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Medicine is a service industry. You, as a consumer, have the right to get the service you request and pay for. This should be your attitude when you approach your doctor. On your first visit tell your doctor:

• that you want to try a new approach in the treatment of your allergies and that you are on the Metabolism-Balancing Program;

• that you will be starting the Anti-Candida Program shortly and you want Nystatin powder;

• if you are on cortisone and antihistamine drugs, that you want him/her to supervise your gradual withdrawal from them so that you can take the skin sensitivity test, cytotoxic food test and RAST test;

• that you want to be referred to a competent, allergist who does accurate work and who will, if required, mix up a desensitising vaccine to be taken orally.

If he/she does not agree to help, go to another doctor who is open-minded and willing to help you try a new approach. Shopping for a good doctor is no different to shopping around for a good plumber or painter. Unfortunately, some people seem to think they have no consumer rights in matters pertaining to doctors and must accept everything that is meted out to them. This is not so. Just as the plumber and painter are expected to provide the service requested, so is the doctor. Don’t be intimidated. It is your health and it is your responsibility to take care of it Experience has taught, me that this assertive approach invariably ensures you find the type of doctor and the help you arc looking for.

It is preferable that you consult a doctor who is familiar with the practice of clinical ecology. Many doctors are unfamiliar with this new science and will tell you that, allergies have nothing to do with your symptoms. Don’t fall for this one, but if your doctor wants to run additional tests, by all means go along with him/her. If you have not sought treatment for your symptoms, it is wise to let your doctor treat, you conventionally at first. Remember, although allergy is the greatest mimicker of disease, there could well be some other reason for your condition.

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If after four weeks on the Anti-Candida Program you’re not seeing a steady improvement, keep off the amines and salicylates and check yourself out for allergies, both food and inhalant. There are two ways of doing this.

1. The preferred way is to ask your doctor or naturopath to refer you to an allergy specialist for the skin sensitivity test, cytotoxic food test and the RAST test. You can then ask for a suitable anti-allergy program, or you can go on the Anti-Candida Program in this book, minus the foods you’re allergic to, if they’re known. Having these tests will necessitate breaking the program by going off all the vitamins, antihistamines and cortisone. Stay on the Ventolin inhaler and any other non-cortisone/non-antihistamine drug your doctor has prescribed for you. Eat as wide a variety of foods as possible before the tests but not those you suspect are detrimental to your health. List them instead and delete them from the program along with those foods that you show up allergic to. Use cortisone pullers again after the tests. The cytotoxic food lest is a very important one. Because it is a relatively new test not all allergists use if. If your allergist doesn’t perform this test you’ll have to go with the next option. The skin and RAST tests are not accurate for foods but must, still be taken to determine the inhalant allergies (grasses, dust, pollens, moulds, animal dander, dust mites). During this time the elimination food allergy testing technique may be used in lieu of the cytotoxic food test. Get your doctor’s or naturopath’s advice on this and have them supervise the testing procedure.

2. To do the food elimination test, stay on the Anti-Candida Program and eliminate one food every four to five days. Eliminate first any food you suspect may be causing your symptoms. If removing them does not help then work your way through the foods listed below. Keep eliminating the foods one at a time every four to five days until your symptoms disappear (or, in the case of skin complaints, significantly improve). When you are satisfied that your symptoms have sufficiently abated, work your way back t h rough I he list, adding one each of the eliminated foods every four to five days to see if any symptoms return. This back check is very important. You may eliminate the foods in whatever order you feel is appropriate for you, though you must keep a record of those you have eliminated.

The Anti-Candida Program by its very nature includes a restrictive diet. Any diet that restricts the spectrum of foods eaten naturally restricts the number of nutrients available for absorption. For this reason a sound tissue reserve of vitamins and minerals is to be built up on the Metabolism-Balancing Program before commencing the Anti-Candida/Anti-Allergy Program. Without this reserve you could become run down.

The popular misconception is that the Anti-Candida Program and Nystatin kills the yeasts. They don’t—they only weaken the Candida so that the white blood cells can easily kill them.

If you’re tired and run down on the Anti-Candida Program it is because: (a) you didn’t build up on the Metabolism-Balancing Program; or (b) you have overdone it workwise, exercisewise, socially or you have an infection, cold, or sore throat. Your white cells will be too tired to kill the weakened Candida. It gets worse. If you’re on the Anti-Candida Program while tired and overdoing it you’ll become even more run down (the Anti-Candida is not a high energy program) and your white cells even less efficient at killing the yeast. You will end up feeling worse than when you started the diet and often with a larger yeast colony as well, especially if in your run-down state you caught an infection and took antibiotics. This can also happen if you stay on the Anti-Candida Program for more than three months. Detractors of the Anti-Candida Program are invariably those who have fallen into one or all of the above traps.

Some of those who break the build-up and rest rule manage to remain symptom-free for a while on this regime only to see their symptoms return soon after going off it. This is not supposed to happen and shouldn’t if you’re properly built up before, and sufficiently rested during, the ninety days of the Candida-killing regime.

Do not confuse this with the elimination diet/challenge test regime used in some hospitals. This diagnostic procedure is potentially dangerous, for it places the patient on a very restrictive diet for four to six weeks. This lowers the immune vitality. Naturally, when the body, in this run down state, is challenged with concentrated food substances it reacts to practically all of them. The resultant diet is so restrictive that the body and immune system don’t pick up and although patients will be symptom-free for a while, eventually they become so run clown they begin reacting to the foods they are allowed to have. More foods are eliminated from the diet, malnutrition sets in, infections follow, as do the inevitable allergic reactions to the drug medications used to treat them. I’ve treated many refugees from this process. They’re not a pretty sight and so allergic by the time they seek my help it’s very hard to build/feed them back up to good health. Malnutrition is far more serious than allergy and is to be avoided all all costs.

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No, not if you are sensible and go onto the Metabolism-Balancing Program and supplements for the rest of your life once the Anti-Candida Program has been completed. So long as you limit your in-take of junk food to 5 per cent of total food intake, you will be quite QK.

Yes, if you go back to your old ways of eating too many refined, processed foods containing sugar and white Hour. If you overindulge in alcohol, cigarettes and take drugs. If you over-extend yourself at work, play and exercise, you will so lower your immune vitality as to predispose yourself to Candida infection again.

Some lifestyles include, by necessity, certain travel commitments, work commitments or social commitments connected to travel and work. The disruptions to everyday routine these commitments cause can mean periodic consumption of more junk food and alcohol than is desirable for keeping Candida at bay. The cumulative effects of these breaks in routine can mount up over time and cause the Candida symptoms to slowly return. If you are involved in this life mode make a point of going on the full Anti-Candida Program, with Nystatin, for one month every year. The best time to do it is at the beginning of each year, starting the week you return to work after the summer holidays. This will get you in good mental and physical shape for the year ahead and will give you the energy to take on all challenges. It will clean your system of any Candida plants that have grown over the previous year and especially as a result of the Christmas celebrations. It will get rid of that taste for alcohol and sweets that is so often the legacy of Christmas. It will set you up for another year on the Metabolism-Balancing Program and minimal junk food.

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Stress causes the release of the hormones adrenalin and cortisone from the adrenal glands. Adrenalin speeds up the metabolism of the body causing the cells to burn more glucose than normal. Cortisone, as mentioned, suppresses the power of the white blood cells to kill fungi, bacteria and viruses.

Over-work, over-commitment, over-exercising and over-socialising (with attendant late nights) are stresses sometimes encountered by Candida sufferers. These people think that because they are regularly taking Nystatin and sticking to the program, they can continue life at its normal frenetic pace and that everything will be fine. Not so.

Paradoxically, one of the greatest stresses can be the very program that is designed to starve the Candida. The big problem with the anti-allergy and anti-candida programs is that, by their very nature, they are food restrictive. By restricting the number of food types on a given program you restrict the quantity and the spectrum of nutrients in the diet.

Because white blood cells require an on-going and large supply of many different nutrients, their vitality can be lowered if restrictive programs are adhered to for too long. This is why a high potency broad spectrum vitamin and mineral formula (with the six essential minerals—calcium, magnesium, potassium, zinc, iron and manganese, plus hydrochloric acid to facilitate absorption) must be taken in tablet form by those on an anti-candida program. However, a vitamin and mineral supplement is not fully absorbed by those who are stressed through over-work, over-exercise, over-socialising or negative attitudes.

The initial Anti-Candida Program with its absence of natural sugars (fruit, honey, milk, yoghurt, etc.) is very food restrictive. Because a body under stress burns more glucose than normal, the foods eaten must provide that body with a ready source of glucose.

A shortage of glucose means the body becomes even more stressed and fatigue, light-headedness, depression and even fainting spells can develop. Depression and fainting spells usually lead to a craving for something sweet which invariably leads to a breaking of the program. This sometimes causes a flaring up of the condition being treated.

In any case, highly stressed people often show no improvement in their condition, despite the Nystatin and the program. When this happens they understandably become more stressed.

Highly stressed people have reduced digestive capacity. This means that the fresh, unrefined foods in the Anti-Candida Program, which are generally digested and converted to glucose more slowly than refined foods, take them even longer to digest and absorb. Yet rapid digestion and absorption of food, especially glucose, is what highly stressed people need the most.

The glucose depletion problem is aggravated in stressed people if some form of carbohydrate food (bread, brown rice or potato) is not eaten in the middle of the day. My experience with the overworked, over-exercised, over-socialised types is that they are frequently too busy to organise a substantial meal in the middle of the day and usually grab a salad on the run. Most of these salads turn out to be only rabbit food, without a substantial protein (meat, fish, poultry, egg) or carbohydrate food. Consequently, by mid-afternoon, they are feeling weak, faint, depressed and crave something sweet.

Within eight weeks these people are complaining that they are still retaining fluid, their acne is only slightly better, as is their eczema, their headaches and their asthma. And as far as they are concerned Candida albicans is definitely not the root of their problem.

Once they realise that they have to cut clown on their workload, social life and sporting activities they invariably get good results–their skin clears, fluid (weight) falls, and headaches and asthma attacks disappear. To find out if stress is a problem for you. This is important if you’re one of those highly motivated, enthusiastic, hard-charger types who enjoy their work, work long hours and are always on the go. Often these types are under stress without realising it.

Anti-candida treatment gives across the board results. Meaning that when the Candida infection is contained, all the symptoms disappear. If they don’t then stress is frequently involved. For instance, if your sinusitis, skin complaint and asthma go but your abdomen remains distended and/or you’re still tired or you catch a cold or ‘flu while on the program, you’re stressed and in need of rest.

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Cortisone suppresses the power of the white blood cells to kill viruses, fungi and bacteria. The white blood cells are the mainstays of the body’s defence against infection. They swim through the bloodstream and into the tissue spaces like tiny amoeba, killing foreign bodies on contact. They also produce protein antibodies to neutralise foreign substances.

White blood cells work against the attempts of progesterone to change the chemistry of the mucous membranes to favour Candida growth, by producing and sending protein antibodies to the membranes. The increased number of protein antibodies in the membranes changes their chemistry, yet again, rendering them infertile for Candida growth.

Because Candida yeast infections can produce inflammatory conditions such as eczema, psoriasis, asthma, arthritis and systemic lupus, cortisone creams and pills are often prescribed to Candida sufferers. Like antibiotics, they only treat the symptoms. As a potent anti-inflammatory agent cortisone does this very efficiently, but it also suppresses the white blood cells’ ability to produce antibodies to line the wall of the intestine. Ultimately cortisone, like antibiotics, increases the size of the Candida colony.

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