Category: Candida Crusher FAQ Videos

Good day, Eric Bakker, naturopath, here again.

Today, I’d like to do a video on how people think they get well and how they actually get well.

In my book, Candida Crusher, I’ve written a bit about this. If you go to Chapter 7 in the introductory section of this chapter, you can read about this. I call how people think they get well, fantasyland. Because a lot of people are used to taking a pill, a drug, for headache or arthritic pain or a digestive problem, and the problem goes away. They will automatically infer this is probably how you treat diabetes or heart disease or cancer. We’ll just get chemotherapy and it will go away. High blood pressure; we’ll take a pill. We’ll be cured instantly. We live in a society that expects instant gratification. They buy something sweet; they have a good time, they enjoy it. They have pain; they’ll take a pill. The pain goes away; they enjoy the fact that the pain is gone. This is really fantasyland. This is not really how the body works.

I’ve never been to fantasyland. Maybe you’ve been to fantasyland, but I can’t comment on what it’s like there. I think it’s just a big figment of a lot of people’s imaginations. They want to believe this sort of rubbish. And the drug companies make you believe this, too, with their advertisements on TV and all.

When you think about it, there is no such thing. If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. There’s always something that’s going to bite you in the butt. There’s always a hook when it comes to an instant result. A pharmaceutical drug that will take a symptom away will have a hook, and that hook will be a side effect. I’ll do another video on the LD50 rating on the lethal dose 50 on how drugs are actually tested against toxicity, and I think you might be quite horrified to hear that video. But I’ll do one of those soon.

Fantasyland is actually how people think they get well. A reality check is how people actually get well. When you’ve got a chronic problem, to get well, we know the best way to get well is to make changes in our lives, is to be accountable for our actions, and to start trying to understand the disease process; the link between cause and effect. This is quite an intelligent approach. And you’ve probably heard me say in other YouTube clips, common sense isn’t very common with a lot of people today. I want you to use common sense. If you’ve got a problem in terms of your health, there is a reason why you’ve got that problem. If you’re intelligent enough to want to get rid of that problem long term without side effects, you will need to make some changes.

I’ve done a couple of drawings here. I hope you can see them. You’ll see a line here going from top to bottom in a linear fashion. A little bit like a slope here. You can see this slope here going up. This is actually how people think they get well. They’re not feeling well down at the bottom here, and then they’re feeling well at the top. At the bottom, they take a drug and at the top, they’re feeling better.

I’ve drawn this other picture here. This is actually what I call a reality check. You can see all these ups and downs here. You can see this little mountain here and then this little valley here. Same thing here. There’s a little elevation and a little trough further up here. What we’ve got here is the patient initially improved, but then if we look further down, the patient aggravated. She made some changes, she improved, and then she aggravated again. Let’s just try to clarify what’s going on here.

When a person comes to me for treatment, they initially improve because they leave my room with some instructions, a diet change, and maybe a dietary supplement. They’ll have some improvements that will occur. They may have a little aggravation along the way, but generally when they come back, they improve. I get them back in say three or four weeks. And I’ll say, “How are you feeling?” and they’ll say, “I’m feeling pretty good.”

Let’s just go a bit further now. We’re going to tighten things up a bit more, and maybe treat you a bit deeper. And then they’ll phone me up or email me or on the follow-up visit, they’ll say, “Oh, I feel terrible, bloody awful. I felt good initially, but now I’m not so good, Eric. What have I done? What is it? I can’t work out what it is. I keep getting these setbacks all the time.” And then my response to that is “Well, let’s just analyze what’s happened over the last three to four weeks. What have you done? At what point where you feeling good and then it all turned pear-shaped?” And the patient will go, “Actually, I went to my sister’s wedding.” Or it’ll be something like “I had an assignment due and I had to finish this assignment up.” Or it could be a lady with a few children saying, “Well, the little one was up crying at night, and I had all these diaper changes, and the baby had a fever. And then my husband was away for two days on business and I was at my wit’s end.”

Usually there will be a stress proceeding the aggravation. It can be emotional stress. It can be physical stress. It can be the fact that someone went to their sister’s wedding and had a couple of glasses of champagne. It could be the fact that somebody got bored, frustrated, and had a half a bar of chocolate, but there will be some type of cause and effect that needs to be worked out. And if you’re intelligent, you’ll work that cause out, and you’ll understand the connection. This is how you learn. As you keep learning – as you advance and improve – you won’t make those mistakes anymore. Or you’ll appreciate the cause and effect and be more careful in the future. This is going to pay big dividends.

Did you notice how both the lines went up? The one with the squiggly bar went up as well. The trend is improvement, but there’s ups and downs along the way. This is how the stock market works. I want you to try to understand this. A lot of people will buy shares. I’m not really into the stock market, but my brother is, and he says you buy shares. So you buy shares and then you hold onto them and they improve, and then you might want to cash them in. But then if you keep shares long enough, you’ll realize there’s a trend. Share value will increase and decrease, increase and decrease. But the trend overall is for those shares over a long period of time just like a house or another big investment is that would generally increase. Many people panic and they will sell those shares when things are getting bad. And then two or three years down the track, they’ll regret it and they’ll think. “Ah, darn, I should have kept a hold of those shares because they’re worth a lot more money now.” But many people make mistakes and they panic on the downturn. There’s opportunity in downturn. And this is opportunity, I’m saying, this is when you need to learn your lessons when you need to not sell these shares but hang onto them. You need to make changes because eventually your health will turn for the better.

I hope this video makes some sense to you. And you can read more about this – certainly a lot more in my book, Candida Crusher. Thanks for your time.

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

A patient asked me a couple of weeks ago “Eric, why are you recommending I take digestive enzymes with my yeast infection? What’s the benefit of taking a digestive enzyme? What am I going to get out of it? I’m already taking a magnesium supplement, fish oil, vitamin C, what benefit am I going to get from an enzyme really? I chew my food properly. I don’t think I need this product.”

Now this lady’s had a yeast infection for about 15 years, and my reply to that was you do need a digestive enzyme. And these are some of the reasons why you will really benefit from this digestive enzyme.

When Candida really gets a foothold in the body like it has in this patient, we did a stool test and we found she had a major yeast infection. She also had poor levels of beneficial bacteria. She also had poor levels of amylase, which is a pancreatic enzyme. She had pancreatic elastase 1, which is a particular marker I found to be very affected. And I told her I said, “Allison, you need this digestive enzyme. It’s going to help you big time. It’s going to allow you to break food down better.”

So I put her on a product with protein, fat and carbohydrate enzymatic activity to really improve her digestive system functionality. Digestive enzymes in probiotics, in my opinion, will one day be more important than multivitamins, much more important because we don’t really live in a natural world anymore. We eat the wrong foods. We eat too much food. We eat food under stress. It’s now found that 1 in 5 people in America have one meal of the day in front of Facebook. We tend to use our mobile phones all the time. There are too many reasons why we’re distracted from eating properly. But when we’ve got a yeast infection, we tend to also have an altered digestive system in general with a reduced functional capacity to digest these foods, so we really need these enzymes. They make a big difference.

Digestive enzymes to me are a bit like when your battery of your car is flat and you get three big guys at the back at the car to give it a good push and then drop the clutch and then all of a sudden the engine starts. You’re giving it a boost. And that’s what enzymes do to your gut. They give it a boost. They kick-start it. They allow you to break foods down, healthy foods down to better substrate, which in turn will allow better absorption and digestion and utilization of these nutrients into the cells. But, furthermore, they also allow these foods to move down to the lower regions of the gut where the beneficial bacteria can thrive on their residues. Also if you break foods down properly, it’s going to stop some of these partially digested foods going through the leaky gut and setting up a food allergy response.

So those are just three reasons out of many I could tell you why enzymes are required. Some people say that enzymes help to break up Candida cells and eradicate them and wipe them out. They may do all that, but I don’t really care about that much. I care more about improving the gut function of the patient. And I’ll do that by lifestyle, education, and enzymes.

Now my book, Candida Crusher, is full of these recommendations. So if you’re watching this video, I highly recommend that you have a look at a copy of my book and incorporate the methods I’ve outlined particularly in Chapter 7. You’re going to find a lot of good information on eating properly, what foods to eat, how to eat them, how to incorporate special foods into the diet, the right way to take dietary supplements; all these tips and tricks you won’t find in these phony and fake books that are currently on line which don’t explain these at all. Because these people never saw patients. It’s just a book full of information basically. If you want the real deal, have a look at Candida Crusher.

So digestive enzymes are important for Candida eradication, and it’s something I’m working on right now. So watch this space.

I hope that answers your question about digestive enzymes and Candida. Subscribe to my YouTube channel and there are many more videos coming your way.

Thank you.

Hi there, Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand with a Candida question.

Eric, I’ve followed your program, but why does my yeast infection keep coming back again? Why do I keep getting all these symptoms all the time? Why can’t I get rid of it? I’ve tried your program. I’ve tried Doctor X’s program, Doctor Y’s program and Doctor Z’s program. It keeps coming back. I’ve taken supplements from this health food shop. I’ve listened to the neighbor next door who told me to take this product. My mother-in-law told me to eat this food, and it keeps coming back again. Why can’t anybody cure me?

I love it when people ask me these stupid questions. Nobody can cure you; you’ve got to learn to get yourself fixed up. So let’s get one thing straight. I’m not here to cure you, all right? Because your body has got the ability to heal itself, but you’ve got to give your body the right conditions in order for that to be achieved. There’s no magic. There’s no magic pill. If you really believe that, then maybe you would believe in Alice in Wonderland. There’s nothing like that at all. Every person who’s alive, who’s got a pulse and a heartbeat has got the ability for their body to return to a state of health, so the innate healing capacity of the body is very strong. Cut your hand; it’ll heal up fast. Have a cold or cough or flu, it should disappear and go away in time with a good powerful immune response. Develop Candida, it should go away if you do things right.

If you’ve got a cough or a cold, would you consider smoking five cigarettes a day and drinking three glasses of wine when you’re sick? No, not usually. Usually when you’ve got a cold or flu or a cough, you think to yourself, “Well, maybe I’ll give the beer or the wine up for a few days. Maybe I shouldn’t smoke so much tobacco or eat so much chocolate.” Normally when people are sick – depending on how sick they are – they’ll make the right kind of changes to allow their body to restore capacity.

So when you’ve got a chronic yeast infection, you need to make these changes. You need to allow the body to build up and get its own health restored by giving it the correct conditions in order for it to achieve this. And how are you going to do that?

Well, my book took three years to write and contains 700+ pages and is written exactly for somebody like you to explain what I’m trying to tell you in my video. If you follow the instructions outlined in my book, particularly in Chapter 7, you’re going to beat this thing permanently once and for all and you’re never going to get it back. It is possible to get rid of that yeast infection 100 percent permanently to eradicate it, but you need to give your body the right conditions.

Don’t believe in the lady next door or mother-in-law or a health food shop. Believe in yourself and by following a really good protocol and by staying on track and keep on doing the right things, making adjustments, you’re going to get rid of those symptoms permanently.

Over time, symptoms should improve, but may initially aggravate. I’m going to do quite a few videos on aggravations and die off and these are topics to teach you and help you understand what I mean and why a lot of people experience originally die off in treatment and then confuse this with an aggravation thinking they’re on the wrong track.

Look at many people in life who have tried to achieve something highly successful. They’ve had setbacks. Did they throw the towel in and say, “I can’t do this anymore. It’s not going to work”? No, they kept on track, and they did what it took to get where they are today. And that’s exactly what you can do no matter how sick you are with Candida. When you first start noticing aggravations, don’t just pass the treatment in, but stay on track. Winners never quit; they just keep on going. And that’s why I wrote my book for people like you, so you’re not going to quit either.

Please subscribe to my YouTube channel and have a look at candidacrusher.com. And if you’re serious about beating that yeast infection, have a look at my book because it will outline a lot of different tips and tricks to show you how to achieve this end.

I hope this video was of use to you. Thank you.