Combatting Candida: Understanding and Addressing Overgrowth in the Body

This episode dives deep into the issue of Candida, a yeast that can cause various health problems when its growth gets out of control in the body. I discuss the issues brought about by Candida overgrowth, various symptoms one may experience, as well as how it can be diagnosed. Furthermore, I explore some of the conditions associated with it, such as gas, bloating, constipation, diarrhea, and skin issues among others. I also emphasize the importance of maintaining balance in the body's microbiome to combat Candida overgrowth, recommending methods such as a low carb diet, probiotics, and other natural remedies. Other advice includes maintaining good oral health and avoiding sugary foods and drinks that feed the Candida yeast. The conversation is grounded in the belief that understanding the nature of Candida and its effects on the body is key to managing it effectively.

00:13 Introduction to the Topic: Invaders in Your Body

00:58 Understanding Candida: The Most Prevalent Invader

01:10 The Myco Biome: A Community of Molds and Yeast

02:19 Candida's Adaptability and Survival Mechanisms

04:26 Candida's Invasion Pathways in the Body

10:08 Candida's Impact on Your Health

12:38 Factors that Worsen Candida Overgrowth

15:47 Detecting Candida Overgrowth: Tests and Indicators

16:54 Addressing Candida Overgrowth: A Word of Caution

17:37 Maintaining Neutrophils and Immunoglobulin A

17:50 Disclaimer and Personal Approach to Therapy

18:19 The Candida Diet: What to Avoid

19:07 Misconceptions about Candida Diet

20:31 The Importance of Animal Foods

20:50 Steps to Take After Beating Candida

21:36 The Role of Probiotics in Candida Treatment

22:14 Understanding the Microbiome

22:45 Natural Remedies for Candida

23:08 Battle Armaments Against Candida

26:09 Preventing Candida Overgrowth

29:01 The Impact of Candida on Health

31:53 Closing Remarks and Disclaimer

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 Welcome friends. Are you feeling invaded?

You know, something's living in you that shouldn't be there.

Well, it kind of feel like that sometimes. Yes. You have invaders. You have residents living in you that you might not want. Now a couple of them, not so bad, too many, really bad. It's all right. When just, you know, A single person hangs out your house for the weekend. But a whole group of people for a year. Not so fun. Well guess what. Yeast. Oh, yeah, yeast does that too.

Yeah.

I have several episodes talking about this kind of topic, you know, the parasites and molds and things like that, but we're going to specify one. It's known as candida.

Because. It's the most prevalent. It's the one you're dealing with all the time causes so many issues. So let's get right into it. First of all you have, what's called. A myco biome. Not just a micro biome. Yes, you have a. Uh, Myco biome, which is a whole bunch of molds. And yeast. That live together in harmony. You have some good ones and some bad ones.

Now mold as a whole is actually dormant. Until it blooms. Oh yeah.

Got a wonder what that looks like. Right. Mold blooming kind of weird.

You have 150 different kinds of mold and yeast in your body.

It's one of the hardest infections to get rid of it's everywhere, including in your blood. You can see yeast actually in your blood under live blood analysis.

Then there's yeasts that are completely resistant and nothing can touch them. Usually they're in the blood. Candida albicans is one of these that we're kind of discussing today. There's two forms of candida, but Alba cons is the one you've probably heard about either way. This addresses both of them. There fungus. And they can adapt to just about any condition in your body.

If you stop eating carbohydrates and sugar. Then it will start to consume. Ethanol. Also known as alcohol. This is its favorite food. Sugar.

I know. You're thinking more about sugar, Erik. Yes, I am. Because you're seeing sugar is far reaching. So you could actually be a carnivore or on a zero carb diet. And as soon as you have alcohol bang, You just fed it and now it grows.

It can adjust its needs based on the environment you've created in your body.

It's extremely virulent. And once it grabs a hold, it is very difficult to get rid of. Basically it morphs into whatever it needs to be in order to survive.

Candida.

It actually creates a biofilm and then lives in this biofilm, which I've spoke about before in the parasites episode.

Think of mucus phlegm. That's stuff that comes out of your nose, wondering a sinus infection. It looks just like that protein is structures. Water. Toxins in there protecting it.

This biofilm.

Is it barrier? Between it. And us. Yeah. It's living in you. And using you.

The way it moves in the body creates what's called hydro lysis, which is when Candida will use water to break through tissues. And then it also makes proteases. Which are enzymes that eat away at tissues, their protein enzymes, so they can kind of eat their way through. To where they want to go. Hydro lysis is like, Water erosion, but they sort of use it as a way to break down and really liquefy. Uh, tissue to pass through.

So. Making it super wet. Really, really soft through the water. And then they use the protease enzymes to eat through it, like an acid.

In your mouth, it's known as thrush. I know you've heard of this. More of that yellow look, but there's also other kind of coatings on your tongue as well, that are associated with all kinds of leased. Yeast infections.

Then from the mouth, it can get into deeper tissues of the mouth causing all kinds of diseases.

Then when you swallow. It can end up in your respiratory tract through your esophagus. And that causes all kinds of respiratory issues. Then.

Because you swallowed, it made its way into your gut. Again, from the mouth.

Into your gut. Into your lungs. Into your bronchial. Areas.

The other way is chemotherapy. C chemotherapy actually destroys a mucosal linings of your body. And so it can do that to your lungs and your gut. And then that causes things like leaky gut or leaky lung.

Candida also kills. What's called neutrophils. Those are protecting your lining. Neutrophils are cells. That respond first to any type of infection or a wound. These will actually make up like 50 to 70% of your white blood cells. They're made in your bone marrow.

You've also seen candida in the genital areas. Basically your urinary system, y'all have kind of dealt with this before, mostly women, less with men, but. It happens to everybody.

Once they're in the urine though. They duplicate. And then they enter into the bloodstream to infect the rest of the body. So they go from the mouth through to the gut, through the digestive system and up in your urine. And then from the. Kidney and bladder area they pass through into the rest of the body.

They also invade yourself. Skin. Causing acne and rashes and all kinds of skin issues. They can spread from skin, contact the skin contact. See if your microbiome is poor or your skin health is poor. Then even your microbiome inside your body, in every single area of your body on or in it. Then someone else's candida can pass through your skin, or if you kiss them. Or exchanged bodily fluids. Passing right through. The mucosal linings. And your skin and causing all kinds of issues in the rest of your body.

The other way they get in is if you burn yourself. This is why it's really important that you don't neglect a burn. Yeah. If you just got a tiny little burn, it's not a big deal, but if you had a serious burn, that's why you have to make sure that you are keeping that sucker clean. Antifungals antibacterials.

You got to make sure nothing penetrates cause that's directly right into your body. So if you puncture your body, Even just a needle.

Maybe even like a nail. Or a knife poke or something like that. Even if you bite your tongue or bite your cheek. Crack your lip.

Candida can pass through that in, into your bloodstream.

It lives in the mucosal layers in the upper mid GI tract. It loves that area. So that would be after the stomach. Kind of the mid to upper small intestine that's its zone right there.

Might be wondering. What does it eat? Because everything has got to live right.

Well, it's food is exactly the same thing that you and I eat. Not just the sugar, but outside of that, The difference is it's looking for elements.

And things that you and I might not desire like carbon. Which. They get from carbs in ethanol. Alcohol. They live on nitrogen when carbon is not available. And there are other food is nucleic acids from living or dead cells. They love iron and heavy metals. That's why it's important to.

Keep heavy metals, low in the body. Detoxing every so often even minorly helps get rid of those. It can grow and proliferate with other infections like ulcers. They love each other, actually. So sometimes you think, oh, it's the common ulcer, but actually it's both of them together.

You don't think candida is there, but it usually is. So you got to treat both at the same time. It's also, almost always present when you have strep. Oh, yeah.

You see candida dampens your immune system. So not only is there with the strep cause they love to hang out together, but it's also lowering your immune system, which makes you more susceptible to the infection of strep.

Has lots of friends. It's along with communicates with all kinds of bacteria. So then they create this symbiotic relationship. Hanging out. All the time.

Because the gut is one of the main areas that gets into your body. It's really important. You make sure you fix your gut.

So then once they eat. What do they create? Well, they create alcohol. And then that converts into acetylaldehyde, which is a hang 📍 over. Yeah. And then that creates lactic acidosis, which we've talked about incessantly.

So one of its byproducts of eating anything. It makes alcohol. I remember yeast makes beer wine. All your hard spirits.

Apple cider vinegar, regular vinegars. So, what are those byproducts? Hmm. That would be the waste.

After eating.

So, how do you know if you've got an overgrowth? Well, Here's some symptoms.

Gas and bloating.

Abdominal pain. Constipation. Diarrhea. Reflux. Indigestion. Food sensitivities and intolerances. Also hinders absorption of nutrients. And causes. Cravings. Secretes hormones. To tell you to eat sugar.

So it can make you feel really tired all the time, because it's stealing nutrients from you, making you eat sugar, giving you a hangover and then deprecating in your body. And You guessed it. Lactic acidosis. It's just a vicious cycle.

Causes all kinds of weight issues. You just can't control your weight. At all. You've tried diets. You've tried everything. Detoxing doesn't matter. It might be candida overgrowth, lots of testimonies of people losing weight and fat because of the candida. Took over the host. Who's the host. You.

Causes all kinds of skin issues. Athlete's foot nail, fungus, vaginal infections. Causes joint and muscle pain.

Even mental issues.

Because in the body, what it does is it can augment your histamine production that causes all kinds of mental issues. It creates serotonin. And then affects your clearance. Of histamine and serotonin. Clearance meaning, you know, getting rid of it naturally from the body's waste.

Also with mental is neural inflammation. Think brain issues. Oh, wait. If you have candida to overgrowth, you may not be able to think.

Even causes IBD or irritable bowel disease. Airway allergies. Auto immune issues, celiac disease, gastric hepatic cellular carcinoma. Yup. Bowel cancer. Fatty liver disease and alcoholic fatty liver disease.

It hates acid.

Not only does it create alcohol? But it also secretes ammonia, which is alkaline because that helps to balance the acid. Well, if it's secrete ING ammonia, that gives you ammonia breath. Yay. That's a good one.

Nice.

So what makes it worse? Well, too much sugar. Makes you alkaline.

And they want to be in an alkaline state.

Birth control pills. Pregnancy ant acids.

Because remember it doesn't like acid.

If you're immunocompromised. All kinds of medications will do it, especially we all know antibiotics.

And those can come from your food, not just straight medications, specially things like antifungals.

So, yeah, they can kill some of them like candida .

And other types of mold. yeast bacteria, but then other species will explode. Remember. It's a biome.

It's a colony. It's a community. It's a village. It's a city. There's more going on than just one person. One thing, one business, one house, so many different things going on. So if you bring one down, like get rid of the police will then the criminals go up. Get rid of the criminals. Don't need the police. You see.

So they just ended up dropping a bomb right on the biome.

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That's not good. Causes all kinds of other weird issues in the body. See you. You can't just kill your way to health. You have to balance the body. Just going in and doing something so drastic. Never a good idea because your body wants homeostasis. And then the microbiomes of your body, all of them, and the mycobiomes are trying to balance themselves as well.

What about medications for sinus infections?

Oh yeah. Those disrupt the microbiome in the sinus cavity. And that starts candida growth up there.

It's okay. To have a little bit of candida, you just don't want like a whole overgrowth.

Since you can't kill all the fungus in the body, you can keep it very low by implementing good health practices.

There is a balance, a small amounts, no big deal. Shouldn't feel any symptoms from just a small amount of candida . That's no problem. It's when it gets overgrown. That's the problem. So since you can't kill everything you want to live with the microbiome, not just kill it and cause all kinds of problems. You want to balance it?

What else can cause overgrowth.

Well, if you have damage to your mucosal barrier from high carbohydrate diet. Digestive issues. Alcohol. This one's weird, but they're figuring this out. E-cigs. Because it destroys the microbiome in your mouth. Gross. Which then in turn, like I said earlier, you swallow it.

Constipation will cause overgrowth heavy metals.

Of course, even some research showing caffeine actually increases yeast in the body.

I'm going to leave that one alone because that's not a for sure thing yet.

And then I'm sorry, but everybody on birth control, whether you're trying to control your estrogen or your symptoms, or you just don't want to get pregnant. That causes major yeast overgrowth.

So, how do you know you actually have one? Well, you can test for it. There's a lab called mosaic D x.com. You should start with what's called an organic acids tests, also known as an oat test. That'll give you a baseline. Then if you want more info, you can add a stool test. Or you can spit in a glass of water after sleeping. So get up. Really just try and get as much out of your mouth of saliva as you can. And.

Then spit into a glass half full with water.

Don't drink anything when you get up, just don't do anything. Just gather as much saliva and spit into the cup. Wait a little bit. And then go look at it.

It will start to separate. And then you'll start seeing from the top of what separated towards the top of the water. The yeast. If you have any we'll start making legs like splinters coming down out of it. It's really hard to describe. You have to see it.

Super gross, but if you don't have any legs, Well, that equals no yeast.

So this brings us to how to fix it.

Well, this is where I give you a small disclaimer.

You can definitely feel worse before you feel better.

Because. Candida as well as any other parasite, as they're dying are going to create toxins to survive. Yeah. They poop inside you. 📍 To make you stop killing them.

So in order to balance that equation out, we need tons of good bacteria to help keep it in 📍 check.

Got to keep that microbiome in good health. That's every microbiome of your body as well.

We will have another episode coming up on how to create a really good microbiome. Don't you worry? It's going to be really fun episode. The other way is to keep your neutrophils.

And. IGA, no one is immunoglobulin a. Those control Candido population in your body. These come from good health practices.

Now for the therapy. I rarely tell you what to do.

So at the end of this episode, so there's going to be a disclaimer. I just have to do it.

I normally don't want to tell you how to fix things because.

If you feel terrible. And you're going to blame me. And. I'm not a doctor. So there's that. Just remember. You're probably not going to feel good doing this. So. Just full warning.

So here's how I do it for myself. Wink wink. You want to kill? The candida on Saturday and Sunday, maybe even Monday. Depending on how you feel. Then you nourish. Your microbiome, your airway. Your mouth, your gut. Monday through Friday. So it looks like this. You start with oral health. I have an episode on that go back and you can listen to it.

Good mouth microbiome start right there.

Then you gotta clean up your diet. You have to go Keto. Even if you went to a doctor, who's going to tell you stay away from sugar and so many carbs. So. That's just. Absolutely part of a. Candida diet.

Lots of functional medicine. Doctors actually incorporate a lot of natural healing techniques with their allopathic medicine.

Which I like, but.

This is where kits. Really weird and I really get upset.

So, what is the main.

Food for candida. Ding, ding, ding it's sugar. So they still want to tell you, you can eat carbohydrates of all different types.

They'll say, take out processed foods and that's it.

Then they say you can have whole foods. And grains. And fruits and vegetables. Okay. Let's hold up for a second. Which vegetables. They're saying you can eat all of them. Just because it's a plant doesn't mean it's good for you.

Doesn't matter.

They don't care about the carbs or sugar content. They're just saying, oh, eat plants. That's not good for candida in yeast. They love the carbs in sugar. Even the little microfibers that are in there that are undigestible. They eat those. They live on those. Then they say, well, there are components in those foods that can help control candida.

Yeah. But they also have carbs and sugar. I'm not talking about lettuce or celery or zucchini. I'm talking about carrots, potatoes. And everything else. That's got sugar in it. They actually tell you that you can eat these things. While you are trying to kill it. What is the definition of insanity? Y'all know it.

And then they say you should eat a plant forward diet.

What.

Guess what doesn't have any carbs or sugar and has the most impact on candida and yeast in the body? You got it. Animal foods.

Then they want to give you antifungal medications, those have side effects and it just comes back later with a vengeance. Once you've beaten it, then you can have whole foods. If you like. But not while you're in battle.

Doesn't mean that you can stop consuming all carbs and sugar and then you're 100% fine. That's the first step. Then you have to take other steps. If you only have a minor issue, then yeah. Pull out the sugars, take a few supplements. You'll be fine.

Nourish the gut. Or if you're severely impacted with candida overgrowth, then you need to do everything you can minus medications. You don't need the meds.

Side note. You do need to go after H pylori as well. Candida and H pylori, our friends. Usually H pylori candida is there. And vice-versa.

So the best remedy. By far. Our probiotics, Y. They displace. As the yeast die-off. The good bacteria, the probiotics take over their spot, so to speak. Saccharomyces boulardii. Lactobacillus Rheuteri. Or you could just take.

Trinity product.

Awesome. To what I use. Small dose daily, or if you're in battle, you can take more. Not going to tell you how much you can take that's up to you and your.

Person you're working with to heal you.

Both of your biomes.

Both of your biomes, the positive and the negative type lives synergistically with each other. They communicate and hang out and have parties. They watch sports, they get married and have kids. They build houses in communities and villages and cities. They have a military construction companies, police force, just like we do. The goal is to keep the negative molds down and the microbiome. Up.

Then you fix the mucosal lining how slippery Elm. You can make a tea out of it. You can use capsules, teas better. Bone broth. Has to be frozen,

and organic. Non-pasteurized.

Happened to have an episode on bone broth, just so you know, the other one is marshmallow root. Fantastic. It doesn't taste great. So I recommend capsules. And deglycerized licorice.

Now here's your battle 📍 armaments. These will kill any infection in the gut. So go slow. There's no hurry. Toxins from the parasites are ruthless. They will make your life a living. Hell. If you go too fast. Think many months, if you don't want to feel super bad.

Now not everybody will feel that bad and everyone has their own tolerance and you know how much they are willing to put up with.

So I caution you. I have a disclaimer at the end of this episode. So don't blame me. I'm serious. This is nothing to mess around with. Take it slow. The first one you would use is oregano oil.

The best oregano oil you can get is by a company called Biotics research. A D P.

The next would be coconut oil. Coconut oil has LORIC acid, L a U R I C.

Absolutely. Awesome thing to kill most bacterial and fungal infections in the body. And it tastes good.

Garlic. Why. Sulfur. Not many things can live in sulfur. They don't like it. Next would be a bee propolis. If you're familiar at all with bees, I love bees And the science surrounding the bees. And. Their hives and their products that they make. Propolis is how they keep all the fungus and bacteria out of the hive.

' cause, you know, they they're out in the environment and they can pick up all kinds of stuff from the flowers and the air and water. And then come back to the hive. They could bring it in. Immediately. Well, And that insight is so sterile. Nothing can survive. Well, what could be propolis do for you then? All kinds of stuff.

Not only can you use it internally? You can also put it on your skin. Fantastic.

Then there's of course, grape seed extract. Lots of research on that one.

Now the most powerful besides oregano oil. Are the alkaloid family. These are my go-to. First one would be golden seal. Second would be berberine. Then Oregon grape root. And then golden thread. You've heard a lot about berberine. Maybe if you're in the health community. Fantastic. I use it every single day. Because. There's not a single reason not to. It helps you in almost everything. It beats. All the diabetic drugs for balancing blood sugar. All the way to gut health. Everything in between.

It's amazing. Not even that expensive.

If you can't afford. The brands that are optimized for absorption, even if you use a lower quality product that you can afford and you use it daily. It will help you. It's a fact.

You can expect two to three months depending on your liver health. So if you want to clean up your liver first, It can be more effective. To get rid of the overgrowth.

So then how do you keep it away? Well, first way is digestive health. So you have to have good motility. And good body movement daily. Keep that stagnation away. Molds love and yeast loves stagnation. Don't they. Think dead tree on the ground. Leaky gut is important. So lectins like gluten will springboard candida, so no grains and in my opinion, Ever. They are poison to the body, contrary to what you have heard.

Now einkorn, E I N K O R N in an organic form, you can have a little bit.

But you should know how to use that green. Do you consume organic grains? No. Then you're consuming large quantities of glyphosate. That is a nerve poison. Wonderful. We're going to have an episode on that too. Coming up.

That could be. The world's worst chemical.

The other way you can keep it at bay is through high immunity. Exercise or lots of body movement. We'll keep your immune system up. Sodas, daily nutrition. Good clean water. Low carb or no carb diet. Stress reduction. Good sleep, low EMF exposure. Prayer or meditation because that lower stress. Stress causes all kinds of stuff. Or just don't live on this planet. Just kidding.

Real quick on your water.

Since candida don't like acid. You could add a little bit of lemon juice. Or a little bit of apple cider vinegar.

During the kill phase. After that. Don't use it. Because once your body utilizes those acids, They actually turn alkaline and then that's what the yeast want. So you want to be able to use those quickly. So just a little bit, and only on the weekends.

That was my choice. I wouldn't use them at all. I would just stick with clean water. Super clean water.

How about some xylitol gum you ever heard of it? Fantastic. Good for your mouth. You can add xylitol, you can buy xylitol and you can add it to your diet.

You can also make your own toothpaste. And add it to that super good for your mouth and your teeth health. Remember if you stop as much as you can in the mouth first. Then there's less to deal with later.

I use xylitol gum every single day.

It's not the best gum. Flavor only lasts. Yeah, five, 10 minutes, but that's all you really need. Told you about the gum usage on the tongue episode last week. Using your tongue to quote, chew your gum. Awesome. Listen to that. Super good. But the xylitol makes its way into the tissues around your teeth and in your gums and kills bad bacteria creates a good microbiome.

So why should you care so much about candida? Well, it affects over 30 million men and women every single day.

Also causes septicemia. In the hospital, which is life-threatening. It's estimated that most people have, or will eventually have a moderate to serious candida condition in their life. According to research at duke university. Candidiasis is the fourth, most common bloodstream infection found in hospitalized patients. And causes death in 30 to 40% of those cases. That's a killer right there. And then what did they give you for your diet in the hospital?

Oh yeah. Carbs and sugar. Would you like some jello, apple sauce? No. I'll take filet mignon and asparagus. Thank you very much. Candida. Produces. Over 75 known toxic substances that poison the human body. That's incredible. 75. Known toxic substances. And they poison you.

That's right. I'm going to keep beating my carbs and sugar. I'll be fine. Uh, not according to the. 30 million men and women every day.

I'm bustin on ya

Calm down.

Candida yeast can become so massive and invasive. That it takes on a fungal form.

What I mean by that is. It sends out these long. Route like structures that penetrate the mucus lining of the gastrointestinal wall. Like.

Kind of like a, like an octopus. And it just uses those root-like structures. It pokes holes, and then gets into the lining just makes its way through. Kind of like the movie alien when it comes out of your chest. 📍

All right. Being a little dramatic, but I think you get the point.

Matter of fact. People who've had advanced. Candida overgrowth. Have been found to digest less than 50% of their food.

They're stealing. Half your food. It's amazing. It's an incredible destroyer of health. 50 known conditions of candida overgrowth. There are. 50. Known conditions. That's main conditions, not all the other ones associated with that. That's just 50 basics.

So, yeah. It is something you should take seriously. Because once you get it. It's extremely difficult to get rid of. And then once you get rid of. You got to keep it away. There's a lot of steps involved there. I've dealt with this myself. I know what this feels like. It's terrible.

All right. That's enough for today.

If you know. Anyone who needs to know this? Please send it along. And if you liked it, maybe. Uh, like, or comment perhaps on this episode. Thank you for listening. Take care of yourselves.

This episode is for educational purposes only. I am not giving advice. This is purely my opinion.