I’ve got a question today asked by a lady in America. Is a sore throat a sign of Candida die off?
There could be many different signs of Candida die off. A sore throat to me generally means an increase in your susceptibility toward immune dysfunction. And we find that typically with people who’ve had any kind of stress in their life. As soon as a person has had stress, even small amounts of stress, it causes an easing up of the white blood cells. With very high stress, it causes an almost complete disappearance of white blood cells. And one of the key areas to get affected when a person starts to become unwell is the throat region. It’s a very easy area for bacteria to affect, and it’s one of the main portals of entry into the body is the throat, the mouth, particularly the throat area.
If you’ve got a sore throat when you wake up, if you examine what happened the day before, two days before, you’ll usually see there was some kind of stress like being outside in the cold air. It could be an environmental stress. It could be an emotional stress and often, there will be some kind of nutritional deficiency underpinning it like insufficient zinc in the body or iron or Vitamin C.
It’ll be a couple of factors combined that contribute to the sore throat. I don’t generally see sore throats as detox reactions or Candida die off reactions. I would see them more as increased susceptibility and lower resistance. And this can commonly occur as part of Candida treatment. It’s not uncommon for a person to get a little bit stressed out or tired or irritable or have other issues as a result of the Candida treatment. And this itself can help to bring a sore throat on.
First thing you do with sore throats is you start taking dairy products out of the diet immediately, milk, cheese, and things like that. Gargle with a bit of sea salt in water is often a good idea. Put one or two drops of tea tree oil in the water for a gargle in the morning that will help you quite well. The big thing with sore throats is you need a lot of rest. Plenty of rest. And if there’s any congestion, you need to treat that as well.
I hope that answers your question about sore throats and die off. I don’t really think there’s a strong connection with them both.
Thank you for tuning in. Is SIBO Candida? What is SIBO? Small intestinal bowel overgrowth, SIBO. That’s what SIBO is. SIBO basically means that your body is being affected internally by an overgrowth in the digestive system of bacteria that are generally not beneficial.
There are many different types of bacteria in our digestive system that create many different types of actions. The unfortunate thing with some of the bad bacteria is that it can have really bad effects in our small and large intestine, particularly when they’re an overgrowth. Some of them, for example, can help to break down bile salts, the things that the body produces to break fats down. You’ll notice I’ve spoken before on some YouTube clips that when you’ve had a bowel motion, check the water. Flush the toilet first, have a bowel motion, and check the water around the motion. If you see an oil slick on there, that can be a lack of bile salts, something I commonly see people with a lot of gas and bloating. For example, they may have bacteria that are responsible for that.
Other people have certain bad bacteria that can produce toxins that can affect the lining of the small or large bowel, and these toxins can create all sorts of problems. They can create brain fog and fatigue. They can create memory loss. And many people actually think that they’ve got die off when, in fact, they’ve got SIBO. Other kinds of bacteria can ramp up inflammation, reduce immunity, and create all these immune byproducts that make you feel pretty sick and toxic.
Your digestive system relies on many different types of things to help it along. It needs enzymes. And if you look in the small bowel, particularly, you’ll find that there are muscles and nerves and neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitters are just basically hormones, chemicals in there. The enzymes help to break the food down, whereas, the nerves, muscles and neurotransmitters help to move food along. Along with it, they take bacteria to the areas of the colon, particularly where they’re beneficial.
When there’s a problem with this process, if we lack enzymes or we have a problem with our nerves or muscles or neurotransmitters, we can end up with quite bad SIBO. We will see this, for example, with inflammatory bowel disease. With Crohn’s or colitis, we often see SIBO. We’ll see this with bowel surgery. We’ll see it with people with diverticulitis, with bowel pockets. People who have had back injuries, for example or they’ve had a crash where they’ve injured part of their digestive system. All these things can create SIBO.
One of the most common causes of SIBO, obviously, is antibiotics and too much sugar in the diet. An imbalance of the refined carbohydrates, way too many refined carbs, sugars. You can see a lot of YouTube clips about how devastating sugar is. By 2040, one-third of America will have diabetes and part of this reason is just sugar. People have just gone crazy with sugar. The government is just subsidizing all these companies to the tune of billions of dollars a year and just fueling this whole process up.
If there’s anything you can get out of this video today, it is watch out for sugar in your diet. Six hundred and fifty thousand individual food items produced in American supermarkets contain 80 percent refined sugar as in added. You really want to try to do more like what I’m doing is trying to make your own food.
Cook your own food. Grow your own vegetables, if you can, salad vegetables at least. Eat basic things like good proteins and plenty of vegetables. Drink a lot of water. Cut down on stuff. Get rid of sodas out or your life, all this sort of junk. This is what creates SIBO.
Let’s look at some of the signs and symptoms of SIBO. In fact, when I say these signs and symptoms, you’ll think “Hang on a minute, Eric, this is Candida.” It’s funny because people often confuse SIBO and Candida and, in fact, both of them overlap. What I want you to think of is one SIBO circle and one Candida circle, and when they overlap, there’s a third circle. Most people I see are in that intermediate circle. They’ve got elements of SIBO and Candida.
The difference with Candida versus SIBO is people with a Candida overgrowth tend to have a predominance of Candida Albicans. People with SIBO tend to have more of the intestinal bacteria, the dysbiosis. But generally you’ll find that when a person’s had SIBO for a while, they develop Candida as well and vice versa. People with bad Candida end up with SIBO. How do I know that? I know that through doing many, many stool tests on patients and examining the results. Let’s have a look at Candida and SIBO now a little bit side by side in terms of the signs and symptoms.
SIBO, typically you’re going to find things like bloating, constipation and diarrhea, food sensitivities (very common). You’re going to find increased incidents of poor immune function with these people. Brain fog is par for the course.
With Candida, we’re going to get similar things, but we’re going to get a very strong craving for sugar on top of that. We’re going to get potentially more itching, itchy skin. Particularly, people I find who crave sugar after a meal; these are typical Candida patients I will see. But sometimes it’s very difficult to distinguish one from the other. How we can pick it more easily are the overt signs and symptoms like the vaginal thrush and the jock itch, itchiness of the body.
If you get my book, Candida Crusher, you can actually see the eight different home tests that I recommend to determine if you’ve got Candida or not. If you do those tests, the itch test, the smell test, the sound test, the spit test, and various other tests. If you do those at home, it’ll give you a pretty good idea whether you’ve got Candida or not. You don’t have to spend a whole lot of money to determine whether you have Candida or not.
If you’ve got SIBO or Candida, the treatment is similar for both of these cases. I would treat them the same. I’m going to use an antifungal/antibacterial on SIBO as well as Candida. I’m going to be looking at eliminations from the diet of the allergy-forming foods. I’m probably going to clean the patient up for a week or two prior to putting them into a diet to stop them from crashing really bad. And I’m probably going to look at a long-term dietary recovery program. But the most important thing with SIBO and Candida recovery is the lifestyle. I’m going to look at the kind of things the patient’s doing right now that are contributing to this ongoing mess that they’ve got themselves into.
And this is something that most practitioners don’t do. They just do treatment. They don’t do a long-term maintenance phase with these patients, so the recurrence is there. This is how some practitioners make their money. They make their money by treating people. People get reasonably well. They come back with the same problem and they keep treating them. I don’t think that’s right. I think it’s about getting the lifestyle right. When the lifestyle is right, the digestive system becomes right. When the digestive system becomes right, the whole health of the patient improves.
I hope you took some of that onboard, but remember the take home message. Sugar, watch the sugar in the diet because I believe that’s the numero uno cause of SIBO. Are SIBO and Candida infections similar? They are and sometimes it’s difficult to understand one from the other.
I hope that gives you a bit of an insight into SIBO versus Candida. Thanks for tuning in. Have a great day.
Thanks for checking out my video. Is saccharomyces boulardii beneficial for Candida? Will it help me with my yeast infection?
Saccharomyces boulardii is actually beneficial yeast. It’s a variant from another kind of beneficial yeast called saccharomyces cerevisiae. It was discovered in 1920 by a French microbiologist in Indochina. What he noticed is he noticed that the people living in this country who were drinking a kind of tea weren’t getting sick from cholera, where other people who weren’t drinking the tea were.
This particular tea contained mangosteen and the skins from lychees and different fruits. It was like a cultured tea. And when he analyzed the tea, he found it had a very unusual kind of yeast in it called saccharomyces and he put that down to the fact these people didn’t get sick because of this tea. And he said the yeast had some beneficial effect on them.
Why is saccharomyces so good? Saccharomyces is a particular kind of a bug that likes our body temperature, 98.6 F or 37.4 C. It thrives in that temperature. It grows quite rapidly. Unlike other kinds of yeast, it doesn’t penetrate cell walls and become a systemic problem like Candida Albicans. It’s a beneficial yeast. People seem to think because it’s a yeast, it’s bad, but it’s not. It’s actually quite beneficial.
It is proven in in vitro and in vivo studies that it’s very beneficial against a wide range of pathogens, including Candida Albicans, Staphylococcus aureus, Entamoeba histolytica, the list goes on and on and on. It’s proven to have very powerful beneficial effects. And because it’s a yeast, it can’t be killed by antibiotics. It’s particularly good for traveler’s diarrhea and has many different effects on both aspects of our immunity, on the cell mediated response or first line defense or the humoral response, the secondary defense which produces antibodies. It’s a very, very, very good yeast to have when you’ve got a Candida yeast infection.
Go slow to start with and I think you’ll find it to be an excellent adjunct to your diet. I hope that answers your question. Thanks for tuning in.