Worst Foods To Avoid If You Have IBS

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Greetings! Eric Bakker back again. This is the last video I’m doing in the irritable bowel syndrome series. I just completed a video on best foods to eat. There’s a whole lot of videos in this series, so if you haven’t seen them, I’d like you to go back and look at all of them, because I think if you’ve got IBS you can get a lot of good knowledge. What is IBS? Causes of IBS, tests and diagnosis, best diet, best treatment, best supplements. Check out these videos. I make these videos and take my time out on a Sunday just so you can get this kind of knowledge – stuff that I teach my patients. I appreciate there are a lot of people who can’t afford to see me. I’m quite prepared to give a lot of free information away for people. It’s awesome to see people recover. It’s fantastic and that’s the best part of my job is to get someone back saying, “My life’s changed.” I really like that.

So, what foods should you avoid with IBS? Well, if you’ve got IBS right now, what I want you to do is to get a piece of paper and I want you to write down all the foods you’re eating. It’s not hard to do. Might take you 10-20 minutes. Instead of watching your favorite soap opera or football match or whatever you do, think about not procrastinating longer with the IBS but actually doing something about it. Get a piece of paper, write down all the foods that you eat, all the beverages that you have.

What I want you to do is I want you to get one of these. What’s that? It’s not a piece of candy. That is a highlighting pen. So what you do is you open it and then you have a really critical look at that piece of paper. You highlight all the foods that you know you shouldn’t be having. I’ll do it right now. I’ve just highlighted my foods. Look at that. Chocolate, ice cream, candy, Coca-Cola, rum and coke. I know I shouldn’t be having those. I’ve been a naughty boy. But you get my point; I’m just being a bit silly at the moment.

The point I’m making is if you’ve been honest to yourself and you’ve written out that list everything you eat and drink, then the highlighter should reveal at least six if not more choices on that list that you know you shouldn’t have. Then why the hell are you having them? Your bowel’s irritated. Why are you having these foods and drinks for? Think about it. “But I only have a piece of chocolate once a week. I only have a bag of chippies once a week when I’m watching my rugby game. I only have XYZ food here and there.” It’s not the point. The point is you want to recover. If you want to recover, you need to harden the bleep up. You need to make choices. The choices are either going to work for you or against you. It’s your call.

Now, if you haven’t already clicked off this video because you feel annoyed by me, you’ll be surprised how many times a person has said to me, “The best advice you gave me was for me to analyze my diet very carefully and be totally honest with myself.” Because I don’t think you’re being honest with yourself. If you’re going to seek help with IBS and you haven’t been very honest with yourself and made a critical assessment of your diet and made strong choices. You know what to eat. No one has to tell you to avoid sweets, to avoid ice cream, to avoid Coke, to avoid take away food, all that sort of junky crappy stuff in your diet.

The best foods to eat in my previous video were more about a full recovery from IBS. This one is the food that you should avoid that are going to aggravate you. That’s point number A. Avoid the stuff that you know is not going to do you good. You don’t need your husband or your wife or your son or daughter, or Jesus or whoever to tell you that. You should know that in your own mind what to avoid. So now that we’ve cleared that up, let’s have a look at foods that you should avoid. That’s the big point is stuff that you know you should avoid but you’re still having anyway.

When you eat a food, the food’s either going to make you feel okay, make you feel good, or make you feel not so good. When you get older like me, you should have developed some kind of an intuition or sixth sense about a food. I know myself that I feel really good when I have rolled oats in the morning. I get high quality rolled oats. I just cook them in spring water and that’s my breakfast every morning. For lunch every day, I have a similar kind of lunch where Tracy and I will have a stir-fry dish either with tofu or it’ll be egg or it’ll be chicken (some kind of protein) and a whole lot of garden grown vegetables and sprouts go through that. That’s our lunch every day. For dinner at night, we usually have some kind of protein and we’ll have quinoa. We’ll have some kind of steamed vegetable or a baked vegetable dish. It’ll be eggs again, be protein dish.

I’ve learned an important thing I want to really talk with you now, and that’s inappropriate snacking with IBS. Please watch my video on stopping the late night snacking. When you’ve had your dinner at night and you’re sitting down and watching TV, or reading a book or going on Facebook or doing whatever you do. This is the danger time with IBS patients. Be careful not to inappropriately snack. Stick with your three meals per day. If you’re going to snack, try not to do it after dinner at night, because this can upset your tummy when you’re sleeping. You’re better off having a snack in the afternoon, say around two or three o’clock.

A good thing to do after your dinner is to go for a walk. Come home, have a glass of water, have a shower and then relax and then go to bed. Break up your ritual, because this will stop inappropriate snacking. If you’ve eaten a food, and you feel it doesn’t sit right in your gut, make a note of that food. Couple of days later, have that food again. If again you think, “It doesn’t sit right with me,” you want to avoid the food. The other thing that you want to do also if you’re unsure is the Dr. Coca pulse test. Check that out online. C-o-c-a Coca pulse test. That could give you also a bit of an insight into foods that could be really problematic for you.

There’s no hard and fast rules on foods to eat and foods to avoid, but common sense prevails. Avoid what aggravates you and eat what makes you feel good. No inappropriate snacking, healthy clean food choices and avoid processed foods. This is the big one guys. Stuff in cans, packages, frozen dinners, basically the stuff in the supermarket is not conducive for good gut health. Unless it’s fresh, I would recommend you don’t eat it. I prefer to cook all my meals from scratch. I grow most of my own vegetables now. I prefer not to buy any processed food at all. The only thing I would get in a can would be sardines or maybe some chickpeas if I’m lazy, or maybe some canned tomatoes, but I don’t really eat anything in tins. Everything’s freshly made. I think it’s paid off with great gut health.

That’s what I want to say to you. What to avoid is stuff you know that you shouldn’t be having, and processed foods, takeaway foods, snacky kind of biscuits and stuff like that. Avoid all that. Eat fresh stuff. It’s going to make a big difference with IBS. I hope you’ve enjoyed my series on IBS. Most of it’s common sense. There’s no space-age information here.

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What Are Best Supplements for IBS?

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Greetings! Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand. Thanks for checking out this video in the Irritable Bowel Syndrome series. If this is the first video that you’ve seen in the series, please be sure to check out the other videos. There’s about seven or eight videos in the series, so it’s well worth you checking them all out.

This video, we’re going to talk about the best supplementation for Irritable Bowel Syndrome. As I mentioned, if you haven’t seen the videos previously, go check them out, especially the one “What is IBS?” and “Causes of IBS.” Then you’ll understand more about why I’m recommending the supplements that I do.

It’s true that around 75 to 80 percent of people with IBS have got some kind of a gut dysfunction that’s quite major. And a lot of people that we see have got SIBO or Candida or a parasite problem. They actually have some kind of a trigger – some kind of a pathogen or bug. You can’t really call Candida a pathogen or a lot of bacteria because they live in harmony in our gut. But, for one or many different reasons, this balance can become disturbed. You can get an overgrowth, and that overgrowth can even lead to infection, and that infection can often lead to inflammation. That inflammation can really irritate the bowel quite a lot.

Many people take things like turmeric or ginger, different anti-inflammatories to work on this pathway called a COX-2 inhibitor to reduce that inflammatory response. It makes more sense to me to assess the gut and eradicate any overgrowth, rather than to primarily deal with inflammation to reduce the pain you get in the bowel. I think the best supplements to take are the ones that help to get the balance back again of the bacteria in the gut to start with. That help to curb any Candida overgrowth and help to eliminate and wipe out parasites in the bowel.

For that reason, I created my CanXida range of products. I did not only create the CanXida products for Candida. You may see the word CanXida and think Candida, but CanXida is perfect for Irritable Bowel Syndrome. There are three products in the CanXida range, CanXida Remove, CanXida Restore, CanXida Rebuild. Those are the three main ones, which I think will be important for you if you have IBS or Irritable Bowel Syndrome. They’re also excellent for people with IBD, or Inflammatory Bowel Disease, which I’ll create some videos in that series as well.

What we want to achieve with Irritable Bowel Syndrome and supplementation, we want to achieve a microbial balance. We want to eradicate stuff that’s not supposed to be there in large numbers. We want to improve the beneficial bacteria. We want to get those counts up. We want to facilitate or assist and help the stomach to work more efficiently. The pancreas, the small intestine. We want foods to be able to be broken down properly, so they can ferment further down in the gut and stop creating things like gas, bloating and pain.

Many people have issues with food intolerances with IBS. Meaning, they have an enzymatic issue – they can’t break disaccharides down properly. This is why I created CanXida Restore to be very efficient, containing multiple enzymes that work on different kinds of carbohydrates. Some work on the short chains, some will work on the long chains. Taking CanXida Restore will give you significant improvement and help to reduce pain, gas and bloating.

The CanXida Remove will eradicate and help to get rid of a lot of different bugs in the body. It’s been used very successful with people in about 40 different countries. We’re getting incredibly good reviews with IBS patients right now on that product.

The CanXida Rebuild is a multi-vitamin I created with eight different herbs in it, which is going to inhibit microbes. It’s a perfect supplement to take one per day on a very long term basis of 12 months. It’s going to help to give the cells in the body nutrition when they’re under stress from Irritable Bowel Syndrome. When there’s inflammation. When you’ve got issues with enzymes for example not breaking food down properly and resolving them.

The Rebuild and the Restore work particularly well together. Remove, Restore, Rebuild is the triad of products that I recommend for Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Check it out at CanXida.com. Thanks for tuning in. We’re going to do another video now on foods to eat for IBS. Catch up with you then.

Best Way To Treat IBS

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Thanks for getting back. We’re in the Irritable Bowel Syndrome series. Now we’re going to talk about the best treatment for IBS. We’re going to try and put a few things together here. If this is the first video you’ve seen in the IBS series, I’ll just tell you what we’ve already done. What is IBS? The causes of IBS, the signs and symptoms, test and diagnosis, best diet, now we’re going to talk about best treatment.

The best treatment for IBS in my mind is to first identify the cause to find out why the hell you’ve got this problem. If your marriage breaks down or your business relationship breaks down or something happens to you, wouldn’t you like to know why that happened? Or would you just go from one failed marriage to another, or be someone like Zsa Zsa Gabor and have like 10 marriages. Just keep marrying people for the sake of marrying people.

If something happens, an intelligent person will want to find out why it happened, so they could stop that happening again. Unless of course you win the lotto, or you want to know how you’re going to win it again. If you got sick, why did you get sick? There’s a reason why you’ve got Irritable Bowel Syndrome. It didn’t drop in your lap like a plague of locusts. You got IBS because you created the IBS. Was it a pharmaceutical medicine, you took an antibiotic? Was it a hugely stressful marriage breakup you went through and you hit the bottle for a year or something? Something caused IBS.

Rule number one is try to identify the cause. That way, you’ll be able to get your health back a lot quicker and prevent recurrence of IBS. The best treatment for IBS will take into account lifestyle and diet and eradication of any unwanted bugs. The next video I’m going to do, I’m going to talk about supplementation and IBS, but this one is more about putting the whole thing together.

A very important seminar I went to in 2003 in Seattle, I heard a very clever doctor speaking. Dr. Alan Gaby. Alan Gaby is the past president of the American Holistic Medical Association. He said that whenever a patient comes to a doctor with a condition, it’s a functional problem. Particularly if it’s been labeled as NAD, not a normal diagnosis. It’s a garbage can diagnosis. The physician throws the patient in this garbage can and hope to hell that the rubbish man takes the garbage can and the problem away. Because they know that there could be one of a myriad of causes. Usually, it’s stress related.

Personally, I believe that half the patients I see with IBS have got stress. Major stress. They don’t see the link between the stress and the functional gut problem that’s been created as a result. Did stress directly cause the gut problem? No. But stress made the person change their diet, made them change their lifestyle. Made the person stay up at night. Made them snack inappropriately. Have inappropriate relationships. Get more involved in porn or vice. Get more involved in cannabis and the sugar cravings. Get more involved in alcohol. There will be different reasons why people get screwed up like they do. But, if the stress is addressed first, or the reasons why they had all these inappropriate behaviors leading to it, it would have stopped in the first place. Never discount stress.

If you’re in a stressful situation and you’ve got a gut problem, that’s the number one thing I want you to tackle. Before you do the diet, I want you to get this crap organized. Not only is it going to help the bowel, it’s probably going to help improve you immensely overall. Your relationships with special people around you. Your income. Lots of things will improve when this crap’s been resolved. So what the hell is it? You need to get this sorted. Talk to someone you can trust. Someone that you can speak to. don’t just keep it bottled up inside. Lots of people I talk to within 10 to 15 minutes of talking to them, they start to cry. They open up and they tell me all these problems. A lot of people have got stuff bugging them that’s on their mind. Those are the sort of things I want you to think about.

That’s what I call the lifestyle component. The lifestyle needs to be sorted, because this is a functional complaint. This is not pathology of the bowel or disease as such. This is something wrong with how the machine is working. Get that sorted first. Try and look at some of my videos I’ve done on autonomic nervous system dysfunction – on sympathetic and parasympathetic imbalance. This plays a massive role in getting the gut right. That plus the diet. If you’re going to eat really good foods (some people say, “I eat very clean!”) but they’re bloody stressed out of their brain. You might as well drink bloody paint strip as far as I’m concerned.

I’ve seen many people eat shitty foods and shitty diets in good health. I have. I’m not lying to you. I’ve seen a lot more people eat really clean. The best diet and are feeling crap health. See plenty of those, too. Think about that. It’s not just about what you eat, it’s about how you feel, how you relate. A lot of things account for health. I’ve said this on many of my videos. Getting the stress sorted, the emotional obstacle to cure or the problem that you’ve got. It could be a lack of income, it could be that you’re pissed off with your mother-in-law, could be that you haven’t had sex for up to two years or five years, it could be a lot of reasons why you’re not happy. If you’re watching this video now, you’re probably already starting to think about some of those problems. Think about that.

The food, common sense. You need to eat good healthy food. We’ve talked many times about this in a lot of the videos. You know what to eat. If not, check out one of my hundreds of videos I’ve created on healthy eating. Foods to eat, foods to avoid, there’s plenty of information about that on the internet. Supplementation will help you. It’s not mandatory, but it’s going to help to clean up the gut.

If we put the whole thing together: Assessment, understanding cause and effect, removing the stressful obstacles to cure, taking some supplement to speed up the process of getting the gut back on track, and eating the right kind of foods. That really, in my mind, is the best treatment for IBS, and the best treatment for a lot of chronic illnesses. Thanks for tuning in. Catch up with you in the next video.