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CANDIDA
This
microscopic film shows a fluorescent stain of Candida. Candida is a
yeast (fungus) that causes mild
disease, but in immunocompromised
individuals it may cause life-threatening illness.
(Courtesy of the Centers for Disease
Control.)
There is a simple
test to tell if you have candida overgrowth. *
First thing in the morning, before you put
ANYTHING in your mouth, get a clear glass of water. Better still; leave
it by your bed the night before. Work up a bit of saliva, and then spit
it into the glass of water.
Check the water every *15 minutes* or so for up to one hour. If you
have a candida yeast infection, strings (like legs) will travel down
into the water from the saliva floating on top, or "cloudy" saliva will
sink to the bottom of the glass, or cloudy specks will seem to be
suspended in the water. If nothing develops in 30 to 45 minutes, you
are probably candida free.
Interactive Test on the Internet:
http://www.adrenalfatigue.org/candida.php
Some doctors implicate fungi as a cause of *leukemia*. In 1999 Meinolf
Karthaus, MD, watched three different children with leukemia suddenly go
into remission upon receiving a triple antifungal drug cocktail for
their "secondary" fungal infections.
In 1997 Mark Bielski stated that leukemia, whether acute or chronic, is
intimately associated with the yeast, Candida albicans, which mutates
into a fungal form when it overgrows.
Milton White, MD. believed that *cancer is a chronic, infectious,
fungus disease*. He was able to find fungal spores in every sample of
cancer tissue he studied.
Author Doug Kaufmann asserts that fungi in foods may play a role in
cancer. He has seen children become free of their documented leukemia
once the child's parents simply changed the child's *diet*. Kaufmann's
diet is base on the widely published problem of mycotoxin contamination
of our grain foods.
Grains such as corn, wheat, barley, sorghum, and other foods such as
peanuts, are commonly *contaminated* with cancer-causing fungal poisons
called mycotoxins. One of them, called aflatoxin, just happens to be the
* most* carcinogenic substance on earth.
He says we consume, on average, from 0.15mg to 0.5mg of aflatoxin per
day. So it is not sugar alone that is the problem in our western diet,
but fungal toxins that are found in the sugary grains. More than once
has Kaufmann interviewed a caller (on his health talk show) who
absolutely craved *peanut butter* and *popcorn* just prior to their
diagnosis of cancer.
Kaufmann feels that *antibiotics* may play a role in this. Antibiotics
destroy the normal, protective gut bacteria, allowing intestinal
yeast and fungi to grow unchecked. Resulting in Candida overgrowth. This
can lead to immune suppression, symptoms of autoimmune diseases, or even
cancer.
"If the onset of any symptom or disease, cancer included, was preceded
by a course of antibiotics," he says, "then look for a fungus to be at
the root of your problem."
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