Hi there, Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand.
Thanks for coming back.
Question today is, "Heart palpitation, arrhythmia, can it be Candida?"
That's a good question.
I've certainly noticed many people going through Candida cleansing phases have emailed me or
contacted me on follow up consultations complaining about a racing heart.
Why is this so?
Why would that happen, do you think?
There are many reasons why this could potentially happen.
One of the big reasons depending on how high the level of yeast infection is often being
the toxins produced by Candida and also the ability of magnesium to deal with these toxins.
I've just done a video recently on magnesium and Candida.
You may want to watch that one.
Magnesium is very important because it helps to stimulate this enzyme called aldehyde dehydrogenase.
That helps to break down this toxin, a very common toxin Candida makes called acetaldehyde.
Acetaldehyde can make you feel pretty dull in the head.
That sort of crushing sensation when your head feels like it's in a vice.
That sort of dull cotton ball feeling in the head when you wake up in the morning.
There's no clarity there.
Acetaldehyde commonly does that.
Anyone who's had five or six whiskeys to drink or a bottle of wine who wakes up in the morning
will know that feeling.
It's that alcohol toxicity that you wake up with.
It's common with Candida.
Candida makes many toxins like ammonia, urea, gliotoxin.
There are many poisons that Candida can secret in its dying phase or reproducing phase.
Magnesium is very crucial for the ability to detoxify aldehyde.
With magnesium deficiency, what do we get?
We get heart problems.
Very common.
People with nice levels of magnesium in the body, people who are having 400 or 500 milligrams
per day, for example, don't usually get arrhythmias or palpitations or heart problems.
If we look at calcium and magnesium, calcium is very important because it's a very important
mineral to allow the rate, force and contraction of the heart.
Magnesium relaxes the heart.
Calcium helps to stimulate the heart, so they work well together.
There's also a drug called a "calcium channel blocker" that blocks the influx of calcium
ion into the myocardium, into the heart cells.
That can help to relax the heart and slow it down.
But what a dumb thing for doctors to do.
They should be giving magnesium to people.
Not something to block a mineral from allowing the heart to contract properly.
They should give magnesium.
If you are watching this right now and you do have a heart palpitation or arrhythmia
and you've got Candida, take some magnesium.
That's going to really help you quite a lot.
Have a look at CanXida Rebuild.
That's got magnesium in it.
It's got many other minerals in it that are going to help you.
Also, eating foods that are high in magnesium like pumpkins seed, brazil nuts, or a few
almonds.
Deep leafy greens like spinach.
You're going to get magnesium in there.
That's going to help you a lot, too.
Heart palpitations can be Candida and magnesium is one of the best ways to counter.
The other good way is to take some Omega 3 fish oils.
Take 1,000 to 2,000 milligrams per day.
That will help you also.
The other reason I didn't speak about was people with high cortisol or stress because
that can amp the heartrate up considerably.
When we're in the alarm phase of stress or we get anxiety, boom, boom, boom, boom.
How do we counter it?
Slow relaxed deep breathing.
That really helps to counter palpitations.
Now you know what to do.
Some nice relaxed breathing exercises.
Some magnesium supplementation and maybe eating some foods high in magnesium, and dealing
with your Candida infection.
Thanks for tuning in.