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Eric Bakker, naturopath. Thanks for coming back. Let's talk about biofilm busters. Everyone talks
about biofilm busters. It almost sounds like the supplement version of ghostbusting, doesn't it?
So five minutes ago, I never heard of the word biofilms. I would just treat patients. They would
either get an outcome that was positive or an outcome that was not so positive, and that's how
it went. So we started to really think about what was effective for this person. For this person.
We weren't thinking about a biofilm over here or about the DAO levels or this level or blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah, as that girl from Norway or Sweden says. Blah, blah, blah,
blah. We weren't blah, blah, blah-ing. We're actually treating people, right?
Now, you'll think, "This guy's talking crap. We've got science today." Well, I'm sorry to
wake you up, but we had science yesterday, too, but we also had what's called observations. We
actually looked at people. We listened to people. We carefully followed them with test results,
and then we found out what worked and what didn't work. And if it didn't work,
I'd want to know why the hell it didn't work. Was the patient not working for me and for
herself? Was the product not working? Was the diet not working? What was not working?
I wasn't looking at, "Oh, should we bust a biofilm with this product?" I didn't care about biofilms.
I just treated people, but now biofilms are big. But hello? Guess what we're finding? All the
treatments I've recommended for 20, 30 years were biofilm busting treatments because they bloody
worked. Okay? So let me read this study for you. A study was published in 2021, so it's not 100
years old. This is recently. I think this was May or June last year. Now there's hundreds of studies
like this on the internet. Candida biofilms are tolerant to conventional antifungal therapeutics
and host immune systems. The transition of yeast cells to hyphae is considered a key step
in Candida albicans and biofilm development. So if you look at yeast, they start off as
cells. They change, and you'll see the thread-like hyphae appearing. This is how they create films.
You might see this on a piece of bread sometimes or some moldy cheese. You might see
all those tiny, little hairs coming up everywhere. They're called hyphae. So this transition from the
cell to the hyphae happens through a molecule called farnesol. It's a particular molecule.
Now this study, for example, hypothesized that fatty acids mimicking farnesol
influence hyphae and biofilm development formation by Candida albicans. So what they did
is they looked at 31 different types of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids.
But they found this interesting in the study. These were the best. Heptanoic acid,
octanoic acid, nonanoic acid, decanoic acid, undecenoic acid, and lauric acid inhibited Candida
albicans biofilm formation by more than 75%. At such a tiny rate, we're talking two micrograms
per mil, so a very tiny amount of this fatty acid had up to 75% inhibition on the formation
of biofilm. Now, we're talking basically two of some of the core ingredients in Candida Remove,
which is the acids, if we look at the fatty acids, undecenoic acid, lauric acid.
So we've got different fatty acids in Candida Remove that basically work like biofilm busters.
And this is, again, another reason why I've always liked coconut oil in people's diets. I've talked
about coconut a lot, coconut milk, coconut cream. I was talking about coconut decades ago. When I
first worked in a medical center a long time ago, alongside a bunch of doctors, I remember a doctor
accosting me in the waiting room, saying, "You're mad."
I said, "Why?" He said, "You're recommending saturated fats for people that create heart
disease." He said, "That's a stupid thing to do, isn't it?" And I said,
"Excuse me?" He said, "Coconut oil." He said, "Don't you know it wrecks people's hearts and
creates heart attacks and fats." And I just laughed at this guy. I said, "Man,
what planet are you on?" I says, "It's coconut." I said, "It's antiinflammatory." And he said, "It's
a saturated fat. It makes people sick and die." See, this is the misconception we still have. We
had it bad 20 years ago, and everyone laughed at me when I was recommending coconut oil,
but now people are actually... Well, only fools are laughing now.
But this goes to show how a study can reveal these types of effects, the biofilm busting effects on
basic things that we can eat every single day. So when you eat nice coconut curries, for example,
with a good coconut as a base, you are going to have some biofilm effect there on the gut.
These foods are fantastic to eat, but if you want a concentrated form of these fatty acids,
you need to look at a product like Candida Remove, because it's a far more concentrated form
of these fats than you will get in the food realm. You're actually eating the coconut, but people
who eat coconut every day are going to have a better gut than people who don't, basically.
So that's the biofilm approach. I've never talked about biofilms, but inadvertently I always knew
that these fatty acids had a great effect on Candida
long before the study showed that. Thanks for tuning in.
Thanks. It's Eric Bakker again, the naturopath. I hope you enjoyed that video. Remember, go to
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