Category: Candida Crusher FAQ Videos

Thanks for tuning in. The question to today is, is gas a symptom of Candida die off? Yes. It is. In fact, it is a symptom.

There are many different symptoms of Candida die off that you can get, but people get confused with Candida die off. Because when many people go into a Candida diet, they can have varying kinds of reactions for many different kinds of reasons.

A typical one I would see would be someone who’s cut out caffeine or soda drinks or has come off sugar too quick. They’ll feel pretty bad and they can immediately think, “Well, I’m taking an antifungal or changed my diet, this is Candida die off.” When, in fact, it’s not Candid die off.

Some of the typical Herxheimer reactions that I see – Herxheimer reaction is the word we use for Candida die off – are much more systemic than you would experience coming off a particular food or beverage. Some of the quite strong patterns I see with people are things like chills, feeling cold in the extremities, tingling sensations, fevers or feeling flushed, especially at night time, sweating at night. You can even have enlarged lymph glands, having bad insomnia and, of course, all the digestive symptom manifestations that go with it like bloating, constipation, diarrhea, nausea or even vomiting, can be quite strong.

When Candida die off rapidly, they release many different chemicals into the digestive system which can move into the bloodstream. In fact, there’s about 80 or more different chemicals, but the common ones are acetaldehyde and ethanol, which is really alcohol, as a byproduct. Think about the last time you drank too much alcohol what it felt like when you woke up in the morning or before you went to bed at night, how you felt sick, you had a bad headache, you could’ve been flushed, you could’ve felt like you wanted to throw up, but you couldn’t quite do it or you did throw up. Feeling completely whacked, like the whole body whacked, completely tired. That’s a typical Herxheimer reaction. These are not that common because when I question people carefully with these reactions, they’re usually not as severe as this.

Die off does occur, but not as common as many people think that it does occur. But bloating and gas are definitely a sign of a Herxheimer reaction along with any other gastrointestinal manifestation. Think about what you took prior to feeling like this. Think about the changes that you made that led into you feeling like this. When you make change slowly, you avoid the Herxheimer reaction. Act at haste, repent at leisure. It’s like anything in life. Pay too much money for something on impulse. Jump into a relationship too quick. Anything you do too quick there’s always a price to pay.

It’s the same with a Candida cleanse. Have a good think about it before you jump into Candida cleanse, what the outcome would be in the first few weeks. If you want to feel like crap, then go head on into it and there’s a possibility you could feel like crap.

I hope that answers your question today and I hope you don’t feel like crap when you go into a Candida cleanse yourself. Thanks for tuning in.

Thanks for checking out my video. Is Epsom salts good for thrush? Epsom salts is also called magnesium sulfate. In fact, it’s a very common preparation used by a lot of people, particularly for things like detox baths or to sooth aching muscles. It can also be used as a dietary supplement to increase magnesium in the body, although it’s not really as good as other forms of magnesium like gluconate or citrate, for example, or magnesium taurate. Mainly because it can disassociate easing the bowel and cause loose bowel motions or even diarrhea with many people. But for thrush, it’s not really affective.

I don’t think it’s something really you’re going to get a lot of benefit from. You could use it as a detox bath. Epsom salts is also commonly used in flotation tanks. People have got a lot of Epsom salts in there with a small amount of water on top, which allows you to float on top of the water.

Why don’t you try boric acid for thrush? Boric acid is a much more effective product to use than magnesium sulfate. Boric acid, you can read more about boric acid at yeastinfection.org. Also you can do my yeast infection quiz through yeastinfection.org to see what the severity of your thrush is like. Just click on the female tab and go through the different screens to give you an idea if you’ve got mild, moderate or severe thrush. It’ll give you some good indication.

Tea tree oil for thrush, boric acid for thrush, check out my two-stage kill and build protocol for vaginal thrush, which is over 95 percent effective in eradicating and yes even curing, I’ll use the cure word, in curing vaginal thrush. It’s super effective. Make sure you check that out.

Epsom salts for thrush is not really a good idea. I wouldn’t really recommend that you do that internally at all. Thanks for tuning in.

Thanks for checking out my video. I’ve got a question here from a patient in Europe, from a small country in Europe. Eric, are all yeast infections related to Candida Albicans?

Well, they’re not. And, in fact, after completing over a thousand stool tests on patients over the years, I can tell you particularly with a culture, Candida Albicans will come back probably about 70 percent, sometimes 75 percent. I would say when I get batches of stool tests back, I find sometimes patients have mixed types of Candida strains which is showing in the stool test.

Candida Albicans is very common, but we have other types of Candida as well. There are over 250 strains of Candida, but the common ones I would find over and above Candida Albicans would be Candida Glabrata, Candida Tropicalis, and Candida Parapsilosis. One that comes back a little bit more rare would be Candida Krusei. Candida Krusei comes back with a few of the Australian stool tests, in particular, and so does a Tropicalis. I believe that the Tropicalis is a lot tougher strain to eradicate than the Albicans.

But what you’ve got to bear in mind is it’s not only the Candida Albicans we’re talking about because many patients with Candida also have various other kinds of fungi in or on their body and bacteria as well. So we’re looking at a whole lot of different types of bugs that potentially affect the person internally.

It’s not uncommon if someone’s got chronic vaginal thrush or jock itch to have various kinds of Candida in their system and also lots of different types of bacteria and sometimes parasites as well. And this will often come about from the routine treatments that they have taken over the years, especially if the patient’s been on multiple rounds of antibiotics. They have tried all sorts of strange and weird diets. They’ve been to many different doctors. These patients can sometimes develop resistant strains of Candida and also multiple types of Candida. It’s not uncommon. And then they land on my doorstep and they want to get well. It can take some time.

One of my favorite sayings when it comes to eradicating Candida is persistence breaks resistance. This is just a short video to explain that there are different types of Candida strains that you’re going to find in the body. It’s not just all about Candida Albicans, which is the common one. If in doubt, a good idea is to take a comprehensive stool test performed on three stool samples over three concurrent days will often give the practitioner a good idea of what’s really going on. Make sure that the stool is cultured, so to see if they can grow anything off the stool, as well as microscopies performed so they can actually look at the stool. Looking at it microscopically is using the microscope to look at it and that’s the best way to have the stool test performed.

I hope that answers your question regarding the Candida. It’s not just all about Candida Albicans. Thank you for your attention.