Greetings.
Eric Bakker.
Thanks for coming back.
It's 2019, new year, new start.
We've got a few questions today as per usual.
Always got lots of questions from different people out there.
Let's kick off the new year with a common question I get asked, which I may have already
replied to and it is how do I prepare for a candida cleanse?
That's a great question.
Well let's just try and examine that word candida cleanse to begin with because it may
not be a candida cleanse.
It may be a parasite cleanse.
It may be a SIBO cleanse.
It may be some type of a bacterial problem cleanse you've got.
You may have some type of bug in there, but is it candida?
That's what you've go the to ask yourself the question.
Because last year, I did many videos trying to explain to people that over half the patients
I see who really believe they have candida, in fact they've got no yeast problem whatsoever.
They've got something entirely different, yet they swear it's candida.
In today's age it's different from when I had a yeast infection back in the 80s 'cause
there was no google.
Now it's easy to go online, look at pictures, listen to stories, look a YouTube and to work
out fact from fiction.
So how're you going to prepare for this cleanse?
Well assuming it is candida, assuming you've done som testing and you've worked out it's
a candida problem, there is a bit of preparation involved when it comes to eradicating candida
here in the body.
As I always say, get the facts first.
Make sure that you know you've got candida before you start taking an antifungal because
an antimicrobial may suit you a lot better.
Something that contains many components that can work on bacterial parasites as well as
yeast.
If you're limiting yourself to a supplement, for example, like SF722 from Thorne Research,
which is undecylenic acid, it will have a great effect on the yeast but it will do little
to nothing at all for any parasite or bacteria you've got in your gut.
So if you want targeted therapy, make sure you know you've got candida before you start.
Preparation for a cleanse really is mental, emotional, and physical.
Mentally, you need to resign yourself to the fact that you're finally going to do something
about a health problem you've had for a long time.
You want to take the bull by the horns.
You want to get this thing nailed finally once and for all.
So mentally, I'd like you to develop a lot of resolve.
Resolve meaning you're going to say to yourself I'm finally going to get rid of this damn
thing.
I'm sick and tired of it.
I'm going to do it.
So you have to be prepared to make some sacrifices meaning you may have a holiday coming up which
you're not going to go on.
You know what I mean?
There may be some events coming up which you may need to postpone or push aside because
of the cleanse.
Some people call it delayed gratification.
Whatever you call it, but if you want to get better, you've got to mentally prepare yourself
to put time aside to do this thing properly.
There's a ton of information on this channel now for you to follow on how to do a proper
candida cleanse in terms of diet, lifestyle, and supplementation.
So mentally, you need to be well prepared for this.
The better prepared you are, the more likely you are to have great success in your quest
to clean up your act.
So that's mentally, but what about emotionally?
What about the fact that you may wake up some days feeling pretty crappy, headache or just
not well, tired, miserable, poor sleeping patterns, relating poorly to people, don't
feel like eating or feel like eating too much.
You're going to go through a rollercoaster of different things.
Different emotions and that could last a week.
It could last a month.
But generally, if you've got a severe case of candida, it usually lasts anywhere between
one week up to about six weeks, four to six weeks of emotionally having all this up and
down, up and down business.
So be prepared for that.
So that can happen.
So the better the preparation, the more likelihood you're going to have great success.
So we've talked in previous videos about pantry preparation, throwing out junk that you don't
want to have in your fridge or refrigerator or pantry.
By doing that first you're going to eliminate a lot of temptation and it's also good.
It's a bit of a spring clean.
Clean up the kitchen, get yourself together.
So you could prepare yourself that way as well.
Time is a factor that many people don't think of when it comes to preparation.
Things always tend to take longer than you anticipate.
So if you've got a problem with candida, a perceived candida problem, and you think it
could be two or three weeks or months to clear this, it could take six months or one year.
So allow yourself a lot of slack and make sure that you understand that things generally
take longer than you realize.
So we talked with the mental preparation.
We talked about some psychological-type preparation.
There's time preparation.
If you understand some of these basic concepts very well, there's not a problem going into
a candida cleanse and coming out the other end feeling really good.
But if you go in half cocked meaning if you've got unrealistic expectations, if you expect
to get well in a week by taking a pill, it's not going to happen.
You're going to get disappointed.
So you've got to be careful because emotionally, it's easy to go down when unmet expectations
occur.
If you don't get what you want and your outcome is different from what you thought it would
be, this could be pretty bad for you.
So think about that carefully.
You can get a great result, but the prep needs to be good.
The food prep, the mental prep.
When you do all that and especially if you've got some support at home, you'll have no problem
at all in doing this.
Thanks for tuning in.