What is the best treatment for candida overgrowth or candidiasis?

Many different types of anti-fungal medicines are prescribed to treat Candidiasis, including Amphotericin B, fluconazole, nystatin and ketoconazole. Like many other prescription drugs, these often come with unwanted side effects, but may be necessary in the case of severe Candidiasis or where all other treatment options have failed.

What is Candidate?

There are a number of herbal remedies which have been shown to have a positive effect on intestinal health and functioning, as well as known anti-fungal properties.

Native Remedies has chosen the most …

Women unhappy about the prospect of undergoing hormone replacement therapy for menopause are looking to alternative medicine for help. This is a move that should not be surprising to anyone, considering that the symptoms of menopause could tempt a saint to drink.

There are the persistent hot flashes and then the icky night sweats that make it hard to tell if she is cold or hot or somewhere in between. Moreover, these constant temperature changes are not conducive to a good night’s sleep.

Adding insult to injury are the menopausal mood swings …

A systemic yeast infection may well be an unknown epidemic today. This is the cons many of the symptoms of a systemic yeast infection are also symptoms of other illnesses and diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease, sarcoidosis and lupus.

Unfortunately, physicians don’t often recognize that these illnesses may be caused by a systemic yeast infection. Systemic yeast infections are extremely difficult to detect and kill.

Yeast is a common and natural fungus to be found in the intestinal tract. In the cases of people whose immune system has …

Bowel cancer is typically referred to as colorectal cancer. It can affect anyone and takes the lives of many each year. Know the signs and symptoms of bowel cancer so that you can catch it earlier.

Colorectal cancer affects the colon, or large intestine, and the rectum. The large intestine moves waste material the final lap of the digestive cycle until it is eliminated through the rectum. When bowel cancer is caught in the early stages it has a very high cure rate.

The best way to detect it early is …

IBS is challenging and painful condition that can last for years and cause a reduced quality of life. The good news is that relief is possible. Primarily by taking an integrated approach to treatment – focusing on the whole person, not just the symptoms of the disease- individuals can make effective lifestyle, diet, and supplement changes that can have profound effects toward alleviating IBS.

What is IBS?

The most challenging aspect of IBS is that it can’t be definitively diagnosed using a biological or chemical test. Rather, it is a …

Are you having problems with your digestion? If it involves the lower half of the digestive tract it could be irritable bowel syndrome. Here are some facts to help you decide.

Irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS, is a condition involving the intestines. There are no clear-cut causes of the condition but it can lead to very painful situations for those affected.

In the intestinal tract, different triggers cause bowels to move differently than they did before. There are usually no visible signs such as inflammation, polyps or tumors that signal that irritable …

Heartburn occurs when a muscular valve, called the lower espophageal sphincter functions improperly, which allows stomach acid to back up into the esophagus. This tube, which leads from the stomach to the throat can be greatly effected by stomach acid, causing a burning, painful sensation in this area.

Lack of proper enzymes are also a cause. Heartburn, indigestion, acid reflux are all usually defined by a vague chest or abdominal discomfort or burning in the solar plexus area, with no apparent organic cause, that occurs during or soon after eating, drinking, …

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1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion.

When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person’s lifetime.

3. When the person’s immune system is strong the cancer …

The ‘standard’ medical solution for high cholesterol is to prescribe a statin drug. Whereas these are generally effective in lowering cholesterol…some people pay a price…in side effects! These can range from damaged livers, muscle aches and even impotency.

If you wish to reduce your cholesterol levels safely and without negative side effects you must address the problem in six ways:

These are…

1. Reduce the production of cholesterol in your body
2. Reduce the absorption of cholesterol in your gut
3. Decrease circulating blood fats and dissolve cholesterol particles
4. Prevent cholesterol from hardening in …

All about the colon

The main function of the colon is to absorb water and minerals from ingested food and to form and eliminate feces. The colon contains different types of bacteria to aid digestion, promote vital nutrient production, maintain pH (acid-base) balance, and prevent the growth of harmful bacteria. The process of digestion from ingestion to defecation normally takes 12 to 24 hours if the colon is fully functional and non-toxic.

Irregular or infrequent bowel movements and constipation can result in toxic residues from the by-products of undigested foods accumulating and …