But why you ask should you clean up your digestive system. Isn’t that what the Candida Crusher Program is about itself? The Big Cleanse is designed to be just that, a quick cleanse, and not a detox, I’ll be talking a lot more about detoxification further on in section 3 of chapter 7 of the actual Candida Crusher book.

A thorough detox is not unlike reconditioning your entire house from top to bottom, you will be working on much more than just a superficial level.

Detoxification is more like completing a major renovation on your house rather than giving it a spring clean, because now you are looking at a much more heavy-duty cleansing approach which may lead to re-decorating, re-painting, and more. The first good detox you do will be like your first big renovation, after you have completed several renovations they will become much easier and with potentially a lot less aggravation because you will have removed plenty of deep seated grime that has built up over the course of many years.

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Sweat Equity

Have you ever completed a major renovation on a house before? I can tell you; once you come out at the other end you realize that you overlooked several things and that with your next renovation there would be things you would do differently. This is because there is nothing like experiencing something for real and working through all those problems that seem to arise. It is called sweat equity, and you always seem to learn best by the mistakes you make the first time around.

Would I do things differently the next time? You bet I would, and the same goes for your first cleanse, after you have completed one or two of these one-week cleanses you will begin to realize how easy they are and what to look out for the next time around. You get to know the pitfalls and traps, and just like completing small renovations which eventually give you the courage and experience to complete a major renovation, the Big Clean- Up will give you the confidence in time to complete a three or four-week detoxification program. Be patient, it will all happen in time, and you are best to wait until you have recovered from your yeast infection. You have plenty of time in the future to complete an intensive detoxification and cleansing regime but for now just concentrate on a one-week cleanse before you start on the diet.

When I recommend a detox program, I generally recommend a certain diet and a series of specialized herbal or nutritional supplement treatments to be used at the same time such as digestive enzymes, liver and kidney herbal medicines, certain probiotics and special bowel cleansing products. A detox for some people will imply the cleansing of heavy metals or chemicals, and I’ll outline this kind of protocol in section 3 later in this chapter, in Understanding Cleansing and Detox. As you may be aware, a good detox is well out of the scope of the Big Clean-Up, which is just a bowel purge followed by a seven day cleansing diet and is a prelude to your Candida Crusher Program.

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Sometimes solutions to problems can come from unexpected angles and it is certainly the case with what is known as glandular therapy.

What we do know about yeast overgrowth is that it can seriously compromise the immune system of the body and place it under immense strain. Such pressure results not only in a broad range of chronic illnesses but also autoimmune conditions which often end in seriously debilitating the patient.

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Yet a treatment known as glandular therapy is, once again, on the increase. I say ‘once again’ because, believe it or not, glandular therapy was once a well recognized treatment used by orthodox medicine for many ailments prior to the avalanche of commercial pharmaceuticals which we are accustomed to using today.

Many patients with contemporary illnesses such as chronic fatigue syndrome, hypothyroid and even allergies and food sensitivities, disillusioned with modern pharmaceuticals are turning to glandular therapy as a treatment – but where does this fit in with Candida? Of course, we are aware that many of these conditions or symptoms often arise as a direct result of Candida overgrowth, so is it any surprise that many patients are seeing good measures of success.

Glandular therapy simply means that the patient is treated with the endocrine or hormonal glands of animals and it can be considered as an arm of stem cell therapy. It first became popular back in the 1800s as a treatment for Addison’s Disease which was first identified around 1850. Glandular therapy achieved some measure of success in resolving this fatal illness and so it was trialed on many different illnesses using the endocrine glands of a variety of animals.

Generally speaking patients were treated with the parts of animals relative to their own condition. So, if they were suffering from pancreatic insufficiency they were given dried pancreas. If they were suffering from thyroid dysfunction they were given desiccated thyroid gland, and so on. With regard to Addison’s Disease which is an adrenal gland dysfunction, patients were given bovine thyroid gland. In fact this particular product was manufactured and prescribed right up until the 1950s.

Glandular therapy was then superseded by chemically synthesized medications produced by pharmaceutical companies and it quickly fell out of popular usage. For example, Armor was the natural version of thyroid gland extract but this was replaced by Synthyroid. As the name implies this is the synthetic version produced by pharmaceutical companies. Prednisolone, a synthetically manufactured corticosteroid was used in preference to adrenal cortex extracts. Unfortunately today many corticosteriods are now thought to at least contribute to either the onset or aggravation of many chronic illnesses. Yet for the patients who are making the step of trialing glandular treatments many are reporting good responses from a small, yet select range of glandular supplements, and this has contributed toward a resurgence of their popularity.

Although glandular treatments or glandulars, as they are more commonly known, can be derived from the organs of many different animals, the primary ones used are from cattle (Bovine), sheep (Ovine) and pigs (Porcine). However I must stress that in themselves glandulars from whatever source are not considered to be a primary treatment directly intended to reduce Candida or other bacterial overgrowth. What they are meant to achieve is support of the immune system when it is under pressure from metabolic dysfunction underpinned by gut dysbiosis.

There is however little recent research available regarding the efficacy of glandulars. This in itself does not mean they do not work but simply means that science is not currently investigating the situation. Hardly surprising considering that pharmaceutical companies often fund research and any work undertaken which signifies glandulars are effective, would actually result in lower sales of synthetic drugs – the very products which pharmaceuticals manufacture and make billions of dollars from.

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So, sad as I am to say, it is hardly likely that we will be seeing a surge of research on glandulars any time soon and, for the time being at least, most of the benefits said to be derived from them are purely anecdotal. However for many patients actually feeling the benefits of any particular treatment far outweighs whether science has taken the time to prove they work.

I have on many occasions witnessed that when a patient who had a chronic yeast infection moved from one house to another, or changed the country they lived in that their health improved, and in some cases the chronic yeast infection even went away entirely without any further intervention. This is a true fact, and something that used to really surprise me many years ago.

But why did this happen, and why did it take a move to bring about such a change in their health? My experience has led me to believe that it was because the person left some kind of stress behind; like work stress, a relationship stress, maybe their son, daughter, ex-partner, mother in law, etc. Maybe it was a change in diet; they were deficient in a mineral or vitamin or allergic to a certain food, or perhaps a change in the air temperature or humidity.

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An improvement in health can come about for many reasons, and often a change in the person’s outlook by changing their residence, their occupation or their key personal relationships will bring about an improved state of health. Dr. Edward Bach (Bach Flower Essences) was a doctor many years ahead of his time, he gave a public lecture in London in the 1920’s about the emotional causes of ill health and was very much scorned by the medical establishment who thought he was a fool, after all, how could emotions be a causative factor in illness, when any self-respecting doctor knew in the 20’s knew that there was only one cause, and it was those nasty germs.

The upside about cleansing your body is that you will feel a lot better once this dust has finally settled, much better in fact than you have in fact for many years.

If you want a room in your house to be really clean and one that stays clean, you will need to clean it regularly and thoroughly, and if you want your entire house to sparkle from top to bottom then you will need to do some basic housekeeping every single day to ensure that not only the dirt doesn’t build up, but that cleaning it eventually doesn’t become an impossible task.

Small cleaning tasks performed regularly make a lot of sense, otherwise through procrastination a major clean up becomes overwhelming to the point that it is simply put in the too hard basket. Some people’s houses, just like the inside of their bodies, have become a real mess, and they give up even trying a simple cleansing regime causing them much embarrassment if others come to visit! You may know somebody with body odor, bad breath or a major weight problem. In some instances some people who have developed conditions such as this simply avoid social contact for embarrassment or fear of rejection and live a lonely life.

Likewise, if you drink fresh clean water every day, eat plenty of fresh, high quality organic foods and make those wise dietary and lifestyle choices your body will tend to get clean and stay clean, but don’t confuse the Big Clean-Up with detoxification, I’ll elaborate a lot more on detoxification in section 3 of this chapter.

Cleaning a room is certainly like cleansing your body on the inside. Dust and grime such as toxic residues may appear from those hidden recesses of the bowel, liver, kidney and lungs in particular, and deposit in the blood stream and lymphatic system.

You don’t wait 30, 40 or even 50 years to clean your house, but rarely consider your body when it comes to cleansing it on the inside, so when it does finally get a clean you can and should expect some aggravations, particularly if your room has had little to no attention for several decades. Doesn’t this make sense to you? It doesn’t to the medical profession, who never talk about cleansing or detoxification. They claim that there is “no scientific proof” that cleansing is necessary, and that the kidneys and liver are perfectly capable of keeping the body clean. I suppose those self-cleaning ovens and dishwashers are perfectly capable as well, the fact is that we always seem to need to call the repair guy for these amazing “self-cleaning” appliances because they clog up at the least opportune moments.

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The Big Clean-Up gives you the opportunity to step-down from the diet and lifestyle you were leading, including dietary and lifestyle habits that may have contributed towards the development of your yeast infection. If you are serious about beating a yeast infection then it makes sense not to skip this important cleansing step, and the longer you have had yeast issues the more reason you will need to complete it.