The Candida Chlorine Link

Candida - the Chlorine Link

Chlorine is hailed as a wonder of the modern world. Portrayed as a safe disinfectant, Chlorine is used in water supplies worldwide to eradicate bacterial infection, rendering it safe to drink.

Chlorine is hailed as a wonder of the modern world. Portrayed as a safe disinfectant, Chlorine has used in water supplies right across the world since the early 1900's to eradicate bacterial infection, rendering it safe to drink.

Chlorine comes with a price though, and that is the worldwide increase in candida-related infections such as thrush. How so?

From the turn of the twentieth century the search was on for a cheap and effective way to disinfect the huge bodies of water required to service our ever-growing cities. Showing promise in halting a typhoid epidemic in England in 1905, chlorination quickly became the method of choice for eliminating pathogens from our water supply.

What does this have to do with candida?

Harbouring in your intestinal system are 100 trillion beneficial bacteria and yeasts. These organisms are naturally balanced and vital for life. Lurking amongst these is the yeast Candida albicans, playing a beneficial role in trace amounts. Good bacteria prey on candida keeping the yeast in our gut at the right (minute) levels.

Enter: Chlorinated tap water! Chlorine, designed to kill bacteria, suppress the beneficial bacteria in your gut but leave behind yeasts. Candida, having now lost its predator, proliferates rapidly and colonizes your intestinal system in as little as 4 hours. (Interestingly, the 5 most common protozoan water parasites in the world are all impervious to chlorine!)

Excess candida is then absorbed through the intestinal wall like a nutrient, allowing your circulatory system to deliver it to all parts of the body. Here it shows up as thrush, tinea, digestive problems, brain fog, white tongue, etc.

And it likely started with the suppression of beneficial bacteria in your gut by chlorine in your water.

The world has been comprehensively chlorinated since the beginning of the 20th century.

Widespread candida infection is thus a modern disease. It was born in the 20th century as a result of antibiotics (which also kill bacteria but leave yeasts untouched), modern diets (full of carbohydrates that fungi such as candida yeast thrive on) and bacterial-nuking chlorine in our water supply.

Are you safe if you avoid tap water? No. Good health logically starts with a good water source, and a high-quality, heavy metal (and chlorine) removing filter is the first line of defence against all sorts of health threats. But it is not enough to remove the hazard.

Why not?

What do you bathe in? What do you wash with? What do you water your organic vegetable garden with?

If the answer is tapwater then chlorine is in your environment constantly suppressing the beneficial bacteria in your gut and leaving the door ajar for candida to proliferate.

This is why candida always comes back: the factors that contribute to its growth are ever present in our modern world. It's not just a matter of antibiotics and sugars alone - our very water supply is undermining the balance of our immune system and allowing candida to flourish.

A lasting solution to thrush and other candida-related conditions is:

Filtering our tapwater
Regular use of herbal formulas that kill of candida as it proliferates.

Doing so regularly throughout the year, before symptoms even appear, will ensure a balance is maintained in the gut, and that candida never rears its ugly head.

What about the candida diet? If the right combination of herbs is employed then it is actually possible to kill off ad eliminate candida without a restrictive diet designed to slowly starve it out. Once it is eliminated then a normal, balanced diet can more easily keep it under control.

Yes, such remedies do exist, and they work!