Eric Bakker: Eric Bakker, a naturopath from New Zealand.
Here we go. "Would I interpret your stool test? Can you interpret my stool test for me?"
This is all I did for years was interpreting stool tests and then working with patients
and then looking at a treatment plan. The plan would get put into action.
The patient would come back. We'd have a look at the change, et cetera. So we worked like that for
a period of time. Eric Bakker:
Most patients I worked with would get one stool test generally up front,
and then we would treat. We would wait anyway from two up to six or eight weeks and then retest.
And I did this a long time with quite a few thousand people. And the results varied from
no results, which wasn't usually the case, up to outstanding results and
full recovery in many cases with people who were patient and who stayed there and worked with me
over a period of time. Eric Bakker:
But guess what? I'm old now. I'm retired now. I look old and retired, don't I? Well, I am.
Anyway, I'm going to read you guys out a email that I received. So if you see my eyes going
like this sideways, you know I'm not sort of like on drugs or something. I'm just reading
the screen, all right? All right. Eric Bakker:
"Dear Eric Bakker, first and foremost, I'd like to thank you for your work. You've helped me greatly.
I'm a 19-year-old girl living in Denmark, and I've been struggling enormously with my gut
and wellbeing for two years. It started out all of a sudden with loud noises coming from my gut
after food consumption. As you say, a silent gut is a well-functioning gut. Then came the large
amount of gas, severe bloating in my upper abdominal region, diarrhea and digested food
particles in stool and stomach pain. Eric Bakker:
"At this point in time, it has all gotten so bad that I've lost two-thirds of my hair,
gained 10 kgs within months, I'd say mostly being water retention and skin issues,
which fluctuates five kgs from week to week, sometimes within days even. Severe
aches in my joints, especially ankles, which are extremely swollen as well. Dizziness, brain fog,
itchy hands, insomnia, headaches, et cetera. Eric Bakker:
"My relationship with food has been completely altered these past few years.
Some days I'll eat until I pass out because I simply can't feel satiety, and other days
I'm not hungry at all. I can't fit any of my clothes. I've completely lost touch with my body,
and everything I've tried so far, a low-FODMAP diet, elimination diet, bone broth fasts,
the list goes on. It seems to make zero difference whatsoever. I'm at a point where I can't take
it anymore. I've had a lot on my plate the past few years. I've been very stressed out
with school grades, been on tetracycline for acne, had harsh birth control pills,
jaw surgery coming up." Eric Bakker:
Anyway, she says now she's got irritable bowel syndrome,
and this lady's asking me if I can interpret a stool test result for her.
Now, I can't really do that because it wouldn't be fair. I'd love to do it. But then if I did
it for this 19-year-old lady in Denmark, I'd have to do it for this 26-year-old lady over in Spain
and for this 38-year-old lady over in New York and this one, blah, blah, blah, blah, and it
goes on and on and on. And before you know it, goodbye, retirement, hello, back into job again.
I can't. It's just something I've done in the past. Something I helped people out, and that's
gone now. That's finished. That door is closed. Eric Bakker:
This is the new door I've opened. It's educating people. So you will find someone. There will be a
person there in Denmark likely who can help you. If not in Denmark, maybe you need to go further
afield to Germany or another place like that. And I'm sure you'll find someone through Zoom or Skype
because people found me. So if you found me, you'll find someone else
because there's plenty of people like me out there, believe me. Maybe they're not on YouTube,
but they're certainly out there. And I know people have got their heart in the right place in my
business. Many of them do. Eric Bakker:
But don't ask me for a contact in Denmark again, because I wouldn't know, or in Europe
or in America, because I've just kept out of all that stuff for so long now. So I haven't really
got the contacts. But what you could also do is contact the people who obviously supplied the test
to see if they can give you an interpretation guide, so you can at least do some interpretations
yourself. And if you go to some associations, naturopathic associations in Denmark or holistic
practitioner associations online, if you do some Google searching, you'll find someone. I'm 100%
sure you'll find someone. Eric Bakker:
I wish you the best of luck. And I've dealt with cases like this.
So speaking to the girl in Denmark now, it sounds a bit like an eating disorder problem.
And when that happens, it can sometimes be hard to see the forest because you've got all these trees
in front of your face. You can't see the whole picture. But I can assure you, as you get a bit
older and more mature and you settle into a life pattern, generally the gut will change and slowly,
slowly come right. Eric Bakker:
As you said in your email, lots of stress, exam grades, eating problems, all these kinds of
things. You're not the only 19-year-old who goes through it. So many 19-year-olds go through this.
Some of them cut themselves or pull their hair out. Others have bulimia or anorexia
or things like this. Stress can affect people in multiple ways. But I wish you the best anyway.
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