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BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS: THE UNSUSPECTED PROBLEM

by Biamonte, D.N.

Several years ago, the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia along

with some other experts and authorities, re-classified an organism known as

Blastocystis Hominis--a common organism found in the intestinal tract of most

people--as a dangerous disease-producing organism, as opposed to just a harmless

organism.

It's been found that many people who have this organism have many different

kinds of digestive complaints--allergies, immune system difficulties, skin

problems, and bowel problems.

Blastocystis is generally considered to be a weak parasite. It attacks those

people who have a weakened immune system or a very weakened digestive tract.

Blastocystis, many times, is totally unsuspected as being the cause or

connection with somebody's digestive illness, because many labs do not know to

test for it, or do not even know that it is now considered harmful. It is quite

common to find Blastocystis in conjunction with other parasites in candida or

harmful bacteria.

Blastocystis on its own, in the average healthy person, may produce no symptoms

at all. However, in a person with weakened digestion or weakened immune

response, Blastocystis can produce a host of symptoms which appear to come and

go and are very unpredictable. THIS IS THE KEY THING ABOUT BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS:

ANYONE WHO HAS GASTRO-INTESTINAL, ALLERGIC, SKIN OR IMMUNE PROBLEMS WHICH SEEM

TO COME AND GO, ON AND OFF, WITHOUT MAKING MUCH SENSE, SHOULD SUSPECT THAT HE

MAY HAVE BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS. THE REASON FOR THIS IS BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS

ATTACKS THE BODY AND CREATES TROUBLE WHEN YOU'RE UNDER STRESS OR WEAKENED. THE

MOMENT YOUR BODY PICKS UP A LITTLE, IT MAY NOT BE ABLE TO AFFECT YOU.

Blastocystis is a very peculiar organism in that it especially likes grains.

Many people with Blastocystis may have grain allergies or difficulties

tolerating grains.

Blastocystis is very difficult to get rid of. It hides in the intestinal mucus,

sticks and hold on very hard to your intestinal membranes, making elimination

very difficult. After many years of trying various approaches, we have finally

come up with a natural approach which can eliminate Blastocystis in many cases.

Common treatment for Blastocystis medically would include Flagyl and other

drugs. However, we have found these not to be of preference due to the fact that

Blastocystis is so hard to eliminate. Medical drugs which are highly toxic may

have to be taken for long periods of time in order to fully eliminate it. The

length of time that one may need to take the medical drug may actually cause

damage to one's liver or kidneys. Therefore, a slower, natural approach is

definitely desirable.

Several approaches are necessary in order to eliminate Blastocystis. 1) Certain

herbs have been found to be effective against it. There are not many of them,

but there are a few. These herbs must be rotated--meaning taken by themselves

for a period of 4-5 days, then stopped, a new one introduced and taken for 4-5

days, stopped, and then another new one introduced, etc. In this way, the

Blastocystis will not build up an immunity to any of these items. 2) Bowel

cleansing items--many of them found at health food stores--are necessary in

order to eliminate Blastocystis. The reason for this is the old mucus or old

fecal matter lining the intestinal tract must be broken down and eliminated to

physically wash out the Blastocystis and then to allow the herbs to make full

contact with the Blastocystis, which may be stuck to the intestinal lining. 3)

Colonics are very important to eliminate Blastocystis. Our new approach includes

putting certain herbal killers directly in the colonic water, and then taking

the colonic water. This allows the herbal substances to contact the Blastocystis

in the bowel, and destroy it.

Fat-splitting or fat-digesting enzymes are also very important with

Blastocystis. When studied under the microscope, Blastocystis seems to have a

fatty reservoir. Fat-splitting or fat-digesting enzymes are helpful to dissolve

some of the Blastocystis and weaken it, thereby allowing the herbal substances

to have greater attack.

It sometimes occurs that people will eliminate all symptoms of the Blastocystis

while still retaining it. This is due to the fact that when the immune system of

the intestinal tract is strengthened, the Blastocystis is weakened and has

little effect. It is possible to still have Blastocystis in your intestines, yet

suffer no effects of it, by doing this procedure. It is of course much better to

eliminate the Blastocystis fully from your body, but if this is not possible,

the next best thing is definitely to be symptom-free, or not the effect of the

Blastocystis.

Well--this is not our goal. We have seen several cases who have done the new

program and have had no symptoms return from the Blastocystis, when their stool

tests indicated it was still there. In this case it is necessary to maintain

some of the herbs, digestive enzymes, and bowel cleansers to keep the intestinal

tract in good enough shape to withstand any influence the Blastocystis may have.

Blastocystis does it deadliest work when in combination with other parasites,

harmful bacteria, and fungus. In a case where someone may have parasites or

candida or harmful bacteria, we always find the Blastocystis is the last to

leave. Because Blastocystis needs the help of other parasites, candida or

harmful bacteria in order to create an effect on your body, the proper approach

demands that we first kill the organisms which are its allies and help it,

because this renders the Blastocystis helpless and less able to create

irritation to our systems. After we have killed the candida, parasites and

harmful bacteria, we then focus our attack on the Blastocystis. Having no

allies, we find it much more amenable to being killed and eliminated.

With the rising incident of Epstein-Barr, cytomeglio virus, candida albicans,

infections, digestive disturbances, and immune difficulty in this country, we

may find more and more that Blastocystis will be implicated as a health problem.

We have found that this new approach and the new discoveries we've made

regarding Blastocystis are definitely the best solution we have found yet.

Dr. Biamonte holds a Doctorate of Nutripathy, a Degree in Natural

Healing, and a Master's in Clinical Nutrition. He is affiliated with the

International Academy of Clinical Nutritionists and the International Academy of

Nutrition and Preventive Medicine. He is listed in " The Directory of

Distinguished Americans " for his research in Nutrition and Physiology.

For an appointment contact our office at:

139 Fulton Street

Suite 507

New York,NY 10038

Biamonte, D.N. is now accepting new patients.

c. 1994 by C. Biamonte, C.C.N.

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Moses.