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Eric Bakker.
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I always get asked this question: What does a stool test tell you about your health?
And that's what we're going to talk about in this video.
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So, here's a key question.
What does a stool test tell you about your health?
A stool test tells you an enormous amount about your health.
It's incredible.
A long time ago when I started the practice, stool testing was available, but not many
people were using it.
And wind the clock forward 30 plus years, not many people are still using that stool
test.
I know this from talking to lots and lots of people all around the world.
I work with [inaudible] people now in over 70 countries, it's incredible.
And most people have never even heard of a stool test.
Do you know that?
The kind of test I'm going to show you guys in a minute.
And if they have had a test done, it's been completed generally by a medical practitioner
or through a clinic, and it'll only be for a very little narrow parasite screen.
That's all it'll be for.
Imagine if you guys are going for a driving test.
Okay?
And the instructor takes you out and he says, "Could you see that sign over there?"
And you say, "Yeah, it says stop."
"Okay, you passed.
You got your license."
All right?
Or "Fail.
It says stop.
It doesn't say go to McDonald's."
Well, that's a but like what a doctor does with those conventional pathology stool tests
that just do one tiny little thing, and that's it.
All right?
A comprehensive stool analysis is like going for the full shebang, going for the full driving
test.
All right?
Everything's exposed.
All of your weaknesses are exposed.
All of your strengths are exposed.
Everything is checked out carefully.
All right?
But in this case you're not going to fail.
There's no pass or fail on the stool test.
All right?
So, let's talk about the stool test.
What is it?
Well, it's comprehensive, that's what it is.
It's called comprehensive stool analysis, or comprehensive digestive stool analysis.
There are many companies that offer this test.
But in my opinion, there are only two labs that you want to take seriously.
The rest are okay, but these are the two main players that are worth it.
Stool testing reveals a fantastic amount about your health.
But there are a couple of protocols that need to be really understood if you want to get
the best out of a stool test.
Many practitioners done understand this information I'm about to tell you because they don't do
this test as often as I do, or don't have experience in using it a lot.
In our clinic we've performed over 5000 stool tests.
I could easily say that by the sheer amount of people that we've seen that we've stool
tested.
It'll be beyond 5000.
If I go to my file cabinets bulging at the seams, there are hundreds and hundreds of
these reports.
I'm not a smart person.
But I am a person who's quite observant.
I look a lot of things, and I observe things, and I study things.
I might not have a Ph.D but I've helped a lot of people out getting better or improving
their health through the stool test.
Once you get a grip of this test and use it a lot, and use it frequently, you get to understand
how it fits with the patient.
And particularly, you'll understand the markers that you see how they reflect in either good
health or poor health as a client.
And particularly with the test I'm going to show you here, this is a particularly bad
test or not so good one.
But this guy at the moment is feeling in fantastic condition, in spite of all the years he's
been sick.
So, let's give you an overview of the stool test first.
If you look at any conventional stool test, there are multiple pages to it.
So there are lots of different markers that we look at.
It takes me usually five minutes to analyze a stool test, because I've looked at so many.
I generally know what markers to look for and how to put which markers together to try
and work out what's going on with the patient.
So, the front page of most tests that I look at tends to be the bacteriology panel, or
the yeast culture.
Bacteria careful assessed in the gut.
You're looking at the bad ones.
The dis biotic ones, which can be good ones that have grown out of proportion.
We're looking at imbalanced bacteria, so bacteria going in transition from good to bad.
And we're looking at beneficial bacteria, at the expected beneficial count.
These can be bacteria like lactobacillus, you may have heard of this name, bifida bacteria.
You've got Escherichia coli or E coli.
And these are bacteria that are okay for the body.
But again, you don't really want any bacteria in massive amounts overgrowing others.
It's all about the balance, about the harmony.
And when we look at the panels, we can genuinely start seeing right away where the balances
or imbalances are.
So, where's my pen?
[inaudible] my pen, you guys.
Looks like someone's flogged my pen.
All right, so here you can see we've got this panel here, which is good because nothing
should be in there.
You've got the imbalanced panel here, and we've got the beneficials over here.
So, we want to get a high counting of course for the good, and we want no count for bad.
So, the front page tells me a lot about the bacteria and the yeasts.
All right?
The second page further information gives me information on parasites in the body.
Good labs, each of the three samples, if it's a time three test, will be tested independently.
The not so good labs mix all the samples together.
The benefit of the stool test is having so much information in such a small document
that could really help to guide you the patient into getting better, and also making you understand
why you're not recovering.
The amount of stuff I've picked up in these stool tests over the years have been absolutely
phenomenal.
The misdiagnoses, the stuff ups from specialists.
The complete stuff ups from other practitioners giving patients completely wrong advice because
they weren't tested.
People who were treated for conditions they never needed to be treated for because assumptions
were made, tests weren't performed, and dumb things happened because of that.
All right?
So, stool tests are going to give you these kind of markers.
You should be looking for these markers.
So, I mentioned the bacteria culture, a yeast panel, a parasite panel, an inflammation section,
there should be inflammatory markers to show if you'd run inflammatory conditions or irritated
conditions like irritable bowel syndrome, and through to allergies, et cetera.
You should also notice there things like digestion parameters, so often a pancreatic marker called
elastase will show on the test.
And again, on at least 100 or more occasions, I've found a very low pancreatic elastase
marker with a practitioner who performed the test said everything was perfectly fine.
But I picked up it was not fine.
And once we corrected that, the patient improved incredibly.
More recently, we've had a patient from the West side of America who spent over 100,000
U.S. dollars on tests and products that got a total resolution of symptoms within eight
weeks on a stool test.
Basic supplements were used.
We just used Canxida for cleaning up the gut.
They made a diet change after the stool test.
And the results were awesome with this patient.
Yet 100,000 dollars were spent with literally dozens of tests the patient never needed to
do.
If you've got a gut problem, get a stood test done.
If you've been sick a long, long time, and particularly if you've had antibiotics, let
me say that again: Antibiotics, if you've had those, you need stool testing.
I had a patient yesterday, a woman who's 56 with interstitial cystitis.
Okay, so basically inflamed bladder.
Now this poor lady ten years ago had six months of antibiotics by her dentist for a supposed
tooth that was a little bit suspect.
So, they put this lady on antibiotics for six months, it's ruined her gut.
Now her gut has calmed down, but the bladder and the waterworks are playing up now.
So, that's going to be a stool test.
Even thought she's not really symptomatic with the gut, we want to correct the gut to
get a good result with the bladder.
All right?
That's the advantage of the stool test.
I can't tell you how many cases I've resolved with comprehensive stool analysis.
Now, these tests aren't cheap.
These tests may cost you four, 500 dollars, in New Zealand dollars.
It could be three or 400 U.S. dollars.
But is three or 400 bucks worth it?
Of course it's worth it for your health.
Of course it's worth it if you're feeling like crap.
But you need to see someone who understands stool testing.
And there are plenty of good practitioners out there that understand stool testing in
the U.S., in Europe, in many countries.
And if you can't find one, it's a matter of going to an association, a naturopathic association
or an integrative medical association.
Or even go to the labs themselves or email them or find a doctor who does integrative
medicine or functional diagnostic medicine.
That's a much better approach for you if you've been sick a long time and you're sick of these
standard pathology tests that get you nowhere.
All right?
You many not have parasites.
You may not have candida.
You may have something entirely different.
A test will clear the way.
It'll take away all the confusion.
You'll understand what's going on.
You'll understand, you should have some sort of timeline that also regarding recovery,
all right?
And you don't need to spend a ton of money on supplements or tests.
A few basic tests are what most people need, excuse me, not rafts and rafts of tests like
that poor man in America spending all that money.
So, think about it.
That's the comprehensive stool test.
Now what was the question again?
What does a stool test tell you about your health?
It tells you everything about your health.
Because your gut is the seat of your health.
And if you can understand what's wrong with the seat and fix the seat up, you can improve
your health 100-fold.
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