Greetings, Eric Bakker, New Zealand naturopath.
Thanks for checking out my video.
I've got an interesting question here.
I've got lots of questions to go through again, as usual.
So here's a question from a subscriber.
"Eric, do you have any suggestions for people who have allergic reactions to a lot of healthy
foods.
I've been on the strict candida diet for four months and my allergic reactions to things
like nuts and seeds, lemon juice I get mouth tingling, eggs I get gut and nasal, nightshades
and the achy joints, et cetera.
I never had such reactions to these things when I was healthy.
Could it be the long term allergies or simply because of leaky gut candida?
Should I avoid all of these things strictly and try again when I am healed?"
That's a great question.
Well, the first thing I'd recommend you probably do is check out ... do a stool test on yourself
to see what the heck is going on inside.
You know, a stool test generally will give you a lot of good information.
It's gonna show you what the microbiology of the gut is like, where the imbalances are,
where your strengths are, where your weaknesses are.
You don't need to do a leaky gut test if you do a stool test because that will give you
a pretty good idea on how permeable the gut is.
You'll be able to pick that up through the secretory IgA, through the bacterial levels,
all sorts of different things.
So that would be probably a smart thing to do if you've been sick for this long.
You could also consider food allergy testing, you know, a blood based test for IgG, IgE
antibodies to see if you're reacting to any kind of foods.
That's probably maybe the first test that you may want to consider, will be the food
allergy before you do a stool test.
Now let's say you can't afford any testing at all.
Well, fair, fair enough.
Okay, if you can't afford any testing, I can appreciate that.
What I recommend you do then is write down all of the foods that you're currently consuming
... all the foods!
So just get a piece of paper, my piece, my love allergy sheet for example.
Say you were, for example, here.
You'd write all your foods down in a column here, every food that you eat.
Okay?
This is quite a smart thing to do.
So you write nightshades, you write lemon juice, you write nuts and seeds.
Define the nuts and seeds.
Do you eat almonds?
Do you eat brazil nuts?
Do you eat poppy seeds?
Do you eat sunflower seeds?
I write everything down, preferably in categories: meats, dairy, vegetables, fruits, condiments,
grains, all that kind of stuff, and then itemize all those.
You could do it on Excel Spreadsheet.
And then you've got columns on the right of that.
What you wanna do then is write your severity index.
All right?
So meaning one, mild reaction, two, moderate reaction, three, bad reaction.
So just put a tick in those columns.
And then have a look at that list and then date it.
So now you've established all the foods you eat, how strong a reaction is, and when you
got those reactions.
All right?
This is a very smart thing to do, because then over time, as your gut heals, you should
notice that those things are going from a strong reaction down to a moderate to a mild
reaction.
First thing of course that you want to do is take out all the category 3 foods from
the diet.
Everything with a strong reaction needs to go.
And then you want to say, well how do I know what's reacting because I'm eating so many
foods.
Okay, now we can maybe talk about an elimination and challenge diet.
So you can keep your diet to a bare minimum.
Just eat basic stuff that you know doesn't react, perhaps like cucumbers, maybe spinach,
maybe broccoli, maybe some chicken or some fish, a few basic foods.
You could get your diet down to say five or six or ten foods, and then slowly start increasing
the foods one at a time over about a seven day period.
Each week you put a new food in to see what reactions are.
Then you can work out if that food is one, two or three category.
You really need to work this out for yourself.
Or, do a food allergy test and that's gonna be maybe what ... three hundred bucks to do
a food allergy profile.
If you do a food allergy test, I recommend you do an IgG IgE.
So do both of them.
It's a blood draw.
They take some blood out of you, they centrifuge that, they keep the serum, and that goes off
to the lab.
I think the best lab is still in Seattle called US Biotech.
I'll make a description in the description box below a bit more about this so you can
read about that.
So, FAP or food allergy profile, I mean it's a clever thing to do in this case because
they're gonna immediately take out a lot of guesswork.
If you are gonna do food allergy testing make sure you don't eliminate all of these foods,
of course.
Make sure you eat all of the foods that are challenging the body and then do the test
because then your antibody count is gonna be a more accurate representation of the foods
that you're currently eating.
So of course, don't go on lettuce and chicken and then do a food allergy test because you
may not see a lot of antibodies.
That may be a good solution if you can afford three hundred bucks or whatever it is to do
the test it may help you out quite a lot.
So let's see your questions here again.
"Could it be long term allergies or simply because of leaky gut candida?"
Well, candida can create a lot of problems for a person because it can fool and trick
the immune system.
You may have seen my video I did on the hyphal wall protein 1, HWP1 protein.
If not, check out that video.
I'll put a link again into the description box below in that video.
So this shows you how candida can mimic gluten for example.
But candida can jam up the immune system and make it very very difficult for the immune
system to work on a normal level.
So the immune system can have an overexaggeration or an underexaggeration in the gut.
Some people with candida can have very bad food allergies and once the candida is cleared
up, the allergies just seem to die away.
So yeah, it could be the candida and again, a stool test with a culture will show you
if you've got live active yeast or dead yeast.
"Should I avoid all of these strictly and try again when I'm healed?"
As I mentioned, you can do an assessment on yourself through a spreadsheet with all your
foods, you can do a severity index, you can do food allergy profiling.
There's many different ways you can assess or help yourself with this.
It almost stands to reason that you'll have a leaky gut of some sort, so you may also
want to consider probiotics at some stage, and maybe even some grapefruit seed extract.
You could look at Canxida Remove, Canxida Restore, for example.
They would work quite well in this situation.
But my guess is because it's such a severe case would be to do some functional medicine
testing first.
The ultimate would be for you to do a comprehensive stool test, three samples, as well as the
food allergy test.
Okay, you're looking at about maybe $700 but the thing is you're gonna get a whole lot
of information that's gonna put you into a very powerful position to get rid of this
condition a lot faster than you would if you were just guessing.
All right?
So, I hope that answers your question.
Thanks for the question, I appreciate it.