#1 Absolute Best Way To Cure Yeast & Candida Overgrowth

Hello Health Champions today we're going to talk  about the number one absolute best way to cure  

Candida and most people are going to associate  that with a yeast infection or yeast overgrowth  

which is correct and the three top places where  that happens is a vaginal infection some kind of  

skin or nail infection and also it can happen  in the mouth and then it's called oral thrush  

you get this white coating on the tongue but then  in 1986 the book yeast connection was published by  

Dr William Crook and I always laugh a little bit  about a last name like that I'm sure he can't help  

it but it's kind of like a dentist called Dr Payne  it just has to make things a little bit harder but  

anyway it was a pretty good book I read it many  years ago but it oversimplifies a little bit I  

think it's a bit outdated it basically said that  yeast causes everything and avoid yeast in all  

its forms and to this day people are terrified  even of good yeasts like nutritional yeast which  

is basically a B vitamin supplement so just like  with bacteria and other parts of the biome it's  

all about balance that there's good and there's  bad and the bad isn't really bad if it's not  

allowed to overgrow as long as we have the balance  then the bad stuff serves a purpose as well but  

it's potentially pathogenic if things get out of  hand and overall candida is becoming more common  

the numbers are increasing and there's more than  one kind there's 31 different species of candida  

but there's five species that account for 92  percent of all infections and the most common  

out of those five is called Candida albicans  that's the one that most people have heard of  

and overall even though the numbers overall are  are increasing candida albicans percentage-wise  

is decreasing and the reason for that is that we  have anti-fungal medication and candida albicans  

is pretty susceptible it's easy to kill it off  whereas some of the other five species are more  

resistant so it's kind of like with antibiotics  that if you kill off the ones that are easy to  

kill you're going to develop more resistant  strains and create imbalances in other ways  

but this is where we have to be a little careful  with the standard way of thinking about this that  

ever since we discovered bacteria and virus the  standard idea has been to kill everybody because  

we've figured out that these pathogens they  cause disease so just kill everybody but we  

need to also understand that this is about balance  that anytime we kill off one thing we're going  

to favor something else we're going to create an  imbalance and we need to start thinking about the  

body as an ecosystem that candida is part of the  overall microbiome and we need to start thinking  

about the microbiome as a separate organ it lives  inside your large intestine for the most part  

but there's some bacteria in other places as well  but the total weight of these bacteria is several  

pounds if you add it all up it's about the size  of your liver and it probably performs just about  

as important a function so when things get out of  hand it's kind of like the liver which is an organ  

can get a pathogenic infection like hepatitis well  when we get an infection in the gut when we get an  

overgrowth of something it's kind of just like  we have an imbalance that among these beneficial  

bacteria making up an organ we can get an  overgrowth of some just like we can get an  

overgrowth in the liver but the solution then is  not to kill off the whole liver or kill off the  

whole microbiome we have to be very very careful  with it so if we want to understand the bigger  

picture we have to understand what causes these  imbalances and the number one thing is going to be  

sugar and starches because they selectively feed  these primitive organisms the most primitive are  

the virus and the bacteria and if we eat a lot  of sugar then we tend to favor them and create  

imbalances another risk factor is uncontrolled  diabetes and why would that be because  

in uncontrolled diabetes you have an abundance  of available sugar for these pathogens that's  

what diabetes is it's a metabolic disorder where  your filling the body with more fuel then you're  

burning up another cause is stress and what  does stress do stress is a state where your  

body focuses on emergencies and if you have a bear  chasing after you then that's a bigger emergency  

than the food in your stomach so anytime that  you are stressed you're going to decrease the  

priority for things like digestion and immune  system it's like you're turning off the faucet  

on the resources that help you digest food and  help you produce immune cells and fight off  

pathogens so anytime you have stress you're going  to shut off all the factors that make your gut  

work basically and also some of the most common  causes are medication things like antibiotics  

and anti-fungals because what they do is they kill  indiscriminately they don't care if it's a good or  

a bad bacteria the goal is obviously to kill off  the pathogens but in doing that we also kill off a  

huge percentage or even in some cases most of the  good bacteria and then we kind of have to start  

from scratch but some of these good bacteria might  have been almost extinct at that point and there's  

some other medications like steroids and birth  control that are very strongly implicated in yeast  

overgrowth now let's think about what it means to  cure it for the most part if you go to the Health  

Care System they're going to try some medication  and I'm not opposed to medication there's a time  

and a place in emergencies to use medication but  to use it for imbalances May backfire first of  

all the medication itself can have side effects  and also anytime we go in and try to change an  

ecosystem we can get complication but the main  thing we want to understand is that the roots  

cause remains and therefore we will probably  get recurrences or other problems and even  

though this is so so simple we spend over four  trillion dollars on so-called health care and the  

vast majority of that money is wasted because we  don't understand that very very simple Basics and  

principles so the way we want to think about this  is that there are certain conditions in the body  

and those conditions provide various opportunities  for all these pathogens they are opportunistic  

that by definition pathogens are opportunistic we  always have billions and billions of pathogens in  

the body when we're feeling at our best we have  billions of pathogens but they need an opportunity  

and when they have that opportunity now they can  create over growth and imbalance so we already  

need an imbalance but then the overgrowth creates  a further imbalance so what are these conditions  

then well they are the things that we've  talked about so if you have a weak microbiome  

if you don't have enough bacteria again you think  about your biome as your liver what if you don't  

have enough of the numbers of bacteria what if  you don't have enough variety of species because  

you need billions you need trillions of bacteria  but you also need a wide variety of species for  

that ecosystem to be healthy and another common  condition of course is that we have way too much  

sugar so with all of these conditions present  and then we take some antibiotics and we kill  

off some more of this biome and we take some  anti-fungal some we upset the balance between  

the fungus now we have the conditions that provide  an opportunity for overgrowth so now if we take a  

medication if we take something to kill off this  overgrowth then we get symptom relief and things  

look better on the surface for a short while but  we haven't changed the conditions if anything we  

might have made them worse by further reducing the  biome and the variety so the conditions remain and  

if we still have the conditions then it's just a  matter of time before the problem happens again  

or expresses itself in some other way so instead  of the traditional way we think of curing with  

medication we want to think about restoring and  preventing so the number one thing obviously would  

be to not feed this overgrowth any further so you  cut back on sugar and starches because sugar feeds  

them directly and starches feed them because  it very quickly in a matter of minutes breaks  

down into glucose that is their favorite Fuel and  next we want to increase our food variety we want  

to eat a lot of different kinds of food and every  time I make a video on a top 10 list of some kind  

of food everyone wants to know which is the best  food that's what I'm going to eat a lot of and  

we want to stop thinking about it that way and  that's why I do the videos the way I do so that  

we can start thinking about Foods differently  what do they have in common but also to look at  

variety and the number one thing that feeds the  good bacteria and that maintain balance over time  

is going to be fiber and we want a variety of  different fibers which of course we get if we  

eat a large variety of foods and because stress is  one of the major causes obviously we want to work  

on reducing stress and I've done lots of videos  on that so you can truly understand what stress  

is it's not just about feeling overwhelmed it is  how you condition the body into certain responses  

number five is exercise and it does not have to  mean blood sweat and tears and endless hours in  

the gym even though a gym can be beneficial we're  just talking about movement that your body is made  

to move that's the purpose of the body is to  move around in a three-dimensional environment  

with gravity and to stimulate your nervous system  and once you do that then everything in your body  

works better including your digestion and also  exercise is one of the main ways to reduce stress  

so just take my word for it that if you exercise  and you move on a regular basis then everything in  

your body is going to work better a good way to  add some bacteria and help improve the biome is  

through fermented foods because when you ferment  Foods you grow some of these beneficial bacteria  

that you can eat and help repopulate to grow some  beneficial bacteria and some beneficial yeast to  

out-compete the pathogenic and the overgrowing  yeast and then of course we also want to talk  

about pre and probiotics because these are the  supplements that people take to try to repopulate  

their gut they hear that you took in antibiotic so  now you killed off all the bacteria now you need  

to take some new ones and that can be very very  beneficial but it can also be a complete waste  

of time and money if we don't create the right  conditions basically the probiotics are going to  

be like seeds and if you have seeds and you want  to go sow a plant a vegetable of some sort then  

you could have the best seeds in the world but if  you throw them on the concrete in the parking lot  

then they're not going to grow you just wasted  all that seeds because there are no conditions  

for them to grow there so yes they can be good  and even necessary but we have to think about  

the bigger picture we first have to cut back on  the sugar we have to reduce the inflammation we  

have to create a healthy gut and now when we  add some pre and probiotics then we can grow  

some bacteria and the probiotics are the bacteria  themselves the prebiotics are different substances  

different nutrients and fiber that will help feed  the bacteria the probiotic so fiber is actually a  

Prebiotic just like there are other forms that you  can take as a supplement and then there's also a  

number of different things that you can take such  as apple cider vinegar and oregano oil garlic you  

can take some cloves tea tree oil the list is  endless of different antibacterial anti-fungal  

agents so these have additional properties but  you don't want to try them on their own you want  

to work on the bigger picture so that you can  create the right conditions and we want to maybe  

specially emphasize the apple cider vinegar or  any other vinegar for that matter because acetic  

acid is a short chain fatty acid that is very  very important it acts as fuel for a lot of the  

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