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Antibiotics Cause Candida – Part 2 The inflammatory process in the body serves
several functions. One is to draw white blood cells to an area, to tissues. You have the
release of more cytokines. You initiate repair processes within the body. Also, these inflammatory
substances cause release of other substances by tissues, specifically, the liver. And three
of these substances will actually sequester, or grab, iron so that the iron is not available
to the Candida. Because the Candida needs iron in order to exist in its fungal form.
So the inflammation causes release of other substances. These substances sequester iron.
So whether it’s Candida or it’s a pathogenic bacteria or virus or parasites or mold, the
body releases these substances to sequester, or hold, the iron so it’s not available
for these other organisms to use to further and propagate their growth through the body.
When antibiotics are used to suppress inflammation, we’re suppressing a natural process within
the body that the body has evolved and developed over years. The use of antibiotics in this
way is us believing that we’re more intelligent than the body, that this process is unnatural,
and that this process needs to be controlled. We can work with inflammation. We can modify
it. We can reduce it to a certain degree. But, as in many cases, we need to allow it
to exist. Fevers are another good example. Fevers actually
are a part of an antiviral, antibacterial defense system that the body sets up. When
you suppress the fever, you suppress that system. So we can’t view the results of
different infections in the body as being haywire or as being misguided. It’s the
body’s own natural defense. It’s part of the body’s way of healing itself.
Some of the symptoms that we see, with many conditions, are actually indicators of the
body involved in its own healing process. Whether it’s inflammation, whether it’s
fevers, things that we commonly attribute to – as aches and pains, that’s part of
the body’s healing process. So if we wanna be wise, we wanna work with the body in that
process and not interfere with it. Antibiotics create Candida by eliminating
the competition, by eliminating bacteria which oppose the growth of Candida. Antibiotics
create Candida by eliminating these bacteria, which produce acids which keep the pH of the
intestinal tract within an acidic ranger. And it’s within that range that Candida
will maintain its yeast form. When it goes to a more alkaline pH, then you have the conversion
of the yeast to the fungal form. Antibiotics also create Candida by eliminating
these bacteria which secrete their own antifungals, which help to control the conversion of the
yeast to the fungal form and help to keep the ecosystem, the digestive system, in balance.
Antibiotics create Candida, through some research from the late 1940s, early 1950s, there are
a few antibiotics that will directly stimulate the cell wall membrane, causing the conversion
of the yeast form to the fungal form. Antibiotics will also do this by suppressing substances
produced _________ white blood cells of the immune system,
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which cause other reactions to take place in the body that prevent iron from being available
to the fungus to grow on. Antibiotics, by suppressing the immune system,
through suppression of the white blood cells, further allows the Candida yeast-to-fungus
conversion. Seventy percent of our immune system is within our digestive tract. So therefore,
anything that impacts the digestive system, or the immune in the digestive tract, impacts
the entire body. Well, the history of Candida goes back to
– early records show that, as early as 400 BC, thrush was in the literature of that time.
And thrush is the oral , or the mouth form of Candida. It creates either a white, yellowish-white
coating of the tongue. And that was in literature as early as 400 BC. Candida, as we know it
and call it presently, it was really considered to be more of a modern-era disease, but it’s
something which has historically been around for hundreds of years and thousands of years,
actually. In 1923, it was identified and classified
as Candida, Candida albicans. At least that classification comes from 1923. In 1928, we
saw the development, or the discovery, of antibiotics. It was attributed to Alexander
Fleming from 1928. Although those were discovered earlier than that. Antibiotics came into use
in the 1940s, towards the end of World War II, around 1944, 1945.
Their widespread use started to increase around the late 1940s, and with that, we saw a lot
of different diseases and conditions which we had never seen before. Investigations,
research from that time show that antibiotics were causing the systemic fungal infections
that were causing sinus problems, that were causing Candida arthritis, that were Candida
sinusitis, that were causing Candid imbalances within the hormonal system and with various
tissues within the body. Candida is commonly considered to be a yeast
infection, and this is because Candida, in its original, normal, beneficial form, is
a yeast organism. But it is the pathogenic fungal form which is the problematic form
with creates the problems that we commonly attribute yeast infections to be causing.
Some of these are localized. As I’ve mentioned before, we have thrush, which is the mouth,
or the oral, form of Candida. Another misconception is that yeast infections only affect women.
And this is because another localized type of infection, which would be the vaginal tissue
infection, but Candida can exist throughout the whole body, and commonly, as a pathogenic
or problematic form, exists systemically. We see this over and over, on a daily basis,
and it’s primarily attributed to the use of antibiotics in our society, whether directly,
or indirectly, through foods.