Does Eating Yeast Really Cause Yeast Infections or Candida Infections? - Dr. Berg

What is the yeast myth, and what should you do about yeast infections? Watch this video to find out.

hey Dr Burg here in this video we’re going to talk about a myth that you probably heard that if you eat yeast you’re going to get yeast or people tend to avoid uh eating mushrooms because they have toenail fungus or they’re going to avoid consuming um apple cider vinegar or vinegar because they think they’re going to get a yeast infection from that that is a myth there is such a thing as a good yeast and a bad yeast and even if we take candida for example candida can be totally harmless in the body and if there’s a shift in um unfriendly yeast coming in the body that can turn against you and create problems so there’s a lot of microbes that are even kind of neutral and they can go either side depending on the environment um kefir for example is a type of a sour yogurt it’s a fermented um um Dairy that is really the only thing that I know that will help get rid of uh certain types of candida stuff so you have to actually consume the good yeast to destroy the bad yeast because they’re both competitive uh and you get kefir at the health the store make sure that you don’t get the flavored kefir or the flavored yogurts get the actual plane and the other thing too it’s difficult to find you try to find yogurt and it’s all nonfat it’s all low fat it’s all 1% you need the whole milk yogurt and kefir that is way way better grass-fed is even better but um yeah that fat is very very very beneficial to your body um so there’s over 400 different types of microbes in the body you have friendly bacteria friendly yeast friendly fungus all those microbes um help protect you against the unfriendly fungus or unfriendly yeast so if you have fungus growing on your skin or your toenails we know um that you don’t have some good fungus inside your gut to be able to counter that so and I use Liquid U alive probiotic Flora it’s a liquid probiotic that I take on a regular basis just to counteract that it’s a really good way to get friendly yeast and friendly uh bacteria so fermented foods do not worsen the situation and I know there’s might even a book out called the Candida diet it’s filled with false information it’s not true you these foods are very very beneficial uh so so fermented foods would be like sauerkraut uh kimchi um apple cider vinegar um um yogurt kefir those are really good for your digestive system fermented foods are foods that are enhanced nutritionally they’re foods that are easier to break down because they have certain things in them like lactic acid which our bodies really need um so they’re very very easy on your system um there over a 100 trillion different microbes um living on your body and you only have um I’m sorry there’s a, trillion I got to I have to add a zero to that uh a thousand trillion microbes living on your body and you have 100 trillion cells so these microbes are by a factor of 10 times more than we actually have cells so they’re living outside your body they’re living in the the inside of your body in your mouth and your esophagus they align everything uh and so don’t be afraid of consuming yeast like nutritional yeast for example or kefir or fermented foods because it could be very beneficial on the unfriendly side all right so hope that helped I will see you in the next one