A Better Way to Eliminate Candida for Good
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 6 February 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, we’re going to talk about candida overgrowth. Candida is a fungal infection that typically affects the mouth, private areas, or toenails. Candida often develops after antibiotics destroy the bacteria that keep yeast and fungus at bay.
The majority of your gut microbiome is bacteria. However, you have a small percentage of yeast, fungus, and friendly candida. When antibiotics wipe out your friendly bacteria, this leaves room for candida overgrowth.
Some of the symptoms of candida overgrowth include itchiness, burning, fatigue, cracks at the corners of the mouth, and ammonia odor.
Candida changes your pH, making it more alkaline. Sugar is the primary fuel source of candida.
Other conditions can lower your immune system and cause candida overgrowth. HIV/AIDS, organ transplants, medications like Prednisone, pregnancy, and excessive sugar consumption can all cause candida.
Oftentimes, candida overgrowth is paired with a vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D has antifungal properties and is also a broad-spectrum antimicrobial.
If you have candida, there are three things that you need to do!
1. Take 20,000 to 30,000 IU of vitamin D
2. Remove sugar from the diet
3. Consume probiotic foods (sauerkraut, kimchi, kefir, fermented vegetables)
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| 0:00.0 | Recently I stumbled on something very fascinating relating to Candida and I want to share this with you. |
| 0:05.5 | Now Candida is a fungal infection. It's kind of like a yeast infection and people can get it in their mouth, |
| 0:12.3 | they can get it in their private parts, |
| 0:14.1 | toenails, and it usually comes after an antibiotic as a side effect because you |
| 0:19.4 | have all these bacteria that keep the yeast and fungus and molds in check. |
| 0:24.7 | The great majority of your microbiome in your gut is bacteria, but you have a small percentage |
| 0:30.2 | of this yeast and fungus and friendly candida. |
| 0:34.0 | So everything is in balance, but when you wipe out a lot of your bacteria, |
| 0:38.0 | you create more space for this candida to grow and become a bit pathogenic. |
| 0:45.3 | So you get itchiness, burning, fatigue, |
| 0:48.8 | and various symptoms from that. |
| 0:50.2 | You can even get cracks in the corner of your mouth, about 20% of the time that's Candida. |
| 0:55.0 | And when I was in practice, I would notice that certain patients coming in had this odor of ammonia. |
| 1:01.0 | And that's usually coming from this candida overgrowth it will change your |
| 1:07.4 | pH okay it releases ammonia from the breakdown products of simple sugars. |
| 1:14.4 | When you go up on the pH, you make things more alkaline, |
| 1:17.8 | and it can survive more. |
| 1:19.5 | So Candida can actually survive more of an alkaline environment versus an acidic environment. |
| 1:24.4 | This is why when you have this good balance of microbes in your large intestine, it's on the acidic |
| 1:29.4 | side. |
| 1:30.4 | But Candida changes the pH. |
| 1:32.4 | And so it does it through its primary fuel, |
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