Candida insomnia
Insomnia, meaning difficulty getting to sleep or staying asleep,
is a problem that has grown to epidemic proportions in recent years.
The reasons behind insomnia and especially the recent increase in
insomnia are not at all clear in the medical literature. The usual
approach is to use benzodiazepine sleep medications (like Xanax, Ativan,
Valium, Klonopin or the closely related drug Ambien) which are
notorious for causing a subtle type of addiction which grows gradually
to a seriously impaired neurologic state. Others seek natural remedies
which may help bring on sleep, but never get at the underlying disorder
which affects sleeping each night.
Insomnia follows some characteristic patterns:
- The most common pattern is falling asleep
without too much difficulty, but then waking up between 1 and 3 am.
The person may or may not be able to fall asleep again after that
depending on their insomnia symptoms.
- Others have trouble getting to sleep in
the first place. They often feel charged up or excited at that time of
the night, rather than feeling tired and relaxed.
- Others wake up “every hour” after falling asleep, and never feel like they’re deeply asleep.
A common experience with any of these
patterns is that people find that their minds won’t turn off, that the
mind is filled with too many thoughts or worries, and that the body
doesn’t seem to even be aware that it’s the middle of the night and that
it should be sleeping. These people often are frustrated and seeking
"insomnia treatments."
After these rough nightly experiences,
people either try to sleep in the next morning or simply tough it out
the next day, often relying on stimulants to make it through.
What is causing the epidemic of insomnia?
While the brain and nervous system are the
areas that control the sleep cycle, most people with insomnia have
normal nervous systems. The most common cause of insomnia, as observed
in clinical practice, is Candida infection and its effect on the liver.
The liver has the task of purifying the
blood so that toxins (which can be natural substances, the products of
metabolism, or unnatural chemicals) are altered to a non-toxic state and
then removed from the bloodstream. If it fails in this function, the
result is too high a level of unwelcome chemicals in the blood and hence
to all the organs, including the brain. The most common example with
which we’re all familiar is how tired and mentally non-functional a
person can be for a while after eating too large a meal; the liver has
the task of processing all food that enters the body, and in this case
it is overwhelmed and cannot clear out all the foreign substances
contained in the meal.
When a person has Candida infection, the
first major organ invaded by Candida is the liver. After months to
years of continuing invasion into deeper tissues, Candida causes the
liver to malfunction, either through direct poisoning or through
interruption of the liver’s normal processes. The result is excess
levels of toxin (normal metabolites that should have been cleared out
and/or direct toxins produced by Candida itself) in the bloodstream,
especially evident between 1 and 3 am when it appears the liver goes
through a natural nightly change. These toxins are generally irritating
to the nervous system, causing irritability, anxiety and panic,
depression, racing or hard-beating heart, and of course insomnia. This
explains why the mind is filled with thoughts and won’t turn off in the
middle of the night. If this symptom is not present, then the insomnia
may have a different cause.
Effective Candida treatment is key to
reversing the abnormal liver condition that accounts for most insomnia
cases today. Other measures to further improve and restore liver
function are often necessary, in addition to Candida treatment, to bring
sleep back to normal. These include a liver/gallbladder flush
technique that is included in the Candida treatment kit, the medicinal
mushroom Reishi, adrenal cortex supplementation, and other helpful
supplements. The instructional CD included with the Candida Kit
specifically describes techniques and supplements that address insomnia.
You can also call for a consultation to discuss poor sleeping and
chronic insomnia.
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