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The Anti-Fungal Trap Many of the recommendations for Candida diets
today follow a program that was developed in the late 1950s by an MD, Orion Truss, and
that program, in and of itself, will not get rid of Candida. And what he used in his program
was a drug called Nystatin, and Nystatin, which is effective against Candida, is generally
effective against Candida only within the intestinal tract. The literature on Nystatin
says it is not absorbed, although there is some contradiction in that literature because
it does have some toxicity within the liver, which would mean there is some absorption
taking place. But that being said, it’s also, being a
medication, also has other side effects. So medications really aren’t the way to go.
They also tend to create antifungal resistance, which is why, in the field of medicine and
pharmaceutical technology, they’re constantly looking for new antifungal substances because
everything they have out there is just creating more and more antifungal resistance, the same
as any other antibiotic, whether its an antibacterial, antifungal, antiprotozoal, antiparasitic.
It tends to select for the strongest cells within the species, and then they survive,
and they pass on that immunity, or that antibiotic resistance to other organisms around them.
Another product that we’ve talked about in previous broadcasts is caprylic acid. Caprylic
acid is actually a very good product. You normally find it in human breast milk in very
minute quantities. It’s in larger quantities in coconut oil, which, because of the caprylic
acid, has antifungal effectiveness. But caprylic acid also has toxicity associated with it.
So, like bacitracin, the antibiotic which has toxicity, caprylic acid has toxicity associated
with it. And caprylic acid, while being very effective, I think its effectiveness is limited
up to a period of, what I’ve clinically seen, for about four to five weeks, which
is not long enough to get rid of a systemic fungal infection. And at the same time, you
can be developing toxicity within the kidneys and other toxic effects throughout the body.
That’s, again, with bacitracin. Bacitracin as an antibiotic, which is based on Bacillus
subtilis, is known to suppress the immune system, as do all antibiotics. That’s how
antibiotics really tend to get the results that most people see. The immune system creates
pro-inflammatory reactions in the body, and the inflammation creates body aches and pains
and congestion. And antibiotics suppress the immune system and get rid of that pro-inflammatory
reaction, and so people feel better. But at the same time, they’re destroying bacteria,
which is not good. We tend to look at the destruction of bacteria
in terms of “bad” and “beneficial” bacteria. And again, man is a superorganism;
all these organisms, together, collectively create a balanced system. So in my mind, the
way I look at it, you can’t just make “bad” and “good.” Together, they work in a cooperative
effort to produce health in the body. But when you create imbalances by, for instance,
taking an antibiotic, that will allow microorganisms which aren’t so beneficial to become more
dominant in the system and create problems. And Candida, as one of these microorganisms,
is one that grows very rapidly, very effectively, and is able to manipulate the immune system,
manipulate tissues, destroy tissues, spread throughout the body, etc.
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Les Dethlefsen, in research at Stanford University, along with researchers from the Woods Hole
Institute out of Massachusetts, found that as much as 30 percent of the bacterial flora
of the intestinal tract is wiped out by antibiotics. And much of that doesn’t return. So as you
might hear from how I present information, it’s such a really complex picture in the
body that once we go here, we start going to another point, to another point, to another
point. So I’m gonna come back to caprylic acid.
Caprylic acid is basically a fatty acid. The product we use, Candida Force, contains undecenoic
acid, another fatty acid. And there’s another product called lauric acid, with is another
fatty acid. And these three are very similar in how they work against fungal Candida in
the body. But caprylic acid has toxicity. Lauric acid isn’t as effective as undecenoic
acid. Weiss, et al. researchers found many years
ago that the effectiveness of fatty acids became very strong up to 11 carbons. So that
is what undecenoic is. Caprylic acid is 10, and lauric is 12. And there’s good research
out there that shows lauric acid’s very effective, caprylic acid’s very effective,
but because of the weaker effectiveness of lauric acid and the toxicity and limited effectiveness
of caprylic acid, I prefer undecenoic acid, which is also produced by the sweat glands
of the body, in minute amounts, and is a substance extracted from castor bean oil, a very natural
product. And this produces the results that we’re looking for safely and effectively
in the body in a period of about 8 weeks.