Category: Candida Crusher FAQ Videos

Good day, there. Eric Bakker, naturopath, author of Candida Crusher with another frequently asked question.

Should I not eat as much bread?

Bread’s not really an ideal food if you’re trying to recover from a yeast infection.

But while I don’t think it’s a good food if you’re trying to recover from any type of a digestive problem, if you’re trying to lose weight, if you’re trying to build your health, bread’s not a very good food. In saying that, I’m talking about commercial bread. I think once your health is good, you’ve got good digestive health, your weight isn’t a problem; I can’t see any problem with eating good quality bread from time to time.

But in my experience, many people eat too much bread. They have bread for breakfast. And when I’m talking about bread, I’m talking about bagels, donuts, cookies, all these manifestations of these farinaceous products; risen bread, in particular, with yeast and sugar in it is not a very good food if you’re trying to recover from a yeast infection. It’s very difficult for your digestion to really pick up when you eat this food quite regularly and continually. And a great way for you to lose weight is to cut bread out of your diet; just stop eating bread. Get rid of the potatoes, get rid of the bread, get rid of the Paska, these are ideal ways for you to really build good health.

So, can I eat bread again? Yes, you can eat bread again, but let’s first get rid of that yeast infection. So I try and get people off risen bread, commercial bread that’s been risen with yeast. And I’m pretty strict with people in my diet, my Candida diet. You can read a lot more about my diet in Candida Crusher, in my book, Chapter 7, the first section there’s over 100 pages on diet and nutrition. And I write quite a lot about grains and breads and rice and quinoa and amaranth and these other types of grains. There are alternatives to bread, so you don’t really need to eat bread. That’s assuming bread’s made from wheat of course. Bread can be made from many grains.

Try not really to eat bread if you’re trying to overcome a yeast infection. And if you must eat bread, at least give your digestive system a good three or four weeks on the Candida Crusher diet and then when you do eat bread, as I talk about in my book, eat the flat bread or the mountain bread. It’s only made from a good quality, whole meal, stone ground flour, some salt and some water. That’s not a bad option. But my opinion would be to keep away from these foods for a long period of time; wheat in particular. I’m going to talk a lot more about that in other YouTube clips.

I’m going to dispel the myth on what I think is this gluten problem that a lot of people talk about. I don’t really see it to be much of a problem. I’ll explain a lot more in other clips. So keep your eye out for other YouTube clips on gluten and yeast and irritable bowel.

Let’s get back to the question. Should I not eat as much bread? No, you shouldn’t. You should try and avoid bread for a long period of time if you’re really serious about getting rid of your yeast infection.

So I hope that answers your question. Thank you.

Good day there, Eric Bakker, naturopath, author of Candida Crusher. This is our frequently asked question series.

I have diabetes, Eric. Is this the reason I got a yeast infection?

Well, it could well be. As you know, we call diabetes a blood sugar problem. So there are two types of diabetes, but the common one which many people come to me with is Type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetics can generally take medicines to regulate their blood sugar and providing they eat the right food and look after their body weight, they can usually keep it at bay.

Type 1 diabetes, however, is insulin dependent and an auto-immune disease. It’s a different ball game we’re talking about. I’m referring to Type 2 diabetes here.

So diabetics can increase or have a higher amount of glucose output in their urine, and this can predispose many people toward vaginal yeast infections or females to vaginal yeast infections. So, this is something that you need to bear in mind. If you get recurring vaginal infection and you’re a diabetic, you need to get your blood sugar sorted properly. There are different blood tests you can do to determine whether you’ve got a problem short term or long term, so you want to best talk to your doctor about these particular tests. Make sure you’ve got your blood sugar under control if you want to prevent these further outbreaks.

But I have also seen diabetics with skin manifestations of yeast infections around the armpits, in the groin, around the feet area, and this also can be due to a higher blood glucose level and we know that Candida yeast infections feed on sugar. So if you’ve got continually high blood sugar, if you’ve got high urinary output of glucose, you can certainly predispose yourself to manifestations of yeast infection if you’ve got diabetes.

So this could be a reason. And I’ve also seen some diabetics actually being diagnosed with diabetes after the doctor discovered they had a chronic vaginal yeast infection which led to blood testing. So that’s another thing you may want to think about.

So to answer your question again, is my diabetes the reason I’ve got a yeast infection? It could well be. Get yourself checked out. I hope that answers your question.

Hi there, Eric Bakker, naturopath again, author of Candida Crusher with another question.

Is my yeast infection linked up with a lowered immunity?

Absolutely; a strong immune system is going to overcome a yeast infection much more easily than a weak immune system. But not only a yeast infection, a strong immune system is going to overcome a lot of problems in your body; inflammation in particular. A strong immune system is now even linked to helping prevent heart disease, cancer, and many illnesses in your body. So it’s imperative that you develop a very powerful immune response.

How do we do that? Try and understand what builds immunity up in the body and also what breaks it down. In a previous video, I spoke about health builders and health busters. I spoke about increasing resistance and reducing susceptibility. You’re not going to build good immunity by taking antibiotics or by taking pharmaceutical drugs. These are purely symptomatic treatments. They make people a lot of money who make these drugs, but they don’t build you a lot of health.

You need to think of your immune system like a powerful army. If a country has a weak army, it gets invaded quite easily. If a country has a very powerful army, it’s going to take over that threat very quickly and deal with it and lay it to rest before it even infiltrates into the country. So it’s important for you to understand this concept.

I want you to really work on building up your immunity, and I’m going to speak a lot more about this in other videos. But I’ll explain a little bit more about immune systems in this video for your interest.

Immunity is linked up very much so with digestive health, with emotional health, and particularly with adrenal health. So the adrenal glands manufacture a particular hormone called cortisol, and cortisol has an extremely powerful affinity on your white blood cells. So good cortisol levels mean a powered up immune system. Poor cortisol levels mean a weakened immune system. This will explain now to you why when people undergo stressful events that have a period of time not long after where they get ill.

So cortisol affects the body in many ways, but when it comes to your immune system, cortisol in sufficient levels is going to help prevent acute infectious disease. So it’s going to help prevent recurring coughs and colds and flus. Cortisol in sufficient levels is going to prevent hypersensitivity or allergic response, i.e., food allergies. Cortisol in sufficient levels is also going to help prevent autoimmune disease and ultimately a very good adrenal system should ultimately help you prevent cancer.

These are pretty good reasons why you want good adrenal health. I’ve seen many people with chronic yeast infections with poor immune health that can’t recover because they’ve got poor adrenal health. And once their adrenals are treated and powered up and cortisol is working, the chronic yeast infection goes away. So that’s something for you to think about.

I hope that answers your question. Thank you.