Greetings,it's Eric Bakker, the naturopath from New Zealand. Thanks for being here and
looking at my channel. Let's talk about the five stages of Candida overgrowth.
You'll probably see a lot online about the two stages, the three stages, the four stages,
and stuff. The five stages. And I'll tell you why. It's the accurate way to describe
the linear progression of a yeast infection from beginning right through to full-blown.
Now, I've seen a lot of people, I've seen a lot of symptoms, and I genuinely see them
like this laid out. Good video for people who want to know what stage they're in or
where they're going. Okay, so listen up.
The first stage of a Candida problem is always the cause. Something happened. Many people have
got a yeast in their gut living as a natural commensal. It just sits there and it sort of
operates with the bacteria. And not everyone has got Candida by the way. Most people do. But
some people have got such scant levels of Candida albicans in their gut that it's barely detectable,
whereas others by default have a larger amount that's kept, again, in check by bacteria.
But this could also explain the reason why how some people
get very easily upset with the smallest lot of antibiotics. It may take them a year to recover
from one round. Whereas other people, they can take multiple rounds every couple of months,
and they're sort of okay, and they bounce back quick. So antibiotics affect
every single patient I've seen differently. Some people are devastated just from one or two doses.
So the cause is the first stage. And it's the stage really where most people never suspected
to be a cause, because after all, they're going to somebody who's got supposedly their best
interest at heart. They're going to a doctor, a medical doctor. They're getting a medication
by a professional, qualified person, and it sets off a chain reaction either for good or bad. And
in many cases, it's for bad, but the person won't know that at that point. So that's stage one.
Stage two, the gut becomes altered. The digestive system starts changing
slowly but surely over time. It's getting cold in here. I'll be changing over time.
Off you go. I don't want to turn into an icicle. It's getting hot here guys, it's summertime.
The gut changes. Now, the gut can change quickly or slowly, but in many cases it will slightly
alter a little bit more, a little bit more, a little bit after the antibiotic. You'll get death
of certain types of bacteria. Sometimes you'll get death of a lot of bacteria. But guess what?
Just got a cramp in my leg. The yeast don't die, because the yeast are not nailed by of course,
the antibiotic. The yeast thrive with the antibiotics. So they start taking off.
Now, that growth depends a lot on that person at that time. It depends on the diet. It depends on
the desires and aversions, what that person likes to eat, what they don't like to eat.
So sometimes a Candida growth can take off in weeks. It could become rampant.
Other times it can take months, months, and months, but a very slow, slow progression.
So as the person slowly develops more digestive problems, they'll notice things like a bit of
indigestion, perhaps a bit of bloating, maybe a tiny bit of bowel change in the beginning.
Often there'll be gas production, things like that. But here's the thing that occurs that no
one really thinks about, is that the appetites and desires change. The yeast is calling your name.
"Peter or Jill, feed me. I need more. I need a donut." Something like that.
So you'll be thinking, "Hmm, I feel like a little snack tonight after dinner."
And that's what I often look for with patients is what do they like to eat, and when do they like
to eat it. If they like a sweet meal, if they would kill for something sweet after a meal,
it often means a yeast infection, in my opinion, especially if the person has never had that. And
if their desire increases more and more and they want larger portions of ice cream or donuts or
candy or whatever it is they want, there could be a problem.
Watch for the person who starts stopping their car and going into a shop to buy a snack. Watch for
the person who is having a drink of something, and then wants a dessert or something sweet,
those sort of things. So little telltale signs. All right?
So the gut will become disturbed. The brain will start telling the person that the gut
needs feeding with things that normally it hasn't been fed with. The yeast infection progresses
slowly but surely, gets more and more and more. Digestive systems become more apparent now. There
could be diarrhea or constipation. There could be alternate bowel motions. There could be... Well,
that was a burp. Not a real burp, but you know what I mean. There could be indigestion.
At that stays a person could be thinking about going to the doctor or going on medications,
often self-prescribed from a chemist. "Sorry, you got a bit indigestion. Just take this
Rolaids, or take these Tums." Or something like that. And so then the person will start on some
kind of pill or something and they could be on that for a while. That's stage two, the gut.
Stage three. Guess what? Now we're looking at more physical changes.
The yeast infection is now setting in. Now it's digging it's heals into the body.
It's reproducing, it's creating Candida toxins. It's affecting the immune system.
The immune system is getting log jammed. It's starting to work on that yeast infection. The skin
could be a little bit itchy here or there. Or hang on a minute. "Gee, my ear's itchy a lot lately.
I wonder if that's a yeast infection." Do you know what I mean? It would be the ear.
The person's always doing a little bit of this, or they've got one spot in the body where they
keep scratching. Or they think, "I got a white patch on my skin. I wonder what that is. Oh well."
So these skin problems could become worse, and then a lady will say,
"My vagina's itchy. I've got this vaginal problem. I'll go and see the doctor and get some
Monistat and it'll go away." But it's not going away. It's staying there and it's getting worse.
We better get some Fluconazole now. Next thing the person's on Fluconazole, it becomes a cycle.
Or the guy's got jock itch. And then he looks down to the ground and he can spot one of his toenails.
He's got a fungal problem on a toenail now, or on the finger. All these things
slowly become apparent over a period of weeks and months, all these little things.
Sinus problem. Many people get AFS, allergic fungal sinusitis. I did many articles using I
wrote for magazines, when we had health magazines years ago, on AFS. I think I wrote a two or
three part series on it. I had allergic fungal sinusitis for seven years. I had a sinus problem.
Until I got a tooth pulled out that was dead and it all cleared up. And it was a fungal problem.
It's gone. I tell you it's hell on earth having sinusitis, it's hell on earth. You don't want bad
sinus problem for years on end. You can't swim. You can't fly in planes. It's hell. You can't
smell anything. You're sneezing. You're blowing your nose. You've got constant pain in your face.
If you're watching this and you've got a constant sinus problem, think about a yeast infection.
If you've got a constant vaginal problem, think about a yeast infection. If you're constantly
a guy doing this, think about a yeast infection. Everywhere the hand goes and it moves like this,
it's often a yeast infection of some sort.
My father-in-law cut his finger about 30 years ago when he was working in a meat works.
Doctors are completely at loss what it is. I told him to go and see a dermatologist.
I told him, "It's a yeast infection.
So, nails, skin, groin, scalp, all sorts of peripheral body parts could start becoming
a problem now. The guts playing up and the periphery is playing up. You've been to the
doctor two or three times. You've been told to go to a psychiatrist. In 1990s,
not many people don't realize, there was a New York doctor that had this
medical license taken off him because he actually told the patient they had a yeast
problem that needed treating, a Candida problem. The guy was stripped of his medical license.
Not anymore though, because now doctors realize that Candida is a serious problem.
But when I was a young guy, I mean, you're a psychiatric patient if you talked about Candida.
So we go on to number four. Now we're starting to get emotional problems and cognitive problems.
We've got a bit of brain fog in the mix now, just to spice it up a bit for you.
We're going to get anxiety. We're going to get depression like I had. We're going to be going
to a doctor, after doctor, after doctor, after doctor who says, "There's nothing wrong with you.
We've done all the tests. We've taken bloods. You need a psychiatric assessment."
Now, when someone tells you that, how do you think you feel? You start thinking that your Looney
tunes, that's what you think. You start talking to your mother or father or your sister who says,
"For goodness sakes, listen to the expert. What do you know about Candida? You're imagining all
these things." So that really makes you annoyed inside. So you get anxiety, you get depression,
you go down, you get brain fog, you can't think anymore, you start having problems.
And the last one is you start developing fatigue, bad fatigue, chronic fatigue. In some cases,
you develop a secondary, and in many cases you do. It could be an auto immune disease.
You could have any type of problem now. Ow, sore knee.
So many different things occur as the condition winds up more and more, it
compounds. It compounds with psychiatric effects. It compounds are called cognitive effects. All of
these things are layers upon layers upon layers of this functions. And where do they start?
The cause. If you can get the cause fixed sooner rather than later,
you don't have to go all the way down to the bottom for number five, do you? So those are
the five stages of Candida. I hope you got something out of that. Thanks for tuning in.