Greetings, Erik Bakker, the naturopath.
Thanks for coming back.
We're going to talk about meat and candida.
Can you eat meat on candida cleanse?
Well, it depends if you like to eat meat or not, doesn't it?
Watch out again for the food police, because you're going to find some, the vegan police
will say, "Meat's bad."
And then you get the paleo people who say, "Vegan's bad."
So where do you stand?
It's a bit like being a Muslim or a Catholic I suppose, isn't it?
Everyone's got extreme beliefs in this business, have you noticed?
I call them the food police.
It's a wonder there's not cops running around arresting people all the time eating different
foods.
It's that prevalent, it's crazy.
If that was the case, then jails would be full of people eating gluten all the time.
Don't fall for the hype, right?
Of course you can eat meat on candida cleanse, and of course you can eat starchy foods.
It depends on what you can tolerate, and it depends on what you like.
I'm quite interested in the psychosocial aspects of eating too, and the emotional effects of
eating.
It's not just about a mechanical chomp, chomp, swallow.
It's about how you feel about that food ethically, morally.
There are many reasons why people decide not to eat meat, there are many reasons why people
decide to eat more of a vegetarian kind of diet.
But the choice is ultimately yours.
You can eat meat, but common sense prevails.
The amount of studies I've read over the years is crazy regarding different foods and their
effect on health.
I've just had a look at a candida website where it says that meat can produce ammonia
in the body, which can increase the PH and therefore allow the candida to grow.
That's what I call junk science, okay?
It's not just about candida.
Remember, it's about your human microbiome, it's about the balance in your gut of all
the hundreds of types of bacteria, the hundreds of yeast species that live there, alright?
The viruses that live there, all of these things make up the microbiome.
When you eat a meat or a vegetable, it's not just going to create one chemical reaction,
because it depends on all of the bacteria and microorganisms in your gut as a collective
whole, what they do.
So it's more important for me to know what foods are you eating that contribute to building
up your gut health.
Meat doesn't really build up your gut health.
It's the vegetable fibers that have the best effect, it's the fermented and cultured foods.
Make sure there's a really sensible, intelligent, smart balance of foods in your diet, including
small amounts of meat.
Most people eat far too much meat in their diet.
The question I've always asked every patient I see, "What do you like to eat?"
And the first thing they reply to me is, "I like steak.
I like chicken.
I like eggs."
So tells me that the protein, meat protein's foremost on their mind, which means it's usually
the largest portion and the highest desirability.
Not many people say, "Oh, I like lettuce.
I love lettuce.
I could eat a whole plate of it."
No one says that.
So be careful not to eat too much meat.
It is true that red meat consumption has been linked with certain types of bacteria, which
push you into a higher predisposition for bowel cancer.
Now, New Zealand leads the world in bowel cancer for females.
We've got the highest rate of bowel cancer for women.
Meat's cheap in New Zealand, lamb's cheap, beef's cheap.
People eat way too much meat in this country.
Like England, like America.
People are just meat crazy.
So keep your portions small, look at better quality meats, which are fish, especially
ocean caught or a good quality salmon.
You can get good quality fish still.
We're probably in one of the last generations where we can still access reasonably good
ocean fish.
I'd hate to think what two or three generations down the track are going to eat when it comes
to proteins.
I've got a feeling it'll be meat cultured in laboratories, which they're doing already.
They've actually grown meat.
How gross is that?
So keep your portion size of red meat small.
In England one of the top doctors released a statement saying 250 grams, which is what's
that?
It's about eight ounces of red meat per week, no more.
Alright?
Now, when I was in Los Angeles, some of the steaks I saw were, what?
40 ounces.
It's a ridiculous amount of meat.
So swap your red meat for lamb.
Lamb's a better land based animal in my opinion.
It's a different type of fat than bovine fat, it's less inflammatory.
The eicosanoids profile that gets stimulated with lamb is different than with red meat,
meaning it's less inflammatory.
So red meat is definitely more inflammatory, but all meats are to a degree.
So what do you eat?
Free range eggs.
Good quality free range eggs.
Antibiotic free free range eggs, hormone free free range eggs.
Have you ever tasted eggs from chickens that grow free range without chemicals or hormones?
They taste amazing.
Beautiful deep yellow yolks.
This is superior protein.
Egg protein, fish protein, lamb protein, and small amounts of beef.
When you get beef, ensure you reduce the fat content, and having a small amount.
It's perfectly acceptable.
Not too much, once per week.
Try and eat eggs, and fish, and other meat sources more regularly.
And if you're a vegan, you've got plenty of choices.
You've seen my videos on veganism on this channel.
There are lots of different things.
You can eat Quorn, you can eat chickpeas.
I endorse tofu and a lot of people laugh at me for that, but if you get a non GMO organic
tofu, I'm perfectly happy with that.
I've been eating tofu for 35 years and I haven't grown breasts yet, or developed brain disease,
or become homosexual.
So yeah, there you have it.
Pick your protein people.
Pick your defined protein that you enjoy, and then look for a couple of other proteins
around that and keep your portion size small.
If you really want to know how meat is affecting your gut, do a stool test, okay?
Stick on a diet for a while, for three months, preferably six months.
Repeat the comprehensive stool analysis and have a look at your bacteriology profile.
Look at the bacteroides, look at the enterococcus, look at the lactobacillus, look at the bifida
bacteria.
Look to see if there's any yeast culture, look to see if you've got any dysbiotic bacteria.
If everything is in it's place, it's high likelihood that that diet is really suiting
you.
And that's all I'm going to say.
Thanks for tuning in.