Eric Bakker ND.
Thanks for coming back, guys.
We're going to talk about diets now, keto diet versus candida diet.
Who is the king?
Well, there is no king.
These are all just different diet plans.
It's up to you to decide what's right for you.
I'm looking at a popular keto plan at the moment here for example I printed off online.
It's not dissimilar to the candida diet, but what we're looking for is not exactly the
same in terms of outcome.
Keto diet, particularly in the modern keto diets or what we call a healthy keto, is not
really like the old-fashioned keto with lots more protein and fat would be consumed.
Keto diets have one aim in mind and that's to lose weight.
That's what they're designed for.
Keto originally a long time ago.
When I was a student keto diets were seen to be quite extreme and were used generally
for people with epilepsy or specific types of conditions.
Now they're become more mainstream.
There are different types of keto diets but don't be fooled.
They are designed to lose weight.
This is a diet that that you'll probably want to stay on long term.
Now, it's not dissimilar as we'll see in a minute to the Candida Crusher diet approach
just with a couple of big differences here.
The Candida Crusher diet or what the particular diet I put together was designed on several
diets I looked at back from the '70s and '80s designed to clean the gut up.
Particularly the MEVY approach.
Meat, eggs, vegetables and yogurt which is not dissimilar again for keto.
Dr. Eric Berg makes a very good point that healthy people lose weight.
Weight loss is not designed to make people healthy.
I totally agree with Dr. Berg in that respect that when you have a good eating style and
good lifestyle, you're not going to get fat.
You're going to maintain a good body weight.
What I think keto is missing out on however, they're not really looking at the stress of
the person or the lifestyle or the long-term effects of keto, for example.
We don't really know what they are.
But, also it makes a person feel that they have to eat a certain way to lose weight which
is not something I'm really keen on on exploring with my clients.
I prefer people to eat the foods that they enjoy eating within reason, but then very
carefully look at how the digestion is affected by how they're eating and what they're eating
and particularly how their lifestyle affects their digestive system.
Because I've known many people who eat keto that still don't lose weight or gain all the
weight back again because they are going through different things in different stages of their
life.
So the Candida Crusher diet is really designed to clean up the gut.
As you are aware, people who know me through the work I do online and you've got my book,
they will know that I've got a two-week period where basically we're getting people cleaned
up.
We're going warm turkey.
We're taking things out of the diet that they shouldn't be eating.
Dr. Berg will have a similar kind of approach.
But, what I'm also interested in then with the MEVY approach is particularly putting
things in the diet that clean the gut up in terms of its microbes.
So, encourage people to eat cultured and fermented foods, but also encourage people to explore
anti-microbial foods that get rid of large candida populations, for example, that help
slowly to bust up biofilms of dysbiotic flora that encourage the production of lots of lactobacillus
beneficial bacteria by eating the fibers that encourage that to happen.
So, eradication or cleaning is an important part, but, one aspect of the Candida Crusher
diet that differs from keto very much so, is the low-allergy phase where we actually
take foods out of the person's diet that have any kind of potential for powerful allergy.
That really allows the person's gut to heal a lot faster particularly the leaky gut as
we put them through that cleansing phase, the no-allergy phase.
We put the fermented and cultured foods back in there again.
You can have them all along or you can put them in after you've cleaned up the gut which
really alleviates a lot of bloating and gas that people get and helps to increase the
population of beneficial bacteria.
In my mind I'm thinking more about the gut in terms of microbes.
I'm thinking about how we can improve the enzymes of the person, facilitate proper breakdown
of foods, proper digestion and absorption of foods and excretion.
That's very important to me even more important sometimes and exactly the type of foods that
we eat is to facilitate and improve the digestive aspect as much as we can.
That's the difference with the Candida Crusher diet is try and really get that gut rejuvenated
into a higher frame.
Cleaned.
Bugs eradicated.
Balance bought back again.
Then I generally find the anxiety drops off.
The brain fog goes away.
The person's ability to maintain a healthy eating style is definitely really improved.
We see that and, of course, weight loss occurs.
Most all of my clients long term lose significant amounts of weight when they're overweight
or gain weight when they're underweight.
So, don't forget that.
It's not just about weight loss.
I've got quite a few people that really want to gain weight, so, keto is probably not the
right approach for those people.
The Candida Crusher approach is probably more beneficial in that respect.
But, healthy keto is a very, very good thing to do for a lot of people.
My concerns are that it's targeting weight loss which I don't really like.
It's just purely targeting weight loss for the majority.
What foods do you avoid on the healthy keto plan?
You avoid grains, wheat, corn, rice, cereals, etc.
You avoid all sugars.
You avoid all fruits except blueberries and raspberries.
You avoid tubers, sweet potatoes, yams, things like that, and you avoid bad sweeteners which
I agree on which are crap anyway.
The bad sweeteners gets my tick.
The sugar gets my tick to a degree because I do allow people to have honey in their diet
especially as they get better.
The grains I can't agree with nor the tubers nor the fruit.
I really believe that most people benefit even early on with green apples and various
types of fruits that really have a great affect on their digestive health.
Fruit, particular green apples have a good effect also on appetite control.
They contain many different fibers that really improve the beneficial bacterial count.
But, as I say to people, if you can't tolerate these fruits, pull them out.
Try them down the track to see if you can tolerate.
The difference between one or two weeks can be astronomical in terms of the ability for
the gut to accept the food or not.
Depends on where your bugs are there at that point in time.
Now, blueberries and raspberries are fine.
I'm quite happy with that except avocados are not on this list.
I suppose they're allowed but they're not really added to the fruit because avocados
are a fruit.
Avocado is an exceptionally good fruit.
The fruits I pull out of the Candida Crusher diet are the sweet fruits.
Grapes.
Watermelons.
Melons.
Lots of citrus fruit apart from lemons and limes.
Lemons and limes are fine most of the time with all people regardless of their gut.
They can tolerate that citric acid in their diet quite well.
Grains I have to agree because I feel the majority of people can tolerate rolled oats
especially an organic oat.
If they can't tolerate it at that point, pull it out.
Try it back in later.
Again, rice, I really don't feel rice to be a bad food for the majority of people.
If you get a wild rice or a brown rice, there are 35 types of rice I've basically worked
out in our area anyway that I've seen, and there are several really good forms of rice
to eat.
They also have a good effect on the gut.
They control the appetite.
They contain various starches in them that are beneficial for the health.
But, remember, it depends where your gut is at the time.
But, to pull a food out of the diet like rice, like all fruits apart from berries and to
do that for a long period of time, it just doesn't really stack up in my mind.
Sweet potatoes are fantastic food for so many people, but again, can you tolerate them or
not?
I look at some of the foods on the keto approved list and you may not tolerate those at all,
so, it really depends on your tummy what you can and can't handle.
But, by far and large the keto diet is a good diet, but I don't really feel it's good long
term to eat like this especially when you look at the fat content of the diet.
But, hey, if it works for you then it's great.
Just remember, when you have got the body shape that you're looking for, it pays to
introduce different types of fruits, vegetables and grains, things like that depending on
your tolerability to really round out your diet more and give you larger, more balanced
microbiome.
The wider your food selection, the more diverse the gut.
The more diverse the gut, the better your health will be long term.
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