Candidiasis, Parasites and Permeability

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Breakthroughs for Chronic Fatigue/Fibromyalgia, Allergic Disorders,

Candidiasis, Parasites and Permeability

Steven Rochlitz

 

Much of chronic, degenerative, physical and " emotional " illness is

ultimately caused by allergies. Specific recent maladies are known to

be intimately tied to allergies. These include Chronic Fatigue

Syndrome (CFS), Fibromyalgia, Candidiasis, Parasitosis, environmental

illness, MCS (Multiple Chemical Sensitivities). This article has

several goals. First to demonstrate the link between all these

maladies, secondly to hypothesize common cause(s), and thirdly, to

briefly describe a plan of action. As a physicist, this author

realizes that there are a potentially infinite number of " treatment "

options for an illness. However, only a methodology that deals with

the earliest possible cause(s) can be the most effective.

 

After researching the above maladies since the 1970's (and unfortunate

personal experience with them as well), it became clear to this

author, ten years ago, that there are common links in all these

illnesses. They are, in fact, variants of one disorder. I propose a

term, which encompasses these ills and their cause and treatment:

PPDEI: Parasitosis Permeability Disorder (with accompanying) Energy

Imbalance. The remainder of this article will clarify the factors in

this acronym.

 

All of these maladies have some set of severe food, chemical,

electromagnetic, and pollen allergies as the cause of much

symptomatology. Of course, fibromyalgia is the term that orthodox

physicians use for chronic fatigue and muscle/joint pain. In those

quarters, only drugs are considered for treatment and so those

patients often do not ever learn of their severe allergic states (and

blood sugar anomalies) until they see more holistic practitioners who

might then find the different types of allergies. In fact, this

kinesiologist realized years ago that some of the pain points listed

for " fibromyalgia " are none other than the Chapman neurolymphatic

reflex points that must be rubbed if wellness is to be attained!

(Rubbing these points can increase lymph flow to associated organs and

meridians. When these reflex points are out of balance, they are

painful and there can be general debilitation.)

 

Let us return to allergies which plague all the sufferers of these

linked maladies. The cause of the type of allergy we are discussing is

permeability. People afflicted with these maladies do not usually

possess the original, high-IgE, classical, allergic responses. They

suffer because their bodies have become hyper-permeable to the outside

world. The gastrointestinal tract is too permeable, allowing food

constituents to enter the blood improperly and cause reactions

directly, not through an IgE-mediated response. (Seemingly

paradoxically, a hyper-permeable gastrointestinal tract often

simultaneously leads to a lessening of absorbability of many

nutrients.) But the gastrointestinal tract can even allow pollens and

chemicals to enter the blood too! The breathing apparatus and the

skin, and their mucous membranes can become hyper-permeable also and

allow for chemicals (or pollens) to enter the blood through these

routes. (This is why we don't use the term, " leaky gut. " We believe

that more than just the gut is leaky, and permeability is a better

term.) Electromagnetic sensitivities, we shall learn, can have a

similar etiology to chemical sensitivities.

 

What causes these severe permeability states? Severe gastrointestinal

permeability may be caused by several factors. But the most frequent

cause is protozoan parasite toxins, usually arising from Entamoeba

histolytica or Giardia lamblia. With severe, immediate and " universal "

food allergies, the above amoeba will usually be causative.

Unfortunately both the usual medical stool tests and the one commonly

used by alternative practitioners have a great inability to detect

these protozoans. Only the rectal swab (Parrish-Bueno) test, or an

enlightened use of Advanced Kinesiology methods is accurate in our

experience. While some authors want to blame certain worms for all

illness, we have found this is rarely the case. Though liver flukes or

other worms are harmful to the human host and should be eradicated

when found, we have ascertained that worms do not usually cause severe

permeability and are relatively rare in comparison to amoebiasis or

giardiasis.

 

Though intestinal parasitosis may be accompanied by diarrhea,

constipation, or foul stool odors, some people suffer from allergies,

environmental illness, MCS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Candidiasis and

Fibromyalgia even though the amount of intestinal parasitosis may be

quite small and none of these intestinal symptoms need be present.

That is, in some people, the smallest amount of protozoan overgrowth

immediately triggers permeability and energy imbalance, and the other

changes cited in this article. But it is interesting to note that many

with food, chemical and electromagnetic allergies ignore their

diarrhea or constipation and thus the ultimate cause of their

problems. Once the gastrointestinal tract is hyper-permeable,

caffeine, sugar, wheat, dairy, corn and yeast/mold often cause severe

allergy or addiction or both, and should be completely eliminated.

Eating any food often may result in a severe allergic reaction. Many

sufferers end up eating foods everyday that were once safe and thus

the formerly, s afe foods become their worst foods unknowingly. Food

rotation thus becomes: necessary, though it is not a cure.

 

Vitamins, vitamin injections, and neutralizations often become

allergenic and are also seen here as not dealing with the cause of the

problem. Homeopathic remedies become problematic as they usually come

in sucrose, lactose or alcohol -- all highly allergenic. Two decades

of experience has also revealed that energy balancing alone -- whether

via kinesiology, or homeopathy, or acupuncture -- is insufficient to

kill off strong " critters " such as protozoan parasites. " Strengthening

the immune system " is the cry now heard continually. But we must never

lose sight of two facts. 1) That eliminating the parasite (or other)

toxins that are the cause of the weak immune system is the primary

goal, and 2) Specific, anti-parasite agents (herbs or drugs), not

general " immune boosters " are what is needed!

 

Now we have found that chemical and electromagnetic allergies usually

have a viral etiology. Epstein-Barr Virus (most frequently), or

Cytomegalovirus (CMV), or Coxsackie or Herpes variants or other

viruses, or all of these maybe the causative agent(s) for chemical and

electromagnetic allergies. Electromagnetic allergies may also arise

from mercury or other heavy metal toxicity. To detect heavy metal

toxicities, everyone should have a hair mineral analysis regularly. We

believe that nearly everyone has-the above viruses within themselves.

The problem only arises when one or more of these viruses runs

rampant. And the usual prerequisite for this type of rampant, viral

syndrome is none other than the same cause of severe gastrointestinal

permeability: protozoan parasite toxins. But we see one difference

between a sufferer of severe food, chemical and/or electromagnetic

allergies, and another sufferer who truly possesses only food

allergies. Both will have protozoan parasitosis and gastrointestinal

permeability. But the former will also have the viral syndrome as

well, while the latter will not. Only full antibody panels (or

Advanced Kinesiology) reveal the Chronic Epstein-Barr Virus, or CMV,

or Coxsackie, or Herpes presence or the immune response to them.

Unfortunately many who suffer from, and/or treat, chemical and

electromagnetic allergies have no knowledge of the causative factors

described above. It is common to read " chemical exposure causes

chemical allergies " and " electromagnetic exposure causes

electromagnetic allergies. " While we should avoid these unnatural,

toxic things as much as possible, it is not the exposure that causes

the sensitivities, otherwise the entire population would have them.

Most of the time, a sufferer feels the allergic responses to chemicals

or electromagnetic fields after s/he has developed overgrowths of (and

internal energy imbalance from) the above cited microorganisms!

 

Now Candida albicans continues to be blamed for almost everything by

some. But 80-90% of the time that such claims are made, chronic

Candidiasis either is not actually present, or has long ago been

killed off, or - if present - is secondary to protozoan parasitosis.

Of course, Candida albicans does lead to its own unfolding of specific

illness, which we have revealed even includes learning

disorders/dyslexia and ADD/ADHD. Indeed, in 1984, this researcher

hypothesized that acetaldehyde from Candida overgrowth in the mother

would be able to cross the placental barrier and affect the fetus'

brain resulting in corpus callosum anomalies by blocking acetylcholine

receptors therein and resulting in dyslexia and other problems. This

was called the RADH (Rochlitz Aldehyde Dyslexia Hypothesis). By 1989,

medical science proved that acetaldehyde (not the alcohol in alcoholic

beverages) does indeed cross the placental barrier and causes fetal

brain disorders! This led to warnings against pregnant women drinking

alcohol, now found in all bars and supermarkets in the USA. However,

those - including myself - who have written books on Candidiasis have

overplayed its role in causing allergic diseases. While even the

earliest (1988) edition of my " Candida " book included a parasite

section, it was not until 1991 that it became clear that most of the

time protozoan parasitosis occurs first and this causes the severe

permeability disorders and that Candidiasis (if present at all) is a

secondary, opportunistic organism.

 

Treating Candida with antifungals has been so ineffective, in part,

because the underlying parasitosis is not dealt with. The Candidiasis,

if actually, originally present would have been eradicated within a

month or so of antifungal treatment. But antifungals won't kill

protozoans. Some physicians still treat their patients for months,

even years, with newer, powerful, potentially-dangerous antifungal

drugs without any benefit because the original cause - protozoan

parasitosis - is never dealt with. Indeed, the manufacturers of some

of these antifungal drugs recommend a maximum 10-day trial due to

potential liver or kidney toxicity. But some physicians employ them

non-stop for many months! Candida dies much more readily than the two

protozoans cited above. The protozoans, when attacked, will enter the

cyst stage and become even more resistant to herbal or drug agents.

Candida is much weaker than these protozoans. e.g., both Kinesiology

and actual trials indicate that grapefruit seed extract is often

sufficie nt if only Candidiasis is present, but it is not strong

enough to combat protozoan parasites.

 

Just how parasite toxins cause the severe permeability states is

described in more detail in my book. Briefly, I hypothesized an

" improper potassium metabolism " induced by parasite toxins. (There may

also be a genetic predisposition with an overabundance of histamine

receptors on gastrointestinal cell membranes.) I have found that

taking extra potassium, though wise, will not be sufficient here as

this problem is an electromagnetic one whereby many of the body's

cells in effect lose the ability to recognize potassium while the

" gain " is turned too far up for sodium. A set of seven conditions then

shortly develops in many people: gastrointestinal permeability,

adrenal shock, pancreatic shock, serotonin (and/or other

neurohormonal) decrease or blockage, stomach acid/pepsin

insufficiency, secondary microorganism overgrowths, and severe energy

disturbance in the body (see below). Due to the permeability, parasite

toxins readily get into the blood and can affect any organ. The liver

and pancreas (blood sugar anom alies) may be overloaded in dealing

with these toxins. The brain is often seriously affected in specific

ways resulting in depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, paranoia,

autism. It is a joy to see the termination of these brain disorders

(as well as dyslexia, ADD/ADHD) when ecology and energy work are

performed on the actual causes of these problems.

 

It is crucial to be aware that one antiprotozoan herb commonly used,

Artemesia annua (wormwood), itself in many people strongly interferes

with the body's ability to recognize potassium. Since the parasite

toxins are already interfering with potassium recognition, this is a

very serious problem and has caused grave illness. We know of asthma,

suicide, and near-death reactions from this effect from Artemesia

annua. Those with an eastern European ethnicity often have this

intolerance to Artemesia annua or the even more potent and even more

potassium-interfering strain known as Artemesia annua vera. It is

important to realize that taking extra potassium does little here.

Many practitioners do not comprehend the electromagnetic nature of

this problem and might recommend extra potassium. It is almost

worthless for this problem. We have devised a special kinesiology test

for this Artemesia annua-induced potassium recognition problem - it's

not an " allergy. " If this test is not performed, we strongly advise

against using the Artemesia annua form of wormwood. I've found that

Artemesia absinthum does not usually cause this problem. This again is

especially important for those with any eastern European ethnicity.

Fortunately there are many other herbal remedies available now to

combat parasitosis.

 

We should also note here that " friendly flora " often feed and do not

displace the much stronger protozoans. (This is why so many people,

even after years of ingesting all forms of " friendly flora, " don't

have much, or any, in their guts. The stronger. " critters " have just

eaten them all along.) Friendly flora should, in some people, be

provided only after herbal or drug eradication of anomalous

overgrowths has been successful. We must also specifically caution

against " soil-based " microorganism ingestion. These microorganisms may

be totally unnatural to the human gut and may cause detrimental

overgrowths and severe illness on their own!

 

Why do we have the recent explosion of allergic-related disorders and

the severe permeability states? Why do we have the explosion of

(hidden) parasitosis? It is this author's hypothesis that the ultimate

cause of all these ills and their recent explosion may, for many, be

the lack of (sufficient) breast-feeding in infancy! Breast milk

contains protective antibodies that may, in effect, coat the

gastrointestinal tract for a lifetime - and/or make the

gastrointestinal tract less permeable to allergens and less

susceptible to parasite attachment and/or overgrowth. The absence of,

or an insufficiently lengthy breast-feeding process (at least six to

nine months), thus leads to a lifetime of susceptibility to protozoan

parasitosis and its subsequent permeability and subsequent

Candidiasis, viral syndromes, fatigue/fibromyalgia and allergic

disorders. Lack of (sufficient) breastfeeding can make parasitosis

inevitable. As cited above, there is also the genetic component to

these illnesses - a weakness for developin g parasite-induced

permeability. A weakened immune system, or digestive system, can allow

overgrowths of these organisms. The opposite is also especially true:

Perhaps nothing weakens the immune system as severely as the toxins

from parasites, and the permeability - and subsequent allergic

reactions - these toxins then cause. Lack of breast-feeding is, of

course, a relatively recent phenomenon brought on in the western,

" civilized " world by collusion between orthodox, medical physicians

and the drug industry in order to sell the scientific-sounding

" formulas " which lack so many nutrients and the protective antibodies.

But any factor, even later in life, that alters immunity can also lead

to parasitosis. As an example, the experimental vaccines that Gulf War

soldiers were forced to take by the Pentagon almost certainly has led

to parasitosis and environmental illnesses. Once gut or general

immunity is lowered, parasitosis will be practically a given for many

- especially those who were not breast-fed.

 

Another leading cause for the explosion of parasitosis-induced

permeability and subsequent chronic illness will be a shocker to many

in the holistic movement. This is raw, organic produce. Now we

continue to recommend organic produce, as pesticides have long been

linked in the etiology of degenerative, neurological disorders -

particularly Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. It is only the raw aspect

that needs to be altered for many people; especially those that were

not (or not sufficiently) breast-fed. Organic usually means that the

produce was fertilized with what comes out of the rear ends of horses

and cows. But, this is the focal point for the giardias and amoebas!

Much produce goes to industrialized nations from third world countries

where the animal manure is again the fertilizer. The recent " OneWorld "

trade pacts now forbid telling the consumer which is the country of

origin. Pesticide-free produce is great, but cook it to kill the

protozoans. Eat only cooked foods! Many practitioners, who treat

people wi th parasitosis, unfortunately do not warn their patients

that they must avoid raw produce indefinitely. Indeed, we have had

clients who were apparently perfectly healthy; some were even

breastfed. But shortly after they started eating much raw, organic

produce, these individuals ended up with severe allergies and often in

a disabled state. Certainly this scenario helps prove the, case

against eating raw, organic produce - at least for these people!

 

Many holistic practitioners recommend everyone eat much raw, organic

produce. So we often ask people to perform a gedanken (or thought)

experiment. Imagine the manure on top of a fruit or vegetable you are

about to eat. Now mentally subtract the fruit or vegetable and

visualize the raw substance left that you are about to eat. We ask, is

it natural and is it a long-term phenomenon for humans to eat animal

manure? We think not. But again it is the lack of breastfeeding and

other recent harmful phenomena that have lowered our immunities,

incapacitating our gastrointestinal tracts from being able to prevent

parasitosis. Leading parasitologist, Dr. Louis Parrish has stated

(once again contrary to much, popular holistic belief) that washing or

scrubbing produce in chlorine, or peroxide solutions will not kill

100% of the protozoan cysts. Regardless of drug or herbal therapy,

those who continue to ingest uncooked produce, juices, salads, etc.

will either be unable to completely eradicate the parasitosis or will

so on get it back.

 

Unfortunately many people think that because they may have once taken

some anti-parasitic agents, they were " cured " for all time. Of course,

the agent may never have been safe or effective, or the parasitosis

may have immediately returned because of the above dietary

" indiscretion, " or from water-borne organisms, or by kissing one's

pet, or from other factors. But the non-breast-fed individual must

ever more maintain sharp vigilance against ingesting new parasite

cysts, or else battle parasitosis again and again.

 

It is essential to recognize that once something terribly unnatural

has been done to an individual - here the lack of breastfeeding - that

individual may be different and weaker for the rest of his/her life.

And we cannot then declare that what is good for the rest of the

population - eating raw produce - must be good for such altered and

weakened individuals! The ultimate lessons are not to again allow

physicians or drug companies to alter the course of nature under the

false pretense of science, but in reality for their own profit; and

that alternative practitioners must be able to change, when warranted,

and not make the same mistakes made by the medical orthodoxy -

treating symptoms and not the cause; and treating everyone identically.

 

Now some will immediately say, " What about all the enzymes in the raw

produce? " First we note it is not the " rawness " of the produce we

object to. It is the prevalence of raw produce commonly purchased to

be fertilized with manure. Due to handling, though, any uncooked food

may contain harmful microorganisms. Sufferers of the above maladies

who never stop eating raw produce usually never get well! That answers

the question for these people. If- but this is a very big if - one

does not have these problems or the tendency to develop them, then by

all means eat the raw, organic produce.

 

Our advanced Human Ecology Balancing Sciences (HEBS) Kinesiology

breakthroughs actually enable the testor to ascertain which agents are

safe and effective against the person's parasite imbalance, even

before taking the agent. Ordinarily if the subject gets sick after

ingesting a supposedly helpful agent, the practitioner cannot know if

the subject is merely allergic to the agent, or if the reaction is the

die-off or Herxheimer reaction. So our Advanced Kinesiology can be

crucial in both rapidly ascertaining and eliminating this problem.

 

But we must always bear in mind the limitations of kinesiology or of

energy balancing. By itself, kinesiology cannot " cure allergies in

minutes " as some in the field of kinesiology have unfortunately, and

ignorantly, claimed in the last two decades. As a physicist, I can

state that it's easy to make an arm strong. But that is quite

worthless, as the cause of allergies - permeability - and the

permeability's cause 'usually parasitosis' is not addressed by

simplistic and bogus " allergy elimination systems. " Causality reigns

supreme at the macroscopic level in our Universe. Allergic reactions

cause meridian imbalance, not vice versa. While some energy balancing

may alleviate some symptoms, it is nonsense to claim that

acupuncture/acupressure treatments " cure allergies. "

 

People with the most intense, immediate or Universal allergies quickly

find out how bogus the now popular " allergy elimination " schemes are.

Others may feel a little better from the meridian balancing, or the

shock organ for the allergic reaction may be altered - thus fooling

the patient and the doctor. Or the subject may merely be mesmerized by

seeing his/her arm made strong in a bogus muscle test.

 

Sadly, as a kinesiologist, I must report that most of kinesiology is

bogus. I will explain in detailin the future just how the testor in

many " systems " affects the test result making it come out the way s/he

wants it to. It is also important to avoid those who claim to make

" permanent " cures or corrections with kinesiology/energy work. Any

energy state that is easily re-set may be easily turned off again --

usually by the ecological factors discussed in this article. Some

people (even numerous physicians who do this work and have come to us)

get so much worse after " allergy elimination treatment " because they

start eating allergic foods -- even toxic foods like sugar, coffee,

alcohol -- because they believe they have been " permanently cured " as

the muscle testing " proves " to them. It is fascinating to observe both

sick patients and their physicians ignore the patients' actual

symptoms because they believe the results of bogus muscle testing! " My

new symptoms can't be from allergies -- they were cured! " Or to hear

the words from the so-called allergy eliminator: " It hasn't held. " So

much for " permanent " cures. Of course, it's not that it " hasn't held. "

It never worked. You can't make toxic foods safe! Allergies can only

be halted if, and when, permeability is halted.

 

Nonetheless, an enlightened use of kinesiology can be crucial to

rapidly determine the cause and the protocol for the ills cited here.

This is what the HEBS System of kinesiology and ecology was created

for in 1983. We can't make up for not being breast-fed, but we can

ascertain what parasites, bacteria, viruses, fungi, etc. we may be

harboring, and can find what is safe and effective in eliminating

them, and we can then eat only cooked food and make the other diet and

hygiene changes. Yes, we can finally, and completely, overcome,

environmental illness, MCS (Multiple Chemical Sensitivities), Chronic

Fatigue Syndrome, Candidiasis and Fibromyalgia, and food, chemical,

pollen, and electromagnetic allergies and all the other diseases that

are actually caused by these factors. We can get and stay well! Often

this can be achieved in weeks or months despite a lifetime of severe

illness and allergic states. But to stay parasite-free, everything

must be done right and must continue to be done right. It's very easy

t o get parasites back if one is not vigilant. However, once the

patient understands all this; s/he can readily eradicate them once

again, if necessary.

 

Finally, let us see what the " EI " or " Energy Imbalance " in our acronym

PPDEI relates to. Most sufferers of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,

Candidiasis, Fibromyalgia, allergies, environmental illness, MCS

(Multiple Chemical Sensitivities), etc. never learn the reason most

orthodox physicians may tell them " there is nothing wrong with you " --

when there most certainly is. The reason is that these poor people

suffer from tremendous energy imbalance, which is not detectable via

blood tests. These energy imbalances include the acupressure

meridians, the neurolymphatic system, the neurovascular system,

chakras, the spine, the cranium and other " energy systems. " One can

learn -- from our Allergies and Candida book how to optimize the brain

and heart in seconds with the Rochlitz brain and heart hemisphere

integration exercises. You can also learn to rapidly re-set blood

sugar imbalance, dizziness, brain fatigue, tired legs and many other

complaints. Thus the sufferers of the above maladies can actually feel

good again whi le they eliminate their " critters. " This is what we

mean by simultaneous energy and ecology balancing. One without the

other will not be effective.

 

Once the patient has this knowledge of allergies, parasites, and

self-energy balancing, they should have the ultimate responsibility

for their own wellness. However, we beseech physicians to change, and

learn these methods. Please also stop wasting the patient's time and

money with worthless lab(s) that cannot accurately test for the

presence of amoeba or giardia. Everyone would be wise to appreciate

both the value and the limitations of recent breakthroughs in kinesiology.

 

Thus we have seen how the acronym, PPDEI, for Parasitosis Permeability

Disorder (with accompanying) Energy Imbalance, describes the cause(s)

of the linked ills cited at the outset of this article, and their

major manifestations: permeability, allergies and energy imbalance.

The acronym also implies the two main treatments: 1. Eradicate all the

infectious microorganisms with eradication of protozoan parasites

being the primary but not the only goal; 2. Treat the energy imbalance

immediately with our kinesiology breakthroughs. Our self-help book,

written for patients and, doctors, Allergies and Candida: with the

Physicist's Rapid Solution, 4th Edition, expounds upon the research in

this article -- both the ecology and the energy balancing or

kinesiology. Allergies and Candida: with the Physicist's Rapid

Solution, 4th Edition is available from the author for $19.95 plus

$4.50 shipping.

 

Correspondence:

 

Steven Rochlitz, Former Physics Professor President, Human Ecology

Balancing Sciences

 

About the author:

 

Prof. Steven Rochlitz, who taught physics at two Universities in New

York, cured his own incurable, life-threatening Universal allergies

and chronic fatigue with the revolutionary, yet simple, methods he

created. He is the author of four books including Allergies &

Canadida: with the Physicist's Rapid Solution and Why Do Music

Conductors Live Into Their 90's?: The Simple Revolutionary Discovery

that can make You Live Longer, Increase Your Stamina and Stretch and

Normalize Your Blood Pressure In Minutes. He is the creator of

Heart-Integration, Meridian-Integration, Meta-Integration Exercises

and the Candida and Parasite Balances. He was also the first to

explain the causes of dyslexia and how all brain, integration

exercises (cross-crawls) work.

 

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