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The Increasing Role Of Parasites In Cancer And Other Illnesses

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Can Candida Cause Cancer?

By Chris Woollams

I have a wonderful job. I meet so many interesting people, so many experts all on the same mission -helping
people beat cancer. One minute it's Charlotte Gerson, then Dr Contreras. I may get a complex soon though;
none of Britain's top orthodox doctors ever seem to ring me up to tell me of their latest work, which is very
sad because icon now goes out to over 100,000 readers every issue in over 200 hospitals, oncology units and
complementary centres.
It is estimated that 70 per cent of the British population have a yeast infection
One gentleman, with whom I have been corresponding, is Gerald Green, a medical herbalist and immunologist
in Bexhill, Sussex. His grandfather (Professor Fritz Hber 1868-1934) won a Nobel Prize and was one of
Germany's finest scientists. Energy and investigative endurance clearly run in the family. Gerald has devoted a
large part of his life to studying candida.
It is estimated that 70 per cent of the British population have a yeast infection. The primary cause of this is
our love of antibiotics. Swollen glands? Take antibiotics. Tonsillitis? Take antibiotics. Are you allergic to
antibiotics? If the answer is no, that's fine. Antibiotics have no side effects. Who says?
So would you be surprised if I told you that The Journal of the American Medical Association (Feb 18th 2004;
291; 827-35) has reported a study on 10,000 women in which women who took over 500 days of antibiotics
in a 17 year period (dubbed 25 plus doses) had twice the risk of breast cancer as those that took none at all.
Even women taking just ONE DOSE had a statistical risk increase to 1.5 times. This followed worrysome
findings in Finland in 2000.

Friendly Bacteria
Apart from a minor problem that they may well be toxic to brain cells (Drs Goldman & Klatz - US), antibiotics
kill all bacteria in the body, including the ones you need; the friendly ones in the gut. Acidophilus is on the
supermarket shelves; you are urged to take it, but the damage may be already done.
The friendly bacteria in the gut perform a number of functions. They are the first line of the immune defence
system; they produce useful vitamins like biotin, also helpful to the immune system and cellular health, they
work with bile acids to extract and help you absorb the maximum level of minerals from your digested food
and American research recently showed something amazing. Bits of their cell walls kill cancer cells in vitro.
And no one yet knows why!
Antibiotics kill all bacteria in the body, including the ones you need
When they are not performing all these extremely useful functions they feed, especially when your stomach
and intestines are at rest. At night their favourite food is yeasts. It is not just antibiotics that harm the
"friendlies" - chlorinated tap water and acid bodies caused by stress and poor diet can eliminate them in jst a
few days, so you are wise to take a daily probiotic.

Diet

It is easy to see how yeasts have taken a hold in the Western world. The US and UK diets are simply weak in
the foods that keep yeasts under control. My Thai wife used to live in a country with a trillion such microbes
lounging on every street corner, but the Thai diet of coconut (caprylic acid), garlic, chillies and bee propolis are
all natural controllers of yeasts. Our diets merely help to propagate them. High sugar drinks, snacks, fast
food, alcohol, refined wheat, indeed any high glycaemic food, feed the yeasts. And we live in high glycaemic
land in the West.

Yeasts Are Parasites

Over the last 80 years several people have had theories about parasites and their cause of cancer. By and
large they have been ridiculed. But why? Dr Hulda Clarke wrote a book 'The cure for all cancers' in which she
stated her belief that all cancers had parasites at their root cause. And that the growth of modern chemicals in
our blood streams meant these parasites could avoid the need for a second host. Another who had a 'parasite'
theory was Dr Royal Rife back in the 1930's. He identified 40 or so 'viruses' or factors at the heart of different
cancer cells and even used some to infect healthy cells. Both these Doctors developed frequency devises to kill
these infections and leave the surrounding body cells intact. This is not madness as some would have it; the
Russians are perfecting exactly the same sort of 'zappers'.
In the 1970's several research centres looked for viruses as the cause of cancer but their equipment and
technology was too limited. But now there is greatly renewed interest. A bacterium, Helicobacter pylori, has
been found to cause stomach ulcers and since 2001 it has been seen as the cause of stomach cancers.
Humanpapilloma virus (HPV) is known to cause cervical cancer. And in June 2006 Cancer Watch at long last
researchers have found what we have been saying for years - infections of microbes in the intestines cause
colon cancer. (They deplete folate and B-12 levels, cause inflammation etc etc). But viruses, microbes and
bacteria are simply parasites by another name, and even Cancer Research UK now believes that 15 per cent of
all cancers may have 'infection' as a cause. I think - as a general debilitating and contributory factor - this is
way too low, but it's good to see it on the radar screens.
Of course, if viruses were at the root of cancers there would be a real need to develop lots and lots of vaccines
for us all to take - but that is another story.
So why ignore yeasts?? Maybe because antibiotics are the big blame factor that no one dare own up to??

Yeasts Cause Other Illnesses

Diabetes is a well studied disease. Arthritis is probably less clear. But recently research in the USA showed
that taking cinnamon could - in some people - significantly reduce the symptoms of both 'diseases'. Why? Well
one theory - although not proposed by the researchers in either case, is that yeast infections eventually move
across the gut lining and into the blood system. Every cell has large numbers of receptor sites on the cell wall.
Only recently two Nobel prizes were won by people showing how these receptor sites could become blocked
and thus cells could not communicate very well. One reason for this blocking was that carbohydrate could
make them 'sticky' and what stuck to them? Yeasts.
Now, there's many a nutritionist that knows what these scientists don't know. Namely that cinnamon will help
kill yeasts in the blood strem. So now you can see why some people may well benefit. Euphamistically, taking

cinnamon is officially attributed to 'glucose control in the blood stream'. You may also want to know that the
Nobel Prize winners suggested that polysaccharides and glycoproteins could also help clean up cell
membranes.

A Cause of Cancer?
I like Gerald Green. Of course, I'm biased. I always like people who share my views We seem to have two
views in common.

Candida is a part of the cause of most, if not all cancers.

Doctors rarely, if ever, stop to think about candida, or parasite infection. And as a result
their medicines only treat part of the cancer equation. In other walks of life it would be
called: "Neglect". There, I've said it.

I recently went to a cancer clinic in the USA, and to the Dove Clinic in the UK. At both I talked to the nurses.
Every Cancer patient they see, man or woman, has bad candida
They were unanimous. Every Cancer patient they see, man or woman, has bad candida. Whether it is
breast cancer or prostate cancer. (It is most definitely true for my daughter with her brain tumour too).
The problem is that these yeasts get everywhere. Whilst they might start off in your gut, they soon pass into
the blood stream and then, like Alien, they are loose in the mother ship. And they make an alcohol as a byproduct of their very existence, and this alcohol feeds cancer cells. Moreover Yeasts are anaerobes - they don't
use oxygen to metabolise and survive. If they move round your body and colonise an area of your breast or
prostate they set up anaerobic conditions. And cancer thrives in situations where oxygen levels are lowered.

Cancer Treatments Make Matters Worse!

To repeat: "cancer treatments make matters worse!" Steroids and chemotherapy, for example, both heighten
the effect of the yeasts, worsening the cancer cell feeding. It's like throwing babies to the sharks.
But don't take my word for it, try this comment from the prestigious US magazine Contemporary Oncology as
long ago as April 1993: 'Cancer patients undergoing radio or chemotherapy did not finally succumb to the
cancer itself, but to an infestation of candida albicans'.

Take Action
So back to the expert Mr Green. (And he is an expert. I have seen the letters he receives from hospitals and
microbiology units saying he knows more than they do). He believes even terminal cancer patients can be
saved if the root cause is candida.
He believes sufferers must immediately ELIMINATE THE FOLLOWING FROM THEIR DIET:
All cow's milk products:
cheese, yoghurt, whey. And all cow's milk derivatives which are everywhere in processed food.

Yeast products:
alcohol, bread, Marmite, Oxo, Bovril, vinegars, mushrooms, processed and smoked
fish and meats.
All sugar products:
honey, fructose, lactose, glucose, dextrose and sweeteners like Nutrisweet and
Canderel.
Nearly all fruit:
overripe fruits are full of sugar and yeasts. Plus vegetables like courgettes, pumpkin, squash, marrow.
High sugar root vegetables:
carrots, parsnips, sweet potatoes, beetroots, (maximum 1 potato per day).
Personally, I would add all high glycaemic foods to this list, e.g. refined wheat, rice, pasta, fizzy soft drinks,
fruit juices and squash, biscuits, pastries, pies and corn. Gerald mentions most of these too in his diet and he
suggests you avoid all pulses, processed meats, high salt foods and hydrogenated vegetable oils too.
Below you will find his list of Good Food Choices.
His sweetener of choice is Stevia, a herb 100 times sweeter than sugar but a natural anti-fungal agent.
He recommends astragalus and echinacea pIus 1 gm vitamin C daily to boost the immune system.

Good Food Choices

EAT PLENTY OF THE FOLLOWING FOODS:
Alfalfa sprouts
Bean sprouts
Bell peppers (sweet peppers)
Bok choy
Broccoli
Brussel sprouts
Cabbage
Cauliflower
Celery
Cucumber
Endive
Fennel
Garlic
Green beans
Hot chilli peppers
Kale
Lettuce

Onions
Parsley
Radishes
Spring onions
Spinach
Swiss chard
Turnips
Yellow beans
FATS (in moderation):
Granose sunflower margarine
Tomor kosher margarine (both these margarines should be available at your local health food shop)
Avocado oil
Fish oil
Flaxseed oil
Grapeseed oil
Hemp oil
Mayonnaise
Monounsaturated fats
Olive oil
Primrose oil
FLUIDS
Try to drink eight glasses of water each day.
Herbal teas are acceptable
PROTEINS
Free range eggs
Fresh fish and seafood
Pork, Iamb, veal
Poultry: chicken, turkey (particularly skinless white meat)
Game
Tofu
Quorn
5oy milk/cheeses (in moderation)
Rice milk
Sheep's milk/cheeses (dilute sheep's milk 50/50 with water and it will taste the same as cow's milk)
Goat's milk/cheeses
Culinary herbs and spices

Personally I would add that garlic, caprylic acid, oregano and Pau D'Arco are all
excellent yeast raiders. Another that helped me personally when all the experts in
Harley Street had failed was Neways Parafree, a purge that contains all natural
ingredients and the things parasites hate. Gerald Green's favourite natural destroyer
is Wormwood, and again I agree and add it to my Parafree course. Wormwood is a
natural herb and is now fast replacing poorer performing anti-Malarial Drugs. It is
very effiecient. Chlorella is a supplement that seems to enhance the action of
probiotics and the natural flora in the gut. I always believe fish oils can help too.
For further information on herbs and supplements, and an anti-candida diet you could ring Gerald Green on
01424-218683 after midday.
Gerald has just published a new book called "Breaking Through the Untouchable Diseases"
by Gerald Green and this is available on Amazon.co.uk.
Gerald does a lot of work with cancer patients, MS, Crohn's and Lupus sufferers.

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