Category: Candida Crusher FAQ Videos

Hi there, Eric Bakker, naturopath, author of Candida Crusher. Thank you for tuning into my video today.

Today I’d like to talk about dairy products. Can I have dairy products if I have a Candida yeast infection? It’s a question I get asked regularly from time to time. Eric, can I have cow’s milk? Can I have yogurt? Can I have cheese? Can I have cream cheese? Can I have quark? Can I have Kefir? All these questions pertaining to dairy products and yeast infections.

Well, the answer is you can have dairy products, unless you have a milk allergy, you may be lactose intolerant or you may have a problem with beta casein, one of the proteins in cow’s milk. In that case, dairy products may not be suitable for you, particularly cow’s milk. Cow’s milk is the most allergenic of all the dairy products. So if you do have a problem and you do want milk, I would suggest you drink raw unpasteurized, unhomogenized cow’s milk to see if you can tolerate that. And in some cases, you can. If you have a real problem with dairy products, you may need to avoid cow’s milk entirely. But in many cases, a person can tolerate the raw milk.

Yogurt is the best of the dairy products to have with a yeast infection. And it forms a part of my MEVY diet approach, meat, eggs, vegetables and yogurt, which is a very good approach for Candida. So a good quality cultured and sour yogurt should represent no problem for those with yeast infections. Small amounts taken each day and gradually built up until you can tolerate up to a cup or two, even three cups per day, in some cases.

Kefir; I’ll talk about on other videos, but Kefir is a very good food as well for you to have made from Kefir grains. So some can tolerate Kefir that can’t tolerate yogurt and vice versa, but you can have yogurt with a yeast infection. Try to avoid the commercial yogurts with the artificial sugars in them and the fruity yogurts in the small containers, you know, the ones you get in the supermarket. They’re no good. So you may need to go to a health food shop to buy better quality yogurt, but you can often get them at supermarkets as well.

So if it was an FAQ, I would say, yes you can have yogurt with a yeast infection in most cases unless proven otherwise.

So I hope you found this information quite useful today. Please subscribe to this channel for more updates and to find out where a regular video is going to be released. My book, Candida Crusher, can be purchased on Candidacrusher.com. It contains up to 200 pages on diet and nutrition. A very comprehensive book, which I think you’ll find very useful if you have a yeast infection or treat people with yeast infections.

Thank you for your time.

Greetings, Eric Bakker, naturopath, author of Candida Crusher.

Today I’d like to talk to you about Miso, which is a fermented soy product. There seems to be confusion about Miso, whether it is an acceptable food if you have a yeast infection or not. Some people I talk to say it’s totally unacceptable. It contains yeasts and molds, which can stimulate a Candida proliferation. Other people say it’s a fantastic food and it should be consumed.

So people out there will be very confused about these varying stories. So my take on it is Miso is a perfectly acceptable food if you have a Candida infection, providing you buy a good quality Miso that’s unpasteurized, unhomogenized, and is at least two years old. You’ll be buying a very good quality food and a small amount of Miso each day is acceptable. I believe Miso is a more beneficial food in the cooler weather, as it’s a warming food, than it would be to have in summer. But you may have other ideas on that.

In this video, I’m not going to talk about the soy debate, that’s quite political. You can read about that in my book. I believe that soy products are okay for some people and, particularly, they’re problematic when infants have them or menopausal women consume too much soy that is unfermented. But myself and many patients I have have been eating soy for 30, 40 years. I believe as part of a balanced diet, soy is a perfectly acceptable food where it’s unfermented.

Like anything, if you’re going to eat red meat three to four times per day, it’s going to be a problem. If you’re going to have 12 eggs a day, that’s going to be a problem. If you’re going to consume tofu three times per day as your main form of protein, it’s going to be a problem. Everything in balance and in moderation is the key to a healthy body and a healthy life.

So coming back to Miso, Miso is a good food and it’s particularly good if you make it in a nice warm broth and put some Benito flakes in there and perhaps some onions and some other C vegetables like wasabi, it’s a very good food to eat. High in essential minerals, high in iodine and many other minerals, so it’s a fantastic food, and it’s a food I encourage you to have quite regularly during the fall or the autumn or the cooler months, in particular. Having one to two cups of Miso soup per day is a great food.

So I hope this dispels a few myths and answers a few questions. Thank you.

Greetings, Eric Bakker, author of Candida Crusher. Thank you for tuning into my video today. Today I’d like to talk to you a little bit about wheat and yeast infections.

Can I eat wheat if I have a Candida yeast infection?

This is a question I hear quite often from patients. Many people seem to have confusion in this area. There’s a common belief that if you have a Candida infection, you can eat no wheat at all. No gluten, no wheat products, no bread or anything containing wheat or gluten.

Well, I completely disagree with this belief. And it’s based on my experience of seeing many patients who can tolerate wheat and gluten products when they have a yeast infection. Please don’t compare gluten allergies or wheat allergies with a yeast infection. Many patients with Candida can tolerate wheat and gluten products. I believe there’s a lot of unnecessary hype about these so-called gluten allergies that so many patients have today.

While I don’t dispute the fact that people have digestive problems, I do not believe that all of a sudden in the last 5 to 10 years, gluten seems to be the big problem. We’ve always known that gluten allergies exist, but when you really do thorough testing with patients, particularly when they have small biopsies or thorough blood investigations, this is not really found to be the case. What is found to be the case is many people suffer from SEBO or small intestinal bowel overgrowth, lack of beneficial bacteria, various pathogens in the gastrointestinal tract; these are things we’re finding. People are eating too much sugar, they’re eating under high stress, they’re eating the wrong kind of foods, they’re drinking too much alcohol and caffeine, and then they blame gluten.

So can I eat bread? You can eat bread, but I do recommend that if you’re going to have bread and you have a yeast infection that you don’t have the risen bread or the bread that’s been puffed up and made with yeast. Now why would I say that? I would say that after speaking with many people in the baking industry who believe that today commercial bread still contains active live yeast in it. So I would be quite cautious about recommending a patient to have a wheat product with active yeast in it. So for that reason, I would recommend you have flat bread, you know, bread that’s actually flat like wraps and bread that you can roll up. You’ve probably seen it. These sort of wrap type breads. Those sort of breads are just made basically with a good quality of whole grain, stone ground flour, and salt and water. I believe that those breads are acceptable. And, again, you don’t want an excessive amount of wheat. It wouldn’t be a good idea to have wheat three or four times per day. But if you wanted to have lunch with a flat bread with some chicken on it and salad, I’ve got no problem with that if you have a yeast infection.

So if we consider this an FAQ, can I have wheat or gluten if I have a yeast infection? Yes, you can. Unless proven otherwise, you can. So I hope that dispels a few myths of so-called gluten allergies and Candida.

Thank you.