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Candida, not all the same.
Do YOU have any of these?
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HOLISTIC: More than one origin*
In its application here, holism is used to describe and include the paradigm of a solution finding strategy which is open to the consideration of and use of any element or practice which is found Effective AND Relevant in resolving the problem presented.
The HOLISTIC Perspective is a Future looking, Past acknowledging, and Present acceptance of possibilities. These include those one may personally have experience of together with the feedback from others who have had effective results and the consideration of these together with uniquely independent and dependable sources of wisdom. All of these possibilities are evaluated on a situation-by-situation and person-by-person relevancy with the awareness that each living entity has both shared genetics, learning, and interaction as well as uniquely independent choice, decision-making, and self-determination.
Place carefully into perspective any proposal which states that any end result can only come to happen by one route. This is rarely true in reality. It is a common fantasy expressed in both the Authoritarian and the New Age perspectives that one solution which has been found effective for one person, usually the author, is the only one required for ALL persons. This lack of respect for the individual often produces a lack of results and a false expectation. A clearer understanding of the positive and negative factors involved in the expression of disease and the resolution of recovery often enables a higher relevancy of diagnosis and effectiveness of recovery.
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Leaky gut commonplace?
The leaky gut (or LGS) is a poorly recognised but extremely common problem. It is rarely tested for. Essentially, it represents a hyperpermeable intestinal lining. Large spaces develop between the cells of the gut wall, and bacteria, toxins and food leak in.
The official definition is: an increase in permeability of the intestinal mucosa to luminal macromolecules, antigens and toxins associated with inflammatory degenerative and/or atrophic mucosal damage.
The gut is the point of fuel and nutrient entry.
If healing is at a standstill consider the gut as the block. Chemical sensitivity, fibromyalgia and escalating food allergies are among the many problems caused by a leaky gut. Symptoms often include gas, bloating, abdominal pain, indigestion, alternating constipation and diarrhea.
Any one of the following can cause Leaky Gut Syndrome:
- Antibiotics,
- Alcohol and caffeine,
- Giardia lamblia, cryptosporidium, blastocystis hominis ...
- Foods and beverages contaminated by bacteria like helicobacter pylori, klebsiella, citrobacter, pseudomonas and others,
- Chemicals in fermented and processed food (dyes, preservatives, peroxidized fats)
- Enzyme deficiencies (e.g. celiac disease, lactase deficiency causing lactose intolerance)
- NSAIDS (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) like ASA, ibuprofen, indomethacin, etc.
- Prescription corticosteroids (e.g. prednisone, hydrocortisone, DepoMedrol, etc.)
- High refined carbohydrate diet (e.g. candy bars, cookies, cake, soft drinks, white bread),
- Prescription hormones like the birth control pill,
- Mold and fungal mycotoxins in stored grains, fruit and refined carbohydrates.
A long list of mineral deficiencies is also created by the Leaky Gut Syndrome because the various carrier proteins present in the gastrointestinal tract that are needed to transport minerals from the intestine to the blood are damaged by the inflammation process.
Magnesium deficiency (low red blood cell magnesium) is quite a common finding in conditions like fibromyalgia despite a high magnesium intake through the diet and supplementation. If the carrier protein for magnesium is damaged, magnesium deficiency develops as a result of malabsorption. Muscle pain and spasms can occur as a result.
Zinc deficiency, due to malabsorption, can result in hair loss or baldness as occurs in alopecia areata. Copper deficiency can occur in an identical way leading to high blood cholesterol levels and osteoarthritis. Further, bone problems develop as a result of the malabsorption of calcium, boron, silicon and manganese. (from the web page of Dr. Zoltan Rona, Toronto, Ontario)
Jim Haszinger has a superb description of the development of mutated Candida and its influence on the rest of human biology. It is found on his World Health Mall website. It is easy to follow and understand and will provide many people with an understanding of how Candida overgrowth commonly occurs.
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Dental mercury amalgam!
An increasing pattern of systemic mutated candida development is occurring in persons over the age of 25 who have dental mercury amalgam fillings. Until the early 1990's, this would have more often have been found in persons over the age of 50. In more recent years, economic competitiveness and global marketplace development has resulted in younger persons having to work at low paying jobs and middle aged persons finding their work role expanded in duties and downgraded in benefits and income. The majority of North Americans are now having to cope with what is really either a fixed income or a high stress lifestyle attempting to rise above economic subsistence. Dental maintenance is often forgone. If it is not urgent, it is ignored and denied.
When mercury dental amalgams age beyond 7 to 10 years, they are known to frequently begin degradation and conversion into mercury gas. Some of the gas directly diffuses into the gum tissue and then into the bloodstream to be carried to the heart muscle, liver tissue and other organs. Some of this gas is exhaled through the sinuses and on its way passes through the lining tissues to create mercury toxicity in the sinuses and brain. Often, the largest quantity of the released gas is inhaled into the lungs and transported throughout the body by way of the bloodstream.
Mercury is an antibacterial, yet, in concentrations lower than fatal to humans, bacteria are often encouraged. Health forms of candida, normally found in the mouth, mutate under the influence of the mercury and the destructive bacteria to become harmful varieties of Candida. Mutated Candida produces at least 79 toxins. Sugar activates candida metabolism and some of its by-products are neurotoxins such as formaldehyde, alcohol and acetlyaldehyde. One's nervous system can become confused during candida infestation due to specific neurotoxins. Candida converts the element mercury to methyl mercury which is 100 times more toxic.
The lungs, mouth, and sinuses ... in this increasingly common scenario, become physically depressed by the mercury influence and both bacterial and fungal infections begin and expand their presence as parasites. If the dental mercury amalgams are not removed, the health of the person will become so compromised that they will acquire a chronic form of illness. When the fungal infestation has almost become systemic, it invades the intestines.
Physical depression of the intestines by the influence of mercury or other factors, diminishes peristaltic action and provides an ideal environment for the development of mutated Candida colonies, and, intestinal worms. Together, these parasites degrade normal hormone balances and contribute further to physical changes which encourage weight gain, and, emotional changes which encourage relationship conflict and breakdown. Building and maintaining the attitudes of behaviors of Positive Spiritual Principles is one effective way to cope.
These changes open the door to a host of addictive behaviors ... all of which have determined the major consumer markets since 1996. These behaviors, of drug-food-sex-gambling abuse all promise recovery from the depressive states of parasitic toxicity within a hyper-competitive economy. In the mid- and longer-term, they deliver increasing fatigue ... a perfect environment for parasite expansion. It requires strong Identity Factors and a very clear focus to avoid these pitfalls. A choice to follow Spiritual Guidance is one was to effectively cope.
The use of a wide range of options has maintained one's health in a potential recovery zone rather than allowing it to further fall towards fatality. The use of daily enemas, infrared daily use, Chi machine aerobic activity, Tai Chi, Qigong, multiple forms of chiropractic, heavy metals chelation treatments, hydrogen peroxide intravenous therapy, high strength enzymes, multiple herbal-mineral-bacterial anti-Candida compounds, a continuing large number of supplements and continuing patience and persistence are some of those options.
If the mutated Candida has invaded too far throughout the body and too intensively, it will eventually work its way through the intestinal lining from the outside, effectively creating a leaky gut syndrome. If and when this occurs, it is a signal that one is nearing a terminal level of health from which recovery is likely to be impossible. If one is detoxing at this time, remember that the same symptoms are often representative of BOTH systemic Candida AND a herxheimer reaction. Only time and persistence will clearly define which is the reality.
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Intestinal competition.
A rare development pattern for mutated Candida is a competition with intestinal worms in the small intestine, particularly the beef tapeworm. One of my clients, I will call her Melva D., went through a period of over a year during which she experienced constant fatigue and almost no stool. During this time she continued to eat a balanced meal relevant to her size and reduced energy expenditure. She was following Spiritually Guided selection of supplements and foods of which the former were considerable.
Conventional care doctors were contacted a number of times throughout this period with no constructive results. Stool tests were reported to show no parasites. The labs only test for 30 or less common parasites out of a known human scan of several thousand. In one case, Melva D. submitted 3 samples of the parasites, both Candida and worms, as she had no stool. The result came back: No parasites!
Many alternative health care professionals and resource persons were contacted in an effort to gain a better understanding of what the source of the lost fiber and nutrients might be. After 8 months, one person was found with experience and a plausible answer: a beef tapeworm. Through further investigations, it was determined that the source was most likely a primary vegetarian restaurant in a major North American city. Perhaps an employee transferred the eggs from a pet to food prepared in the restaurant by not washing their hands. There are many possibilities.
With the severely degraded health of Melva D. by the long term of parasite infestation and her coincident attempts to change intense and health destructive imprinted attitude and behavior patterns ... getting rid of the tapeworm(s) now proved almost impossible. Requiring 12 hours of sleep each day and having difficulties with Candida symptoms during her conscious hours, productive work had been minimized for a long time. Much of her day was occupied in selecting and confirming a wide range of supplements and the optimum dosage for the day, together with a similar determination of which therapies were required.
Melva D. had experienced recurrent problems with internalized viruses and an intermittently treated hiatal hernia for over 40 years. Energy block and imprinted patterns, largely inherited or from her youth, had maintained body tensions. A temporomandibular joint disorder, existing for 30 years, had been treated numerous times by dentists and alternative practitioners. Most of the time, they had made the situation WORSE. At best, they provided short-term alleviation of the symptoms. Doctors had been ignorant or in denial of the possibilities.
Added to all of the above was a recurrent experience of mutated Candida. Melva had contracted it from her mother at birth. The symptoms had always been minor and restricted in region of expression with little intestinal growth. A diet high in fresh foods (enzymes) and herbs and spices, together with a lifestyle with a focus on a multiple of Alternative Health practices (yoga, massage, chiropractic, New Age) had assisted in this remedial coping. It had never been intensively treated.
With the added strain on the immune system of Melva from the intestinal worms together with the constant reactivation of viruses from efforts to change her destructive and intense imprinted patterns, the mutated Candida gathered strength. Yet, it was starved for food by the loss of nutrients to the tapeworm(s) and other longer-term intestinal parasites. A compromise and mutation was effected. Some Candida grew freely in her intestine. Some grew on the intestinal worms. It grew into them rather than through her. Without the worms, the Candida would have pierced her intestinal wall and created a leaky gut result on their way to the rest of the abdominal cavity and its organs!
Dental incompetence, or ignorance, contributed to the health problems. As Spiritually Guided, Melva told her dentist to extract two molars. She prized her teeth and had done as much as possible to maintain them so the request was NOT easy. Her dentist refused her request and insisted that her teeth looked fine and that a new crown on one would remedy a contributor to the constant neck lymph gland infection she was experiencing. Several months later, she again insisted. Removing the one crown revealed that the tooth had split lengthwise and severe infection had built under the tooth and through the gum to the adjacent tooth. Removed, the infection decreased and her glands swelled less often.
The BIG problem was now one of how to eradicate the worms without the result of the Candida exploding and invading the abdomen outside of the intestines? Almost every form of herbal and drug anti-parasitic formula had been used by Melva D. during much of the previous 8 months, as she was Spiritually Guided. Each had proved effective in the passing of hundreds of worms. The parent had evidently stayed and continually reproduced and continually become stronger through the challenges of the anti-parasitics. Stronger dosages would have been toxic and potentially fatal for Melva in her weakened condition. Lesser dosages would likely have proved fatal with the worms starving her and poisoning her. Twice daily enemas had been Guided for many months, just to keep her colon clean.
The use of daily enemas, infrared daily use, Chi machine aerobic activity, Tai Chi, Qigong, multiple forms of chiropractic, heavy metals chelation treatments, hydrogen peroxide intravenous therapy, high strength enzymes, a higher strength herbal deworming compound, multiple herbal-mineral-bacterial anti-Candida compounds, a continuing large number of supplements and continuing patience and persistence increased the strength of the health of Melva D.
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Survival and Recovery.
You do not have to do anything!
B.G. Burton-Bradley, wrote Longlong: Transcultural Psychiatry in Papua New Guinea, in (1973).and it was published from the Public Health Department, Port Moresby.
In Papua New Guinea, the “Tok Pisin” (Melanesian pidgin) word “long long” is used to refer to all forms of mental disorder. The word “kava kava” is used by Hiri Motu speakers to refer to mentally ill people in the Papua Region of New Guinea. Most illnesses are thought to be the result of the actions of sorcery (“Puri Puri” in
the Motu language) or displeased spiritual forces. Most deaths are similarly explained.
An anthropologist and psychiatrist, Burton-Bradley was a pioneer researcher in trying to understand and respect the people he studied rather than judge them by comparisons to other more complex and powerful cultures. The people of New Guinea that he studied experienced endemic parasite-based chronic illness. Almost everyone was infected with malaria and intestinal parasites before reaching adulthood. Western medical missionaries, and others, offered to ASSIST them by bringing in and using chemicals and drugs. The Papuans decided to stay with their old traditions. Why?
Life was simple and largely stress free in the village Burton-Bradley studied. Each day, most of the people would take a few hours and by canoe and on foot go out and gather their food for the day: Manioc, Fish, Sago Palm. Those with better health would share their bounty with those not as fortunate. The influence of the chronic illnesses left the individuals fatigued, calm, peaceful. There was rarely any violence and that largely extended from the naivete, and possibly mistaken, use of one or other psychoactive plants in the region. The community structure was band-like.
With a pleasant climate, there was little demand for clothing, food was in adequate supply, housing could be simple. With no requirement for utilities and no health capacity for extended hours of labor to build surpluses, there was no economic pressure. With an influence of the endemic illnesses being one of low libido, there were no large families and little population growth. With no necessity for competition and no material surpluses for greed and envy, there was little crime. The land was communal so there were no taxes. Why would they invite the stress of necessary surpluses and long days of work so they could afford to pay for drugs and insecticides and bring in all of the evils of the Western foreigners?
Is that YOUR Reality?
If you are reading this, you are likely participating in an economic lifestyle that includes income taxes, residential expense, the purchase and storage of food and clothing, and, the potential necessity of some form of transportation. You will likely be well imprinted by billions of dollars worth of attitude and perception advertising to believe that you cannot live without a host of entertainment and personal preference material choices. Surviving on an hour or two of work a day will likely find you quickly homeless, abandoned, and living a VERY stressful lifestyle in a short period of time. It IS possible.
IF you choose to more fully participate in the common culture, you must have a good balance of health, or, be marginalized, or, work to exhaustion. GOOD health will only be attained and maintained if you can avoid chronic illness. The best way to do that is to understand WHY and HOW people become chronically ill. It can also help you keep your focus, and have some compassion for others, if you are aware of WHAT it is like to have a chronic illness, and, WHAT is required, or available, to assist one to recover from such an illness. You can find those on this site.
IF you are still in political denial and expect that your government will protect you from the dangers that lead to chronic illness, and, that they will provide effective health support to enable you to retain your assets and recover from a chronic illness if your should get one, look around you. IF that were true, most retiring seniors would not be in financial distress. IF that were true, the rates of chronic illness would not have kept increasing for the past 20 years and the cost of the healthcare system would not have doubled the rate of population increase.
In Papua, New Guinea there was a transition in health care from infectious towards non-communicable diseases. This transition was particularly marked in urban and coastal areas, where life expectancies were higher and mortality rates lower. Tropical diseases remained significant, malaria worsened and new mobility increased the severity of epidemics of influenza and measles. Despite a focus on primary health care, the medical systems have had much reduced effectiveness since the 1980s.
Rural health centres have been poorly maintained and serviced, and health workers have limited skills and access to resources. The health budget has been increasingly concentrated in urban areas, though the bulk of the population and of the health problems are in rural areas, resulting in a worsening `inverse care law', that is particularly significant for women. Overall health status has declined and the prospects for improvement are poor.
Whether it is a province in Canada or a state in the USA, much the same trend in health care policy has been followed from the mid-1990's and particularly since 2001. EFFECTIVE healthcare has become a private, added cost option in which the individual must educate themselves in areas which the medical and dental industries continue to assert denial. A danger of deception is endemic in the Alternative Health industry in which many of the practitioners continue to express the same form of authoritarian closed mindedness that they criticize the traditional doctors for.
The only way to survive is to leverage your decision-making ability such that you can accurately determine how much of which supplements and which therapies can be most effective at what times for you and those you care about. No amount of education will protect you from the deceptions and manipulations of advertisers or proud and confident one-trick pony promoters. Learn accurate muscle testing or develop a skill of access to accurate Spiritual Guidance, OR, find someone who has and whom you are willing to work with.
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