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5 Mistakes Naturopaths Make When Treating Candida

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Channel: CanXida · 2017 · Education

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This video is not designed to ridicule or to be condescending towards naturopathic physicians. It was made to point up the common mistakes I've found with naturopathic work when treating patients who have been going from one practitioner to another while still having to deal with their health problems, often unresolved health problems - for many years.

Today we're going to talk about five classic mistakes that many naturopaths make when treating a person with a Candida problem. Notice how the title doesn't say ìdoctorsî. It says ìnaturopathsî. That's because doctors don't even recognize a Candida problem, which is quite sad because there's plenty of scientific literature validating the work I've been doing now for a long, long time. Maybe one day.

Let's look at the five things. Not testing and making assumptions. My dad always used to say to me, ìIf you assume, you make an ass out of you and me.î You're assuming. Never make assumptions. If you've been sick for a long time, I highly recommend comprehensive digestive stool analysis either through a Genova Diagnostics Lab or Doctor's Data Lab in Chicago, Illinois.

Making assumption is a bad idea. I can absolutely say with 100 percent clarity that over half the people I see who swear they've got Candida, in fact, they've got no Candida at all. They may have a complete lack of beneficial bacteria that couldn't even be cultured in the stool test. They may have one or more parasites. They're showing up in the parasitology screen. They may have multiple kinds of dysbiotic flora, like Citrobacter freundii, like pseudomonas. There could be bad bacteria there in high amounts. Very common for me to find people with a lack of beneficial bacteria. 

Everything else in order, but they had no growth of lactobacillus, bifida bacteria. If you can't even culture beneficial bacteria in a stool test, you've got a big problem on your hands. Many people in this realm often have fatigue, anxiety, depression and they feel very bad. They've got sugar cravings. They feel really, really poorly in many ways and they swear they've got Candida until they do the stool test. It's a very smart idea to do a comprehensive stool test if you've been sick for a while and you want to get to the bottom of your problem. Anybody who throws a bunch of supplements at you and then it doesn't work and then you go to another practitioner and they do the same thing, you need to start thinking about testing. It's a very clever idea. 

Number two. Diet focused and not wellness centered. Too many naturopaths focus on diet, diet, diet. I put this to lack of clinical experience mainly. Coming up next year will be my 32nd year of practice. Not many naturopaths make it to 30 years let alone 20 years. A lot of them that I qualified with have long quit their job and they're doing other kinds of work. When you've seen the number of patients I have over the years and completed 4,000 or more stool tests, you start to understand a lot of patterns with people. You start to understand that it's a lot more than just diet that people need to get better. Many people need to address their lifestyle, which I'll talk a bit later on in point number five. There will be an obstacle. There will be something there that's not quite right and that needs changing.

One thing you'll read time and again in my book, I wrote Einstein's quote: ìThe definition of insanity, doing the same stuff all the time and expecting a different outcome.î You may be eating the best food under the sun and you're still not getting better? What are you going to do? Eat better food? Change the kind of food you're eating? You think that's going to make any difference? You're missing the point. 

Something else needs changing. You may need to see a practitioner who addresses an obstacle you're currently not looking at. Maybe you've got a pair of these on that need changing. You need to look through different types of glasses if you get my point. 

Number three. One trick ponies. One trick ponies, by that I mean, your practitioner may just say, ìI'm a Candida expert.î But every time a person comes to that practitioner, everything will be assumed to be Candida without even testing. ìWhat? You've got an itchy scalp? Must be a yeast infection.î Think about it. You're tired. Must be a yeast infection. If everything is a nail to them with Candida, then the only solution is going to be the hammer for that nail. You may need to go to someone with a lot more clinical experience who doesn't just see everything as a Candida problem. 

Number four. Poor choice of supplementation. Many people take the wrong kind of supplements. They take too many things or they don't take supplements that are appropriate to their needs.

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