Hi, there, It's Eric Bakker, the Naturopath from New Zealand. Thanks for tuning in.
Now, here's a question from a sub. Not a submarine, a subscriber, my subscriber.
CanXida versus Nystatin. Is CanXida better than Nystatin? Can I take both medications together?
Why not? Why or all these sort of things. So, if you look at Candida Crusher, page 219,
if you've got the book. Open it up, have a look at page 219. I wrote about Nystatin.
Nystatin was a drug that was really developed in the '50s. It was discovered by two women,
Rachel Fuller and Elizabeth Brown, two women. 1954, I think they discovered this drug, and it
came about through working with a Streptomyces bacteria. They discovered this particular type of
this situation where they go, "Wow, we can actually make this pharmaceutical,
this antifungal out of this bacteria." So, it's a very interesting concept.
Nystatin has been widely used since the '50s for a long, long time.
It got called Ny after New York State because I think it was a New York State laboratory
where they did all the work really to design this medication. So Nystatin, New York State,
and it's been widely promoted. Even in fact, Dr. William Crook, who wrote The Yeast Connection,
promoted Nystatin widely back in the '80s. He was a pediatrician.
But this guy's a bit weird though, because he even recommended Nizoral, which has a potential
for quite strong liver toxicity in children, but he recommended that drug widely, too.
Well, he was a medical pediatrician, I suppose, but his mind was in the right place because he did
at least want to get children off lots of candy and ice cream and things like that,
in an era where people didn't pay that much attention to sugar in their diet.
Crook paid a ton of attention to it. But Nystatin is something I've got a lot of
experience with because I worked with that drug for several years when I was in medical centers.
And I did see Herxheimer reactions, as you can read on page 219 in my book.
You may also see a writing on yeastinfection.org. I believe you'll read the article on there, too.
So the Herxheimer reactions can range from very mild up to severe and debilitating and ER room
admissions. Even Dr. Crook, in his book, states that as long as symptoms are being
invoked by high dosages, you know Candida's being killed.
And he recommended to use Nystatin in increasingly higher dosages to get a higher kill rate.
So I'm not bagging or bad mouthing Nystatin at all. In fact, for many people,
it's a fantastic pharmaceutical drug. I'm not an advocate of pharmaceuticals,
but I'm also not a person who disrespects them to the point where I tell people to stop
taking them unless it's antibiotics because I don't like them. But you know that anyway.
But Nystatin has got a good effect on many people who start with lower dosages. It's gentle. It's
not absorbed. It's poorly absorbed by the GI tract. So if you think about that poor absorption,
it'll travel from the mouth right through to the anus without being highly absorbed,
which means it will kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, and that can create problem, problem, problem,
especially if the person starts increasing dosages and the kills occurring.
Now, you won't get that with CanXida Remove. CanXida Remove is not poorly absorbed. It is
well-absorbed. The body takes it up. Different organs take it up. It gets absorbed. So that means
it's not going to have that super powerful effect that Nystatin has. The big difference between
Remove though and Nystatin is the complexity of Remove. When we look at all of the ingredients in
CanXida Remove, the 12 natural ingredients, it's a far more profoundly complex product than Nystatin.
Nystatin has a one way of action. It purely works on yeast. It works on nothing but,
so it won't do squat for bacteria. It won't touch parasites.
It doesn't look at imbalances in the body. Remove does so much more than Nystatin ever can do.
Big difference. Particularly if a person has got a bacterial problem with so many people
out there with SIBO and combinations of SIBO and Candida I've seen over the years, I rarely saw a
patient with purely just a yeast issue. I always saw yeast issues in combination with poor levels
of beneficial bacteria and increasing problems with imbalances of bacteria all at the same time.
So, many people had multiple issues going on in the gut. That's why I designed Remove. Remove
works on a wide variety of patients, whereas Nystatin purely works on yeast and nothing but.
And the potential for Herxheimer reaction, as I said, can range from ought to extreme. But
many people with bad yeast infection, I have treated with Nystatin
to a very good effect. Starting on 500,000 units, maybe a small dose.
I will tell you that the powder has more potential for upsetting the gut than a capsule or a tablet
of Nystatin will. So if you're looking at Nystatin therapy, do not take Nystatin in conjunction with
CanXida Remove. It's not a good idea. It's not a good idea. And start slowly. Start with a small
dose, particularly for several days before you start deciding on jumping into a higher end.
But Nystatin does work when a stool report comes back with massive yeast levels. Even then when
I see that, I never encourage a patient to take a million units or a high-end dosage
from day one. We always start them low and gently build up.
So that's the story of Nystatin. It's a good drug, but the potential's there for a lot of danger with
some people, and it has a one-sided action. It's not absorbed, so it's not bad in that sense,
but it doesn't touch bacteria or parasites. So that's the difference. Remove's more
natural. It's not really going to create serious aggravation potential like the other product does,
and it works on a far broader spectrum. That's all I wanted to say. Thanks for tuning in.