Greetings.
It's New Zealand naturopath Eric Bakker, author of Candida Crusher and formulator of the Canxida
range of dietary supplements.
Thanks for checking out the video today.
I've got a request from a person on YouTube called Pro Chess Player.
I'm not quite sure if this is a man or a lady.
The person is called Pro Chess Player and Pro Chess Player has posed a question to me,
"Eric, can you talk about foods to eat with leaky gut syndrome?
What are the best foods to eat with leaky gut?
And also how does a leaky gut diet differ from a Candida diet?"
Let's talk about that now.
Most people with Candida have got leaky gut syndrome.
I'm not going to go into a great deal on this video about what leaky gut is because you
can see that on some of my other videos, but leaky gut is basically a term we use for intestinal
permeability.
It's when the small intestine becomes more permeable, particularly to different kinds
of proteins in our diet and they can affect the immune system on the other side in particularly
systemically.
So these things don't necessarily follow the normal pathway of digestion and absorption.
They bypass that and they can seriously affect the immune function.
Lots of people in the western world have got leaky gut.
Before we go into foods to eat for leaky gut, first let's say what you shouldn't really
eat or drink with leaky gut.
The top of the tree, in my opinion, is alcohol.
Alcohol really affects leaky gut.
There is no way around this.
Cutting out all forms of alcohol for several months is a clever move if you want to heal
the lining of the gut.
All kind of pharmaceutical medications, especially antibiotics, but also anti-inflammatories
or any anti kind of drug is going to create a situation particularly long term where you
get serious intestinal permeability.
Pharmaceutical medications, alcohol, also take-away food, processed food, junk food;
stress also helps to bring leaky gut to the foreground.
All kind of chemicals in our diet, fluoride in water, chlorine, heavy metals that come
through different ways into our diet, these are all ways we can get leaky gut and exacerbate
it if we have got it.
Good foods to eat with leaky gut are foods that really allow the healing of the lining
of the gut.
So you've got this membrane inside the small valve called the brush border.
It's basically a mucous rich membrane that allows beneficial bacteria to grow in there
and effectively seals off the junctions between the cells to stop the gut from becoming permeable.
So it's all about building the lining of the gut.
That's what we want to do.
Think about foods that are going to really achieve this.
I've got a couple lists here of foods I've written down.
Besides, of course, the obvious fermented and cultured foods like kefir, yogurt, sauerkraut,
kimchi, and there are various other ones you can consume that are going to really do this.
They're going to really benefit leaky gut.
A big caution here.
If you're not used to eating these kind of foods, please go slowly into these cultured
and fermented foods.
Also, the foods I'm going to read out now go easy on them.
Fructooligosaccharides and galactooligosaccharide foods.
Prebiotic rich foods really encourage the gut to heal.
Jerusalem artichokes, yacon tubers, burdock roots, chicory roots, dandelion roots, garlic,
onions, leeks, asparagus, globe artichokes.
That's the FOS foods.
Now the GOS foods.
Legumes, brassicas, fresh beans, beetroots, rice sourdough, if you can tolerate it, sunflower
seeds, pumpkins seeds, and linseed sunflower arine mix, which is my favorite.
Here are some good vegetables for you to eat with leaky gut.
Purple carrots, dark carrots are quite good because they're high in polyphenols.
Polyphenols are nutritional substances that really help to heal various parts of the body,
especially the gut.
Red cabbage, spinach, red onions, broccoli, red lettuce, black rice or red rice, whole
grain sourdough rye bread, of course, and black olives.
Notice how I mention black or dark?
Notice also how I mention carrots?
Carrots aren't necessarily bad for people with Candida.
Unless they've got a serious yeast infection, they should not have to avoid carrots.
Corn is different, however.
Corn and pumpkin and squash.
You need to be careful with those kind of foods sometimes with leaky gut and also bad
Candida.
If you've got bad leaky gut and also in conjunction with brain fog, then you might need to be
careful with some of these foods like carrots.
If you find these foods exacerbate your brain fog, then back off and go more for the green
vegetables.
Leaky gut responds very well to my product called Canxida Restore.
It's an enzyme probiotic especially formulated for people with yeast infection, but also
very good for leaky gut syndrome.
And again, most people with leaky gut will have some kind of small intestinal bacterial
overgrowth or SIBO along with Candida.
I've performed many, many thousands of stool tests and found that most all cases of people
with Candida, in fact, especially bad Candida, have got leaky gut.
Not just on the stool tests.
I've also done permeability tests alongside these to confirm that.
And a lot of these people have got bad bacteria and they'll have parasites and low levels
of beneficial bacteria.
This is why a product like the Canxida Restore will work very well for these people.
And the Canxida Remove is my antifungal/anti-bacterial.
They work beautiful in conjunction.
You can get those at Canxida.com.
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videos to come.
Thanks for tuning in.
And I hope that answers your question Mr. or Mrs. or Ms. Pro Chess Player.
Thank you.