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Candida Albicans

Levine SA, Jordan L

"Most people who do not regularly eat seafood (either fish or kelp) or use iodized salt have some degree of iodine deficiency; this can also occur as a result of a low-salt diet. These individuals may become hypothyroid and hypometabolic, because iodine is an essential ingredient in thyroid hormone. At the same time they may become more sensitive to yeast infections, due to inactivity of the myeloperoxidase enzyme, which uses iodine in cell mediated immune function. The iodine is used by this enzyme to product iodine-free radicals which are part of the cellular anti-yeast “free radical artillery”. (3) Previous to the use of nystatin as an antifungal drug, iodine therapy was successfully used to treat yeast infections; however, one must be very careful with the dosage. People who are sensitive to various foods and chemicals are frequently intolerant to iodine and should only use it in very low dosages."

"Antioxidant nutrients include: ascorbic acid, vitamin E, riboflavin, pantothenate, glutathione, taurine, cysteine and minerals such as copper, selenium, zinc and manganese, which function as coenzymes such as superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase. Antioxidant nutrients and enzyme defenses are fundamental protectors against all forms of stress. They are critical during infection. Cysteine is a sulphur containing amino acid, which acts to internally bind together antibody molecules. Other antioxidants, including those above mentioned, are especially important with regard to cell-mediated immune function which requires that cells become activated in what is called a respiratory burst in which large amounts of iodine radicals, superoxide and other oxidizing species are directed out from the cell membrane as artillery to kill invading organisms. Simultaneously the cell generates antioxidant protection intracellularly to protect itself against the back diffusion of hydrogen peroxide (protected by the glutathione peroxidase system) formed from the primary radicals it produced. The primary killing of yeast is accomplished by these radicals an hydrogen peroxide, and the immune capacity of the host cells is limited by its ability to produce intracellular antioxidant defenses to protect itself from the oxidants. This amount to a very simple but effective method of waging war against pathogens. This phagocytic activity appears to be the major factor in limiting the spread of infection by opportunistic fungi. (5) The simple attachment of the hyphae of the yeast activates the oxidative metabolism of the phagocytes which sets the respiratory burst in action."

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