Candida survial mode? - 2

 So how do we get even or ahead of this Candida ?

Why Women Have More Severe Candida Overgrowth

About 2/3s of all candida overgrowth occurs in women (if we consider the population of people over 15 years of age). As both men and women are equally exposed to antibiotics, this increase lies somewhat with the use of birth control pills, but primarily with candida's fondness for progesterone.

Candida likes to eat progesterone. So what does it do?

It blocks estrogen receptors so that estrogen can't lock into them, It further disrupts the endocrine system by binding to estrogen, preventing it from being used properly by the body. Why does candida do this? 

Because estrogen and progesterone "teeter-totter" -- low estrogen levels cause high progesterone levels. So by creating low estrogen levels in your body, candida causes progesterone levels to be elevated, providing more and more fuel for itself. 

Women often have flare-ups coinciding with their period - a time when progesterone levels are higher. By the way, there are two types of estrogen -- alpha estrogen produced by the female organs, and beta estrogen produced by the adrenal glands. Both men and women need and produce beta estrogen. Not only are these beta estrogens inhibited by candida, but the adrenal fatigue caused by the candida overgrowth will result in even lower beta estrogen production.

So male hormones will suffer too, with low beta estrogen and low testosterone. These imbalances need to be corrected, but as men naturally produce much less progesterone than women, they do not supply such a readily available food source for the candida. Thus, out- of-control candida overgrowth affects more women than men.

Candida Spores.... The Main Reason Candida Keeps Coming Back

There are lots of good candida killers: Anti-fungal drugs like Nystatin and Diflucan, herbs like Pau D'Arco, Olive Leaf Extract, Oregano Extract, Grapefruit Seed Extract, coconut-based Caprylic acid. These all do an excellent job of killing candida.

So why is candida so hard to get rid of?

Candida fungi can mutate to become immune to both anti-fungal herbs as well as anti-fungal drugs. The more complex the anti-fungal herb or drug is, the easier Candida can mutate, rendering them no longer effective. Initially, the drug may kill a good portion of the candida, but this leaves an empty space which candida likes to rapidly refill.

But something else happens too. Actually, two things.

Every time anti-fungal herbs are taken, the yeast will go dormant to survive, burrowing deeply into the tissues where the drugs or herbs can’t reach -- remember, they don't need an oxygen supply in which to live. They can also go dormant and "hide" to avoid an activated immune system response. 

So, initially, after taking high doses of nystatin or herbs, it may seem as though your candida infection is gone -- when, in reality, it is not. Even the blood can appear free of Candida, as it lies wait in the tissues, sometimes even forming dense masses, which can’t easily be penetrated.

Secondly, when you attack candida, it is stimulated to release spores.The production of spores is how fungi and mold reproduce. Candida tend to fight back when they are being attacked, assuring their survival by releasing spores, which can lodge anywhere in body, awaiting just the right conditions to reactivate. They remain "dormant" so long as they sense the immune cells trying to attack. As spores, they tend to attract only a minor response from the immune system, dragging out the condition for years.

The typical scenario: You go on a strict candida diet, take candida killing supplements and lots of probiotics, boost the immune system too. And notice symptoms clearing up (though still plagued with food allergies.) Eventually, you stop taking your anti-candida supplements or drugs, go off the diet, and boom, in a relatively short while, the condition has returned. 

Those pesky candida spores are the primary culprit.

The Two Reasons Most Anti-Candida Products Ultimately Fail

The short and simple answer is that candida effects so many areas of your body that taking simple candida killers and probiotics, going on the diet, just won’t get the job done. Almost all candida fighters, except for a couple covered here, don’t kill candida that hides in your body outside of the circulatory system. Nor do they deal with the spores. 

This is not to say that if your candida is not too bad, you can’t take something that knocks out a bunch of candida and gives your body enough of an edge so that it continues to be able to keep the candida in check. At least for a while.

However there would still be plenty of candida that wasn’t killed. At the very least this would include candida that was hiding out of circulation. Spores too that bloom when the time is right. In fact, I've heard that spores bloom in the spring and the fall.

These remaining candida require your immune system to be in an activated state -- continually keeping this candida in check. They are making your body more acidic and toxic. And at some point your immune system and detoxification system start to become worn out from all this extra work and fail to keep up with the overgrowth. 

This causes your health to deteriorate. May be not noticeably at first. But you won’t be as healthy as you would have been. Then maybe you experience extra stress and wipes out the immune system. Or you binge on junk food -- and boom your candida has overgrown a lot, your interior and cellular environment has gone to pot, and you’re developing even more symptoms.

It will be worse than before. 

Many many people with chronic candida overgrowth went through this process, knowingly or unknowingly, in the first few years after candida overgrew. Now they are not able to easily get back on top of candida and be stable for a while. 

Fundamentally, they/you are not able to do so because the candida fighters are either too inadequate or limited. Here’s how.

These herbal and medical candida fighters include garlic, oregano oil, other essential oils, olive leaf extract, pau de arco, caprylic acid, coconut oil, grapefruit seed extract, Diflucan, Nystatin, and anything similar. They all have several limitations that ultimately cause them to fail at effectively dealing with candida overgrowth.

Candida are able to adjust to the chemicals these herbs and drugs use. So that while many are effective at first, the longer you use them, the less effective they become. The way around this is to rotate them. Use a different herb or oil every 4 days. 

They will become more effective when used this way, but still have a couple of major limitations.

They do little to support the overall internal environment of the body. It is important to do more than just kill the candida. You need to improve and change the overall body environment so that candida can’t continue to grow in it. 

They only work on candida that are in parts of the body that are accessible by the circulatory system, or directly as in the intestinal tract.

They do not deal with the spores candida fungi produce. 

As a result of the relative ineffectiveness of these herbs and remedies, candida often comes back fairly quickly once you stop using these remedies.

Probiotics Are Important, But Limited, In Their Ability To Deal With Candida Overgrowth

Replacing the friendly bacteria in your intestinal tract is one of the primary actions that needs to happen when you are dealing with candida. After all, it was the lack of friendly bacteria, most likely killed off by antibiotics, that allowed the candida to overgrow in the first place. 

Unfortunately, most probiotics do a poor job at dealing with candida -- even the candida that are located in your intestinal tract. The candida is tougher than most friendly bacteria are as candida are bacteria fighters. I’ve talked to many people over the years who were taking many billions of units of friendly bacteria and experiencing minimal improvement.

Ten years ago I started recommending the use of Soil Based Organisms to knock out candida. These soil based organisms not only killed candida directly, they also stimulated the immune system response and were more aggressive than probiotics. 

Unfortunately, SBO's did not work quickly, and required a very large number of capsules to get good results. Even though we still recommend them for some conditions, they never get my recommendation for use in fighting candida overgrowth.

Interestingly, for years they were heavily marketed on the internet for candida. But no more. They just didn’t work well enough.

When ThreeLac was first introduced to the USA, it proved to be wildly popular and was helping people better than the usual candida-fighting herbs and probiotics. I began recommending it, and thus began my real education into the nature of candida.

At that point I still had no idea how tough candida was to eliminate. There was a testimony of someone getting over candida in 11 days, or so they claimed, so it was being marketed as a product that would eliminate candida fast. 

As it turned out, this person with the fast results had been using many other supplements and drugs to hit the candida -- ThreeLac had helped to finish it off. And as usual, this person found that she needed to continue using ThreeLac to keep the candida under control. The overgrowth hadn't been eliminated from the body, but was there ready to come back at the first opportunity.

ThreeLac has also been marketed as something that can be used without having to go on a strict diet. As usual, if something sounds too good to be true, it most likely is not as good as it made out to be.

Being on an anti-candida diet is always a help because you are not feeding the candida as much of their favorite foods, so they don’t grow as fast. If you are overwhelming the candida with a host of good candida fighters, then you may be able to get away without being on a strict diet, but your progress will be slower.

At the time, ThreeLac did work better than other anti-candida supplements, and was my main candida product for years. It is still extensively marketed for candida. While it helped many people improve, it was incapable of knocking out candida. 

And no wonder. Probiotic supplements work primarily in the intestinal tract. ThreeLac does have some lemon juice powder that does help alkalize the body -- but that is a very minor action, probably equivalent to drinking the juice of less than half a lemon a day. Naturally probiotics can, if they are formulated correctly, fight off candida that have overgrown in the intestinal tract. They can also help the immune system become stronger. 

Working and living in the intestinal tract, they can’t deal effectively with the candida fungus that are living elsewhere in the body. They certainly can’t deal with candida that are hiding in your body -- out of the circulatory system. Nor does ThreeLac or any probiotic have the ability to handle candida spores.

We had short term success with ThreeLac, though we also had many returns. (Now I get very few returns.) More importantly, candida, yeast, thrush symptoms would come back all too soon once ThreeLac was stopped.

How could this not happen when you are using a probiotic as the main weapon to fight candida. It has a limited area of effectiveness -- in your intestinal tract -- while candida can be living throughout your body. 

Another limitation ThreeLac has is its inability to actually recolonize the intestinal tract. The friendly bacteria it uses are not meant to colonize and grow in your GI tract. They are meant to fight candida there, and die after a few days. 

ThreeLac's sister product FiveLac contains a couple of strains of probiotics that do colonize the intestinal tract, but their quantities are not significant enough to be effective. You need many more strains, and more of each strain, to have an effective probiotic. 

Our experience is that FiveLac is not even as effective as ThreeLac is.

ThreeLac has had enough marketing success that competing products have been developed that are marketed online as being better than ThreeLac.

TheraLac -- Does a better job of recolonizing the intestinal tract than ThreeLac, or FiveLac, but does not contain near as good candida fighters as ThreeLac does. So overall, they are about equal in overall effectiveness but are focused on different actions. ThreeLac for fighting candida, TheraLac for recolonizing. With only 5 strains of friendly bacteria, it is also a bit too limited in what gets colonized.

Symbion is a copy of ThreeLac, using the same stains of friendly bacteria as ThreeLac. It may or may not have as good a delivery system as the delivery system is not even discussed on the website, though you have to assume it is not as good as ThreeLac in this matter or they'd be talking it up. Symbion also make a claim to alkalize the body, but ThreeLac does a better job with its added lemon juice powder which Symbion does not have. Their claim that Symbion causes less die off may be true. It is likely that Symbion doesn't work near as well as ThreeLac so doesn't cause as much die off. As with ThreeLac, the friendly bacteria in it do a poor job of colonizing the intestinal tract.

XtraLac is another copy of ThreeLac that looks very good -- until you look more closely. ThreeLac's most important candida fighting bacteria is enterococcus faecalis. What XtraLac did was to use a similarly named but not near as powerful or expensive bacteria, enterococcus faecium. So while XtraLac has a number of good points, turns out that it is not near as good overall at fighting candida as the company would like you to think. And not near as good as ThreeLac.

Syntol is another probiotic who manufacturer makes a claim of it being highly effective for candida. It also contains enzymes to kill candida. So does work on candida throughout the body. 

Its micro-encapsulated, acid resistant capsules, are not as important as the marketers of those types of probiotics would like you to believe. If you take unprotected probiotics on an empty stomach, half an hour or so before a meal, maybe 20% is lost to the stomach environment. If the probiotic has ingredients and energetic instructions telling the bacteria in it to colonize faster and to cooperate better, as only TotalFlora15 does, that 20% is easily made up.

Being a combination product, with limited capsule size, Syntol cannot contain as many friendly bacteria or enzymes as separate products would. For example, it only supplies 3 billion colonizing units per capsule. Much less than TotalFlora15's 15 billion units per capsule. And it doesn't contain near as many enzymes as strictly enzyme products do. How could it? The claim that Syntol is particularly effective because the bloodstream was clear of candida after 45 days is meaningless as any good enzyme formulation taken to fight candida can do the same thing. An enzyme formulation with even more enzymes should work even faster. 

The bloodstream is the first part of the body, after the intestines, that enzymes work on. Cleaning the bloodstream has no bearing on how much candida there is throughout the body, in organs, spaces between organs, and so on. But the study certainly sounds good.

What may seem like small changes can make a big difference. Years ago when I decided to offer more effective products to fight candida than what I had been offering with ThreeLac, I asked my suppliers to make a better probiotic. They came up with TotalFlora15. It works better than similar high dosage, multiple strain probiotic formulas because of just a few improvements.

In our experience it fights candida as effectively in the intestinal tract as ThreeLac does, and recolonizes much much better as it supplies billions and billions more recolonizing bacteria than FiveLac. ThreeLac supplies no colonizing bacteria at all. And now TotalFlora15 is energized to work even better.

However, we never suggest using TotalFlora15 or any other probiotic as the primary supplement to deal with candida because probiotics don't deal with candida throughout the body. They work in the intestinal tract only, and while they can help the immune system get on top of the candida residing all over your body, which it is doing when you have had the overgrowth for even a few years, It doesn't do an effective job at dealing with this systemic candida overgrowth. Probiotics certainly can't handle candida hiding out in the body outside the circulatory system, and they don't deal with candida spores. 

What amazes me is the number of internet websites promoting one product for fighting candida. I suppose there are plenty of people looking for a quick fix who haven't yet understood how hard it is to eliminate candida overgrowth. Who can be fooled into believing that a not so great product that wouldn't even make my list of the top 3 or 4 supplements for fighting candida, would knock out their candida. Quickly.

I know I had no idea at first as to how difficult a task it is to eliminate candida overgrowth.

Those sites prey on people who don't know better. Besides the probiotic sites promoting themselves as being able to take care of candida, there are a couple of sites promoting an enzyme product as being just about all you need to beat candida. Based on my experience, there's no way that can be true.

Enzymes That Fight Candida

There are a number of enzyme formulations on the market that feature cellulase, hemicellulase, and some with protease's too, to fight candida. They do a decent job and tend to produce less die-off than most candida killers. Especially if there is plenty of protease to digest the debris. A common one found in health food stores is Candex. It does not contain protease. Candisol, Candidase, Renew Life Candizyme, Syntol, YST Management are some of the more popular ones on the internet.

Unfortunately, in our experience enzyme products designed to fight candida are relatively ineffective at fighting candida. Out of the 4 main products I've had developed to fight candida, all working in slightly different ways, and all fighting candida throughout the body, not just in the intestinal tract, the enzyme product was the least effective. Like chitin synthesis inhibitors, they work on the cell walls of candida, and candida has a fairly good cell wall repair mechanism that limits the effectiveness of these enzymes and chitin inhibitors.

CandElim, Silver 9.0 Plus and CandiClear5 are all significantly more powerful. Of course, being powerful, they do create die-off, and if you must reduce die-off as much as possible, because you can't handle it at all, then you need to first consider using a few products that will work better for you.

One such product is CandiCalm, our energetic based candida fighter that does not produce die off, or very little.

Of course, there are many other issues that need to be addressed if you wish to bring yourself back to health, and not just temporarily feel better. Candida causes far too many problems for any one product to be the solution. 

But if you need to just do one product, make it a product like CandElim, that is designed to handle the candida spores, and will deal with candida that are out of the circulation system. Enzymes and all those other candida fighters cannot deal with either of these.

Chitin Synthesis Inhibitors

There has been a lot of marketing lately on using chitin synthesis inhibitors for candida. They do a decent job. Chitin is what fungi produce to make their cell membrane. Helps to protect the candida from the immune system.

Chitin's immune system protection for candida is not complete as they'd like you to think, but by disrupting the ability of candida to produce chitin, candida's membrane does deteriorate and it is easier to kill.

As with the other herbal formulas and medicines, the ingredient that disrupts chitin synthesis does not get to the candida that are hiding outside the circulatory system.

And they don't do anything to deal with the candida spores.

So maybe you are able to get on top of the candida overgrowth by knocking out a good bit of the overgrowth, or maybe, as it often happens, the candida will come back fairly quickly when the spores bloom or when the candida out of the circulatory system move back into the rest of the body once the treatment is stopped.

Chitin Synthase Enzymes are used to produce the chitin. If you can stop their action and production, candida won't be able to produce chitin. We have seen over the years how the energetic instructions we put in various elixirs are capable of turning on or turning off production of enzymes and hormones.

So as this chitin synthesis inhibition is valuable in fighting candida, not great, but valuable to do, we added energetic frequency instructions to CandElim, Silver 9.0 Plus and CandiCalm to stop production of all Chitin Synthase Enzymes. Because frequency enhancing has proven itself very capable of regulating production of enzymes, the production of enzymes needed to synthesize chitin will be significantly inhibited when you use CandElim, Silver 9.0 Plus or CandiCalm, almost as much as if you were taking a chitin inhibitor.

These instructions could actually be more powerful than taking a Chitin Synthesis Inhibitor supplement because they will work on the candida that are hiding outside the circulatory system. So there is no need to spend money purchasing a separate chitin synthase inhibitor supplement when using any of these three supplements.

The vibration frequencies of their instructions, turning off the ability to produce the chitin synthase enzymes, work throughout the whole body. They are not limited by the circulatory system.

Better still, there are many other ways CandElim, Silver 9.0 Plus and CandiCalm fight candida overgrowth. More on this later.

Common Sense About The Candida Diet

There is a lot of information online about the candida diet. How you must go on a strict diet to eliminate candida. You can spend money on ebooks promoting the diet as the primary means of defeating candida. Or buy products being promoted as not needing the diet to work. If it sounds to good to be true, it is. 

Unfortunately, doing the diet is never going to eliminate candida overgrowth. Candida can exist too long without eating much, they can eat protein and other nutrients. They've got their spores just waiting for the right opportunity to bloom. If you are trying to deal with candida primarily with the diet, or the diet and just the ordinary herbs and anti-candida formulas, it just doesn't work.

Candida remains in your system -- and when you get off the diet, back it regrows. 

Unfortunately, being on the diet is important -- if you want to bring your candida overgrowth under control with any speed at all. It makes no sense to be taking actions to be killing candida, to be changing the environment of the body to a state where candida doesn't overgrow, while at the same time feeding your candida its favorite fast foods for fast growth.

Common sense about the candida diet falls somewhere in between the extreme diet recommendations where you exist on meat and green vegetables and that's about all -- and the folks who say you don't need to diet at all.

If you are taking actions that are effective at reducing candida overgrowth, like the supplements I have, especially the CandElim and Silver 9.0 Plus that will also work on candida spores and the candida that are hiding out in parts of your body that have little or no circulation, then you can stick to a few diet basics. These are:

• Stay away from all types of sugars and also refined carbohydrates. Candida eats sugars and these provide just what they want. 
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• All grains break down fairly quickly into sugars. Flour breaks down faster than whole grains like rice. So try to stick to whole cooked grains when eating grains, or at least a low glycemic bread like Ezekiel bread. If you do indulge, take extra amounts of candida fighters. After all, you would have just feed the candida, so go ahead and knock them out a little bit faster.
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• The best fruits to eat are sour fruits like grapefruit, sour tangerines, lemons, and also berries.
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• If a food sets off flare-ups, stay away from it.
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• Until you eliminate your allergies with the best allergy elimination kit I know of, or the Neuroliminal Training CD for Candida, stay away from food you are allergic to.
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"I have followed your advice and purchased The Allergy Kit together with CandElim.

The Allergy Kit has helped tremendously with the side-effects of the detox.
I also think that my candida is more under control now."   Agnies