are some similarities there, but let me first explain what having oral thrush is. Oral thrush really is a yeast infection of the oral cavity. It’s generally Candida Albicans. What are some of the causes of oral thrush?

Babies are more prone to having oral thrush. People who wear dentures, especially if they’re not fitting that well or if a person sleeps with dentures overnight. They could be rubbing on different parts inside the mouth causing a bit of discomfort. Those are things that can make the mucosal wall in the mouth around the gums more susceptible to a yeast infection. Taking antibiotics, especially recurring antibiotics. Sometimes dry mouth syndrome. There are some diseases, for example, Shogun’s Syndrome, an autoimmune disease where a person can have lack of saliva production that can predispose you toward a yeast infection.

Certain chemotherapy drugs or certain medications like anti-psychotic medications can dry out the mouth, or antidepressants. These can make you more prone to having oral thrush. Being a diabetic. There are many reasons. Even lack of sufficient vitamin B12 or folic acid or iron can predispose you to oral thrush. It’s not that uncommon and many of us from time to time may have had a little bit of thrush here or there in the mouth, sort of white spots. If you go to Google and type in “oral thrush image search,” you’ll see pictures of oral thrush.

A white tongue is a bit different, however. A white tongue may involve Candida, but often it will involve dysbiosis or a problem with a person’s digestive system further down. Let’s analyze this. What white tongue means and look at some of the causes of this and how we can remedy this.

The way to remedy oral thrush, obviously, is to understand the causes and make sure that we nip these in the bud. If we prevent the causes, we know we prevent the event. White tongue, however, if you’re a smoker, you could be more prone to a white or yellow tongue. Again, certain medications can color the tongue. Certain foods can create problems, but there is common white tongue on a person as if they’ve got poor bacterial levels in their gut.

I often see it with low stomach acid. One of the causes. One of the primary causes would be a problem with stomach acidity, especially the upper stomach or the upper digestive system and the stomach, I should say. Pancreatic insufficiency, so a problem with the pancreas. You will find that if you improve the person’s digestion with enzymes, often that will help the tongue significantly. Improper diet. Eating the wrong kind of foods. A lot of starchy and floury foods can predispose you toward that. Sugary foods. These also encourage bacterial levels, which are not really desired. So bad bacteria in combination with some Candida in the gut will invariably cause that.

I’ve previously done a video showing you different parts of the tongue and different areas of the digestive system that are affected, but I’ll go over that once again for your understanding. The tip of the tongue represents the stomach. The middle part of the tongue represents the small intestine. The rear part of the tongue represents the colon. If you poke out your tongue and have a look, if you’ve got discoloration at the back of the tongue, it’s going to represent more problems further down the GI tract.

If you’ve got cracked tongue, it represents heat or too much strength in the digestive system. I see this often with people who eat spicy foods or drink too much alcohol. In Chinese medicine, we call it “too much heat” or “too much fire” in the digestive system, so you need to eat more cooling foods and reduce alcohol.

Problems with the edges of the tongue will often mean liver problems. Thick flabby tongue will often mean liver. Yellow-coated tongue often liver or gall bladder dysfunction. White colored tongue, dysbiosis. Think about small intestinal bowel overgrowth.

I hope that answers your question. Thank you.

Thanks for tuning into this video today. I often get asked different questions regarding why medical doctors don’t pick up or diagnose Candida in their patients. Here’s a question I got asked recently from a patient. Eric, what are the key reasons why medical doctors so often miss the Candida diagnosis?
You have to understand that western medicine is practiced entirely different from the way that natural medicine, health care professionals like myself work.
They tend to have the pharmaceutical interests at heart. When you think of the pharmaceutical industry, it tends to dominate medical practice. It dominates because of many different reasons. Pharmaceutical profits tend to be very, very big and, in fact, the pharmaceutical industry and the chemical industry, in particular, tend to have the highest profits of any industry globally currently. When that kind of money is on the table, a lot of common sense really goes down the toilet, in my opinion. All the effort really goes into symptom prescribing, not in addressing the causation.

What’s the point in fixing people up and addressing causes? If you fix causes up, you don’t have any more symptoms to treat. It sounds a bit cynical. I can tell you now; I’ve spent over half my life in health care. I’ve worked in many medical centers and I believe this to be a fact. Let’s look at the four key reasons why medical doctors tend to ignore the Candida diagnosis.

One of them apart from these four reasons is that Candida really is a functional problem. It’s not exactly pathology. Most patients we’ve seen don’t show very strong signs and symptoms of a disease as such, but they have functional problems. They have things like bloating, gas. They have headaches. They have fatigue. They might have blurry vision or brain fog. And when test results don’t come back showing anything positive, the doctor’s going to say, “Go home. Just take an aspirin or take an anti-depressant. They’re nothing wrong with you.”

Doctors prescribe drugs that cause Candida. That’s number one. When you’re actually giving an antibiotic or allowing a woman to remain on the oral contraceptive pill, you’re actually playing into Candida with many patients. Antibiotics are the scourge of medicine in my opinion. They’re a terrible drug and they create a lot of disease in their own right. We’ve got now the age of the “superbugs.” We’ve even got diseases, bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. There’s an incredible amount of antibiotics that go into the food chain as well as into humans through the way of pharmaceutical prescribing.
When you’re giving a drug that causes Candida or has a potential to cause it, it’s almost like you’re selling alcohol and turning a blind eye to the violence and carnage caused by alcohol. You’re really responsible for something. If you’re responsible for causing something, why are you going to turn around then and try to remedy that? Think about that. That’s number one.

Number two. Patients have to be diagnosed before they can be treated. As I mentioned earlier on, if you can’t diagnose a disease, if you’re a doctor, you can’t treat the disease. We don’t care so much about diagnoses as naturopaths. We just tend to treat patients. We always look for the causes and try to eliminate the reasons why people get sick, and we allow the body to heal itself. We don’t always have to know exactly what name a disease has when we treat somebody. We tend to treat the dysfunctional lifestyle patterns and the terrible diets many people have, and we allow nature to take its course. Isn’t it common sense?

Number three. Doctors disallow a patient’s subjective feelings. This is very common. It’s very important for me to listen very carefully to what a patient tells me. For this reason, a new client will take an hour often because I need to let that person talk about how she feels, what she’s eating, what her lifestyle is like. In a five or ten minute slot in a medical clinic, you don’t really allow people any time to open up and share their subjective feelings with you. Subjective feelings are not important to most doctors. It’s the objective that’s important to them. What they can see. What they can test. What they can prove for their own eyes and their own brain what’s wrong with the patient. When you think about it, the patients almost become like a bystander or a participant in a game the doctor’s playing to get rid of their disease. Instead of actively participating in their own healing, it’s taken away from them because they’re given drugs. There’s a lot of collateral damage that goes on, that kind of carnage.

The fourth one. Doctor’s work with normal ranges of testing prescribed for symptoms. Medical doctors always test. They have to test. They like to test because then they’re trying to push the results back to the normal range. The ranges, in my opinion, vary dramatically from patient to patient. Many doctors get trapped in a cycle of just treating paper instead of people, and that’s a real trap. In a lot of the cases, patients don’t even need testing when it comes to functional or digestive disorders. You need to carefully listen to what’s going on with them and make changes where changes need to be made. Experience helps.
When you’ve treated a lot of people, you generally have developed a sixth sense and you will know how to get people right. Test results sometimes don’t really pan out. I often use the phrase “paralysis from analysis.” If you’re just treating paper, you’re forgetting there’s a living person in front of you.

Those are four reasons why medical doctors often miss the Candida diagnosis. Candida is very real. We’ve read many different studies even in prestigious mainstream like the Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine. We know that Candida exists. Just like we know adrenal fatigue exists, but often medical people pay no attention to syndromes. They’d rather treat symptoms instead.

I hope that answers your question about why doctors don’t recognize Candida as a condition that needs treating. Thanks for tuning in.