o/t candida; iodine, boron, selenium

I dont believe Iodine is enough in tough candida cases;
I have taken Borax (11 % boron content) along with Iodine and cured myself for candida (had it for 20 years) without changing my diet very much.
that is; I am symptom free; have not had an outbreak in almost two years (I started borax two-three months before iodine) Selenium is also important when it comes to handle candida and cancer.
I first thought it was the candida killing quality of Borax that was the clue; but now I believe it is more to it than that; as boron is VERY important for the intestinal flora ++.
Here is some clipping from Olree;from an interview with Acres U.S.A ; a couple of things I would like to comment. Candida is known to be related to Sugar consumption (Boron plays a part here) Dandruff may be a candida infection of the scalp (hence selsun / selenium) there is some truth in this in my experience; though I prefer Borax here.


"In Minerals for the Genetic Code, boron
comes off as one of four magnificent
minerals — the other three being iodine,
selenium and magnesium — that belong
in the survival kit of most people in most
parts of the country. It is probably safe
to say that most physicians no longer
remember — if they ever knew — that
boron plays a part in the body’s sugar
metabolism equation."

"ACRES U.S.A. What happens if you
don’t have selenium in your diet at the
appropriate levels?

OLREE. The symptomatology is not like
that of other vitamins and minerals where
you can see that a patient is totally deficient.
Selenium deficiencies are very subtle:
chronic viral infection and dandruff
(the hair shampoo Selsun Blue, as in
“selenium blue,” uses selenium sulfide as
its active ingredient) are examples of a
person low on selenium. Fluid on the
inner ear is an example of a selenium
deficiency. Maintaining adequate selenium
levels throughout your life means you
probably won’t get cancer. There are
tumor-suppressing genes in our bodies
that seek out and try to eliminate any cell
that mutates during replication, and the
chances of having a few mismatched pairs
of chromosomes and abnormalities are
very great because the body makes over
20 million cells every day to replace dead
cells. The tumor-suppressing genes, in
particular P53 and P76 and P36, are scanners
of our internal environment to make
sure that any newly made cell is an exact
copy of what it has to replace. When these
genes do not do their job and cells that are
mutated slip under the radar and get put to
work, they’ll eventually turn into cancer
cells. The other critically important relationship
for selenium is to the mineral we
previously spoke of, iodine. Your body
cannot make the necessary thyroid hormones
using Iodine alone. It recruits selenium
to do the job, and many people who
show “normal” thyroid conditions on a
blood sample can have serious thyroid
problems strictly from lack of selenium."

"ACRES U.S.A. We have the danger of
radiation gradually drifting out of Iraq
because of the metals they’re using in the
war. We’re told that this toxic depleted
uranium is going clear around the envelope
of air over the Earth. What can people
do to protect themselves from this
excess radiation that we’re experiencing?
OLREE. The standard way of protecting
yourself from a nuclear blast is to make
sure you have potassium iodine pills. If
the big one goes off, you eat all this potassium
iodine and it just drags the radiation
right through your system. The backup
system to force-fed potassium iodine in
severe, acute radioactive poisoning is a
mineral called boron. In the entire table of
elements, including subatomic particles,
there is only one mineral that is capable of
accepting and ionizing radiation that
never changes the innards or the nucleus
of the cell — boron. The protons and the
neutrons do not change under any conditions
in the boron molecule. Boron can
take radiation and release it without upsetting
this very delicate balance. That
makes it an excellent candidate to have
into your system, whether the radiation be
from excessive sunlight or spent uranium
that’s being ionized and released into the
atmosphere. When that mineral is present
in your system, your DNA creates a much
better buffering system to ward off radiation.
Even when chromosome breaks do
occur, they are much more easily repaired
and maintained by the system."