Hi there, Eric Bakker from New Zealand.
The naturopath from way down.
A question I've got from a subscriber here: is a candida cleanse necessary?
Is it really necessary to do a candida cleanse?
Well, is it really necessary to do anything in life?
It depends, again, if you need.
You only should do things if you need to do things.
You only should buy things if you need to buy things.To answer that question, get tested
first.
Find out if you've got candida or you haven't got candida.
Remember, a percentage of people that I've seen over the years, easily 50%, maybe a bit
more, don't have candida at all.
They swear to God they've got candida.
They say, "But, oh, you're wrong, Dr. Bakker.
I've got every sign and symptom.
I've got itchiness.
I've got sugar cravings.
I've got vaginal thrush.
I've got toenail fungus.
I've got brain worms.
I've got bugs crawling in my eyes.
I've got this, I've got that.
I've got tinnitus.
I've got every sign and symptom."Now, guess what?
I could write down 10 diseases with all of those signs and symptoms, and it's not candida.
This is why doctors don't like people self-diagnosing, going to symptomimprover.com.
Remember I've told you guys about the lady I saw once who told me she had this rare brain
tumor.
I said, "Wow, show me the specialist's report.""Oh, no, I didn't go to a doctor."I said, "Well,
how did you find out you've got this rare brain tumor?""I went to symptomfinder.com.
I started with an itchy elbow, and then I went all the way up and it ended up being
a brain tumor."Don't fall for self-diagnosis.
Don't diagnose yourself.
Go to a naturopath.
Go to a integrated medical doctor.
Go and talk to someone.
It's not that easy to self-diagnose.
It's like me going to my computer and trying to get into rewriting the whole Microsoft
database or something.
I don't know any of that stuff.
I keep out of all that stuff.
I let experts do that.If there's something that's difficult in your life, try and find
someone who likes that difficult thing.
Because they'll probably help you with that difficult thing, whether it's accountancy
or candida, or something like that, or fixing your computer up.
There's usually someone out there who loves that kinda stuff.
Ask around, and you'll find someone who's interested in candida.My practice is not taking
on any new clients for the foreseeable future, so it would be good for people to please stop
asking me if I can see them as a special case and stuff like that.
I'm going to get involved a lot more in education for 2019.
I'm probably gonna take a sabbatical for a while, basically to get my head above water,
to start breathing oxygen again, and to chill out.
I've been seeing patients for so long now.A candida cleanse is necessary if you've got
candida.
A candida cleanse is necessary if candida is affecting your body.
If it's affecting it adversely.
You may have a very mild candida problem that's not really an issue.
Or you may be like some people I see have a serious candida problem that needs serious
attention, and there are plenty of people like that out there.
Get your homework done first.
Understand about the facts of candida.
Look into it more, which you probably have done.
But please get that diagnostic functional stool test completed, particularly a yeast
culture.
Get the stool culture.
See what species can be cultured.
What count?
Also, when you're doing that, guess what?
They're gonna find other stuff.
They're gonna find what the levels of good bacteria are, what the levels of parasites
are, et cetera.Before I started this YouTube channel in 2013, I didn't hear anybody on
YouTube talking about stool testing for candida.
It's a bit like pin the tail on the donkey.
You've got these systems?
Just take these candida products.
Not a good idea.
Get the facts right first.
Find out if you've got it.
If then a candida cleanse is necessary, if candida is really causing a problem in your
body, then you can get it fixed quickly, efficiently, and low cost.
That's what it's all about.Thanks for the question.