Category: Candida Crusher FAQ Videos

Hi there, Eric Bakker, naturopath, author of Candida Crusher.

The longer I have a yeast infection does it make it harder to treat? That’s a funny question.

I think what the person’s trying to say is, is this infection hard to treat if I’ve had it a long time? Well, it certainly can be. And the reason why this would occur is, I think, for psychological reasons and also physiological reasons. When you have an infection a long time, you will have tried many treatments. You may become despondent, anxious or even depressed because you can’t beat the infection. You may have talked to a lot of people about the infection. You start to wonder whether you are really ill or not, and this is what happened to me when I was in my ‘20s. I was sick for a long time and nobody would listen. In fact, some people might even tell you to go see a psychiatrist because they may think the problem’s all in your head.

So physiologically, what you’ll find is yeast can get stronger and change and multiply. You can end up with a lot more of the fungal form of yeast throughout your body. Yeast can end up in places where it can become quite hard to eradicate from the body. Yeast also keep bad company, so you will produce potentially a toxic digestive system with many other bad bacteria and parasites. So you can end up with quite a bad leaky gut, multiple food allergies, quite a raised immune response. You could feel quite ill with a continued long yeast infection. And my concern with such chronic cases is that the person will feel emotionally despondent and physically despondent, and it can be very hard to get on top of a yeast infection that you’ve had for many years.

So what do you do? What’s the solution when you’re feeling quite ill? Well, the solution is to take it easy. Get the right information and make good decisions. And as you slowly start to improve, which you should, is find treatments that are going to work for you. Avoid strong kill treatments that aggravate you. These are quite common and I read a lot about these on Kill Zone and see them on the internet where people are trying to quickly kill the yeast infection.

Well, these treatments don’t really work that well because you’ll soon find that you’ll be back to square one again. So I prefer people to go very slowly and to forget about this idea of killing, but rather look at this idea of encouraging the friendly bacteria by changing lifestyle and dietary habits. By looking at stress levels in particular, by looking at a holistic approach and by holistic, I’m talking about looking at the areas in your lifestyle and in your diet that are weak and need strengthening up.

My Chapter 7, the fifth section in my book, Candida Crusher, explains quite a lot about the concepts I’m trying to explain. There’s over 100 pages in my book about lifestyle changes. There’s over 50 pages in the book about immunity, stress, and a yeast infection. And once you really start to understand the importance of the stress connection, it may hold the key for why you are not recovering. So don’t focus on killing, look more at improving your diet and lifestyle and gently encouraging the right bacteria back in place, and this will discourage the bad bacteria.

This treatment has worked for thousands of patients and I’m sure it can work for you, too. So give it a go and have a look at my book. It will explain a lot more about these concepts in great detail. And many more of video clips will also explain more details of the point I’m trying to make.

So the longer you have a yeast infection, the harder it can become to eradicate. But never give up because I’ve seen many people with yeast infections even of 20 years’ duration beat the infection within 12 to 18 months with the right treatment.

So I hope that answers your question.

Good day there, Eric Bakker, naturopath, author of Candida Crusher. Another question for you, which I get asked every now and then.

Is there anything I can do at home to cure my yeast infection?

Well, there are lots of things you can do at home. And if you’re talking about a vaginal yeast infection, I’m just going to read you a small section out of my book, Candida Crusher.

So I look at a three-stage approach when it comes to vaginal yeast infections. Stage 1 is reducing inflammation, wiping out bacteria and the yeast infection. Stage 2 is cleanse and restore, return acid alkaline balance back to normal. Stage 3 is to sooth the irritation and calm any itching or burning skin.

So this is a section out of my Quick Start Guide, which is the fourth chapter in the book. The Stage 1 is an anti-fungal and anti-bacterial douche you can use. And a thing you may want to try is use New Zealand’s Manuka Honey with a high UMF factor or unique Manuka factor, which is a very powerful anti-bacterial, anti-fungal action that this honey has. So you would use one to two tablespoons of this honey warmed up. You can add a couple of cloves of finely chopped garlic to this honey and just gently warm it. And you would apply this honey to the affected area vaginally, and you would leave that there for about 30 minutes or longer for the action to take place. It’s very soothing.

After you’ve completed Stage 1, you can give the area a good clean and a good rinse with some apple cider vinegar. This is the cleansing douche. So two tablespoons to a small bowl of warm water, add one teaspoon of a good quality colloidal silver. Again, you just give that area a good cleanse and a good wash, dry gently with a soft towel, and use a hair dryer to dry completely.

And then the third stage would be the soothing, calming for the irritated and burning skin would be to use yogurt cleanse. So you could apply yogurt to the area. Just get a small carton of low fat, high-quality yogurt and apply this to the area and leave that there. You leave that there, again, for a little while or you can even leave it overnight if you use an applicator to insert. You could use a large maxi pad and leave the yogurt for several hours.

This three-stage approach is a very nice, soothing and calming and anti-bacterial effect and can be used quite regularly. So that is a home treatment for a vaginal yeast infection. I’ll cover other kinds of home treatments in other videos. So you can read a lot more about these tips in my book, Candida Crusher.

So I hope that answers your question.

Hi there, Eric Bakker, here again with another frequently asked question regarding yeast infections. This is a question from Rick in Colorado.

Eric, what is the recovery time in Candida? What is the normal time somebody recovers from a chronic yeast infection?

Well, Rick, to answer that question, I’d have to say to you, how long have you had this thing for? What are your expectations of recovery? Have you had this thing for a year or two years? It looks like Rick’s had jock itch and toenail fungus. I’ve got no real idea how long you’ve had this for, Rick, but let’s just say you’ve had it maybe for five or ten years.

Well, the recovery time really depends on a lot of factors, but it depends particularly on how you apply toward the recovery. What measures are you taking? Are you treating this thing locally, systemically? Are you looking at your lifestyle and diet or are you just expecting supplements to do the curing for you? Are you using combination pharmaceutical drugs, anti-fungal creams or pills? And do you keep on drinking alcohol when you do this? Surprising how many guys do this when they see me; they’ll keep drinking beer and having pizzas, but then take a few pills and expect to get rid of it. Well, in that case, the recovery could be protracted or could take a long time.

So how long does it take someone to do a PhD? How long does it take someone to pay off a mortgage? How long does it take someone to do anything worthwhile in life? It all depends on the ability of that person to be enthusiastic about wanting to get the outcome and result they’re looking for. It depends on that person’s ability to apply themselves to get the results they’re looking for. So if you apply yourself earnestly and follow the advice I’m giving you in my book, Candida Crusher, you could nail this thing within 12 months. If you’ve had it for 10 years, I’d expect a 12-month resolution.

Anyone that tells you you can cure this thing, Rick, in 12 months is going to be close to the mark. But if someone tells you you can cure jock itch in 12 hours, well, you need to walk past these turkeys because there are a lot of these people out there that make these stupid statements. Just like I get spam emails in my inbox saying there’s a $126 million check for me to pick; some nonsense like this. If you believe in this sort of nonsense, well, there’s no hope for you. But I don’t think you’re that type of person.

So you can recover and you’re ability to recover is dependent on how you apply yourself with well-defined principles and a good program. And if everything works out well and you do things properly, within one year, well and truly, you’ll have this thing completely cleared up. But not only that, you probably will have lost some weight in the interim. Probably your sleep will have improved and you will have gained a considerable improvement in your health and well-being overall.

So I hope that answers your question, Rick. Thanks for your question.