Cool. I should say greetings. It's Eric Bakker, the naturopath from New Zealand. Thanks for coming
back. How do you prevent candida die off? How do you stop that die of from happening?
This can be a good video for people who are interested in knowing a bit more about
Herxheimer reaction. Now that die off and about all of the crap that goes with it,
when I read online, it's just amazing. I've just spent a good half an hour looking at a few sites,
different medical sites and natural medical sites, trying to get a feel what people say
about die off and how they treat it, what they recommend for their patients. Some of the stuff
I read made me laugh so much. It was like watching a Jim Carey movie literally. I was just literally
on the ground just about rolling around laughing. True. Anyway, I like Jim Carey and Robin Williams.
Now a very interesting one I just saw on a site I won't mention was a medical doctor who
talked about candida and die off and said the best medicine was Diflucan. In his experience it works
so well. Well, I got news for you doctor, it's got to be one of the worst drugs I've ever seen,
Diflucan. It's just fluconazole, it's just a waste of time for so many women in particular.
But let's talk about die off and what it really means to you and how you can actually stop it
its tracks before it even starts. Now, this is going to work for 90% or plus people. 90% plus.
I've made videos before on die off, but anyway, let's talk more about it.
If we look at Herxheimer. Dr. Karl Herxheimer was a dermatologist and I think he came from Austria.
Born in the 1850s, 1840s, and quite a clever doctor, very brilliant guy in fact,
I think that went on to, I think he was one of the founders of one of the universities in Austria.
Now he hooked up with another guy, just trying to think of his name now. I think it was Dr. Adolf,
no, not Adolf with an H, Dr. Adolf Jarisch, I think his name was, Jarisch. Jarisch and
Herxheimer were good mates. They worked together. They probably had a few beers together and
went around the town and probably lived around the time when Sigmund Freud was sort of
walking around with his pipe in Austria. But what these guys did is antibiotics weren't discovered
until the forties late, I think sort of early to mid forties, 1940s antibiotics came out.
Before that, they used mercury, they used a drug called silvestrol, I think it was called,
silvestrol. Which in fact, a professor here in New Zealand studied in 2005, recently had a
really good look at that drug and found it quite an amazing drug with sort of chemotherapy kind
of qualities about it. Basically it just gets in there and it just kicks the crap out of the body,
the immune system. But what they found is that when they treated patients with mercury or the
silvestrol drug, is they got massive secondary reactions. But syphilis, you've got this
bacterial infection, you've got these small things circulating in the bloodstream called spirochetes.
When they gave mercury to people with syphilis, usually after about I think several days, they'd
have a massive fallout, huge reaction, itchy skin, they'd be sick. They'd be vomiting. They
basically really, really in a bad way. And that's where the word Herxheimer reaction comes from.
The Herxheimer. It was initially called the Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction.
What it's come to signify is a treatment can be so strong and severe
that it invokes a very powerful response on the physical body, particularly the immune system.
What can you learn from what I just told you? Well obviously don't swallow mercury. It's not
a good idea because now we know it actually kills people and probably keep away from Dr.
Jarisch and Austrian doctors and stuff like that. Just be careful what people give you.
But the point I'm making is when you give a very powerful substance
and you keep giving it and giving it and giving it, you invoke a very powerful
secondary response in the body. The secondary reaction doctors call them.
That's the body basically fighting back. Now, many people haven't got a clue what
the Herxheimer reaction is. Some people call it impaired liver detoxification, other sites I look
at said the kidneys need more activation. Another websites said, "All you guys are just stupid. You
don't know what you're talking about. It's about lymphatic drainage." I don't think anybody really
knows. There's a lot of weird people out there with weird theories, but this is the kicker.
The main thing I want you to deduce from what I've just told you
is you've got to go very slow. In fact, the more severe you've got a yeast problem and the longer
you've treated for with allopathy or Western medicines, that more caution and circumspection
you need around your treatment. You need to be very careful. Very careful in the first few weeks,
particularly because if you come in there and take a product Canxida Remove, for example,
you were to take one or two tablets, say on a Monday, on a Tuesday, on a Wednesday, same, same,
same. You think it's not working. I'll just double or triple the dose. I'll take six per day. Within
14 days, you could be lying in bed for a week with serious gut problem, with serious skin problem.
Now we're talking people with major yeast infection, with massive jock itch,
with a lot of bloating and gas, with major sugar cravings, with anxiety, depression,
all the shebang, all this stuff that I experienced. I just don't want people
to go through the Herxheimer reaction that I experienced when I was in my twenties. It was hell
on earth. And I know a lot of my patients have also been through hell on earth,
particularly people who saw me before I started to really explain about what Herxheimer is.
Herxheimer is really bad for some people, it can send them to the emergency room.
For many others, I've worked with, Herxheimer is a very mild reaction. They could get just
some chills or fever, a bit of a headache and then it passes, but it can be unpredictable.
That's the point I'm also wanting to make, it's unpredictable. Some people with a minor yeast
infection can suffer massive Herxheimer and other people with a major yeast problem can have a minor
Herxheimer reaction. That depends on genetics, depends on detoxification pathways in the body,
it depends on the state of nutritional status, it depends on your lifestyle, it depends on water
consumption, food, dat da da da da. All these things will all govern what the response is like.
A clever thing to do when you go into a candida treatment is to have a look at the Candida Crusher
phases. There are three stages to the Candida Crusher program. I think you may be aware of that
if you've been following me for some time now. We have a couple of weeks where we lead into the
diet. And my diet is in a few different stages, but the lead in, I call the warm turkey phase
where we slowly take things out over 14 days and we try and get your diet to a reasonable, normal
kind of diet. Sort of actually eating vegetables, actually eating some fruits or some meats
instead of alcohol or take away or just junky food. You got to move into that 14 day period
into eating reasonably normal because we tidy that reasonably normal up
further and further over the next six to eight weeks, as you're going through the candida diet.
We have the introductory diet, which is the meat, eggs, vegetables and yogurt or maybe
modification of that. Then we have a low allergy stage, which is particularly important for leaky
gut and SIBO people. And then we've got the diet introduction phase. Now, if you want to
avoid Herx, those first two weeks are very, very important. When you're coming down off
your normal diet, which probably not so normal. Even if it's an extreme diet or whatever, I just
want you to move slowly away into the MEVY diet. And you can read about that on yeastinfection.org.
You can look on this YouTube channel because I will have spoken about the MEVY diet at length and
have a look in my playlist under diet. Or just is Google MEVY diet.
If you're very cautious in those first two weeks leading up and then you start
looking at taking a candida products at the beginning of the diet, very, very cautiously.
This is we're talking serious candida people here, you will avoid the Herxheimer reaction,
especially if you're very well hydrated and you understand the principle of what's going
in here in terms of food and supplements. If you tone things down, the Herx will be
a couple of percent of what it potentially could be. But if you don't take heed and understand
this principle and you rush head on into it, just like going to the gym, you haven't been to
the gym before for a year. All of a sudden, now you're going an hour a day for a week.
You won't be able to get your backside out of the bathroom because you'll be so sore
you can barely stand up. And that's also kind of a Herx, isn't it? You've created
so much problem there with your muscles, with toxic overload of lactic acid and stuff that
you're going to be really sore. And you're going to be kicking yourself that you did it.
No different from Herx. No different from going to the Caribbean and lying in the sun and you're
white as a sheet. You're white as the Madonna lily and now you're going to lie down in the sun
for five hours a day to get a suntan. Well, you'll be in the emergency room in a week, vomiting with
sunstroke because you did the wrong thing. If you do the right thing, as opposed to doing the wrong
thing, you're not really going to get into hot water. It's not rocket science folks. It's common
sense, something that's really lacking today. Thanks for tuning in.