The question from the audience: What about the consumption of bee pollen?
Well, being a beekeeper, I’m going to tell you I love bee pollen. I think bee pollen is one of the best things you can do for yourself to build up your immune system.
Bee pollen is a phenomenal food. It’s a very high protein food. Bees go to flowers and bring pollen back. They’ve got these little pollen baskets behind their legs and they stuff them full of pollen.
Basically, they bring them back to the hive because pollen’s high protein content is needed to feed the baby bees and to feed the adult bees. Honey is stored for the sugar, for the quick energy and then they get their protein source as well from the pollen.
Pollen contains all of the known amino acids, both the essential and nonessential. Pollen is incredibly good for a person’s immune system. The best pollen that you can consume is pollen that’s grown in your district.
So flowers, of course they grow around you, will have a better effect on your body than flowers that come from 5000 miles away, a totally different environment.
Pollen has been linked in some rare cases to increasing blood pressure in people but only very rarely. I may have heard of it maybe once or twice in all the years, but be careful which how much pollen you have. You don’t want too much pollen.
A couple of teaspoons per day is more than enough but it’s an exceptionally good tonic for the body. It contains huge amounts of magnesium and many trace elements. It’s full of protein, lots of aminos in there. It also contains very unique factors in there, which have a big effect on stimulating different aspects of your immune function.
So I do recommend pollen.
Some people may get allergies from pollen. It’s very rare, and it’s also very expensive to buy good pollen but it’s certainly worth it to put pollen into your diet.
I would rate it as a super food alongside salmon, avocados, and blueberries. It’s certainly a powerful food to eat, so I fully recommend it.
Don’t buy imported pollen from China. I wouldn’t recommend you do that. I recommend if you’re in the states, buy American pollen. If you’re in New Zealand, buy New Zealand pollen. Don’t buy imported pollen because we’ve got no idea on the regulations in countries like China and how things are kept. I would just buy U.S. pollen if you live there or Canadian pollen. Now that’s a good tip I’ll leave you with.
I recommend reading my book, Candida Crusher. In the book, there are two big sections that discuss diet. There is a section on the Candida diet and a 100-page section on healthy eating. the mercury and selenium content of fish, including tuna.
With regards to canned tuna, some people need to be cautious about eating it due to the mercury levels. However, I do not believe that everyone needs to avoid canned tuna. My book includes a discussion about
My book has a section that will help you decide whether you need to go gluten-free or not. The book also includes a discussion about the link between gluten and Candida. It’s my opinion that once your gut has healed, you can eat any type of grain, including wheat. I don’t believe being healthy means you need to avoid grains forever.
You will likely notice some disparity between my videos and the content of my book. The reason for this is that the information I provide in the book is generalized. It doesn’t relate specifically to one person.
When I see a person in my clinical practice, the advice I give that person might be entirely different from what I put in my book or my videos. I provide each of my clients with personalized recommendations because one size doesn’t fit all.
Generalized information is precisely that, generalized. Most people can tailor information to suit their own needs. If you’re the type of person who finds it hard to apply general information to your health-related circumstances, I would recommend seeing a practitioner in person. That way you can be sure that the information given is a good fit for your specific health needs.
For those of you who have the misfortune of finding yourself with jock itch (Tinea cruris), there are some very important lifestyle choices that I highly recommend.
Firstly, you really need to keep your genital area clean.
One in three people have herpes. It is a very common condition.
Some people with herpes get very fixated on the lysine: arginine ratio in their diet.
If we look at lysine, we know it is found in high protein foods. We also know that eating a high lysine diet inhibits viral replication. Vitamin C also interferes with the replication of the herpes virus. You need to take two to three grams of vitamin C per day to make lysine more effective in an anti-herpes protocol.
Core arginine foods are nuts and chocolate. When you go vegan, it’s often a real challenge. You will to get your protein from non-meat sources which are nuts. Many vegans snack on chocolate and lots of carbs and these foods can really aggravate herpes. Still, you don’t need to get too overly concerned about the high lysine, low arginine diet when it comes to herpes unless it is seriously out of control. If the herpes is so severe that you can’t function normally, then I can understand getting fussy about your diet.
But the biggest aggravator of herpes is stress. Stress really aggravates herpes because it increases your cortisol level. Cortisol can result in immunosuppression which allows the herpes to spread like wildfire. In most cases I think that stress is far more important that arginine/lysine ratios when it comes to preventing herpes relapse.
What you don’t want to do is become obsessed and anxious about food. I find that many people are like that when they go hard core vegan. They become so focused on food that they forget everything else in life. In fact, being vegan becomes an enormous source of stress and anxiety. The truth is, some of the happiest people I know have the worst diets. Some of the sickest, unhappiest people I know have amazing diets.
It’s not always what you eat that’s going to create good inner health. It’s how you feel about your life, your lifestyle, and how you feel about yourself in general.
There is so much contradicting information on which veggies are high in lysine, and nuts and seeds and gelatin are high in arginine.
Every time I eat very healthy for my digestion, it triggers promodrome syndrome, nausea, burping, neck, lower back pain, nerve pain, feber, abdominal pain, which I always attributed to Candida or Sibo, but over the years I think it is the herpes virus going active.
I was following a high fiber, plant-based diet with a little meat, but it’s hard to get enough calories without nuts, seeds, or starch. I only weigh a 100 pounds and have a high metabolic rate. I’m not crazy about eating meat and dairy – high lysine. I digestively feel much better eating bananas, sweet potatoes, beans, lentils, rice, salads, but its hard to keep balance with the herpes, amino acid ratio in check.
I always feel like I am choosing between my herpes viral load, or eating the way I feel I should. And can a virus cause strong flu like systems and even burping if you are in arginine overload?
Cutting back on meat and dairy makes me feel so much better, more energized and alkaline but I wonder if Sibo or parasites cause the burps and nausea when I eat the natural sugars and starches.
Raising my stomach acid with apple cider vinegar and digestive enzymes doesn’t even touch the burping. Then it will go away randomly.
You’ve got all these problems. Why are you so fixed on herpes and these problems.
One in three people have herpes. It is very common. But I don’t get 30% of my videos being herpes related videos.
Most people tend to get on with their lives and stop being anal and focused on this particular thing. You don’t need to get too overly concerned about the high lysine, low arginine diet when it comes to herpes unless it is seriously out of control.
If the herpes is so severe that people can’t function normally, I tend to get extremely fussy about the diet, for particular reasons. But in most cases I assume your herpes is not to the point that you are contemplating suicide. It sounds like you have obsessions about food in general.
You need to be careful with this kind of dietary approach, because you are pigeon holing yourself, You’re pushing yourself into a corner that’s going to create significant eating problems for you.
With a high metabolism and only weighing 100 pounds, it sounds to me like you have a high degree of anxiety or stress. More than anything, this needs to be worked on.
One of the most important foods for your to eat would be the chill foods, the relaxing foods. What I’d like you to do is see someone about your lifestyle in general, because I think there is more here than meets the eye.
I think you are very food focused and obsessed. I also think you need to take a step back and look at the big picture, not just what you eat.
I find that many people are like this when they go hard core vegan. They become so focused on food that they forget everything else in life. In fact it becomes an enormous stress and an anxiety problem eating like this. Some of the happiest people I know have the worst diets. It’s tru. Some of the sickest, unhappiest people I know have amazing diets.
It’s not always what you eat that’s going to create good inner health. It’s how you feel about your life, your lifestyle, how you feel about yourself in general.
If we look at llysine we know those are the high protein foods and we know that it inhbits viral replication if you eat more llysine. But so does vitamin C. So you need to take two to three grams of vitamin C per day to make lysine more effective in an anti-herpes protocol.
Arginine is nuts and chocolates – those are the two core things. When you go vegan, it’s often a real challenge. And you’re going to get your protein from non-meat sources which are nuts, and many vegans snack on chocolate, and also a lot of carbs and these foods can really aggravate herpes.
But the biggest aggravator of herpes is stress. Stress really aggravates herpes because it increases your cortisol which can induce immunosuppression and allow the herpes to spread like wildfire. I want you to think about stress, how youc an counter it, rather than looking at the arginine/lysine ratios which aren’t as important as what I can see.
I’ve been asked before if the CanXida products will work against bacteria associated with non-specific urethritis (NSU). Bacteria that can cause NSU include mycoplasma and ureaplasma.
I can’t say for sure that CanXida is effective against these specific strains of bacteria. However, I can say that CanXida works on all kinds of bacterial overgrowth. I’ve seen the product been successful in many different cases. Further, probiotics can help protect the urogenital area. It’s also possible that someone with NSU has digestive problems or other underlying issues related to bacterial imbalance. That’s why I don’t see anything wrong with taking a course of CanXida for a couple of months and then evaluating if it has had a positive impact on NSU.
I also strongly recommend avoiding lifestyles that increase the risk of NSU. Unprotected sex is a risk factor for NSU (and all sorts of other problems). I recommend ensuring that your sexual encounters are safe rather than trying to treat the resulting infections.