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The Misunderstood and Misdiagnosed Problem of Candida

By Dr. Greg Fors, DC Board-certified Neurologist

Candida Syndrome - Yeast Overgrowth - Ever Heard It? Every day people come into my clinic with unexplained chronic symptoms that are destroying their lives: fibromyalgia, chronic pain and fatigue, IBS and depression. Many times, I will find that one of the underlying causes of their complex health problems is a pathological yeast known as Candida albicans. Even though Candida and yeast overgrowth are quite common, many people are unaware that they have it, and their conventional doctor tends to ignore it.

The symptoms of Candida syndrome and yeast overgrowth are as diverse as they are destructive, and range from debilitating digestive problems to chronic pain and fatigue as well as brain fog, depression, anxiety and multiple skin conditions. Compounding the problem of this symptomatic complexity and diversity is the fact that it often goes undiagnosed or is misdiagnosed by the conventional doctor thus allowing it to continue to grow and form destructive colonies that overwhelm your body’s natural defense system.

What is Candida?

Candida albicans is a microscopic fungus that typically lives in small numbers in the body harmlessly; that is until it gets out of hand. Candida can be found in the mouth, intestinal tract and the vagina. If your immune system is functioning optimally, this yeast infection is rarely serious, nor does it spread. However, if your beneficial bacteria and/or your immune system are out of balance, Candida infection and its toxins can overwhelm the area and even migrate to other parts of the body, causing multiple complex symptoms.

How Candida Overgrowth Happens This yeast overgrowth can be triggered by many things. Primary among these are diets containing sugar and high carbs which tend to fuel the growth of the yeast in the G.I. tract. Candida loves carbs and sugars, and it is one of the primary causes of sugar craving. A rundown immune system, often related to nutritional deficiencies, can also make you vulnerable to Candida overgrowth. Taking long term or multiple antibiotics can disrupt your microbiome by destroying the beneficial bacteria you need, leaving you open to an overgrowth of the Candida. Other medications can increase your chances of Candida overgrowth such as birth control pills, estrogen, and steroids, like prednisone.

Of course, stress can also play its role in affecting your immune system, again, leaving you vulnerable to Candida overgrowth.

Major Signs You Have Candida Overgrowth A few of the primary signs of Candida syndrome are digestive issues with bloating, reflux, constipation or diarrhea, feeling tired and rundown, chronic pain, brain fog, mood swings, depression, autoimmune disorders, vaginal and rectal itching, strong sugar and carb craving. Most individuals suffer for years without knowing the cause of this health problem or how to overcome it.

How Candida Syndrome Is Properly Diagnosed There is a lot of misinformation on the Internet especially on how to diagnose Candida syndrome. In nearly 30 years of working with individuals, I have found only a few scientific ways to establish if there is truly Candida overgrowth. The best laboratory tests are: 1) a comprehensive digestive stool analysis with a culture and a microscopic examination for yeast, 2) an organic acid profile looking for the waste products from Candida in the urine or 3) a Candida antibody blood test.

Why is it so important to be diagnostically correct?

When you’re chronically sick and suffering you do not want to waste your time and effort drastically changing

your diet and taking antimicrobials to kill off something that is not really there, nor causing you problems.

Once Diagnosed How Is It Treated?

As with many health issues the answer lies in the gut. A healthy gastrointestinal tract contains over 5000 different bacterial species, most of them “good� and some of them not so good. With Candida overgrowth, the delicate balance of microorganisms has been disturbed. This allows yeast to invade and colonize your digestive system. This yeast overgrowth can damage your G.I. lining causing your gut to become leaky, leading to chronic inflammation and perhaps even an autoimmune disease. However, utilizing an effective dietary regime with targeted supplements, you can get rid of the yeast and restore your gut's healthy microbiome.

An individualized personal lifestyle medicine approach is vital in real healing for Candida syndrome.

Want to know more now? Join me, Dr. Greg Fors, at one of my FREE “Conquer Your Candida Problems Once and For All� Health workshops. Held Wednesday, September 27th 7:00 PM and Monday, October 2nd 7:00 PM at the Pain and Brain Healing Center. For directions and to reserve your space call my clinic at 763-862-7100, you can also schedule a free consultation with me.

Dr. Greg Fors, D.C. is a Board-certified Neurologist (IBCN), certified in Applied Herbal Sciences (NWHSU) and acupuncture. As the clinic director of the Pain and Brain Healing Center in Blaine Minnesota he specializes in a functional medicine approach to fibromyalgia, fatigue, brain fog, digestive disorders, depression and anxiety. He is a sought after international lecturer for various postgraduate departments and state associations. Dr. Fors is the author of the highly acclaimed book, “Why We Hurt� available through booksellers everywhere.

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Her favorite competition foods are hardboiled eggs, oysters, and chicken wings.

She keeps her weight under control by exercising two hours a day on an incline treadmill.

• In September of 1960, light heavyweight boxer Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. traveled to Rome, Italy, to participate in the Summer Olympics. He was just 18 years old, but won all four of his matches, even defeating the three-time European champion. Clay was awarded the gold medal on September 5, 1960, and turned professional shortly afterward.

In 1964, he converted to Islam and changed his name to Muhammad Ali. Ali retired from boxing in 1981, and turned to charitable work. Three years later, he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease, attributed to his many boxing-related brain injuries. After struggling with the disease for many years, Ali passed away in June of 2016.

• America’s first Labor Day holiday took place on September 5, 1882, when more than 10,000 workers gathered in New York City for a parade originating at City Hall, followed by a picnic, concert, and speeches. The activity was organized

by New York’s Central Labor Union to demonstrate the expansion of labor movements and their ability to improve working conditions. Labor Day was made an official national holiday in 1894.

• The New York Yankees played their final game at New York’s Polo Grounds on September 5, 1922. It was the final game of the World Series, with the Yanks playing the New York Giants, who took the Series 4 games to none. Yankee Stadium opened for the 1923 season.

• On the sixth of September, 1899, Carnation processed its first can of evaporated milk in Kent, Washington.

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• The community of Canton, Ohio opened the doors of the Pro Football Hall of Fame on September 7, 1963. It was an appropriate spot for the Hall, considering that the NFL was founded in Canton in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association. Currently, there are 310 members of the NFL Hall of Fame.

It’s estimated that there are about 208 million NFL fans in the United States. Of this number, only 7% ever get to go to a live game, while 93% have to be content to watch the games on television.

• Neonatal facilities today take the incubator for granted for the care of newborn babies, but until September 7, 1888, no American baby had ever been placed in one. Edith Eleanor McLean was born that day to Scottish immigrants, weighing 2 lbs., 7 oz., with Dr. William Derning in charge of the delivery, becoming the first preemie to be treated as such. Derning was the first American doctor to try what he called a “hatching cradle,” an incubator heated with a 15gallon (12.5 British) reservoir of warm water. The device underwent several improvements over the next several years, and became a popular exhibit at the 1904 World’s Fair, where 14 metal-framed glass incubators were attended by nurses caring for endangered newborns from orphanages and poor families.

• One of the world’s favorite comic strips, “Blondie,” has been around for nearly 90 years. Drawn by creator Chic Young, the cartoon first appeared in newspapers on September 8, 1930. For the first 2 ½ years, Blondie Boopadoop and Dagwood Bumstead dated, finally marrying in February, 1933. The Bumstead family, including children Alexander and Cookie, reside in Joplin, Missouri, where Dagwood is the office manager at the J.C. Dithers Construction Company. The comic strip was responsible for the term “Dagwood sandwich,” since Dagwood loves building enormous sandwiches on the kitchen table. The strip was drawn by Chic until his death in 1973, when the reins were passed to his son Dean Young, who continues to draw “Blondie.” The popular cartoon appears in more than 2,000 newspapers in 47 countries, and is translated into 35 languages.

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• The least toxic part of the plant is the fruit. The fruit looks like apples, smells like apples, and tastes like apples, yet Spanish conquistadors dubbed it “manzanita de la muerte” or “little apple of death.” The scientific name, “Hippomane mancinella” comes from the Greek words for “horse” and “madness.”

• Within minutes of taking a bite, the tongue and throat start to sizzle with a peppery taste before swelling and bleeding.

Abdominal pain, vomiting, and digestive tract damage follow.

Fortunately, death is rare because people rarely get beyond the first bite of the fruit before regretting their decision.

• The sap is even more poisonous than the fruit. Milky white, it contains a cocktail of acidic poisons that will burn skin and even peel paint from cars. Should any sap come into contact with the eyes, blindness will result.

• Leaning against the tree trunk is dangerous, cutting the tree down is dangerous, and even sitting underneath the tree to take shelter from a storm is dangerous, as rainwater dissolves the toxins and carries them downward.

• So toxic is the sap that the native Carib tribes used it to poison the tips of their arrows.

Explorer Ponce de Leon was hit by such an arrow in the year 1521 on the southeastern coast of Florida. Although he

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• William Ellis, ship surgeon for explorer James Cook on his third and final voyage in 1780, wrote: "A party of men were sent to cut wood, as the island apparently afforded plenty of that article; amongst other trees they unluckily cut down several of the manchineel, the juice of which getting into their eyes, rendered them blind for several days."

• The leaves are also poisonous and local tribes would drop leaves into the water supply of their enemies to taint it.

• If you decide to eradicate a manchineel tree by burning it, the smoke will cause blindness and asphyxiation. If you cut the tree down, the wood and sawdust is toxic. However, carpenters are able to use the lumber if the wood is left to cure in the sun long enough for the poison to evaporate.

• Even merely standing near the tree or sitting underneath it for too long will cause irritation to the lungs by inhaling vapors given off by the sap.

• Not surprisingly, humans have worked hard to eradicate the tree, and it is now an endangered species. Beach resorts often post warning signs on the trees, or spray paint the trunks with red paint to warn people away.

• Despite its drawbacks, however, the tree serves some useful purposes. It anchors fragile coastlines, preventing erosion during storms and providing a windbreak. Natives used extracts from the tree as medicine to treat edema, as a laxative, and for use as a diuretic.

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Radium-infused blankets reportedly eased arthritis.

Radioactive pendants helped with rheumatism and radiumlaced pills aided digestion.

• In New Jersey, William Bailey called himself a doctor though he never studied medicine. He started producing radiuminfused water in 1918, which he bottled and sold as a miracle cure-all. Called Radithor, it was prescribed by doctors to cure everything from gout to baldness. It sold for $1 per bottle ($15 in today’s currency), and Bailey offered medical doctors a 17% kickback on every prescription they wrote out for Radithor.

• One of the more noteworthy recipients of a prescription was Eben Byers of Pittsburgh, PA, a wealthy and well-known industrialist and socialite.

Eben had trouble with a broken arm in 1927. His

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prescription for Radithor was supposed to heal the fracture by stimulating his endocrine system. Instructions were to swallow an entire bottle once a day. Eben decided that if some was good, more was better. He started taking several every day.

• Every bottle of Radithor contained one microgram of radium and one microgram of thorium.

When radiation is swallowed, it lodges in the bone marrow where it remains. The halflife of radium is 1,600 years.

It sits in the bones and bombards the local tissues with alpha particles, which cause cancer.

• Eben swore it healed his arm and reduced his pain.

He had Radithor shipped by the caseload to his house. He convinced his friends it was a miracle cure. But by 1930, Eben, now age 50, started getting sick. By this time he had ingested around 1,400 bottles of Radithor over the course of three years. He got headaches and lost weight.

His teeth fell out. Abscesses formed in his brain, along with holes in his skull. When he went for a professional opinion, he was diagnosed with radiation poisoning. He stopped drinking Radithor.

By now his bones were crumbling and his jaw had to be amputated. He died in 1932 at the age of 52. The article in the “Wall Street Journal” noted, “The radium water worked fine until his

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jaw came off.”

• When publicity spread about Eben’s death by radium water, William Bailey closed the factory.

By the time a cease-anddesist order was delivered, he was long gone. Bailey was never charged with any wrongdoing, and soon opened a new shop in New York manufacturing radioactive belt buckles, radioactive paperweights, and other products. Eventually, the federal government closed that company down.

• Eben Byers is buried in Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in a lead-lined coffin. His remains are highly radioactive.

• Radithor did not cause a widespread epidemic of radiation poisoning because it was costly. At $15 per dose, it was out of the reach of most Americans.

Eben was wealthy and could afford as many doses as he wanted to take.

• This episode led to the strengthening of the Food and Drug Administration’s power to regulate patent medicines.

By 1932, radioactive products had been removed from the market.

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• September 4, 1957 marked the release of Ford Motor Company’s “car of the future,” the Edsel. Named for Henry Ford’s only son, Edsel, former president of Ford Motor Company, who had perished from stomach cancer in 1943 at age 49, the Edsel was expected to nab a large share of the market away from GM and Chrysler.

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