How Candida Causes Symptoms, Diseases, Defects & Malfunctions

December 20, 2011 to add: The Truth About Candida, What Are Antifungals and Fungus?, Doctors Create a Mystery by Naming ALL "Signs" of Poor Health, What IS Candida/Yeast (a fungus) and What Causes It?, What is Homeostasis?, and The False Information About Candida.

All of the information previously written in this article about candida was totally false—See the Section: False Information About Candida, however it isn't worth the effort to read it!

The Truth About Candida

Like many other people I believed the literature about candida, however I have discovered it was not true! In fact all of the information was fabricated (made up) by doctors and the medical and drug industries in order to make people believe their antibiotics, antifungals, antiviral, antiparasitic and antibacterial drugs would help us get healthy but instead they are making us sicker and more unhealthy! Since this is about candida, let's look at antifungals and fungus (candida/yeast).

What Are Antifungals and Fungus?

Antifungal is a term fabricated (made up) by the medical industry in order to justify the use of drugs to treat funguses, which includes candida, yeast, and cancer.

Antifungals are substances the medical industry "claims" will kill or inhibit the growth of funguses, i.e. candida, yeast, and cancer, and their ability to multiply, which includes medical drugs such as Nystatin, Diflucan, Nizoral, Sporanex, Clotrimazole Azole, Ketoconazole, etc., and natural substances such as garlic, oil of oregano, clove oil, olive leaf extract, etc.

Fungi is the singular form of the word "fungus" (plural). The English word "fungus" is directly adopted from the Latin fungus (mushroom), that comes from the Greek word spoggos, "a sponge." Fungi include a wide variety of organisms that reproduce by spores, including mushrooms, molds, yeasts, and mildews. Under certain conditions the spores of most fungi grow a network of slender tubes called hyphae [like feet or tenacles] that branch out and feed off of dead matter. Fungi can feed on almost any kind of material, and are considered the housekeepers of the planet and also of our bodies.

In our bodies the most common form of fungus is candida albicans, also called candida, yeast infection, or candidiasis. In the mouth it is called thrush, in the vagina it is called vulvovaginal candidiasis, monilial vaginitis, etc., and in male genitals it is called balanitis. However, all of those terms were created by the medical field in order to confuse us and to separate the naming of diseases to make us think they know more than they actually do.

You will learn that all disease processes are exactly the same as healing and detoxifying processes the body creates in an effort to maintain its health, in spite of poor nutrition, an overload of toxins, stress, etc. In other words, all symptoms, reactions, illnesses, organ malfunctions, etc. are simply "signs" of poor health, that are warnings from Nature that something is not right.

Think about it: How can diseases, illnesses, malfunctions, etc. cause themselves? That is like saying "firemen cause fires" or "flies cause manure piles". Therefore medicine today is not treating "causes of disease," instead it treats "results of disease," claiming they are the causes.

Doctors Create a Mystery by Naming ALL "Signs" of Poor Health

However, the medical industry labels each and every "sign" of poor health as separate diseases, illnesses, syndromes, malfunctions, etc., that they treat separately, as if the whole body didn't exist. They also deny and/or suppress information about how the body heals itself, by re–writing Human Physiology (how the body works) to support their false claims.

In fact "all signs" are evidence the body is working hard to restore its health, which are normal body reactions. For example, the body itself creates inflammation and infection in order to heal and detoxify an area. In other words, normal healing processes and reactions are not caused by any outside sources—see Inflammation & Infection are Natural Healing Processes.

Doctors first started naming "signs of poor health" back in the 1400s when Natural Healing was declared witchcraft, when they burned many "so–called" witches at the stake. Natural healing was declared magic, and was therefore the work of the Devil. If any person used what was called witchcraft to help someone, they were dealt with as though they had murdered a person. "...The workings of witches are never lawful" and therefore they were all seen as Devil–worshippers—Source The Inquisition and Witchcraft.

In the Sugar Blues book William Dufty writes: "Inquisitors [court who judged people on the basis of religious beliefs and activities] relied on physicians to distinguish between those [health] disorders due to natural causes and those disorders stemming from [so-called] witchcraft. Latin was the language of the physicians and the priest. So physicians came to use the Latin words symptoma from the Greek word symptoma, for sign. What the [so-called] sorceress [natural healers] had called a sign, warning from nature, the physician began to call a symptom.

" Few physicians could tell you something you did n0t know in your own bones. They could only examine you, listen to your complaints, then give your signs, warnings, or symptoms a fancy new name in Latin or Greek." That way physicians created a mystery, making people "believe" physicians know something they did not or could not know, which secured the physicians' services.

Dufty goes on to say: "Now that the competition [healers] had been wiped out, physician and priest did what conquerors in cahoots always do: The spoils were divided. The priest and exorcist took custody of the psyche [mind], leaving the soma [body] to the physician and surgeon." This ensured that people would look to them as their saviors, who are the psychiatrists and physicians today!

What IS Candida/Yeast (a fungus) and What Causes It?

Candida is a short name used to describe yeast or fungal overgrowth in the body. The technical term for yeast overgrowth is "candidiasis," which means "an overgrowth of candida albicans in the body." Candida albicans is a single-celled fungus that belongs to the vegetable kingdom, similar to their "cousins" the molds.

Candida is not the "cause of" so many diseases, reactions, symptoms, or malfunctions as claimed, since it is the "result of" poor health, and there are five Primary Reasons for All Failing Health:

Lack of the correct combination of nutrients that all humans need in order to be healthy.
Lack of oxygen at a cellular level and/or the inability of the cells to utilize oxygen.
Accumulation of toxins, poisons, and waste because of an inability of the body to detoxify like it should.
Lowered vitality (energy) due to stress, shock, injury, emotional upsets, losses, relationship or financial worries, being unhealthy, etc., and a lack of energy at a cellular level.
Poor "Nutritional Status" acquired from parents upon conception.

Mother Nature provides many ways of dealing with poor health, as it does in the environment, soil, plants, and all animals on Earth, called "homeostasis".

What is Homeostasis?

Homeostasis is:

The ability of an organism or a cell to regulate it's internal conditions, usually by a system of feedback and controls, in order to stabilize health and functioning.

The ability of the body or a cell to seek and maintain a condition of stability and health within its internal environment when dealing with internal or external changes or influences.

In humans, homeostasis regulates body temperature to maintain a normal body temperature around 98.6°F. For example, we sweat to cool off in hot weather, and we shiver to produce heat in cold weather. Homeostasis ensures we can act quickly and effectively to threats or danger by automatically switching over to our "fight/flight" nervous system.

Homeostasis is also involved when we do not get the nutrition needed for health, so our bodies are forced to pull nutrients from itself, called, borrowing, i.e. protein and nutrients from muscles or minerals from bones, to ensure vital organs like the heart function properly.

Mother Nature was wise enough to provide our bodies with all of the resources, mechanisms, tools, feedback, etc. that are necessary in order to maintain our bodies' homeostatis. All diseases, symptoms, illnesses, malfunctioning organs, etc. that occur are evidence the body is utilizing it's resources in order to maintain homeostasis, i.e. to restore its health. In other words, any changes the body makes are for its optimal survival, including the creation of germs, viruses, bacteria, fungus (candida/yeast and cancer).

Many researchers and scientist throughout history have proved germs, bacteria, fungus (including candida and cancer) are caused by the poor condition of the body, and that the body itself creates them. They proved the existence of a single micro–organism, or microbe, which is found everywhere in Nature, i.e. on rocks, plants, in soil, insects, and in all animals and humans on Earth. Modern microscopes commonly used in the medical field today are not able to detect these microbes, since they are too small. In order to see these microbes researchers who discovered them use special microscopes. For example, Gaston Naessens designed and built a microscope he called the "Somatoscope."

That is a good introduction to this article, so I will stop there, and refer you to these articles that tell "the rest of the story":

Remember that "Knowledge is Power".

The False Information About Candida

This is what I used to believe!

When Candida is allowed to get out of control it changes its shape and starts branching out raising large families called colonies. These Candida colonies excrete over 79 different types of toxins (chemicals) that circulate throughout the body weakening the immune system and causing numerous symptoms and malfunctions throughout the body.

Two toxins that are particularly devastating are called acetaldehyde and ethanol (a type of alcohol). Both act like poisons on the various tissues of the body and can cause lesions.

These chemicals cause all of the cells in the body to go rigid, even white and red blood cells. Flexibility is very important for the functioning of cells, which allows nutrients and hormones to go in, and waste materials to go out, as well as other important activities.

Red blood cells carry oxygen throughout the body and must be flexible enough to squeeze down to about one-seventh their normal size in order to travel into the body's tiny capillaries. When they become rigid the transport of life-giving oxygen to all the tissues and organs is impaired. This causes the tissues and organs to lose their ability to function. It is also why many candida sufferers have cold hands and feet.

White blood cells fight infection by wrapping part of itself around a bacteria or other foreign invader, swallowing the invader, and eventually destroying it. White blood cells that have become brittle and rigid by yeast toxins can not do their job. The result - you can't fight off infection as easily.

There's more. Defective cell membranes may interfere with the ability of glucose (blood sugar) to penetrate the cells, a job normally accomplished with the help of insulin. When cell membranes are damaged, the insulin will have trouble doing its job — and insulin levels may have to be increased.

This causes low blood sugar levels (hypoglycaemia; also called insulin reaction) resulting in low energy, light headedness, and sometimes even a coma. This exhausts the pancreas, causing it to dysfunction as well.

Hormones regulate various body functions by traveling through the bloodstream to vital areas of the body, and Candida toxins interfere with this process. Candida toxins make all of the cells rigid in organs responsible for producing hormones, so they are less capable of producing hormones. Hormones that are produced enter the bloodstream yet they have trouble getting to their intended destination.

Once they arrive, they have difficulty getting into rigid cell membranes. Hormones can not do their intended job if they don't achieve adequate levels in the body's cells! Such hormones include thyroid, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, and many others, even those that regulate digestion and the release of digestive juices.

Nutrients such as potassium, calcium, and other minerals also have trouble getting into rigid cell walls. This can result in fluid retention, electrolyte imbalances, and a number of other problems.

In fact every nutrient required by the body will have difficulty getting into rigid cells throughout the body, including protein (amino acids), fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. Rigid cells are also not as able to get rid of their waste and regulate water.

If that isn't enough problems caused by candida, Candida also produces very long root-like structures that penetrate intestinal walls. These root-like structures cause considerable damage to the walls of the intestines resulting in poor digestion and mal-absorption of nutrients.

This, in addition to foods being irradiated (exposed to high levels of radiation to extend shelf life), foods being grown in nutrient- depleted soil, long storage and transportation times, and improper handling, along with improper cooking and microwaving that goes on in most homes, all result in depleted nutrients.

All of these factors contribute to a weakened immune system. A weakened immune system cannot keep Candida in check, allowing it to overgrow and get out of control.

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