Greetings.
Eric Bakker from New Zealand, a naturopath from way down under in New Zealand.
Thanks for coming back and checking out my video.
I'm the author of a book called Candida Crusher.
I'm also the formulator of a range of products called CanXida.
That's with an X in the middle.
Thanks for checking out my videos.
I do appreciate all the support I'm getting, and I've got so much stuff thrown at me from
subscribers.
Just different questions all the time.
I can't obviously answer every single question I get, but I've got a few pages of questions
today we're going to go through.
These are going to be individualized videos, and I hope you people out there get some useful
information from some of the content of these videos.
Never be afraid to ask questions.
Okay.
Let's start off with a question from Timothy O'Hara.
Timothy is writing here, "I hold this gentleman to such high regard.
I even use his supplements for they are the best.
This is one major thing I disagree with him on completely, his heavy denial of die-off
makes no sense to me.
Maybe my overgrowth is just that bad I don't know it.
I'm either feeding the candida or I'm not.
When I'm not, the symptoms are extreme.
Some days I feel like I'm going to die, in fact.
I wish he could make a video on how to combat the die-off, rather than simply saying, 'Oh
avoid die-off by taking it easy.'"
Okay, Tim.
Good question, good question.
Let's get one thing straight, I don't deny die-off whatsoever.
Absolutely not.
I'm not denying die-off.
I do agree it exists.
I've experienced it myself really bad.
I've had many, many patients who have experienced die-off.
Let's get that straight right from the beginning, I'm not denying die-off.
What I am denying is the fact that most people don't think they can avoid die-off.
It can be avoided.
In 99% of cases, it can be avoided.
That's what I'm saying.
You can obviously, easily get die-off.
The best advice I can give you, Tim, if you want to avoid any kind of extreme reactions
with any kind of gut presentation, so we're talking [inaudible 00:02:07], candida, parasites,
whatever you've got happening in your gut and you want to correct it, if you want to
avoid an aggravation, the first thing you do is you test your gut to see what the hell's
going on in there.
You don't just make wild assumptions or go to doctors who say, "Just try this or just
try that.
This is going to work."
Whenever someone uses the word try, T-R-Y, it means they're basically having, what we
call in Australia, a stab in the dark.
They haven't got a clue what they're stabbing at.
They're just basically firing off randomly into space hoping they're going to shoot a
bird.
Unless you really understand what you're dealing with, it's pretty darn difficult to target
what you want to clean up in the gut.
I'm not advocating everyone to do stool testing.
I've done incredible amount of stool testing in the last 10 years, comprehensive stool
analysis.
I cannot tell you guys how many people out there have been so incredibly annoyed and
disappointed that they never had the test done previously by their doctor or by somebody
else, that they wasted five or 10 years of their life not knowing what was going on internally
until they checked it out.
Random stool tests by the doctor is going to be pretty darn useless, because it's not
comprehensive.
We don't even know if we're dealing with candida, Tim, unless we've got solid evidence that
we can see that a live yeast culture comes from your digestive system.
You may have a bacterial overgrowth.
You may have a lack of beneficial bacteria.
You may make assumptions thinking that you've got die-off from killing candida when, in
fact, you may not have killed anything at all so unless you really, truly understand
the facts.
To me, it's like anything in life, you need to have evidence.
If you get pulled over by a police officer and the policeman says, "Excuse me sir.
Have you been drinking tonight?"
You absolutely know you haven't been drinking, you will quite willingly give a breath sample.
You know you're going to be in the clear.
That police officer doesn't know.
He or she needs to know, has this guy been drinking?
They say, "Could you please blow in this, sir?"
Now, that's going to either hang you or not hang you.
Now, the stool test, to me, is like the breathalyzer test.
It's either going to confirm or deny the presence of something.
Provided you work with a good lab, it's going to give you great information.
Then, you can really, really, intelligently work out what's the best approach for me from
this day forward?
Do I need to build up my gut?
Do I need to kill bad bacteria?
Do I need to eradicate candida?
Have I got a parasite?
What the heck's going on, because I'm not feeling good.
That's the intelligent approach.
It's going to cost you maybe three or 400 bucks for a stool test.
You've got great information.
If the test is performed properly, you've got the right kind of information to act on
and to work forward.
What the hell does this relate with die-off?
By having the right kind of information before you start treatment, you can avoid 99.5% of
aggravations in your gut.
If you do get them, you can very easily stop them from ramping up to becoming very bad
die-off reactions.
Die-off reactions occur from overstepping the mark, from killing too much too soon.
If you start very slowly and very cautiously, even with a very heavy load of candida, you
can manage the reactions you get much more effectively than if you don't know what the
hell you're dealing with.
Tim, my question to you is have you done a stool test?
If you have done a stool test, inform me through the YouTube channel and send me your PDF.
I'll be happy to interpret that online for you for no charge at all.
I'm quite happy to do that for subscribers.
If you haven't done a stool test, I would urge you to do one to know what the heck is
going on internally.
That's my take on it.
I'm not denying that die-off doesn't exist.
It does exist, but it can be avoided and seriously managed through the correct kind of protocol.
That's the point I'm trying to make here in this video.
It's not a heavy denial.
Now, you're also saying here, "Some days I feel like I'm going to die, in fact.
I wish you could make a video on how to combat the die-off, rather than simply saying, 'Oh
avoid die-off by taking it easy.'"
How to combat die-off is by stopping all treatment immediately and taking it very easy.
By stopping all kinds of treatment you're doing, any kind of supplement you're taking,
basically your body should, within three to five days, slowly start to come back to a
normal state.
It can take a week, but it will.
Then, when the dust has settled, do a test.
Maybe wait two weeks if you're taking probiotics, but then do a test.
Then, let's see what is left after the dust has settled, so we can determine what is the
correct approach to go forward.
Long video, but I hope it gave you some information, Tim.
Don't be afraid to ask a question back.
Cheers, thanks for the question.