Yeast and Sugar Connection
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From “Rust Out” by Dr Bailey page 166
-Do you know anyone with the label of ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) or
ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder)?
-Basic Nutrition: Avoid Fermentation
-Are you an Alcoholic and don=t know it?
By Royce K. Bailey MD, MPH, FAAC, MAAC
Protein, fat, carbohydrates (long molecular chains of sugars) and water make up the nervous system, like they do every other part of the body. The brain requires glucose as its main energy source, but I=m recommending you cut out all simple sugars (including glucose) in your diet. If glucose is so essential for the brain function, why would I want you to cut out all the sugars in your diet, including glucose?
The Sugar Cycle
Sugar is one performer in a whole cycle of stress, disease and immune system factors that contribute to behavioral, mood/attitude and learning problems. The whole cycle starts with stress and increased adrenalin (fright or flight pathway). Stress can be environmental, like: home, school/work, and peers. It can also be from TV, movies and video games, which are a major source of violence and adrenalin release. Increased adrenalin robs you of your ability to cope, judge right from wrong and learn. It is through complex and intricate nerve membranes that various charged particles must pass to trigger proper nerve impulses. Increased adrenalin lowers nerve membrane electrical potentials and polarity (like the opposite ends of a magnet). Impaired nerve membrane function leads to vulnerable cells, food sensitivities (usually milk, wheat and corn) and a depressed immune system. A depressed immune system, then leads to infections; like respiratory, sinus, ear infections, non~healing ulcers and persist prostate and urinary tract infections. Chronic infections decrease the brain=s ability to send and receive signals; thus, decreasing your capacity to stay alert, stay happy, to focus and to learn.
The Antibiotic Curse
So you go to your health care provider and they give you antibiotics for your "infection," of which 60% are viral and not killed by your antibiotic. Broad spectrum antibiotics alter all the natural flora of the body from skin to gut (intestines). They decrease the beneficial lactobacillus organisms in the colon, which produce acid, that kill the yeast and other harmful organisms. Antibiotics also interfere with the ability of white (attack) cells to destroy dangerous organisms, including yeast. Yeast (Candida Albicans) grows back faster in the body than the lactobacillus after antibiotics.
Allergies
Yeast multiples when foods rich in carbohydrates and sugars are eaten--the typical American diet. This allows the overgrowth of yeast to flourish in the system. Yeast thrives on sugar as its main source of food; releasing toxins (acetaldehyde and alcohol). These toxins decrease the availability of essential fatty acids omega-3 and omega-6. These flatty acids make up 20% of your cell membrane=s coat and when in short supply, your body uses other fats which increase your risk for behavioral/rnood/depression type disorders. Omega-3 fatty acids are also required for the formation of prostaglandins, which stimulate T-lymphocytes that in turn suppress allergies and infections. With fewer T-lymphocytes, the body becomes overly sensitive to everything in the environment and reacts to other foods (chocolate, citrus and eggs), environmental allergens (molds, grasses and pets), and chemicals (cleaners, hair spray, shampoo, makeup and perfume).
Alcohol
60% of the population have some yeast in their gastro-intestinal (GI) tract capable of producing alcohol. With a low fiber, high sugar and carbohydrate diet, the conditions are perfect for yeast overgrowth and alcohol production. Alcohol is easily carried from the digestive tract into the blood stream, where it primarily affects the frontal lobes (judgement) of the brain. The frontal lobes are responsible for fine motor coordination, high level formal reasoning and inner speech to control your behavior. A person who has "a bit to drink" loses fine motor coordination, reasoning powers and their ability to control their behavior according to social norms. Alcohol affects nerve growth and proper repair and development of the brain. The symptoms of alcohol production from yeast are: decreased attention span, behavior problems, disruptive conduct, irritability, increased sugar cravings, hyperactivity, depression and autistic-like behavior (doesn=t communicate, becomes a loner). Are you an alcohohic, without ever taking a drink? If you are a sugarholic, you may be a true alcoholic, with alcoholic behaviors, without knowing it. You=ve heard of people being in the ’survival mode’, well, yeast and sugar can make you a stressed out, survival oriented person your whole life.
Stress-Infection-Antibiotic-Yeast-Sugar-Toxin Cycle
But you say I=m fine, this doesn=t apply to me, but it may, ask your family and friends! Over sensitivity to environmental stimuli from the ’stress-infection-antibiotic-yeast-sugar-toxin’ cycle can manifest itself in fears and phobias. Still to be proven, but by theory, external low frequency electromagnetic fields (hair driers, electric shavers and fluorescent lights) might also exacerbate this whole cycle as they disrupt and weaken cellular membranes.
Stop The Cycle
So one way to stop the yeast overgrowth/alcohol cycle is to cut out sugar in your diet! If you haveany of these symptoms, try not eating sugar. See if you feel better emotionally. This means you need to see how you do without eating brown sugar, honey, molasses, maple syrup, fructose, and corn syrup as well as cane or beet sugar. Start reading labels. So even a breakfast of cereal (most boxed cereals are 30-60% sugar) and fruit is a double sugar whammy. Children and adults that are producing their own alcohol from the ’stress-sugar-yeast’ cycle are affected. In Alcoholics Anonymous I=ve noticed that those "On the wagon" are sugar-holics. Changing your diet to more protein (nuts, legumes and beans), veggies and increasing your water intake, decreases the sugar cravings and will make a big change in your attitude in life. Your hyperactive tendencies will disappear and your focus on what really matters will sharpen.
When I was in medical school I wondered about Ellen White=s 1890 report of fermentation (alcohol production) in the GI tract? She must be mistaken, I thought. Now the physiology is clear.
Avoid Fermentation
"Some use milk and a large amount of sugar on mush (a standard breakfast item at the time, usually made of corn meal), thinking that they are carrying out health reform. But the sugar and milk combined are liable to cause fermentation in the stomach, are thus harmful. The free use of sugar in any form tends to clog the system, and is not unfrequently a cause of disease.@White,E., "Counsels on Diet and Foods,"1890:196-197. How could she have possibly known that way back then? Are you a closet alcoholic from sugar?
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