Greetings.
Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand.
Author of Candida Crusher.
Formulator of the CanXida range of products, but currently I'm a naturopath in Las Vegas.
Sunny Vegas at the moment.
As I said in my previous video, I'm not here to gamble.
I'm not here to have a wild time or to get tattoos or stuff like that, but I am here
on a trade show, which I really enjoy, on raw materials for the natural medicine industry.
Which leads me into my next video.
Can probiotics cause die off?
I'm going to a probiotic workshop on Friday.
It's all about the new trends in probiotics.
It's all about the crap and the nonsense in the industry, and we're going to hear from
some of the latest speakers on some really good research that's been conducted.
Folks, I can tell you, there's so much crap in this industry.
I can't believe it.
I heard a guy speaking today from USP, United State Pharmacopeia.
What that weird word means is this guy's got a PhD and he's very qualified to conduct studies
on raw materials.
John was telling me something during the coffee break.
He said, "Eric, our industry is pretty bad in the US.
Over 50 percent of probiotics are crap."
And I said, "You use the same word I do, John."
He's a pretty cool guy.
But John agreed with me that probiotics is a very, very contentious issue when it comes
to scientists.
Because so many products are made that are either very poor viability upon production
or actually have got different strains from what they say on the container or don't last
long or don't ship well, all these kinds of things.
I'm going to be finding out a lot more on Friday.
My product I'm making currently is outstanding.
I'm getting probiotics from some of the best people in America, but you know what, I'm
going to make it better and better.
I believe in making the best possible products I can.
That's why I spend all this money to fly from New Zealand all the way to Vegas and next
year I'm going to go to Switzerland and also to Malaysia to get the world's best probiotics
because there's always better.
You can always buy better.
Better products give better outcomes.
Give more satisfied people.
Satisfied clients.
Can they cause die off?
What's this guy talking about?
He's waffling on.
Probiotics can cause die off.
Let's just extrapolate on this a little bit.
You're much likely to get a Herxheimer reaction or a die off reaction from an anti-microbial.
Not so much from a pro-microbial.
You've got probiotics and antibiotics.
Grapefruit seed extract, oregano, these sorts of things can be seen as a green antibiotic.
They can be because they are anti.
They counter.
You want the pro as well.
As you know, dropping bombs creates a lot more pain and disturbance.
They're not dropping bombs.
When you're going to push an anti-product into the body, the body's going to counter
it and you're going to get a strong effect or the Herxheimer reaction.
I like people to go very gentle and easy when they take things initially in terms of countering
responses.
Probiotics are not generally taken to counter a response.
They're taken to rebuild or repair a leaky gut, but you can get a reaction from them.
And now I'm going to explain exactly why that is the case.
When you have got a very disturbed digestive function with very poor levels of beneficial
bacteria and high levels of imbalanced flora and yeast and parasites in there, if you're
going to dump 8 to 12 capsules in there a day of a probiotic, that's going to make you
feel quite sick.
Is it the bacteria that make you sick?
Partially the bacteria, but also some of the strains can alter the pH or the acidity/alkalinity
of the gut.
That can change your gut quite a lot.
That can create a big shift in microbes in the digestion.
Particularly in the upper digestion.
Over half the probiotics that basically have been test don't even survive passing through
the stomach.
Their dead before they even get to where they should be working.
If they do get to where they work, they can change the acidity of the pH in the small
intestine from small up to quite significant.
That can create a huge change in your gut.
You need to be careful with probiotics.
People think that the main way probiotics work is you're swallowing lactobacillus and
then it grows in your tummy.
When I was a kid, I used to think if you swallowed apple seeds and you drank water that within
a few weeks, you'd have all these apple branches growing out of your mouth and your ears and
apples hanging off them.
That's what kids think.
Crazy things.
Some people actually think that when they swallow tons and tons of probiotics that those
bacteria grow inside your digestive system.
That ain't the case, folks.
I'm sorry.
Most of the top microbiologists I've spoken to say probiotics work by changing the environment
of the gut in a subtle way.
In many cases, they do nothing for people at all because they're the wrong strain or
they're not viable or they're taking them at the wrong time.
But most importantly � and this is the kicker � is they don't eat the right diet to support
the probiotic.
They'll have a can of Coke and then they'll swallow a probiotic.
I've seen it.
It's crazy.
Why would you do that?
Probiotics can cause die off if the gut is very dysfunctional, but not many people get
sharp reactions with probiotics.
They tend to get them more with anti-microbials, especially when they overdose on them because
they think that more is better.
When you take a very high quality probiotic like CanXida Restore, you don't need to take
12 or 15 per day.
You need to eat really, really good food and take a probiotic subtly.
Once or twice per day.
Really good food is going to support the growth of beneficial bacteria.
Coke and fries is not really going to allow the gut to produce good bacteria.
If you want to get the minimal bad outcome from taking a probiotic, my advice to you
is to eat really good food, don't be in a hurry to introduce a probiotic.
When you do take a probiotic, make sure that an enzyme formulation is with the probiotic
because it's going to help to break food down more efficiently, giving the substrate for
the bacteria to feed on, to grow on.
Does that make sense?
It's worked for thousands of my patients and I'm pretty sure it's going to work for you.
CanXida Restore.
Check it out.
I hope you got some good information out of the video.
Remember.
Make haste slowly when you want to get well.
If you want to build an amazing body like Arnold Schwarzenegger, it's going to happen
in a week, any more than building an amazing health is going to take a few years to build
outstanding gut health.
I'm still working on my gut health.
I don't drink alcohol anymore.
I don't eat bread anymore.
I tend to eat good foods.
Each month, each year, my gut's getting better and better.
That's the difference.
It takes time to get good health.
Be patient.
Thanks for tuning in.