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As promised in an earlier blog, I’m going to take a fresh look at the causes of candida overgrowth.
There are five leading causes, at least as observed in modern societies in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The new twist is the number I have chosen to list – five – since in the past we have usually highlighted three or sometimes four in the Field Control Therapy (FCT) training curriculum… and this time I’m extending it, and adding a mysterious one to the list, and moreover in position three!
I wonder if anyone will guess which additional factor on the list I am referring to?
In the meantime, I’ll go through the list one item at a time, starting today with the one at the top of the list in terms of priority, prevalence and impact on candida growth: mercury poisoning.
This list is not pulled out of a hat – it is based (or at least numbers 1, 2 and 4 on the list, before I added numbers 3 and 5) on the research of world-class fungologists, combined (all numbers) with years of Field Control Therapy (FCT) clinical experience. I’ll publish the full list in a future blog, after we’ve been through each item individually.
You can read a lot about Candida overgrowth in many locations, and you may hear a lot about it from many sources. But very few people understand its true causes. Most healthcare practitioners won’t even be able to name more than one or two items from this list, let alone recognizing and addressing all five factors in tandem – or listing them in the correct order of priority as we shall do!
Let’s take a closer look at the first of these: toxicity – especially mercury poisoning from dental fillings and other sources. Mercury is a potent immuno-toxin, and therefore swings the “battleground power” (see earlier blog for explanation) back in favour of Candida, by hampering the other side of the battle lines – our immune system.
Thus the major causes of candidiasis are not actually those which feed Candida directly – a far more insidious and destructive cause of candidiasis is the one which goes behind enemy lines and cripples the immune resources, allowing Candida to then have a field day. This is exactly what mercury does, by invading immune tissues and cells and disabling them.
The single most significant and common cause of Candida overgrowth is mercury fillings – and yet very few practitioners outside of the FCT community will tell you this startling fact!
Mercury leaches from them, and into key immune tissues such as the bone marrow, thymus, lymphatic system, spleen, liver, small intestine and colon. Its toxicological effects on the cells in these tissues have been extensively documented by the world’s leading toxicology experts, and lead directly to the inevitable consequence of poor immune function – candidiasis.
Even without any of the other four causes on the list – which I’ll leave for future blogs – mercury poisoning in and of itself is already more than capable of causing a person to suffer from a serious long-term candida infection. So when wondering, “Do I have a Candida problem?” or “Does this patient have a health problem?” don’t restrict your thinking only to lifestyle: your thoughts should also be going to the dental and toxicological history. It is no wonder, therefore, that since our modern population suffers from widespread mercury poisoning, Candida overgrowth is equally epidemic, according to FCT bio-resonance testing and naturopathic clinical experience. – simonrees
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Commonly the diet recommended in Field Control Therapy (FCT) is misconstrued to be simply a sugar-free, low-carb diet plan.
Yes, it is that, and this assumes a high importance both during a course of FCT treatment and as a general lifestyle choice, for avoiding candida overgrowth and, thus, helping to maintain immune strength.
But I’d like to list what, in addition to this, may be 3 of our other primary dietary recommendations. When putting your meals together each day, then besides the sugar/starch/carbohydrate consideration, the following checklist is also worth bearing in mind:
1) Am I including enough protein?
2) Am I including enough good-quality fats?
3) Am I including enough of a diversity of vegetables?
Each of the above three represents a point of great importance as much for general nutritional health as for optimizing progress during a course of treatment.
You’ll certainly note some major differences between our check-list and current nutritional trends in the media and in the prevailing mind-set of the general public!
For one, you’ll note how the third point above stresses “vegetables” rather than the more typical phrase - falsely equated with healthy eating - ”fruit and vegetables.” We say: cut down on your consumption of fruit and fruit juice, reserving these only for inclusion in limited quantities, except on special occasions, and even that only applies to people who are healthy enough to be in what we call the Phase Two diet – the diet plan for health maintenance, for people without chronic health problems and toxicity issues.
This means, for most people (who are not yet ready for Phase Two), that fruit should be cut out entirely for a period of time, until health is re-gained. This is because it contains fructose which exacerbates the candida situation, in turn contributing to the immune burden of any chronic health complaint.
Instead emphasize vegetables – to your heart’s content – and be sure to include enough of a diversity of them, and several portions each day!
You may also notice that the second point above is not saying “avoid fat” or “buy fat-free”… On the contrary, we say fats should be actively increased and encouraged… but only fats of the right kind!
Fear not: eating more of the right kinds of fats, while avoiding the wrong kinds – and pursuing a course of FCT treatments at the same time – tends to lead to normalization of weight issues, rather than their worsening.
But what are the “right kinds of fats”? Do I mean that we should avoid cholesterol-rich foods and animal protein? Cut out those saturated fats? Far from it… These should, instead, be emphasized – so long as the same foods are not rich in trans-fatty acids – but that’s another topic for another time… For now, let’s just say that it’s a good idea for us to look at each meal that we eat and think, “Is there enough fat in this?” and, if not, you may consider adding a little good-quality fat to the meal, even if only by putting a little on top of the food. This might be, for example, a little flax oil, or olive oil, or butter, or a few nuts, or a few seeds (e.g. pumpkin, sunflower, sesame), or some good quality organic meat or goat’s cheese. Those of us who are vegetarian, like me, need to put more thought into this than others; for those of you who are meat-eaters, many meats already contain plenty of good-quality fats, but even so, it can be good to diversify your fats sometimes too.
As for getting enough protein – this is a more widely understood notion. Each plate that you eat – and even or especially breakfast! - should include a significant chunk of protein-rich food. This could be, for example, meat, certain types of low-mercury fish (avoid most fish), goat’s cheese, pulses (such as chick peas, brown lentils, orange lentils, pinto beans, black beans, aduki beans, French beans, broad beans, runner beans, or many more!), nuts or seeds. As with the fats, I’d encourage diversifying the various types of protein, rather than relying only on a limited range. – simonrees
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It seems that during times of economic recession like these, anxiety can take over… Nearly everyone starts thinking and talking about money and allowing it to dominate their thoughts more than usual – even though much of the anxiety isn’t rooted in genuine poverty or even threat of poverty…
A fear starts to take over. I know patients who are much wealthier than I am and at the same time far more anxious about the recession – clearly it’s not a rational syndrome. In fact, some economists have argued that it’s not recession that creates fear, but fear that creates recession.
I know people who are losing sleep over money, and say that they can’t afford to pay for “luxuries” like Field Control Therapy (FCT). Yet some of these same people have just instead spent thousands on what are certainly “luxuries” such as new cars. The same person who can label FCT a “luxury” but not a new car clearly has their priorities mixed up!
Of course, it’s only a question of priority. Experience working as a healthcare practitioner has time and time again reaffirmed to me, alas, that few people value their health until they have already lost it.
It grieves me that so many patients wait until they are already deeply suffering from illness before making sensible strategies to regain health – knowing, as I do, that many apparently “healthy” people will become “ill” before long but don’t realize the risks involved in failing to look after their health sooner rather than later. And by “look after their health” I don’t mean inadequate actions like going in for cholesterol tests and breast scans: I mean taking up a far more serious strategy such as FCT.
In a sane society, the work of FCT would be focused on preventing illness before it happens, and the whole of society would be co-operating towards that goal – not as a luxury but as a necessity – to save billions of people from the horrors of illness that would otherwise plague them in time, in a toxic civilization as ours has become, riddled with serious degenerative illnesses. For the average person, diseases like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, autism, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, asthma, IBS and a host of others are like dark plagues which arise out of nowhere, with little or no apparent cause or explanation. Little do they know that the true causes of these conditions mostly boil down to neglect: the neglect of individuals and of civilizations as a whole to prevent the onset of such diseases by prioritizing preventative healthcare above new cars…
So when I hear yet another person – including even most of my friends, unfortunately – expressing financial anxiety during these times, I cannot help but consider that the solution, surprising as it may sound, is simple: to stop thinking greedy thoughts and instead think of our creative aspirations.
And above all, to think big… by which I mean, to look at the larger picture, and work as hard as we can to find ways to benefit all of society, rather than concerning ourselves only with our own bank balance – and the number of cars in our garage! – simonrees
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There are over a hundred different species of Candida, although the most famous one is Candida albicans. (Don’t let albicans dominate your attention too much, just because many of the others have not yet been identified and named!)
These are opportunistic fungal infections which live inside our bodies – including in healthy individuals.
They are found particularly in the bowel, the mucus membranes and superficial tissues of the body, although in Field Control Therapy (FCT) bio-resonance testing they are also frequently identified throughout the internal organs, including the lungs, brain, heart, liver and others. They are known in conventional medicine to proliferate especially in cases of advanced cancers and AIDS, i.e., when the immune system is suppressed. Some of the outward signs can include thrush (external discharges of Candida) – although it’s important to note that there are frequently cases of Candida overgrowth internally where no thrush is visible externally.
In other words, the presence of Candida is not in itself a problem – it only becomes a problem when it overgrows, which occurs when the immune system fails to control it.
There is therefore a direct relationship between Candida on one side of the battle lines, and our immune strength on the other. In naturopathic philosophy (including FCT), this “battleground” is viewed as a very important lynchpin of our state of health in practically all chronic and acute diseases: we watch very closely to see which side is prevailing, and seek to swing the balance of power back in favour of the immune system. We thus consider this balance to be important not only in end-stage cancers and AIDS patients, but throughout the general population also. This is a view adopted in FCT and in naturopathic tradition, but not yet in conventional medicine.
Watch what happens when you leave a lump of cheese on the counter, instead of in the fridge, in a hot climate. Before long, of course, it begins to mould. This is Nature’s way of decomposing (destroying) matter, of recycling things whose “time has come.” In our own bodies, we can think of opportunistic organisms like Candida in this light: one day, when we die, these mouldy organisms will get the better of us, and they are part of Nature’s efforts to break down our cells and recycle us. However, so long as we are alive and care about staying healthy and strong, this process is antithetical to our happiness, and needs to be kept at bay.
In light of this, we could view Candida not as an invasive organism (as it is normally portrayed), but rather as a maladaptive process within our own organs, aggravated under certain conditions.
Under normal circumstances, the immune system keeps this process at bay on its own, and doesn’t need our help to achieve this. However, we have interfered with the natural order of things in many ways, and have created a population which can no longer manage its own opportunistic Candida infections, even in apparently “healthy” individuals – leading either to serious diseases, or simply to many of those miscellaneous aches, pains and other symptoms which everyone has but which the doctor doesn’t think important.
In upcoming blogs I’ll take a fresh look at why.
I propose that even die-hard healthcare enthusiasts, knowledgeable naturopaths and experienced FCT practitioners will – I suspect – learn some new pointers from these forthcoming blogs about the main causes of Candida overgrowth and what to do about it! If you don’t, be sure to let me know 
– simonrees
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This is a question that a patient asked me recently. He had heard that homeopathy is not an effective way to treat Candida, because it is necessary to use “stronger” physical treatments such as anti-fungal drugs.
The answer is that yes, Field Control Therapy (FCT), which employs homeopathy, can treat Candida effectively, but no, traditional homeopathy usually cannot.
The difference is that FCT combines homeopathy with a naturopathic outlook – and it is essential to employ both at once if Candida is to be treated effectively and safely.
Homeopathy on its own is not normally sufficient, because it is also essential to make changes to diet and lifestyle, which homeopaths rarely advise to any degree of depth, but which FCT practitioners pay close attention to, like naturopaths.
On the other hand, naturopaths give some of the lifestyle advice that we do, but often fail to employ deeper homeopathic methods of treatment for Candida and related issues using remedies called “sarcodes” and “isodes” sequentially and in high potency as in FCT, and thus they often fall down in their approach to Candida too. The most sensible way to approach Candida is therefore to combine the strengths of both homeopathy and naturopathy within a single system, as we do in FCT – to combine the best of both approaches.
As I hear similar questions on a regular basis, in upcoming blogs I’ll take my patient’s question even further – by taking a fresh look briefly at what Candida is, what causes it to overgrow, and how we address it in FCT. – simonrees
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