Carol Ann wrote: > Hi Richard and Marshall, > > What is your opinion about this commentary. It is from an Herbal > list. I thought the comments about CSilver are interesting, > especially for those who use daily it in larger quantities. > > Carol Ann > > > And, someone on another list asked for help with candida, and at the > time I was watching a > School of Natural Healing video, by David Christopher, on "Super > Immunity" in which he addresses candida. > Here's my shortened version of what he says: > **************************** > Candida is necessary in our intestines to break down sugar and > alcohol. When we use antibiotics > (including heavy metals > > > Why would anyone want to use heavy metals, they are toxic? > > > internally, like colloidal silver, > > > Uh, silver is a transition metal, not a heavy metal. > > > mercury) those wipe out all the good bacteria, leaving the > candida all kinds of room to take over. > > > As we all know, unless the contents of the intestines are liquid, CS > has virtually no effect on any microbes in the intestines. However > normal antibiotics such as penicillian can cause the flora to be > killed and CS can kill bacteria in the intestines when one has the > runs, which is when you want it to kill stuff there. > > > The candida lives on sugar and alcohol > > No candida live on carbohydrates of which sugar is one, it produces > alcohol. Candida is a yeast and yeast is what is used to make beer > and wine. > > -- if you don't have > a good diet, candida could just continue to over-grow, un! til it eats > holes right through the > intestinal walls and get into the blood stream, becoming systemic. > > It does not eat holes, it forms a kind of roots that will penetrate > the wall of the intestines. But either way, it can be bad. If > canadida eats holes in the intestines, then why is she saying that it > is necessary above? > > A candida overgrowth CAN MIMIC > ANY disease, and be difficult to diagnose. > To restablish the good flora, avoid (obviously) sugar and alcohol, and > also foods that quickly turn > into sugar, like potatoes, white rice, dairy products (REAL yogurt -- > not the store bought -- might > be okay. I'm also wondering if Kefir and the Finnish 'drink' viili > would be equal to good homemade > yogurt - which you need starter cultures for). > Suggested candida diet is brown rice and vegies -- complex carbs > easily broken down by the body. > Fermented foods re-establish the friendly flora -- eat sauerkraut, > kimchi, rejuvalac. > Extra B vitamins, maybe in the form of nutritional yeast. Eat organic > produce -- they have beneficial flora on their > skins, where most commercial produce do not because of pesticides and > other treatments. > (Plus, he said he ! saw a kid spraying Black Flag over the produce in > the grocery store once!!! yeeeks!) > > And something else he added that I thought was quite interesting -- > all chronic fatigue patients > have candida problems (CF typically follows a candida overgrowth). So > re-establish > those friendly bacteria and you're on your way to curing or preventing > that problem too. > My little knowledge of fibro and chronic fatigue tells me they might > be similar enough to > consider the candida possibility in both cases. > > So putting that all together, if David Christopher is correct that > Colloidal Silver also kills the beneficial bacteria > in our digestive system, allowing Candida yeast to multiply and take > over, you would be doing yourself > more harm than good by taking the CS if you're not replenishing the > good bacteria right away. > > That is not correct, when properly made CS is used in moderation. It will kill all bacteria, benefitial and otherwise when in the propler medium, such as the blood stream, but CS is almost totally ineffective when in a solid or semisolid matrix.
Interesting how inaccurate this person can be in the first part, yet correct in the second part. Marshall
