It's Eric Bakker, the naturopath.
Thank you for coming back to my channel.
We're getting pretty close to 1.5K videos.
It's a lot of videos on a channel, isn't it?
Don't just view this channel as the Candida Crusher channel, because we are really trying
to change that.
I mean, we'll probably end up changing the name.
But I've specialized in so many GI conditions that yeast, of course yeast infections was
one of the original things I did a lot of research on and worked with patients, but
over the last 25 years I've expanded that quite a lot.
But let's now talk about something that's really important, and that really gets a lot
of people confused about stool testing.
That's the key thing I want to talk about now.
It might seem like a shitty topic for somebody out there, but for me it's my bread and butter.
You'd be surprised how many friends I've got, or people I know, that when I talk to them
they say, "Man, how can you have a job like that?
Reading through people's test results, looking at their stool and stuff like that."
I say, "Well, I don't handle the stool.
I look at the reports."
So lots of people are quite surprised that that's the kind of work I do.
But, I mean hey, a good friend of mine's a mechanic, he's up to his armpits in diesel
fluid, and I've got another friend who works in a coal mine.
So come on, we've all got jobs, haven't we?
Just the degree of do-do varies sometimes, doesn't it?
All right.
Now let's talk about stool testing.
Why I love stool testing, and why I think that if you've got any kind of a gut problem,
you're crazy if you don't get a comprehensive test done.
You're just as crazy if you don't get a stool test with a bad gut problem as you would be
if you try and diagnose your own car problem.
If you've got an automobile in your garage and it's making a noise, it's leaking oil,
it's got some kind of digestive problem, engine problem, are you going to open up the engine
and try and fix it yourself?
Are you going to diagnose by looking at the oil that comes out to know what kind of parasites
come out of the sump, and you can diagnose the problem by that?
No way, man.
You've got to take your car to someone who knows cars.
Hopefully someone who's qualified and who's opened up many car engines before, and also
someone who knows how to test oil.
And that's a special topic I'm not going to talk about.
All right?
So, stool testing.
I've completed several thousand stool tests now, and I'll tell you a few things I've learned
from stool testing.
I made a few points here.
All right?
So what we're talking about, we're not talking about stool testing, we're talking about clinical
microbiology here.
We're talking about working with a lab, and there are several we'll discuss later, that
are highly reputable.
That have been in the game an awfully long time, that have got an incredible amount of
PhDs on staff, that spend millions and millions of dollars for their lab procedures, that
work to ISO international standard ratings.
So we're not talking holding up a piece of string with the little dowsing thing on the
end of it.
We're not talking, asking Auntie Mary over the fence what's wrong with my tummy.
We're actually talking about a proper, reputable lab.
So microbes, most of your microbes live inside your body, not on surface of your body.
So what's the best way to assess the microbes in your gut?
Well, most likely microbiology.
So the study of life of the microbes, and stool testing is exactly that.
It's going to detect what the hell's going on inside your gut.
We're going to be looking at the digestion and absorption functions with the stool tests.
We're going to be looking at identifying bacterial and new species to see where they're at, what
the levels and the balance is like in the gut.
We're going to be detecting pathogens and parasites.
We're going to finally see if you've got campylobacter infection, or whether you've got Alice in
Wonderland Syndrome like some people have.
They're in some sort of fairy tale.
So what do I mean by fairy tale?
Well often people go to people with kinds of crazy machines these days.
Electronic sort of machines that some naturopath spent tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars
on.
These crazy gadgets, and they hook people up to them.
"Oh my God, you've got 19 different microbes in your body, and you've got all these parasites
crawling through your brain, and you're sick, and you need all these supplements."
And I've heard that so many times before.
If you've been to one of these crazy sort of witch doctor-y people with all these machines,
or in some cases, unfortunately, if you go to a colon or a hydrotherapist, someone who
flushes out the bowel, they may be quick to point out that you've got all these different
species of bugs inside you.
Well, how the hell do they know?
Have they got eyes that can see better than a microscope, perhaps?
The only way you're really going to detect parasites, and yeast, and bacteria in your
gut is through proper laboratory testing.
That's the point of this video.
If you want to do things the right way, you really need to understand that stool testing
is the right way to go about it.
Particularly if you do a test at the beginning of your problems, or as the problems are developing,
and that becomes your baseline.
Then you've got a starting point.
And then of course you have a treatment phase, and then you can retest again.
All right?
Let's say you do a bad crime and you go to jail.
You spend some time in jail, and then you go before the parole board and they decide
whether you can come out or not.
That person's going through a process and is deemed to be okay.
Now stool testing to me is a little bit similar.
It's a little bit similar.
There's an assessment up front to see what kind of sentence the person's going to get,
and there's a rehabilitation phase in the middle, and there's the end phase where the
person gets released saying, "You're cured now.
You're not going to commit crimes anymore.
You can go back into society," kind of thing.
So it's a process.
That's the point I'm trying to make.
A process.
I put patients through a process.
We test first.
We put a protocol in place.
We may test in between, during the protocol or at the end of the protocol.
But the thing is, we walk people through a system that we know that works.
How do we know it works?
Because I've put thousands of people through that system.
Now, that system for me is coming to a close in November this year.
I'm no longer practicing.
However, I'm stepping up my game online.
So put the tissues away.
Don't cry.
I'm going to still see people.
I'm going to certainly spend some time live so I can really answer questions for people.
But I'm absolutely 100% completely convinced that stool testing is the most positive, definitive
way for you to go forward if you've got a gut problem.
To see a practitioner, someone who has some level of expertise or experience in understanding
how to read, interpret, and then utilize a stool test.
That's going to put you in a heck of a better position than the new fishing around in the
stool looking for worms and bugs, and going to witchdoctors, and going into all sorts
of crazy people who don't really understand microbiology.
There's the right way of doing things and there's the wrong way of doing things.
You've got a gut problem, get a stool test done.
That's the right way of doing things.
That's a scientific way.
It's not Ouija board, or holding up a little pendulum to see which way it swings, and things
like that.
Those are all things that don't belong in naturopathic medicine.
They belong to the charlatans.
Naturopathic physicians are not charlatans.
We have a high level of training.
Unfortunately in our industry, like any industry, you've got a lot of apples that are a bit
on the rotten side, and bad, and you've got to others that are a bit shiny with a big
ego, and you've got others that are quite nice.
So you're going to have to find someone that belongs to the nice category, with more than
a few brain cells.
And there are very good naturopaths out there.
I've met many in the United States when I'd been on conferences in California.
There's plenty on the East Coast.
There's plenty in Europe.
It's a matter of organizing yourself to go online, looking at associations, or even perhaps
approaching a stool testing lab like Doctor's Data or Genova Diagnostics, which I'll write
down for you right now, because otherwise people say, "I can't hear you.
You're talking weird."
So I'm going to write this word down.
Doctor's Data.
So there's no confusion.
This is my favorite lab.
Doctor's Data.
I'll just hold it there for a second.
Take a screenshot, go to Google, and have a look at Doctor's Data.
There might be some way that you can contact these guys.
They may have a help page I think, or a physician who may work with this test.
But to me, this is why I do stool testing.
It's a process.
I put people through a process.
There's no guesswork.
The test will reveal lots of interesting things, and it's the smartest way, the shortcut really
for you to getting better.
So most forms of self-diagnosis are crap.
They don't work.
Science is not self-diagnosis.
And this is where a lot of medical doctors get quite upset with patients, that they go
online and they self-diagnose.
I told you about the woman who told me she had the rare form of brain cancer, and it
started off with an itchy elbow.
And I think she went to findyoursymptom.com or some junk like that, and she just went
through a process, and she said, "Dr. Bakker, you've got to help me.
I've got this rare form of brain tumor."
I said, "Really?
Let me look at the specialist report."
"Oh, no, no.
I didn't go to no doctor."
I said, "Well, how was it diagnosed?"
"Oh, I did that through Google."
Don't do it.
You might get upset later on realizing you're not going to die of a brain tumor when in
fact all you had was a migraine headache or a tension headache.
Self-diagnosis is wrong diagnosis.
Get help from a professional.
But stool testing is clever, regardless of what kind of GI problem you've got.
If you've had it a long time, or if you've had it a short time and it's mounting, it's
not getting any better.
Or if you've had antibiotics and you feel sick, and you haven't recovered since, those
are the sorts of scenarios that I would highly recommend you look at doing stool testing.
Now don't forget there's a report in the description box.
If you want my PDF, please click on that report.
Any questions on stool testing, please ask.
But remember, I can't answer specific questions just related to your particular type of problem
because I get too many questions.
But if you've got some general questions regarding stool testing, I'm quite happy to answer those.
Thanks for tuning in.