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Originally published July 3 2008

Candida Conundrum: Is It Really Allergies?
by Kal Sellers

(NaturalNews) A short time ago, I wrote an article on treating
candida. This article took a lot of the stress and misery out of the
typical candida diet and allowed you to heal your body while killing
candida. This is something that is not typically addressed very well
in most candida diets, which often leave you sick in other ways when
you are done.

In response to this article, I literally got about fifty emails asking
me to help with the fight against candida. The distressing common vein
in nearly all of these emails was that they were describing symptoms
that candida itself could never be responsible for.

If you have candida to the point that it is eating your skin and your
mucus membranes, you are not walking around like a normal person with
a normal life. Rather you are on your deathbed.

Still, people are being diagnosed, presumably after some experienced
practitioner has tested them, with candida to explain eruptions on the
skin and in the mouth, or chronic fatigue, etc.

Let's get the cat out of the bag right away and reveal that those
symptoms are not candida infections, but are, rather, allergic
responses -- well, a better clinical description would be autoimmune
responses -- possibly to candida, but more likely to candida, a few
viruses, dietary irritants, chemical warfare residues in the air,
toxic thinking and bacteria.

In other words, it is a condition of autoimmune response to what would
be better termed an irritant than an infection. True, the
microorganisms are present, but the other implications of infection
are not there, unless we specify "low-grade" infection.

Because of vaccinations, heavy metals, biological warfare circling our
globe and a basically loveless society that is eating irritants
instead of real food, autoimmune responses are truly epidemic. Pretty
much everyone is experiencing some degree of them if raised in the
conventional setting in this country.

Fortunately, as I profess quite often, our culture is feeling the
stones of what would commonly be known as "rock bottom" and the more
enlightened members of every class of society are engineering changes,
often subtle, but cumulative and sometimes radical, but with fewer
participants.

This movement is what brings you NaturalNews.com and other enlightened
publications. There is still a lot of fear, anger and spewing of
contention against this or that, which, hopefully, we will stop doing
before we drag ourselves kicking and screaming to our graves.

What is it that Albert Einstein is credited with saying? "You cannot
solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created it." Yeah,
that is right, and going to war against those who have abused humanity
is the same level of thinking. Instead, an enlightened perspective,
determined to take humanity to a higher place is a much better
solution. I believe that if we put all the energy that is currently
burned up on contention, complaining and blaming into creativity,
innovation and commitment to good causes, we would soon find that all
current threats are no longer threats at all.

Today, though, we are going to deal with today's threats and how to
nullify or at least minimize the cumulative impact of them for each of
us.

So the responses that people are reporting, which they have blamed on
candida are actually not the direct result of infection, but rather
the result of an allergy, or auto-immune response to not just that
irritant, but several others as well.

This calls, obviously, for a different approach. I find many natural
healers using candida the way medical doctors use fibromyalgia. That
is, when they encounter a stubborn symptom that they do not
understand, they give it that label so they sound more intelligent.
This is safe because these conditions are believed to be so hard to
treat and results are not really expected.

Of course not!

In order to deal with the problem that is most often being labeled as
candida, we need to start labeling it correctly. Let me tell you,
first of all, that everyone (are you listening?) everyone has candida
in their blood. This is not new, though it is a little worse because
of some mysterious things in our air today.

The only difference is that today if a practitioner finds candida in
your blood, you get a label to carry around that you can now use to
excuse all of your health problems so you do not feel too bad about
having them. The problem with this is that you soon find that your
health is not really getting better. Candida control programs are not
working. Then fear sets in and you are worried you are going to die,
or not be able to live a normal life.

When we address candida, cleaning it out and healing the body so that
it is healthy ecologically is not difficult, but there is no way every
that you are going to keep candida out of your blood completely. If
you are allergic to the candida, guess what, anytime you give your
body enough irritants that it becomes irritable, you will have
symptoms again.

Last time I wrote about candida, I explained how to wipe it out of
your body and get your ecology healthy. That system works, but so many
of those who contacted me did not have symptoms consistent with
candida infections, but rather with autoimmune responses.

When an autoimmune response is triggered by one or many irritants, it
is known as an allergy. Allergies can take many forms and can manifest
in many different tissues. There is very little sense in a simple
scratch test for allergies these days, even though that is almost the
only thing most medical doctors even know about or support.

In order to deal with the allergies, we want to do three things that
will keep them away permanently.

1. Diminish the number of irritants in the body

2. Release the tendency to respond to certain substances

3. Clean out the toxic residues in the body that keep it out of
balance

To diminish the number of irritants in your body, think three areas:
water, food and air.

Water is the easiest, just get good filtration systems for your water.
You may want to test the pH after filtration and if it is highly
acidic, add some healthy ions to it so that your body knows how to use
that water. A simple solution is to add raw apple cider vinegar or
fresh lemon to the water. These are acidic natural substances that our
bodies understand.

Generally, I feel that distilled water is the best -- the hydrogen
ions that are freed up in distilled water (which make it test acidic)
are actually used immediately as markers in your body and help
eliminate any debris that are not in use. It is simply a myth that
distilled water will rob your body of nutrients you are using. The
only time this could possibly occur is when under extreme stress.
During those times, you can solve the problem by drinking herbal teas
(as part of your water consumption), especially comfrey, alfalfa and
red raspberry mixed.

Distilled water does come with a warning, however, and that warning is
about xenoestrogens (literally, foreign, unnatural or abnormal
estrogens) that can be leached out of the plastic if the temperature
changes too radically. A local delivery service will not cost you much
more and might eliminate this problem totally. Your own distiller will
solve the problem totally.

I occasionally get asked about alkaline water. I personally watch out
for anything that does anything that I would not encounter in nature.
While glacier water is certainly alkaline, it did not get that way by
putting a dropper full of some alkalizing chemical in it, but by
absorbing minerals from the rocks and soil it sits on.

Alkaline water can cause problems with hydration (contrary to popular
belief) and can cause alkaline shock, which will cause problems with
normal function and with the normal cycle from alkaline to acid that
your blood does if you are healthy.

In theory, something like alkalized water that comes purely from
electrolyzing the minerals in filtered water could be very helpful
without causing alkaline shock and that alkaline water would react
with and neutralize many irritants in your blood, contributing thereby
to your healing process.

If you decide to use alkaline water from one of these sources, the
best I have found is explained at (www.enagic.com/). This way you can
get a concentrated dose of some things we have been missing in our
usual water, but that we would get, at least periodically, if we lived
naturally. There are also other ways to micro-cluster your water into
hexagonal water clumps. This should be tested before you buy, though.

Food irritants is the most complicated. Basically, if you understand
that humans are, most perfectly raw-food frugivores, you can do pretty
well. That means we are best designed to eat fruit, leaves and easily
gathered vegetation along with some seeds and nuts. We are certainly
designed to eat them raw. These foods hold little irritation for most
of us. If you are allergic to nuts, you generally know about it. It is
also useful to realize that two substances you could eat and would not
react to either, might, when combined, create irritants.

So the first clue is lean toward frugivore foods. The second clue is
make sure you have great digestion -- which starts in the combinations
of foods you eat and then occurs in the mouth when you chew your food
well. I promise you if you chew twice as well as you are now, you will
have twice the energy and half the symptoms without changing anything
else.

For a more detailed discussion of proper eating parameters, go to
(www.bestfoodist.com) and get Traci's Transformational Health
Principles book. This will give you the basics that you can follow and
to which you can apply any food program you are inclined to follow to
make it the healthiest it can be.

Air is a tough one. The air outside probably is laced with lead and
chemicals... shall we call them experiments? It is also pervasively
filled with mutated strains of everything thanks to the radical
unnatural radiation circling the globe in the form of microwaves and
electromagnetic grids.

On the other hand, the air inside your home, though filtered,
typically tests to be up to 70 times more toxic than the air outside
on a smoggy day!

The solution is to make sure you have some ventilation in your home.
Keep wireless devices (internet, cell phones) and your microwave (if
you have not thrown it away yet) down to a minimum or eliminate them.
Avoid toxic sprays and chemicals in your home. Vacuum with a high
quality vacuum and maybe even grow some plants, especially trays of
wheatgrass that will revitalize the air in your home.

Oh, and do not forget the biggest one, think more positive thoughts.
There is really only one excuse for the air in anyone's home being 70
times more toxic than the air outside: the chemicals produced from
their own bodies.

I remember one study I had to learn about when I was studying self-
help and reprogramming. In this study, the condensate exhaled by
people in a room was captured. One angry person, who was in the room
angry for an hour, produced enough poison to kill a guinea pig. A room
full of angry people produced enough poison in one hour to kill a
hundred guinea pigs!

We are actually capable of producing poisons that are far more
dangerous than anything the outside air is going to contain on the
worst day. The good news is, we are also capable of producing the most
healing chemicals in the world for our own bodies (is that not the
epitome of logic?).

So the most important way to clean up the air in our home is probably
to take out the television and other sources of news, and then stop
calling those draining people in your life and then start having
gratitude and praying for peace, joy, faith and hope.

The most important thing to bring into your home is a package of
increased love, faith, hope, joy, peace and wisdom (including reading
helpful, enlightened books).

To release the tendency to respond to certain substances, one has to
do number one well (diminish irritants in your body). The next thing
is to start using tools that are specific in their ability to diminish
the irritable tendency.

Of course, if someone has an irritable personality, it probably is
going to appear in their physiology. If someone has a lot of fear, it
is probably going to look like candida infection when that reaction
appears in the physiology.

One of my favorite tools for decreasing irritation is soothing herbs
and St. John's wort. St. John's wort is not particularly soothing, but
it helps buffer the brain against irritable cycles and phases.

Soothing herbs are: Comfrey leaf, marshmallow root or leaf, slippery
elm bark and calendula. These are not medicinally relaxing (like, say
chamomile or lemon balm) but they are far more helpful in this case
because they absorb irritants, sooth all tissues, absorb poisons and
heavy metals, build strength in every system and provide temporary
natural buffers for several hours each time they enter the system. I
personally think that anyone in a stressful society, certainly in the
U.S. and Europe, should probably select one or two of these they like
and take them internally every day.

The next tool of diminishing irritable tendencies is EFT (Emotional
Freedom Technique). It is not alone, but it is both simple and
elegant, and it is fast. You can get introduced to EFT for free on the
downloads page of (www.kalsschool.com) and a newsletter going out to
all registered users soon is going to include an update about using
EFT for this very specific purpose.

Using EFT, allergies can be released and the irritable response can be
contained while you diminish the number of irritable things in your
diet and life.

To clean out the toxic residues in the body means cleansing and doing
it regularly. It also means cleansing the emotional heart regularly.
If you have not found something to cleanse your emotional heart
regularly, take a little free advice: Find Something!

This subject will also be addressed in the near future in www.kalsschool.com
newsletters as well, so if you are not receiving that newsletter,
please get registered.

The basics of cleaning out the emotional heart are that you have
something you can do, usually something out of the ordinary, that
takes you away from the tethers of your life for a short time. This is
not about escape, it is about clearing out your heart. It is a good
idea to include something physically exerting, but that is fun.

For me, a walk in the desert clears out my emotional heart. Now that I
have moved to Georgia, I find that I can do it on my trampoline out
back. I just go into a sort of trance and bounce and program myself,
or imagine myself in different aspects of my consciousness (children
do this without thinking about it, they fly or dig, bounce or twirl,
or they are trees or bees or cats or squirrels).

The Chinese actually have a type of chi gong that works by pretending
to be different animals (monkey, tiger, dragon, bear, eagle) and by
meditating on those animals to heal the various organ pairs. While
imagining oneself as said animal, the corresponding organ is
regenerating. The longer the better, of course.

Hawthorn berry blossoms are very helpful for clearing the emotional
heart. I am also told (though I have not tested it) that kudzu
blossoms are very good for this.

Nothing will replace an activity that clears your emotional heart. The
activity should be healthful and relatively free of technology. It
should be totally free of your cell phone.

As for physical cleansing, there are many good products on the market.
I like Richard Schulze's as well as Dr. Christopher's Original
Formulas.

Detailed cleansing courses are also frequently offered through
kalsschool.com also, which will allow you to understand how to cleanse
for healing, for maintenance and every day without even thinking about
it so that you can quietly eliminate many irritants and poisons that
you are going to inevitably encounter in your life.

Until next time,

Kal Sellers, MH

About the author
Kal Sellers, MH is a lifelong student and practitioner of the natural
healing arts.
Kal is a Master Herbalist, a Massage Therapist, Technician of the Rolf
Method of Structural Integration, Iridologist, Mind-Body Medicine
Practitioner, Mental Re-programmer, Life Coach, Natural Nutritionist,
Reflexologist and more.
Kal is currently attending Life University in preparation for
chiropractic school.
Kal currently operates and maintains www.KalsSchool.com an on-line
school for natural healing and herbal medicine.
Kal also maintains www.BestFoodist.com as the website for the
distribution of his and his wife's books on natural nutrition and
companion recipe book (Traci's Transformational Kitchen Cookbook and
Traci's Transformational Health Principles).
Kal and Traci have five children, the last three of which were
delivered at home, the last by Kal. They live now in Powder Springs,
GA where they maintain live classes on food and medicine for anyone
choosing to master medical independence and life-long optimal health!

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