Hello there!
It's Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand.
Author of Candida Crusher.
Thank you for tuning in to my video today.
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I have a question here from somebody.
"Eric, is there a link between cow's milk and Candida?
Does cow's milk create any problems for people with yeast infections?"
I'm no big fan of cow's milk at all and I haven't been now for a long, long time.
I remember when I was a student back in the 80s, and I started reading reports about how
cow's milk was basically made for cows, for baby cows not for humans.
And certainly after working with patients for a long period of time I found that cow's
milk was not necessary at all for good health.
In my country no doubt like your country and many other western countries, we're taught
that we need to drink milk all the time or our bones will crumble.
In fact, totally the opposite is true.
The more milk you drink, the higher the likelihood of osteoporosis.
It's crazy.
In fact, the countries with the smallest dairy population and the least amount of milk consumption
tend to be the ones who have the least amount of osteoporosis.
It's remarkable, but true.
So, milk does contain calcium, but it also contains a lot of phosphorous and a lot of
unwanted chemicals in there from the production through the dairy industry.
Milk is also one of the most allergy forming of all foods you can possibly eat.
It's an acidic food, it creates mucus and phlegm in the body.
While it does contain an appreciative amounts of calcium, you can certainly get calcium
from a lot of other sources rather than just dairy products.
But when it comes to Candida, one of the chief reasons I like to remove cow's milk from the
diet is because so many people come back with a positive on a food allergy test with dairy
products.
In fact, I would say 60 to 70 percent of everyone I test will have some dairy allergy, particularly
cow's milk.
By removing cow's milk entirely from the diet, and switching to goat's milk, almond milk,
there are different milks you can have.
Nut milks for example.
Cashew milk or something.
You're going to reduce the potential of your immune system creating antibodies against
the highly allergenic substance.
You're basically backing off the immune system.
The same goes for cream.
Some people are so sensitive to dairy products they need to take yogurt out of their diet,
but for the majority this is not really true.
The second stage of my Candida Crusher eating approach involves the hypoallergenic diet,
or the low allergy diet.
I initially introduce people I work with into the MEVY diet: Meat, eggs, vegetables and
yogurt.
Basically quite a healthy Paleo way of eating.
The second stage is the low allergy component.
So we take the allergenic foods out.
You can read more about that at yeastinfection.org.
By taking the potential allergy foods out of the diet, we're going to free the immune
system up.
It's going to make it a lot easier for the immune system to start drawing its attention
towards the pathogens in the body, the bad bacteria of the Candida.
It's a very good approach and I've used it now for a long time.
What are some of the other key allergy foods that you can eat?
Bananas, oranges, chocolate, sugars, Brewer's yeast can be a big problem.
Baker's yeast is often fine, but Brewer's yeast is often a big problem.
Dairy products, of course, which rank as number one.
But what about peanuts?
Yep, I take peanuts out as well.
Other nuts I don't tend to worry too much unless the person is consuming too much every
day of nuts like almonds and Brazil nuts, there can be allergies.
Generally, I don't find too many other foods to be a problem.
I don't find fish or crustaceans or shellfish to be a problem, only in a minority of cases
do we take fish out of somebody's diet.
Taking cow's milk out of the diet when you have a yeast infection is a very smart idea.
You will be able to, in time, put the milk back in again, but I don't think it's a good
food for people to have in general.
It's cow's milk.
So I hope that answers your question.
Thanks for tuning in.