by Phillip Day
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Often featured on TV programs glorifying ‘The Most Embarrassing Illnesses', our old friend Candida albicans is back - this Jekyll-and-Hydian bowel yeast with Napoleonic ambitions for the total control of your organism. If you suffer from any of the above, then yeast, fungus and chaotic blood sugar are your problem.
As for the all-pervading silence on the subject of crispy toenails and ravaged testimonials, one could be forgiven for thinking no-one else on the planet has got what you've got. You would be wrong. Schoolboy titters at adverts punting the latest vaginal creams are silenced years later when the dreaded rash appears across your own buttocks or privates in cosmic revenge for your inappropriate hilarity.
Symptoms Yellowed, crispy toenails with a waxy texture. Itching between the toes, around the groin, vaginal or buttock area. Vaginal discharge. Buttock/waistline rashes can look linear; a red line demarking an inner area slightly darker than the surrounding, unaffected skinmay be evidence of tinea versicolour.
These conditions are almost always accompanied by gas and bloat in the bowels, indicating candida overgrowth and disturbed bowel flora, perhaps even leaky gut syndrome.
You are probably addicted to sugar due to candida's mycotoxins, which send you for take-out to keep the fermentation system foddered. Often a patient suffering these problems will also have Helicobacter pylori issues in the stomach (burping, etc.)
Causes
Fungal toenails, thrush and other fungal/yeast complaints usually occur due to a combination of local and systemic factors:
Understand first of all that yeast problems can become serious if not addressed. Cancer and other auto-immune problems often have their genesis in the combination of poor diet, lack of exercise, high-carb diets and compromised immunity, which bring about the first signs of yeast and fungal proliferation.
Your medical doctor won't have a clue. He/she will usually scratch their head and prescribe an antifungal cream, which you'll employ for a few weeks before tossing because it doesn't work. That's because the problems addressed in this chapter involve lifestyle repentance and there's no medical prescription for that. You have to do it.
Thankfully if you do repent, not only will you get out of having to explain to your boy-/girlfriend, husband or wife that you don't have at least five rare tropical diseases, you will also save yourself a painful, premature death later on when Candida assaults you in deadly earnest in one of the really serious conditions addressed in my books.
The treatment below consists of addressing both the systemic and local issues surrounding the problem as well as your emotional life (your thoughts affect your biochemistry and hence your immune system). Just treating thrush or toenail fungus topically will not address the fermentation system spawning the condition, which is why creams on their own do not work. First you have to wreck the system candida depends on to thrive, then from that point forward, you must eat, drink and live the way Nature intended or Nature will sharpen her sword for you.
Here we go:
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Often featured on TV programs glorifying ‘The Most Embarrassing Illnesses', our old friend Candida albicans is back - this Jekyll-and-Hydian bowel yeast with Napoleonic ambitions for the total control of your organism. If you suffer from any of the above, then yeast, fungus and chaotic blood sugar are your problem.
As for the all-pervading silence on the subject of crispy toenails and ravaged testimonials, one could be forgiven for thinking no-one else on the planet has got what you've got. You would be wrong. Schoolboy titters at adverts punting the latest vaginal creams are silenced years later when the dreaded rash appears across your own buttocks or privates in cosmic revenge for your inappropriate hilarity.
Symptoms Yellowed, crispy toenails with a waxy texture. Itching between the toes, around the groin, vaginal or buttock area. Vaginal discharge. Buttock/waistline rashes can look linear; a red line demarking an inner area slightly darker than the surrounding, unaffected skinmay be evidence of tinea versicolour.
These conditions are almost always accompanied by gas and bloat in the bowels, indicating candida overgrowth and disturbed bowel flora, perhaps even leaky gut syndrome.
You are probably addicted to sugar due to candida's mycotoxins, which send you for take-out to keep the fermentation system foddered. Often a patient suffering these problems will also have Helicobacter pylori issues in the stomach (burping, etc.)
Causes
Fungal toenails, thrush and other fungal/yeast complaints usually occur due to a combination of local and systemic factors:
- Moist, anaerobic (oxygen-poor), fermentation conditions brought on by sweaty unventilated socks and footwear (sports people are especially vulnerable). This provides an ideal breeding ground for yeast
- Dehydration
- Vitamin D deficiency
- High blood sugar (cravings for sweet stuff)
- High-carb diets
- Lack of exercise
- Poor/compromised immunity
- Depression
- Disturbed/unbalanced bowel flora
Understand first of all that yeast problems can become serious if not addressed. Cancer and other auto-immune problems often have their genesis in the combination of poor diet, lack of exercise, high-carb diets and compromised immunity, which bring about the first signs of yeast and fungal proliferation.
Your medical doctor won't have a clue. He/she will usually scratch their head and prescribe an antifungal cream, which you'll employ for a few weeks before tossing because it doesn't work. That's because the problems addressed in this chapter involve lifestyle repentance and there's no medical prescription for that. You have to do it.
Thankfully if you do repent, not only will you get out of having to explain to your boy-/girlfriend, husband or wife that you don't have at least five rare tropical diseases, you will also save yourself a painful, premature death later on when Candida assaults you in deadly earnest in one of the really serious conditions addressed in my books.
The treatment below consists of addressing both the systemic and local issues surrounding the problem as well as your emotional life (your thoughts affect your biochemistry and hence your immune system). Just treating thrush or toenail fungus topically will not address the fermentation system spawning the condition, which is why creams on their own do not work. First you have to wreck the system candida depends on to thrive, then from that point forward, you must eat, drink and live the way Nature intended or Nature will sharpen her sword for you.
Here we go:
- HYDRATION: Commence drinking half your own bodyweight in ounces of water per day (i.e. a 160 lb male can drink 80 oz of water a day, which is approximately 10 glasses). A good guide for adults is 2 - 2.5 litres a day. Do NOT drink distilled or fluoridated/chlorinated water. Do not drink water out of hot plastic bottles due to leaching of estrogenic chemicals. Do not drink excessive amounts of water (five litres plus) unless you are salting - hyponatremia (sodium washout) can be fatal
- DIET: Half a teaspoon (tsp) of unrefined sea salt or, best, Himalayan salt for every ten glasses of water, taken straight into the mouth in the morning (NOT sodium chloride, an industrial poison). Sprinkle a few flakes on your tongue and allow to melt upon retiring. Bathing your feet in salt water is good. Athlete's Foot is usually cured in a week of splashing around in the surf on holiday. Salt is a major antifungal, so is baking soda and coconut oil
- DIET: COMMENCE THE ANTI-CANDIDA DIETARY REGIMEN, paying special attention to items to eliminate. Ensure at least 90% of the food you eat is uncooked (raw), unrefined, organic plant dietary. Juice green veggies, not fruit. Avoid bread, yeast, potatoes, root vegetables such as carrots, parsnips, turnips, beets and swedes (high glucose yielders), spirits, beer, Red Bull and other ‘pumpy' drinks, chocolate, biscuits and anything grain or potato-based. Sinning in this area will exacerbate the problem because fungus and yeast feed on sugars. Hence all fruits are out except an apple and pear a day (low glycaemic). Once the condition appears to have cleared, continue with this diet for another month before switching over to the FOOD FOR THOUGHT LIFESTYLE REGIMEN. This should ensure the problems don't return
- RESTORING NUTRIENT BALANCE: COMMENCE THE BASIC SUPPLEMENT PROGRAM, ensuring, if suffering:
- Maximol (Neways). A highly bio-available liquid colloidal mineral supplement. Use as directed
- Revenol (Neways). A powerful antioxidant. Use as directed
- Vitamin C complex (ascorbates plus bioflavonoids), 15-20 g (4 tsp) spread throughout the day. If diarrhoea results, back dosage down to threshold level
- Test for your vitamin D levels via your GP using a 25(OH)D3 test and raise levels to 80-90ng/ml (170-190 nmol/l) with 10,000 IU/day of D-3, then optimise at 60 ng/ml (150 nmol/l) after several months and maintain with 5,000 IU/day of D-3
- A good probiotic formula such as Lactoflora or acidophilus, as directed
- Allicin Spray applied topically to affected area three times daily, followed by Allicin Cream. In the case of toenails, this treatment goes on for as long as the infected toenail grows back. Tea tree oil and other good antifungal topicals can also be used, although allicin seems to get the results. Be patient. Be consistent. After one week of allicin treatment, you'll start seeing improvement to the general nail area. This can take six months - longer if you don't pare back the diet and change your wicked ways. Another good topical is virgin coconut oil.
- DETOXIFICATION: It's worth doing the four-week bowel cleanse and flora restoration described in the Credence booklet, Digestive Health. This involves a magnesium oxide bowel flush followed by key supplementation with wormwood, astragalus, allicin capsules, Essiac, etc. to kill off candida overgrowths and restore flora balance
- EXERCISE: An hour a day, broken down as follows: 5 minutes stretching; 10 minutes weight/resistance training; 45 minutes aerobic training (getting your heart-rate up and varying). The latter is NOT walking, it's doing something to get you warm and out of breath (cycling, stair-climbing, rowing, hill-climbing, etc). In fact, JOIN A GYM where they have the ideal machinery. Get serious about your health - you can't buy this type of insurance. The usual caveats with exercise apply, except laziness!
- TIP: If you suffer from stress or depression, these need to be dealt with as they impair immunity. See appropriate sections in The ABC's of Disease
- TIP: Get plenty of rest. Potent immune factors are released during deep rest
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