If you experience three or more of the following symptoms, you may suffer from Candida overgrowth:- You feel bloated when you eat or soon after eating.
- You develop gas when you eat.
- You experience acid reflux.
- You suffer from brain fog, drowsiness or headaches.
- You frequently have sinus or ear infections.
- You suffer from fatigue for no reason.
- Your mouth tends to be dry.
- You vision often goes from being blurry to clear, and back to blurry.
- Your blood sugar drops (hypoglycemia), especially in the afternoon.
- You feel shaky if you miss a meal, sleepy after a meal, sweat during sleep.
- You frequently have constipation, diarrhea, or both.
- You are anemic.
- You suffer from skin rashes.
- You have toenail or fingernail fungus.
- You experience repeated vaginal yeast infections or jock itch.
Other symptoms include short-term memory loss, mood swings, dizziness, loss of balance, lack of
coordination, ear sensitivity/ringing/itching or fluid in the ears, mucus in stools, postnasal drip, frequent
colds, tightness of the chest, white-coated tongue, bad breath, thyroid dysfunction, depression, or sugar
craving.
Are Antibiotics Responsible For The Narcotic Drugs Epidemic?
The overuse of antibiotics may have ruined not only individual lives but also entire families.
American research shows that the use of narcotic drugs rose by 400 percent within a period of twenty
years (1968-1988); the research linked 95 percent of the total increase to the subjects' frequent intake of
prescribed medical drugs prior to narcotic drug involvement. Only five percent of the total increase during
this period was presumably caused by factors such as curiosity, pressure by social groups, drug cartels,
etc. This older study remains relevant today, and even more so since the use of prescription drugs has
greatly escalated in the past 20 years.
Recent findings in the field of neurophysiology offer some explanations for the way antibiotics may
cause substance addiction. Once ingested, antibiotics, as well as painkillers, tranquillizers, and mind-
altering drugs, occupy receptor sites on the surface of our cells which trigger the expected responses such
as relief of pain, calmness, and lessening of depression. While occupied by these external chemical
agents, the cells’ receptor sites can no longer receive and respond to the body’s own drugs. The body then
reduces production of its own drugs like endorphins, interleukins, serotonin, dopamine, etc. These natural
drugs are related to the experience of satisfaction, happiness and creativity, feelings every person
naturally desires.
Endorphins, for example, consist of very strong morphine compounds that are needed for the “happy”
and harmonious functioning of the entire mind/body system. We are naturally addicted to them. When
they are no longer secreted in sufficient quantities, we begin to look for alternatives. Constant strong
cravings for chocolate, alcohol, sugar, tobacco, etc., may already indicate a reduced secretion of these
brain drugs. When someone begins to have the feeling that he desperately “needs” a cola, coffee or drink,