Greetings!
Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand.
Author of Candida Crusher.
Thanks for checking out my video.
"What are prebiotics?
I want to know what they are," this lady's asking here.
She wants to know specific names of prebiotics and why they're actually-why I don't recommend
prebiotics in dietary supplements.
Well, it's personal clinical experience.
As I've mentioned many times in these videos, I've seen patients over 30 years.
I've seen tens of thousands of people.
Thousands of people over a long period of time.
And for probably several years, I used to use in the past probiotics which contained
prebiotics.
So prebiotics are basically indigestible fibers or in some cases, they can actually be certain
types of sugars added like saccharides, for example, fructooligosaccharides.
They can be added to probiotics because people think that they benefit the probiotic supplement
because they're a food to feed these beneficial bacteria.
Well, my experience has shown in some cases they may work, but in the majority of cases
they don't work.
In fact, I found many, many people over the years that when I stopped giving probiotics
with these prebiotics in there, they had less gas, less bloating, and they had quicker recovery.
When I made CanXida Restore, I purposely kept out FOS or fructooligosaccharides.
I kept out inulin.
It's made from chicory root.
There are many types of these fibers or sugars added to products now.
This crazy belief that if you add them, you're going to build up the beneficial count.
As I say, I don't do that anymore.
I found it's not really a smart thing to do.
You're way better off eating prebiotic foods, which tend to have a much more complex fiber
structure.
Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food.
I really belief it's a sensible move to eat things like carrots and Jerusalem artichokes.
Not too many, because we call them Jerusalem fartichokes for that reason.
Carrots, onions, garlic, there are many different types.
Chinese vegetables, for example.
Bok Choy with those nice chunky white stems.
Those sorts of foods.
Dandelion greens.
Even lettuce, if you eat like the stem or the red leaf-the actual chunky part.
These are prebiotic foods because your body will actually really like these kind of fibers.
It can't break them down properly, but it can ferment them and allow the beneficial
bacteria to feed through this fermentation process.
I've seen very good effects occur with bifidobacterium in particular in the large intestine when
a person added prebiotic foods into their diet.
It took a period of two, three, four months, but the gas and the bloating went away.
Their stools became more comfortable.
Their constipation disappeared and slowly but surely the lactobacillus levels came back.
The brain fog disappeared and the CanXida Restore works beautifully with prebiotic foods.
You do not need a probiotic with a prebiotic.
That's why I'm really against probiotics now that contain these kinds of things.
I don't really recommend that you take them at all, especially if you've got SIBO or parasites.
Avoid these kinds of things.
Just take a good probiotic on its own.
Even better still, if you take a probiotic containing a digestive enzyme complex, you're
going to get even less gas and less bloating and more digestive comfort.
That's why I created the CanXida Restore formula to contain exactly that for that reason.
That product was based on my clinical experience.
It wasn't just some rehashed copy of some product that was already out there.
So I hope that answers your question.
Specific names for prebiotics: inulin and FOS are the two big ones.
But no doubt there will be other kinds of prebiotics.
But my recommendation, avoid this junk and go for the food instead.
Thanks for tuning in.