Soy. I’ve talked a lot about soy and there’s a lot of crappy smear campaigns about soy out there. Lots of physicians slam the hell out of soy. They slam dunk it really bad. I just read on a popular doctor’s website in America, the four reasons why not to touch soy, if you’ve got autoimmune disease and all this sort of stuff.

Well, actually it’s crap when I read her page because some of the reasons are so flimsy and stupid. It just doesn’t make sense. People knee jerk react so much these days because they see so much online and they straight away bang, they form a powerful opinion on what some person says out there. And often these are dumb, these sort of things are based on studies. Okay.

I just read a study where they gave this tiny little mouse, 25% of its diet, soy. They were pumping soy into this tiny little mouse. Okay. But first, they made this mouse, they developed autoimmune disease in the mouse and then they gave it lots of soy. And then they found that it had the production of an inflammatory mediator went right up. And then they say, “See, humans shouldn’t eat soy because it’s actually harming mice.”

Well, hang on a minute, mate. Get a 150-pound male like me. Okay. Now if we look at 20% of that guy’s diet, 25% of the guy’s diet, in fact, 5% of the diet was soy oil and 20% was soybean. So, if you pump that into me at the same rate you would at that mouse I’d probably feel pretty sick too. And then, but hang on first, you’d have to develop autoimmune disease in me, make me sick, and then give me all that soy to see what would happen.

And this is how stupid studies are. They’re really stupid, many of these studies. And many journalists read these things and then jump on board and immediately the headlines and the next Twitter feed or something will be, “Soy kills people.” Okay. Don’t buy this nonsense, all right.

Now I can tell you soy is not the best food, but it’s definitely not the worst food, all right? The amount of people I know that have eaten soy for decades have had no issues out of it. Autoimmunity is a big problem. Soy doesn’t have to be a big problem for autoimmunity.

But people keep missing the bloody boat all the time. I keep saying this time and again. With autoimmunity, the key thing is to get the gut in great shape and that means getting a full profile on all the bacteria in the gut. Looking at the fungi, okay, the yeasts, looking at the different bacteria, the beneficial and not so beneficial and trying to get that balance occurring properly, okay. This is a key thing.

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• Everything You Need To Know About Candida Auris
• Difference Between Conventional Medicine and Natural Solution for Candida Yeast Infections
• Is Your Discharge Normal?
• Perseverance is Key: 12 Tips for Sticking with Your Candida Program – Part 2
• All You Need To Know About Giardia Lamblia

But whether soy induces this disease, it’s not going to happen. Soy doesn’t cause autoimmune disease. One day it will be found that autoimmune disease is caused by bacteria translocation in the wrong place. Many, many people eat soy for decades or all their lives have no autoimmune disease. I also know many patients over the years who have eaten soy with autoimmune disease and who don’t have autoimmune disease, likewise.

So, we can’t say that soy causes autoimmune disease. But what we could also say is many other foods should not be touched by people with autoimmune disease either, unless they’re conducive for building good bacterial health. The best diet for autoimmune patient is the diet that helps to build up that person’s gut function to a high level. That’s the best diet for that person. Okay. So, when it comes to autoimmune, paleo kind of diets and this sort of crap, again, we can’t cast a diet in stone and say this diet is perfect for everybody with autoimmune disease, because everyone’s gut is different.

But soy has been cast as a bad demon because it’s a legume, okay. Because they say it contains goitrogens, okay, which could disrupt the thyroid function and stop the thyroid functioning optimally. Yes, it does. But only in a diet that’s devoid of iodine. So, if the person’s got plenty of iodine in their diet, soy is not a problem, all right.

And this is what happened to many people who left Japan. They went to America and Hawaii and they developed thyroid problems because they weren’t eating a level of seafood or iodine in their diet anymore that they were in Asia. But they still continued on with soy and no doubt GMO soy, the genetically modified crap in the States that they don’t have necessarily in other countries.

Non-GMO soy in a gut that’s functioning really well like mine with a good bacterial content, I’m totally confident to eat that two to three times per week for lunch and I have so for what, 40 years and as I say, I haven’t got homophobia or mental retardation out of it yet.

I personally don’t see soy as a problem. But I do see it a problem in a sick, weakly body with a really poor gut function. I can see soy being problematic in that. I can see soy being a problem fed to babies and kids under five instead of breast milk. I can see that being a problem. And particularly if the child’s being treated with antibiotics, and those are the cases I’ve seen with a wrecked gut getting soy, that can be problematic.

But to keep sinking the boot into soy all the time saying it’s a bad food. There’s a lot worse foods out there than soy that people consume every day. So, just be careful.

What was the question again? Why soy is bad for autoimmune disease. Well, it’s perceived to be bad by many people. But as I say, I think they’re missing the boat. I really believe the gut needs fixing up and then soy can be put back in, preferably non-GMO and not at 20% of the body weight volume. And I don’t see it being a problem. Well, that’s my two cents worth on it.

I just wanted to briefly talk about the CanXida product in autoimmunity. When I developed CanXida back in 2013, I started to use it more and more for, obviously for digestive cases, but then I started to realize a connection between autoimmunity and the stool test in CanXida.

So the CanXida products I’ve used hundreds and hundreds of times in the clinic. I made the recommendation for clients, after stool testing, to work with CanXida. I’ve had very, very nice, very positive feedback, and particularly the stool tests, we can see the succession of tests and how each test improved as the gut improved. But guess what? The symptoms improve as well.

As the gut improves, the symptoms improve, on many autoimmune conditions, because we are reducing inflammation. We’re facilitating, okay, the production of lots of beneficial bacteria. We’re getting a lot better communication between the brain and the gut, a more favorable connection.

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• Can Candida Cause Canker Sores?
• Recurring Ringworm: Can It Be Candida?
• Everything You Need To Know About Abnormal Fatigue & Tiredness
• Connection Between Chronic Yeast Infections And Hormonal Imbalance
• Multiple Yeast Infections Have Tried Everything
• Drunk Feeling All The Time – Is It Candida?

We’re getting a backing off of inflammatory markers, so the CanXida remove and restore, work well with most autoimmune conditions, particularly if you’ve had some stool testing completed and found that there’s some SIBO there, some bad bacterias. There’s some yeasts and parasite. And, as I mentioned, in most cases of autoimmunity, there will be some type of a gut issue that needs clearing up, and that’s what the CanXida products were designed for, to clean up the gut, to remove things that need removing, and restore things that need restoring, and then to rebuild the finale, to put the multi back in there and rebuild a lot of those tissues.

Providing, particularly the diet, is in very good form, the CanXida product should work exceptionally well with autoimmunity. My recommendation is for a three to six-month trial initially on those three products and then see how you go.

So if you’ve got an autoimmune disease, get yourself a coffee or a tea, pull up a chair, and have a listen, because you may really learn some interesting information out of these points. These are 10 common things I would associate with many people I’ve seen over the years with autoimmune disease.

The first one is ignoring symptoms. Having unusual symptoms and just passing them off as like having a sore foot or having worked hard the week before or the month before and being tired, excessively tired. So if you’ve got recurrence of symptoms, and especially some use symptoms you’ve not had previously, or strange things, and especially if your partner or friends are saying, “Hey, get it checked out,” but you’re ignoring it, well, you’re a dummy. You need to get it checked out. Okay? So don’t ignore symptoms.

Second one is thinking drugs will cure the illness. Many people have been to the doctor, take a pharmaceutical medication, and think, “Well, this will cure it. I’m going to take these pills and I can go back and have my six beers at night and pizza for breakfast, or whatever, and it will all be good.” Not a good idea. Drugs don’t cure any illness. Just remember that. All they do is mitigate symptoms to a degree, but there’s no cure at all.

The third one, living a high-stress lifestyle. Paying no attention to high stress, paying no attention to arguments or problems with people, issues with the boss, issues with employees or employer, partner issues, or children or teenagers or neighbors or whatever, but some type of conflict. This needs sorting. This pushes your cortisol up, which pushes your inflammation up. This reduces your immune system’s effectiveness. So high stress needs sorting. It’s a big one.

Fourth one, chemical exposures. So not dealing adequately with things like spraying glyphosate or Roundup around the place, glyphosate. Using lots of chemicals, different sprays, working with fiberglass resin, for example, working with gasoline all the time, washing your hands in turpentine or crap like that, spray painting without masks, all these sorts of exposures to chemicals. You need to have a look at chemicals in your life and hopefully get rid of them all.

Further readings:

• All You Need To Know About Rhodotorula
• Recurring Ringworm: Can It Be Candida?
• Why Fermented And Cultured Foods With Candida?
• Does Candida Cause Sinus Infections, Headaches, and Fatigue?
• Is Labored Breathing a Sign of Candida?
• Everything You Need To Know About Candida Glabrata

Fifth one, relying on medical aide only. So purely relying on the GP and not talking to people in the health food stores, not looking at diets, not looking at anything except drugs and medical treatment. That’s a mistake. Medicine is not going to save you with autoimmune disease. In fact, it won’t even improve the quality of your life that much. It may help to mitigate some pain, but that’s about as far as it will go. So be careful not to rely 100% on the doctor, but also to discuss your problems with other healthcare professionals as well.

Sixth one is poor diet. Well, it’s like the high-stress lifestyle. It goes hand-in-hand, doesn’t it? Many people I’ve seen over the years with autoimmune disease has had very, very poor diets, shocking diets. Too much alcohol, too many carbo, refined carbo foods, lots of takeaways, lots of candy, lots of ice cream.
Of course, lots of poor gut development, we’re looking at. Of course, poor gut development leads into bacterial or yeast problems. It leads into inflammation. Bang! Autoimmunity. That’s what happens. So the diet definitely needs fixing up.

Seventh point, self-medicating and treating yourself with Dr. Google. A good thing to do is to stop going to Dr. Google all the time or looking for health information regarding autoimmune disease and how to treat it, but to go and see someone and actually get something done about it, because self-medicating is not a great idea. You don’t know what to take, how much to take, when to take, when not to take. So just be careful. It’s not an area perhaps you’re well-versed in or experienced in. You’re better off really working with someone who is.

Point number eight, little to no testing. Many people with, for example, ulcerative colitis. Well, maybe they only had one or two blood tests done and a little bit of a stool testing done. They may have had a colonoscopy done, and that’s about it. But they never had the whole digestive system properly analyzed for bacteria, viruses, yeasts, parasites. It was never checked for.
So proper testing is very important. Stool testing, blood testing, maybe stress, salivary cortisol, hair testing, maybe heavy metal testing in the hair. But these few tests for you are very important to do with autoimmune. So little to no testing is going to give you no indication on what you’ve got or what direction you’re heading in.

Point nine, not exercising, too much couch-surfing, too much Netflix-binging, sitting there with your mobile phone all the time. You need to get off your butt and do stuff, particularly walking. You get your Apple Watch on or your garment or whatever you wear on your hand, electronic stuff, and then get out there and do stuff. Make a big difference. Your immune system loves activity, and it will really help to balance your immune system.

The tenth one is poor follow-up, meaning not really understanding the relationship between you and your healthcare provider, is try to work out which direction you’re heading in. Put a proper treatment plan in place and then follow it through. Have good follow-up because this condition is with you for life. It will stay with you a long, long time. You need to try and whittle symptoms down and cut them down to a point where you’ve got a good quality of life. Your healthcare professional can help you. Together, you can work on that, and get to a point where you’ve got a comfortable life, hopefully free from side effects from medications.

So that’s my little take on autoimmune disease. I hope you’ve enjoyed this series of about 15 videos. Just some basic information to get you started on your quest. Don’t forget the role on digestive health, and to get the gut in high shape is very important.

So, let’s talk about some myths that people hold often regarding autoimmune disease. I found an interesting paper online, ‘You will eventually get better.’ Well, that doesn’t really happen with autoimmune disease. Most people don’t usually get 100% better. They’ll improve, but they won’t get fully well. So, many people have this assumption that, “Just get on with your lives, you’ll get over it. Don’t worry about it, it’s just a cold or a cough and you’ll get better.” But it doesn’t. That’s a myth. And most people don’t fully recover from autoimmune disease.

Some people have this other assumption that when you got autoimmune disease, you’ve actually got no immune system because it’s attacking itself, therefore it’s broken, it’s not working properly. Well, it is working properly, but it’s working sort of properly. But in this case, instead of attacking what it should be attacking, it’s attacking you, so it is working, but it’s working in the wrong way. So it doesn’t mean to say you haven’t got an immune system, it means you’ve got a dysfunctional one. It’s not working the way it intended to work.

If you look okay, you must be feeling a lot better. So, a lot of people judge someone’s health just by looking at them saying, “Well, you look all right, you can’t be sick.” Some of the sickest people I’ve seen are the ones actually who don’t look ill at all. So, don’t have that misconception. Just because someone looks okay, they’re not unwell, because it’s impossible to pick with autoimmunity.
Your illness will go away if you lose weight, you’re too fat, you’ve just got to lose weight. It doesn’t work like that with autoimmunity. Autoimmunity can strike you, whether you’re skinny or fat, or it doesn’t really discriminate. But, bigger people are more prone to autoimmune disease than smaller people though.

Being on medication means your symptoms are totally under control. That’s not true. Most people with autoimmune disease have got very poorly controlled symptoms, in fact with medications. And that’s what I’m saying, you haven’t got much to lose, you might as well go and see an integrative doctor or a naturopathic doctor for that reason. Because you’re probably not going to get a lot of satisfaction by going down the medical route. But, if you’ve been down that and you’re not satisfied, go somewhere else. But I could tell you the medications don’t always work really well, and in many cases people still suffer sort of partially with the pain and problem, and in worse case scenario, the pain’s still there, partially controlled, but now side effects being created, which is countered by another drug.

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• SIgA Levels And Candida Yeast Infections
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• Everything You Need To Know About Candida Auris
• Preventing Vitamin and Mineral Loss when Cooking Vegetables
• Everything You Need To Know About Candida Auris
• 10 Ways To Get Rid of Oral Yeast Infections

If you’re under a certain age, you’re too young to have autoimmune disease, but if you’re over a certain age, the symptoms are just part of getting older. Oh. Come on. I mean, autoimmune disease can strike any age, a baby up to elderly person. Many elderly people I know are in perfect health even in their nineties with no disease. So, being older does not necessarily imply you’re going to get autoimmune disease. Nor is it being very young. You can get it at any age.

What are you complaining about? Staying home is fun and relaxing. Well, it’s not fun for an autoimmune patient. These people can cry and have a lot of fatigue and be in a tremendous amount of pain. So, sitting there, binge watching Netflix series on TV all day, is not a lot of fun if you’ve got autoimmune disease. Just because someone looks okay and they’re at home, it doesn’t mean to say they’re having a ball of a time. They probably feeling like crap.

You must not be that sick if you are able to do X, Y, Z. So, this is another common misconception, that many people are doing things, but if they’re that sick, they shouldn’t be doing things at all. When you get something like rheumatoid arthritis or Hashimoto’s syndrome, you tend to be, what I call, the walking wounded. So, you have a sub-standard quality of life and you work around that sub-standard quality, meaning you can still do things. It doesn’t mean to say you’re a cripple. And many people try their hardest to do things in spite of the pain. But other people will say, “Come on, if you can do that, you can hold down a 40 hour a week job.” So, don’t be hard on people with autoimmune disease.

You must be contagious. Autoimmune disease is not contagious. You don’t pass it from one to another. It doesn’t jump on people like fleas jump on people, or people jump on furniture kind of thing. So, it doesn’t jump. You develop it through a complex series, in a series of interactions in the body.

If you just exercise, it’ll cure your disease. No, it doesn’t work like that. Doing a yoga class, going to the gym, it’s not going to get rid of the autoimmune disease.

You can’t be super sick today if you were feeling great yesterday. Well, many people with autoimmune disease will have condition where they go up and down. So, some days they’ll feel better, other days they’ll feel worse, and some days they want to be in bed with the covers pulled over their head because they feel like crap. So, be careful of judging a person with autoimmune disease.
There you have it. These are myths. So, the disease stays, it doesn’t disappear completely from a person. A person can have varying symptoms depending on what stage of the disease they’re in. Medications don’t always work. They often suffer in silence. So, that’s autoimmune disease.