Eric Bakker, the naturopath from New Zealand.
Thank you for coming back and checking out the channel.
We always appreciate it.
I've got lots of questions to go through.
Every week I get questions you can imagine, we've got lots of subscribers now and people
send through all kinds of questions.
So here's a question.
Why do many, many old practitioners think that candida infections are complete bogus?
I wrote a bit about this in the book, Candida Crusher.
In fact, things are changing, slowly, slowly, things are changing.
Interesting, when I had a look at the source of information, Wikipedia, which is extremely
medically minded, kind of a website, you know people like me who take an interest in candida
are basically called shamans and quacks and kind of fringe dwellers, you know, or pseudo-scientific
cult members.
I'm being called.
So, wow, I didn't know that I was a David Koresh fan all of a sudden I don't belong
to any cults or.
I'm not involved in pseudoscience.
I've got a bachelor degree.
I didn't get a master's or a PhD, but in fact teachers, my teachers have been my patients
for more than three decades.
When you're sitting in my chair and you treat people repeatedly, time and time again for
not just years, but decades, you start to see a pattern developing where particularly
I saw this in the 80s and 90s probably more so than today that I saw many medical practitioners
would poke their head in the sand and be ignorant to a candida problem for a person.
The only candida issues that were taken seriously were generally females with vaginal yeast
infections, but men, you know, people like me in my 20s when I had a candida problem,
I was treated like a fruitcake, basically told to see a psychiatrist.
Now, some patients I've spoken to even recently still get that kind of a stupid deal when
they go to a medical practitioner, but not all medical doctors are cut from the same
cloth.
You need to understand that there are many incredible amount of medical doctors out there
now who've taken a big interest in candida, yeast infections.
In fact, as I mentioned, things are changing slowly.
Even on the Wikipedia page, which is extremely pro-pharmaceutical medicine and pro-surgery
and anything else beyond that is quackery.
Even on the Wikipedia candidiasis page and on the Candida albicans page, you can read
there, particularly on the albicans page, you'll be able to read that people need to
take, practitioners need to take yeast infections more seriously and not just look at bacterial
infections.
So things are changing.
The whole idea about systemic candidiasis being a pile of crap, it's actually not true.
We know that people can get infected systemically.
And many again, medical practitioners believe that when someone like me says that, that
it's, excuse me, it's bogus.
It's nonsense.
It's not based on scientific facts, while in fact, I'm sorry, it is based on scientific
fact and in fact, in 1969 if you're a doctor watching this, dust off your old Lancet medical
journal, the prestigious Lancet, there was an article published in a 1969 Lancet on a
man called Mr Kraus.
In fact, it proved to the medical community way back.
What's that?
50 years ago that in fact if you swallow candida, you know if you're perfectly healthy and you
actually, and you've been proven to be healthy through every kind of test performed on you
and they can't find candida, when you swallow several capsules containing viable or live
albicans literally within a few hours you can get extremely sick doing that.
And not only that, within several hours of blood draw confirms candida albicans is actually
in the bloodstream.
So we know that people can get yeast infections systemically without having to, you know,
acquired, AIDS for example because we used to think that AIDS is a disease that of course
rendered immunity so low that many people would get sick and die from basic infections
like candida.
But we also know now that many people get candida who don't have serious immuno compromised
ability, even healthy people can get candida.
What also more and more doctors are recognizing is that antibiotics are not the right thing
to give to people routinely because they create a yeast problem.
As I've mentioned many times on this channel, half of my time, this has been spent over
decades repairing the damage that was obviously you know, occurred after antibiotics, particularly
yeast problems in the gut.
And not only that, but also SIBO problems and many other problems that people face with
bacterial overgrowth rendering almost more certainly susceptible also to parasite infections
like blastocystosis, which are rampant, which many medical practitioners in fact now believe
is part of the normal microbiomes parasites like blasto.
So you're either going to go to a doctor with blinkers on who still follows the old line
that diseases are bacterial, that if a person has a cough or sniffle, they need a drug immediately
or they'll die because of that symptom will kill them.
You know, you got the old school doc, but you've got the new school doc now.
Your younger graduates coming out, the all the dinosaurs are dying off, thank goodness.
And the new breed is coming through.
Now new doctors are learning a lot more about microbiome and even probiotics and how beneficial
bacteria are and because of course I'm 60 now, so the doctors I've dealt with all my
years when I was younger were all T-Rexs and brontosauruses and all these old dinosaurs.
We don't need these old dinosaurs anymore.
We need new dinosaurs.
All right.
New people, new technology, new understanding based on microbiome.
So this whole idea that the problem is all in your head now is actually slowly fading
away because thank goodness, thank goodness all the work I've based my practice around
this finally being scientifically validated after decades and decades of being called
a charlatan, a quack, pseudoscientific moron, all these things.
Finally, people like me are being recognized.
In fact, there's leaders in medical, not, you know, the pseudo scientists.
So the future of medicine will be far more regarding microbiome and particularly understanding
the role that candida plays in the gut.
Because you know, as experts point out, 19% of women have this yeast normally occurring
in their private area by default.
So you know, and a lot of people, not everybody, but a lot of people have candida albicans
in their gut, kept under control, but it's the overgrowth that's that we are concerned
about, the imbalance.
So it's not about getting in there and curing candida and killing this and all this sort
of nonsense that I hate to see all over YouTube.
It's about getting the balance back.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but interest his or her patients in true ways
of living, working according to the laws of nature.
And if we do use medicines, we use natural medicines, not pharmaceutical, highly synthesized
drugs that make people sick and kill them.
That should be the pseudo-scientific cult.
Those are the people that should be the fringe dwellers who give poisons to people, peddle
poisons, and then point the finger at us.
So in years to come, all these drugs will be gone.
There'll be no more toxic drugs use on humans, well into the future, and people have really
got this understanding of toxicity, medical toxicity in their heads.
But I think what will change is when the profits are coming more from micro-biome treatment
and novel probiotics made, that's when the profits start coming up.
You'll find a lot of the poisons hopefully will start going down.
So why do many doctors miss the diagnosis still?
And that's because they follow the old school line.
The convention, old medical professors line, that all diseases are not caused by candida.
It's impossible for that to occur.
And we still have this fallacious belief.
So in time that will change.
But for now, remember you've got the old dinosaurs and the new ones.
So if you've got a candida problem, go to a new dinosaur, go to a new doctor.
Don't go to the old school because you'll probably end up getting a trip, a referral
to a psychiatrist unfortunately, thanks for tuning in.
Don't forget to read my book, Candida Crusher, and particularly the first few chapters where
I talk a lot about why practitioners miss the diagnosis, and I go much more deeper into
why medical practitioners think that this diagnosis is a sham.
Thanks for tuning in as always.