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Oxygen Does Not Eliminate Candida Another thing that some people put out there
is that oxygen-based products, these are products that usually have oxygen bound with magnesium
or some other mineral – magnesium is really one of the most common ones – that this
has an anti-Candida effect. Given, again, that the intestinal tract is anaerobic, you
have to consider that if I put oxygen in there, I have 100 trillion microorganisms that are
anaerobic microorganisms, so that’s all the bacteria -- good, bad, whatever; the protozoa;
the mold; the fungus; the yeast. They’re living in an anaerobic environment. If I add
oxygen to that, I disrupt the entire environment. So while this product may release very, very,
very extremely trace amounts of oxygen, the likelihood that that would specifically target
one organism in there, and not the others, is very remote. So if you’re taking something
that could actually induce oxygen into the intestinal tract, you would be destroying
the bacteria also. The things that you wouldn’t destroy are Candida.
And Candida is what we call a facultative anaerobe. When we look at microorganisms,
they’re usually obligate, which means they have to be in a certain environment, or they’re
facultative, which means they can adapt to the environment. And this is the case with
Candida. It’s facultative, which means it can live in an oxygen environment, or it can
live in an oxygen-deprived environment. In the gut, it lives in an oxygen-deprived environment.
When it enters your bloodstream, it lives in an oxygen-rich environment, and that’s
where we have systemic fungal infections that spread through the body.
You can have Candida infections of the skin. Oral candidiasis, or thrush, that’s exposed
to a very oxygen-rich environment. So introducing an oxygen-based substance into the intestinal
tract would have no effect against Candida. But you would pretty much guarantee that you
would be destroying some of the anaerobic organisms which don’t have this ability
to shift from oxygen to oxygen-deprived environments. And so you would actually select for the organisms
which are very resistant in this way, so that would be E. coli, which is commonly associated
with many types of illnesses that people get from eating food contaminated with E. coli,
systemic fungal Candida, etc. If you try to starve Candida out of the body,
you won’t do that. That will actually cause a conversion. In essence, if you take away
all its food, Candida goes shopping. And it spreads through the body. It looks for nutrients.
It finds them in the cells, the tissues. It creates abscesses, inflammation, destroys
tissues. It’ll destroy cells to get protein, destroy cells to get fat, destroy cells to
get iron. It’ll leach iron from red blood cells. So you can’t starve it, but on the
other hand, we don’t really wanna promote excess of rapid growth.