Candida Treatment - The Opportunistic Invader
By Randy Page
Candida albicans is a yeast mold which colonises our internal and external bodily surfaces (skin, mucosal surfaces and the digestive tract) not long after birth.
It s important to realise that there are many different antigenic strains or types, all requiring a different response from our immune system when they get out of hand.
Its favorite sites are the esophagus and the small intestine. When kept in check it brings neither harm nor benefit to the host within which it lives. However candida is dimorphic in other words it can live in two states. In the yeast form it can reproduce itself but is unable to move beyond the intestinal tract. If provided with ideal nutrients, though, and if allowed to multiply, it can transform itself into an invasive fungal form. It does this by producing mycelia, the intertwined threads commonly seen on fungi. Once changed in this way it uses the mycelia to penetrate the lining of the digestive tract, pushing out its root-like filaments to gain access to the bloodstream.
Not only are there other areas of the body open to colonisation by the fungal form of candida, but the body must also cope with the resulting outflow of toxins from the candida cells. Excessive toxins further weaken the damaged mucosal linings in the gut, causing abnormal absorption of large protein molecules from the intestine into the bloodstream. The immune system, our bodies way of defending against foreign invaders, becomes overworked; food allergies can result because of the immune system's reaction to undigested protein leaking through the gut. Clearly, the importance of early recognition is paramount.
Dr Nadya Coates, founder of the Springhill Cancer Centre, has developed interesting theories about the relationship of candidiasis to cancer, based on her own experience and her own and others' research. She believes that cancer will not develop unless there is candida overgrowth in the small intestines. The leaky gut produced by candida mycelia allows waste products excreted by bacteria to pass into the blood. Her view is that these substances are extremely carcinogenic, a view supported by the fact that cancerous tumours invariably include bacterial and fungal activity.
Candidiasis is seen by many clinical ecologists and holistic practitioners to be responsible for, or part of many chronic and degenerative diseases, affecting almost all parts of the body, organs, tissues and cells. Symptoms include extreme fatigue and lethargy, headaches, cystitis and vaginitis, menstrual cramps and problems involving reproductive organs, gastrointestinal symptoms, skin problems, migraine, depression, muscle weakness and asthma.
Some doctors claim to have been successful in treating such diverse conditions as multiple sclerosis, endometriosis, autism, schizophrenia and arthritis when they recognised the role of candida and took steps to control it. Myalgic Encerephalomyelitis (ME) and AIDS have been linked because of their similar viral involvement; but they also share problems of immunity, often with clear signs of candida infestation. As far back as the 1940s Dr Josef Issels wrote about the importance of balance in the ecology of the gastrointestinal tract, warning that an imbalance with candida growth was one of the causes of cancer.
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