Hiya Jess My friend's mum was poorly for years but only had episodes every 3 months like you mentioned. She stuck with a good kinesiologist who eventually found that she had a particular parasite living in her instestine which laid eggs that hatched every 3 months (or something to that effect) - she was put on a strong parasite cleanse and within 6 months it was all cleared up and has not had any complaints since. Just thought I'd share in case you haven't gone down the parasite route yet. Hope your husband finds his health soon Anya x

Very interesting post Pat, particularly the mention of Candida using lipids as the primary nutrient rather than carbohydrates. If this is the case it would have to be specific to a perculiar form of Candida that has morphed from a yeast to another form...perhaps the well known 'hyphael' form or perhaps something new. The fact is that Candida as a yeast does subsist primarily by fermenting carbohydrates. My own experience is similar to the stories you mention of people having to live on meat and very low carbohydrate vegetables...otherwise I experience the very unique symptoms of being poisoned by ethanol and acetaldehyde. Lab work backs this up in terms of both blood levels and induced liver enzymes (keeping in mind I am tee total). Do you happen to have a link to the post about Candida and fats? I'd really like to read it. Thanks! I feel you may be correct about pathogens and symbiotic microorganisms turned pathogens (e.g. Candida) that have sought refuge in the lymph system acting as a reservoir that simply reinfects areas such as the gut that have been specifically treated with antimicrobials. I would agree to maintaining oneself on whatever program seems to reduce symptoms the most but also suggest therapies that improve lymph drainage (particularly the Perrin Technique) and modulate immune function e.g. transfer factor, low-dose naltrexone (LDN), various herbs and medications. Obviously removing factors from diet and lifestyle that impair immunity is also vital e.g. sugar, psychological stress. It's my feeling that new digestive enzyme supplements that aim to digest biofilms may help bring pathogens back into symbiosis with the human body when combined with appropriate antimicrobials and the other steps mentioned above. Breaking down the biofilms and hitting things quickly with antimicrobials may give pathogens less time to morph and adapt. Or perhaps I am being too optimistic...

Hi Maff, You have opened yet another of one of the most important topics regarding MCS and the resolution of disease. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the yeast of bread and beer. There is another beer yeast but it is the cold-filtered kind and supposedly has not been modified too much. I replied on a post regarding the use of Inulin and stated that the substances for bacteriophages to replicate without the use of bacteria include: hydrolyzed milk protein (casein); B-vitamins; and YEAST EXTRACT. The reason this is significant is that in the 1980s about the time that The Yeast Connection was about to come out, they were vaccinating gay men in trials with an experimental Hepatitis B vaccine that was developed from GMO yeast that produced the Hepatitis B Surface Antigen. HBSAg is a self-assembling molecule. This should raise the flags for those with Morgellons. Bread and Beer yeast is in nearly every prepared food. Make a list of labels that DON'T have Yeast Extract in them because the list will be shorter. This organism has been modified for the past 30 years. Of course S. cerevisiae is not Candida albicans but does it matter? Microbes exchange genes like teenage girls trade clothes. That is just in Nature. What no one is talking about is what is being purposely done in the lab. This is why we can't get a foothold against organisms that seem to mutate as freely as the Borg change their shield frequencies. All this to get to the point: The idea of a vaccine for candida is obscene in the extreme! Vaccines were the root cause of the candida pathogenesis and now they want to inflict another vaccine? Insanity. Candida has morphed from a ubiquitous, innocuous dimorphic fungus to a flesh-eating monster in about a generation. Sure, mycophages can provoke pathogenicity and toxigenicity in fungus just as bacteriophages do in bacteria, but we are talking about something that is unprecedented in what I have studied as the history of the Natural world. Given what is being promoted out of Japan as therapy for intractable yeast infections it appears that there are molecular switches that were engineered into these lab-created monsters so we are looking into finding out how to reverse the damage with simple means.