Hello Health Champions today we're going to talk about the number one absolute best way to cure
Candida and most people are going to associate that with a yeast infection or yeast overgrowth
which is correct and the three top places where that happens is a vaginal infection some kind of
skin or nail infection and also it can happen in the mouth and then it's called oral thrush
you get this white coating on the tongue but then in 1986 the book yeast connection was published by
Dr William Crook and I always laugh a little bit about a last name like that I'm sure he can't help
it but it's kind of like a dentist called Dr Payne it just has to make things a little bit harder but
anyway it was a pretty good book I read it many years ago but it oversimplifies a little bit I
think it's a bit outdated it basically said that yeast causes everything and avoid yeast in all
its forms and to this day people are terrified even of good yeasts like nutritional yeast which
is basically a B vitamin supplement so just like with bacteria and other parts of the biome it's
all about balance that there's good and there's bad and the bad isn't really bad if it's not
allowed to overgrow as long as we have the balance then the bad stuff serves a purpose as well but
it's potentially pathogenic if things get out of hand and overall candida is becoming more common
the numbers are increasing and there's more than one kind there's 31 different species of candida
but there's five species that account for 92 percent of all infections and the most common
out of those five is called Candida albicans that's the one that most people have heard of
and overall even though the numbers overall are are increasing candida albicans percentage-wise
is decreasing and the reason for that is that we have anti-fungal medication and candida albicans
is pretty susceptible it's easy to kill it off whereas some of the other five species are more
resistant so it's kind of like with antibiotics that if you kill off the ones that are easy to
kill you're going to develop more resistant strains and create imbalances in other ways
but this is where we have to be a little careful with the standard way of thinking about this that
ever since we discovered bacteria and virus the standard idea has been to kill everybody because
we've figured out that these pathogens they cause disease so just kill everybody but we
need to also understand that this is about balance that anytime we kill off one thing we're going
to favor something else we're going to create an imbalance and we need to start thinking about the
body as an ecosystem that candida is part of the overall microbiome and we need to start thinking
about the microbiome as a separate organ it lives inside your large intestine for the most part
but there's some bacteria in other places as well but the total weight of these bacteria is several
pounds if you add it all up it's about the size of your liver and it probably performs just about
as important a function so when things get out of hand it's kind of like the liver which is an organ
can get a pathogenic infection like hepatitis well when we get an infection in the gut when we get an
overgrowth of something it's kind of just like we have an imbalance that among these beneficial
bacteria making up an organ we can get an overgrowth of some just like we can get an
overgrowth in the liver but the solution then is not to kill off the whole liver or kill off the
whole microbiome we have to be very very careful with it so if we want to understand the bigger
picture we have to understand what causes these imbalances and the number one thing is going to be
sugar and starches because they selectively feed these primitive organisms the most primitive are
the virus and the bacteria and if we eat a lot of sugar then we tend to favor them and create
imbalances another risk factor is uncontrolled diabetes and why would that be because
in uncontrolled diabetes you have an abundance of available sugar for these pathogens that's
what diabetes is it's a metabolic disorder where your filling the body with more fuel then you're
burning up another cause is stress and what does stress do stress is a state where your
body focuses on emergencies and if you have a bear chasing after you then that's a bigger emergency
than the food in your stomach so anytime that you are stressed you're going to decrease the
priority for things like digestion and immune system it's like you're turning off the faucet
on the resources that help you digest food and help you produce immune cells and fight off
pathogens so anytime you have stress you're going to shut off all the factors that make your gut
work basically and also some of the most common causes are medication things like antibiotics
and anti-fungals because what they do is they kill indiscriminately they don't care if it's a good or
a bad bacteria the goal is obviously to kill off the pathogens but in doing that we also kill off a
huge percentage or even in some cases most of the good bacteria and then we kind of have to start
from scratch but some of these good bacteria might have been almost extinct at that point and there's
some other medications like steroids and birth control that are very strongly implicated in yeast
overgrowth now let's think about what it means to cure it for the most part if you go to the Health
Care System they're going to try some medication and I'm not opposed to medication there's a time
and a place in emergencies to use medication but to use it for imbalances May backfire first of
all the medication itself can have side effects and also anytime we go in and try to change an
ecosystem we can get complication but the main thing we want to understand is that the roots
cause remains and therefore we will probably get recurrences or other problems and even
though this is so so simple we spend over four trillion dollars on so-called health care and the
vast majority of that money is wasted because we don't understand that very very simple Basics and
principles so the way we want to think about this is that there are certain conditions in the body
and those conditions provide various opportunities for all these pathogens they are opportunistic
that by definition pathogens are opportunistic we always have billions and billions of pathogens in
the body when we're feeling at our best we have billions of pathogens but they need an opportunity
and when they have that opportunity now they can create over growth and imbalance so we already
need an imbalance but then the overgrowth creates a further imbalance so what are these conditions
then well they are the things that we've talked about so if you have a weak microbiome
if you don't have enough bacteria again you think about your biome as your liver what if you don't
have enough of the numbers of bacteria what if you don't have enough variety of species because
you need billions you need trillions of bacteria but you also need a wide variety of species for
that ecosystem to be healthy and another common condition of course is that we have way too much
sugar so with all of these conditions present and then we take some antibiotics and we kill
off some more of this biome and we take some anti-fungal some we upset the balance between
the fungus now we have the conditions that provide an opportunity for overgrowth so now if we take a
medication if we take something to kill off this overgrowth then we get symptom relief and things
look better on the surface for a short while but we haven't changed the conditions if anything we
might have made them worse by further reducing the biome and the variety so the conditions remain and
if we still have the conditions then it's just a matter of time before the problem happens again
or expresses itself in some other way so instead of the traditional way we think of curing with
medication we want to think about restoring and preventing so the number one thing obviously would
be to not feed this overgrowth any further so you cut back on sugar and starches because sugar feeds
them directly and starches feed them because it very quickly in a matter of minutes breaks
down into glucose that is their favorite Fuel and next we want to increase our food variety we want
to eat a lot of different kinds of food and every time I make a video on a top 10 list of some kind
of food everyone wants to know which is the best food that's what I'm going to eat a lot of and
we want to stop thinking about it that way and that's why I do the videos the way I do so that
we can start thinking about Foods differently what do they have in common but also to look at
variety and the number one thing that feeds the good bacteria and that maintain balance over time
is going to be fiber and we want a variety of different fibers which of course we get if we
eat a large variety of foods and because stress is one of the major causes obviously we want to work
on reducing stress and I've done lots of videos on that so you can truly understand what stress
is it's not just about feeling overwhelmed it is how you condition the body into certain responses
number five is exercise and it does not have to mean blood sweat and tears and endless hours in
the gym even though a gym can be beneficial we're just talking about movement that your body is made
to move that's the purpose of the body is to move around in a three-dimensional environment
with gravity and to stimulate your nervous system and once you do that then everything in your body
works better including your digestion and also exercise is one of the main ways to reduce stress
so just take my word for it that if you exercise and you move on a regular basis then everything in
your body is going to work better a good way to add some bacteria and help improve the biome is
through fermented foods because when you ferment Foods you grow some of these beneficial bacteria
that you can eat and help repopulate to grow some beneficial bacteria and some beneficial yeast to
out-compete the pathogenic and the overgrowing yeast and then of course we also want to talk
about pre and probiotics because these are the supplements that people take to try to repopulate
their gut they hear that you took in antibiotic so now you killed off all the bacteria now you need
to take some new ones and that can be very very beneficial but it can also be a complete waste
of time and money if we don't create the right conditions basically the probiotics are going to
be like seeds and if you have seeds and you want to go sow a plant a vegetable of some sort then
you could have the best seeds in the world but if you throw them on the concrete in the parking lot
then they're not going to grow you just wasted all that seeds because there are no conditions
for them to grow there so yes they can be good and even necessary but we have to think about
the bigger picture we first have to cut back on the sugar we have to reduce the inflammation we
have to create a healthy gut and now when we add some pre and probiotics then we can grow
some bacteria and the probiotics are the bacteria themselves the prebiotics are different substances
different nutrients and fiber that will help feed the bacteria the probiotic so fiber is actually a
Prebiotic just like there are other forms that you can take as a supplement and then there's also a
number of different things that you can take such as apple cider vinegar and oregano oil garlic you
can take some cloves tea tree oil the list is endless of different antibacterial anti-fungal
agents so these have additional properties but you don't want to try them on their own you want
to work on the bigger picture so that you can create the right conditions and we want to maybe
specially emphasize the apple cider vinegar or any other vinegar for that matter because acetic
acid is a short chain fatty acid that is very very important it acts as fuel for a lot of the
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