Greetings.
Eric Bakker, Naturopath from New Zealand.
Thanks for coming back.
I've got another video today.
This time we're going to talk about apple cider vinegar.
Is apple cider vinegar okay to have with honey as part of the candida diet?
That's your question asked to me by Sarah from Sanford in Maine.
I think Maine is on the east coast of America, so Sarah is asking me about apple cider vinegar.
Well, Sarah, check out this book here, Apple Cider Vinegar from Paul Bragg.
This is from the early '80s.
It's on my bookshelf.
You can see it behind me, both bookshelves.
This is one of the many books I've got.
I like Paul Bragg.
Paul Bragg is just an amazing guy I think.
What a wonderful guy.
He passed away in his 80s, I think 90s he passed away.
A very big health crusader from way back.
He influenced a lot of very famous people, including Jack LaLanne, of course the guy
who did jumping jacks, and Jack LaLanne was that guy who actually was the first person
to get women to the gyms to do weight training when it was considered crazy for women to
go into exercise rooms back then.
I think it was back in the '30s or '40s.
Bragg was a very big believer in apple cider vinegar.
I've got some books that are going back to 1920 talking about apple cider vinegar on
my shelf I was just trying to find, but I couldn't find it.
I love collecting old health books.
Cider vinegar is different from apple cider vinegar.
Don't confuse vinegar with apple cider vinegar.
This is a fermented food.
This is really something that most of the sugar has been gobbled up, so you're left
with a very high potassium drink which is very, very good for the body, very cleansing.
So Bragg, when you go through his book ... I mean Bragg had recommendations for everything
from balding to erectile dysfunction to stopping retardation, everything.
I mean this guy was incredible with his recommendations.
Cider vinegar has a very big effect on the digestive system, and because it's so high
in potassium it's a really good food for that reason alone.
Potassium is a mineral that works with sodium.
It's I think the third most abundant mineral in the body and it's a very powerful electrolyte
that helps to strengthen neural activity, so potassium is exceedingly important for
good brain function, good muscular function and energy and vitality, good liver function,
all your organs and your bones.
Everything relies on good levels of potassium, particularly potassium and sodium balance,
blood pressure and many other regulations.
This is like incredible.
There are so many different cures attributed to apple cider vinegar, it's almost ridiculous.
But if you have a look at a lot of the scientific research, I mean it certainly has been linked
with lowering cholesterol, even weight loss.
Two tablespoons of cider vinegar per day for 12 weeks, you're going to lose four pounds
without even exercising or changing your diet or doing anything else, just that alone, because
it stimulates the metabolism.
It has a positive effect on thyroid and adrenal glands.
It's a wonderful, wonderful drink, but should you have it with honey and can you have it
with honey if you've got a yeast infection?
Yes, you can, but you can go overboard.
You can't drink a gallon of this stuff a day for example, not a good idea.
You're not going to have one or two pounds of honey and a gallon of this.
In my experience, if you tell people that something is okay they tend to overdo it.
I once made a recommendation, I mention this on the video, for a patient to take vitamin
E, so this guy bought some pills off me when I worked in a health food shop about 30-something
years ago and he gave his wife 30 vitamin E capsules a day.
So you have to really explain things carefully for people and explain that you can overdo
this.
So two tablespoons per day is great with honey, no problem if you've got candida, as long
as you're using a vinegar like Braggs or a high quality fermented apple cider vinegar.
Don't get a tablespoon of honey and mix it in a glass of water and drink that That's
not a good idea for candida.
But if you bought the apple cider vinegar with honey it's better than mixing it yourself.
So you're best to buy cider vinegar with honey in it rather the cider vinegar and then adding
the honey to it, because I'm not sure if you're going to add a little bit of honey or several
tablespoons with one teaspoon of cider vinegar.
But if you buy it pre-made it's an excellent, excellent tonic for detoxification, cleansing.
It can be used for two or three days as a short fast, for example, to remove toxins
from the body.
Bragg, for example, says in his book that just for two days you drink water and this
cider vinegar with a bit of honey in it, just for two days alone, and you collect the urine
over that period and then you store it in a jar and then you store that jar for a few
days and then you have a look at it and you'll see all of the sediment and the crap that
builds up in it.
He believes it's a lot of toxins that you're excreting from the body.
I'm not so sure about that, the reasons why you're excreting this stuff.
But it is a fantastic tonic.
I highly recommend it with candida.
I've got no problem if you do that.
But if you buy a pre-made cider vinegar with honey it's better, and stick to two tablespoons
per day.
Put the tablespoon for example in eight ounces of water and drink that before a meal, and
you can do it similarly before lunch and before the evening meal.
If you have two tablespoons a day for one to two weeks and you have no worsening of
your gut problems for example or felt sick, you could even step it to two tablespoons
twice per day and go to four tablespoons a day.
But yes, I do recommend cider vinegar.
Start off slowly and be cautious when you use it and see how things go.
I hope that answers your question Sarah.
Thanks for the question.
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Thank you.