Greetings.
Thank you for coming back, it's Eric Bakker.
We are going to talk about fermented in cultured foods today, you know, what these foods are
and some of my favorites and how I incorporate them into diets of patients that I regularly
see.
This is an area that I've been working on for a long time.
I started consuming sauerkraut probably what, 50 years ago now, a long time ago.
You know, being from Dutch descent, European descent, my grandmother made sauerkraut up
like a lot of German and Dutch women made up.
These weren't fads back then, these were a normal part of a healthy diet.
Today, sauerkraut's become a fad and I wonder how long the fads going to last.
Maybe, a little bit like macrame in the 70's and orange Formica bench tops and all these
beards the guys are growing out, it's all just passing fads.
Hopefully, this is a fad that's going to stay.
These are exceptional foods to eat in your diet and well worth incorporating if you're
not used to them.
It's great to start a person when they're young on sauerkraut, not when there are 45
or 50, you know, and some café, in some fad kind of thing.
So if you've got children start them young.
Get them into yogurt when they're really young.
Get them into sour yogurt, not some kind of yogurt with lots of fruit in their and artificial
sweeteners.
Those aren't really foods, they're just junk.
So, let's start with whey.
Whey is something that happens when you know, it's a liquid, it's the curds and the whey,
so when you put lemon, for example, in milk you're going to get a separation when you
boil the milk, you put some lemon in there, you're going to get a separation.
That's exactly what a guy called Hippocrates did about 400 years BC, is he got a hold of
some cows milk and he boiled it and he chucked some fig juice in there and some vinegar that
he made up and he used to give this tangy drink to his students and to people that he
was treating and he found some really interesting effects with that, that really helped improve
their gut and their digestive problems.
Dell, Hippocrates didn't really have fancy labs and microscopes and Google to play around
with but what he did have he had a few brain cells, that's what he had, probably more brain
cells than most doctors have today.
Hippocrates observed people.
He would give things to people and watch what would happen.
This is observation.
Today unfortunately, a lot of that observation is sadly lacking when it comes to medicine
because it's become such a regulated, controlled type monster.
You know, that when doctors try, and make these suggestions they're often ridiculed
by their peers.
I'd like you to look at a product called Molkosan.
I'm holding this up now, Molkosan, I'll hold that for a few seconds, so while you're typing
that into Google right now, Molkosan.
Molkosan was created by a guy that I have a tremendous amount of respect for, the sky
here, Doctor Alfred Vogel.
So Doctor Vogel, a very famous naturopath in 1952 designed this stuff called Molkosan.
Now, he brought whey drinks really to the attention of the Western world so I would
sort of see Vogel as a modern-day Hippocrates.
Using a lot of Swiss knowledge and empirical observation built up by Swiss naturopaths
and herbalists for hundreds of years this guy actually wrote it in a book.
So that Nature Doctor is a fantastic book.
It's one of the best books you can get in terms of natural health and common sense education.
Most of my work in my clinic is based on this guy's work.
Now you know the secret.
Vogel practiced for a long, long time and saw many, many people all without Google,
all without Internet.
Google didn't exist back then so guys like Vogel had to really understand.
They had to treat people, talk to other doctors in the valleys where they practiced to work
out what worked and what didn't work and eventually they worked out the right kind of treatment
for many kind of health problems.
And whey is brilliant, it's very, very high in lactic acid.
It's a little bit of the sour kind of a drink.
Molkosan's brilliant also to support on the psoriasis or eczema.
You can treat your skin topically with it.
Because the lactic acid really feeds up the bacteria on the skin.
You can use as a vaginal douche, it can be used for balanitis or washing men's private
parts in, it's a fantastic kind of a product to use.
It's one of my favorites is Molkosan.
Or just whey.
You can actually make up whey yourself at home.
Go to Google and look it up.
Apple cider vinegar.
Again, one of my favorites.
A guy called Bragg, you might have heard of Bragg cider vinegar.
Bragg is a remarkable guy.
I'd like you to go to YouTube and look at Bragg's video, okay, so put Bragg in there
and just look at the video on it.
Remarkable person.
Bragg talked about cider vinegar and really brought this to the public's attention.
Today unfortunately, a lot of people get confused, they look at conventional, you know, industrial,
commercial white vinegar that you can buy in the shop, which is really junk.
This is pasteurized, homogenized, you know, it's been boiled and heated up.
It's like table salt, they take it up to probably 1300°.
They destroyed it.
Then they put it in a container and they say here, this is for you, this is healthy.
So it's junk.
Stick with Braggs, Braggs is probably the best brand you can get of cider vinegar.
In New Zealand we've got cider vinegar's that are very good too.
These alkalis and cleanse the system.
These have a tremendous effect on building good bacteria, they reduce the incidence of
parasites in the body.
Cider vinegar is excellent for people with arthritis too in my opinion, it's one of the
best things you can take to really get your gut into a high spec.
Especially, useful during a Candida cleanse program.
Now, some people get confused and worry about cider vinegar and think it's going to feed
the yeast but it doesn't do that.
It will not do that, it's a cleanser and an alkalizer.
The third one is fermented soy foods.
I wrote a lot about this in Candida Crusher.
So if you haven't got a copy of my book you might be able to read more about fermented
soy foods if you go to yeastinfection.org.
I wrote a whole lot of stuff about tempeh and the different types of cultured soy foods
you can get.
Don't fall for the nonsense that soy is toxic, it's complete crap.
It doesn't turn men into homosexuals, it doesn't create retardation in babies and things like
this.
Asians have been consuming soy for thousands of years in the amounts far greater than Westerners
ever would eat.
The fertility rates in a 2004 study showed fertility rates were not affected at all by
soy.
It didn't reduce a woman's ability to carry a child at all.
Japan has been consuming soy also for 2000 years, there's not more gay people walking
around or retarded people because of soy.
Smear campaigns abound people.
We were told that butter was toxic and to eat margarine, we knew that was crap.
Same smear campaign got put out in the 80s and 90s.
Dairy board started to notice that the $300 million soy sales turned to 4.2 billion literally
20 years later so you know, of course they were worried, campaign started.
Eat soy, it's a great product if it's non-GMO, I'm perfectly happy with it.
But especially tempeh, tempeh's been inoculated with a bacteria, Bacillus, so by eating tempeh
regularly you're really benefiting the small bowel in the large bowel are really benefiting
from this.
They are exceptionally good foods to eat.
So if you want to cut meat down in your diet I am all for tempeh.
If it's made properly it's one of the healthiest foods you can eat on the planet.
But it's soy, so get your head around it and stop listening to all the parrot talk, okay?
There are a lot of parrots out there on Google and do you know what parrots do?
They copy other people and they just say the same stuff time and again.
So Google's full of parrots.
Sauerkraut, now here's an exceptionally, good food to eat if it's made properly, it's properly
fermented but it's got to be made properly because I have seen some people get kifer,
sorry I'll talk about kifer later on, I've seen some people get used and different types
of unwanted bacterial strains and sauerkraut by not being sanitary.
So if you're making kombucha, kefir or sauerkraut at home be particularly careful about hygiene.
Sauerkraut is a fantastic food for many conditions but it needs to be incorporated very slowly
into the diet.
It can affect people with strong histamine responses but if you're not that way inclined
with your stomach and you should be fine with sauerkraut.
I recommend that people start with a teaspoon a day and then gradually build up to a tablespoon
a day and then they're are good to go with a small bowl usually once per day.
I like sauerkraut warmed up and I like it cold and I just eat it straight out of the
refrigerator.
It's great food.
It's nice in salads.
You'd be surprised what you can do with it and it partners up with meat would you believe
it, really well.
Yogurt is the last category.
Now, this is a very, contentious food with many people who have dairy allergies.
I can't tolerate yogurt, unfortunately, for too long.
I may have it for one or two days but then I get all phlegmed up.
I get all mucusy from it, so sauerkraut's the one I prefer to have when it comes to
this type of food.
You need to find out which one of these foods suits you the best.
I've purposely left kefir out of there because I find kefir too problematic for many people
as they started on their journey of healing from candida, too many people.
I've recently also noticed that unfortunately, let's see if I can find my ... No, I haven't
got it here.
I've got a stool test report which I show people and it's got Candida kefir on it.
If you go to Wikipedia you can actually look up Candida kefir.
K-E-F-I-R, and yes you can actually develop a candida from having kifer if it's not made
properly.
Kifer is one of the few ferments that I say is very contentious in that it can cause a
major aggravations and some people and major improvements in others.
It's suspect, so in my opinion you graduate to kefir once you've been successful with
sauerkraut and these other fermented foods first.
Just be cautious of kefir, it's one of those dual edged swords that can make you feel really
good or really bad, really quick.
All right, leave some comments below.
Thanks for tuning in.