In his book, Medical Mycology, John Willard Rippon, Ph.D. said…. “Yeasts (including Candida albicans) are mild mannered creatures incapable of producing infection in the normal healthy individual. They only cause trouble in the person with weakened defenses…. The severity of the disease will depend on how weak a person’s resistance is, rather than on any disease-producing properties exhibited by the fungus…. Because of its rapid ability to make itself at home on mucous membranes and take advantage of many types of host alterations, the clinical manifestations of candida infection are exceedingly variable… Candida albicans accounts for the vast majority of diseases caused by the yeast.”…
Yeasts are single cell fungi which belong to the vegetable kingdom. And like their “cousins” the molds, they live all around you. And one family of yeasts “Candid albicans”, normally lives in your body and more especially in your intestines and other parts of your digestive tract.
Many different things encourage yeast overgrowth… 20th Century diets which are rich in sugar and yeast, birth control pills, pregnancy, hormonal changes, weakened immune systems, and the biggest cause is antibiotic drugs, especially “broad spectrum” antibiotics, make yeasts grown like grass and weeds after a summer rainy spell. Such drugs destroy good germs while they’re killing bad one. Yeasts then multiply. A weakened immune system from an illness allows yeast to grow and then the yeast further weakens your immune system setting up a vicious cycle in men or women or children. Membranes swell, germs multiply and you develop nose, throat, sinus, ear, bronchial, bladder, kidney, liver, intestinal infections.
If you’ve taken antibiotics for acne, or a prolonged use of antibiotics over the years, if you’ve taken birth control pills or have been pregnant, if you’ve been given long doses of cortisone, prednisone or other corticosteroids, if you’ve noticed your symptoms more aggravated and get worse with tobacco smoke, perfumes, diesel fumes or other chemical odors, if you feel tired, lethargic, drained or depressed, of if you’re bothered by all sorts of other nervous system symptoms including poor memory, feelings of unreality, irritability, headaches or inability to concentrate, numbness or tingling or muscle weakness or incoordination, past vaginal yeast infections or other disorders involving the sex organs or urinary system, or athlete’s foot, jock itch and other fungus infections of the skin or nails, if you’ve been bothered by persistent digestive symptoms such as heartburn, indigestion bloating, abdominal pain, gas, constipation, diarrhea, if your joints hurt or if you’ve had a persistent cough, eyes getting blurry… then you simply have yeast and most probably parasites… you’ve probably been frustrated that you have “tried everything” and been to numerous doctors and tried tons of “remedies” from many companies all to no avail… you may even have come to see us and still didn’t get what you thought you needed… maybe you weren’t quite “sick enough” and didn’t make the lifestyle changes needed to handle the problem thoroughly…
It takes a lot to handle yeast and parasites… it’s not a one shot dose of something and it takes dietary habits changing as well… in fact the dietary changes are KEY… without that you will simply keep reinfecting yourself and never get off the roller-coaster.
The great thing is we can now see yeast and parasites with the hair tissue mineral analysis and know exactly what to do to assist you. “Reading” this in the test results is not normally known by many practitioners when doing Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA)….this is new research.
If you’ve noticed that your symptoms seem to flare up on damp or rainy days, if you’re bothered by constant nasal congestion, sore throats, coughs, swelling of your joints, blurred vision, fluid in your ears, ringing in your ears or just feel lousy… you have yeast and possibly parasites. Think about it for a second… yeast is a living organism that is parasitic on your body… therefore yeast is a form of parasite!
Do you feel drained no matter how much rest you get? Do you have embarrassing gas? How about problems with digestion? Notice any undigested food in your stools? Hormone imbalances that just won’t straighten out no matter how much natural hormones you use?
Yeast is not just found in women!
Men get yeast overgrowth in their bodies too. If you’re a man and you feel tired, grumpy, irritable, prostate difficulties, ever had athletes foot or jock itch or any of the other symptoms we’ve mentioned… the you too have a systemic (throughout the body) yeast problem.
If you crave sugar… that’s one of the hallmark symptoms of a yeast problem. Do you have children or babies that seem hyperactive and get colds easily or who have had ear infections and or congestion? Guess what… they too have a yeast problem.