Hi there. It's Eric Bakker, Naturopath from New Zealand. Thanks for coming back. Here's an
interesting question. Does Candida come back with stress even if your diet is really good. Well,
anything's possible. When your immunity drops, okay, inflammation goes up.
Many systems in your body can go out of control. You can start developing tolerances and allergies
more easily, and you can be slowly cruising towards autoimmunity and heavens forbid,
down the track, you could even be looking at the big C. Okay. No, not the big cure. The big cancer.
Okay. These are all aberrations. I'm talking about of immune system that's gone off the rails.
Stress wrecks immunity. Okay. It wrecks it very slowly and insidiously. It destroys
it. It undermines it. It suppresses it. Right? High stress suppresses immunity, but low grade,
long-term stress erodes immunity, a bit like what happens to a lot of beach properties today.
All the sand is getting taken away. It's getting eroded and slowly, but surely the house have to
retreat or it's gone. [inaudible 00:01:11]. Okay. That's the problem. Stress affects immunity.
There are several mechanisms how this occurs. So even if your diet is very good, is exemplary. All
right. You're going to end up with a health problem with stress. Stress you can't see.
It's a bit like carbon monoxide. Okay. You can't smell it. You can't see it. You can't touch it.
Well, it sounds like a monster, doesn't it? Well, it is, it is a monster. It's a monster
that can be contained and controlled, if you can understand what stress really is.
So people living stressful lifestyles think that they're over and above and beyond getting sick,
if they eat good food. Well, let me tell you, that's the wrong kind of attitude. It's not going
to work for you. Right? I've also seen people with no stress that were very happy. Average,
basic people eating, not such perfect diets and still in pretty good health.
I've never seen people with very high levels of stress, eating fantastic, incredible diet,
probably way, way better than what I'm eating that remain in perfect health. Right? Disease
and health. Think about it. Health is not just the absence of symptoms, according to the World Health
Organization. Right? Health also means happiness, enjoying your life. Having low to no anxiety and
having very little stress in your life, that's pushing you to the point. So the question is, will
Candida come back? If you eat a good diet, but with stress, it can come back. It can come back.
I've seen this with many people over the years, recurrences of symptoms of many different health
symptoms. Then when I got the patient in the room and we discussed what went wrong. There
was generally a turning point in that person's life. It was a relation went to jail or someone,
heavens forbid, got murdered or raped or something bad happened to someone in the family
or big divorce or things like this. These often precipitate,
bang, an event occurs. Then it can take three, six or nine or 12 months, the health problem starts
because the stress was here and the outcome was over the here. Okay.
The signal was here and the noise projected over a period of time and wham, the event occurred.
It's not just me saying this. Many experts will tell you this in medicine, that many diseases
have their origin in significant emotional events or long-term low grade stressful events.
So in my mind, I'd rather be eating bread and gluten and drinking cow's milk every day
and live with happy and chill people around me than eating mung beans,
grown on God knows what hill watered with the best water and eating all the best foods you can,
living with a-holes. If you know what I mean, awful people. There's no point in living in a
crappy situation. It's going to push you towards bad health. So think about that.
It's not just what goes in here, it's what you digest emotionally through the people around you
that can often determine what your future will be like. Think about it. Thanks for tuning in.