Greetings.
It's Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand.
Author of Candida Crusher and the formulator of the Canxida range of dietary supplements.
Thanks for checking out my video today.
I'm making this video because over the years, I've had patients on and off that I notice
end up with severe aggravations when they're on the Candida cleanse.
Regardless whether they're on a Candida diet or the Candida Crusher diet or whatever kind
of a Candida cleansing approach, some people end up with a severe aggravation and severe
die off.
Now, this is one patient in particular whom I had yesterday on Skype.
Of course, I won't mention her name, the country, or any details about her, but she was quite
happy to discuss her case anonymously with the public.
This lady still has got quite a major yeast infection, vaginal yeast infection, intestinal
yeast infection, probably systemic yeast infection, and for many years, she's been treated by
different practitioners and she's been taking fluconazole on and off for a long time.
Recently, she's been on a strict diet, and then occasionally, she'll break out of the
diet.
So then, she approached me.
My recommendations were for her to go nice and easy on the treatment and gradually build
treatment up.
And what this poor lady did is she dropped the treatment she was doing entirely and went
on a very powerful cleansing regime.
She started to take right off the bat, 60 drops of grapefruit seed extract per day,
6 capsules of oregano oil per day, one liter of a very strong anti-fungal tea, different
kinds of tea she was drinking, 5 tablespoons of coconut oil, and a very strict diet.
All carbs were gone.
It was like a meat diet with some eggs in it.
Literally within a couple of days, she felt unwell, but she kept the treatment going and
pushing and pushing.
She ended up in the emergency room.
She thought she was dying of a heart attack.
She had chest pains, she had facial pains, and she couldn't sleep.
I think it lasted almost two weeks this headache.
It was a severe headache on one side of the face.
She thought her head was going to explode.
She was vomiting.
She couldn't sleep.
She had severe aggravations.
Well, these things can come about when you do a 360, when you do an about turn, and do
a very abrupt stop of everything you're doing and a very abrupt start of everything new
and in particular in high dosages.
You can cause a serious aggravation.
This is not what I want people to do.
And in my book, I've written about this on many occasions that you're better off to slowly
wind down, especially if you're eating a poor diet, just slowly take your diet down over
a two or three week period and gently introduce new foods.
And at that time, it's probably not a good idea to put antifungal treatment in right
from day one.
You're better off cleaning yourself up a little bit in terms of diet and lifestyle and then
putting an antifungal approach in there.
And when you do, you start on a low dose if you have severe Candida, then you gradually
build up.
It may take two or three weeks before you can start taking even a reasonable amount
of antifungal.
I've had this same thing with people taking my Canxida Remove and Canxida Restore products.
Some people will start, they take 12 straightaway, so they'll get the bottle, and they'll take
three tablets, 2 hours later another three, then another three.
Some people seem to think that if you take a huge amount of something, you're going to
hurry up and quickly get the cleanse over and done with.
You're going to kill all the Candida in your body.
This is a stupid way of thinking.
If you want to feel really sick and get bad aggravations, go ahead, take lots and lots
of things.
Make lots and lots of changes abruptly.
It's not a good idea.
For example, if you're going to join a gym or going to get fit, you're not going to go
to the gym on day one and do three hours of weights and then go out and do 50 miles on
a bike, and then a week later, you won't be able to walk for a month.
No.
You don't do that.
You go very slowly into exercise.
Very slowly and get a reasonable level of fitness, then build that fitness up gradually
until you become increasingly fit.
And who knows, in six months, you may be able to do a quarter or half marathon.
You can't do a half marathon in Candida the first week that you start a Candida cleanse.
It doesn't work like that.
And if you do that, you'll get severe aggravations.
So take it easy.
You've got plenty of time.
You've been to 50 doctors or practitioners already; you've gotten nowhere.
Why would you think that you could push things through in a hurry and get somewhere?
If you're going to do it properly, take your time.
Do it properly.
Because I want you to also learn and become educated in the correct lifestyle habits as
well as diet habits.
Remember, a lot of products you can take can be very powerful if taken in dosages way too
high.
I mean 60 drops of grapefruit seed extract on day one is not a good approach.
You can get very sick doing that.
Have a think about that suggestion.
I thought it might be worthwhile doing a video on this topic.
Go slow.
Go low.
Take it easy and gradually build.
Work under the threshold of discomfort.
You don't want to push yourself to the point where you're vomiting and you have to go to
the hospital.
That's not really a good idea.
Thanks for tuning into my video.