greetings. it's new zealand naturopath, eric bakker. author of candida crusher. thanks for checking out my video. it's good to be back. i just had a trip over to the states and canadato visit a good friend of mine, spend a few days in los angeles and went down to anaheimto expo west, the world's biggest nutritional and natural health expert. what an incredible experience it was.
a lot of stress. long distance air travel. it does involve quite a bit of stress andit's so good to be back home in my own house with my own food and my own bed. it's just awesome. i'm glad to be back and i'm going to do awhole heap of videos today. got an email from a lady. my friend in sweden, natalie. natalie was a bit concerned on an articlethat she read.
why candida diets kill your thyroid and makeyour candida worse. i've got an article here. i'm just going to go over this article withyou and explain a little bit about why most of this is absolute crap. it's put together by a person who believesthat thyroid is the main denominator for nearly all disease. you name it; it's because of the thyroid. you're losing hair, thyroid problem. your marriage fails, thyroid problem.
you can't get an erection, thyroid problem. you get gangrene and your toe drops off, thyroidproblem. you're fighting with your neighbors, thyroidproblem. you get the picture? i call these people "one trick ponies" andthere are plenty of them out there. you need to be careful about people who tendto promote one condition, one medical complaint or one illness or one imbalanced organ asbeing like the main cause of all disease. it's a lot of crap. there are many different reasons why illnessis caused by the body.
there are many case and effects, so don'tfall for the line that the thyroid causes all of your health problem anymore than iwant you to fall for the line that candida causes all of your health problems. in fact, i've stated many times in my videosthat about half the people that i see, that i check out and carefully analyze and do stooltesting have got no candida at all. they, in fact, have got very poor levels ofbeneficial bacteria or they may have a lot of parasites or they may have a strong inflammationor they may have a low grade continual inflammation we pick up. then when we analyze the blood, we find they'vegot epstein-barr virus or they could have
something entirely different. they could have lyme disease. people are quite interesting when you workwith them. many people have their mind made up. "oh, i've got candida. all of my problems are candida and i wantyou to tell me that my problems are candida." but when we check them out carefully, theymay not have a yeast infection at all. i had about half a dozen cases yesterday andone guy, a stool test result, it was straight out yeast infection.
you could see it. he had candida parapsilosis, a more unusualstrain. he had perfectly good levels beneficial bacteria. we could culture the yeast in the stool. we could see tons of dead yeast in the microscopyanalysis. he had no inflammation. it's a straightforward kill case. we gave that guy canxida remove for two orthree months, he's as good as gold. that poor man had serious rectal itching andjock itch.
that's going to clear up entirely. that's why i like carefully checking peopleout before i make up my what's wrong with them. let's get into this document here. "why candida diets kill your thyroid." look at that word "kill". it's already almost like isis territory, isn'tit? this has got a lot of dramatic words in it,this document. "your worst nightmare has just come true.
after googling your health problems for sixhours, you must have read 27 articles that all point to one devastating condition. then, any doubt you might have had was laidto rest after a diagnosis was confirmed by your produce stock boy of your local wholefoods market." it's actually really fooling a lot of peoplehere. "that's right. you must have candida. there's no other explanation. why?
it's not the only known health condition thatis responsible. it is the only known health condition thatis responsible for causing every single symptom and disease known to man and woman. have digestive problems? it must be candida. craving sweets? must be candida." basically, this guy does the same on his website. he's saying that every condition literallyis caused by hypothyroidism.
he says here, "candida has quite become thecatch-all diagnosis for just about every symptom today. let's get one thing straight. you can't kill it and get rid of it forever. it's a common misconception. candida overgrowth has a lot to do with thyroidhealth. i'll show you simple ways to fix your candidaovergrowth and prevent it from coming back by fixing the underlying cause of the problem. hint: this doesn't involve starving candida."
then he says, "hypothyroidism is the mostcommon cause of candida, not sugar." i'm sorry, but this is a load of crap. the most common cause of candida is antibiotics. the most common cause of candida and multiplefactors involved. there is not one common cause, but i can tellyou that in my opinion, one of the most striking causes of yeast infection i see today in patientsin antibiotics. how do i know that? twenty, thirty thousand patients plus. that's how i know that.
i can absolutely say that with confidence. i have never seen people as sick as i havetoday who've been on multiple rounds antibiotics. in most cases with careful analysis, whatdo i find? yeast infection. i can say with confidence in my opinion andfrom my clinical experience of 28 years, the most common cause is pharmaceutical antibioticuse. don't discount the fact, also, that thesedrugs are in foods now. if you eat commercial poultry, antibiotics. many foods contain antibiotics.
hypothyroidism, i'm sorry, mr., but it isnot the most common cause candida. this is actually crap. this is not really a true statement. this is a false statement. "much of what you've been told about candidais dead wrong. for example, sugar doesn't cause candida anymore than it causes diabetes. candida overgrowth is actually caused by hypothyroidism,estrogen dominance, excess cortisol, and their effects on your immune system." if you look at my candida crusher book, whichi'm going to send this person a copy of my
book because i would like to get a bit ofcommunication happening here. this person will be able to read that, infact, i've written about 25 different independent causes of candida yeast infection. pharmaceutical link quite highly in there. stress is not the cause of candida. stress allows a person to have a vulnerabilityto getting candida and a continuation of the problem, a continuation of sibo, a continuationof leaky gut syndrome, a continuation of poor immune function leading that person open toa wide range of illnesses. because excess cortisol shuts the immune systemdown.
it's a well-known fact. then he goes on to talk about circulatoryiga, which is probably the most predominant antibody made in your body. he's basically saying here that circulatoryiga becomes deficient in hypothyroidism making you more susceptible. the thyroid keeps coming up all the time. it has everything to do with estrogen dominanceand excess stress. but one thing that he is correct in, stressdoes have a huge big helping hand in the continuation of candida, but it's not the main cause.
stress certainly affects a person's abilityto consume healthy foods. stress makes us more vulnerable to wantingto have salty foods, sweet foods, junk food, cola, spending long hours at night on computers,not sleeping properly. and, of course, as our vulnerability increases,our susceptibility increases, our resistance drops and then we leave ourselves wide openfor a whole range of different illnesses as i mentioned. he does also say something that is true here. "there have been many studies that have lookedat the effects of candida on vaginal epithelial cells on the influence of estrogen."
we know, for example, that women premenstrually,especially one to two days before their period, are much more prone to a thrush or a vaginalyeast infection. i've spoken about this on my videos beforeif you look under the women's section. because estrogen as it starts to come up inthat part of the cycle, it stimulates the production of glycogen and it does so to plumpup the cells, so the cells of vaginal area plump up. the womb plumps up. ready for implantation. ready for fertility to occur.
ready to nurture that fetus. this is sugar. and, of course, is this candida present inthe vaginal area. it's going to cause a problem because it'sgoing to feed on that glycogen because of the stimulation of estrogen and thrush willbecome quite an obvious symptom. it's also important to mention that largewomen, bigger people in general with higher fat, more fat cells, produce more estrogenin their own right. they are also more prone to yeast infectionsbecause of that fact. high cortisol.
when you think about it. cortisol is a very important hormone thatour body produces under chronic stress, under acute stress. it was designed to allow us to handle stressfor periods of our lives. a long time ago when a person had high cortisol,they were better prepared for warfare, for famine, for natural disasters. but today, we get high cortisol because we'retalking on our mobile phone. we're upset with something. we get high cortisol when we're caught intraffic or we get high cortisol because someone
doesn't like us on facebook or some junk likethat. we get inappropriate high cortisol and weget cortisol high for too long. cortisol slows our metabolism down. it slows it down. it allows us to preserve and maintain morebody fat. and then, of course, we get that nice bigfatty ring all around here. we get this big belly fat, which is commonwith high stress and cortisol. we get the little bat wings on the arms. we get the fat deposition at the back here.
all these things are aimed. when there's no food around that we've gotthe fat stores to survive on. a bit like how bears will eat all summer andthen hibernate all winter and burn off the fat. if only a fat person could do that. sleep all winter and wake up in spring skinnyas a chicken. it doesn't work like that. you can see what cortisol's role is. cortisol does also suppress immune functionand this guy does mention that in his article,
which is fair enough. i must give him some credence here. he does have a few good points to his article. but it's completely wrong to say that hypothyroidismis the main cause of yeast infection. he says also "candida diets kill your thyroidhealth and make candida worse. if candida feed on certain forms of sugarand carbohydrates and cutting all carbohydrates out of your diet will do the trick. restricting carbohydrates in your diet isdangerous to your thyroid health." what he's basically saying here is that thesecandida diets involve stopping all carbohydrates.
that is actually stupid and nobody shouldstop all carbohydrates in their diet. carbohydrates are necessary for energy. they're necessary also for good gut function. our bacteria need to ferment carbohydratesand to grow on the residue of carbohydrates. i've never been a fan of carbohydrate restriction. you will note i talk about sourdough rye bread,for example. i talk about different types of grains andstarches. some people have got this stupid idea to takeall grains, all starches out the diet and just live on juices, kale juice and a bitof chicken and stuff like that.
you can't live like that. you get sick very quick. carbohydrate restriction is not a good ideain candida. you will not develop a good microbiome witha carbohydrate restriction. anyone that tells you to restrict carbohydratesis quite foolish and you need to walk away from these kind of people. "without adequate carbs in your diet, badthings will happen." well, of course, they will happen. no one's talking about taking all carbs outof the diet.
"starving your candida makes it more aggressive. restricting carbs and starving candida onlycontributes to the underlying problem." this guy is quite extreme with his view with"kill" and "starve" and all these strong words. be careful when you read these kind of articlebecause there's plenty of them on the internet. this is this person's three simple ways tocorrect candida without killing your thyroid. "eat carrots. carrot fiber will help absorb excess estrogenwithin the digestive tract. supporting healthy circulatory iga production. let's talk a little bit about circulatoryiga.
we didn't go into that too much because thisguy doesn't really explain enough to you about iga. in my opinion, low iga is not because of thyroiddysfunction at all. there may be a relationship between them,but the main cause of iga are these things, which i'm going to read out to you now. high antigenic load. people eating the wrong kind of food. people having food allergies. sometimes one inappropriate food when eaten,especially with leaky gut, can drain iga.
your body makes about two to three grams ofcirculatory iga per day in the bloodstream, as well as in the intestinal tract. and it does so to basically help to regulatethe immune function in the digestive system very carefully. it's almost like velcro. it will stick to things it doesn't like andhelp to remove them from the body. you can have a high iga or a low iga. low iga is quite common with people that arequite overwhelmed. pharmaceutical drugs, anti-inflammatories,non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, blood
pressure pills, aspirin. many drugs affect iga levels. many people also take pharmaceutical drugsfrom tap water. if you go to the big cities, there are tracesof drugs in all the tap water today. they can't filter it out. viral infections. many people have a low grade chronic ongoingviral load. this will cause a complete drain on the bodiesiga production. if you've got a very small leak in the valveof your tire, you can keep pumping it up all
the time. but over a period of months, it will keepgoing down. that's what we call a viral load. you can have smoldering infection in yourtonsils, the adenoid. you can have a smoldering infection in theileocecal valve. there are different parts of the body whereyou can have a smoldering infection. i've spoken about this many times. you're flying across the rain forest, there'sa small fire burning. you fly back next week; the whole forest isgone because that little fire took out the
whole forest. one match stick can take out an entire rainforest. just like one virus when left unchecked canwipe out the whole immune system. depending on the integrity of the immune system. poor nutrition. you're not eating the right stuff. you're not getting enough vitamins and mineralsin your diet. you're eating junk food. the crap food i had when in america was disgusting.
i walked into a restaurant and the guy said,"sit down, sir. we'll fix you a real healthy breakfast." it was crap. i couldn't believe what these people weregiving me to eat. i basically couldn't eat this kind of stuff. i said to tracy, "i'll be glad to be backhome to my own vegetables and my own fruits and the food that i've got, fresh fish andgood quality food." if you eat crap, you feel like crap and youlook like crap. simple as that.
inflammatory bowel disease. very common with iga dysfunction. it's incredible how many people have got irritableor inflammatory bowel. parasites. poor levels of beneficial bacteria. as you can see, there are many reasons whyiga can be low. how do we increase iga? again, i've done a video on this. the four r method is good.
remove, replace, re-inoculate and repair. this guy doesn't talk about any of that stuff. you just eat carrots and your iga will goup. it's not as simple as that. remove the offending foods. very important to do. remove the offending drugs. find out what pharmaceuticals you're takingthat could be affecting the immune system in the gut.
you replace enzymes. many people lack digestive enzymes. re-inoculate. make sure that you get good levels of beneficialbacteria through your foods or take good probiotics. and repair, so heal the leaky gut, removethe offending foods. these are all clever things to do. none of them are mentioned in this article. this is just one of the sensationalist articles. balance your blood sugar.
and here's the killer for you. eat more fruit when you've got candida. it's an easy way to lower cortisol and boostyour immunity. fruits are easily digested in the upper portionof the digestive tract, long before it reaches the lower portion of the digestive where candidabelong. i'm sorry my friend, candida can live anywherein the gut. this person's assuming that candida only livein the large intestine. candida can live in your mouth, your throat,your stomach, your pancreas, your small intestine, the whole flipping digestive system.
eating fruit is a stupid idea with candida. stupid idea. too many patients over the years have shownme through clinical experience that loading up your diet with lots and lots of sweat fruitslike bananas, pineapples, plums, pears, peaches, all those sort of things is a bad idea. these are playing right into the hand of ayeast infection, so i don't recommend that you do this at all. the only fruits i recommend with candida arethings like coconuts, avocados, pomegranates. some people can get away with kiwi fruit.
many fruits have got a very powerful allergenicityabout them, too, which means that they have a really bad effect on the person's immunesystem. they'll lower the iga. they'll bypass through the leaky gut. they will create bloating, brain fog, gas,all these sort of problems. this person probably hasn't got a clue aboutall these issues because this person probably never sees any patients. making these stupid assumptions on fruitsare easily digested is dumb. you may as well say, "i'll have one or twoglasses of cola a day because it won't affect
you." restore your circulatory iga is point three. this person is saying here, which i do agreewith. but eating carrots to restore iga is not agood idea. then, i've got a simple three food triplethyroid boosting daily protocol. you believe what you want to believe, buti just think these articles are a bunch of crap and i read too many of them and they'reoften written by misinformed people who are trying to push one particular product andone particular protocol. i couldn't care less what protocol you follow.
i couldn't care if you buy my book or my productsor anything. it's all up to you what you do. i designed this channel to give people informationbased on my experience. i made this channel to help people to becomewell and also dispel a lot of these stupid myths about fruit is okay with candida becausefruit is not okay for the majority of people. i have got a minority that can tolerate fruit,but generally upon careful analysis they had no yeast infection at all. they had some bacteria imbalance and poorlevels of beneficial. people with bad candida should not eat fruit.
people with bad candida need to understandthat pharmaceutical drugs will continue to make them sick. thyroid and adrenal health do factor in withcandida, but they are not the primary cause. there's an association there with them. as i've mentioned before, many people witha continual immune dysfunction will be much more prone to having candida. and when they've got candida, it also placesa drain on the adrenals and thyroid. what should you treat first? the adrenals and thyroid or the yeast infection?
that depends on the symptoms. it depends on the severity. in most cases, you can treat them both atthe same time. i hope that's dispelled some myths for you,natalie, and given you a bit of information and insight into what this person's saying. i would just take it with a grain of saltor maybe a grain of carrot. thanks for tuning in.
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