Fungus infections are very common in human. In fact it is more common than you think. You may be suffering from ‘fungal related complex’ now without realising it. I am not talking about the intense itch in your groin or the ever enlarging map-like skin problems that you try so hard to hide.

I am talking about the symptoms of frequent headache, lethargy, vague muscles ache, sugar craving, sleeping disturbances, non specific abdominal discomfort, mysterious weight gain, depression, unmotivated and being simply unusually lazy. Did I just describe someone you know?

By the time you have obvious evidence of fungal infection on your skin or nail, you could be having immune related problems caused by fungus for many years. This condition is called ‘fungal related complex’ (also known as ‘Candida related complex’).

This is a condition where the fungus species (mostly Candida sp.) are already shedding its antigen (provoking agents) into your blood streams without causing visually obvious skin lesions.

Often the site of initial contact is in your inner linings such as mouth, gut, vagina and airways. The antigens slowly erode and weaken your immune system and hence making you more susceptible to various other disease causing agents such as viruses, heavy metals and pollutants.

The title is very depressive indeed. Nobody wants cancer but everyone has it. Cancer started with only a single cell and it grows into a detectable lump after many years. Most people are said to have cancer only when a type of cancer is detected in the body. The truth is, the cancer single cell was already there probably anywhere between ten to twenty years ago. If anybody wants to beat cancer, it has to be done exactly ten or twenty years before the cancer is detected.

Cancerous cells arise due to changes in the genetic make-up of the cells. The genetic changes allowed the cells to grow and divide without knowing how to stop. There are multitudes of causes and reasons for a normal cell to turn into a cancer cell. The causes range from as simple as being under the sun to the most obvious such as radioactive radiation.

The air we breathe and the foods we eat contain cancer causing agents. We can never completely avoid all these agents. The only way to beat cancer is to kill the defective cells while they are still undetectable in our body. By the time a cancer is detected, the body has already been infiltrated with it in every corners and crevasses.

How do you fight a cancer which is not yet detectable? This is where medical prevention is needed. The only system protecting the body against the proliferation of this single cell cancer is the immune system. The immune system has the ability to detect these damaged cells and destroy them so that they will not grow into a cancerous lump.

After the depressive title of last week’s article, I thought I should cheer everyone with this week’s article. Yes everyone can indeed beat cancer. I am sure you have heard at least one person who has survived cancer. You may even have someone you know who has been given a ‘five year survival probability’ and yet still living healthy after twenty years or so. What is it that makes cancer survivors different from the rest?

I remember talking to a cancer survivor not too long ago in my clinic. When I asked her what is the main factor behind her survival, she put is right down to her ‘knowledge’ about cancer and the treatment available for it. She did not think any particular treatments were of any benefit, but her knowledge in knowing the source of cancer, how it happens, how it is treated and how to prevent it made her survived the whole ordeal. Needless to say, she has completely changed the way she lives after having the ‘knowledge’. I agree with her.

In my last article, I wrote about how cancer is a symptom of diseased immune system. I should also say in this article that cancer is a disease of lifestyles. A person developed cancer because he or she has been leading a ‘cancerous’ lifestyle. One cannot simply remove a cancer by surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy without changing the ‘cancerous’ lifestyle and expecting the cancer not to recur. After all, some wise man describes insanity as doing the same thing and yet expecting a different result.

Our body is exposed to many forms of heavy metals from the environment. Examples of these heavy metals are mercury, lead, arsenic, silver, copper, aluminium and many more. Unfortunately for our body, the accumulation of these heavy metals is dangerous and causing insidious illnesses.

To make matter worse, chronic accumulation of heavy metals weakens the body immune system and healing ability. This is how chronic diseases develop and eventually manifest in our body.

The sources of heavy metals are plenty. The most obvious are emissions from motor vehicles and cigarettes. Other sources are contamination from treated building materials in houses and offices, contaminated water and treated and processed foods.

It takes years for these metals to be accumulated. Consequently, the effects are not obvious and because of this fact, heavy metals are not routinely attributed as causes of chronic illnesses. Furthermore, testing for heavy metals accumulation is often difficult and expensive.

Heavy metals are often not blamed for diseases because it is difficult to prove and treatments are not necessarily available in conventional medicines. However, every anti-aging practitioner knows that they are there and they are causing havoc.