Message: 10
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 20:43:28 EST
From: Cah819@...
Subject: Re: Re: Anyone battling with candida to beat their MS ?


In a message dated 12/21/01 10:11:41 AM Pacific Standard Time,
myelinman@... writes:



> toxicity and
> Caeliac. I'm more or less clean on all of these, and my problem is
> poor lipid metabolism and chronic candida albicans. It's her
> position that a restricted diet is only temporary until the imbalance
> is addressed, and after then I should begin to heal ... I hope !
>
> Regards,
> Myelinman
>


I think alot of the nutrition related doctors feel that way. Lipid
metabolism problems and candida are pretty standard for people with MS.
(There is an article labeled "Fatigue" on Dr. Permutter's site, showing that
70+% of all MS patients have candida overgrowth.) The lipid metabolism
problem was what Dr. Swank stressed in MS, and is the main reason for
eliminating saturated fat on most MS diets. I know a lady who went to a
naturapath on the east coast, who believed as your doctor does. He ran all
sorts of tests on her, had her have her mercury fillings replaced and
chelated for that. Then he helped her correct all her vitamin and mineral
imbalances and now she is symptom free! So, I still have hope that you are
right and eventually we can get our problems fixed and go back to normal.
But, I know now that I'll never eat the way I used to again. I've learned so
much about nutrition through all this that I'd feel like I was eating poison,
if I started eating the way I used to, if I should get into the position of
being symptom free and thinking I'm cured. I look at a hamburger and french
fries and all I can see is not only a 'heart attack in a sack", but also all
sorts of other health problems. Plus, after awhile of being on my diet and
then slipping and eating something I shouldn't and getting an increase in
symptoms, I am just developing an aversion to those foods. So, I guess I'm
stuck on this for life, or at least on some version of a healthy diet.
Carol