CANDIDA ALBICANS: STRESS
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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