Greetings.
It's Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand.
I'm the book called Candida Crusher and I'm also the formulator of a product range called
Canxida.
Thanks for checking out my videos.
I do appreciate it.
I've got to talk to you today about tofu.
Is tofu good or okay on the Candida diet?
Let's get a couple of things straight with tofu for starters.
Tofu is a soy protein.
It's basically made by grinding up soy beans and then a product is added to it.
I think it is called an anti-coagulant.
It's some kind of substance they add to it.
What is does is it separates the curds from the whey, so the tofu basically is the curds.
And they'll compress this into blocks so you can get hard tofu.
You can get soft tofu.
You can get silken tofu.
It comes in different ways it's presented.
I like the hard or the firm tofu.
Tofu is very, very healthy food.
It's been made in Asia for over 2,000.
People have made it for a long, long time.
Some websites will falsely say that soy is never eaten in a tofu form traditionally and
it's okay to have in a fermented form because that's how it goes back a long time ago.
For example, tempeh or nato, I'll make some other videos on tempeh and nato and explain
what these products are.
Tempe has basically been inoculated with the bacteria, a little bit like how we make sauerkraut,
but they actually put like a starter with it and it gets a nice meaty sort of flavor.
I don't like nato.
It looks a little bit like snot and it doesn't taste good, but it's a very healthy food.
I've been consuming tofu for about 30 years now.
If you eat tofu, make sure that you get a non-genetically modified soybean that has
been converted into tofu.
And you can get these products, so not all soy is genetically modified.
A lot of it is, so you need to be careful.
There's a lot of crap on the internet about soy and about tofu.
I was just reading a yeast infection website where it says to strictly avoid all tofu and
all soy products because they're bad for your health.
Many people say that.
I've written quite a bit in my book, Candida Crusher.
Parrot talk.
Many people I know are just like parrots.
I'll just read this out of my book.
They just keep on repeating what they've heard from others word for word without even thinking
or researching for themselves.
They basically just repeat stuff they read.
Some health care professionals are guilty of this, too, and many tell their patients
to avoid all soy products because of these kind of reasons.
Soy wrecks your immune system.
Tofu wrecks your brain.
Soy turns boys into homosexuals.
Soy may cause cancer and brain damage.
High soy diets during pregnancy and nursing can cause developmental changes in children.
Soy can cause severe allergic reactions.
Soy supplements fail to help menopause.
Pregnant women should totally avoid all soy products.
Soy can lead to kidney stones, except it goes on and on.
You need to be careful.
Tofu is, in fact, a very healthy soy product if it's been made properly and it's not genetically
modified.
Every 100 grams of tofu will contain around 35 to 50 milligrams of stuff called isoflavones.
These are basically very healthy nutritional factor found in a soybean.
There are different kinds of isoflavones and genistein and daidzein are the two main ones.
It's been proven through research that the isoflavones have a very beneficial effect
for women and for men, particularly people at my age like 50 plus.
With men we know that guys who tend to consume soy and have tofu regularly have a much lower
risk of prostate cancer.
We also know that people who regularly consume soy, including tofu and soy milk, have lower
rates of heart disease.
Your bad cholesterol will be pulled out of the body and the good cholesterol, the HDL,
will go up.
We also know that isoflavones are very good to prevent osteoporosis.
My belief with soy has been very maligned because when soy became popular in the US
in the 80s, there were very powerful anti-soy campaigns start to put in place by the dairy
company.
You think about it.
It makes sense.
You come in with a competitive product and your sales are declining it's easy to create
a smear campaign.
A bit like what's happening with Trump at the moment and the lady that he's opposing.
I forget her name.
These two politicians who are opposing each other.
It's very similar to soy and to milk.
You need to make up your mind and don't blindly automatically assume that this product is
going to turn you gay if you're a male or grow breasts if you're a male or wreck your
brain or all this sort of crap.
I bet you use one of these mobile phones like I do.
If you're talking on your mobile phone regularly, you're going to have way more chance of getting
diseases and potential cancers than you are from having tofu in your diet.
So be very careful.
These smear campaigns are very effective in getting the public to believe that a product
is actually radioactive.
It kills you.
Your hair will fall out.
Your testicles will drop off and all this sort of crap.
Don't fall for the hype.
It's a wonderful high protein product.
It has a very, very quick way of metabolizing.
It breaks down quickly and absorbs into the body.
There is no fat.
No cholesterol in it.
It's a supremely powerful food for the body.
No fiber in it and it's quite bland.
It takes on the taste of foods around it, but I think that it's a wonderful food to
eat.
My wife and I we have tofu with our lunch at least twice per week.
We cook up tofu.
I have that as a stir fry with vegetables in it.
Mostly we grow in the garden and I think it's a fantastic food.
Is tofu okay on the Candida diet?
Yes, it is.
But get a non-genetically product.
Make sure it is.
You can do all kinds of stuff with this food.
It is amazing.
I fully endorse it.
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