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Subject: Candida(yeast) Bloom, Fact or Fiction
I can not believe the way this thread on candida(yeast) has progressed.
Steve Dyer and I have been exchanging words over the same topic in Sci.
Med. Nutrition when he displayed his typical reserve and attacked a women
poster for being treated by a liscenced physician for a disease that did
not exist. Calling this physician a quack was reprehensible Steve and I
see that you and some of the others are doing it here as well.
Let me tell you who the quacks really are, these are the physicans who have
no idea how the human body interacts with it's environment and how that
balance can be altered by diet and antibiotics. These are the physicians
who dismiss their patients with difficult symptomatology and make them go
from doctor to doctor to find relief(like Elaine in Sci. Med. Nutrition) and
then when they find one that solves their problem, the rest start yelling
quack. Could it just be professional jealousy? I couldn't help Elaine or Jon
but somebody else did. Could they know more than Me? No way, they must be a
quack.
I've been teaching a human nutrition course for Medical students for over ten
years now and guess who the most receptive students are? Those that were
raised on farms and saw first-hand the effect of diet on the health of their
farm animals and those students who had made a dramatic diet change prior to
entering medical school(switched to the vegan diet). Typically, this is
about 1/3 of my class of 90 students. Those not interested in nutrition
either tune me out or just stop coming to class. That's okay because I
know that some of what I'm teaching is going to stick and there will be at
least a few "enlightened" physicians practicing in the U.S. It's really
too bad that most U.S. medical schools don't cover nutrition because if
they did, candida would not be viewed as a non-disease by so many in the
medical profession.
In animal husbandry, an animal is reinnoculated with "good" bacteria after
antibiotics are stopped. Medicine has decided that since humans do not
have a ruminant stomach, no such reinnoculation with "good" bacteria is
needed after coming off a braod spectrum antibiotic. Humans have all
kinds of different organisms living in the GI system(mouth, stomach, small
and large intestine), sinuses, vagina and on the skin. These are
nonpathogenic because they do not cause disease in people unless the immune
system is compromised. They are also called nonpathogens because unlike
the pathogenic organisms that cause human disease, they do not produce
toxins as they live out their merry existence in and on our body. But any of
these organisms will be considered pathogenic if it manages to take up
residence within the body. A poor mucus membrane barrier can let this
happen and vitamin A is mainly responsible for setting up this barrier.
Steve got real upset with Elaine's doctor because he was using anti-fungals
and vitamin A for her GI problems. If Steve really understoood what
vitamin A does in the body, he would not(or at least should not) be calling
Elaine's doctor a quack.
Here is a brief primer on yeast. Yeast infections, as they are commonly
called, are not truely caused by yeasts. The most common organism responsible
for this type of infection is Candida albicans or Monilia which is actually a
yeast-like fungus. An infection caused by this organism is called candidiasis.
Candidiasis is a very rare occurance because, like an E. Coli infection, it
requires that the host immune system be severly depressed.
Candida is frequently found on the skin and all of the mucous membranes of
normal healthy people and it rarely becomes a problem unless some predisposing
factor is present such as a high blood glucose level(diabetes) or an oral
course of antibiotics has been used. In diabetics, their secretions contain
much higher amounts of glucose. Candida, unlike bacteria, is very limited in
it's food(fuel) selection. Without glucose, it can not grow, it just barely
survives. If it gets access to a lot of glucose, it blooms and over rides
the other organisms living with it in the sinuses, GI tract or vagina. In
diabetics, skin lesions can also foster a good bloom site for these little
buggers. The bloom is usually just a minor irritant in most people but
some people do really develop a bad inflammatory process at the mucus
membrane or skin bloom site. Whether this is an allergic like reaction to
the candida or not isn't certain. When the bloom is in the vagina or on
the skin, it can be easliy seen and some doctors do then try to "treat" it.
If it's internal, only symptoms can be used and these symptoms are pretty
nondiscript.
Candida is kept in check in most people by the normal bacterial flora in
the sinuses, the GI tract(mouth, stomach and intestines) and in the
vaginal tract which compete with it for food. The human immune system
ususally does not bother itself with these(nonpathogenic organisms) unless
they broach the mucus membrane "barrier". If they do, an inflammatory
response will be set up. Most Americans are not getting enough vitamin A
from their diets. About 30% of all American's die with less Vitamin A than
they were born with(U.S. autopsy studies). While this low level of vitamin
A does not cause pathology(blindness) it does impair the mucus membrane
barrier system. This would then be a predisposing factor for a strong
inflammatory response after a candida bloom.
While diabetics can suffer from a candida "bloom" the most common cause of
this type of bloom is the use of broad spectrum antibiotics which
knock down many different kinds of bacteria in the body and remove the main
competition for candida as far as food is concerned. While drugs are
available to handle candida, many patients find that their doctor will not
use them unless there is evidence of a systemic infection. The toxicity of
the anti-fungal drugs does warrant some caution. But if the GI or sinus
inflammation is suspected to be candida(and recent use of a broad spectrum
antibiotic is the smoking gun), then anti-fungal use should be approrpriate
just as the anti-fungal creams are an appropriate treatment for recurring
vaginal yeast infections, in spite of what Mr. Steve Dyer says.
But even in patients being given the anti-fungals, the irritation caused by
the excessive candida bloom in the sinus, GI tract or the vagina tends to
return after drug treatment is discontinued unless the underlying cause of
the problem is addressed(lack of a "good" bacterial flora in the body and/or
poor mucus membrane barrier). Lactobacillus acidophilus is the most effective
therapy for candida overgrowth. From it's name, it is an acid loving
organism and it sets up an acidic condition were it grows. Candida can not
grow very well in an acidic environment. In the vagina, L. acidophilius is
the predominate bacteria(unless you are hit with broad spectrum
antibiotics).
In the GI system, the ano-rectal region seems to be a particularly good
reservoir for candida and the use of pantyhose by many women creates a very
favorable environment around the rectum for transfer(through moisture and
humidity) of candida to the vaginal tract. One of the most effctive ways to
minimmize this transfer is to wear undyed cotton underwear.
If the bloom occurs in the anal area, the burning, swelling, pain and even
blood discharge make many patients think that they have hemorroids. If the
bloom manages to move further up the GI tract, very diffuse symptomatology
occurs(abdominal discomfort and blood in the stool). This positive stool
for occult blood is what sent Elaine to her family doctor in the first
place. After extensive testing, he told her that there was nothing wrong
but her gut still hurt. On to another doctor, and so on. Richard Kaplan
has told me throiugh e-mail that he considers occult blood tests in stool
specimens to be a waste of time and money because of the very large number of
false positives(candida blooms guys?). If my gut hurt me on a constant
basis, I would want it fixed. Yes it's nice to know that I don't have
colon cancer but what then is causing my distress? When I finally find a
doctor who treats me and gets me 90% better, Steve Dyer calls him a quack.
Candida prefers a slightly alkaline environment while bacteria
tend to prefer a slightly acidic environment. The vagina becomes alkaline
during a woman's period and this is often when candida blooms in the vagina.
Vinegar and water douches are the best way of dealing with vaginal
problems. Many women have also gotten relief from the introduction of
Lactobacillus directly into the vaginal tract(I would want to be sure of
the purity of the product before trying this). My wife had this vagina
problem after going on birth control pills and searched for over a year
until she found a gynocologist who solved the problem rather than just writting
scripts for anti-fungal creams. This was a woman gynocologist who had had
the same problem(recurring vaginal yeast infections). This M.D. did some
digging and came up with an acetic acid and L. Acidophilis douche which she
used in your office to keep it sterile. After three treatments, sex
returned to our marraige. I have often wondered what an M.D. with chronic
GI distress or sinus problems would do about the problem that he tells his
patients is a non-existent syndrome.
The nonpathogenic bacteria L. acidophilus is an acid producing bacteria
which is the most common bacteria found in the vaginal tract of healthy women.
If taken orally, it can also become a major bacteria in the gut. Through
aresol sprays, it has also been used to innoculate the sinus membranes.
But before this innoculation occurs, the mucus membrane barrier system
needs to be strengthened. This is accomplished by vitamin A, vitamin C and
some of the B-complex vitamins. Diet surveys repeatedly show that Americans
are not getting enough B6 and folate. These are probably the segement of
the population that will have the greatest problem with this non-existent
disorder(candida blooms after antibiotic therapy).
Some of the above material was obtained from "Natural Healing" by Mark
Bricklin, Published by Rodale press, as well as notes from my human
nutrition course. I will be posting a discussion of vitamin A sometime in
the future, along with reference citings to point out the extremely
important role that vitamin A plays in the mucus membrane defense system in
the body and why vitamin A should be effective in dealing with candida
blooms. Another effective dietary treatment is to restrict carbohydrate
intake during the treatment phase, this is especially important if the GI
system is involved. If candida can not get glucose, it's not going to out
grow the bacteria and you then give bacteria, which can use amino acids and
fatty acids for energy, a chance to take over and keep the candida in check
once carbohydrate is returned to the gut.
If Steve and some of the other nay-sayers want to jump all over this post,
fine. I jumped all over Steve in Sci. Med. Nutrition because he verbably
accosted a poster who was seeking advice about her doctor's use of vitamin
A and anti-fungals for a candida bloom in her gut. People seeking advice
from newsnet should not be treated this way. Those of us giving of our
time and knowledge can slug it out to our heart's content. If you saved
your venom for me Steve and left the helpless posters who are timidly
seeking help alone, I wouldn't have a problem with your behavior.
Martin Banschbach, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry and Chairman
Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine
1111 West 17th St.
Tulsa, Ok. 74107
"Without discourse, there is no remembering, without remembering, there is
no learning, without learning, there is only ignorance".
