I am with ya rlm79

You know what , it makes sense to me. MAny of us are on diets for ions and get nowhere. Yet if we allow the perfect environment for yeast we may never get rid of it. Even a doctor I went to go see said I was acidic from looking at blood work results. Did not know what he mean thtne , but now I do. And trying to alkanize oneself is really not that big a deal as rlm79. Simply adjust amounts etc. I will eat much more raw foods is all.

Michelle

Interesting link.
There's so much conflicting info, it's clear you can't trust anything blindly. But who has the time to do the research to go beyond the current knowledge?
My personal complaint is that after 4 years of spending money and reading what I can, I'm no further ahead. Everyone out there claims to be Helping Mankind. For a price, of course. And we're willing to try it, simply because it MIGHT work.
I've noticed that many people on this site are trying the same approaches which I and others have tried in the past.

Maybe we need to establish a research data base on this disease ourselves in order to eliminate a lot of time, trouble and expense for newcomers.

A site could be set up listing the various treatments for people where they could describe the effects each has had, including the success of it on a scale of 1-10. I guess you'd also need a scale showing how diligent you were in following the treatments, the diet you're on, and so forth.
It could be set up like the sites where people report good/bad experiences on consumer products, with a summary # of stars showing the average opinion of the treatments.
Any other ideas?

So I chased down this link, which led me to some very churned up waters...
From what I can gather on the net, the counter claims made by Tim Bolen look to be baseless even though they are quite shrill and virulent. Bolen goes all over the place, and even gets into a grand conspirary. It's pretty weird, with lots of contradictions, like stating that Barrett is being paid many millions by large corporations, but then he says that quackwatch is so small, stupid, etc. that it's not even a factor.

Here's an example of Bolen's work: 'Every "cure" since polio has been suppressed, and the proponents of those cures, reviled by the "Quackbuster Conspirators."
Statistics show that every one of those "cures" worked to some extent...'

No references given. I'd love to see the list of those cures and the "statistics". Why keep them a secret, Tim?

It's worth taking a look at the response from the guy Bolen attacked:
http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/bolen.html


This is all pretty disappointing, as I'm looking for some specific medial answers. I know they are there, but teasing them out from the sewage that guy like Bolen churn out is proving to be an extremely irritating process. It's a bit like television - a few gems embedded in lot of garbage. I need a tivo so I can fast forward to the useful information. :-)

To an earlier poster who declared that if you mention candida to a doctor, they will laugh in your face: If your doctor does that, find a doctor who did better in medical school. Candida is in the Merck manual - it's a known pathogen and can lead to serious problems. At least he/she should know that much.

Ivo