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Candida and Toxicity: Sugar’s Toxic Transformation

Candida and Toxicity: Sugar’s Toxic Transformation

Candida and Toxicity: Sugar’s Toxic Transformation

Glutathione plays many protective roles in the body (continued):

  • Recently suggested to play a role in strengthening the gut barrier and preventing intestinal inflammation.4

Here are a few more important points to remember:

  • L-Glutamine is important for the generation of glutathione. Once transported into the cell, it is converted to glutamate and available for intracellular glutathione synthesis.5
  • Body Ecology Vitality Greens offers a covalently-bonded glutamine, Glutimmune. Covalently-bonded glutamine is incredibly stable and offers 10 times more glutamine than L-glutamine!
  • The Chinese herb, cordyceps, has been recently found to activate glutathione synthesis in the body. Research has shown that this herb, traditionally used in Chinese Medicine to build yang energetic force in the body, also protects cells by engaging the glutathione enzyme cycle!
  • Gliotoxins are not the only harmful byproduct of systemic yeast infection. In the 1970s, Dr. Orian Truss suggested that candida living in the intestinal tract produces toxins that affect the entire body. According to Dr. Truss, acetaldehyde is one of the most important toxic byproducts of candida.

Acetaldehyde comes from ethanol and is responsible for the feeling of a hangover after drinking.

It also is found in exhaust fumes from cars and in cigarette smoke. It is normally present in the body at small levels and easily converted to acetate to be used in cellular energy production. If there is too much acetaldehyde (for example, from candida overgrowth or die-off) and/or a nutritional deficiency, toxicity develops.

If you have adequate amounts of glutamine, selenium, B3 (niacin), folic acid, B6, B12, iron, and the trace element molybdenum, acetaldehydes continue to be metabolized into acetate, which can be excreted or converted further into acetyl coenzyme A. If these nutrients are in poor supply, acetaldehydes begin collecting in the body’s tissues.

  • An excess of acetaldehyde in the body eventually creates a deficiency in vitamin B1 (thiamine). Thiamine is often called the “nerve vitamin” because of its role in proper brain and nerve function. A lack of thiamine can lead to acetylcholine deficiency. Acetylcholine is an important neurotransmitter related to our memory, and severe deficiency has been linked to Alzheimer’s disease.
  • Not only that, but excess acetaldehyde affects the structure of red blood cells, making them less flexible, as well as the integrity of the dendrites of the brain cells.
  • Acetaldehyde also promotes addiction. Acetaldehyde has the tendency to link up with serotonin and dopamine and produce beta-carboline and salsolinol, respectively. These compounds are interrelated and inter-convertible; they are as addictive as opiates! These opiate-like biochemicals explain why sugar is so addictive to those who have systemic candida.

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