BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS

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BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS: THE UNSUSPECTED PROBLEM

by Michael Biamonte, D.N.

 

 

Several years ago, the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta,

Georgia along with some other experts and authorities, re-classified

an organism known as Blastocystis Hominis--a common organism found in

the intestinal tract of most people--as a dangerous disease-producing

organism, as opposed to just a harmless organism.

 

It's been found that many people who have this organism have many

different kinds of digestive complaints--allergies, immune system

difficulties, skin problems, and bowel problems.

 

Blastocystis is generally considered to be a weak parasite. It

attacks those people who have a weakened immune system or a very

weakened digestive tract. Blastocystis, many times, is totally

unsuspected as being the cause or connection with somebody's

digestive illness, because many labs do not know to test for it, or

do not even know that it is now considered harmful. It is quite

common to find Blastocystis in conjunction with other parasites in

candida or harmful bacteria.

 

Blastocystis on its own, in the average healthy person, may produce

no symptoms at all. However, in a person with weakened digestion or

weakened immune response, Blastocystis can produce a host of symptoms

which appear to come and go and are very unpredictable. THIS IS THE

KEY THING ABOUT BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS: ANYONE WHO HAS GASTRO-

INTESTINAL, ALLERGIC, SKIN OR IMMUNE PROBLEMS WHICH SEEM TO COME AND

GO, ON AND OFF, WITHOUT MAKING MUCH SENSE, SHOULD SUSPECT THAT HE MAY

HAVE BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS. THE REASON FOR THIS IS BLASTOCYSTIS

HOMINIS ATTACKS THE BODY AND CREATES TROUBLE WHEN YOU'RE UNDER STRESS

OR WEAKENED. THE MOMENT YOUR BODY PICKS UP A LITTLE, IT MAY NOT BE

ABLE TO AFFECT YOU.

 

Blastocystis is a very peculiar organism in that it especially likes

grains. Many people with Blastocystis may have grain allergies or

difficulties tolerating grains.

 

Blastocystis is very difficult to get rid of. It hides in the

intestinal mucus, sticks and hold on very hard to your intestinal

membranes, making elimination very difficult. After many years of

trying various approaches, we have finally come up with a natural

approach which can eliminate Blastocystis in many cases.

 

Common treatment for Blastocystis medically would include Flagyl and

other drugs. However, we have found these not to be of preference due

to the fact that Blastocystis is so hard to eliminate. Medical drugs

which are highly toxic may have to be taken for long periods of time

in order to fully eliminate it. The length of time that one may need

to take the medical drug may actually cause damage to one's liver or

kidneys. Therefore, a slower, natural approach is definitely

desirable.

 

Several approaches are necessary in order to eliminate Blastocystis.

1) Certain herbs have been found to be effective against it. There

are not many of them, but there are a few. These herbs must be

rotated--meaning taken by themselves for a period of 4-5 days, then

stopped, a new one introduced and taken for 4-5 days, stopped, and

then another new one introduced, etc. In this way, the Blastocystis

will not build up an immunity to any of these items. 2) Bowel

cleansing items--many of them found at health food stores--are

necessary in order to eliminate Blastocystis. The reason for this is

the old mucus or old fecal matter lining the intestinal tract must be

broken down and eliminated to physically wash out the Blastocystis

and then to allow the herbs to make full contact with the

Blastocystis, which may be stuck to the intestinal lining. 3)

Colonics are very important to eliminate Blastocystis. Our new

approach includes putting certain herbal killers directly in the

colonic water, and then taking the colonic water. This allows the

herbal substances to contact the Blastocystis in the bowel, and

destroy it.

 

Fat-splitting or fat-digesting enzymes are also very important with

Blastocystis. When studied under the microscope, Blastocystis seems

to have a fatty reservoir. Fat-splitting or fat-digesting enzymes are

helpful to dissolve some of the Blastocystis and weaken it, thereby

allowing the herbal substances to have greater attack.

 

It sometimes occurs that people will eliminate all symptoms of the

Blastocystis while still retaining it. This is due to the fact that

when the immune system of the intestinal tract is strengthened, the

Blastocystis is weakened and has little effect. It is possible to

still have Blastocystis in your intestines, yet suffer no effects of

it, by doing this procedure. It is of course much better to eliminate

the Blastocystis fully from your body, but if this is not possible,

the next best thing is definitely to be symptom-free, or not the

effect of the Blastocystis.

 

Well--this is not our goal. We have seen several cases who have done

the new program and have had no symptoms return from the

Blastocystis, when their stool tests indicated it was still there. In

this case it is necessary to maintain some of the herbs, digestive

enzymes, and bowel cleansers to keep the intestinal tract in good

enough shape to withstand any influence the Blastocystis may have.

 

Blastocystis does it deadliest work when in combination with other

parasites, harmful bacteria, and fungus. In a case where someone may

have parasites or candida or harmful bacteria, we always find the

Blastocystis is the last to leave. Because Blastocystis needs the

help of other parasites, candida or harmful bacteria in order to

create an effect on your body, the proper approach demands that we

first kill the organisms which are its allies and help it, because

this renders the Blastocystis helpless and less able to create

irritation to our systems. After we have killed the candida,

parasites and harmful bacteria, we then focus our attack on the

Blastocystis. Having no allies, we find it much more amenable to

being killed and eliminated.

 

With the rising incident of Epstein-Barr, cytomeglio virus, candida

albicans, infections, digestive disturbances, and immune difficulty

in this country, we may find more and more that Blastocystis will be

implicated as a health problem. We have found that this new approach

and the new discoveries we've made regarding Blastocystis are

definitely the best solution we have found yet.

 

Dr. Michael Biamonte holds a Doctorate of Nutripathy, a Degree in

Natural Healing, and a Master's in Clinical Nutrition. He is

affiliated with the International Academy of Clinical Nutritionists

and the International Academy of Nutrition and Preventive Medicine.

He is listed in " The Directory of Distinguished Americans " for his

research in Nutrition and Physiology.

 

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c. 1994 by Michael C. Biamonte, C.C.N.