Candida is a Major-Player in Chronic Fatigue & Fibromyalgia

     The booklet, The Candida Yeast Answer, says “Yeast is a vegetable, not an animal and is a strong invasive parasite that attaches itself to the intestinal wall and becomes a permanent resident of your internal organs. It is an integral part of life. It is present in food, and is found on exposed surfaces and in the air we breathe. Candida yeast intake and exposure cannot be avoided. Only when yeast becomes dominant in various parts of the body does it begin to present a serious health problem, resulting in disease, pain, and discomfort.” The booklet has good information about candida and a protocol to treat candida and yeast and is free to the public by calling 1-800-869-1613.

   Yeast can become a hardy fungus. It multiplies very rapidly, can assume long periods of dormancy and when necessary, becomes cannibalistic. Candida is very sensitive to sugars, fruit sugars , foods and other specific substances as they pass along the digestive tract. Yeasts cells thrive on sugar and have an aggressive appetite.

      Dr. Elmer Cranton specializes in CFIDS/FMS at his clinic in Yelm, Washington, and has used nutrition and antifungal medications to successfully treat patients  There have been clinical trials supporting this theory. A treatment program developed by Dr. Cranton to eliminate yeast from the body and to successfully treat CFIDS has helped hundreds of his patients who were previously unresponsive to other therapies

           Based on Dr. Crook’s experiences in his practice and those of other physicians, Drs. Carol Jessop, Michael Goldberg, and Phillip Nelson, Crook feels that CFIDS and FMS are yeast related. Some individuals will be bothered more by fatigue, headache and depression; others will experience more muscle aching. Increasing evidence shows that a sugar-free special diet and antifungal medications may help many people with these chronic health disorders get well. (Crook, 1996, p. 35)

       Without proper nutrition, the body can’t heal or regenerate its tissues and if you cannot digest and assimilate food, the tissues will eventually starve, states Dr. Robert Young, author of The pH Miracle. There is a propensity of yeast found in CFIDS/FMS patients. According to Young, “Fatigue is probably the major symptom or complaint of an overly acidic body or a body overgrown with negative microforms.  Microforms—yeast, fungus, and mold—also rapidly deplete your supplies of the B-complex vitamins, iron, and other minerals. ‘…microforms are the major players in chronic fatigue syndrome, which may involve yeast and fungus damage to nerve tissue and interference with nerve transmission thanks to breakdown of neurotransmitters’.”      

Candida albicans is the root cause to many ailments and conditions, but is rarely diagnosed as such, according to Dr. Jacob Teitlebaum, author of From Fatigued to Fantastic. “There are no definitive tests for yeast overgrowth that will distinguish yeast overgrowth from normal yeast growth in the body.

According to Dr. Robert Young, yeast and fungus can’t thrive in an alkaline environment. Microforms thrive in …acidity. If the body is acidic, “all you need to do is balance your blood and tissue pH with nutritional supplements and an alkaline diet. When your body goes from acid back to base, yeast, fungus, and mold stop growing and revert to being benign. Their leftover toxins can then be bound up by certain fats and minerals and eliminated from the body.”

Neem pills, a plant based supplement, helps eliminate yeast, along with an alkaline diet, and coconut oil.