Greetings. It’s New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker, author of Candida Crusher and formulator of Canxida, the Candida dietary supplements of choice. Thanks for checking out my video.
We’re going to talk about biofilms today. So what are biofilms? You’ve probably heard a lot about this on the internet. You would have read about it on various webpages or maybe you watched some YouTube videos on biofilms. What they are and how you can treat them, and how they’re important when it comes to eradicating Candida or small intestinal bowel overgrowth, what we call SIBO.
So biofilms are really highly organized sort of structures of bacteria that live together in communes. They’ve organized themselves quite well, and they’ve got this matrix that sort of covers them.
I’m just going to read some notes I’ve written down here. So bacteria that live in biofilms are embedded in a slime-like matrix comprised of extra cellular polymeric substances, include polysaccharides, nucleic acids, and proteins. So most bacteria live in a biofilm regardless of what kind of species or type they are.
So bacteria can live freely in the body, in the bloodstream, they can travel around to different parts of the body or they can live in highly organized communities. So planktonic bacteria are free-floating bacteria, aggregates. So historically, most of the research is being focused on planktonic bacteria. Looking at single bacteria and how we can kill them, particularly with antibiotics. This is how antibiotics were developed really against planktonic bacteria.
But they’re not really reflective of the true internal microbial environment that we’ve got. Because remember, most bacteria live in some kind of an extra cellular polymeric substance, in some sort of slime like substance. So when you think about it, humans are the same. We can live nomadically here or there, but humans function best when we cooperate with each other in working communities. And if you look at places like Hong Kong and New York, you’ve got tons of high-rise apartments with like millions of people living in defined regions.
Biofilms are the same. You’ve got very highly organized sort of structures, basically where these bacteria implant themselves and they form very powerful alliances with each other and with other kinds of bacteria. And they stop beneficial bacteria from getting to them. And even antibiotics can’t really do much with biofilm. So I’m going to do a series of videos on biofilms. A bit more about what they are, different types of biofilms, and also the best ways to naturally eradicate biofilm. And that’s what these videos are going to be all about.
So I hope that explains to you a little bit about what biofilms are. Bacteria organize themselves, and they can live anywhere. You can have biofilms in the nose, in the throat, the ear, the teeth, lots of different types of bacteria in the mouth there. They can form fantastically powerful colonies there. We get them through the gut. We get them in many different places in the body.
So let’s go a bit deeper and further in some subsequent videos and explain, particularly about eradication of biofilm. Because I’m sure, that’s what you’re keen to hear all about.
Thanks for tuning in.