Hi there, Eric Bakker, naturopath.
Thanks for coming back, appreciate you checking out this channel.
I make videos for people just like you.
I make videos almost weekly, and its just a service I've been doing now for some time,
and it's good to give back.
I've been seeing patients now for a long time, and I hope you're going to get something out
of this video.
So, what we're going to talk about now is some of the best foods you can eat for candida.
I've done similar videos like this before, but this one's going to be more of a summary
of all of my favorite different types of foods all put into one video.
Let's start off by saying, the only way really, you're going to eradicate not just candida,
but also dysbiosis, meaning bad bacteria or poor gut function in general, the only way
you're going to get that gut, that digestive tract in a really nice balanced state, is
to eat fresh foods.
The fresher and cleaner the foods you eat, the better your gut is going to be.
The more packaged and processed you're going to eat, the crappier your gut's going to be.
The crappier the gut, the crappier the health.
So, there you go.
I've said it before, if you eat crap, you look like crap, and you feel like crap, and
it's not nice to be crappy in the 21st century.
But, it's incredible how many people in America, have got non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
I may have mentioned this in a previous video, it's estimated that now about 100 million
people in the US have got non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
Now, we're talking non-alcoholic.
These are people who don't drink alcohol.
Their livers are sick and fat and ugly, and it's all from eating the wrong crappy kind
of foods, and guess how many of these people potentially will have CBO parasites and candida
out of that 100 million?
A ton of people.
100 million crappy people walking around, that sounds not really good, is it?
But, it's not just the US guys, I mean, this is New Zealand as well.
This is Australia, this is a lot of countries.
So, the basis of really good health is eating very fresh.
The fresher the foods, the better the health's gonna be.
That's why I like to grow a lot of my own foods because I can guarantee then that I'm
putting stuff on the plate that's going to be good for my gut, not good for someone's
pocket.
Best groups of foods, I believe in terms of vegetables, one of the top ones are the Allium
family.
So, I've done a video on this previously, you can look it up.
The Alliums are very, very powerful because they contain so many compounds that have a
wide range of effects in the body.
All the Allium foods are anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, and anti-inflammatory.
So, we're talking chives, spring onions, shallots, scallions, red onions, brown onions, green
onions, purple onions, garlic, all different types of garlic.
So, these are basically the Allium family.
What I like about these in particular, is the liver cleansing ability.
So, they're going to help to pull micro toxins out of the bloodstream.
So these are basically poisons that yeast make and dump into the bloodstream.
So, Allium is known to mop up and do a lot of cleansing, so by eating these foods regularly,
you're going to have a regular detoxification.
They contain a lot of quercetin, which has very beneficial effects on many aspects of
your immune function.
Try every single day to have Allium in your diet.
We go through kilos and kilos of onions in our house.
We go through huge amounts of garlic.
We also grow lots of chives and spring onions.
I would have, at any one day, at least 100 spring onions growing in the garden in various
states of maturity.
So, I can always go a head into the garden, any day of the year, and pull out one, two
or three spring onions, and they go beautifully in omelets, like in eggs.
They go in salads, they go in casseroles, they go in curries, they go in all kinds of
foods.
You can eat them fresh, you can eat them steamed, you can eat them stir fried.
They take up very little space in the garden, and guess what?
Bugs don't like Alliums, they don't like 'em at all.
What does it tell you about them?
They're powerful plants.
Eat them, all right?
Second group I like are the Cruciferous vegetables.
To this group, again, we've done videos on this, we're looking at broccoli, cauliflower,
collards, kale, brussel sprouts, kohlrabi, all these foods.
These are super, super dense nutrient foods.
Again, they contain many different compounds and tons of minerals that help to build your
health up.
These foods are very nice, for example, cabbage stir fired, you can also drink the juice of
cabbage, I've mentioned in many videos to really help with [inaudible 00:04:48] of significantly
green cabbage juice.
The Cruciferous vegetables are very powerful also, like the Allium in terms of their pro-biotic
potentials.
Lactobacillus and bifidobacteria love to feed on the residues on these foods, because they
contain many fibers that are both soluble and insoluble, meaning that there's very good
fermentation in the gut going on in the gut with bacteria and these foods.
You can imagine how your body will ferment a coke and fries, how it would in comparison
to fermenting some steamed broccoli, there's a big difference there.
You don't tend to blow fart and feel sick when you eat steamed broccoli, but that's
how many people feel when they eat that crappy kind of food.
[inaudible 00:05:35] Cruciferous are super nutrient dense.
So, this is like taking a vitamin pill every day.
So, you want to have Cruciferous vegetables every day, you want to have Allium vegetables
every say.
Every single day you want to eat these foods, at least in some way, either with breakfast
or with lunch, or with dinner, preferably with at least two meals of the day.
I'm gonna throw a wild card in there, gee.
I've been doing a lot research on gee and found amazing properties of gee.
So, oils and fats are still necessary in your diet.
Many people have told me over the years, "You're crazy!
You're telling people to eat fat.
Don't you know that fat makes you sick and fat?
And, actually candida feeds on fat in the bloodstream?"
Things like this nonsense, you know?
Yeah, there's a lot of weird people out there.
I mean, I suppose these people are the people that believe that the Earth is still flat.
Gee is wonderful.
So, gee is a food I often recommend for people with candida, or CBO or parasites that show
in their stool test that they've got low butyrate levels.
So, this contains a fat contains butyric acid, and butyric acid has a very good effect on
feeding the cells lining in the digestive tract.
So, this makes the cells nice and plump and fat, and it allows good mucus secretion and
good production of beneficial bacteria in the lining of the gut.
Gee's especially good, I find for inflammatory bowel disease, but it's also excellent for
IBS, and it's good for candida.
So, dump the butter, try the gee.
It works very well.
The pro-biotic foods, fantastic.
So, again, be careful.
Many people come to me who've been drinking lots of kefir every day, getting lots of yogurt,
lots of sauerkraut, lots of kimchi, some people try and take in all these cultured and fermented
foods all in one day, it's crazy.
That's like trying to go hiking, skiing, bungee jumping, parachute jumping all in the one
day.
Would you do that?
I mean, some people would do anything these days, I swear.
Be careful not to over crowd the gut with a lot of these foods.
This group is not something that I want you to eat tons of, in spite of what many websites
say, these are not good foods when you've got a really messed up gut, is to put tons
of foods into the gut with this false belief that you're going to all of a sudden, zing!
Build all these beautiful levels of beneficial bacteria.
It doesn't work like that.
You can't put yogurt or sauerkraut in the gut, like you can a card in the ATM.
It doesn't work like that, all right?
If you've got a really sick and disordered tummy, why the hell would you put lots of
kefir in there?
You're putting a food in there that's going to mess up your gut really bad.
Many people have come to me in the last year, particularly with a lot of promotion of kefir,
in particular, and have complained that since they've had kefir in their diet, they feel
sick.
I say, "Well, take it the hell out of the diet!
Wait 'till you get better."
So, be careful of pro-biotic foods.
As you get increasingly better and better, you can incorporate more and more and more
into the diet.
Now, did I say be careful of the Allium and Cruciferous?
I didn't, okay?
These are foods you can eat freely and wildly in most cases.
Now, some people are going to say, "Oh, but I can't eat broccoli 'cause every time I eat
it, I fart," well, then don't eat it!
Don't complain to me when you fart when you eat a food, just take it out of your diet,
because in time you might fart with that food.
But, be cautious of the pro-biotic foods.
Let's have a look here.
Other foods that I'd like you to eat, a quirky food are green beans.
Fresh green beans, I find these to be excellent when it comes to really healing the gut as
well.
These are pro-biotic food, but they're not a fermented and cultured food.
What about sprouts?
Alfalfa sprouts, mung bean sprouts, these work for many, many people as well.
Another group of foods I want you to put into the diet regularly are the spices, the woody
spices.
Cinnamon, glove, cardamon, tumeric, these sorts of spices, and you can also consider,
well, there are many of them.
Garlic is not really a spice, it's more of a herb, but I would probably dump it in that
group.
Every time I cook up rice, when I cook up a brown rice and quinoa, I put in it, I'm
gonna read out to you a list of things I put in it, star anise, green and brown cardamom,
tumeric, some pepper and salt, and some garlic.
I mix all that in with 80% brown rice, 20% black quinoa, and then I'll put a little bit
of finely chopped onion in there, a couple of peas, so the frozen peas go in there, and
sometimes I'll put could be a little bit of chicken or prawn, you know, shrimp that gets
mixed through that, then that gets steamed.
So, I just fill up the pot with water, and I just put it maybe about, I don't know, half
an inch or so of water, not even that much because you've got some vegetables in there
with water, and that will get steamed for 20 minutes, and it tastes wonderful.
High protein and very good anti-candida potential.
These are all foods that you can add into your diet.
A really good thing to add into a diet like this is a couple of good anti-candida supplements,
especially ones that support the action of these foods, and that's why I created Canxida
Remove with all the anti-microbial compounds.
You take one or two od those tablets a day, along with eating these spicy foods, the gee,
the Cruciferous vegetables, Allium, we didn't talk about coconut.
I know as a video, I'll go on and on for hours.
So, coconut containing lauric acid, and caprylic acid and different types of acids in there.
These are monounsaturated long chain fatty acids and have antifungal properties about
them.
So, cook with coconut oil, try and get a nice quality coconut oil.
So, you imagine now you have gee and coconut for cooking, throw out the other junk, you
know, all the vegetable oils that you use for cooking, just bin those.
You don't want that kind of junk in your life.
Gee and coconut, in my opinion, form beautiful substrates for meal preparation, for cooking,
and they've got that anti-fungal ability about them.
So, don't forget, check out my other videos.
I did one on the anti-candida salad, I've just done a video on that, and also, anti-candida
broth.
Have a look at that one, that's a nice warming broth with anti-fungal properties.
This kind of way of eating is going to ensure long term, that you're going to keep the gut
nice and clean and free from unwanted overgrowth of certain organisms.
That's going to go a long way to building health for you as you get older, like me,
is to keep eating well and make the right choices.
It's a significant step towards really good health and well being.
Thanks for tuning in.