Greetings. Eric Bakker. Thank you for coming back. Going to do a video today, I thought
about for a little while and it's based on lots of questions I get asked. As you can
imagine, I get asked lots of stuff, but I haven't got the time to answer all of these
questions, otherwise I'd be six foot under. I can't do it. It's not possible, okay?
Here's a video I put together called 10 Commandments of a Candida Diet. Now I'm not Jesus. I'm
not Allah. I'm not Buddha. I'm not a religious kind of person, I say, okay, so this has got
nothing to do with the Bible or the Quran or the Book of Mormon or nothing like that,
all right? So please, let's keep religious stuff out of this, but I have called it the
10 Commandments, all right?
Now a lot of these may seem simple to you. In fact, when you watch this video, you'll
go, "That guy's a nut job. He's telling the same stuff all the time, you know? I'm going
to go and watch fluffy cat videos or I'm going to go and watch some kind of other stuff,
Justin Bieber or whatever people watch." I don't know, but that's fine, click off. That's
all right.
This video is primarily for people who've done so many protocols, who've been to so
many doctors, who've tried so many candida diets, who've tried so many different types
of situations to get on top of their problem, but they seem to be getting stuck or they're
relapsing or they're going back or they're finding it impossible to get better.
Now remember, there's a lot of complexity in simplicity. I'll say it again. There's
a lot of complexity in simplicity. If you do something really well, okay, to the best
of your ability and you can't possibly do any better than that, that to me is complexity
because it's not easy to do a basic thing really, really well, all right?
One of my music teachers always said to me, "Practice makes perfection, but perfect practice
breeds ultimate perfection." If you do things whether you're around people or not around
people to the best of your ability, particularly these 10 things I'm going to talk about and
you still have issues with your digestive system, whether you've got blasto, like a
parasite, or candida or bacteria or whatever kind of gut issue you got, if you still have
serious issues beyond doing to the best of your ability these 10 points, then something
really needs to be checked out really carefully. Something's wrong. Either you're not engaging
properly in the program or you're following the wrong kind of protocol.
The consultations I had yesterday, in particular two people proved to me once again that basic
stuff done properly can fix cases up of people who've been suffering for 10, 15 plus years
of problems. People who've spent tens of thousands of dollars going to all kinds of doctors and
yet they didn't do the basic stuff right. So let's go over some 10 basic commandments
here and let's nail these down real hard so you're going to do them right. That gives
me a lot of confidence knowing then that that if you follow this kind of stuff, your outcome
is likely to be significantly improved rather than not, all right? Let's start.
Number one. Thou shalt relax and not be so overly concerned about everything that goes
into your mouth. This to me creates anxiety on a whole new level. Every time you go out
or when you're at home with friends or people bring food over, if you get really, really,
really anxious and worked up every time you eat something, it's a real problem. You've
got to change your relationship with food. I'm telling you now, you can't keep thinking
like that. Change tact. Try different types of food, but simple diets, I'll say it again,
simple diets work the best.
I had a patient yesterday and every time she eats particular types of food, she'll sprinkle
turmeric powder on it or every time she eats a meal, she'll chop up fresh garlic and put
that in with it. As much as I really like this lady, I think she's gorgeous, her focus
is too much on killing, killing, killing, killing. You can't keep thinking like that.
You can't keep thinking everything you're going to eat's going to kill candida or it's
going to feed candida. It's a dumb way to think.
These are assumptions you're making based on probably junk you read online or junk that
people tell you. Stop getting this idea in your head that candida is fed by different
foods. Don't just think about candida, think about the balance of all of the microbes in
the gut. Think about the digestive problems that you've built around these bugs, you know?
For example, low functioning stomach, low functioning pancreas. You may have an issue
with the small bowel. You may have an issue with the large bowel. There could be issues
all around the gut and these issues may need to be tackled differently than you think,
but purely by looking at a food and saying good or bad based on your idea of whether
it's going to feed candida or not is a dumb idea. Let's just say it again.
It's a dumb idea. Now if you want to click off and look at those fluffy cat videos, away
you go, but I'm going to keep going. I'm on to commandment number two now. Thou shalt
choose friends carefully, especially when eating out or getting people over. You're
influenced tremendously by the people that you hang with, so if you hang with people
who party and like to drink beers and have pizzas and smoke weed and stuff like that,
that's fine by me, but it may not be the right approach if you're on a candida kind of diet.
It may not be the right approach if you're serious about getting your health on track.
Sometimes having friendships is like gardening, you've got a bit of pruning to do, if you
get my drift. Sometimes there's an old tree in the yard, you've just got to get rid of
it, chop it out. Other times, you've got a little bit of gentle slashing to do. Just
chop a few things away, meaning, "Oh, I'm sorry, but I'm not available on that day.
Can't make it. I'm really busy. I'm sorry, but..." If you become a little bit less available,
you'll find that the friends will often want to party with other people and go somewhere
else. If you want to take your health to a whole new level and you're hanging with people
who don't take your health seriously, maybe they need to take their friendship somewhere
else. Now that sounds callous and hard, but I've seen too many people being dragged down
by people around them. That's commandment number two.
Commandment number three, thou shalt shop less at supermarkets and less at convenience
stores. Thou shalt shop less on impulse and buying things like that. Better to go to farmer's
markets or better to make a relationship with people you know that grow food. There are
lots of people all around the world like me that grow food and I'm quite keen always to
swap stuff. I've got raspberry overload, so I'll gladly swap raspberries for kilograms
or pounds of really nice organic apples, now I can do that. Now maybe you can't do that,
but what I'm saying is form a relationship or try and meet someone who grows stuff and
if the person's like me and they're pretty keen on not using all this toxic junk in their
yard, then you're probably going to get a quite a clean kind of that food to eat.
Believe me, there are a lot of people now that grow organic food, whether it's meats
or grains or vegetables or fruits, you'll find them out there. You just have to go tick,
tick, tick on the keyboard and you'll find them. The only thing you want to buy at the
supermarket is toilet paper or maybe a bit of soap.
Okay, where are we now? We're at commandment number four. Thou shalt get thou kitchen in
order. Thou shalt make the changes necessary, so take a garbage bag to your pantry or refrigerator.
If I walk into your house right now with a big garbage bag, what am I going to be throwing
out if I walk into the kitchen? Would I need a small garbage bag or would I need a skip?
What would I need? It's up to you. You have to think about that one. Before you start
on the candida diet, it's good to do that kind of approach and to clean everything out.
Get the junk out of your life and then replenish when you start with nice food, the food that
I talk about in all of these videos. That's going to remove temptation. You're moving
your friend out of the room who's going to push that gin and tonic in your face, or vodka,
or whatever you drink. I don't know what you drink, but get the stuff out of your room
so it's not in your face, a chocolate bar there or some Cheerios there or stuff like
that. Move all that out, the less temptation, the less likely ...
Most people for example, will like to eat a bit of chocolate, but driving down to the
store to buy chocolate means you really want chocolate bad, you'll kill for it, but if
you haven't got it in your pantry or in your refrigerator or whatever, you're less likely
to snack on it than if you've actually got it physically in the house. Am I right? Probably.
So that's one thing I'd like you to do is really go through the pantry and your refrigerator
and bin everything that you know is not right. I guarantee you, there'll be stuff in your
fridge now, not everybody, but a majority of people watching this, there'll be stuff
lurking in the back that needs to go in the garbage can.
Commandment number five, thou shalt be kind to yourself and tell yourself it's going to
take time and I'm going to make the changes necessary in my life to get my health back
on track and I'm also not going to just look at food, I'm going to look at all the things
in my life that could influence me in a bad way, my relationships, my occupation, my neighbors,
all the people around me. I'm going to try and fix things up. I'm sick of feeling like
crap. I'm going to try and be nice to people. Try and work out why all these problems are
recurring. I'm eating a good diet, not feeling good inside. I'm going to try and fix that
up by smoothing out the rough spots.
Be kind to yourself. No need to kick yourself up the back. The candida's doing a good job
of that already. By being kind to yourself and cutting yourself some slack, and I don't
mean going down to Wendy's or Domino's and getting a big two scoop ice cream to reward
yourself. I'm talking more about maybe a facial or a massage or getting your feet massaged
or going away on a weekend trip with your partner. Now these are things you can do to
really enjoy yourself and to reward yourself for the steps you've taken to really get your
health back on track. So always be kind to yourself.
Let's have a look here. Commandment number six, ignore what you read online. Actually
it sounds like god, doesn't it? Thou shalt ignore what thou reads online. You are unique.
You're a totally unique individual, so your protocol is going to be different from Mary's
over here and Peter's over there, because this is you we're talking about. We're not
talking about some random guy on Facebook that wrote some stuff about his Auntie's pet
dog having god knows what. Forget about what people write about themselves. It doesn't
relate to you.
If I call you over to my house and I had four different types of people with their favorite
dishes, and you and I are sitting there, are you going to enjoy each of those four favorite
dishes? One's going to turn your stomach. Don't think you're somebody else. You are
yourself, you're unique. Your protocol needs to be crafted for you based on your set of
factors, based on your digestive power, based on your lifestyle. It's something you can
do by watching a lot of my videos and understanding that uniqueness is very real and this is what
we need to tap into, your strengths and weaknesses.
Okay. I hope you got that point. It's a tricky one, but ignore what you read online. Especially
when you get this cure in one hour, all this kind of crap, don't believe it.
Commandment number seven, thou shalt understand that changes are entirely necessary. Changes
in your lifestyle are necessary. If you're one of these people who've been sick an awfully
long time and you keep trying one diet and another diet and another diet, you keep trying
this pill and that pill and it's not working and you keep doing it over and over again.
Imagine if you had a leaky tap and you kept getting a plumber in for 15 flipping years
to fix the tap and it kept dripping, "Oh well, we'll try another plumber." Man, that guy
would be gone in a flash.
Think about it. Changes are necessary. You need to make change if you want to have a
change. If you don't make the lifestyle changes, you're probably not going to get well long-term.
You may get symptomatic relief like a lot of doctors will like you to have to keep you
on pills or whatever, but you're not going to get that long-term deep seated wellness
that you're looking for if you don't make those fundamental changes of things that are
really upsetting you on a deep level, like your mother in law, like your boss.
Something there, get rid of it, deal with it, fix it up. It's one of the most important
commandments here. If you're stuck, you need to unstick yourself by firing the people around
you that need firing. Call them what you want. They could be negative people, they could
be toxic people or whatever, but they're just as bad as eating a donut in my opinion, a
donut an hour, more like it.
Commandment number eight, thou shalt avoid antibiotics at all costs. The worst drug you
can take if you're trying to recover. Sore tooth, two weeks on antibiotics could set
you back six months. Acne, antibiotics for six months duration could set you back 10
years, in some cases. So think about it carefully. Why would you want to keep pointing a gun
at yourself all the time? 'Cause to me, that's what an antibiotic is like. It's Russian roulette.
You don't know hoa many bullets are in that gun, meaning you don't know how long the dysfunction's
going to last. I'd be very careful if I were you about antibiotics.
This video will be up within, hopefully 10, 20, 30 years from now and someone'll look
at it and go, "Man, I wish we'd never take that crap back then, but look at this guy,
he's actually warning us back then and all this stuff came out." And it will come out
one day. It will come out. It's coming out now, but you'll see, mark my words, I'll be
gone, antibiotics will be banned and it's coming in, but it won't be now. It'll be well
down the track. They will never use those drugs again. I can see that. My grandkids
will likely never use antibiotics. There'll be a totally different way of dealing with
bugs.
You know where I think it's going to come from? It's going to come from a probiotic
angle. They'll have genetic testing up to such a high degree, they'll be able to fingerprint
every single bug in your gut entirely and work out the correct balance when you're healthy
and how to repopulate that when you're sick. That's going to be the end of pharmaceutical
medicine and you'll see I'm correct and that'll be coming in. I wish I were there long enough
to see it all.
Right, commandment number eight, thou shalt test thou gut before thou starts taking active
strong treatment. If you go on a road trip in a new country, if you go on an ocean journey
in a sailboat, if you go out of space in a flying saucer, wherever you go, you probably
need some kind of map or some kind of idea where you're going. How long it's going to
get there. What's it going to cost to get there? What resources do I need to get there?
All those sort of things will be worked out before you actually go on that journey, but
the crazy thing is people never do it when they do a treatment for their gut. They just
say, "Oh, we'll give this a bit of a try. Oh, let's try that. Oh, that's not working,
let's try that." They've got no road map. They've got no understanding where they're
going, how long it's gonna take, how strong or how long they need to treat. They know
nothing. They're flying blind. It's like being an airplane with two pairs of sunglasses on.
You've got no idea where you're going. You're probably going to crash into something.
You need a map and stool testing is a map and I've learned how to read maps real good.
I've read thousands of maps over the years, so you get to develop a skill in that.
The patient I had yesterday, I read a stool report in about two minutes. I summarized
it quick and all we did is we treated one tiny, little thing in that test. We didn't
throw 50 pills at this person. We didn't sign the person up for 20 consultations ahead and
milk 10 grand out of her. That's not the idea of medicine. With very careful analysis and
a fine tuned prescription is going to work 10 times better than just throwing pills at
someone and saying, "Try this or try that," because you've got no idea what you're doing
half the time. Functional testing is far more important than most people think, particularly
for the digestive system. You'll be surprised how it can shorten your treatment by doing
that which means you save a lot of money and a lot of time and misery. I know for hundreds
of patients out there right now that'll put up their hand and will give me testimony to
that.
Commandment number ten, thou shalt understand that set backs are totally normal and natural.
Reward yourself as we've spoken about. You need to make the changes if you want to expect
a change in your life. You need to keep the good habits going and slowly, one by one,
identify a bad habit and kick it out, just boot it out. If you've got a lot of people
you know, some people are really nice, some people are nice, some people are not so nice,
and some people, well, we're not going to go there, you're probably going to get rid
of a couple of those people, aren't you? You're going to chop em out. We talked about that
in a previous point. This is one of the most important points of the commandments is making
the necessary changes in your life, cleaning up your act by diet wise and lifestyle wise,
understanding it's going to take time and be kind to yourself during that process. Removing
temptation by cleaning out the refrigerator, understanding that most of the information
online about candida is pure, well put the expletive in there that you want to put in
there.
I'm a bit like Donald Trump, "It's fake news." There's a lot of fake candida news out there.
Am I fake? Maybe some of the stuff I say is a bit fake, I don't know. You can take it
anyway you want it. I've been seeing patients an awfully long time to know, in my opinion,
what's fake and what's not fake. And with now the advent of social media and the internet,
there's a lot of fake stuff out there and a lot of it's primarily designed either to
scare people or annoy people or confuse people. I could honestly tell you, some of the information
I read is completely laughable, but if you're coming from a a lay person's perspective,
you might not understand that laughability, you might actually take it serious. If it
sounds crazy or really whacky, it probably is, so just be careful.
This is a video you may want to watch once or twice and write some very important points
down regarding yourself, regarding these commandments. This is going to help you navigate a nice
path through this candida mess. So I hope some of that information was useful for you.
Thanks for tuning in.