Acidophilus needs high stomach acid - Stomach Acid & Candida

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This article not only states that acidophilus requires high stomach

acid but also gives us another good reason to avoid fruits.

Stomach Acid & Candida

http://www.cancersupportwa.org.au/Spotlight/Igor/10IT.htm

" So many people have symptoms such as reflux, heartburn, bloating

after meals and they do not realise that these are symptoms of a

failing defence system. These are the symptoms of reduced stomach

acid and they are the start of many impending disasters about to

befall the people who have them.

Just reducing stomach acid will impair the ability to absorb Iron,

Calcium and Magnesium. Bad enough you may say, but these people also

will have trouble with the digestion of the salicylates (natural

aspirins).

Natural aspirins are in foods such as citrus, tomatoes, pineapple,

kiwi fruit, strawberries, stone fruit, capsicum, chilli, mushrooms

and onions. These plants accumulate natural aspirins as a defence

mechanism to avoid being eaten before ripening. The only species who

take them off the tree fully laden with salicylates are humans; and

they do this for money and to take short cuts with nutrition.

Salicylate intolerance was a rare thing 50 years ago, but now it is

almost as endemic as helicobacter. "

Which brings us the next piece of our digestive puzzle. Helicobacter

was discovered when investigators were trying to find out why some

people got ulcers when on anti-inflammatory drugs. It turns out that

helicobacter made them more likely to get an ulcer in the stomach.

Well guess what relatives the anti-inflammatory drugs have? Aspirins

(salicylates). So, those people with salicylate intolerance may well

have Helicobacter brewing in their stomachs.

Now, many of my patients turn up with the diagnosis of " Candida " . The

two commonest reasons for this overgrowth of this yeast is low

stomach acid and lack of acidophilus in the intestine. Try this

experiment. Put some pieces of melon in the fridge for a couple of

weeks. What you will find is a heavy growth of a white fungus. This

is Candida albicans. Stomach acid is supposed to kill fungi, right?

Then these fungi should be killed if there is adequate digestive

power in the stomach.

So the best treatment is not just low Candida diet, not just

antifungals, but put back the defence system! Give them Zinc, Vitamin

B1, Vitamin B6 or digestive enzymes supplements or just plain Betaine

hydrochloride (which converts to stomach acid).

As for the acidophilus, the name says it all. Philos means to love.

PLEASE NOTE:*****These bacteria need an acid environment to survive,

so low stomach acid creates an environment hostile to these organisms

in the intestine.***** They also like molybdenum and zinc, and you

know how much of these we get in our diet! A good intestinal

environment will protect from food poisoning, travellers diarrhoea,

and antibiotic induced thrush and probably from bowel cancer. One of

the functions of molybdenum is to detoxify sulphites and carcinogens

such as nitrosamines in the diet. Hence, the association of gastric

tract cancers with low molybdenum. This was demonstrated in China

about 20 years ago. "

From Bee