Can Candida cause cancer???????

Can Candida Cause Cancer?

By Chris Woollams
Most people simply would not think that one of the first steps in a cancer prevention programme might be to cut out excess yeasts or candida infections. Certainly few oncology doctors would tell a newly diagnosed cancer patient to go on an anti-yeast, anti-candida diet. Moreover, they will probably give you antibiotics, steroids and other drugs that will only make your yeast infections worse!
However, there is a growing body of evidence that yeast infections, and particularly candida, are involved in a number of cancers. They are definitely an acknowledged problem in certain cancer treatments, for example in Multiple Myeloma and Leukaemia, a by-product of the heavy drug routine and the lack of a strong immune system.
But could yeasts and candida actually lie behind many cancers, far more than Doctors would expect? Could they even be the cause of a cancer? Or a factor that could drive the disease as it progresses?
Try this for size:  Cancer patients undergoing radio or chemotherapy did not finally succumb to the cancer itself, but to an infestation of candida albicans. That was taken from Contemporary Oncology Magazine 1993 in the USA.
This is one article about the possibility that common yeasts, which can show as symptoms like thrush, cystitis, yellow toe nails and/or bloating after meals, can develop in the body to become serious candida albicans infections. These thrive in a low oxygen environment (as do cancers) and produce toxic by-products that can both feed and stimulate cancers. The article, about the work of Gerald Green, will even give you a simple anti-candida diet. (Readers might also look at a further
Candida, yeast infection and cancer
I have a wonderful job. I meet so many interesting people, so many experts all on the same mission - helping people beat cancer. One minute its Charlotte Gerson, then Dr Contreras. I may get a complex soon though; none of Britains top orthodox doctors ever seem to ring me up to tell me of their latest work, which is very sad because icon now goes out to over 450,000 readers every issue in over 500 hospitals, oncology units,complementary centres and health centres in UK libraries.

It is estimated that 70 per cent of the British population     
   have a yeast infection

One gentleman, with whom I have been corresponding, is Gerald Green, a medical herbalist and immunologist in Bexhill, Sussex. His grandfather (Professor Fritz Hber 1868-1934) won a Nobel Prize and was one of Germanys finest scientists. Energy and investigative endurance clearly run in the family. Gerald has devoted a large part of his life to studying candida. It is estimated that 70 per cent of the British population have a yeast infection. The primary cause of this is our love of antibiotics. Swollen glands? Take antibiotics. Tonsillitis? Take antibiotics. Are you allergic to antibiotics? If the answer is no, thats fine. Antibiotics have no side effects. Who says?
So would you be surprised if I told you that The Journal of the American Medical Association (Feb 18th 2004; 291; 827-35) has reported a study on 10,000 women in which women who took over 500 days of antibiotics in a 17 year period (dubbed 25 plus doses) had twice the risk of breast cancer as those that took none at all. Even women taking just ONE DOSE had a statistical risk increase to 1.5 times. This followed worrysome findings in Finland in 2000.

Friendly Bacteria

Apart from a minor problem that they may well be toxic to brain cells (Drs Goldman & Klatz - US), antibiotics kill many strains of bacteria in the body, including the ones you need; the friendly ones in the gut.
Friendly bacteria? Youve probably heard of acidophilus, or bifidobacteria? Your gut actually contains about 800 different strains, 400 of which have been identified. Roughly 12 come up time and time again in research and, for example,
        1 They are known drivers of 85 per cent of your immune system - they act by stimulating it to produce antibodies
        2 They help you cut up your foods and release important (and anti-cancer) vitamins like biotin, folic acid, B-12 and vitamin K.
        3 They help you eliminate carcinogenic hormones and chemicals like oestrogen, nitrosamines, cadmium and mercury
        4 They even produce an anti-cancer chemical from your foods
        5 Their favourite foods are whole foods and whole grains - and candida albicans and microbes

Antibiotics kill most of the bacteria in the body,
                                including the ones you need

At night they can digest roughly 2.2 kilograms of yeasts and microbes for you. They are your first line of defence.
They have inhabited our bodies for thousands of years. They help us, and in return we give them a nice cosy place to live.
Except we dont anymore. We have broken our lifetime deal with them. We no longer feed them their favourite fibre-full, whole foods. And we eat too much salt, drink alcohol and chlorinated water that changes our stomachs acidity and harms them and reduces their action. Worse we eat food with antibiotics in  it and take drugs, both of which can kill them.
We live our lives with acid bodies caused by poor diet and stress, and this will stop them working to their full efficiency. These friendly bacteria thrive in alkaline bodies. (To read more on acid bodies and cancer - click here)
And to make matters worse we feed their enemies - yeasts and candida love sugar and dairy!
Stress and poor diet can eliminate most in just a few days, so you are wise anyway to take a daily multi-strain probiotic.