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You are certainly correct to assume that canddia can be a topical(local) infection and can also be sytemic(in the blood, organs and tissues). The reason for this is that candida is a dimorphic pathogen -- it can exist in two entirely separate and distinct living forms. For clarity I shall just refer to these two forms as the yeast form and fungal fom. The yeast form infects locally(skin, uterus, intestines etc) because it is a saprophytic feeder(feeds off dead organic matter), reproduces by budding and has delicate hypha. The fungal form can infect and inhabit the blood, tissues and organs(everywhere in the body!!), is a true parasite(feeds off and breeds in host cells), reproduces with spores, has strong destructive hypha. These two forms can further confuse because they can both infect and co-exist happily together within the same areas of the body at the same time.
Therefore to cure yourself of systemic candida you will have to find a multi-protocol that will act to eliminate BOTH these candida forms from your body.
Modern medicine is still all but clueless about how to get rid of candida. Their azole family of antifungal drugs are all fairly useless because candida can adjust to them so easily. So if you use them, you may well feel better initially. But after two months or so the candida usually adjusts its defences against the azole drug and will come roaring back and then drugs like the azole family and even nystatin will be useless to you. They call this the "Rebound Effect" in modern medicine. Modern medicine's diagnosis of serious candida issues also tends to be wholly inaccurate and inconsistent.
What's more, allopathic medicine will not recognize any form of individual systemic candida infection. I say this after having had a good look at their Standard of Care manuals. The only forms of candida that seem to be recognized from these manuals are uterine candida and mouth thrush. Their is no recognition at all that systemic candida exists as an individual disease in the human body -- apart from within people who have serious diseases like stage 4 cancer, hepatitis or HIV. So if you go to your doctor, his tests will probably show that you are in the peak of health. And the only thing your doctor will probably recomend you take is anti-depressants(for your lethargy, depression, lack of energy, unclear thinking etc). This, of course is a really bad move if you have systemic candida, because all anti-depressants contain fluorine, chlorine and bromine -- so these halide drugs will act to further depress your thyroid and immune system thus allowing the candida and other diseases you have free passage to spread and dominate even more. Take no anti-depressants !!
Whatever you do TAKE NO ANTIBIOTICS if you have candida. If your doctor gives you antibiotics and you take it then your candida problems will surely spread rapidly and get much worse.
I could go on but I haven't really got the room to describe all the difficulties of conquering such a clever and robust pathogen as candida. But I have written an in-depth book about candida behaviour and how to cure it using a proper multi-protocol strategy. Furthermore, you will never completely or fully cure serious systemic candida problems by just going on a diet or by taking just probiotics or using ACV or oregano or any other ill-thought-out minimal protocol that does not directly specifically attack all its unique defensive behaviours at the same time. I cured my own systemic candida problem 10 years ago -- and it has never returned -- using my own specific strategy against candida. The most important bits of information that you will need to know from my book to cure yourself -- incuding the protocol I used to cure my own candida -- are shown here.
I was also low thyroid when I had systemic candida. That's generally the norm when you have systemic candida and may be regarded as yet another candida symptom. Also well known that candida also affects and diminishes the activity of both the thyroid and the immune system.
I really couldn't care less whether you use my successful anti-candida multi-protocol or not. But I regard that the most important areas of my book were in revealing the clever and unique defensive behaviours of candida and also describing -- in detail -- the reasons for using my own anti-candida strategy as a road to a cure. Above all learn that strategy and if you understand it and apply it well through your own further research(together with a little willpower and determination), I have no doubt at all that you will be able to cure yourself of this awful disease.
"Know thyself, know thy enemy;
a thousand battles, a thousand victories."
Sun Tzu (Art of War)
My philosopphy is simple. "Knowledge is Healing"
Good luck !!
Bill :)
Author: Candida: Killing So Sweetly
Most anti-depressants contain some form of halide. Also remember that anti-depressants will cure nothing, since they are only ever meant to ensure that you are not a danger to yourself or to other people. I dislike drugs as a general rule because they don't tend to cure anything anymore -- all they are supposed to do is just manage your symptoms. This is useless to a sufferer or patient because this means that his or her disease will inevitably get worse -- because they are not treating the core reasons for the disease with never a cure in sight. But this is a brilliant business strategy by the drugs companies because it means that you are hooked for life by their propaganda and so they will have one heck of a money stream from you for the rest of your life. See this video by Shane Ellison, an award winning Phd researcher who worked for some top drugs companies.
Your question "do you know if drinking high ph water can set one up for or contribute to candida in some way?"
High pH water has alkaline pH and is generally good for you. I've also helped to write a simple book on alkalizing called pH Balanced for Life! which explains it all. But Dr Jerry Tennant also explains pH in terms of our critical body electricity and explains why our body needs more negative ions(alkalinity) than positive ions(acidity). It's all about proper balance. Generally our bodies are too acidic due to our supermarket and junk food diets, poor farming and food processing methods and lifestyles. I usually alkalize every day as a good habit since, where I live in the Philippines, the goodness of food cannot be guaranteed. I do this to counteract and avoid too much body acidity. I'm 65 y o by the way, with no disease or ailments to speak of now and I've been alkalizing my body for the last 10 yrs with no ill effects. Generally, I've found that whenever you have candida or any serious disease or whenever you take drugs, the body becomes substantially more acidic which then tends to greatly weaken the immune system and leaves the body with a greater tendency towards serious illness and disease.
Similarly, just like yin and yang, it is also possible for your body to be too excessively alkaline -- this is rare but can occur with certain serious liver or kidney problems and can also occur when you have parasites.
Bill :)
Hey everyone, I am new to the forum and also to leaky gut. I figured out that I have it because I was referred to an allergist and he found that I'm allergic to beef, pork, eggs, milk, cashews, wheat, oats, corn, fish, shrimp, crab, soy beans, garlic, and a few other things that I'm certain that I've forgotten. I know for a fact that these aren't real allergies and must be sensitivities due to my lowered gut integrity.
Leaky gut can contribute to this, but it is lowered adrenal function that really leads to the allergies/sensitivities.
http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1609260#i
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I've also been having signs of IBS that leans toward constipation,
The constipation comes from the lack of flora that normally produce the serotonin that regulate intestinal peristalsis.
but mainly I want to stop the bad reactions I have after eating, which are mainly brain-fog, apathy, bloating, joint pain, gas, and severely dry eyes (potentially onset of sjogrens)
The gas and bloating will occur from fermentation. In the stomach this occurs from a lack of stomach acid. In the intestines from a lack of flora that generate acids that reduce fermentation.
Sjorgen's is autoimmune, which would tie back to the adrenal dysfunction. But there are various reasons for dry eyes, but you did not mention other symptoms such as severely dry mouth so Sjorgen's is not likely. This could be from dehydration, lack of vitamin A, allergies, medications such as antihistamines, etc.
I'm starting to treat it myself, but I need help. Right now I'm eating the foods that I can eat, and limiting my sugar/carb intake because I doubt that I have candida, but want to be sure that I'm covering all sides of this condition.
So I'm avoiding the foods that I'm allergic to as best I can considering that not much is left to choose from. I usually alternate vegetables and have chicken on occasion, but since it's the only meat that I can eat I don't want to overdo it and become sensitive to it.
I'm also taking:
Diflucan (again to rule out candida)
Nexium (my GI said that I had too much stomach acid. I don't believe him, but either way I'm taking it to minimize sources of inflammation right now.)
That is really unlikely. Hyperchlorhydria (excess stomach acid) is so extremely rare that most doctors will never see a true case of this in their entire career. Furthermore, gas and bloating in the stomach is a result of insufficient stomach acid, not an excess. Proper stomach acid promotes proper digestion reducing fermentation.
Glutamine/Arginine mixture (inspired by Juven, but mixed myself, about 20g per day)
People need to be careful with high levels of arginine for a few reasons. One it can lead to excessively low blood pressure due to the increase in nitric oxide. This can lead to problems such as dizziness, mental fogginess, fatigue, etc. Arginine can also trigger off herpes outbreaks in those harboring herpes viruses.
and of course drinking lots of water.
I mainly want to make sure that I'm doing everything right. It isn't getting worse but it hasn't gotten better yet, and I've been doing this for two weeks. I know it will take time, but don't want any of that time to be in vain.
I just posted another post on the subject with various links discussing leaky gut:
http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1725335#i
Good post but have to disagree on a few things. What I have come to learn based on my own experience and COUNTLESS testing, research and experimentation on my own body, the adrenals act as a battery backup for the body. It IS the back up reserve battery actually, it is the fight-or-flight and that takes over when the body's normal functions are lacking. It's not that the adrenals are "weak" so to speak, that's the problem. That's only partly true and yes, higher on the "cause" pyramid but still not at the top.
The leaky gut, for reasons still unknown exactly to me, are the cause of weak adrenals. It is a vicious cycle and might have to do with inflammation but it's not entirely inflammation because otherwise antiinflammatory drugs would fix/mask the symptoms entirely. When my leaky gut gets worse (if i take things that burn my gut, like spicy food, undecylenic acid, caprylic acid, alcohol, etc.) my stomach feels very fluttery like i got punched in the gut/on a rollercoaster drop and my adrenals kick in full force.
The adrenals are responsible for controlling inflammatory responses in the body. When there is damage though the inflammation is not going to be suppressed completely by either the adrenals nor anti-inflammatories. For example, if you were to smash your hand with a sledge hammer no anti-inflammatory is going to remove all the inflammation. And the adrenals are not going to completely suppress the inflammatory response because we are highly dependent on the inflammatory response for both healing and infection control. So it would be counterproductive for the body to completely suppress inflammation when it is creating the inflammation again to help with healing and infection control. If the adrenals are not working properly though, both inflammation and immune reactions can get out of control. Keep in mind that the corticosteroids are not just for inflammation, they also regulate immune reactions. Consider autoimmune disorders. These disorders are caused in large part from the lack of adrenal corticosteroids leading to the overproduction of low affinity (nonspecific) antibodies that tag the healthy tissues for destruction by the immune system that is otherwise functioning as it is designed to do.
My adrenals have the capacity to perform at good levels as shown by cortisol testing
I don't believe in hormone testing of any kind, including cortisol. The tests are just way too inaccurate.
and all other testing but for some unknown reason, they are tied to the gut directly. It is said that the gut has its own neurological system and taking into consideration that the body is one and the neuroendocrine system has some fascinating reactions.
I don't know if I would agree with "its own neurological system" since the rest of the immune system still interacts with the gut. For example, the same vagus nerve that can affect the heart, stomach, liver, and pancreas also affects intestinal peristalsis. So the nervous system to the gut is not independent from the rest of the nervous system.
The constipation can be due to lack of flora but there are other causes for it. In my case it is not necessarily lack of flora but leaky gut. The inflammation or weaken lining has some mechanism that stops peristalsis in me entirely, when i eat something i am allergic/reactive to. Very weird. It goes away and i have normal relieving BMs once at 12pm on the dot everyday should it not be irritated/reactive. Probiotics, kefir, all constipate me. They stop peristalsis immediately and testing has shown lack of flora isnt the problem for me.
Yes, there can be other less common reasons such as the use of iron supplements, overuse of stimulant laxatives such as senna or cascara sagrada, low thyroid, excess progesterone, lack of bile, nerve damage, etc. Dairy products can also constipate some people, and dairy is often associated with probiotic sources.
Also I would like to add that probiotics are not going to do much without prebiotics to feed ALL the flora, not just the few strains being supplemented.
The theory I am testing, comes from a paper written that explained that some people tend to have problems with probiotics and flora when their SIgA is low. The body's immune system does not recognize ... or fails to accept probiotics and colonize normally. given the fact that probiotics were tolerated no problem for me until my fecal IgA started to drop significantly and that SIgA deficiency = leaky gut = adrenal symptoms, all of it is tied in as one system.
Interesting hypothesis. Although another possibility is that antibodies are being formed to the probiotics in a similar fashion to to the low affinity antibodies of autoimmunity.
Id like to think that a healthy gut is a healthy adrenal system.
But again you need healthy adrenals to control the inflammatory responses in the gut.
I would still give good quality probiotics a shot and take probiotics that raise your IgA, as well as try colostrum (lactose/casein filtered out) and/or immunoglobulins, glutamine and saccharomyces boulardii if tolerated. All raise IgA and gut health. Do this with antifungal that you are on.
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