I’m not sure if I put a best of list together, but I made some points here, and I’m just going to expand on these. So this is what I think are the best antioxidant foods that you can possibly eat. We eat all have these foods. In fact, we grow most of these foods too, and our garden. It’s incredible, if you can. We don’t grow fish, of course, but you get my point. So it is undeniable that there are foods that are good for you, and some foods are better, and some foods are best, and some are just top of the list. So I think these are some of the best foods you can eat, the top ones. Some of them cost, some of them don’t cost. Some are really cheap.
So it doesn’t always necessarily mean that you got to lay down lots and lots of money to get these kinds of foods into your diet. So I’ve looked at lots of different foods, but it’s interesting when you look at the three big groups here, the purple and red foods, the deep green foods, and also the orange and yellow foods. So the brightly colored ones often are very good. Berries and grapes, for example, especially blueberries and the purple grapes fall into that category. What about purple lettuce? Purple lettuce also contains very specific antioxidants in there that you’ll only find in purple or blue colored produce. So when you buy lettuce, see if you can buy the purple ones or the sort of bluey colored ones. Same with carrots, you can actually get purple carrots. So they tend to have just under the skin, the highest antioxidant level. So don’t peel carrots, just scrub them, because you’re going to get more goodness that way.
So yeah, dark chocolate of course, very, very high. But we’re talking one square per day. We’re not talking a family block per day. Okay? Dark chocolates are a very rich source of antioxidants, especially the high cocoa, if you can get a good 70, 80% cocoa one.
Avocados, of course, the deep green or green. Superb. We gave almost 200 avocados away to neighbors all around us, during the COVID, during the lockdown period. In New Zealand, we were locked down for, I think, for what six weeks, four weeks? And my tree was lathen with avocados, so of course, we couldn’t do anything with them, apart from eat them ourselves and hand them out to everyone around, which is a wonderful thing to do. Super, super healthy in 40% plant based fats, but again, lots of plant sterols in there, but also lots of minerals in there and antioxidants, in particular. So very good food to eat.
Kale, one of the best you can eat. Though remember, don’t eat kale raw. You need to cook it, okay, to denature, specific things in it that could cause problems with thyroid. Many people still have raw kale in their smoothies, which is not a really fantastic idea to do. There was recently some sports star, I think, in the news that had far too much raw spinach drinks and ended up with kidney stones with oxalate problem. So you can’t drink raw spinach every day. It’s a dumb thing to do. Small amounts, steamed, you get no fiber in juices. You should eat the vegetable whole, not just squeeze everything out of it and keep drinking that. It’s too nutrient dense. All right?
Orange foods, sweet potato. We call them kumara in New Zealand. So you’ve got the dark purple-y colored one. And then you’ve got the goldie sort of orangy colored one. They’re both superb. Very high in fiber, very high in flavonoids again, but also vitamin A, beta carotene. Super food to eat is a sweet potato. You could live just on sweet potatoes alone, with a little bit of fish or some legumes, or it’s such a healthy one to eat.
Nuts, multiple nuts out there that you can eat, healthy ones. We grow, we got two almond trees in the yard, so we like eating fresh almonds. You’ve got no idea what fresh almond tastes like, compared to one of those dried out crappy things that you get from the shop. But yeah, nuts. Brazils and almonds, in particular, are my favorites. Plenty of minerals, plenty of flavonoids, excellent food to eat.
Fish, superb high antioxidants, again. Many different antioxidants in fish, many different fat soluble vitamins you’ll be hard pressed to getting another kind of foods. Anchovies, very nice. Sardines, excellent to eat.
What else can we talk about? Whole grains, very malaligned, but many, many different grains out there still that are good to eat. Remember moderation, quality and moderation is what you’re looking for.
So that’s my list on antioxidant foods, now which I think are great to have in your diet. Don’t forget to subscribe. You’ll get my 17-page Candida shopping list, and there’s lots of different antioxidant choices on that.
How can you analyze your stool test result? Is it possible to look at a comprehensive stool analysis from say doctor’s data in Chicago or maybe from Genova Diagnostics? Or it could be any other stool test that you’re looking at. Particularly from the better companies. How do you go about analyzing this information and working it out? Well, it’s not that easy. It’s a difficult one. People often ask me how they can do it. It’s not a paint by numbers thing. You can’t just see, wow, my beneficial bacteria are down. Let’s just take a pile of those and see what happens.
You know paint by numbers? You got a little horse on a paddock, number two is brown, number three is blue. Doesn’t work like that. It don’t work like that. A lot of caution is required, really. You need to take a lot of care when you’re doing this. One of the difficulties with stool testing is the complexity of the information. Because you’ll get overwhelmed by all these names and numbers. And to me, that’s like saying, “How can I repair my own V6 motor fuel injectors and make them better?” Or, “I want to repair a parachute. Can you show me how to repair it?” You can do it, but it could be a little bit suspect. Many people do analyze stool test results themselves at home. And they’re particularly looking for pathogens, they’ll be looking for parasites, looking for high levels of bad bacteria. And then they will go straightaway to the panels, what we call the susceptibility panels, or what actually helps to kill those bugs, the pharmaceutical agents and the natural agents.
People will often jump straight to those and just take, for example, oregano or garlic or whatever it is that’s indicated. That’s not a bad way to start, especially if you take it really easy and go very, very, very cautiously with taking a supplement like that. But the problem lies in, you won’t have a clue on how much to take of something and how long to take it for and then went to stop it and when to start another treatment. That’s why it’s really best that you work with somebody who can guide you through that process. Because it’s not a simple thing to do. Our clinics completed over 3,000 stool tests so we’ve got a reasonable level of experience with it. And the best information I can give you, if you’re very, very interested in doing it yourself, is to talk to someone from the laboratory first, even a technician from the lab and ask, “Well, how do I prep myself? How do I prepare myself for it?”
Because some tests have got different ways of preparation. And then guide yourself through a preparation process for several days before you do the test. For example, if you’ve taken antibiotics on a Friday, there’s no point taking a stool sample on a Sunday or Monday is there? You need to really understand these principles. But don’t change your diet. Whatever you’re eating, don’t all of a sudden go on a brand new diet, just because you’re doing a stool test. You stick with the original diet. If you’re taking medications, you really need to let the lab know that on the form, what you’re taking. Particularly if they’re gut kind of medicines. And oftentimes you won’t get a great outcome with a test result if you’re taking pharmaceutical drugs anyway.
The two key things that you look at will be the beneficial bacteria and also the imbalanced flora. What’s out of kilter? If you’re going to go for a complicated stool test like the GI360, I think that’s way out of most people’s scope. That would be like me getting an average person and giving them a clinical study or a meta analysis involving 50 studies and saying, “Just give me the really good analysis of this paper, please.” Most people look at it and tell, “What the hell is all this? All these words, I’ve got no idea what this is.” Just not the right kind of thing to do. There are professional people out there that will guide you through it. But unfortunately they are few and far between. I’ve met too many practitioners who tell you they know about stool testing, but they use it sort of a little bit of an advanced paint by number system.
If you’re going to do the test, one’s never enough. You need to do one upfront, you need to do some type of treatment cycle and generally you’re going to wait three to six months. You’re going to repeat that stool test result and then see what the outcome is. Of course, with all medicines, usually anything for seven or 10 days, do it again, repeat it. And then you may want to wait a year or so and repeat it again. Now you’ve got a nice analysis here of several tests and you can actually see what’s been happening.
And if you’re intelligent, you’ll actually also document any medicines you’re taking or supplements and your diet through that process so you can see what worked and what didn’t work. It’s all about cause and effect. There’s no point doing a test if you’re not going to really understand the process of elimination in taking things out of your diet or your life, doing a treatment phase and then having a phase where the body is going to work with that treatment, then you’re going to repeat the test to see, to validate what we call the clinical efficacy of the test.
What I’m trying to say is, was a test worth it? Did you actually get off your butt and do something to improve the outcome for the following test? Or did you do nothing and pop a few pills and expect to be amazing within a month? The test is a very smart way to guide you through a process of improving your gut to the point where you don’t need to test anymore. It takes time, it takes money, it takes commitment and a good understanding. And that’s why it’s good to work with somebody else who’s on your side. If you can’t do it yourself, which in my opinion, 95% of people can’t, and it’s not your fault. You didn’t spend several years at medical school and learn microbiology. Don’t blame yourself for it. It’s complicated. It took me years to get a handle on stool tests.
And even now I’m still an amateur at it compared to some people out there. But there’s a big difference between an academic and a clinician. They’re two different animals altogether. I’ve got very dear academic friends in the States, microbiologists at a high level that loves studies, but these buggers have never spent one day in a clinic. They’ve just studied bugs, basically all their lives in Petri dishes and microscopes. They’re very far removed from a guy like me who’s on the front line, working with the problems. Big difference. It’s a little bit like the guy in the office in the White House and then the soldier there with the AK47 with the bad guys. There’s a huge, big gap between them.
Contact the lab. If you live in the States, for example, contact the lab and say, “Hey, I’m looking for someone who is pretty good in, and I live in Wisconsin.” Or I live in Philadelphia. Or I live in, I don’t know, I don’t know many places in America, Idaho, is there a good practitioner here? And they’ll point you to that. That’s to me, that’s the smartest thing you can do is go to someone who’s got a skillset because it’s going to save you a lot of time and a lot of money and a lot of misery. I’ve had some patients who did try and work with the test results on their own back, trying to use the results and the outcome wasn’t really good in a few cases. It was quite bad. Person created more problems that other practitioners had to solve for them. It’s a bit like your car, it’s not really good to work on that V6 by yourself, is it? And then you end up stuffing it up and then a mechanic’s got to fix it all up for you and charge you more money. Think about it.
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It’s a very, very big problem in the states, particularly. It’s bad in hospitals. So many people, I think it’s now up to 20,000 people die per year from C-Diff. And most C-Diff comes from flipping antibiotics. So people are given an antibiotic, it wipes out their gut, then they touch a surface or get infected with C-Diff, this bacteria, and then it causes a problem, a really big problem. And then of course they can’t get rid of the C-Diff. So what the heck are they going to do?
Most of these infections occur in people over 65, I think like 80 to 90% of mortality from C-Diff. A bit like COVID-19, it seems to be the older population seems to get hit particularly bad with it. There’s an interesting paper I read, there are many papers you can look at online. And in fact, they’re starting to now talk about natural and novel, new, herbal regimes that may have a promising future, they say. When people like me have been using herbal medicines now for many, many years, for all kinds of bugs, including C-Diff issues.
So there are different types of Clostridiums, of course, that live, but Clostridium Difficile infection can cause huge problems with people’s colons. So what are you going to do? How do you get on top of this problem? Probiotics, are very, very clever to do. Usually what I do when I have a C-Diff patient, the first thing I do is determine how bad the C-Diff is through stool testing. We can actually see it. And we look carefully at the case to see how long the person’s had it for. When did they come out of hospital? How did they get the disease? Particularly the cause is the important thing. And you’ll find in most cases it was from antibiotics.
So microbial or fecal microbial transplant, FMT, definitely is promising for seriously bad C-Diff cases. Some people have tried everything and nothing works. I do know of a few cases that have been very successfully treated of C-Diff with FMT, fecal microbial transplant. So that’s something that your insurance company may talk to you about, or you may talk to your insurance company about it, because it’s worth doing. It’s not cheap. It’s about 20 grand to do the FMT. It certainly has a very, very good effect on many C-Diff cases. In fact, it’s probably the only time I would recommend FMT, would be with C-Diff, because I have not seen FMT successful with any other kind of treatment, personally. I know many patients of ours that have undergone, in the past, fecal microbial transplant that had no success at all. Initially they felt good for a few months, but then they went back to square one.
You won’t have that with C-Diff so much, especially if probiotics are put it. So lactobacillus probiotics, there are various strains that are showing promise, but it’s the strain is not as important as the fact that it’s lactobacillus. If I had C-Diff, I’d be looking at probiotics and enzymes. I’d be taking them three times a day and also slowly introducing perhaps yogurt into the diet and other culture foods like that, to slowly, slowly turn the gun right around.
How you’re going to get rid of C-Diff is through persistence, is through regular testing and also seriously considering fecal microbial transplant, probiotics, and also looking at a product, I’m not trying to sell my product at all, but I will recommend it. Canxida Remove has been successful with C-Diff, not all cases, but I’ve certainly helped several people in the states overcome C-Diff by encouraging to go for FMT and then put probiotics on top of that and then regularly take the Canxida Remove product, which is that novel herbal thing that they talk about in the studies.
There are many different herbs that work for Clostridium. Medical doctors will never talk about these herbs, of course, because it’s all antibiotics, antibiotics, antibiotics, but that’s what got you there in the first place. Some specialists actually even encourage more antibiotics on top of C-Diff. And to me that’s just stupidity, putting more poison back in the body that got you there in the first place.
Make sure stool testing becomes part of your future, if you’ve got C-Diff, because you want to look at counts. Not just C-Diff, but you also want to see where your beneficial bacteria are. So I cannot recommend highly enough to have a comprehensive stool analysis done. Remember not just to look at that Diff, but also to look at the whole balance of the bacteria, in that colon, because you really want to know what’s going on there. What are the levels of bacteria in there? The highest bacterial concentration in the gut is in the large intestine. And that’s what we want to really analyze with stool testing, to determine where the balance lies and then that will help you a lot.
When you sit down with your practitioner, you can discuss the problem and then he or she can say, “Well look, Mr. Smith, I think this is a really clever thing for you to do. You need to eat more of these foods.” And look at some of the best foods to eat for the bowel, for the gut in general. There are plenty of diet videos on this channel that can show you. There’s also videos on fermented and cultured foods. There’s videos on the dangers of kefir, water-based kefir, which many people end up really sick with. I discuss all those things on this channel.
But just letting you know, you can recover from C-Diff in many cases, of course, depending on age and complexity of the presentation of the case. Younger people respond faster than older people, but just be wary of antibiotics going forward. If you’ve had C-Diff from hospital, particularly, my recommendation is to be really, really careful about ever going on to antibiotics again. Preferably not go on them in the first place, because then you’re likely may not have had the C-Diff. All right.
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I get so many questions about recovery, it’s crazy. Lots of people that have contacted me for so many years now, saying, “How do I know I’m getting better? What are the signs I look for? When can I introduce certain types of foods back in my diet? Is there a schedule to follow? Is there any specific protocol or things like that?” It doesn’t work like that, okay. It doesn’t work like that.
Everybody today wants everything so regimented, and everything perfectly in line, and everything boom, boom, boom, it all happens within 10 minutes, everything’s done. The body doesn’t work like that. It never has. It never will, okay. Where’s that bloody cell phone I got? These stupid things, in my opinion, are ruining so much with people, because I was at a friend’s place the other day, mentioning something about health, and then the wife is straight onto Google to see if what I’m saying is factual or not. So I get sick of this Google crap. I really do.
So much important information will not be found on the internet, will not be found in studies, or not be found anywhere on Google. So much is lost already, unfortunately. You may find that hard to believe, but talking to someone like me, who is here, I was, what, nearly 40 years old when Google came along, but so much knowledge I picked up from so many people over many, many years that was never online. It was what we call empirical observation. People learn things by dealing with people, not so much dealing with computers and robots and crap like that, and Instagram all the time, and Twitter and that. People learned by talking to people and experiencing things. It was a different world.
So, anyway, that’s enough of my rant. But what should you look out for? What are the signs, okay. We’ve talked about this quite a lot, about wellbeing signs, about better sleep, about better libido, about just feeling more optimistic and positive about yourself, about less bodily sensations, about better bowel function, nicer skin. All those things are signs that you’re picking up, okay, that you’re picking up on that you’re getting better.
But here’s the thing; don’t always look at the primary complaint, and that’s what most people do. If they go to a naturopath or a doctor, they’ll have a big problem and they’ll have some smaller problems. So the big problem is what they want to go away. So naturally, as they recover, that’s what they expect to be gone, like the first thing that’s gone. So people almost have this fallacious, bizarre belief that almost like you’ve got buttons on your body. Bowel problem; flick, that’s off. Headaches; we’ll turn that knob down a bit with this pill. Hang on, I’ve got knee pain. Let me just flick that switch right off over here with this drug, or this herb, or whatever. It doesn’t work like that, okay.
When the body recovers, all sorts of sensations are produced, which some medical people almost see as symptoms that need drugs, that need treating by drugs, okay. Naturopaths like me, with experience, see recovery with people all the time, and we know about aggravations, they’re quite common, okay. People commonly call these die-off reactions and all sorts of crappy, stupid names like that. But recovery is normal.
If you fall off a bicycle and hurt your knee really bad, you can take anti-inflams, sure, okay. Or you can take, like I did when I had a bad motorcycle accident, you can wrap your leg in a ginger poultice like I did. The doctors were freaking out. I didn’t get blood clots and die like they thought, and within six to eight weeks, I was back in the gym again. Now, I couldn’t walk six to eight weeks prior.
Natural medicine has got answers for everything but medicine is quick to block out all this kind of information to people. How did I know my leg was recovering when it was really, really beat up bad, okay? I knew it was recovering because I could feel it getting nice and hot and warm with the ginger, and lots of small, sharp, shooting and darting pains in the muscle, in the ligament. You could feel as the body’s recovering.
In my opinion, taking pharmaceutical drugs constantly over that period would have hindered my recovery because it would have made me falsely believe I could get up and walk around when I should be lying on my butt, in the bed, taking it easy to allow that tissue to heal. That’s what I did, and that’s what allowed me to heal faster, okay.
So what’s that got to do with what I’m saying? I’m trying to discourage you from looking at medicines, whether they’re natural or pharmaceutical, to push symptoms down as you’re recovering. It’s not a good idea. Try to let your body go on autopilot. If it’s guided by good food, lots of rest, and maybe some supplements that are indicated, you will notice recovery in almost a linear fashion. Recovery will be hindered by your inability to understand recovery. I’ll say it again. Your recovery will be hindered by your inability to understand the recovery cycle of the body.
As the body’s repairing bowel tissue or cells around the body, all sorts of reactions can occur, particularly in the gut. You could notice more bloating, more farting, weird motions for a period of time. Try and ride through these things. Try and ride through the noise, okay, because recovery is going up. But remember, there’s lots and lots of turbulence and noise in between.
Relationships are the same. Nothing ever works smoothly, okay. And relationships are the same. What are signs of a relationship recovery if they’re bad? You’re feeling better about that person. That person is feeling better about you. That person’s being more demonstrative towards you. You can feel this, and you should be able to feel a similar thing with healing, okay. A similar thing. You should start feeling better about yourself, better about other people that you were beating up on. Maybe last week, you were really pissed with somebody because your back was hurting or your bowel was hurting, so you were snapping at someone. When you become less snappy, when you become a little bit nicer to be around, that’s a huge sign of recovery because you’re feeling better internally. That’s a sign to look for, okay.
Ask people, good, dear friends and family, to keep an eye on you and also from time to time give you a little bit of feedback on how they see your recovery. And when you do recover, you’ll notice a lot of things, okay. Your increasing ability to engage with other people in a nicer manner, that’s a big one. Your ability to expand your diet without aggravations. Okay, the scope of your wellness will really increase. That’s just what I mentioned before. Sleep. Energy. Look for the key indicators, okay.
How much power have you got when you get up in the morning? How well do you sleep at night, without tossing and turning? Key things. What’s your appetite like? Are you losing too much weight? Are you gaining too much weight? What’s the power in your body like, the vital force? That’ll express itself on multiple levels, all right.
Okay, so it’s probably a little bit … To give you an analogy, to me, it’d be like a power tool I was using a few days ago. I was sanding something back and I’ve got a cordless tool. Now, I’m using that tool, but I noticed that it’s great at the beginning, but the performance was slightly dropping off, and dropping off a little bit more, and I could see it and I could feel the performance was dropping off, and I thought, “That’s it. I’m going to stop.” Put a new battery in, wham, full power again. This tool’s working.
The body is very similar, okay, the power will drop off. That’s a sign, also, of recovery in the initial phases. As the body’s cleaning up, power is going to come down. You’ll feel crappy, you’ll feel tired, and you might have bad breath and things like this. And then slowly, slowly, slowly, the body will generate more of that vital force. The energy will come up. The wellbeing will improve. The power tool is starting to work a little bit better now. So look for the indicators, okay the classic indicators.
People will tell you more about you often than you’ll be afraid to admit to yourself, particularly very close friends who see you regularly. When they start seeing you in the wellbeing phase and in a sharp recovery phase, they’ll say, “Wow, you’re looking great today,” especially if they’re honest people. Whereas maybe a month prior, they could’ve said, “You’re looking a bit tired. You don’t really look happy. What’s up today?” And you’ll say, “Yeah, well, my gut’s playing up and my bowel’s not working.”
But you’re not going to look really upbeat when everything’s working better, are you? You’re going to feel better, you’re going to look better, you’re going to act better, and you’re going to think better, and all of those things will speed up recovery. And the pharmaceutical drugs? Well, they’re just bandaids that stop the symptoms. As soon as you stop that drug, symptom comes back and you feel like crap again. It’s your call, basically.
So when do you know you can put foods back into your diet again? Common sense, isn’t it? I mean, think about the crappy foods you were eating, perhaps, that led you to the point where you had to take action. There’s no point putting crappy foods back in the diet, any more than there’s no point using a shitty, crappy power tool with a $2 battery. You get what you pay for in life. You get quality food, could even be cheap organic carrots for all I care. It doesn’t have to cost a lot of money to buy good food.
So I hope you got something out of this, all right. Just a little bit of information out of this video to sort of make you feel that you can recover and the foods can come back in slowly, slowly, slowly as your gut improves. I’ve made several videos on how to put foods back in, in terms of their importance. What are the important foods to put back in at the beginning, and then slowly, slowly as you improve, you can put more back in. But be very careful in the initial stages.
It’s like a business. The initial stages, there’s cashflow problems, there’s major hassles with business, and most businesses tip over within a few years. Health recovery is like that, too. As the business improves and it starts getting on a roll, it just gets bigger, it snowballs, it’s a massive company that’s got tons of money coming in. Health’s the same, okay.
It’s snowballs slowly, and all of a sudden you’ve got a massive amount of good health and you’ve got a buffer there, like cash, i.e. good health, to play with, meaning that if you want to have some wine or some parties or drink some … eat some crappy food, you’ll get away with it, to a point. And then, of course, you should pull your head in and bounce back, but you can do a lot when you’re healthy. You can’t do much when you’re sick.
Should you just take one dose of CanXida per day when you’re fasting with a meal? It’s up to you. I can’t see the benefit to be honest. The CanXida Restore, I think will work very well when you’re fasting, just one capsule per day, because it will really add to improving digestion and bowel flora, but CanXida Remove, I don’t really see the benefit in that when you’re fasting, I would prefer that your body goes into a fasting mode. And I can’t remember the complicated word. Is it auto fangle or auto something? So the body goes into a cleansing mode. So, when you’re putting the Remove in tight on top of that cleansing mode that could impair it or hinder it. I don’t see it as a benefit on the days you’re fasting.
On the days you’re not fasting, I see it as an advantage. The probiotic enzyme product, which is this one, would be an advantage on the fasting days, or there’s this one. Some people get away with it and actually have told me they feel better on it. But I would probably err on the side of caution and look at CanXida Remove away from that. The CanXida Rebuild shouldn’t be a problem on fasting days. That’s the multivitamin. So, that’s it. Thanks for tuning in. Become a subscriber and don’t forget, you’ll get my free 17-page candida shopping list.