Greetings, it's Eric Bakker the naturopath from New Zealand. Thanks for coming back to my channel.
Let's talk about eosinophils today. Have you heard of that word eosinophil? It sounds almost
like a brand new type of Hyundai or a Kia car or a new model that Toyota released, but in fact it's
a white blood cell. There are several types of white blood cells. So I'm not at this video going
to explain all about lymphocytes and neutrophils and the activity of the cells. It's just too much.
Okay? Way too much information. It's like giving you all the specs on a car and all this sort
of stuff. Who cares? Let's just get with it and talk where the rubber meets the road. All right?
So eosinophils are one of about, I think there's four or five types. I think it's
five types of white blood cells that the body produces. Eosinophils at one of those
types. It's only a very low percentage. I think it's something like one or two or 3%
of the total white cell count. So your blood basing is a fluid,
red blood, red blood cells, white blood cells. All right? And they all perform different functions.
But eosinophils are commonly pick up in a blood test. So you need to have a certain amount before,
if you've got a certain amount that goes over a threshold, then you've got eosinophilia.
You can also have hypereosinophilia and even weirder terms than that. So depending
on how many you've got in your blood, you'll be basically told whether you've got eosinophilia.
So what the eosinophils do is they really, they're a specialized subset of white cells in the body,
a type of white cell, they're involved in inflammation.
There are a red flag for doctors for things like parasitic conditions,
but also candida or fungal conditions can push eosinophils up. Auto-immune conditions,
Crohn's disease or diseases like that. Ulcerative colitis can result in a higher than normal
eosinophils count. Pharmaceutical medications can be implicated in them as well. So often when
the eosinophils count goes up, the doctor's going to be looking for allergies, auto immune diseases,
infections, inflammation, but also neoplastic disorders, a fancy word for cancer, basically.
So yeah, so investigations go in to find out what the causes are.
And usually the end result will be, "Well, let's not worry too much about it," or,
"We found some parasite. Let's give some drugs for the parasites." But sometimes if it's unexplained,
the eosinophilia, or linked with auto immune condition, sometimes steroids will even be given,
prednisone or drugs like that. Or certain types of chemotherapy drugs could be given as well.
[inaudible 00:02:38]. I'm not quite sure. It's got a weird name, but there are drugs like that used
for cancer that are sometimes given to patients with high eosinophil counts to bring them down.
So what do you do if the eosinophils go up? How do you get them down again? Well, it's obvious that
to get something down when it's up, you need to find what pushed it up in the first place. Okay?
So if it's unexplained or the doctor can't really work it out, my request view would be again,
tell them, I sound like a broken record, would be to do a stool test to see if there's parasites.
So if a doctor has failed to find a parasite with testing, then I would recommend you go further
and do a comprehensive stool analysis with your naturopathic doctor or integrative medical doctor
and say, "Look, let's just go a bit deeper before you start putting me on all these heavy drugs.
Let's see if there is actually is a cause," because in many cases,
a cause will be found if you are willing to look for that cause. Okay?
It's like losing a pair of scissors in the house or a bunch of keys.
There's always one person that doesn't give up and usually finds them, all right? But nine out
of 10 people will give out. They just buy a new pair of scissors or get another key cut. But
that one out of 10 will find it. So you could be that one out of the 10 to find what the cause is.
Now, if it's allergies, if it's a parasite, if it's a yeast problem, that's right, you got to
work on the gut. You've got to try and get rid of that parasite. All right? I've mentioned
many times on this channel where a comprehensive stool analysis in our clinic picked up a patient's
parasite. When in the medical profession, it failed to shop anything. That's because,
remember, in medicine, usually in most Western countries, they're going to test for very narrow
band of parasites. They're not going to test for thousands of types of parasites that you would
expect from a comprehensive stool test. So there could be certainly, something they're overlooking.
The second one, is there a yeast species like candida that are also linked with
high eosinophils. I've seen this repeatedly in the clinic where candida was linked. And once
the candida went, the eosinophil count dropped right down, well below 500. Okay? Eosinophils per
microliter of blood. I've seen it again and again and again. So, and of course, there are doctors
out there that still don't believe that yeasts can trigger eosinophila. But guess what? They can.
Studies show that, all right? Clinical experience has shown that. But also allergies can sometimes
push it up. Now, remember might take on allergies, heal the small intestine and get off antibiotics.
I went camping with Tracy for three days. And the lady at the camping side,
I spend an hour talking to her about her 18 year old daughter who's been on antibiotics since she
was three years of age. All right? And since then she's been on asthma drugs and steroids,
and now her gut's being destroyed. Now she's got eating disorders and emotional problems. And
I said to mum, I said, "Look, by the time this girl's 40, she'll have an auto immune disease.
It's a certainty. She's got to get off the antibiotics."
So if you're taking an antibiotic, or if you're taking a pharmaceutical drug and your eosinophils
count is high, ask the doc that if you can come off these medications. Anything that adversely
affects the functionality and health of your digestive tract can create a massive imbalance.
And that imbalance can certainly include the proliferation of yeast or bad bacteria.
Parasites can easily come in. Blastocystis hominis now is a parasite that now, as far
as many doctors is concerned, is a normal part of the bowel flora. And it's not supposed to be,
but because it's so endemic now, I suppose it's a bit like obesity, accepted as the norm.
So there you have it. Work on the digestive system. Find out what the cause of the
eosinophilia is. Don't just be satisfied with going on a steroid to suppress the immune system,
okay? It's not good. If you keep suppressing things, then one day
there'll be a knock on the door. Okay? And it won't be from the cops.
It'll be from nature saying it's had enough of you trashing it all the time,
and you're going to get sicker and sicker and sicker. The cause is always worth finding.
Allergies, look at your diet more carefully. Maybe you work with the naturopath,
try and go on a low allergy diet. Inflammation, go on a low inflammation diet. I've given you
plenty of information on this channel on low inflammatory type ways of eating.
By working with your digestive system and improving it to a higher spec,
you're in a much better position to understand if the eosinophilia is linked with something
that you're doing or that your body has created as a result of your
ways of eating or living. It makes sense to me. Thanks for tuning in.