Diabetes Control-Diagnosing and Treating Hypothyroidism, Candida (yeast), and Parasites

Diabetes Control-Diagnosing and Treating Hypothyroidism, Candida (yeast), and Parasites-Second Edition

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Table of Contents

Disclaimer

Chapter 1-Introduction

Chapter 2-Diabetes and Hypothyroidism

Chapter 3-Treating Hypothyroidism

Chapter 4-Parasites

Chapter 5-Treating Parasites

Chapter 6-Candida

Chapter 7-Treating Candida

Chapter 8-Candida Treatment Diet

Chapter 9-End Notes

APPENDIX

Cellular Basics

How Diabetes Messes with Cellular Function

Homeostasis

Glycemic Index

Glycemic Index Table

About the Author

Other Books by the Same Author

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Chapter 1-Introduction

The first question that comes to mind after reading the title of this book is "Why would diabetics need to worry about, hypothyroidism, parasites, and Candida? The fact is that they all very commonly coexist and doctors rarely look for them. They all are caused by the same things, and each promotes the development of the others. You likely have never heard that before, because most doctors have not made that connection. Part of the reason for that is that doctors are trained to match symptoms with medications. The symptoms of Candida, hypothyroidism, and parasites are identical to those of numerous other conditions, and most diabetics do not associate their symptoms as being diabetes related, or they don’t think that they are important, so they don’t report them. Several examples are, skin issues, allergies, gas, bloating, excess ear wax, hair loss, to name just a few. The answer is that after years of working with diabetics, and helping them identify the cause of weight loss and control issues, in the majority of cases these four conditions were playing a major role in causing their problems; and in the overwhelming majority of cases they do coexist. This book will explain why they coexist, and how you can determine if they are causing your control and weight loss issues; and how to treat them.

For many, this may raise their stress levels. After all, diabetes is confusing and frustrating enough on its own. Now you find out that there are other things to worry about. But, on the other hand, you are likely one of the many that read this book, because you know you have battled yeast infections due to Candida overpopulation, and are frustrated because you can’t seem to get a handle on in. If you use the right approach that can be greatly simplified. The good news is that the same natural treatment will fix all of them at the same time, will make numerous other aggravating conditions go away, and help improve diabetic control as well; it’s all good.

Certainly there are other reasons for control issues, but hypothyroidism, Candida, and parasites combined with diabetes, will cause diabetic weight loss impossible, and will contribute heavily towards causing blood sugar control issues. Candida, parasites, and hypothyroidism will stall weight loss efforts completely. Hypothyroidism will elevate cholesterol levels, even if cholesterol medications are taken. In fact they are powerful contributors to weight gain. Candida and parasites actually cause the body to produce new fat cells and fill them. Weight loss will be virtually impossible as long as these conditions exist, and/or coexist with diabetes.

Doctors focus on maintenance and symptoms. As stated, most diabetics do not associate the symptoms of these conditions with diabetes. Most of the symptoms have existed for years, and have been ignored, or considered to be due to other causes; not of immediate importance. Very few associate allergies, tinnitus (ringing in the ears), skin issues, excess nasal phlegm, bloating, gas, excess ear wax, hair loss, depression, fog brain, constipation, sleep issues, memory issues, fatigue, low energy, and many others with diabetes, or these other conditions. They consider them normal genetic based life irritants that just have to be tolerated. They resolve to thinking that they have to accept them and live with them. So they simply don’t bring them up to their doctor. Most doctors are not trained in diagnosing parasite issues, and even if they were, there are very few prescription remedies for them. Those that exist are limited to a narrow range of the many different parasites that we are exposed to.

To make the connection between diabetes, Candida, parasites, and hypothyroidism it will be necessary to explain a few basic concepts about how your body works. There are a lot of things going on, independently, at the same time, independent pieces, that contribute to the big picture. But, many lifestyle and dietary errors, cause reactions in your body that promote the formation of these conditions.

Diabetes is an inflammatory chronic disease. It is caused largely by years of eating high pro-oxidative foods, foods that cause inflammation, and a diet very low in antioxidants (substances that stop inflammation). Genetics determine which diseases will manifest; such as diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, asthma or 30 other chronic diseases. Foods that are loaded with chemical preservatives, texture enhancers, food coloring, table salt, processed sugar, preservatives, and traces of chemical fertilizers, fungicides, and pesticides are major causes of inflammation. Our environment is loaded with chemicals that we are exposed to every day; many of which did not exist 100 years ago. Inflammation leads to rapid development of visceral fat (belly fat), fatty liver, and insulin resistance; which in turn lead to diabetes and diabetic complications.

What takes place can be explained by describing how the human immune system works. Every cell in the human body has a small antenna-like mechanism, called antigens, that sample everything that enters our body; whether we breathe it in with the air we take in, it is something we eat or drink, or if it is something that we apply to our skin, or touch. Everything in nature has unique antigens of their own. If the antigens of the substance that is entering the body has antigens that are not complimentary to our body’s antigens our immune system will spring into action, encapsulate the substance with an antibody, and our immune system will seek it out and destroy it. The immune system uses inflammation to destroy intruders.

To understand inflammation we will have to review some basic chemistry. Below you will find a picture of an atom. The atom has a nucleus, and a number of orbiting electrons. If one of the electrons are removed from the atom it becomes very unstable; in fact very violent -atomic. The atom will seek to quickly restore its balance by stealing an electron from another atom, which in turn seeks to steal an electron from another atom, which continues until all of the atoms have restored their balance. The reaction is so violent that it destroys the intruder. Then the immune system will use antioxidants to stop the violent reaction. Antioxidants, which come from plants, usually in the form of vitamins and minerals, are capable of giving up electrons without becoming unstable themselves. So our immune system will bring antioxidants to the war scene, the antioxidants will throw large amounts of electrons into the battle and the atoms will quickly restore their balance and the reaction stops; no additional damage is done.

If our diet is low in antioxidants, our immune system will not be able to stop the atomic reactions that have been started; so the war rages on and healthy cells are destroyed. Our food supply is very low in antioxidants because of a number of circumstances that have developed during the past 100 years.

In 1971 President Nixon nominated Earl Butz as secretary of the department of agriculture. Earl Butz changed agriculture forever. He took away the subsidies to family run farms, and diverted the funds to develop what are now called conglomerate farms. Conglomerate farms are run as a business; with an emphasis on profits. Conglomerate farms increased the size of farms from the few acres each, which were common 100 years ago, to some that are over 7,000 acres today. Conglomerate farming began what is now called mono-cropping, which means that they no longer rotate crops to rebuild the soil, but instead plant the same crop in the same field year after year. Today’s crops are deficient in many vitamins and minerals because the soil that they are gown in is deficient.

The conglomerate farms hired scientists that developed chemical fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides, and pesticides to enhance their crop volume. Then they started genetic engineering of crops. Genetic engineering and the chemical fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides made it possible to grow massive volumes of food in a very short period of time. The crops were no longer subject to drought, insect damage, or diseases. For the first time in history it was possible to economically produce enough food to feed the world.

Unfortunately, they didn’t think to check how the genetic engineering impacted the nutritional value of the new food crops. Nutritional value has never been a criteria for crop marketability. Many vegetables and fruits are now up to 50% lower in nutritional value than the crops of 100 years ago. Wheat, corn, and soy have now become dangerous to eat. Wheat started out in the early 1970’s as the same dozen or so strains that could be traced back to over 10,000 years ago, to the now over 25,000 strains. Wheat is now number one on the list of foods that are dangerously detrimental for diabetics to eat.

During World War II processed foods were developed. The processed food industry is now a huge industry. Nearly everything we eat today is processed, and contains wheat; even non wheat food products contain wheat in some form or another. Food processors are a major part of the conglomerate farm industry. Food is now picked before it is ripe, and ripened chemically while in transit to the processing plants. When the food reaches the processing plant it is cooked at very high temperatures to ensure that no recalls will be required due to bacterial growth in the food. When food is cooked at high temperatures (over 110 degrees F), the digestive enzymes, vitamins and minerals are destroyed. Then chemical additives are added that improve color, texture, taste (processed salt and sugar), and preservatives are added to increase shelf life. Then they are canned in plastic lined cans.

Conglomerate farming also evolved into feedlot livestock farming as well. Cattle, chickens, turkeys, and swine are born, raised, and slaughtered in the same building. They never see the light of day. They are no longer fed their natural diet. Instead they are fed soy and corn mash, because it is cheap; we now produce so much corn, wheat, and soy, that it has found its way into the livestock feed industry. These mash feeds are highly acidic. Livestock have a naturally low acid system. Consequently, the animals are constantly sick, so farmers feed them antibiotics to keep them alive. They also feed them growth hormones that reduce their life span from the original 2-5 years that it took to grow them to market size 100 years ago, to as little as 6 months. Then when the meat is harvested food coloring, nitrates, and nitrites are added to preserve the meat and make it look good longer while in the stores. Dairy cattle are fed chemicals that increase milk production.

While we are at it, let’s not forget to mention that the fast food industry started within that same time period. It is no mystery that fast food is antioxidant, and nutrition void, as well as extremely high in saturated fat. Wheat is a very large part of the fast food diet. Fast food has taught us that it is acceptable and frugal to eat over 2000 calories at a single sitting; it costs less than one dollar to double the size of the meal. We now drink massive amounts of sodas and colas; not just with our fast food but at home as well. Today’s bottled and canned sodas and colas are made with distilled water, which strips the body of the trace minerals that are so important for maintaining health, especially for diabetics. Diet sodas are made with aspartame which dehydrates the body, causes food cravings, and is suspect in the formation of certain cancers. They contain phosphoric acid which acidifies the body, something diabetics already battle, causes kidney stones to develop, and causes the body to strip its bones of vital calcium. Let’s all go out and buy a Super Gulp. Sodas and colas contain virtually no nutrition; they are pure chemical blends.

So, today the average diet consists of processed food that was nutrition limited when it was grown, has chemical traces of pesticides, fungicides, and fertilizers, and it was picked before it could finish producing what vitamins and minerals that it is capable of producing. It is shipped to processing plants where it is cooked at extreme temperatures, has chemical additives and preservatives added, then it is placed in a plastic lined can. Our meat is loaded with antibiotics, growth hormones, food coloring, nitrates and nitrites. Our dairy is homogenized, pasteurized, and loaded with milk production enhancing drugs. Pasteurization destroys the digestive enzymes and beneficial bacteria that milk otherwise would provide: our body is incapable of digesting dairy properly because of it. Homogenization causes tiny fat particles to cause lesions in our arteries that are the start of heart disease. Nearly 9 out of 10 diabetics die from heart disease or strokes as it is; why add to the risk?

So the typical family sits down to wheat or corn based cereal, milk, and bread for breakfast. Then for lunch they eat fast food, or they carry a sandwich made with lunch meat and mayonnaise, potato chips or other snack, along with a soda, then at night they come home open a can of green beans, they dump out the water, which contains what few water soluble vitamins that the food had left, they make instant potatoes (processed), and likely broil pork shops. then they open a soda and are convinced that they have done their body good.

Every morning we jump in the shower. The soaps we use are loaded with harsh chemicals, the shampoo is loaded with harsh chemicals, deodorants are loaded with chemicals, and the tap water we stand under has as many as 700 trace chemicals in it. We absorb all of that through our skin. Earlier, we brushed our teeth with toothpaste which is loaded with harsh chemicals, and some of us used a mouthwash that was loaded with harsh chemicals. When we walk through our house we are exposed to numerous chemicals from all of the cleaning products we use in our home, and our clothes and bed sheets are washed in soaps that contain harsh chemicals. Our dishes are washed in harsh chemicals. Then you leave the house to breathe in pollution, our work environment produces exposure to numerous chemicals. Our air, in many cities, contains up to 80 airborne chemicals. Over 80,000 new chemicals have been developed over the past 100 years. That does not suggest that you should stop showering, brushing your teeth, washing your clothes and dishes, cleaning your home, using deodorants, or going out of doors. Just be aware that your body is battling all of these chemicals every day.

Cigarette smoke, including second hand, is loaded with hundreds of very dangerous chemicals. The fabrics in our home, furniture and carpeting, our kitchen cabinets, and our car’s upholstery emit chemicals; including formaldehyde. All of this is meant to illustrate that today we are bombarded with chemical exposure everywhere we go. Efforts to make our homes more energy efficient have produced homes that have toxic air concentrations, because the air in our homes does not change every hour like it used to be with leaky windows and doors.

Install a filter on your kitchen faucet, and your shower. They are inexpensive, and they will remove the chlorine and chemicals that will otherwise kill the beneficial bacteria in your gut. Start dipping your toothbrush in 3% hydrogen peroxide (from Wal-Mart), then dip it in baking soda to brush your teeth. Or, buy tooth powders from health food stores. Buy the all natural brands of deodorant, and use green friendly cleaning products. Buying a gas mask is a bit too much for the commute to work; although in some cities in China and Japan they now have to wear masks out of doors. Their smog is so intense that their visibility is less than 1,000 feet. When all of this enters our body, our antigens are sounding alarms, which we unfortunately cannot hear or feel, and our immune system is fighting a non-stop battle. There are virtually no antioxidants in anything we at during the day, or too few to do our body any good; unless you are eating organic foods. Inflammation is having a heyday. Our body begins to quickly produce visceral (pot belly) fat, our liver becomes packed with fat, and we develop insulin resistance.

Inflammation also attacks our vital organs, especially the pancreas (type I diabetics), including the thyroid gland (Hashimoto’s disease). All of this starts a cascade, a downward spiral, of health issues. Our immune system becomes exhausted and becomes impaired. Our body enters a survival mode. It begins to shut down bodily functions to provide for the vial functions like the brain, heart, and central nervous system.

When a person becomes diabetic a shift occurs in the population size of their beneficial bacteria in their intestines. Up to 25% of the beneficial population dies off. You can learn a great deal more about beneficial bacteria, the immune system, and restoring health and balance by reading the book Diabetes Control-6 Steps to Gaining Complete Control over Diabetes by Thomas E. Nelson (available as an ebook through various ebook retailers). The shift is detrimental to immune function. Over 80% of immune function is dependent upon beneficial bacteria. The antibiotics in your store purchased meat products kill off a small amount of your beneficial bacteria population every time you eat it.

When the beneficial bacteria population declines bad things start to happen. The Candida population (yeast fungi) explodes and fills the vacated space. Parasites flourish when the beneficial bacteria are no longer capable of controlling them.

In 1948 antibiotics were invented. Since then the use of antibiotics has exploded in volumes prescribed. Antibiotics kill bad bacteria, but they also kill beneficial bacteria. For reasons that doctors cannot explain our doctors make no attempt to restore the probiotics after an antibiotic treatment. When your veterinarian doctor prescribes antibiotics for your dog or cat they also prescribe probiotics as well. Doctors assume that your body will regenerate the beneficial bacteria lost. That is like saying that to control weeds in our garden we should spray the entire garden with an herbicide; then hope that the carrots, cabbage, tomatoes and lettuce will grow back on their own. Part of the answer may be that insurance companies will not pay for probiotics. As stated our store purchased meats are loaded with antibiotics; so we are subjected to daily dosages of antibiotics from the food we eat.

Parasites and Candida begin to produce massive amounts of acidic toxins. The body reacts in a couple of ways. The immune system produces antibodies for the toxins, because the antigens don’t match. These antibodies that flow through the bloodstream damage the living cells of the thyroid gland before the immune system can destroy them. Also the body reacts to acidic toxins by producing new fat cells to store them. That is one of the ways the body rids itself of acids and toxins; by producing new fat cells and filling them with fat and the acidic substances. It is impossible to lose weight when your body is producing new fat cells.

Inflammation and high blood sugars cause the body to lose important vitamins and minerals. When blood sugars are high the kidneys lose their ability to control what is lost to the urine. Specialized transporters that would normally capture vitamins and minerals that will be lost to the urine, and return them to the bloodstream, are shut down; valuable vitamins and minerals are lost. You can learn more about this process by reading the section Cellular Basics and How Diabetes Messes with Cellular Function in the APPENDIX section of this book.

Diabetics are typically deficient in 10 primary vitamins and minerals (vitamins A, C, and D, chromium, magnesium, manganese, zinc, niacin, biotin, and thiamin). The list continues to grow as research identifies others; folic acid, and vitamins B6 and B12 will likely be added soon. When the body is deficient in even one vitamin or mineral, the body cannot produce amino acids, or utilize them properly. Vitamins and minerals are highly dependent upon one another to function properly in the body. Amino acids perform and regulate thousands of very important functions in our body, including the production of many hormones and enzymes. Amino acids, hormones, and enzymes are vitally important in producing and regulating blood sugars, insulin, thyroid hormones, and weight just to name a few; insulin, by the way, is a hormone. Most of the vitamins and minerals that diabetics are deficient in are instrumental in regulating blood sugars, food cravings, and insulin.

Two substances that diabetics are frequently deficient in, but not included in the 10 others, are iodine and selenium. Both iodine and selenium are vitally important in thyroid function. We will talk more about that later. The lack of vitamins and minerals in our diet lead to deficiencies to begin with, but diabetes exacerbates an already bad situation. Vitamin and mineral deficiencies contribute to beneficial bacteria losses, and bacteria losses lead to other deficiencies, because the beneficial bacteria produce some vitamins and promote absorption within the intestines. Diabetes and hypothyroidism cause a reduction in the production of HCL (hydrochloric acid). HCL is important in the absorption of numerous vitamins and minerals, including chromium and selenium. All of these topics are discussed at length in the Diabetes Control-6 Steps to Gaining Complete Control over Diabetes book (see Other Books by the Same Author near the end of this book.

Diabetes (high blood sugar) causes the death of healthy cells in 7 areas of your body. When your blood sugar is high outside the cell most of the cells in your body have receptors and gates that regulate how much glucose enters the cells. There are 7 areas of you body that do not