Back again. Eric Bakker is back, the naturopath. Thanks for coming back. It’s 2020. It’s going to be a great year for me and my partner and a lot of the people I know. For you guys, too. It’s going to be a really big year for a lot of people, right? We’re talking about, we’re doing a series on food sensitivities, which encompasses intolerances and food allergies, all right?

So the question is: Is it possible to treat food sensitivity? It is. It’s possible to treat anything. It’s possible to treat you, too, but I’m not working at the moment. So you’re going to have to treat yourself all right? And that’s why I’m glad you’re watching these videos. So if you’ve got food issues, okay, especially if you know you’ve got food issues. Now, most people, if they’ve got an allergy, they know, they’ve got this feeling, okay? The important thing in life is to act on these feelings, especially if you’re told not to be silly, all right? Or don’t think like that.

But if you’ve got this inkling or feeling, you need to follow on through. So the first thing I want you to do, if you feel you react to some food in any way, now that could be emotionally, it could be cognitively, like your brain gets mixed up or, and it could be physically. I don’t care how you react. If you feel that, you need to have stopped that food straight away. You need to get your calendar, hang it on the wall. Okay, what is it today, 12th of January, whatever it is, and you write down, I stopped cow’s milk or stopped eating Cheerios or whatever.

And then you need to stick with that for at least two if not three weeks with that food avoidance. Okay? Now when you do that, you’re not going to stop ten different foods at once. You’re going to stop one food. And especially the food… And if you are going to have a reaction to a food, whether it’s both from a non-immune or immune mediated thing, generally it’s a food that you like to eat and you eat it daily or you eat it a lot. So stop that one particular food for a few weeks and then see how you feel.

If you really feel you’ve picked up, particularly towards the end of the two weeks, then you need to wait another week, maybe even two, and then take that food again. But this time you’re going to take the food two or three times per day for three days. All right? Just small amounts, not large amounts. And it could be a slice of bread twice a day. It could be half a glass of milk twice a day or three times a day. So it’s small amounts, three days. And then look at the reaction that you had, the initial experience. Did you get the same reaction back? Did your tummy feel funny? Did you have sleeping issue or was your skin itchy really itchy because you had that food?

There’s often a key symptom. All right. Now if that came back up again, “Aha,” you’re saying. “Maybe it’s that food.” So now you stopped that food again completely. Again, two weeks. You do again. You expose yourself to that food again. Okay. And this time you can step it up a little bit, take it three or four times per day, again, two or three days. If the second time you get a similar reaction, I’m going to recommend you avoid that food for 6 to 12 months, a long time, especially if the symptom was quite severe or strong to you. You need to really avoid that food. So the stronger the symptom, the more you need to avoid it and the more carefully you need to avoid it. Once you’ve avoided that particular food, let some time go by and then see how other foods react with your tummy.

Often you’ll find you’ll improve. Many things will improve. Your sleep will get better, your energy will get better. Your weight might normalize. Okay? Because a food that’s creating a problem with your body, it’s really like swimming against the tide, isn’t it? You’re going nowhere and you’re wearing yourself out. Because what happens is if it is a food allergy, okay, and it’s sitting there covert, you can’t see it.

Your immune system is constantly shadow boxing. It’s constantly fighting with that particular food in a low level. So it’s a little bit like a headwind you’re driving along, but there’s a headwind. Not much, but there’s a headwind. But all of a sudden the headwind goes away and “Whoa, we got a tailwind now.” You’d ever been in an airplane when it arrives half an hour early because the pilot said, “We’ve got a tailwind.” And everyone’s going, “Yay.” But that happens to the gut when the offending food’s taken out, it’s a tailwind. Okay?

And often you’ll find that bacteria will start coming up. Enzyme levels improve, deficiencies get corrected. Patient starts feeling better. All right? Now, I’ve heard that many times just from taking one food out of the diet, it could be cows’ milk, it could have been gluten or bread, it could have been egg. Okay, one specific food. And what a difference it made. Does that person have to avoid that food forever? Likely not. I don’t avoid cows’ milk. I still have cows’ milk in my diet. But I have Jersey cows’ milk. I have non-homogenized, pure, organic, get it fresh Jersey milk. So Jersey milk has not got the A1 protein in it. Okay? It hasn’t got that strong protein. The Friesian cow milk’s got that create the allergy.
So, but I like it. What’s a nice cup of espresso without a nice bit of frothy Jersey milk on top with some honey and it’s just one of the pleasures in life. So treatment is possible by understanding, picking that identifying food and getting it out of the diet. But remember, the testing is a good one, too. So allergy testing, as I mention in a previous video, may be required to pick the the key, one or two key foods out. But don’t take them all out.

Intolerance is a bit more difficult to treat. But as I mentioned previous, if it’s non-immune mediated, your best approach is enzymes. Enzymes really work well for so many people with allergies and intolerances because they break food down to smaller particle size. They allow that, especially if you’ve got poor mucosal cells in your gut. You’ve got poor bacterial levels, you’re not producing enough enzymes anyway. You need to support that by taking some additional enzymes. You know, it can make a massive difference.

All right? So that’s a little bit about the where, where were we? Is it possible to treat… Check out the Canxida Restore product which I made, the green label Canxida Restore. Enzymes and probiotics and used by many people now in many countries for exactly this, for food intolerances. Because it will allow the small bowel in particular to work more effectively at breaking food down. It’ll minimize bloating and gas and it’ll improve the tone of the gut quite a lot. So that’s the enzyme probiotic formula. That was it.

Greetings. Eric Bakker, thanks for coming back.

What’s the best diet for somebody with a food problem, a food sensitivity problem, whether it’s an allergy or an intolerance? Well, it’s pretty commonsensical again. You don’t need to be really a NASA astrophysicist to work this one out. The best diet for someone with problems with food is a natural diet. It’s trying to get away from foods that are made by guys in factories in those white coats or girls or grannies, or whatever you want to say. So anything factory made is going to potentially be problematic because of the chemicals involved in these foods, which could be amines or salicylates. It could be benzoic acid in there. It could be any crap in it. What I don’t like personally about a lot of food today is glyphosate, is a chemical, so you don’t like that.

Much of the food that eat here at home is actually from our own garden. It’s surprising how many foods I grow, surprising, particularly the vegetables, for the amount of people that we supply in the house. I’m a busy guy. I’m very busy. I do all sorts of things, but I still have enough time to do that. So eating things like broccoli and spinach, green beans, you can’t really go wrong, especially if they’re chewed properly. These foods actually contain enzymes themselves. These foods are easy to break down than having some Cheerios or some Jatz crackers with a piece of that plastic cheese on it or crap that people eat.

The best diet is a simple diet. All right. You don’t need to complicate your diet. Very, very simple diets will usually make you understand the difference between having a quiet gut that functions beautifully versus a noisy gut that’s protesting because of the crap that’s gone into it. If you follow the Medi diet, for example, lean meats, eggs, vegetables, yogurt… And then some say, “You’re an idiot. You’re an absolute idiot.

They’re all allergic foods.” Well, not everybody reacts to eggs. All right. Not everybody reacts to meats. But eggs can be problematic for some people, but the minority will have an egg allergy. So, okay, you can’t eat eggs. Take those out then, but there are still plenty of other foods that you can eat, legumes, chickpeas. There are many foods.

But if you have a look at candida crusher or particularly check on this channel on best foods to eat, there’s probably coming up to 2000 videos on this channel almost soon. So if you look at my playlists, you’ll find plenty of advice on some of the best foods to eat and best foods to avoid for many types of conditions. But you’d have to be pretty simple, simply silly if you didn’t understand the principle that obviously eating fresh and healthy foods as opposed to packaged and processed foods. There’s no comparison when it comes to preventing reactions to foods. The healthier you get and the better your gut is, the more sick you’ll feel when you do eat processed foods, especially things like soda drinks. They can just make me vomit when I have those. I mean the gas in them and the sugar in them, it’s really unbearable. It’s just gross.

The thing you’ll find when you eat really fresh for a long time is how good your sense of taste and smell becomes. It’s amazing how much better that becomes when you eat along according to the ways of nature. And also many patients I’ve seen over the years have developed a completely restored gut when they were previously intolerable to many foods.

As they got improved, they could tolerate those foods entirely, and it can happen to you too. Because, also remember what you might find difficult to understand is people develop psychological concepts with food too with desirability and also aversion and rejection of food, and that could be what you’re experiencing also. You could be rejecting some foods, being averse to them and not even understand why.

But check out the information on this channel. There’s plenty there in terms of what you can and can’t eat.

All right. So you know the best diet is drinking pure water and eating good food. There’s no other way around it. All right. That’s how we were created to be, to eat good food. That’s my opinion, for what it’s worth.

Hi there, I’m Eric Bakker, I’m back again. Thanks for coming back.

Let’s talk about some common myths that many people hold regarding food sensitivities, okay? Because people often don’t understand the difference between sensitivities, for example, you know what an allergy is and what an intolerance is. Well I’ve just explained that in this series of videos, so now you have a good understanding. You can have nonimmune mediated and immune mediated, all right?

So once allergic, always allergic. Some people have this belief that once you develop an allergy to a food or reaction to it whatever it is, you’ll always have that reaction. That is not true, it’s no different from a human being with another human being. Sometimes you may react to that human, sometimes you may not react to that human. Sometimes you get really annoyed at that human or really peeved off and sometimes you love that person. Food’s the same, okay? Just be careful not to have this mindset where it’s an either a problem or not a problem, all right?

I’m, for example, a good example, I could not tolerate cow’s milk a long time ago and now I have no problem tolerating any kind of food, all right? As your gut becomes stronger and healthier, you should find that these sensitivities will slowly fade away. Not in all cases, but in many cases they will.

Stomach pain is the allergy symptom. Some people I’ve spoken to say that the only symptom that they believe is really an immune problem with a gut is a stomach problem, but, I mean, you can get weird kind of symptoms and signs from allergies and intolerances that you may not even put down to that food whatsoever. You could have a strange pain in the joints, okay? You could have issues with sleeping like tossing and turning, you can’t sleep properly. You can become very grumpy, irritable and hostile person. Allergies can create many problems for people. Sensitivities, intolerances can do the same, okay? So just don’t make the assumption that it’s one or two symptoms because it can be a whole range of symptoms that could be invoked through a response with a food.

Food allergies are the main cause of ADHD. For years, many people thought that if you took a child off red cordial or ice cream that their behavior would change. That’s not true. Many children with attention deficit disorder or on the spectrum don’t have allergies or strong allergies with foods. Some do, some don’t. But we can’t say, “That these things are the cause behind ADHD,” because that’s a myth, that’s not really true, all right? Many, many children with allergies have no ADHD at all and many with ADHD have no allergies at all. So we can’t say that, all right?

Peanuts… Excuse me… peanuts are the main source of food allergies. Again, not true. Any tree nuts can create allergies. I’ve seen massive reactions in one patient with Brazil nuts, just a handful of Brazil nuts got a huge, almost hospitalized from this. So any nuts can be, in some people, can strongly evoke a symptom there. Some people no problems, some people massive problems, so any nuts can do that. But I’m not a fan of peanuts. I think they were pretty crappy food and, yeah, it’s just not really good. They’re not really a nut, they’re a legume. They grow underground, they’re not that great. They taste awesome, but they’re not good for you.

Another one, everybody is allergic to cow’s milk, nobody should drink cow’s milk. This is absolute nonsense. Some people have no issues whatsoever with cows milk and in fact thrive on it. Others get sick on it. It really depends on you. I’m not a fan of drinking lots of milk. I like small amount of Jersey cow milk in my espresso in the morning, but that’s probably it. Yeah, but don’t have this fallacious belief that milk is something that everybody should avoid, that it was made for cows, for calves, you know? I mean that’s a pretty silly statement too saying, “A product was made by an animal for an animal, not for a human,” or things like that. So you know, you could go really far and create dumb statements like that. It depends on you as a person on your tolerability, it’s a very individual thing. So you just need to bear that in mind.

So there are a lot of myths about these kinds of responses people get, but I can assure you, when you develop really good health over a period of time, these kinds of reactions tend to slowly fade away and eventually disappear. And that’s what happens.

Hey, Eric Bakker. Thanks for coming back. Is it possible to prevent food sensitivities? It is. It is possible. In fact, I helped prevent foods sensitivities with many, many, probably thousands of people over the years by guiding them into the correct ways of eating and eating food and also trying to live around eating good food. In my son, for example, I helped to prevent a lifelong problem by really early on establishing the fact that his tummy couldn’t tolerate cow’s milk when he was about, I don’t know, under a year of age. It really helped him and we moved him away from that. His cough went away. He never went on antibiotics. He’s a strapping, strong, healthy 23 year old lad now. Anything can be prevented if there’s insight into the problem, right?

If you are eating a particular food and having a reaction to that food, especially if you’re not feeling well after you eat the food, regardless of whether it was an hour or a day, you need to identify that. Try and think what food was it that made you feel that way? Make sure you understand the connection between the meals and eating, and also the gut, and how it feels, and the flow on effect of the bowel motions. Once you’ve established that eating certain foods makes you feel a certain way, you’ll understand that you can always feel that way by eating those particular foods.

The difference between having some steamed broccoli and a small piece of chicken, for example, as a lunch, as opposed to having a greasy burger, a Coke, and fries. Now, if you put two people side by side and watched them eat that repetitively, look at how that person functions after their energy, their brain, but also go to the bathroom and see what comes out the following day. You’ll know exactly what I mean. All right? The quality of the food will dictate the type of reaction that you get. Okay. The healthy basic foods like spinach, eggs, broccoli will produce with healthy people a good outcome, but even if you get a healthy person and put them on a shitty, crappy diet, they’re not going to feel great. They’re certainly not going to feel fantastic the following day. It’s all about observation, understanding that concept.

Prevention comes about through doing the right thing consistently. It becomes eventually a habit and then that habit will form part of your life. Then the flow on effect is just improvement, improvement. It’s no difference between spending money and saving money. People who habitually save end up with something nice. People who habitually spend end up with nothing. All depends on those actions in that intermediate time and what you’re doing. By consistently making the right choices, you’ll find that’s how you’re going to prevent food problems.

Looking at how you are emotionally around food, the selection of foods, when you eat, the quantity of foods, the quality of foods, this is how you can prevent a lot of food problems even more so if you’ve got insight into medications and understand the concept that antibiotics is basically anti-life. Swallowing something that kills life every day is not really going to help you a lot in the long run, is it, any more than an Amex card with 30% interest is not going to help you in the long run. Same difference. Prevention is common sense and insight, something that I really would like to see a lot more in people these days. Thanks for tuning in. See you in the next video.

Eric Bakker back from… I was going to say something back from the grave, but I didn’t die. It’s 2020 and I’m still here. Thanks for coming back. It’s always good to see a familiar face.

Now we’re still talking about food allergies and food sensitivities. Here’s an interesting one. Risk factor, what if I leave food sensitivity untreated? Well, you can do that. You don’t have to treat anything. It really depends on the quality of your life. So the question to you is, do you want to feel good? Do you want to feel okay or do you want to feel like crap? If you want to feel amazing, you need to get your gastrointestinal system up to a high level. Your GI tract needs to really shine and work optimally. It needs to be able to break food down. It needs to be able to break the right food down to give your cells, all those trillions of cells, the correct nutrition to give you the quality of life you’re looking for. If you’ve got a crappy digestive system, particularly if you react to food, you need to get it sorted, otherwise your quality won’t be good.

I’ll put it to you this way. You’ve got a nice new motorcar, okay? But why are you putting crappy, crappy fuel in there and it’s running rough and you keep saying to your partner, “This car’s a piece of crap. It just never run right. It’s never run right.” But you’ve never used the right fuel in it. Maybe that’s what your body’s trying to say to you. Okay? It’s trying to scream at you saying, “You can’t put crappy fuel in here because I’m not going to run right for you.” So if things don’t feel right, you might need to look at what’s going in here and change that. All right? Because that will make it easy for me then. I won’t have to do my job and always try to get people to take things, to mitigate because of the diet. So the diet needs fixing up basically. All right?

So if you leave things untreated like this for many years, what you’re going to eventually find is as particularly, and you won’t notice it so much in your 20s and 30s, when you get to 60 like me, you’ll start noticing the wheels are getting a bit wobbly. Okay? The doors aren’t quite closing properly. They need slamming harder. All right? The brakes don’t work that well. All sorts of things won’t work well. And if you want everything to function optimally, you’ve got to get food working well in your body, which means you’ve got to understand the concept of eating well. But also medications. Pharmaceutical medications can really mess up your gut. So if you are taking handfuls of meds, and many people my age are already on three or four drugs, go to your doctor and see if you really need this stuff.

Because generally people take stuff they don’t really need. I’ve seen this. They might have a bit of a problem with the relation. Their blood pressure goes up temporarily, they’re put on BP drugs for the rest of their life. Nothing really ever changes. It’s the same scenarios when I said before about the stereo system. If we got the guy playing loud music next door, why would I take his stereo off and never give it back to him? Because that’s what going on pharmaceutical medications is like. The assumption’s made that for the rest of your life, this is how it’s going to be. So you don’t need to stay on these pills if you don’t want to be on them. All right?

So if you don’t treat things like that, fatigue will set in. You’ll get tired because you’ll develop deficiencies. Sounds like New York out there, doesn’t it? But you’ll also find things will happen as you age. All right? You’ll start getting problems with joints, with muscles, your memory, your sleep, your libido will have probably already long gone south. Now when you go to the doctor, even at 60 like me, they’ll say, “Well, you’re getting old. What do you expect? These are consequences of getting old.” I can tell you now at 60 nothing has to change from when you were 25. Okay? The libido can be amazing. The energy can be amazing.

The memory, the cognition, everything can be amazing. And the difference is allowing the food to do its job, to be broken down properly, accessed by the cells and excreted properly giving you really good health. So that’s what’s stopping you from achieving that awesome feeling of wellbeing regardless of age. Even if you’re eating good food, if it’s not interfacing properly and being broken down, absorbed and excreted, it’s a waste of good food.

So if you have a reaction with food, you need to sort it sooner rather than later, because that will give you the remaining years you’ve got left to live a really good quality lifestyle regardless of your income. Okay? I keep getting these stupid comments on YouTube saying that, “All of your stuff’s all crap because only people with money can have it.” But I’ll tell you now, I work with patients in many countries in the world, they just eat real basic stuff, some boiled cabbage and white rice and just basic foods and they’re in great, great health. All right? You don’t need to be a zillionaire to have good health, but you need to have the right attitude.