Ann Boroch - The Candida Cure: The 90-Day Program to Balance Your Gut, Beat Candida, and Restore Vibrant Health

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This book is intended to serve only as a resource and educational guide. This book and the ideas, programs, and suggestions within are not intended as a substitute for the medical advice of physicians. The reader should regularly consult a physician in matters relating to his or her health and particularly with respect to any symptoms that may require diagnosis or medical attention. Neither the author nor the publisher is engaged in rendering professional advice or services to the reader. All matters regarding health require medical supervision. Women who are pregnant or nursing should ask their health-care practitioner prior to starting any of the programs discussed in this book. Pregnant and nursing women should not do the 90-day anti-candida program. The author and the publisher shall not be liable for and specifically disclaim any loss, injury, or damage allegedly arising from any information or suggestions in this book. The author and publisher are also not responsible for the readers specific health or allergy needs that may require medical supervision, or for any adverse reactions to the recipes or products contained in this book. It is the readers responsibility to ensure his or her own health and medical needs are met.

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To the late Dr. William G. Crook:

As promised, I carry on your mission to help heal millions.

At every crossway on the road that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.

M AURICE M AETERLINCK , B ELGIAN N OBEL LAUREATE

Despite Candida albicanss thirty-year history as a well-defined and well-described clinical entity, the concept that a diverse range of seemingly disparate symptoms could be attributed to systemic overgrowth of this yeast species remains foreign to most medical practitioners. The unfortunate consequence of this navet is that countless sufferers of this malady know nothing about the medical and lifestyle interventions that can pave the way to their recovery.

The relative obscurity of this disease in mainstream medicine is not the only problem. Many of the time-honored practices of todays health-care paradigm, including the excessive use of antibiotics and steroid medicationsas well as the neglect of such simple practices as the use of probiotic beneficial bacteriaare actually setting the stage for the development of systemic candidiasis. As a result, those of us who deal with this health condition in the clinical setting are witnessing what now seems almost epidemic.

In her groundbreaking self-published book The Candida Cure, Ann Boroch offered readers a comprehensive understanding of this disease and its relevance to our health. Anns firsthand personal experience, coupled with extensive and exhaustive research, resulted in a text that will surely stand as a fundamental resource in the emerging story of candida as the hidden cause of many illnesses.

Unfortunately, Ann passed away before she could see this updated and revised volume of her work published and distributed. But she did complete the revised manuscript before her death, and we know that she saw it as her mission to ensure that this information made it to those who are desperately in need of healing.

The Candida Cure deftly weaves together a compelling text describing the magnitude of the problem, its causes, and its cures, offering hope to those whose lives have been affected by this chronic condition. For it is hope that is drained from the countless undiagnosed and inappropriately treated candida patients who stumble helplessly from doctor to doctor. And it is hope restored that is the highest merit of this book.

That is Anns legacy to us all.

David Perlmutter, MD, FACN, ABIHM

When I was twenty-four years old, life as I knew it came to a screeching halt when my nervous system went completely haywire. For six to eight months I faced inexplicable daily episodes where Id lose control over my motor skills, and my body would spasm and tremor uncontrollably. I experienced numbness and tingling in my limbs, muscle weakness, impaired sensory perception, bladder dysfunction, and nervous exhaustion. I wasnt able to talk, chew, or swallow in any normal way. I also had trouble formulating thoughts and accessing my memory.

After a neurological exam, an EEG to measure electrical activity in my brain, and evoked potential testing to determine how my nerves responded to certain stimuli, my internist announced his unsettling diagnosis. Well, the great news is that you dont have cancer, he said. The bad news is that you have multiple sclerosis. After that, everything became a blur as the words incurable and deterioration echoed through my head. Sick to my stomach, terrified and shocked, I looked at my poor mother, who was completely offended by the doctors abrupt and insensitive manner. Together, we staggered out of the office.

When my doctor suggested chemo as a first step, everything inside me screamed that I needed to find an alternative route to conquering this so-called incurable disease. This was 1989, so there was no Google, and there wasnt much information out there about unconventional ways to deal with, much less recover from, MS. I had, however, faced candida issues when I was around eighteen years old, while battling mono, so Id been initiated into the world of holistic diet, health, and candida overload to a certain extent. I knew that Candida albicans is a harmless yeast, a type of fungus that lives naturally in everyonemen, women, and kids alike. In a healthy body, candida lives symbiotically in a balanced environment in the gastrointestinal tract, on the mucous membranes, and on the skin. Unfortunately, however, this harmless yeast can overgrow and turn into an opportunistic pathogen.

I believed candida was the primary culprit in what was happening to me.

Research validated my suspicions. I learned that yeast/candida overgrowth and fungal toxins are a major factor in all autoimmune diseasesincluding, but certainly not limited to, MS. An autoimmune condition is one in which the immune system works overtime to defend itself against one or more rogue pathogensso much so that it aggressively attacks the bodys own cells. Think of it as friendly fire gone awry. To calm down my immune system and remove the burden that a candida overgrowth creates, I turned to Dr. C. Orian Truss and Dr. William G. Crooks landmark books on the topic, which drew profound correlations between autoimmune disease and yeast. I also dug into Judy Grahams