Category: Candida Crusher FAQ Videos

Good day, Eric Bakker again, naturopath, author of Candida Crusher.

A question I get asked all the time is I’ve been on XYZ Candida diet. I’ve tried this diet. I’ve tried that diet. I’ve tried the Paleo diet. I’ve tried whatever type of diet. I’ve still got this yeast infection. Why don’t these diets work? Do I need to go vegan? Do I need to do this or do I need to go that? There’s a lot of confusion out there.

There are a lot of good dietary approaches when it comes to a yeast infection, but I don’t think they are really properly put together in terms of a program, and they’re particularly not followed through with patients. While I have seen some good programs out there and some good dietary recommendations, I’ve seen quite a lot of silly recommendations as well, stupid recommendations. Recommendations that don’t make sense.

Many practitioners, unfortunately, only pay lip service to Candida. Meaning they don’t take this yeast seriously enough to really follow on through and make sure that their patient will stay on the program long enough to get the kind of results they’re looking for.

If you look at my approach, for example, the Candida Crusher diet, I like people to have a bit of a cleanse usually before they go into the diet and to slowly wind their conventional diet down. And then to go on a basic diet where we’re going to recommend ample amounts of protein in the diet, certainly carbohydrates and fats. We avoid the allergy foods, which I’ve covered in other video clips. And we certainly aren’t going to starve people or take a lot of foods out of their diet that they love to eat. But the foods that we tend to take out are the foods which challenge the immune system the most and also the foods which help to proliferate Candida, allow it to really grow in the body. These have to go and go temporarily. People often pick up considerably on this dietary approach with Candida, but they may go through an aggravation stage initially. That’s quite common, so I’m very cautious with patients with supplements in the first few months. I slowly put them in there and then slowly build them up.

Is it possible for you to get a good result the Candida diet? It is. It’s actually possible to get an outstanding result. But the thing is to stick with clearly defined principles and maintain on track with the diet for it to be long enough to give you the benefit that you’re looking for. And then the two danger times with the Candida diet are when people start them and as they pick up, that’s another danger period.

Let’s just analyze this in detail and have a look at what I mean by this. Once they start a diet, often they’ll be a period of aggravation within the first 7 to 10 days. And this is often misconstrued as “Well, it’s not working for me. I’m going to throw it in. I’m going to go back onto what I was eating or I’ll go back onto the Atkins diet or the South Beach diet,” or the Jelly Bean diet or whatever diet’s in vogue at that time. These people usually fall by the wayside, and they maintain a yeast infection for years on end because they’re not good at sticking with one thing.

The second period of danger is when I get a patient through that stage and they pick up and they start to improve. They’re actually getting better. And this is a time where they think “Ah, great, I’ve got to go to my sister’s wedding or I’ve got whatever, though, I’ve got a celebration coming up. It’s New Year’s Eve and I’ll have a few drinks and maybe some cake, maybe some sweet foods”, and then they crash. They go down. Because they weren’t quite ready really to start incorporating these foods back into their diet again. This is a danger period.

It’s very common for people to go through this. And you can read all about this in some of the introductory chapters in my book. I talk about this quite a lot. I’m going to do another video clip on how people think they get well, which I call fantasyland, and how people actually recover, which I call reality check. Those are concepts that I really want you to try to understand.

The point I’m making is Candida diets do work, if you find a good one and you find other people that have a good result with it. If anything is worth sticking to, it’s worth sticking through until you get a desired result. And maybe make some changes along the way. Everybody is different. Everybody will need to refine and change and fine-tune their diet to suit themselves. And that’s what practitioners are all about. We help you to fine-tune those results.

Go and find a good Candida practitioner who can help you get on track and stay on track until you get the results that you’re looking for. If you’re interested in a good program, have a look at my book, Candida Crusher. I spent three years working on this book. It’s helped many people just like you overcome a chronic yeast infection. And also if you want to get more information, please subscribe to my YouTube clips because you’re going to learn a lot more over the following few years.

Thanks for your time.

Hi there, Eric Bakker, another frequently asked question.

Eric, how do I protect myself from a yeast infection? How do I stop from getting a yeast infection back again or how do I avoid contracting a yeast overgrowth in the first place?

Well, it’s not that difficult to do, really, and many people who end up with Candidiasis, usually a combination of factors occurred. In many cases I’ve seen, a patient was never well since taking an antibiotic. So good advice for you right now, if you haven’t got Candida right now or want to avoid it is don’t take antibiotics. You don’t need them. In most cases, you really don’t need an antibiotic.

Now if a doctor’s watching this right now, I would challenge that doctor and ask that doctor how many times have you given an antibiotic to a patient and thought is this going to be a benefit or not? Because we know as practitioners that most illnesses are self-limiting. If the patient works under the right conditions, takes rest, eats the right kind of foods, takes some Vitamin C, maybe some Echinacea, they’ll often overcome that infection.

With my four children that are gown up now, we never, ever used antibiotics with any of the childhood illnesses ever. Not for coughs, not for colds, not for flus, not for urinary tract infections, we never went there. The children were never vaccinated. I had no immunizations. Now, again, you may think this is ridiculous. This is my personal choice being a father, being a responsible father, and a naturopath and a homeopath. I’ve treated my kids with natural medicine, so we didn’t have to resort to these toxic drugs.

So if you’re a patient watching this and you are worried about an acute infectious disease, see your naturopath about the right kind of treatment, so you can avoid this very toxic and side effect ridden therapy.

So antibiotics are one of the primary causes of yeast infections that you may want to avoid. The other one is stress, living a high stress lifestyle, which most of us do. Eating a diet late and takeout foods, sugar, alcohol, all these sorts of things we know are not good for us. Oftentimes, we do things in our lives where we know in the back of our mind it’s not really a good, healthy habit, but we keep on doing it. It’s a contribution of these habits along with antibiotics that often contribute to how a yeast infection will begin and how it is maintained.

So if you want to make your body Candida proof, stop doing these things that you know are eroding your health and contributing to bad health. Don’t take the toxic drugs if you can avoid them. Antibiotics may be useful sometimes in cases of severe bacterial pneumonia, but in most cases, they’re not required by the body at all. So by avoiding the primary causative factors, it’s a very powerful way for you not to contract Candida in the first place.

Have a look at my book, Candida Crusher, which can contains a huge amount of information on the causes of Candida and how to avoid these causes. There are plenty of other causes. The oral contraceptive pill is another one linked up with it as well. So these are just a few causes I’ve mentioned.

So subscribe to my YouTube channel for more good information and have a look at Candidacrusher.com and my book. That will outline lots of good information for you on how to avoid contracting a yeast infection in the first place.

Thanks for watching.

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

Eric, what are probiotics? Why are they useful? Can you tell me more about probiotics?

Well, that’s a good question and one I get asked quite regularly. Probiotics are beneficial bacteria. So your body contains billions of bacteria. There are a lot of bacteria particularly concentrated in your digestive tract. You’re looking at maybe between 500 to 600 species or more of bacteria in your digestive system.

So I tend to think of three main groups of bacteria in the gut. We’ve got the good guys or the beneficials. We’ve got the commensals or the guys in between. I call these guys the politicians. They can be good or bad depending on who’s around at the time. And then we can have the bad guys or the pathogenic bacteria. And the Candida species can be classified as pathogenic or bad when they’re in abundant amounts or they can be also classified as commensals because they’re generally kept in check by the good bacteria. Because most all people have got Candida albicans in their digestive system. It’s only when you get issues that upset the balance. For example, taking antibiotics or high stress, too much alcohol, various other factors that would allow the Candida species to take right off.

So probiotics are generally beneficial bacteria. There’s been a big explosion in the last few years of people taking probiotics. And there are many different types of probiotics you can take. But the two main groups which generally you’ll be familiar with will be the lactobacillus species and the bifidus species. But there are various other species even including yeasts. There are various yeasts such as saccharomyces or boulardii, which is a beneficial yeast. So not all yeasts are pathogenic or bad. So you need to be careful when you hear the word “yeast” that you don’t immediately think they’re bad.

So probiotics can be taken as a dietary supplement. I’m going to talk a lot more about probiotics in subsequent videos, and I’ll also talk a lot more about cultured and fermented foods which can help contain the yeast bacteria to enhance your flora or a high lactic acid, a particular acid, for example, in yogurt which can help to really build up levels of lactobacillus acidophilus in your gut. The lactic acid is a food for the lactobacillus, for example.

So probiotics are beneficial and they certainly have their place. And I hope that answers your question.