Sugar - Hypoglycemia - Candida

Sugar - Hypoglycemia - Candida

It is my clinical experience of more than 15 years that that Candida related health problems often occur in conjunction with Hypoglycemia/Blood Sugar issues .

Hypoglycemia is one of my clinical specialties.

Hypoglycemia nearly destroyed my life.

I thought I was going crazy. Many people around me tended to agree. After I finally found the solution, I have made it one of my life tasks to assist as many other people as possible in resolving this strange "illness".

Why is blood Sugar so important?

Blood Sugar swings/hypoglycemia is responsible for an enormous number of "unexplained" symptoms, especially of the emotional and psychiatric type.

In my experience many of these symptoms stem from the fact that your brain cannot work properly when your blood sugar is low.

In contemporary western medicine, most of these symptoms are treated with pharmaceutical drugs. Nobody looks at life style issues, diet, digestive function, etc.

Here is a striking piece of research from 1966:

"Relative Hypoglycemia as a Cause of Neuropsychiatric Illness," Salzer HM, J Natl Med Assoc, January 1966;58(1):12-17. 38372

Please note that this study was published in 1966.

In studying 300 cases of relative hypoglycemia,

* symptoms of Depression were found in 60%,
* insomnia in 50%,
* anxiety in 50%
* irritability in 45%
* exhaustion or fatigue in 67%
* sweating in 41%
* tachycardia (rapid heart beat) in 37%
* anorexia in 32%
* neurological symptoms of headache in 45%
* dizziness in 42%
* tremor in 38%
* muscle twitching in 42%
* backache in 33%.

In 185 women and 115 men, the majority of cases were between 30 and 50 years of age, and approximately 50% of the patients had symptoms of over 5 years' duration.

The author feels that

* every neuropsychiatric illness patient should have a 6-hour glucose tolerance test,
* especially those who are diagnosed as having psychoneurotic anxiety states or depressive reactions.

It is also my clinical experience that many of these symptoms simply vanish once appropriate dietary and other life style changes changes are made.

What is the big deal with Candida?

I find that in the majority of my local and on-line clients intestinal overgrowth of Candida appears to play a major role in their health related complaints.

Candida organisms are always present in your intestinal tract. They are part of the bowel flora. They are in balance with the other micro-organisms that are essential for your health and sense of well being.

The trouble starts when this balance is destroyed.

Antibiotics and Candida!

Antibiotics apparently are the main culprits responsible in destroying the normal and vital bacterial flora. Candida organisms can then spread and multiply unhindered, with devastating effects on your health.

The Disastrous Effects of Candida Overgrowth

Candida Toxins

Candida organisms can spread out from the lower bowel to colonize the entire digestive tract, including up through the stomach (especially in cases of low or no stomach acid) into the throat, mouth and nasal passages, and down into the lungs. Round yeast forms can revert to a pathological form of budding rhizoids (they look like fingers). These can puncture the colon and the small intestine walls all the way up to the stomach and esophagus. This stage is chronically debilitating. The rhizoids metabolize carbohydrates and emit chemical waste products which leads to toxic bowel syndrome and malabsorption. Among these chemicals are:

* Acetaldehyde: toxic breakdown product of alcohol; leads to toxic liver overload which in turn causes sinusitis, bronchial tree inflammation and infections, chronic kidney "infections" without infectious agents being present.
* Ammonia
* Three hormones: testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone
* Alcohol: there are documented cases with symptoms of apparent intoxication without any alcohol consumption
Carbon dioxide: leads to bloating and gas.

Candia and Leaky Gut Syndrome

The bowel wall itself is normally a very sturdy protective membrane that keeps the toxic products of digestion out of the bloodstream. In Candida overgrowth, the rhizoids dig deep into the wall with such a tenacious grasp that they damage the bowel wall itself. The lining becomes inflamed and less efficient in handling food. Many people with allergies and food sensitivities have an overgrowth of Candida in their gut.

The bowel walls become more permeable and start to allow large food molecules to pass into the blood stream. This phenomenon leads to the "Leaky Gut Syndrome". It is thought that incompletely digested food particles and toxic byproducts of digestion leak into the blood where they cause different systemic reactions at distant sites, such as the joints, lungs, the liver, the kidneys and especially the brain. Results of a leaky gut may be:

* chronic fatigue
* food allergies
* asthma
* immune deficiency
* autoimmune disease
* inflammatory joint disease
* liver and kidney stress
* Immune Suppression

For more detailed information, please review my Candida articles:

I have received many letters and e-mails requesting that I offer a combination of our Hypoglycemia and Candida Support Kits. Currently, it is not possible to combine different "Kits" in one order.

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