How do you reduce hair loss from Candida? Is it possible to do so? It is possible to do so. It’s possible to slow it right down. Many people think it’s impossible to lose hair with a yeast infection, but I’ve definitely seen it with several clients, particularly people with very poor digestive health. So don’t focus on this. Focus more on this. Especially the small bowel is important to work on. Look at improving digestion. Keep an eye on the bowel motions and make sure that the bowel motions are very good. Preferably two a day, good volume, easy to move. No bloating, no gas. Focus on improving gut health. Enzymes, probiotics will really help that. Then also diet. You need a mineral rich diet, but initially you’ll probably have to take a lot of the junk out of the diet, slowly rebuild the gut health back up again with average kind of diet, as I’ve discussed so much on this channel and eventually put more mineral rich foods in there.
So what are mineral rich foods? What are food’s good for hair growth? Ever think about it? There’s so many foods that contain lots of minerals. One of my favorites, one of me favorite ones, is seaweed. Well there’s Nori sheets that you can get for wrapping up sushi. You can put those in dishes.
Seaweeds contain an incredible amount of minerals. Kelp. But also celery is good for hair growth, and nuts and seeds and legumes. If you look at people with beautiful hair, different cultures, and look at the kind of foods they eat, that’ll give you an indication. People from Japan have always had very nice hair. Many people from the Indian continent. And again, look at the diet, okay. Legumes. [inaudible 00:00:01:45]. Mineral rich foods. Lentils are great at supplying you lots of protein and minerals. So there are many ways you can improve the gut, but by putting a mineral rich diet in there, and especially some enzymes and probiotics, you’ll accelerate the hair growth.
How do you complete or how do you do a proper heavy metal detoxification? If you haven’t got Candida Crusher this… I think, I’m pretty sure, there’s a good few pages on detoxing, but particularly heavy metal detoxification in there. I talk a bit about it. So it’s something I did a lot of many years ago when I worked with a medical doctor friend of mine. We conducted many different detoxification tests and detoxification programs on a wide variety of patients over about a five year period. This would have been… I’m just trying to remember now. It would have been around 2000… From around about 2001 to about 2006 when I did a particularly and incredible amount of heavy metal cleansing with patients. I was very interested in this area. I’ve drifted out of it and focused more on digestive areas.
And then you may say, “Well, this guy is a bit of a loser. First he did this. Then he did that.” I couldn’t see the relevance in heavy metal cleansing at the extent we were doing after several years, because I really couldn’t see the return for the patients that they were expecting for the money that I was spending. Some people spend thousands of dollars on cleansers and at the end they just feel just as crappy as they did at the beginning. I didn’t notice it all the time, but I noticed it quite regularly with people. Don’t become a pathological detoxifier. Okay. We’ll say it again. Don’t be a pathological detoxifier. What do I mean by that? Don’t become a person who’s obsessed with detoxing who’ll do one cleanse after another cleanse after another cleanse. Some people I’ve talked to have been cleansing for 10 to 20 years. They go through all these cycles.
And then I say, “How do you feel?” “I feel like crap.” “Hang on a minute. You spent 10 years detoxing. You should feel like the Lord. You should feel like on cloud nine. You should be like… You should be amazing.” “I feel crap. I need another cleanse.” Maybe they need to go to some sort of wacko hippy camp or something. I don’t know. Really, the only people that end up… But I’ve seen ’em. That’s what I’m saying. Don’t become one of these freak shows and they are out there. There’s freaky people that think that life’s all about one cleanser after another. Some people go on endless detoxification regimes. Constant coffee enemas. One patient we had was doing coffee enemas per day for over 10 years. Every single day a coffee enema. When we do the stool test result, guess what we found? Zero beneficial bacteria. And then the guy kept telling me how much he was having die-off. And I said, “Mate, you are going to bloody die-off yourself if you keep worrying about this die-off thing. It’s no laughing matter.”
Here’s what you do. If you’re worried about heavy metals in your body, I would ask you this question if you came to my clinic, what was your occupation up to now? What have you done? What’s your exposure? Have you been scraping lead paint off buildings, burning it off and smelling it in? Were you a jeweler or involved in lots of sodering all the time? Or were you a guy like me who likes doing led lighting, cutting glass and sodering that together and then sniffing all those led fumes up if you’re sodering? Have you worked in printing shops? Are you involved in the agricultural industry distributing fertilizer? In New Zealand we have topdressing planes, planes that fly and they dump fertilizer on fields, NPK fertilizer. And unfortunately, got a lot of cadmium in the fertilizer so these guys often have high cadmium levels. The point I’m making here is once you’ve seen thousands of patients, you start to work out what profession have about the highest toxicity levels. Some of the worst? Road workers. Those poor guys that have to manipulate the asphalt and they’re breathing all that crap in.
So when a person comes to you with an occupation that’s suspect, the first thing you can do is a hair test. There’s two ways you can do a hair test. You can do this stuff. Or you can do that stuff. The pubic hair concentrates toxins better than head hair. People don’t usually get their pubic hair cut every six to eight weeks. Not usually. Well, some people have got none. Well, for different reasons. But yeah. The head hair is good. But the pubic hair must be clearly marked on the envelope. This is pubic hair. And you’ll find, oftentimes, that you may even pick some toxins out of the pubic hair that you didn’t pick up in here. I lost several patients when I requested pubic hair samples, because they thought I was a bit of a wacko. They say. Yeah. There’s a lot of strange people out there. But yeah.
Hair samples need to be taken at the occipital. So at the back of the head and usually, from ear to ear, four or five small samples are taken. Just under. Course, if their hair is dyed, permed, bleached, or colored. It’s not going to work too well. Check the shampoo that you’re using. So my recommendation is to work with only one lab with heavy metal. And it’s Doctor’s Data in Chicago, Illinois. Is Illinois a state? Or is Chicago the state in Illinois though? I don’t know. You’re laughing if you’re an American. But I remember asking people in Los Angeles where New Zealand was. “Isn’t that a part of the UK in England somewhere? New Zealand, that’s in England or in Ireland.” One guy said to me. So yeah, it’s funny, eh?
Anyway, we were talking heavy metal weren’t we? So get the hair test done. Get it back. You’re going to have all the metals at the top and you’re going to have the minerals on the bottom. So you’re going to request a mineral, a heavy metal test, hair test, that involves minerals and metals. So you look at the top and you’re looking for a spike. You’re looking for something that comes right out. Look for mercury. Look at cadmium. Look at arsenic. If an ain’t in their hair, it ain’t likely to be a big problem in the body. So I’ve seen people, many, many people with small amounts of metals and they immediately start wanting to have a massive, full on detoxification. Experienced practitioners who know heavy metal detox fall into two camps. Some doctors I know every single problem is a heavy metal toxicity that requires four or five grands worth of detoxification. So they just push people through that. The cookie cutter protocol.
Others will only detox when they see that the patient really needs detoxification and is actually physically affected by toxins. If I walked out there now in Times Square and I tested a thousand people, I would find 895 or 900 had heavy metal in their body. Observable heavy metal. And out of that 800, 900, I would probably find about 100 with seriously high levels. And I’d find also a large amount with low to normal levels. So not one person walking on this globe today, probably unless you’re in Antarctica or somewhere deep in the Mato Grosso in Amazon, will have heavy metal in their body. You’ve got it watching this. Now you will have selenides like in cadmiums. You’ve got likely heavy metal in your body right now. It could be aluminum. It could be cadmium. It could be arsenic. Everyone’s got it. We’re all breathing in the same air.
But at what level does it become a problem? That’s what I’m saying. There’s 60,000 chemicals plus registered on the CIS the CAS database. How far do you want to go? Why don’t we just test every single chemical in your body and then give you a printout of the 936 chemicals that are found in your body? And let’s just spend 70 grand trying to take 10 of those out. Do you really think it’s going to make your health that much better? While you’re walking around talking on these all day to your girlfriend and frying your brain and drinking water with probably fluoride or in it or what. Think carefully about the heavy metal detox angle. It is a problem and some people absolutely need detoxification. But in many cases the costs and the burden far exceed the return.
So we’re going back to the hair test. So you want your hair test in front of you and you go, “Wow, mercury. Look at the spike on that. It’s really high.” What I want you to do is check which element comes back at its highest and then do a good thorough search online for that element and the health effects that it can potentially produce. And then have a careful look and think about that with what you’ve got. Now many people will say, “I’ve got all of those.” Yeah, but hang on a minute. That could be something else too. It might not be the heavy metal. All right. But if you’re serious and you think, “I’m sick. Is this metal?”
You can go a step further. You can do what’s called a provocation test. So the provocation test will mean you take something orally or intravenously and that provokes the body to dump more metal. But it only works for four metals. The provocation will work for arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury. The four sulfide or the metals that are attracted to sulfur. The four sulfide metals will show up in a provocation. I don’t think you can provocate aluminum from the body or other metals like that. When we’re going into provocation testing, you’re upping the ante. You’re going a step further. I’ve been through all these procedures myself. I didn’t like provocation. I felt physically sick from it. And as one of my PhD buddies explained to me it’s because I was probably magnesium depleted when I went into the provocation test. So when you get down that route, I hope you take a big fat checkbook with you because it’s going to cost you a lot of money. And there’s no guarantee that, after all of this shebang, that you’re going to come out feeling like Alice in Wonderland. There’s no guarantee. So be careful.
But if you said to me, “Eric, I have been involved with metal. I have been involved in agriculture.” Or, “I’m sick since I’ve worked on that job.” And is a clear cut link between the toxins and your health. You’re a fool not to go down that route. But for most average moms and dads at home, they don’t need to spend five or 10 grand on full-on detoxification. I even find it a waste of time, to be quite honest, for people who can go to clinics, stop smoking, and then go on detox programs. I don’t find it very beneficial for those kinds of people either. Think carefully what you’re doing. On a list of symptoms that are very much in line with the toxins and the occupation, it’s probably not going to do that much for you because you can do other detoxifications that that heavy metal that will be probably just as beneficial, if not more.
Going on a good liver detox, for example, a kidney and liver detox. Again, you can read about that in Candida Crusher. It’s all in there. So listen to this again, this video, if you want to get the key points out of it. And let’s just summarize things and wrap things up. Detox of heavy metals is very important and for a small, very small amount of people, it’s critical, but there’s a very high likelihood that you’re not a critical case that requires a five or 10K detox. Think twice before going down the route of the hair testing, provocation testing and more and more and more. Think very carefully about doing multiple rounds. Seven, 10, 15 rounds. And then the doctor getting you back again and again and again. Think carefully. Because it is a lot of money. Someone’s making a lot of money. You’re spending a lot of money. And sometimes you can get carried away. Be very careful. But the hair test is a good starting point. Thanks for tuning in. Subscribe and you’ll get my 17 page candida shopping list.
The question we get from a lot of people, is eating meat necessary for good gut health? So we get this from a lot of our customers, people that work with us. This is a big question for many people that contact me, are vegan or vegetarian. And I like that because I think this is certainly one of the healthiest ways to eat food, I’m not vegan, I’m not vegetarian, and I’m not a meat eater. I’m the whole flipping lot. I eat everything, but all in moderation. Let me show you a picture here I just took before in our pantry, let’s see if I can get this cellphone to work. Here we go. So I’m going to hold this up to the screen. Now, that’s a selection… Is that right? Can you guys see that?
So these are the lentils that we’ve got. For example, you can see mung beans, brown lentils, red lentils, yellow lentils, moth lentils, the black ones, again, are called Urad Dal, black eyed peas, and we have black beans, Chinese black beans. We have got all sorts of different grains and legumes and many, many different things we eat. So I love eating lentils. I think lentils is superb protein, very high fiber, high protein, excellent food.
Do you eat meat? Many do. I eat meat, but I tend to prefer vegetarian sources of protein. But last night we had a beautiful Rogan Josh lamb curry, and it had everything in it. It had ground coriander, ground cumin. I put ground cardamon in there, ginger, garlic, of course, and ginger. What else did we put in there? Yogurt, tomatoes, a couple of cans of tomatoes go in there, so a superb curry, lots of flavors. But that curry could have easily been made also just using vegetables.
But is meat necessarily for gut health? That’s the question. It’s not necessary at all for gut health. I see meat, not less detrimental for gut health, but I don’t see it as advantageous as a non-meat protein diet. I find that people routinely, every time I’ve tested people’s stool, I’ve done bowel testing on meat eaters versus non-meat eaters. You can see a marked difference, particularly in the bowel flora, in the amounts of different types of beneficial flora they have. There’s no doubt about it. No doubt about it. Now, people over tend to eat more plant based foods tend to have a more favorable balance of beneficials balance. I’m not saying they’ve got more or less. Their balance is increased as opposed to just the carnivores or the meat eaters. They’ll still have beneficials, but not to the extent that the plant based diet people do have.
I believe the best is in both camps. If you can eat some of this and some of that, not too much of this, not too much of that, that to me, it makes sense. It’s just like the best medicine is a combination of natural and science. If you say that’s crap, then you need to click off now, okay? If you just believe that science is all bogus and the natural medicine is the best, go away. And if you believe that science-based medicine is the best and natural’s crap, then go away too. The both combination intelligently well positioned, put together, gives you the advantage. Personally, I’m not speaking for you, I feel that the balance is intelligent approach to diet. Small amounts of meat, large amounts of plant based foods. Because you’re going to get a lot of iron in your diet and B12 and many other things in there as well.
A lot of fat soluble vitamins that are hard to get from a vegan diet. No doubt I’m going to get 65 million comments that you can get all these things from vegetarian diets. I’m not arguing that you can, but that Rogan Josh lamb curry I had last night was to die for and I really liked eating it and preferred that. Not just because it smells good, but it tastes amazing and it feels good to eat nice food like that. So the advantage of the meat, as I said, like fish meat in particular, and other animal meats, you’re going to get minerals and vitamins you will find you’re hard pressed to get from a purely a hundred percent vegetarian based diet. But for me, it’s about enjoyment. I really enjoy that curry. I think I enjoyed it more than if it was just a vegetable curry like that. But saying that, we’ve made Korma curries, and coconut vegetable curries that were very, very good.
So the advantage of meat, I don’t think so much for gut health, but I think it supplies nutrients that you can’t get from a purely vegetable based diet. Or you can, but very hard pressed to get them. But the vegetable diet again has got incredible amounts of protein too, and many minerals that are often quite difficult to get again from the meat based diet. So when you look at a Mediterranean diet, it involves small amounts of meat, for example, tomatoes, which today are like taboo, don’t eat them. You’ll die if you eat tomatoes or lectins now, if you still buying into that theory.
What was the question again? Getting old. Is meat necessarily for good gut health? No, it’s not, not at all. In fact, more people eat non-meat diets on this planet than people who do eat meat diets. And the day will come well into the future when all these cows walking on fields, and all these Amazonian things, it’ll all change. My son was telling me, who’s into tech, that they actually culture and grow meat in labs now. So that’s likely going to be the future when all the trees are gone or the land mass is gone, everything’s destroyed, they’ll probably just culture meat for people. And I won’t be here, but you guys may still be. So I hope that gives you a bit of info. Subscribe. And also if you do, you’re likely to get a 17 page candida crusher shopping list.
I’ve written some points down here and going to title this video, the 10 mistakes people make when cooking on a candida diet or candida cleanse. So let’s take it from the top. The first one, not cooking from scratch, using too many pre-made foods with meals, too much processed food goes into cooking like sauces and artificial sugars and crap like that. So when I cook, I tend to get some lentils or some meat or whatever I’m using, and then I’ll have onions and tomatoes and vegetables. I’ll use fresh, fresh, fresh, and then the spices and herbs and the sea salt and things go in. So it’s basically one big chemical concoction of natural food where there’s minimal processed things going in there.
There’s a big tendency today for people to buy sauces and packet foods and cans and bottles, and quickly open something up and throw it in, and that’s the sauce, but there’s no way in the world you could ever come close to making the type of flavors that we can make with the herbs and spices and ginger and garlic and all this stuff. You don’t need to have spice racks like I have, or pantries like I have. You just need basic things. Even with basic things, you can make outstanding meals, but try to get away from cans and bottles and packets, because everything now is pre-made.
Point two, not using any herbs or spices in their cooking. Many people still today don’t use garlic. They still don’t use ginger. They’ll buy powdered stuff. They’ll buy a lot of desiccated garlic if they use it at all, and it tastes like crap, that desiccated stuff. Nothing comes near fresh. Now, I’ve been very much kicked up the butt lately about my recommendations what people do with garlic, because lots of people say, “It’s bad. Don’t eat it, belongs to the underworld, and it’s bad for your health. You’ll get auto immune problems when you eat it,” and another person sent me in a message on YouTube, “Are you crazy? Garlic? Don’t you know it kills off all the good bacteria,” like all these negative comments on garlic. It’s sad that people got this weird malaligned view of one of the most amazing health foods on the planet. It’s weird.
Strong foods obviously drive strong opinions in people, all right. Garlic’s fine, but just be careful of your tummy. When you eat it raw it can really play out. I don’t think I’ve got a photo of my spice rack on my phone, but I’m not going to go through my pictures now, but I’ve taken a photo, so we’ve got a spice rack with about 50 different spices and different dried herbs on there, which we regularly use in cooking. It makes all the difference. All right. Point number three, becoming too anal about carbs. Okay. This is another mistake on a candida diet, is trying to take every carb out of the diet, thinking that everything that’s carbohydrate drives yeast up. It’s not true. It’s not true. You need to experience for yourself what a particular carb does in your tummy, and I’m not talking white sugar. I’m not talking cheeseburgers from McDonald’s.
I’m not talking that kind of crap. I’m talking sweet potatoes, even. People avoid them. People avoid carrots even, on candida diet, thinking they flare the gut up. Look, any food can flare the gut up. Even proteins can flare up the gut. It all depends on the state of your microbiome at the time. I’ve said this so many times, so your guts evolving and constantly changing, and as it changes and it evolves, it can either go up or down. It can evolve for the bad if you’re going to live a junk food lifestyle. It can evolve for the good, if you’re living a healthy lifestyle. So depending on which way it goes, your gut will reward you appropriately. So getting anal about carbs, we’ve talked a lot about that on other videos about how you should not get so ridiculously fussy about every little carbohydrates that goes in your mouth.
Number four, changing the diet too rapidly. This is another common mistake many people make. They’ll have a very average diet or a crappy diet, and all of a sudden they go, the following day, they go on this amazing regime and the gut doesn’t like it. It starts playing up and throwing symptoms your way, because you did it too rapidly. You don’t go from being someone, a couch potato with a remote control, and the following day, you’re not going to do 400 sit ups at the gym, because you’re probably going to feel pretty crappy. You’ve got to slowly ease into things.
Point number five, not making your new dietary regime for life. Only thinking you can do it for a few months and get out of the bad spot, and then going back to what you were doing, doesn’t work because you’ll be like a lot of people I’ve seen. You’re basically be able to merry go round. Good diet, bad diet, good diet, bad diet, good diet, bad diet. Why don’t you stay on the good flipping diet? You won’t have to go back and do cleanses and all this junk again.
Six, having cheat days. I’ve seen several websites just before where they say, “Well, if you were good food for six days, you can have a bowl of ice cream on day seven.” Yeah, right, okay. It doesn’t work like that. It don’t work like that. You can go out and be a nice person on the streets, but on day seven you can punch a few heads in and put some graffiti up and get away with it. It doesn’t work. You got to be nice all the time. Someone’s going to be ratting on you. Watch out.
Point number seven, not taking any supplements or not taking the right supplements. Supplements are really good adjunct to a candida diet. When taken at the appropriate time and the right dosage, they can accelerate your recovery incredibly. So by not taking any, or taking tons of cheap, crappy things, it can work against you.
Point number, where are we? Point number eight, foregoing at healthy lifestyle and only looking at the diet. So some people have this, again, belief that food is everything, but you can stay up until four o’clock in the morning watching Netflix, but as long as you eat good food. Doesn’t work like that. You need to get to bed. You need to get some sleep. You need to stop fighting with your partner. These things make a big difference, if you get my point.
Number nine, not buying fresh produce regularly, is having too much stale, old stuff in the refrigerator or pantry, so many people will buy a piece of broccoli on a Monday and then seven or eight days later, they’ll cut a piece off and eat it, and it’s all floppy and crappy and “phew.” Everyday fresh. This is why we grow food ourselves, because we like fresh everyday. If you can’t grow like me, you can buy two or three times a week, small amounts to keep your produce fresh. Don’t eat stale stuff. Doesn’t work too well. It also doesn’t taste good, and if it doesn’t taste good, and doesn’t work well, well, you’re probably going to go back to junk again, because that tastes better.
Last one, foregoing regular testing to see where you’re at. I’m a big fan of regular stool testing or hair testing, but particularly stool testing to see where your microbiome is, where the bowel is at that point in time, because it’ll be a reflection of what goes in here. So eating properly, the beneficial count will go up and you’ll see that. You’ll go from a one or a two plus count up to a three or four plus count. It means you’re being a good boy or a good girl. You’re doing the right thing, and that will be affirmed in terms of how you feel. A big, big change will happen when the bowel flora improve, but also conversely, if you’ve been a bad boy or girl, you’ll see it also in the stool test.
So I hope that gives you a bit of info on my 10 sort of points on mistakes people make when it comes to cleansing or dieting candida. Subscribe, and also don’t forget when you do, you’ll get my 17 page diet sheet, the candida diet list, good for going shopping with.
Here is a good question, should I avoid eating in restaurants while I’m recovering from a candida problem? You could also say, should I avoid restaurants if I’m recovering from SIBO, small intestinal bowel issues? Should I avoid restaurants if I’m trying to recover from irritable bowel syndrome or inflammatory bowel disease or any type of gut problem?
So let’s talk about that. The interesting thing with eating in restaurants is there’s such a wide selection. When you go out with friends, when you go out with family, because I take it, you’re not the kind of person who dines alone. I dined a lot, alone, when I was in the States. When I could go to the States, traveling there and visiting a lot of my friends and going to conferences, going to raw material shows, expos and things like that, I would often dine alone. I’ll tell you about that another time, because those experiences are hilarious. Some of the stuff that I encountered that was supposed to be healthy, it was like pet food. Some of the places I went to it was crazy. But anyway, should you go to a restaurant and eat if you’re trying to get better? You can, okay? But it’s dangerous, it’s dangerous to do that.
Now, the reason why I’m saying it’s dangerous, because it depends really, I suppose, how bad the problem is that you’ve got and also how far in your recovery cycle you are. But there’s always that danger, that hidden danger, that you may want to order a dessert, you may want to get some sweets after. You may want to have a glass of wine or a beer with that meal, you may want to have something that could really cause a problem the following day. I could also entitle this video for example, I could easily entitle this video, should I go to my best friend’s wedding if I’m recovering from candida? Should I go on my nice vacation to The Bahamas with my wife or my husband or whatever, my boyfriend or girlfriend, if I’m recovering?
When you’re recovering, it generally means that you’re starting to feel better. You’re improving, your gut’s improving, all right? I don’t like people eating out, to be honest, if they’re recovering from a problem, because it’s so tempting to make the wrong call. It’s so tempting for a friend to say, “Ah, come on, you’re looking really good, to hell with it, have this nice glass of red wine or have this nice cold beer.” And you may think, “Oh, well, I’ll throw caution to the wind, I’ll have that.” And then the following day, kaboom, you have a reaction. You have an aggravation, your skin flares up, your bowel flares up, and you feel annoyed. You feel annoyed with yourself. You feel you’ve let yourself down. You kick yourself up to the butt, all right?
What I don’t like about it, not so much the physical aspects of the aggravation, it’s the emotional aspects of the aggravation. Many people who are recovering, starting to feel good about their life, they’re starting to feel happy, they’re enjoying life again. Then all of a sudden, boom, there’s a bit of headwind, okay? Now, for some people that could have been the second or third time that happened. For some people it could be the first, but the point I’m making is it stresses you out. It can cause you emotional stress and that can make you really worry about recovery, if it’s actually going to be a real event or a non-event.
The more caution you have in the first few months of recovery, the more likelihood that you recover faster, and also you’ll be continually in a more upbeat mood, which means your stress will be down. Your internal stresses will be down, which will accelerate your recovery. On the flip side, if you went out once or twice or regularly in recovery phase, and started to get these headwinds, particularly emotional headwinds, exacerbated by physical problems, it can set you back. And in some cases it could set you right back, right back.
So to answer the question, it depends on you. It depends how bad the tummy is, it depends on what part of the recovery cycle you are. But more importantly, it depends how strong you are as a person in terms of saying, “Look, no thank you, I don’t want that,” without offending other people. Now me being the guy I am, I don’t usually offend people, I just annoy the hell out of them at the dinner table and say, “Nah, I don’t want that stuff.” If I go out eating with my four brothers it’s usually mayhem. There can be bits of food thrown around the table, and if we get those lazy susans, we’ll spin them around quick and there’d be source bottles flying off, and we have a lot of fun when we go out eating.
To me, life should be about fun, it shouldn’t be about stress, but it should also not be about embarrassment. It shouldn’t be about feeling bad and that you’ve let your friend down because you wouldn’t have that piece of pizza, or you let your best buddy down because you said, “No, I don’t want that cold beer.” Don’t feel bad about saying no to people, okay? Don’t feel bad. Feel bad about saying yes to yourself all the time, because that’s how you’re going to cause yourself a problem. Discipline is the tough thing in recovery phase. I’ve written so much about this in Candida Crusher.
In fact, some people told me, “The book’s too wordy,” and I’ve put too many stories in there about recovery with people and about positive thinking. But you know what? Recovery is about positive thinking. It’s about feeling good about yourself, empowering yourself to believe that one day you’re going to be a hundred percent. Because remember, I was extremely sick in my twenties. Now I’m way better than I’ve ever been. You can fully, fully recover in most cases. What holds most people back is their ability to say, “Sorry, I don’t really feel like that today.” So you need to be tough on yourself in the recovery phase, very tough. And as you recover more and more and more, it’ll become easier and easier for you to say, “Look,” and you know what? Eventually, like me, it could become a lifelong thing where you will say to yourself mentally, “I don’t really want to eat out like that.”
In fact, we had friends turn up last night, they just turned up, it happens sometimes. I was in the middle of cooking a nice big vegetable curry, and my friend said, “Look, let’s just go out and get some deep fried potato chips and some fish.” I was tempted but I said, “Nah, I’ve got way better stuff here to eat at home than that.” So it’s all about enjoying your meals, enjoying or hopefully preparing nice meals for yourself in a good environment. It doesn’t have to be expensive meal. But as you recover more, you’ll find it’ll be easier and easier to say no. And then when you’re really healthy again, you can dip back into those restaurants, no problem. And then you’ll quickly work out, what’s going to feel good and what’s not going to feel good. So my advice is to take it very, very easy in those first several months and maybe relax things a bit more, but don’t be afraid to put up your hand and say, “No thank you.”
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