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Important Facts About Candida

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BTS-Anti-Candida Diet Advice

Dear Patient,
If your findings show that you have an intestinal Candida overgrowth that needs treatment, an effective remedy will be prescribed to you, which you have to take according to the instructions. However, experience has shown that medication for intestinal fungi without a special diet is not sufficient. The dietary advice given below is based on the scientific research of the German Professor Dr. Hans Rieth, MD, and has become the gold standard.

Yeastlike fungi need to have a source of organic carbohydrates to live on. Their easiest supply is organic carbohydrate in the form of short chain sugars, like our household sugars or fruit sugar. The more sugars they have available the better they thrive. For this reason you have to avoid short chain carbohydrates like glucose, fructose, household sugars, malt sugar, all kinds of sweets, chocolate, sweet juices and other sweet drinks, white flour products and jams in your daily nutrition during the anti-Candida treatment. Of course you have to avoid foods, which you are intolerant to as well.
However, be warned of extreme diets, which reduce not only the short chain but also the complex carbohydrates and fruit for weeks or even months. Here not only the fungus but also the patient will be harmed.

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by Ute Allison, ND

History
The Subject in not new: As early as 1910 Ilya Mechnikow, the Russian microbiologist, won the Nobel prize for his research on the life prolonging effect of beneficial gut bacteria.
He famously said: “ Death lives in the intestine.”

Currently friendly bacteria are on everyone’s lips and foods with added so-called probiotics
(pro = in favour of, biotic = life or ecosystem) have got increasingly popular.

But what is the truth about these colourful advertising promises?

Bacteria are not all bad
We happily live together with billions of bacteria.
In contrary, we need the good ones to protect us from nasty ones and we have to treat
them with care.
Our friendly bacteria are called the “normal human microflora”.
They live in our GI (gastro-intestinal) tract, our genitor-urinary tract, our respiratory tract and on our skin. The basically cover all surfaces with contact to the outer world.

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By Ute Allison ND
- British Naturopathic Journal, Vol. 20, No. 2, 2003

A new ELISA test detects specific antibodies to Tumour M2 Pyruvate Kinase (M2-PK), an isomere that only tumour cells produce during their glucose metabolism. The test is not only more reliable than other screening tests but also far simpler. It is not invasive and no special diet is needed.

In the UK about 35,000 people are diagnosed with colorectal cancer every year. In England and Wales, this number is increasing by one per cent a year for men, although for women the total has been staying fairly constant.

About 16,000 people die of the disease every year, making it the second most common cause of cancer death in the UK – lung cancer being the most common. However, bowel cancer is highly treatable and often curable if detected early.

Surgery is the primary treatment and is successful in about 45 per cent of all patients. Prognosis is clearly related to the degree of penetration of the tumour through the bowel wall and the presence or absence of nodal involvement.

The risk of developing bowel cancer increases with age. The average age for men is 67, and for women it is 72. Only ten per cent of colorectal tumours appear in people under the age of 40.

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A wide spread cause for digestive problems

By Christiane Pies, MSc
(Translated from German by Ute Marie Allison)

A case
Jane M. has been suffering from recurring digestion problems for years.
Repeatedly she gets diarrhoea, sometimes accompanied by vertigo or nausea. 
Then she has periods when she feels fine again, but all of a sudden her problems can reoccur.
Her diarrhoea attacks restrict her in her daily activities and she feels worse each year.
After many years she hears about the phenomenon of milk intolerance and simply leaves out all dairy products. This improves her symptoms to a certain degree.
Now she develops a profound interest in the subject and realises that lactose, the carbohydrate in milk, is not only contained in dairy but also in a lot of convenience food and even some medication. After that she also eliminates these products from her diet and her symptoms disappear completely.

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Stool Test for Celiac Disease

Celiac disease (coeliac disease, coeliac sprue or gluten allergy) is an autoimmune disorder of the small bowel that occurs in genetically predisposed individuals in all age groups after early infancy. Coeliac disease is caused by an abnormal reaction to gliadin, a gluten protein found in wheat, spelt, barley, rye and to a lesser amount in oats.

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