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Thanks for your interest in learning more about natural health.

We have to first understand our gut – our first line of defense.  So these items from been extracted from my shared diary on Health. 

The usual bacteria present attached to the inner intestinal wall are benign and do not harm us. These bacteria don't make harmful chemicals or provoke immune responses and inflammation. The use of antibiotics or OPC can clear out these more benign bacteria which makes room for yeast and other disease causing bacteria.

How it works:  The body has a system of cells called the immune system for fighting foreign invaders. The more difficult foreign invaders have tricks to evade the body's immune system. The result is that the immune system is constantly fighting. These interactions can lead to major problems.  These diseases are all marked by the body's immune system attacking the body's organs in what seems to be a prolonged war with no resolution. The body's immune system is designed to fight foreign invaders.

Why should the body's immune system instead attack the body's own organs?   Both yeast cells and human cells put out receptors, branch like structures which extend from the surface of the cell. Human cells communicate with each other this way. Some receptors are used to anchor cells to connective tissue. Some receptors are for the immune system. Some receptors tell what kind of cell the cell is. Some of the receptors are like fingerprints and are unique and tell the body that this cell is one of the body’s own cells.  Cells which are foreign do not have these cell-identity receptors and then the body knows that they are foreign. The immune system is supposed to recognize self and not attack self.  Yeast cells for unknown reasons are able to display a number of human receptors.  Candida can display on its surface the human connective tissue receptor.   Candida does this well and displays a number of human receptors.

Under such conditions, the immune cells which are turned on to fight Candida but they are also turned on to fight any cells which look like Candida, which are our body's own organs.  The immune cells which fight Candida can also attack our body's own organs, resulting in diseases. Chemicals in the diet which kill bacteria will make room for the yeast.

So now we have:  OPC's!  (Oligomeric Proanthocyanidins) bioflavonoid complexes that perform as Free Radical scavengers in the human body.

Because Grape Seed and other OPC herbs (all very good) are doing its job hunting down free radicals, usually yeast it is also fighting the good in our gut because Yeast cells for unknown reasons are able to display a number of human receptors.

So it all comes down to getting rid of the bad only in our body.  Natsha of Natren probiotics (Healthy Trinity) was called by Congress and has written into the records of Congress setting the standard of putting the good bacteria which protects us back into our bodies because many companies are now producing probiotics with strains that may even do more harm than good.  By adding the right strains back which was taken away with antibiotics, OPC’s and others; we have a chance to get back our immune systems.  Probiotics (gut flora) is all new to the medical community but is being recognized only now by Congress.

Natasha just happened to be on the first half of the Kaufmann:  Know The Cause show yesterday (12:00est).  Very informative and for everyone’s sake I hope there is a repeat of that show.

Please keep reading my shared diary for more info.

For the FDA:  This info is not meant to treat any symptom.  I am just helping people to learn.