Ok, so having solved my digestive problems I am left with vascular issues. If you read through my posts I have complained of abnormal flushing of hands and feet and poor circulation in general accompanied by bouts of dizziness. So I have been exploring for about a week now all the pathways of blood vessel damage, in other words what causes blood vessels to become inflamed, permeable, what causes vascular lesions ect..

This is what I have come up with so far:

1. Nicotine and other tobacco chemicals (for sure)
2. Chronic high blood glucose levels (for sure)
3. Gluten intolerance or other food allergy (possibly)
4. Toxicity via leaky gut / constipation / re absorption (probably)
5. Chronic infection (for sure)

Endothelial cells form a lining inside every blood vessel in the body, 1 cell in thickness, called the endothelium. Although the exact processes of vascular damage that ultimately lead to conditions such as vascular disease, atherosclerosis, and diabetes induced complications (amputation, gangrene) are not well understood, these processes are thought to begin with the disruption of the endothelial cells.

So then I googled, “ endothelial damage cause by” and guess what I found?
A publication in the American Society for Microbiology journal of Infection and Immunity titled, “Endothelial Cell Injury Caused by Candida albicans Is
Dependent on Iron.”

http://iai.asm.org/cgi/content/full/66/1/191



Imagine my surprise candida comprises the integrity of the vascular system, really? I must admit, I’m not versed enough to even tell what the results of the study mean. Should I take iron supplements? I did have low RBC and I am slightly anemic I believe. Lactoferrin is iron locked in a little cage called ferriton, according to my sources there’s no free iron available there and that’s the difference I guess candida thrives on cheap available easy iron. But iron that is structured is ok? I don’t know I’m hoping that there are some wiser than me that can tell me what this study really means in the context of someone trying to protect and heal the vascular system. I don't even know what an "iron chelator" is as the study talks about. why would you want to chelate iron?

But maybe more than that why would the American Heart Association partially fund this? This looks like an expensive study to me. Who pays for this? Why, so the medical community can help those handful of “extremely rare” cases of systemic candida that result in pretty sure swift death each year? Or are scientists trying to connect the dots between high blood glucose levels and diabetes complications related to vascular damage? Are we looking for cause of heart disease or what? Also Toyota USA donated a phase-contrast microscope. Isn’t that’s what is used to look at live blood? Wait a minute, I thought the medical community made fun of candida believers and phase-constrast microscope users? I don’t know. I’m no microbiologist but I just can’t see anything here but conspiracy. I’m trying…

There's more out there...

Adherence of Candida to cultured vascular endothelial cells: mechanisms of attachment and endothelial cell penetration.
Rotrosen D, Edwards JE Jr, Gibson TR, Moore JC, Cohen AH, Green I.
J Infect Dis. 1985 Dec;152(6):1264-74.
PMID: 3905987 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Penetration and damage of endothelial cells by Candida albicans.
Filler SG, Swerdloff JN, Hobbs C, Luckett PM.
Infect Immun. 1995 Mar;63(3):976-83.
PMID: 7868270 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Fratti, R. A., M. A. Ghannoum, J. E. Edwards, Jr., and S. G. Filler. 1996. Gamma interferon protects endothelial cells from damage by Candida albicans by inhibiting endothelial cell phagocytosis. Infect. Immun. 64:4714-4718