HORMONE IMBALANCE AND IMPAIRED METABOLISM
Toxins from yeast overgrowth create allergic responses, and trigger hormone imbalance. Some of these toxic byproducts, or pseudohormones, can over-stimulate or "jam" hormone receptor sites, causing weight gain and mood swings that for many people lead to binge eating. When your hormones are out of control:
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- Your metabolism is impaired, slowing the calorie-burning process, adding weight and making it more difficult to lose weight;
- Your immune system suffers as more toxins begin to circulate in your system, increasing the toxic overload and the allergic response; and
- Your blood sugar control is impaired and high blood sugar feeds the yeast even more.
That is why you are reading this blog, and that is exactly what I want to help you begin to do, right here, right now.
Current research focuses on the drug treatment of medical conditions and not the lifestyle changes that are necessary to treat most health problems, most particularly yeast overgrowth.
In my practice, I treated about two thousand patients with a yeast-fighting program very similar to the one outlined in this blog. The majority of people on this program experienced breakthrough results on their path to permanent well-being.
ANTIBIOTICS IN OUR FOOD SUPPLY
You're probably convinced now that raging yeast is making you fat. But there is one more source of yeast-connected weight: the antibiotics in our food supply.
Farmers add antibiotics to livestock feed to encourage the animals to gain weight and to hasten their journey to the slaughterhouse. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that more than half of all the antibiotics sold in the U.S. are used in livestock production and 90% of those are solely for the purpose of encouraging weight gain in animals.
We know these antibiotics are in our food chain because of the increasing numbers of antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains. These bacterial have made it necessary for even stronger dosages of new antibiotics to counter bacterial infections that were easily treatable a couple of decades ago.
It's not a great leap of logic to understand that these antibiotics in our own systems are not only affecting the healthy microbial balance in our digestive tracts, leading to yeast overgrowth, but more importantly, these antibiotics that cause livestock to gain weight are likewise causing humans to gain weight!
DR. CROOK'S OPINION
Dr. Crook firmly believed there was a causal connection between yeast overgrowth and overweight. Since he developed his theories on yeast overgrowth, the problems discussed above have only gotten worse. Certainly we have created a more toxic world.
In his books and papers, Dr. Crook often cites the discovery by Dr. Orian Truss that individuals with yeast overgrowth develop significant metabolic and biochemical abnormalities. Dr. Truss and other researchers noted that sugar cravings, fatigue and other manifestations of hormonal dysfunction are almost universal among people with yeast-related problems.
Dr. Crook also theorized that toxins entering the bloodstream as a result of leaky gut syndrome affect the pancreas, the organ responsible for producing insulin. When you drink a can of soda that contains ten teaspoons of sugar or eat sugary foods, your pancreas is stimulated to produce excess insulin and your blood sugar decreases, causing you to crave sugar - another part of the vicious cycle.
LOOKING AT THE ROOTS
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In summation, think back to the beginning and our discussion of "Mary's" lifelong challenges with yeast overload. Add to this the fact that many young women with yeast overgrowth transfer the infection to their newborns as these babies pass through the birth canal, leading to infections from birth. A series of ear infections, extremely common in babies and usually treated with antibiotics, can actually speed up the debilitating process of dysbiosis.
Now the epidemic of excess weight begins to make sense. The obesity problem may not be what it seems. Perhaps what we have is, at least in some significant measure, a national epidemic of "Crook's Candidiasis" That's certainly something to consider! To find out more, you can check out How To Treat Candida Overgrowth.