Posted by Pamela on April 20, 2001, at 9:18:41
In reply to Re: Candida causing mood swings, etc?, posted by JasonL on April 19, 2001, at 10:48:19
> > Karen,
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> Your post excites me. I have been studying the environmental factors like candidia albicans fungus and its implications in mental function. On a larger scope it is well documented that mental health problems can be associated with various problems in the body: low blood sugar, poor digestion, food alergies, leaky gut, food intolerances like gluten intolerance, heavy metal toxixity, ph imbalance, metabolic problems.
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> Do you really want to know my opinion on this subject? I think doctors and psychiatrists are looking in the wrong direnction. They have studied the brain very well, but western science has done a realatively poor job of helping patients become well. Doctors do well at trying to mask symptoms or cutting things out of the body....but in terms of creating health and balance and vitality...the US as a country suffers more degenerative disease than any other first world nation...
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> Please look into things like: metabolic typing diets, food alergies, heavy metal toxicity, fatty acid imbalances...I did a recent look at celiac disease...did you know that the untreated symptoms of celiac disease could read right out of the DSM for ADHD, ADD, depression, anxiety. Undoubtedly, if you look at Candidia and the works of Dr. Truss (famous for bringing attention to Candidia) you will see the same symptoms in Cadidia as well.
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> This points to an even larger problem that western psychiatry has failed to adress. If your immune systom is being compromised by food alergies, pathogenic bacteria, poor metabolism, eating the wrong foods for your body type, then your entire system is operating at less than full potential. The brain, psychiatrists forget, does not stand alone and apart from the health of the other organns. Any look at tradition, holistic medicine from cultures all around the world will reveal that the brain is not treated seperately from the other organs of the body. Hence, in Chinease medicine, emotional problems are halped by trying to create balance....no not in the synapse as western doctors would have you believe, but with imbalance in the other ten organs of the body. Remove the problems from the gut, clean out the liver, strengthen the kidney...your brain can function better. You fucntion better.
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> But I ramble. it just frustrates me. Anyway, there is a lot more to be discovered...and it might be a simple as knowing which foods to eat and which foods not to eat for your particular body and nutrional needs...my needs and your needs are as unique as our fingerprints.
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> Jason Lohr
Jason,Halaleuia! We are garbage cans! Me included!
As the old saying goes "depression" wasn't a significant disease in the "OLD DAYS".They say well they didn't have the stress we do now. NOT....where their next meal was coming from isn't stress, trying to stay out of the blithering weather, isn't stress, walking everwhere thay needed to go isn't stress.
We have computers, fine cars, nice homes and we are more stressed than the old guys.
Spoiled might be a better term.
WE consume nothing but prcoessed and junk food (as a majority)and we think that won't cause our bodies/minds to malfunction.
Sorry.... I too get passionate over this disease and all of the diseases out there unlooked at.Take a pill call me in the morning is what we have come too. Once again, I am not excluded!
Fast track all the way.Candida is very real in my opinion, as I have lived with it chronically over the years. It needs more attention. PLEASE!!!
Not to get religious.... but think about it, our whole world is in an uproar (health, violence, pornography, fires, earthquakes, man against man......just like the Bible says it will be.
"WE"....collectively need to make the changes needed!
I'm done...sorry for getting carried away! Hope I didn't offend anyone!
Pamela
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