Candida Healing Wisdom Newsletter No. 1
© Copyright Bee Wilder
June 21, 2006
Table of Contents
Cell Membrane Defects Caused by Candida
Excerpts from: Back To Health by Dennis W. Remington, M.D. & Barbara W. Higa issued October 1986.
Under normal conditions, red blood cells carry oxygen throughout the body; red blood cells must be flexible enough to squeeze down to about one-seventh their normal size in order to travel into the body's tiny capillaries. The chemicals released by yeast cause the red blood cell walls to become more rigid. As a result, they have difficulty squeezing into the tiny capillaries - and the transport of life-giving oxygen to all the tissues and organs of the body are impaired. Deprived of sufficient oxygen, these tissues and organs lose their ability to function.
Red blood cells aren't the only ones affected. Yeast toxins damage white blood cells, too, compromising their ability to fight off infection. Normally, a white blood cell fights infection by wrapping part of itself around a bacteria or other foreign invader, swallowing the invader and eventually destroying it. A white blood cell that has been made brittle and rigid by yeast toxins simple can't do the job. The result? You can't fight off infection as easily.
There's more. Defective cell membranes may interfere with the ability of sugar {blood sugar} to penetrate the various 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 {by the body}. As you'll see later, this may result in low blood sugar and cause you to gain weight!
Thyroid hormones also have trouble penetrating the cell membranes. Since thyroid hormones regulate metabolism, the result is slow metabolism, low body temperature, fatigue, and intolerance to cold. Unfortunately, laboratory tests can't diagnose this kind of a problem, because they read the level of thyroid hormones in the bloodstream - they don't read the ability of the thyroid hormones to function with the cell.
Sodium potassium, calcium and other minerals also have trouble penetrating the cell walls. The result can be fluid retention, electrolyte imbalance, and a number of other problems.
Messages that one cell sends to another can also be hindered by yeast toxins. How? Normally, one cell sends a message to another cell by releasing a special chemical; the second cell (in a nerve or muscle) absorbs the chemical and picks up the message. When damaged by yeast toxins, the cells can't send or pick up messages properly - and a number of muscle and nervous system symptoms can results.
Abnormal hormone response. Hormones regulate your various body functions by traveling through the bloodstream to vital areas of the body. Yeast toxins interfere with that process; the hormones are produced, and they enter the bloodstream, but they have trouble getting to their intended destination. Even though you have plenty of hormones in your bloodstream, they can't do the intended job if they don't achieve adequate levels in the intended site!
Candida Overgrowth Puts Out Over 79 Toxins
You're not only dealing with yeast overgrowth but also the fact that Candida albicans puts out 79 toxic by-products, all of which weaken your immune system affecting every cell in the body (as noted in the article above).
One of the major toxins produced by Candida albicans is acetaldehyde. Acetaldehyde is a fungal waste product. Acetaldehydes are known to poison tissues and they are also carcinogenic (cancer-causing) – accumulating in the brain, spinal cord, joints, muscles and tissues.
Acetaldehyde is also transformed by the liver to ethanol (alcohol), creating the feeling of intoxication and brain fog. There have been cases where Candida patients have been pulled over and tested positive with elevated blood alcohol levels above normal, although they had consumed no alcoholic beverages.
As the immune system continues to weaken from yeast overgrowth and its toxic by-products, more and more symptoms arise. This fungus burrows its roots into the intestinal lining, creating a leaky gut, allowing the yeast/fungus to go into the bloodstream. This systemic yeast infection is called Candidiasis.
The Body Can Utilize Fatty Acids & Protein for Energy
Many people believe that carbohydrates are necessary to maintain our energy levels, but the body can utilize fatty acids ("good" dietary fats such as butter, coconut oil, lard, and naturally occurring animal fats) for energy, as well as convert protein into glucose on an as-needed basis. "The mitochondria* in our cells, the organelles* that generate energy for us, are specifically designed to use fat for energy," said Dr. Allan. "Furthermore, many organs prefer fat as an energy source – not glucose," he concluded. Indeed, the heart prefers naturally saturated fatty acids for its energy needs, not glucose.
*mitochondria and organelles are specialized parts of a cell that carry out some specific functions.
Another myth is that one needs to eat lots of fruits and vegetables to get enough vitamins and minerals each day. But Dr. Allan counters that, "While we do get some vitamins and minerals from plant foods, we can get more of them from animal foods. Even more importantly, there are many vitamins and cofactors that we only get from animal foods." Dr. Allan also commented that the public are misled into thinking that animal foods do not provide many nutrients because food-nutrient tables typically exclude animal foods from their lists, listing only plant foods instead. The reality is, however, that animal foods contain higher levels of almost every nutrient. Vitamins like A and D are only found in animal foods and nutritional factors like carnitine and CoQ10 are predominantly found in animal foods as well.
A final criticism is that low-carb diets do not have long-term published research testifying to their effectiveness, but this is not really true. Nutritional anthropological research of such population groups as the Inuit and Masai have shown that these heavy meat and fat eating peoples enjoy excellent health on their native diets. Furthermore, Stefansson and his travel companion Karsten Andersen ate nothing but a mixture of raw and cooked meat and fat for over one year in a monitored experiment at New York's Bellevue Hospital – with no ill-effects noted. Andersen’s health actually improved!
The Optimal Diet Cures Heart Disease, Diabetes, Obesity, Asthma, etc.
The Optimal Diet contains the same basic principles as the Candida Diet, i.e. high proteins and "good" fats and low carbs, with a few exceptions in the Candida Diet that eliminate foods that feed candida. The Optimal Diet provides a good model for calculating your daily intake of protein to fat to carb ratios.
Polish medical doctor Jan Kwasniewski is credited with developing the so-called "Optimal Diet," a high animal fat, moderate protein, low-carb diet. "JK," as he is referred to by his followers, has authored numerous books in Polish on his research; a cookbook is also available. Two English translations of his books are currently available, the most recent being Homo Optimus, which contains recipes and the clinical effects of the Optimal Diet on a variety of diseases.
The Optimal Diet differs from other low-carb approaches in that it maintains fairly strict ratios of the macronutrients in its meals. Dr. Bogdan Sikorski, a pharmacologist and toxicologist and translator of Homo Optimus, explains the salient (prominent) features of JK's approach:
The so-called 'Kwasniewski Diet' also known as the 'Optimal Nutrition' (ON) was developed over 30 years ago in Poland by Jan Kwasniewski, MD, and over the years it has been implemented by well over a million (some say two million) people in that country, in treatment and prevention of a range of diseases.
In contrast to other low-carbate dietary regimens, this nutritional model dictates the exact proportion between the three main food components, protein, fat and carbate (1:2.5-3:0.8, respectively), which has to be achieved on a daily basis in order to obtain claimed health benefits. Therefore, unlike all other ad-hoc dietary low-carbate models, OD strictly controls daily intake of not only the "offending" sugars but also the intake of protein, the excess of which is also known to be detrimental to health. Most importantly, both fats and proteins should be biochemically as close as possible to those found in the human body, i.e., they have to be obtained from animal products. They should also contain a full complement of micronutrients, with products such as eggs, fatty bone broths, organ meats and pork fat being the most prominent examples.
JK has operated a health clinic called Arkadia for many years in Poland, with visitors from across Europe with a host of degenerative diseases. "I saw miracles happening there," said an Australian medical doctor who emigrated from Poland. "It was simply unbelievable!" Optimal Diet support groups exist in Poland, the USA, and Australia – details can be found on the groups' website listed at the end of this article.
Despite the diet's clinical success (numerous testimonials can be found on the groups' website), the Optimal Diet and JK have been officially condemned by the Polish medical authorities. In his response to the pronouncement, JK pointed out the unwillingness of the Polish medical board to even consider his careful clinical records, something he has been pushing for over the years.
Read more about Dr. Kwasniewski's success with his amazing high "good" fats Optimal Diet.
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