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Ok, I took the bite. I thought we could get a thread going on candida. There is so much to know about this microbe and the problems that it can cause.
I will start with some intro information.
Candida is a microbe, most specifically, a fungus, that we all have in our intestines. It is a normal and healthy flora and it should be there. I suppose it has been around about as long as humanity has been. Like most flora in the gut is is responsible for assisting in the maintence of a healthy immune system. Like other floras it may be responsibe for producing some of the vitamins we need.
The problem with candida arises when the system is thrown out of balanance to such an extent that the floras are out of balance and an over abundance of candida occurs. Usually this occurs with the use of drugs such as antibiotics, and steriods may contribute.
In the old days a candida infection was much more rare than it is today. Today if you go into the hospital or nursing home you will find an abundance of infections, many oral and topical. The doctors spend their time swating at these local outbreaks with topical creams and oral mouth rinses. They rarely try to address the sytemic problems that are occuring.
Also in the old days vaginal candida was much less common and when it did occur it was easier to get rid of. Probably most of it came from fecal contamination of the vagina, as stool will carry the candida. The home preparations and homespun formulas ususally did work on common candida.
But in this day and age of drug use we have developed mutant variteties of candida that in my opinion are not only difficult to get rid of but are life threatening... they threaten you life by undermining its quality and by setting you up for cancer.
Mutant varieties of candida that come from the use of antibiotics, and it may not be the overuse of antibiotics, I think that just one round of antibiotics can do it for some people, these mutant variteties latch onto the lining of the walls of the intestines and in their mutation make a spindly web of growth that penetrates the intestinal wall and makes it porous.
From this we now have a gut that leaks toxins and candida into the blood stream, allowing them to move around the body. This is what is called leaky gut syndrome and can cause dietary allergy, airborn allergy and the colonization of candida in various areas of the body such as the nose, the ears, under the arms and most surprisingly now, some doctors are saying that candida can colonize in the stomach, the esophagus, the lungs, the prostate and just about anywhere you can think of. If you observe the HIV diease you will see that candida runs rampant with those who have AIDS and candida can even invade the brain on these patients. Our bodies are constantly working to keep it in check with our immune system. If there is a very sick immune system it can get very bad very quickly.
Now for many years researchers have known that where you find cancer you also most often will find candida. They always assumed that the candida sets up household at the cancer site due to the debilitated state of the cancer terrane. I have cared for terminal breast cancer patients with open tumors on their breasts. They are laden with candida and the smell is foul. Doctors prescribe flagyl pills ground to a poweder to be sprinkled over the tumors.. its keeps the smell down, and little else.
But now there are doctors out there are are seriously questioning this assumption. They have moved into the direction of thinking that candida fungus is not an opportunistic infection upon cancer, it is the cause of cancer.
Candida can cause other systems of a systemic disease aside from cancer or the typical topical. oral or vaginal outbreaks. It can just make you sick sick sick and the symptoms are nebulous and confusing and doctors don't seem to have a clue on diagnostics or treatment.
Here are some sites that you can investigate that will help you to understand further. If you have candida issues I do recommend that you get some of the books offered here.
http://www.knowthecause.com/
and Dr Simoncini's site. He has cured many cancer cases by treating the fungus either with sodium bicarbonate or strong antifungal drugs or a combination of both.
http://www.curenaturalicancro.com/
There is so much to know and share about this topic. I hope people will jump in
I will start with some intro information.
Candida is a microbe, most specifically, a fungus, that we all have in our intestines. It is a normal and healthy flora and it should be there. I suppose it has been around about as long as humanity has been. Like most flora in the gut is is responsible for assisting in the maintence of a healthy immune system. Like other floras it may be responsibe for producing some of the vitamins we need.
The problem with candida arises when the system is thrown out of balanance to such an extent that the floras are out of balance and an over abundance of candida occurs. Usually this occurs with the use of drugs such as antibiotics, and steriods may contribute.
In the old days a candida infection was much more rare than it is today. Today if you go into the hospital or nursing home you will find an abundance of infections, many oral and topical. The doctors spend their time swating at these local outbreaks with topical creams and oral mouth rinses. They rarely try to address the sytemic problems that are occuring.
Also in the old days vaginal candida was much less common and when it did occur it was easier to get rid of. Probably most of it came from fecal contamination of the vagina, as stool will carry the candida. The home preparations and homespun formulas ususally did work on common candida.
But in this day and age of drug use we have developed mutant variteties of candida that in my opinion are not only difficult to get rid of but are life threatening... they threaten you life by undermining its quality and by setting you up for cancer.
Mutant varieties of candida that come from the use of antibiotics, and it may not be the overuse of antibiotics, I think that just one round of antibiotics can do it for some people, these mutant variteties latch onto the lining of the walls of the intestines and in their mutation make a spindly web of growth that penetrates the intestinal wall and makes it porous.
From this we now have a gut that leaks toxins and candida into the blood stream, allowing them to move around the body. This is what is called leaky gut syndrome and can cause dietary allergy, airborn allergy and the colonization of candida in various areas of the body such as the nose, the ears, under the arms and most surprisingly now, some doctors are saying that candida can colonize in the stomach, the esophagus, the lungs, the prostate and just about anywhere you can think of. If you observe the HIV diease you will see that candida runs rampant with those who have AIDS and candida can even invade the brain on these patients. Our bodies are constantly working to keep it in check with our immune system. If there is a very sick immune system it can get very bad very quickly.
Now for many years researchers have known that where you find cancer you also most often will find candida. They always assumed that the candida sets up household at the cancer site due to the debilitated state of the cancer terrane. I have cared for terminal breast cancer patients with open tumors on their breasts. They are laden with candida and the smell is foul. Doctors prescribe flagyl pills ground to a poweder to be sprinkled over the tumors.. its keeps the smell down, and little else.
But now there are doctors out there are are seriously questioning this assumption. They have moved into the direction of thinking that candida fungus is not an opportunistic infection upon cancer, it is the cause of cancer.
Candida can cause other systems of a systemic disease aside from cancer or the typical topical. oral or vaginal outbreaks. It can just make you sick sick sick and the symptoms are nebulous and confusing and doctors don't seem to have a clue on diagnostics or treatment.
Here are some sites that you can investigate that will help you to understand further. If you have candida issues I do recommend that you get some of the books offered here.
http://www.knowthecause.com/
and Dr Simoncini's site. He has cured many cancer cases by treating the fungus either with sodium bicarbonate or strong antifungal drugs or a combination of both.
http://www.curenaturalicancro.com/
There is so much to know and share about this topic. I hope people will jump in
