Yeast and the immune system

May 11, 2008

I've wondered before how some people can eat soooo many carbs and not

have obvious problems with yeast.

My mom is one example. She is 50 now, and has energy to go and go

and she drinks so much sweetened bottled iced tea which is obviously

very high in fluoride and she just seems to get healthier and more

beautiful as she gets older. Its really amazing. No health problems

at all. Did I mention she smokes a pack or more a day. Its hard for

me to find anything that she does that is actually healthy besides

have faith that god will help her through the stress of raising my 2

younger siblings and a granddaughter and just recently a grandson.

She can also take antibiotics without a problem either. If she ever

feels like she might get sick she just pops an antibiotic and she

doesn't get sick, and doesnt show any bad results from it.

My grandma lived to her 80's and loved pastries and sweets and didn't

eat any health food either. She eventually got alzheimers and went a

few years later but was medication free and dancing often until she

was 80.

I then realized that the immune system must be pumping out some

anti-bodies or something to inhibit yeast...I suppose it could just be

a flora thing but I think healthy bodies have much more control over

our flora than we think...it seems it has to be more than just having

some good flora preventing yeast overgrowth when you eat nothing but

junk and no culture foods but still don't get candida overgrowth.

I also think it might possibly have something to do with copper. If

your low on zinc and high in copper you will excrete copper in your

bile and high copper can promote yeast growth, and it can also prevent

you from absorbing zinc in your food. I'm thinking that I had high

copper levels and it prevented me from absorbing my dietary zinc

because I feel a big difference from starting to supplement with zinc

picolinate.

What do you guys think? I personally don't feel much difference

between no carb and moderate carb diets, but still prefer to get most

of my calories from fat.

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