Greetings, Greetings!
Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand, author of Candida Crusher, formulator of the
CanXida range of products.
Thank you again for looking at this informative-what I hope it to be informative video.
It's a hot day today.
It must be 30 degrees today.
What is that, about 90 Fahrenheit?
I'm looking forward to wintertime, nice and cool.
Question: "Does Candida not go away until you detox heavy metals?"
So here, a guy is asking a question-I'm not going to mention his name because he wants
to remain anonymous.
He's from the States.
"Eric, I've heard that Candida will not go away until heavy metals are detoxified from
the body."
Well, you can read that on page 528 in my book or 527 I think it was.
From memory I wrote two pages on mercury detoxification in Candida Crusher.
There are several issues we needed to discuss in this video.
There's a lot of BS-I'm not going to use the word, you can understand what BS means.
There's a lot of BS online about heavy metals and mercury.
Some people overstate and some people overstate the effects.
I hope this is going to be a very useful video for those who want to know what I believe
is the truth.
Mercury can be a seriously bad problem for people, but I think it's definitely overstated
by a lot of people and overestimated certainly.
If you really want to know if you've got a heavy metal problem, a good way to determine
that.
There are a couple ways.
You can go to a kinesiologist, but I find a more accurate way is to do a hair analysis
through Doctor's Data.
You can do a pubic hair analysis or a head hair analysis.
You just take five or six bits of hair from the nape of the neck and that gets sent off.
It's only about a $110 or $120 for the test, and they're going to check for about 15 toxic
metals and about 25 to 30 different minerals.
What you will find though with some people can have seriously high heavy metal issues
and no Candida at all.
You can also find a lot of people who've got no mercury or metal problem at all with big
Candida.
What you will also find in my opinion, you will find a lot of people out there who've
got metals right across the board because they're what we call pathological detoxifiers.
They won't lose a lot of metal, so it will start accumulating which weakens the immune
system and makes them more susceptible to a whole range of different types of bacteria,
viruses, including yeast infection.
It's not just the Candida that these people suffer from.
Many times they also have got completely destroyed beneficial bacteria or they've also got parasites
and imbalanced flora.
That's because often because when they get inflammation in the body, they could also
get reflux or heartburn or sore joints or fatigue or insomnia.
They get put on all these drugs by the doctor, which will just continue to wreck the gut
slowly but surely over a period of years.
I used to do a lot more hair analysis than I've been doing the last 10 years of my practice,
but in the early days I certainly found a lot of people had considerable levels of the
four sulfhydryl metals.
Sulfhydryl metals are metals that have a particular affinity with amino acid detoxification pathways.
These are mercury, lead, cadmium and arsenic.
Those four tend to be probably the easier ones to remove from the body.
But saying that, mercury is probably the hardest one out of those four to remove.
Lead is not too difficult to remove.
Aluminum, or what we say in New Zealand aluminum, is not sulfhydryl and you cannot detoxify
aluminum the same way you can with sulfhydryl metals.
So how mercury affects you, it affects you on multiple levels.
One of the big things that it does is it actually gets inside the cell and it infuses with the
cell membrane.
You have six trillion cells that organize and run our whole system.
When membranes get disturbed, cells can't communicate effectively with one another anymore.
Mercury can even effect the RNA/DNA synthesis, so it can actually create chromosomal damage.
We know that from looking at research that's been conducted particularly by professor Boyd
Haley in Kentucky who's one of the world's experts in mercury toxicity.
When you get the cell to cell communication problem, it really renders the body very much
incapable of fighting viruses, fighting bacteria and even detoxification.
As I mentioned previous, these people are what we call pathological detoxifiers.
Once they start getting a heavy metal problem, it quickly ramps up and it becomes a serious
problem.
The second thing that we find with people is that they've got lots of amalgam filling
and every time they have something acidic, they actually release methylmercury in a vapor.
There's an interesting YouTube video you can actually see a person's mouth opened up and
I think there's an acid placed in their mouth and all these mercury vapors coming out of
their mouth.
I had all my amalgam fillings totally removed by an expert dentist, I think about 25 years
ago now in the days where you were considered to be a complete psycho when you talked about
mercury toxicity.
My doctor told me I needed to go to a psychiatrist because I said that I thought that mercury
was a contributing factor to my Candida.
When I had a hair analysis done, the mercury was off the chart.
I also had a high level of zinc and copper in my hair.
In my Candida book I wrote about this.
The sulfhydryl metals which are?
Can you remember them?
Cadmium, mercury, arsenic, lead.
Those four metals in particular are quite similar in respect that they very much affect
a similar pathway in the body.
So you've got this protein inside the cell called the Metallothionein.
That protein has a got a strong affinity for binding with heavy metals.
A much stronger affinity for the heavy metals, they affect copper and zinc.
Zinc and copper bind to this particular protein inside cells.
But when metals are in the body, they bind much more aggressively to Metallothionein.
Much more aggressive and hundreds of times greater, which kicks copper and zinc out of
the cell.
You're going to find an elevation of copper and zinc outside of the cell and in fact growing
out of your hair because if you've got a high lead concentration, it's going to be in the
exterior tissue, in the hair and the nails.
When you find a high elevation of copper and zinc in a hair analysis, it doesn't mean to
say you're toxic, in fact it means you're deficient with it.
You don't got enough of the stuff.
Your cells can't accept it.
Now lack of zinc and copper in particular is very bad from a detox point of view.
You really need those elements to detox.
Zinc alone is responsible for well over 500 different enzymatic reactions in the body.
Now you can understand why heavy metal toxicity can make you sick, very sick indeed.
Metals also have a very powerful effect on draining adrenal function.
It's a very strong stress in the body.
The adrenals become compromised and weak with this toxic load.
Remember, the cells can't communicate anymore, there's a lack of copper and zinc in the body,
and many other things I haven't got time today to talk about in this video.
The adrenals basically get drained and drained and the person ends up in a chronic fatigue
syndrome state with heavy metal toxicity.
I've been raving on in this video about mercury, but I am passionate about mercury cleansing
in people.
And the question was: "Does it not go away until you detox heavy metals?"
Yes, and no.
If you're concerned, do a hair analysis or go see a kinesiologist.
Don't assume what the problem is.
If you're noticing, now pay attention, if you're noticing with the hair test high copper,
high zinc, and either one or four of those metals elevated, the Sulfhydryl, remember
what they are again, mercury, lead, cadmium, and arsenic.
If any one of those are high, including copper and zinc, and especially on the hair test
you've got a lack of a lot of trace elements, then my recommendation would be particularly
with mercury high is to get your amalgams removed.
Especially if you can relate to the signs and symptoms of mercury toxicity, because
mercury can definitely in that situation really hinder your body's ability to get rid of Candida.
Remember what we said?
Poor immune function.
If your immune system is not working or working half mast, you can probably forget about effectively
detoxifying the body from a yeast infection.
That's the yes part.
The no part.
If you've done a hair test and been checked out, and you haven't got elevations of mercury,
copper and zinc are in their place, I would not recommend you mess with the fillings,
amalgam fillings, until you've reduced your Candida.
Remember first, also make sure you have got Candida, do a stool test.
Not through the spit test or the other tests.
They're not really that accurate.
They'll give you an indication, but they're not full proof.
The stool test is the foolproof way.
When you work through Doctor's Data for example, they do a culture on the stool to see if there
are live yeast excreted in the stool, and they also do a microscopy to see if you've
got dead yeast in the stool.
Mainly you want to target assessing the gut to see if you've got a yeast infection, not
the bloodstream.
Because a lot of people believe they get live blood cell analysis done and they say, "The
doctor said I've got yeast all through my system.
I've got a systemic yeast infection!"
You'd probably be in the blooming hospital if you have that, so don't fall for that one,
okay?
So, I hope that answers your question and gives you a bit of information on mercury
toxicity.
It can be a really big problem.
So make sure that you assess it and then treat it properly.
Thanks for tuning in.