Hi there!
Eric Bakker from New Zealand, the naturopath who wrote the book Candida Crusher.
Thanks for coming back and thanks for looking at my channel.
Hopefully, if you watch some of my videos, you may subscribe then you too can post different
questions to me.
I've got a question here from a guy called Alex.
Now this is an interesting one.
I'm going to read this out to you.
It's a little bit of a read, but I think you'll appreciate this one.
"Hi, Eric.
First of all, I'd like to thank you for your great work.
I've watched many of your videos and seen your website and you seem like a genuine person
who really wants to help people.
I must say I'm very confused as to what to do regarding my health.
I've had some health issues for many years now I could not ignore it for a long time,
but new symptoms have sprung up and I feel some action is needed.
It seems like candida could be the culprit.
I have severe bloating, acne, brain fog, concentration issues, and eye floaters.
However, a highly respected people in medicine say that candida overgrowth is not a real
issue and then he puts different URLs for me to click onto look at.
What do you say about this, Eric?
I don't know who is right.
I don't think that you are a sham or trying to trick people, but I'm still not convinced
candida is a real problem.
There are many red flags I see.
For example, the fact that the list of symptoms from this thing is so long that you can basically
find any one.
But let's just say that candida is a real issue, changing my eating habits and taking
specific supplements for a long period of time is a big investment to make.
I would gladly devote time and energy into something like this if I actually knew I had
candida.
But I don't know.
To go to a practice that can test for this stuff would cost me at least 700 euros.
I don't mind spending money for the sake of my health, but it's too much money to gamble
on disease that maybe is real and that maybe I have.
Can you see the issue?
What can be done in this situation?
Thanks for your attention.
Regards, Alex."
I like this guy, because this is exactly what I was like when I was a young guy.
When I was in my 20s I got very sick.
I lived by myself for several years.
I had a shift working job.
I used to work in a flour mill rotating shifts.
I lived in this cold house, damp.
In wintertime, I used to get a couple of inches of water in my bedroom, the walls all had
a black mold growing on them.
I had no idea about those things in my early 20s.
I got very sick.
Yeah, I went to my doctor and he said, "You've got depression, you've got anxiety, or both,
infections, you've got all of these diseases, and you need all these pills."
So, of course, I was stupid young and dumb, I took all these pills and then I just went
into a hole.
A naturopath I met in a garage sale talked to me and said, "I think you've got a candida
problem."
Of course, there was no internet back then so I couldn't really look things up.
I started to read books and I thought this makes sense.
My doctor said, "The woman's a fool.
There is no such thing as candida.
You haven't got a vagina.
How can you have candida?
You're not a woman.
Only women get candida infections."
So then I started to go to libraries and read up different books and try and really understand
what was going on.
I could very strongly relate to the candida problem.
Back then really stool testing wasn't much of a thing.
It was in its infancy.
But I could really relate to candida myself personally.
Through lack of testing at that stage and by self-treatment, I got myself right.
It took a long time, but I've finally climbed out of the hole.
Now in your case, Alex, you can do stool testing.
It doesn't cost 700 euros.
You can get it done for cheaper than that.
Without stool testing, you won't know what you've got inside you, my friend.
You will not know, okay?
It could be a lack beneficial bacteria, or it could be parasitic, it could be bacterial
overgrowth, the bad nature.
It could be anything going on in your gut.
The only way you're going to know is by testing.
Now regarding candida being real or not real, it's certainly real.
There are many videos I've responded to just like this where I've actually put URLs or
links in the description box to show people credible information and good studies which
support the fact that candida really is a big problem.
It's a seriously big problem, in pediatric health, in geriatric health, in health like
you and me, just normal people.
It raised its head on many occasions, after hospital visits, in hospital visits.
But particularly the people on drugs long-term, pharmaceutical medications, it comes as a
side effect as a byproduct of antibiotic use, chemotherapy use.
With a little bit of looking online you will find thousands of studies that support the
fact that candida is a real problem.
There are many medical doctors now who understand candida and treat it for what it is.
But it's not just candida, because there are over 600 types of funguses that can live in
your gut that can cause a problem.
So it's not fair to assume that only bacteria play the role in making people sick.
Parasites have a massive impact in people.
Most doctors have never ever trained in tropical medicine so they really don't know how to
treat any kind of disease, like malaria, let alone how to effectively treat parasites.
When they do see them they just give a routine antibiotic, but they never ever really get
the patient back routinely to check what the damage was after that drug.
So you need to be careful of conservative practitioners who don't keep up with latest
research.
Best approach for you, Alex, is to do a proper comprehensive stool analysis.
Three samples, three concurrent days, includes a parasitology panel.
That's your best approach, and then to see what the results are and then how to go forward.
Yeah.
I mean, I am a sincere person and I am a genuine person.
I've looked at the research and I don't need to look any further because I worked with
candida patients for over 30 years.
I've treated tens of thousands of people now and I've directly seen the result of a person
recovering from a yeast infection to such high level of health.
Not one time, not two time, not a hundred times, not a thousand times, but many thousands
of times I've seen people recover, many thousands of times.
So I personally know that it works.
That the treatment does work when it's indicated.
When a person has candida and we do treat them effectively, they recover.
I've got hundreds of stool test reports that I could show you where people have multiple
species of candida cultured with very high levels in their body.
These are very sick people that have been pushed from one doctor to another and told
they were crazy, and then when we did the stool test we found the candida species.
Yeah, get the stool test done.
It's the only way you're really going to understand.
Work through a credible lab, and then when you get a report send me the report and let
me interpret for you.
I'll do that for you.
No problem at all.
I hope that answers your question, Alex.
Yeah, do the test and let's see what comes out of it.
Thanks for the question.