Category: Candida Crusher FAQ Videos

Question from a lady in Minnesota.

This question is can I use vinegar to cure my yeast infection?

Vinegar is an excellent substance to use. There are many different types of vinegars you can get, but the one not to use is the commercial white vinegar you’ll find in your supermarket. The best vinegar to use for vaginal infection is apple cider vinegar, preferably unfiltered, raw, unpasteurized and organic. We’ve got some very good ones here in New Zealand. I believe Bragg is quite a good brand in America. We’ve got one in New Zealand called Coral Tree, which is by organically grown apples and traditionally prepared.

Apple cider vinegar has been studied in various natural universities around the world, and I read a study recently in 2011 from a university called The Qua Medical University. I believe it was in Iran or Iraq, one of those countries. And the studied showed that, in fact, apple cider vinegar is more effective with vaginal infections than fluconazole. And the main reason why is because of the acetic acid which balances the vaginal PH and also has antifungal activities in its own right. There are many different chemicals in a good quality organic cider vinegar. You normally use between two to three tablespoons per several cups of water and use that as a douche, so it’s very effective. It’s certainly a good treatment, but be sure not to use the commercial white variety. And sometimes they’ll even put molasses in this to make it a brown color, so it’s pretty junky. It might be good to clean your toilet or bath with, but I wouldn’t really use it internally or with cooking. So use the proper organic apple cider vinegar; it’s a good one to use.

So be sure to check out my other videos on my YouTube channel, Candida Crusher. If you can’t find the question you’re looking for, just write to me, email me at candidacrusher.com and I’ll certainly post your question. Subscribe to my channel and also go to yeastinfection.org and you can complete my online candida survey; the most comprehensive one on the internet, which has taken me some time to put together. Whether you’re a man, woman, or child, it will give you your score and show you the severity of your yeast infection.

Thank you.

Hi there. Question from a man called Dave Benson in Chicago.

Eric, help me, I’m on such a restrictive diet with my yeast infection. What can I do?

How many people out there with a yeast infection are down to maybe five, six or seven foods and their diet’s become a nightmare? I’ve seen these in many cases with chronic infections. These are the basket cases. These are the cases that practitioners discard. They can’t do anything with these people. They hate them. Every time they make a suggestion and give them a dietary supplement, you know, the patient will just phone them or email them and say, “I can’t do it. It’s too much. I’m reacting.”

These are the patients I’ll generally do a comprehensive stool analysis on and find out what the heck is going on in here. And there are many different things we find with these cases. In many cases, we find a massive yeast proliferation. We find leaky gut. We find a problem with their circulatory IGA. We find a problem with amylase. We find a problem with low levels of beneficial bacteria. We find multiple problems.

All these terms I’ve just mentioned, I’ll be addressing in other YouTube clips of a similar nature. It’s too much to put it all out in one YouTube clip, so make sure you check out my other YouTube clips on comprehensive stool analysis where I go into each one of these things in great detail.

If you’re down to a few diets, find out what the heck’s going on. There’s something going on in here. If there’s not something going on in here, it could be a hidden obstacle to cure, which I explain in great detail in my book, Candida Crusher. You can read all about that in Chapter 7. You can read about that in detail in various sections where I explain about what to do if all else fails; Obstacles to Cure. So you can certainly dig up more information on that.

Over time, you’ll be able to eat more and more foods. But if you’re down to a few foods, I’d be asking a lot of questions. What type of supplements are you taking? What type of foods can you eat? What are the symptoms and signs that you’re expressing on the foods that you’re eating? You may be able to eat some fermented and cultured foods, but start with very tiny amounts and gradually build up. You may be living in a moldy house. You may have a nutritional deficiency. You may have a heavy metal infection; heavy metal toxicity that could well be a sticking point. You may even have a root canal filling causing a low-grade inflammatory response. So there are lots of different reasons why your diet may be restricted, but don’t give up. I’ve seen many people down to a handful of foods that over time are back into a full diet again.

Be sure to check out my other questions on my YouTube channel. And if you can’t find it there, post me a question on Candida Crusher and I’ll certainly reply to your question. And become a subscriber to my channel. And the other thing is, please complete my online yeast infection survey on yeastinfection.org.

Thank you.

Good day, Eric Bakker, naturopath, author of Candida Crusher, with another question. A question I get asked from time to time.

Eric, I eat a lot of sugar. I’m addicted to sugar. I’m addicted to soda drinks. Could these be causing my yeast infection?

Well, the very fact that you’ve got suspicion makes me think that you probably know it is causing a problem. I’ve often said that the foods and drinks that cause the most problems with people are the ones they’ve got the strongest relationships to. So if you have an addiction, whether it is chocolate, bread, soda, whatever, a choky bar, Twinkies; it could be one particular food that’s right in your way of recovery. Then that is your problem food. It doesn’t matter how much you eat, it’s the fact that you’ve got an addiction to this food.

I’ve written in my book in great detail about food and addictions, so I want you to think carefully about the foods that you’re addicted to the most or that you have a strong relationship with or you like to eat, because these are the foods that are going to create you the most problem.

So it could be apples. I’ve got one patient that eats five or six apples a day. That’s a problem. So when you think about food, it’s a little bit like alcohol. It’s not how much alcohol you drink that determines if you’re an alcoholic. It’s your relationship to alcohol. If you start thinking about wanting that drink at 4 or 5 o’clock in the afternoon every day, that’s a problem. It’s the addiction, and the addictions need to be treated.

I talk a lot about eating for emotional comfort and addictions, and these things need to be fixed up because they are often underpinning your yeast infection. But they can also underpin your high blood pressure, your propensity towards developing diabetes or many other diseases. So we’re not just talking yeast infection here, we’re talking a whole lot of chronic ill health that you can avoid by getting on top of this particular addiction.

So, I eat a lot of sugar, I’m addicted to it. Can this be causing my infection? Of course it can be, and these are the things that need fixing up. Not how many pills can you take to eradicate your yeast infection, how many probiotics can you take, what are the best foods to eat, forget all that bologna. You need to get to the bottom of your yeast infection. And if it’s an addiction, this is what needs treating.

So I hope I’ve answered your question. Thanks for the question.