Category: Candida Crusher FAQ Videos

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

If I don’t take all my medicine, does the yeast infection really come back?

It really depends what you mean by medicine because are we talking natural medicines or pharmaceutical medicines? So doctors will tell you that you need to take a course of antibiotics. It’s important to take them otherwise the infection will return or it won’t go away at all.

Generally speaking, I get people to take dietary supplements for a period of time until they get in control of their yeast infection. And I’ve got the 80/20 rule in my clinic, which you may have heard me speak about and write about in my book, Candida Crusher; 80 percent of your energy when it comes to yeast infection needs to be spent on lifestyle and diet and 20 percent on therapeutics. By therapeutics, I mean specialized foods, which inhibit and eradicate bad bacteria and yeast. And in this 20 percent also we’ve got various dietary supplements which are going to be highly beneficial.

So people often say to me, how long do I need to take these things for? And I say, as long as it takes; as long as you get in control of your Candida yeast infection. For some folks, that can be four weeks. And for some, it could be 18 months. So it also depends on how bad you aggravate when you take a supplement. I’m not a big fan of having patients aggravate; if a supplement aggravates or medicine, you take less. If it doesn’t aggravate, you can maybe take a little bit more or increase the frequency of the dosages. So there are quite a lot of variables here.

On subsequent videos, I’m going to talk a lot more about the key foods which inhibit yeast. For example, oregano, various kinds of yogurt, coconut oil, again there’s oil, there’s cream, there’s various types of coconut products. And there are a lot of other herbs like clove, for example. Clove is very good. Garlic is one of my favorites in particular. And there are many other foods I’ll talk about that can inhibit yeast.

So if I don’t take all my medicine, does yeast infection really come back? Well, look at your lifestyle and diet. If they’re all conducive toward eradicating an infection and you’re not getting the right results by taking some type of therapeutic, you’ll need to stay on this therapeutic. It shouldn’t come back. It won’t come back if you follow the golden rule of not to keep on doing what you’re doing, which gave you the infection. Work on the causes. Stop taking antibiotics. Drink less alcohol. Don’t eat so many sugary foods or refined foods. Eat more home-cooked meals, fresh foods; follow my diet outlined in Section 1, Chapter 7, in my book. I’ve written over 100 pages on diet and nutrition. If you follow this, you’re not going to get the yeast infection back. There are plenty of nice foods you can eat.

So you shouldn’t really have to take medicine for long. Three to six months maybe at most and that’s it for most people. Sixty to seventy percent of folks do not need to take medicine beyond that. If you do, there’s something wrong and I’ve written about that in the final section of my book; what to do when all else fails.

So I hope that answers your question. Thank you.

Good day, Eric Bakker back again with another question I get asked from time to time. This is a digestive system question.

Eric, does yeast infection cause nausea? I feel nauseous. Could it be through Candida?

It could well be. Yeast infections can create many different types of signs and symptoms; lots of digestive symptoms when we think about them.

In Chapter 3 of my book, Candida Crusher, I go into great detail about all the gastrointestinal symptoms that you’re likely to encounter and nausea is one of them. Altered appetite, you could be eating more or eating less. Burping or lots of gas production coming up this way or coming up the other way; gas or flatulence. Bloating, stomach pains, digestive pains, strange sensations in the gut, loosening the waist band because it’s too tight, cravings for sweet foods; these are all the most common symptoms that we see.

Altered appetite can come about through yeast proliferation in the small intestine and also bacteria in the stomach because many people with yeast infection will also have dysbiosis or another term for bad bacteria. Bad company likes bad company. And people with high yeast levels I often find will have parasites and other bacteria there as well, which tend to sort of congregate. It’s well possible that you could have dysbiosis.

I’ve spoken about fermentation dysbiosis in a previous video, and this is when yeast are consuming foods, refined carbohydrates and sugars in your bowel, in your digestive system and creating lots of gas as a byproduct. And this will create lots of bloating. And people with bloating can have nausea as well.

The other thing with yeast is they can produce toxins as they die off. Cell wall fragments can overwhelm parts of the gut and the immune system, and the liver can even become involved. And when the liver becomes involved, the person can feel quite sick and nauseous. So there are many reasons why you could feel nauseous with a yeast infection.

So to answer that question, does yeast infection cause nausea? It could well be implicated. Do my online survey at yeastinfection.org. Do the survey now and see if you are prone toward a yeast infection and also to see how high your score is. And you can read a lot more about it in my book, too, Candida Crusher.

So I hope that answers your question. Thank you.

Hi there, Eric Bakker, naturopath, author of Candida Crusher with another question I get asked.

What is the most common symptom of a yeast infection?

Well, there’s really no one common symptom. Symptoms usually come in clusters or groups. There are certainly several symptoms that are associated commonly with Candida infection. And the typical patient I would see would be a female between 18 and 55, she will have had a history of oral contraceptive pill or antibiotic use, she will have been under stress, she will have had children, or starting a family, young children or teenage children, probably earning a living, living in a relationship, maybe drinking coffee, drinking a bit of alcohol, this is a typical profile of somebody I see.

Many patients have some levels of fatigue or general malaise. Poor libido is quite common. Bloating, gas, constipation, or diarrhea, irritable bowel syndrome, rectal itching, sweet cravings, intestinal spasms or cramps, vaginal yeast infection would be common or thrush, urinary tract infection or recurring bladder infections; these are things I commonly see.

There could be some premenstrual discomfort or pain before the period. Thrush worse before the period or itching down there worse before the period is quite common. There could be depression or anxiety, poor memory, feeling spaced out, sleeping disturbances. There could be food allergies going on, environmental allergies. We could have sensitivities toward certain types of things like household cleansers or mold in the environment. There could be skin-related conditions. There could be coughs or colds or recurring infections.

As you see, there could be a whole lot of different things. So there’s not really one common symptom I would see with Candida. And many women present just with thrush. Others will come with a cluster of problems. So I can’t really say there’s one clear-cut common symptom that I would see.

So, yeah, I hope that answers your question to a degree. Thanks for your question.