Eric Bakker: Eric Bakker the naturopath. Thanks for coming back. I've been listening to a lot
of people out there asking me for resources. In particular what I've got here, it's a one-pager.
I like one-pagers. Just the pertinent or the relevant information on one sheet of paper
without all the blah, blah, all the waffling and stuff like that. So cut out all the junk,
we've just got one page of information, which I call the complete candida diet food shopping list,
everything on the one page. Now, it's in color, but because I'm too tight to spend money on
printing cartridges and stuff, I just print black and white, but this looks pretty cool in color,
okay? So these headers here are I think in red, like in a nice color.
So if you have a look here, you'll see different types of foods recommended.
Brassicas. If you look on that one side, other vegetables, the alliums, plant sources of protein.
When we got down the bottom there we've got the fruits. So this is basically a distillation of the
information that is in the Candida Crusher book. Over 700 pages, there's a lot of information in
there, too much for most people. So lots of people requested a one-pager, and that's what this is.
This is how I eat. This is how I've eaten for a long time. This is how I like my patients to eat,
these kinds of foods. So is it paleo? No. Is it low carb? No. Is it high carb? No.
This is a sensible, healthy approach to eating. Whether you've got candida or a gut problem,
it doesn't matter what you've got. This is the kind of foods that you want to be looking at
to get that gut in really good shape. You can spend a lot of time on YouTube,
and you could listen to podcasts, you could look and you could listen to many different doctors
online. A lot of them have got variants and different slants on this type of eating approach.
Be very careful of people who push hardcore one line, like, you've got to eat all meat, or you got
to eat all vegetables, or you've got to eat all fruits and everything else is toxic crappiness.
Be careful. These are people a bit like, I call them the Bible-thumpers or the evangelist people,
to stand up and say, "If you don't pray, you're going to go to hell." So sometimes we get these
sort of extremists in nutritional realm as well. So I've never believed in extremes when it comes
to therapy, when it comes to diet, exercise or anything. I always follow the middle ground.
And so let's go through this list a little bit. Probably my favorite of the vegetables
would be the brassicas. We're talking broccoli, cauliflower, talking Brussels sprouts. These
sorts of foods are extremely nutrient dense foods. Nobody would argue that brassicas are bad for you,
so wonderful food to eat. So, if you're not used to eating a lot of brassica foods like I am,
start very slowly. Just a small amount regularly over time. You might get a bit of gas production,
steam them lightly, put them in casseroles or cook them. If you can grow your own brassicas,
like I do, it's well worth doing. I really get concerned these days about glyphosate
or this crap called Roundup. These sprays, these weedicides, these things they spray around to
kill weeds. They get into the water, they get into the soil. So if you can get organic, it's
definitely preferable. So the research certainly points towards brassicas as being some of the
most nutrient dense foods you can eat. And particularly good for what they do to
innate liver toxification and providing the right kind of fiber for your gut to build really good
levels of beneficial bacteria, which in turn confer benefits by boosting your immune system
up. So people who eat foods like this tend to have a better immune function than people who don't.
Other vegetables, artichokes, asparagus, beet, celery, chard, cucumber. I mean,
it's all there. The alliums would be probably also in my top five of favorite vegetables.
We're talking onions, we're talking garlic, leeks, wonderfully easy foods to grow. Pests
hate them. So pests don't really like munching on a food it usually means it's got something in
it that's going to help you quite a lot. Might mean that pests don't like munching on you when
you've mentioned that food. So think about it. Some of our most powerful foods like garlic,
extremely powerful food. It's got a fantastic ability to ward off a lot of different bugs.
And that's why I plant garlic often around my tomato plants and basil and
things like that when I'm growing them. Also stops the dog digging everything up.
So, plant sources of protein, really, really important. There are lots of different types
of seeds that you can incorporate. Different types of grains and nuts and things like that,
that contain viable levels of protein for your body. Lentils, again one of my favorites. We make
up a lot of lentil dishes in this house. So cheap and good as my mum used to say,
she was Jewish, so she always said cheap and good. Now lentils are cheap and they're good.
So I'm telling you guys out there, eating healthy food doesn't have to come at a stupid high price
tag. It doesn't cost tens of thousands of dollars a year to eat lentils and stuff like that. When I
traveled in India and I did my post-graduate studies in the early 90s, I noticed how many
people I couldn't believe were just living on rice, tomatoes and legumes, like lentils. That's
basically what a lot of people just live on. Maybe some spinach thrown in, lots of pure water,
no Big Macs, no Dr Peppers. This is like healthy food, right?
Anyone can eat lentils, start slow. You're not going to be channeling into a pound of lentils
a day in the first week, because you're going to get a lot of gas and bloating
and you're not going to feel good. No different from taking a lady from Calcutta or Bombay
into New York and giving her two liters of Coca Cola to drink. She's probably going to get sick,
not used to drinking that kind of toxic crap. So fruits. As you know, I'm a huge fruit fan.
I love eating fruit. In fact, our yard is peppered with fruit at the moment.
We've got stone fruit galore. We grow all these trees, nectarines, peaches, plums, apricots.
We've got like apples coming through now. We've got cherries. We've got avocados, everything.
These are fantastic foods to eat. Avocados in particular are probably my favorite fruit. We gave
over 400 avocados away from our yard during the COVID lockdown period earlier this year, all my
neighbors were getting avocados off me. I wasn't allowed to leave the property, but I would sneak
next door and leave two in the letterbox. And that's the great thing about when you grow food,
you can support a lot of people around you, it's wonderful. So I highly recommend eating avocado.
Now you may not like avocado like a lot of people, but I can guarantee you,
if you start very, very, very, very small amounts, tiny amounts, and experiment,
slowly but surely the palate will change and you will get to like avocado. Superior food.
Animal proteins. As you know, I definitely eat meat, but my favorite meats now is things like
herring, mackerel, anchovies. And I like fish that are rich in oil. I like eal as well. I eat
those kinds of foods. I like eggs, organic eggs. So red meat, yeah, I do eat a bit of red meat,
but not much at all anymore. Preferring more to go to fish protein and egg protein. I think
to me, I just feel better on those proteins. So try and find out what kind of primary protein
that makes you feel good. Is it turkey? Is it organic chicken? Is it fish, you know? But I would
discourage you from eating a 16 ounce steak two or three times a week. I don't really think it's
good for the tummy and for the bowel, right? But that's your choice. Venison's another really good
food. We have a lot of deer in New Zealand and venison's a wonderful primary protein to eat too.
Nuts and seeds. We have containers in our pantry with all sorts of nuts. Almonds, hazelnuts,
cashews, pecans, or pecans, whatever you call them. Brazil nuts. I eat three to four Brazil
nuts every single day because of the boron and the selenium content. So there's a lot to be said.
The other tip I like giving people is to eat more pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, and sunflower seeds.
These three are fantastic foods to add to salads, to cook meals and things like that.
And if you want to, like I do beforehand, you can just get some pumpkin seeds for example, and cook
them in some tamari in a cast iron skillet. And you'll find that when they cool down, you put
them in a container. Wonderful to sprinkle on top of something. But my favorite is sesame seeds.
I get a pound of those. I usually put them in a really fine colander, rinse them,
because of you don't they pop everywhere when you heat them. I did that. It's a bloody mess, right?
So rinse them carefully, drain the water out, cast iron skillet. Until you start hearing a little bit
of pop, pop, popping sound, then you get, probably in a pound you would probably put a tablespoon,
a good level of tablespoon of sea salt, a good sea salt. Stirring it through, keep stirring,
mixing it, mixing it over the moderate heat until you smell that wonderful aroma.
And then when 50% of it brownish, transfer those to a bowl. I've got a little
Japanese porcelain bulk called a Suribachi, and just give it a bit of a grind and all
those oils get liberated. Now I'll tell you, that pound, when I put that on the table around food,
and I've got people here, it's gone. People just grab it by the handful,
it's almost insane how nice it tastes. So these are wonderful things that you can do
to add to your diet, to give the vegetables more flavor, more texture. So small things like that.
Grains, pastas and noodles. We eat buckwheat noodles here. We eat brown rice. I eat all
sorts of different types of rice. I usually mix different spices and herbs through the rice.
For example, cinnamon, clove, star aniseed, black cumin. These all get mixed through some rice and
then I'll have a steaming absorption method and it smells fantastic and it tastes great.
These are the things that can keep your gut clean. When you start cooking with lots of spices,
lots of herbs, it keeps the tummy clean. Look around the world where the equator is,
in the hottest regions they use the hottest spices. These are spiciest things. You think they
do that per chance? They do it for a reason. And why do you think? Where do you think the highest
concentration of yeast and parasites and bugs are? You've got it, around the equator, right?
And to me that's why people have always eaten that type of food. Not to like
make the food a bit spicy. They don't do it like that. They do it because they knew through
observations over generations that these foods stop people getting dodgy tummies.
So you got a dodgy tummy? Lean towards this type of equatorial eating and cooking.
If you go to the Caribbean, you go to Tahiti, you go to any place where it's hot,
and you'll find what I'm saying is correct. They even combine spices with fruits. Now,
you tell someone that in LA they think that you're on another planet, right?
What else is I going to talk about this list? Dairy alternatives of course, because milk's not
really that fantastic from cows, unless it's sort of turned into yogurt, or some sort of cultured
food. But many people have hemp milk now, oat milk. Just be careful of the added sugar content,
because many of these foods are crap. I go to the supermarkets, I pick up these
Tetra Paks and the square boxes with the milks in them, and you can actually read
the numbers and you think, "Oh my gosh, artificial sugars." So just be wary of what you're buying.
Fresh herbs and spices. We grow lots of different herbs and we use a lot of
spices. I think this is one of the key things to tie a lot of fruits and vegetables together
and to give them that power that you're looking for to be very medicinal in the digestive system.
Seaweed of course is another one of my favorite foods. I've got a marine fish tank, which I'll
show you guys one day. And I've got a couple of big fish in it that eat one big sheet of nori
per day. So the nori that you roll up and make sushi from. So yeah, but we use different
seaweeds. We use wakame, we use hijiki, we use nori, there's kombu. They all have their own
reasons why we use them. If I for example would boil a potato, or boil a vegetable, which I don't
do that much, I would put some kombu with it. Now, hijiki is a nice black stranded seaweed,
which I love to usually boil just for about five minutes. And then often I'll have a pan with
seaweed in it boiling, and then I'll have a pot on top with holes in it and it's steaming,
so you get the added flavor. And then you can actually drain that water. You can even
use that water of course for soup or casserole and you combine the hijiki with the broccoli.
Really good. Seaweed's going to give you nice hair and nice skin. And it's also great for the immune
system and support the thyroid function too. So really, really good food. Sea vegetables, okay?
Foods to try when the gut improves. So what you're going to find is in my book, if you've read my
book or gone through it, some people can handle these foods right off the bat. They can handle
them with a candida problem. Other people can't tolerate them at all until their digestion really
improves. That's why there are no yes or no, 100% yes or no foods on this list. Some people may get
this list and say, "Bakker, you're full of crap. I can't eat bananas. I can't eat this." That's okay,
just don't eat them then, put them away. Maybe in three or six months you can tolerate them again.
But don't go online and tell people that bananas are toxic and they're radioactive and they kill
everybody and they make you sick, and it's not true, right? Some people can easily tolerate two
bananas a day. Others can't tolerate one a week. And it's the same with pumpkin, with squash,
with those types of fibery vegetables you're going to find that. But as your gut improves and is in
great shape like mine, you can eat any vegetable, any fruit, and you won't have any problem.
So the contentious foods as the gut improves, carrots for some people, bananas,
pineapple, sweet potato, which is probably up in my top five. I love sweet potato.
And the other thing, be careful of these sourdough. Some people have no problem with
sourdough. One of the most important things on this list is the fermentable and cultured
foods. So this has been of my life since I've been a kid and I'm 60 now. So if you can make a
cultured or fermented food a small part of your life, and then gradually as the years go by,
once a day if you can, add a little bit of yogurt to your meal, a little bit of sauerkraut.
And build that up until it becomes like a condiment that you regularly have.
Because of course, when you regularly do things, you get the benefit from them.
So having sauerkraut in a mall, because it's like the fashionable thing to do,
isn't going to do much for you. But having sauerkraut or yogurt at home, making it,
is a totally different ballgame. It immerses you into good health. And that's what I like
people to do. And that's what this channel is all about. So if you want this, it's free,
it's cheap and it's good. Click on the link below, and it's
yours. And as usual, thanks for tuning in. I hope everyone has a fantastic 2021. Thank you so much.