Tuesday, 14 February 2017

Research from Rice University shows that 70 percent of all people are affected by Candida, a systemic fungal infection.¹ According to the molecular biologists at Rice University, Candida is common in humans and is often found in colonies in their intestines, mouths, or on their skin. When researchers delved deeper into how Candida albicans moved throughout the body, with findings published in the journal PLOS One, they noted that the "remarkable pathogen" Candida can cause infection in the body that is both superficial and systemic by penetrating epithelial barriers.²

If you have a strong immune system, you could still unknowingly have a fungal/yeast infection. It most likely is low-grade and chronic.

A Harvard University fellow in infectious disease, Julia Koehler, found that Candida is the predominant fungal infection behind human disease. According to Koehler, Candida was responsible for 60 percent of the fungal infections acquired in hospitals, killing one in three people with a bloodstream infection. Comparing Candida's shape-shifting ability to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Koehler considered the fungus particularly dangerous because of its ability to change forms. When immunity is low, Candida can take over, and a systemic infection can quickly become lethal.³
Based on research published in the Journal of the German Society of Dermatology, Candida albicans overgrowth may be responsible for 50 to 90 percent of Candida infection and could be at the root of some chronic disease.⁴

Your body's ability to overcome pathogenic Candida depends on the health of your gut. Drinking a powerful superfood drink like Vitality SuperGreen every morning can provide your body with the minerals and probiotics it needs to strengthen the gut lining — and contain Candida.

What Is Candida?

A fungus is a microscopic organism that typically lives harmlessly in people. However, if your inner ecosystem is out of balance and your immunity is weakened, you are at risk for a fungal infection, like Candida (also known as a yeast infection).
A single-cell organism, Candida reproduces asexually and thrives on some of the body's byproducts: dead tissue and sugars from food. Unless its environment is altered and its source of food is eliminated, it quickly monopolizes entire body systems, such as the digestive tract, and causes moderate to severe symptoms.
In patients with weakened immune systems, like those with AIDS or cancer, Candida in the bloodstream can (and often does) become the actual cause of death. Dr. Andrew Koh, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology at the UT Southwest Medical Center, estimates that for a cancer patient with a Candida infection in the bloodstream, the fatality rate is roughly 30 percent.⁵

Symptoms of Candida

When someone has Candida, they often appear to look very healthy on the outside. Therefore, most people (and even their healthcare professionals) are totally unaware that a serious infection lies deep within. The symptoms of Candida often mimic other illnesses, so it can be difficult to diagnose without testing. In fact, here at Body Ecology we often hear people tell us: "I'm the healthiest-looking sick person I know." In other words, people actually feel much worse than they look.
Please note these common Candida symptoms are also associated with many other disorders — making diagnosing this problem even more difficult:

Bad breath
Bloating, belching, intestinal gas, and/or abdominal pain
Constipation or diarrhea
Endometriosis or infertility
Fatigue and chronic fatigue
Frequent mood swings
Impotence
Insomnia
Loss of sexual desire or feeling
Muscle aches, weakness, or paralysis
Pain and/or swelling in joints
Poor memory, foggy thinking, or feeling "spacey"
Prostatitis
Troublesome vaginal itching, burning, or discharge

It would benefit everyone to use this Candida questionnaire. Your results can be discussed with your doctor but be mindful: Most physicians are not aware of systemic fungal infections. The ones who are believe an anti-fungal drug will solve the problem. Bring this article along with you as you consider treatment options!

Why Fungal Infections Are Becoming More Common

Why are so many people affected by fungal infections like Candida?
Some of the more common causes are listed below. Please note that all of these factors are related to weakened immunity, weakened adrenals, and low levels of minerals needed to maintain a slightly alkaline blood environment:

Gut diversity has changed - With less diversity in our gut microbiome, our bodies are more susceptible to pathogens that weaken the immune system.
Widespread use of antibiotics and other drugs - Drugs create an acidic environment in our blood, which weakens our immunity.
Success in treating diseases like AIDS/HIV - Creating a subgroup of people susceptible to fungal infections due to lowered immunity.
Poor food quality - Because of modern agricultural practices that deplete the soil of precious minerals, even the healthiest foods are not what they used to be. Eating these mineral-poor foods, and especially GMOs, creates an acidic blood environment.
Poor diets - The Standard American Diet is not only full of sugar and processed foods, it also lacks minerals. This sets the stage for an unhealthy inner ecosystem and lowered immunity.

If you have a strong immune system, you could still unknowingly have a fungal/yeast infection. It most likely is low-grade and chronic. You might notice that your fungal infection seems to at times "flare up," even becoming "acute" any time your immune system is suppressed for any reason: stress, upset, pregnancy, or illness.
It's clear that keeping our immunity strong is imperative, and this is one of the main benefits of Body Ecology's program.

Yeast Infections: More Serious Than You Think

A woman who has vaginal yeast infections is led to believe (from popular television commercials) that the problem is only in her birth canal or is an unsightly infection on her toenails. According to the University of Maryland Medical Center, roughly 75 percent of women will get a vaginal yeast infection in their lifetime.⁶ But in fact, these are merely "symptoms" of an infection that is actually in her bloodstream. If she should become pregnant, her unborn baby is also at risk.
Some women who never have vaginal infections believe they are free of the problem when indeed they will have differing symptoms manifesting in other ways.
At Body Ecology, we are seriously concerned that an entire generation of young women of child-bearing age are being kept in the dark about the causes of Candida and of its potential impact on their children. We know that fungal infections are in all children with autism and also their mothers. We know autism begins in the womb when the fetus is exposed to the fungus. In fact, an entire generation of children are at risk for being on the autism spectrum because the truth is not being told about Candida.
Fungal infections like Candida can affect anyone at any age — pre-birth to elderly. Many of us were actually infected at birth. This sets the stage for an entire lifetime of weakened immune systems and poor health. With the widespread overuse of antibiotics and other drugs coupled with a processed, high-carb diet, fungal/yeast infections are currently affecting the well-being of at least four generations living today.

Body Ecology: Nature's Prescription

Even doctors themselves are not trained to understand how serious and prevalent fungal infections are. In medical school, physicians are taught that fungal infections can take lives if they become acute. They are taught to prescribe the "safest and most effective" drugs for a condition or set of symptoms, and for fungal infections, they will certainly prescribe the "drug of choice" in a billion dollar spectrum of anti-fungal drugs.
Unfortunately, these drugs have side effects and create an acidic condition in your body.
The search for stronger and stronger anti-fungals continues because the fungi have the ability to mutate. Current anti-fungals are becoming ineffective. While modern medicine is beginning to see that fungi/yeast are truly serious opponents and that all drugs have side effects, they still do not understand the power of diet to control these infections.
Most doctors simply haven't been properly introduced to the idea that the food a person is eating and digesting throughout the day is the single most important factor in overcoming these fungal infections. They are never trained to understand the meaning of the words:
Food is medicine.
For healing fungal infections like Candida, it's critical to go on an anti-fungal diet. Here's what you can expect from the anti-fungal Body Ecology Diet. It:

Is totally sugar-free, gluten-free, and casein-free and won't feed the Candida.
Includes fermented foods and drinks to build your inner ecosystem.
Is an antidote to the harmful effects of antibiotics.
Provides minerals, which Candida robs from your body.
Heals digestion — poor digestion further feeds the yeast.

The Body Ecology Way has evolved over the past 20 years. While we may appear to be a new arrival on the scene, our system of health and healing has actually been refined and perfected over many years. Today, thankfully, many people (including physicians) are beginning to look at our programs for various disorders. We continue to research to find natural solutions for health and vitality for the generations to come. The Body Ecology Way is the most complete, comprehensive, and successful system for treating fungal infections. Since 70 percent of Americans have Candida, we can assume that worldwide numbers are staggering. Many people of all ages need knowledge of how to heal their bodies from the inside and sustain this healing for the long-term.

2 Ways to Heal YOUR Fungal Infection

Start the Body Ecology program today and nourish yourself to great health! Donna Gates wrote The Body Ecology Diet as a way to guide people toward their own natural health and healing.
In the book, you will learn how to heal your inner ecosystem. There are two important ways you can keep your inner ecosystem strong:

Vitality SuperGreen - Enjoying a powerful green drink every morning can provide minerals and probiotics and ensure a healthy gut lining. It's also a great afternoon energizer.
Young Coconut Kefir and Cultured Vegetables - These fermented foods and drinks are another staple to enjoy at each meal to provide key vitamins and minerals, aid digestion, and build a healthy inner ecosystem. You can make them at home with our culture starters.

The Body Ecology program empowers you to create your own health, naturally. Eight out of 10 Americans would benefit greatly from our first-stage (more limited) version of the Body Ecology program, until their fungal infection is well under control and the Candida has been contained. If you are very strict with yourself, this will take approximately three months. After that, we encourage you to widen out into a less strict version of our program, adding in foods that are still very healthy but that do not feed a yeast infection. This way, you can maintain health, energy, and youthful vitality throughout the rest of your life.

What To Remember Most About This Article:

The latest research tells us something shocking about Candida — up to 70 percent of all people may be suffering from a systemic fungal infection. Candida is considered to be the predominant fungal infection behind human disease.
Candida as a fungus starts as a microscopic organism that can live harmlessly in the body. But when immunity is weak and the inner ecosystem is out of balance, Candida grows into a full-blown fungal infection, also called a yeast infection. Common symptoms of Candida are easily overlooked because they are associated with a number of health problems — like bloating and abdominal pain, constipation and diarrhea, infertility and impotence, chronic fatigue, mood swings, muscle aches, and more.
Fortunately, your health is still in your hands. You can control Candida by restoring your inner ecology first of all. Drinking a superfood drink like Vitality SuperGreen can strengthen the gut lining to keep Candida contained. Enjoying fermented foods and beverages daily, like young coconut kefir and cultured vegetables, helps strengthen immunity and build a robust inner ecosystem. The Body Ecology Diet provides a complete anti-fungal diet plan to help you win the battle against Candida and reclaim your health

The ignored epidemic

Candida infection is a controversial condition and perhaps the most ignored epidemic worldwide. In this article we’ll take a look at its symptoms, causes and treatment.
Candida infection is caused by a naturally occurring organism in all human beings – a single-celled organism called Candida albicans that can cause a tremendous amount of health problems:

fatigue (more noticeable after eating)
frequent headaches/migraines
digestive problems – bloating, diarrhea, constipation
vaginal yeast infections
rashes

What you need to understand about this particular organism is that each one of us carries it in our gastrointestinal tract. And – as long as everything is equal and balanced – it doesn’t seem to cause any harm one way or the other.
In fact, inside your gut or intestinal linings, you have another group of organisms known as the healthy bacteria. And those healthy bacteria include acidophilus, bifidus – whole variety of various strains. These good guys, the good bacteria keep the Candida population in line. They kind of balance each other out.
Now here comes the problem. Whenever we do something or get into the situation where we’re damaging or reducing greatly the amount of the healthy bacteria in our gastrointestinal tract, that allows the Candida organism to explosively multiply.

Leading Causes of Candida Infection

Now under what circumstances might that occur? First of all – when you use broad spectrum antibiotics. The antibiotic destroys all bacteria – not just the bad guys but it kills the good ones in your intestinal tract as well. And once they’ve died off, that allows that Candida to grow unchecked. Another causes of Candida infection include:

weakened immune system (people suffering from cancer or AIDS are especially susceptible to Candida overgrowth)
eating unhealthy foods (for example, foods high in sugar create a breeding ground for Candida albicans to proliferate)
taking birth control pills that cause hormonal imbalance which is perfect environment for Candida to thrive
diabetes or pregnancy

The problem with Candida infection is that many conventional doctors still deny its existence. Holistic doctors on the other hand are claiming that it has reached epidemic proportions as there’s hardly any woman alive who hasn’t at one time or another in her life experienced a localized vaginal yeast infection. It’s up to you who you trust, but if you suffer from any of the aforementioned symptoms with no real explanation, it may be worth your time to talk with your doctor to see whether Candida is involved.

Editor’s note: subclinical “systemic candidiasis” is a controversial diagnosis espoused by proponents of alternative medicine. Subclinical “systemic candiasis” or candida hypersensitivity syndrome is a view that was widely promoted in a book by Dr. William Crook. It’s not widely viewed as a viable diagnosis by conventional medicine

Perhaps Yahoo will listen

Dear Editor,

I know that what I am about to tell you sounds incredible, even futuristic, but I'm afraid it is happening now.

The UK is in the grip of a candida/candidiasis epidemic and their NHS system can't cope.

It has developed over decades and is now being transmitted, through throat infections, stomach infections and chlamydia.

It is also being passed from mother to child, hence the huge amount of childhood cancers.

Candida happens in death and helps to rot the body.

Yours

Thursday, 9 February 2017

NHS is in crisis, because because of Doctors denial, of candida epidemic and the importance of Chiropractors

nothing more, nothing less......

Monday, 6 February 2017

Estrogen

There is a connection between Candida and estrogen, and the connections leads to a condition called vaginal candidiasis. This article is about the problems associated with hormonal imbalance in the relation to the two aforementioned substances naturally present in the human body.
Candida overgrowth and hormonal imbalance are abnormalities in the way the body naturally functions. There is a natural tendency for the human body to give signals that alert us that there is something wrong. Those signals come in the form of symptoms. Marc Lambert, who specializes in Homeopathy and Candida overgrowth, clarified that a great deal of symptoms associated with the two earlier mentioned abnormalities are very much the same. Lambert explains that an imbalance in the hormone called estrogen affects women more than men primarily because of its significant role in the female anatomy than in a male’s. Estrogen as further elaborated by Lambert is produced in the ovaries, adrenals, fat cells, and bowel. Women are supposed to have far more estrogen than men.
An overgrowth in the otherwise harmless Candida can have adverse effects in the endocrine and immune systems. Such overgrowth can cause hormonal problems as well. Lambert provides an example of how that can happen. He details that the moment Candida waste generates false estrogen, the human body may get facts wrong. Such production may be mistakenly taken as a sign that the body has all the estrogen necessary, and will start producing less.
Vaginal Candidiasis
Lambert further warns that elevated estrogen levels can also lead to another condition known as vaginal candidiasis. In the information provided by Canada.com about Vaginitis, it mentions that yeast infection, which is otherwise referred to as Vaginal Candidiasis, is also a result of the overgrowth discussed earlier. You can experience problems associated with yeast infection if you are under certain medications like antibiotics. A suppressed immune system can similarly result in such problems. Furthermore, if you are not able to get adequate sleep, have a poor diet or take oral contraceptives, you are at higher risk of contacting yeast infections in your private areas.
The Problem with Suspicions
According to Elizabeth Gunther Stewart, a Boston-based gynecologist, women usually assume that the characteristic discharge and irritation in the private areas are yeast infection. These ladies are not aware that those occurrences may also serve as signals for other conditions that require immediate attention. Following the common suspicion, there are women who would end up self-treating themselves in what they believe to be a yeast infection. They fail to realize the possibility that they may not be addressing the problem or worse, further aggravating their discomfort because they did not properly identify what they are treating themselves for. If you are ever unsure, the most important thing that you must do is get it diagnosed properly by a healthcare practitioner.
Look out for the Symptoms
In the article entitled “Vaginal Candidiasis”, found in the Better Medicine’s website, certain symptoms are enumerated. For one, it informs that those who are suffering from such conditions may also experience itching in the private area. Women with vaginal candidiasis may likewise notice a thick white discharge. Moreover, the area around the privates may also appear swollen and red. Pain may be felt during sexual intercourse or urination.
Pretending to be experts
Sometimes, the confusion lies in the similarities. Those similarities are what lead us to believe that a particular symptom is a sign of a certain condition. And then we form our own conclusions without initially setting the facts straight. Most often than not, we tend to assume that we already know what might be the problem with our bodies. As a result, we drop the need to seek professional assistance believing that we can work things out without it. Unfortunately, things do not always turn out the way we want them to. You and I are guilty of this. And it’s about time that you and I change our ways.
Know your body and visit your doctor
The wealth of information made available online makes it easy for us to understand more about our bodies. Gathering helpful data about what may bother us has never been this easy. However, even the most credible sources accessible online do not claim to replace proper medical care. It helps to do our homework and strive to grasp better the workings of our own body. Nevertheless, we should never fail to remember that we can only understand so much and we might even misinterpret things. It is important to keep in mind that someone who knows better is willing to help us address our problems, all we have to do is give our doctor a simple ring and book an appointment.

Hormone levels

The Candida Link: Hormonal Imbalance and the Natural Way To Remedy PMS and Improve Your Health

A hormonal imbalance can cause symptoms like fatigue, bloating, and mood swings that make you want to curl up in bed all day long. To restore health and stabilize hormone levels, it's important to control Candida by focusing on your digestive health first of all.

Hormone imbalances can occur any time in your life, not just related to early menopause. In order to best treat a hormonal imbalance, it's important to understand how hormone fluctuations occur, often triggered by Candida overgrowth.

Although hormonal imbalances are often associated with menopause, you may be surprised to find that you can experience symptoms as early as your late 20s!

One of the most common causes of Candida overgrowth is the use of oral contraceptives.

Hormone levels that are out of whack may be disguised as a number of common and widely accepted symptoms, including:

Fatigue
Illness
Early menopause

For many women, uncomfortable monthly hormone issues - also known as PMS - are considered a fact of life and even a rite of passage. As most women are well-familiar with, PMS symptoms can range from mild to severe; they may include mood swings, fatigue, bloating, and even depression.

If you suffer from chronic symptoms caused by a hormonal imbalance, many physicians will prescribe an oral contraceptive to manage PMS or recommend hormone replacement therapy. These methods are used to regulate hormone rhythms and attempt to control the many unpleasant symptoms associated with a hormonal imbalance.

Imbalanced Hormones: Where It All Begins

If you're sick of dealing with PMS month after month, the good news is that you may no longer have to! For sufferers of PMS, research has proven that estrogen can support Candida growth^1,².Even worse, one of the most common causes of Candida overgrowth is the use of oral contraceptives, otherwise known as the birth control pill^3,^4,⁵.
If you're unfamiliar with Candida, it’s essential to understand that it is a pathogenic, opportunistic microorganism. Meaning, Candida can quickly spread throughout the body and cause a systemic fungal infection. This leads to a vicious cycle of whole-body inflammation that can spread the growth of Candida yeast beyond the digestive tract. But surprisingly enough, how Candida overgrowth affects a woman's hormones is rarely discussed as a solution to a hormonal imbalance. A chronic Candida infection can create a waste product that will mimic estrogen in the human body. When a doctor is looking to diagnose severe PMS or other hormonal issues, it's important to explore estrogen dominance that has been triggered by Candida overgrowth - before writing a prescription.

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