Hi Friends,
I got back from visiting my parents in Ohio late last week. I enjoyed seeing everyone but unfortunately was not feeling very well. The night before I left I discovered the cause. I had been using Precise chicken broth and had switched to the low sodium version without checking the ingredient list (dumb, dumb) and after using it for a couple of weeks I discover it contains yeast.
I was feeling so well after gallbladder surgery that I was adding new foods with good luck until the last couple of weeks when I was experiencing more gas and multiple loose stools and just feeling yucky again. So I eliminated maple syrup and most fruit and started up the caprylic acid pills again and so I was going through the kill off period while I was on my visit. I am now back to 1 normal bowel movement. So not only do I have a yeast overgrowth problem, I am also allergic to yeast as was indicated from Dr. Fines' test. I still find this interesting since I have never had a vaginal yeast infection or thrush.
An interesting study from the Mayo Clinic looked at sinus infections. What they discovered was that chronic problems were caused from yeast overgrowth not from a virus or bacteria. The inflammation from the yeast infection was not caused by an allergic reaction but from an immune reaction to the yeast. This all makes me wonder if the same thing could happen in the colon.
In the book From Fatigue to Fit....it talks about people coming in with yeast infections are also experiencing many new food allergies and that after treating the yeast, many of the allergies disappear or become less severe.
This all may be interesting particularly to those of us who have not seen dramatic results with the diet alone.
Love,
Cristi
Yeast
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Cristi,
Sorry to hear about the broth problem, but I'm glad that you figured it out as soon as you did. I've noticed that in a lot of cases, when a manufacturer brings out a low "whatever" content product, sometimes the ingredient list is drastically changed - in some cases it almost seems to be a different product, judging by the ingredient list. It also seems that when a product has "reduced" amounts of something, the result is a much longer ingredient list, in some cases - exactly the opposite of what one would logically expect. <sigh>
Thanks for the insight and information. I hadn't heard of the link between yeast and sinus infections, but that makes a lot of sense. No wonder that some sinus problems are so persistent - yeast can be a very tough adversary. That also may mean that many doctors may be treating persistent sinus infections with the wrong medications.
Love,
Tex
Sorry to hear about the broth problem, but I'm glad that you figured it out as soon as you did. I've noticed that in a lot of cases, when a manufacturer brings out a low "whatever" content product, sometimes the ingredient list is drastically changed - in some cases it almost seems to be a different product, judging by the ingredient list. It also seems that when a product has "reduced" amounts of something, the result is a much longer ingredient list, in some cases - exactly the opposite of what one would logically expect. <sigh>
Thanks for the insight and information. I hadn't heard of the link between yeast and sinus infections, but that makes a lot of sense. No wonder that some sinus problems are so persistent - yeast can be a very tough adversary. That also may mean that many doctors may be treating persistent sinus infections with the wrong medications.
Love,
Tex