The Western Diet
Refined sugar intake has risen from virtually zero in the 1930’s to amazingly high amounts now; the latest USDA surveys show the average American is now consuming about 20 teaspoons of sugar per day. “Sugar consumption is off the charts,” Michael F. Jacobson, executive director of the Centre for Science in the Public Interest .
Sugar as any home brewer will tell you feeds yeast . The use of Antibiotics has also similarly increased.
The use of systemic antimicrobials increased by 24% between January 2000 and December 2003 alone. Each year in the United States, more than 160 million prescriptions are written for antibiotics. Humans consume 235 million doses of antibiotics annually.. antibiotic use in the US is the equivalent of nearly 30 prescriptions per 100 persons per year. (The New England Journal of Medicine December 28, 2000)
Bacterial antibiotics in particular board spectrum penicillin and tetracycline’s impact on good flora in addition to targeted pathogens. In this way the balance of gut flora is shifted to favour fungi and in particular yeast organisms, which remains largely unaffected by bacterial antibiotics.
The result is termed yeast dominant “gut dysbiosis”, a condition which has been well known and treated amongst specialist doctors for decades. The pharmaceutical giant Merck warns in the much-respected “Merck manual” that treating with tetracycline’s carry’s a risk of causing a Candida super-infection. Mainstream medicine regrettably still doesn’t give proper regard to the condition.
Yeast is debilitating and the cause of many autistic symptoms including bowel problems, however, it is the co-infections that are perhaps even more significant.
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