How should "Candida Syndrome" be regarded from a Peat perspective?
This topic, in and of itself, has almost an un-Peat flavor to it, I know.
Because Peat seems to poopoo Candida Syndrome
as a real danger.
I mean, he doesn't deny the existence of yeast,
but he seems to think--
based upon what I've heard and read from him--
that it is one of those hyped-up, largely concocted "diseases"
designed mostly to drain wallets.
And so that is why I haven't regarded it seriously since getting into Peat.
Actually, for years--decades really--I've looked askance at it for similar reasons.
However:
I have noticed some things in my own experience which make me wonder
if I should take it more seriously.
1. In recent years, and under the influence of slightly outre Peat notions,
I've experimented with brief dosings (1 day, 3 days) of "Peat antibiotics"
like minocycline and tetracycline
to retard endotoxin.
After some or all of those experiments,
and sometimes after experiencing some good effects,
I have then experienced some bad effects.
(I started a thread about a half-year ago discussing what I felt/feel
to be a "gap" in Peat thinking regarding antibiotics:
that they're a good thing to try, maybe, to reduce endotoxin,
while at the same time Peat doesn't seem to think
there is a need to take probiotics during or after.
I still think there is perhaps a gap there.)
2. It is hard to get good information about Candida.
It is not just Peat who seems to regard Candida as a kind of hoax.
The AMA would seem, in a rare confluence, to share Peat's skepticism.
But...sifting through what I've been able to find online over the past weeks,
one of the more persuasive people (and I'll link to him if anyone is interested)
says that where Candida really gets a foothold is in the colon,
and up around the cecum.
The cecum is the area in which the appendix is located, I believe.
I wonder if, if it is true about Candida fortifying around the cecum,
then perhaps there is a relationship between Candida and appendicitis?
I had an appendicitis and appendectomy about 3 years ago just after I discovered Peat's stuff.
3. A while back...how long?...2 years ago?...Charlie and I both embarked
upon trial runs of Peat-inspired courses of antibiotics:
me for 1 day, Charlie for about 10 days as I recall.
His "Minocycline Log" should still be up I guess.
Anyway, afterwards, in both our cases, we developed what Charlie thought was thrush
on his tongue.
I had the same white coating,
but I doubted it was thrush probably largely because Peat doesn't seem
very concerned about Candida.
Peat said he'd gotten rid of the coated tongue with Flowers of Sulfur,
just a few dabs on the tongue.
I can't remember Charlie's results,
but in my case there was no change.
Interesting, too, that sulfur is never mentioned
in the the online forums' discussions about anti-Candida substances
or included in anti-Candida products in "health food stores."
(Maybe just the smell makes it prohibitive?)
Peat seems to think yeast is very sensitive to sulfur
and that just a little sulfur over 2 or 3 days should knock it right out.
4. Apparently--and I confess I'm quite a dim bulb on this--
Candida is a yeast
but
it also goes through a phase where it becomes a fungus.
I haven't heard Peat speak about this.
Maybe yeasts are very susceptible to sulfur
but not fungi?
5. The online seemingly smart-guy-about-Candida,
the one above who said Candida gets a foothold in the colon and around the cecum...
he strongly believes, for those reasons,
that the only way to successfully attack Candida there
is with Nystatin enemas.
(I believe he may get this idea from a doctor/author named, I believe, Crook,
who has a book about Candida.
I don't have it.
I believe it was written quite a while back--perhaps the '80's or so.)
He also strongly believes (not saying that strength of believe indicates he is right, but...)
that when many people say they are having pain in the upper-right abdomen
because it is their liver due to Candida,
he believes it is instead pain in the colon at that location.
This is interesting to me because
I just recently finished a round of antibiotics because of a diseased tooth and
I felt like crap and have had...pain in that upper-right quadrant.
Anyhow!
Those are just some food for thought to open discussion.
I really don't know what to make of this Candida thing,
but I don't recall a dedicated thread/discussion about it in the past.
As I say...just to do so carries with it a whiff of Peat Heresy ...
This topic, in and of itself, has almost an un-Peat flavor to it, I know.
Because Peat seems to poopoo Candida Syndrome
as a real danger.
I mean, he doesn't deny the existence of yeast,
but he seems to think--
based upon what I've heard and read from him--
that it is one of those hyped-up, largely concocted "diseases"
designed mostly to drain wallets.
And so that is why I haven't regarded it seriously since getting into Peat.
Actually, for years--decades really--I've looked askance at it for similar reasons.
However:
I have noticed some things in my own experience which make me wonder
if I should take it more seriously.
1. In recent years, and under the influence of slightly outre Peat notions,
I've experimented with brief dosings (1 day, 3 days) of "Peat antibiotics"
like minocycline and tetracycline
to retard endotoxin.
After some or all of those experiments,
and sometimes after experiencing some good effects,
I have then experienced some bad effects.
(I started a thread about a half-year ago discussing what I felt/feel
to be a "gap" in Peat thinking regarding antibiotics:
that they're a good thing to try, maybe, to reduce endotoxin,
while at the same time Peat doesn't seem to think
there is a need to take probiotics during or after.
I still think there is perhaps a gap there.)
2. It is hard to get good information about Candida.
It is not just Peat who seems to regard Candida as a kind of hoax.
The AMA would seem, in a rare confluence, to share Peat's skepticism.
But...sifting through what I've been able to find online over the past weeks,
one of the more persuasive people (and I'll link to him if anyone is interested)
says that where Candida really gets a foothold is in the colon,
and up around the cecum.
The cecum is the area in which the appendix is located, I believe.
I wonder if, if it is true about Candida fortifying around the cecum,
then perhaps there is a relationship between Candida and appendicitis?
I had an appendicitis and appendectomy about 3 years ago just after I discovered Peat's stuff.
3. A while back...how long?...2 years ago?...Charlie and I both embarked
upon trial runs of Peat-inspired courses of antibiotics:
me for 1 day, Charlie for about 10 days as I recall.
His "Minocycline Log" should still be up I guess.
Anyway, afterwards, in both our cases, we developed what Charlie thought was thrush
on his tongue.
I had the same white coating,
but I doubted it was thrush probably largely because Peat doesn't seem
very concerned about Candida.
Peat said he'd gotten rid of the coated tongue with Flowers of Sulfur,
just a few dabs on the tongue.
I can't remember Charlie's results,
but in my case there was no change.
Interesting, too, that sulfur is never mentioned
in the the online forums' discussions about anti-Candida substances
or included in anti-Candida products in "health food stores."
(Maybe just the smell makes it prohibitive?)
Peat seems to think yeast is very sensitive to sulfur
and that just a little sulfur over 2 or 3 days should knock it right out.
4. Apparently--and I confess I'm quite a dim bulb on this--
Candida is a yeast
but
it also goes through a phase where it becomes a fungus.
I haven't heard Peat speak about this.
Maybe yeasts are very susceptible to sulfur
but not fungi?
5. The online seemingly smart-guy-about-Candida,
the one above who said Candida gets a foothold in the colon and around the cecum...
he strongly believes, for those reasons,
that the only way to successfully attack Candida there
is with Nystatin enemas.
(I believe he may get this idea from a doctor/author named, I believe, Crook,
who has a book about Candida.
I don't have it.
I believe it was written quite a while back--perhaps the '80's or so.)
He also strongly believes (not saying that strength of believe indicates he is right, but...)
that when many people say they are having pain in the upper-right abdomen
because it is their liver due to Candida,
he believes it is instead pain in the colon at that location.
This is interesting to me because
I just recently finished a round of antibiotics because of a diseased tooth and
I felt like crap and have had...pain in that upper-right quadrant.
Anyhow!
Those are just some food for thought to open discussion.
I really don't know what to make of this Candida thing,
but I don't recall a dedicated thread/discussion about it in the past.
As I say...just to do so carries with it a whiff of Peat Heresy ...