Re: Could no carbs be preventing us from being cured?

Fruit and Candida

The Candida issue is riddled with more misinformation than perhaps any other area in health care. It requires a bit of unraveling to make sense of the true Candida picture, as there is so much that needs to be unlearned.

Candida is a form of yeast, an organism that naturally occurs in human blood. It is supposed to be there. This microbe consumes Sugar for its food. As there is always Sugar in the blood (when diabetics check their Sugar levels, they are actually monitoring the amount of sugar in the blood), there is always food for the organism.

Candida Eats Excess Blood Sugar
The size or "population" of the colony in the blood is directly determined by its food supply. If blood-sugar levels are always at a normal level, so is the size of the colony that lives in the blood. When the sugar we eat leaves the blood to be distributed and used by the cells of the body, any excess yeast quickly dies off, as it is supposed to.

Should blood-sugar levels rise, however, the organisms multiply rapidly ("bloom") as they consume the excess sugar. Once they have done so and blood-sugar levels come back down to normal, so does the number of microbes. This ebb and flow happens as a normal part of human physiology and causes no health problems or uncomfortable symptoms.
If fat levels stay chronically elevated due to a fat-rich diet, sugar remains in the bloodstream and feeds the large colonies instead of feeding the trillion cells of the body. Starved for fuel, these cells can no longer metabolize energy. You become tired, and feel rundown.

It is important to understand the implications of a rise in the blood-sugar level. If the body is not able to reestablish normal blood-sugar levels, a dangerous situation exists. The only mechanism that remains for bringing the blood sugar back down is the
The microbe in our blood is actually a life-saving organism, one that we do not ever want to eradicate. It functions as another backup safety valve that helps to bring the blood-sugar level back down to normal in the event that the pancreas and the adrenals fail at doing so.

Causing Our Own Candida
As I have described, most people create the conditions that cause pancreatic and adrenal fatigue constantly, throughout the day and at every meal. It is therefore no surprise that issues plague people until they actually change their lifestyle habits. Outbreaks of are your wakeup warning that your system is rapidly approaching diabetes, and that you lifeone
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would do well to drastically curtail your fat consumption or face dire health consequences.

Once again, the standard advice from the health community, traditional or alternative, tends to be seriously off base. Comprehending only symptomology and not the underlying fat-based cause, they tell us to avoid all sugar, including fruit. But fruit consumption did not cause the Candida problem, and avoiding it will not address the real issue.
Granted, once you have gotten yourself into the Candida quandary by fat, eating sweet-tasting fruits may seem to exacerbate your problem. But eliminating fruit will not remove the cause of your problem, just the symptoms. In the presence of too much fat in the blood, even a small amount of sugar, from any source, can result in abnormally high blood-sugar levels. Furthermore, to the extent that conscious attempts to lower blood sugar succeed, you feel tired. Trying to eliminate Candida by controlling a blood sugar problem inevitably fails, which is why we see thousands of people battling Candida for years without lasting success.

Because all carbohydrate, fat, and protein that we eat is converted to simple sugar (glucose) if it is to be used by the cells for fuel, the way out of this cycle is not to eat less sugar, but to consume less fat. When fat levels drop, the sugar starts to get processed and distributed again, and the yeast levels drop because there is no longer excess sugar available for it to eat.

The Candida microbe is extremely short lived. If folks suffering from Candida would simply follow a low-fat diet, most of them would find that their Candida issues were completely gone in a matter of just a few days. Of course, they may still have the underlying pancreatic and adrenal fatigue issues to resolve. Health comes only from healthful living.