Nutritional Yeast query

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Hi Bee,

Thanks for your reply, particulary the cholesterol issue. I like the simple

explanations and it makes sense, or I want it to. Will keep testing, but not

too often.

I need to get back to the issue of the yeast flakes. It is difficult for me to

order online (too expensive for me at the moment) and the IHerb are not based in

France as I cannot find a website. It's US based. I have been looking on the

internet trying to find out if what I am buying is the active yeast. As the

Fench tend to name things differently than us (even when translating to

English!), I'm wondering if maybe the flakes I see in the shop, called Levure de

Biere which are flakes, roughly translated appears to be Brewer's Yeast, but

appear to be made from bettrave, which to me is beetroot, or maybe it's beet,

which is I think ok. I didn't buy that, but bought Levure Maltée which is

yeast

flakes with cereals, I have just discovered, plus I haven't been able to find

any reference to this type anywhere in the US.. This may be worse for me as

have a gluten intolerance and of course should not be eating it on this diet.

They have the usual name of Saccharomyces cerevisia, which is written on my bag

of Yeast flakes and is used to describe nutritional yeast and sometimes brewers

yeast on the internet (probably why the French call it this).

I may be well off with this, but my flakes have the nutty, flaky look for

Nutritional Yeast Flakes. I really want to use this, as it's natural, cheaper

and I like taking it also for the fiber that I know I don't get enough of on

this diet and don't take the large volume of Vit C, as all vitamins are so

expensive here. The upshot is, that it might be a matter of product name that

causes the confusion. I saw a post elsewhere the other day from someone in the

UK saying that they couldn't find NYs anywhere, so hopefully I will be able to

use what I have found.

I hope you or Ed can take the time to reply to this as it's really bugging me.

Best regards,

Nuala

PS, I'm telling as many people as I can about your site, but some people believe

there medication is the only way.

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From: Bee <beeisbuzzing2003@...>

Sent: Wed, February 16, 2011 1:43:29 PM

Subject: [ ] Re: Cholesterol and Nutritional Yeast question

>

> Hi Ed,

>

> I haven't looked at my email for a while. Thanks for your reply; it was very

>helpful. . I am trying to stick to this diet, but more or less gave up over

>Christmas and am finding it difficult to start again, although have been eating

>healthier. My weakness is red wine (I live in France!) and some worries over

my

>cholesterol level. Anyway, I am back on it again and I have a query. The

first

>one re cholesterol. I had a blood test recently and my cholesterol level has

>gone up. It is now 3.5, g:l or 9,24 mmol/l. I'm giving you the two readings

as

>they are in French and not sure if they are the same in the US. My LDL is 2,70

>g/l with the recommended level being inferior to 1,60 g/l which makes the

>mmol/l level quite high.. It has gone up in the last year from 6,74mmol/l.

<snip>

+++Hi Nuala. I guess Ed wasn't around to reply to you. When your body is

detoxifying cholesterol levels will go up because the body produces more

cholesterol to help get rid of toxins.

>> My second query is that as I live in France, I have a problem with the

>>translation of products. I saw what I thought was Nutritional Yeast, but on

>>further checking discovered that I had the choice of Brewer's yeast Flakes,

>>which I didn't buy or Yeast Flakes MALTED, which I bought and am taking as I

>>appear to be also getting fibre from this and my consipation has improved, but

>>I'm not sure if it is making me ill, as I still have my usual symtoms (my

fault

>>for not sticking to it). I also read somewhere that Brewer's yeast was bad

for

>>Candida. My health food shop didn't have plain Nutritional Yeast Flakes and

I

>>can't find them as am living in a small town. Is it all the same thing? What

>>is Nutritional Yeast made from or what product does it come from, so I may be

>>able to tell my shop.

+++The correct Nutritional Yeast Flakes are prepared so the yeast itself is not

alive. In other words, it is inactive. Evidently active yeasts in other

products, like Brewer's yeast is a problem for candida.

+++I think you can buy from iHerb in France and if you haven't ordered from them

before you can get $5.00 US off your first order IF you give them my Rewards

Number, and my iHerb page lists the supplements I recommend, including NOW Brand

Nutritional Yeast Flakes:

http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/resource/iherb.php

All the best, Bee