Puberty sees the release of the male sex hormone testosterone into the blood. Testosterone can cause the sebaceous glands to become so over-active they swell and burst. Bursting sebaceous glands arc a major cause of acne in teenage boys as they have much more testosterone in their blood than girls. As boys reach their twenties, their testosterone-producing glands begin to settle down and less testosterone is released into the blood. As a result, their acne begins to clear up.

Although excess testosterone is the main cause of acne in teenage boys, I have found they still respond well to anti-candida and anti-allergy treatment. The appropriate programs can reduce the acne by as much as 90 per cent and in some cases even clear it up completely before they reach their twenties. This indicates to me that allergy and Candida factors must also be involved. A complete multi-vitamin and mineral tablet is imperative as the minerals (especially zinc) are needed to strengthen the walls of the sebaceous glands and reduce the chances of them bursting.

In adult males and females, allergy, candida yeast infection, stress and sometimes an over-active thyroid gland are the major causes of acne. Stress causes the release of testosterone from the adrenal glands. Prolonged stress (especially over-work, over-exercise, over-commitment, over-socialising and the anxiety of knowing one has acne) can produce sufficient testosterone in the blood of adults to activate acne by the sebaceous gland mode.

In girls, the female sex hormone progesterone is released from the ovaries into the blood at puberty. Progesterone encourages the growth of Candida yeast infections, the root cause of most allergies. Acne in girls tends to respond faster to the anti-candida and anti-allergy treatment than it does in boys as their acne bumps tend to be caused by allergies and Candida only and are not complicated by the bursting of sebaceous glands, unless they are significantly stressed. The contraceptive pill frequently aggravates acne in girls and adult women if the pill being used is high in progesterone. Make-up and skin care products can aggravate acne especially when applied over a pimple that is open or weeping. Open pimples allow direct passage of skin preparations into the blood of the skin where they cause allergic reactions. All skin care products arc designed to make contact with the skin only. They are not designed to make contact with the blood.

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Asthma is an allergy-based condition that causes muscles of the windpipe to go into spasm. A muscle spasm is a tight contraction of muscle fibres that will not let go. When this happens to the muscles of the windpipe two complications result:

1. the windpipe is narrowed, meaning less air can get in and out of the lungs; and

2. the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the muscles that facilitate normal breathing are disrupted, making it very difficult to breath out. Wheezing and shortness of breath result.

The windpipe is lined with a membrane that produces mucus. This mucus is there to trap bacteria, dust, pollens, moulds, grasses, fungi and other foreign bodies that are inhaled and acts as an effective protector of the delicate lung tissues. In true allergic fashion the mucous membranes of the windpipe become overactive during an asthma attack and the excess mucus produced further blocks the already narrowed passageways. In this way asthma becomes an extension of those most common symptoms of allergy that occur further up the windpipe: hayfever, rhinitis, sinusitis, stuffy nose and post-nasal drip (mucus that drips from the back of the nose into the throat).

Asthma is a classic example of a migrating allergy and is proof of the fact that we don’t grow out of allergies naturally. Bronchial asthma is relatively infrequent in infancy but common after the age of two. At least half of those infants that were born with allergic eczema (dermatitis or severe rash) will later develop asthma as the allergies migrate from the skin to the windpipe. Sometimes the skin clears up and sometimes it doesn’t. Long standing eczema is fairly common among adult asthma sufferers. Sometimes the allergy moves up from the lungs as the child grows older. These children are often diagnosed as having outgrown their asthma. The repeated sore throats, inflamed tonsils, stuffy noses, hayfever and brain allergies that inevitably follow this migration are seldom ever linked to asthma.

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For those on the Metabolism-Balancing Program who are enjoying good health and are free from allergies, Candida yeast infections and heart problems the inclusion of up to 5 per cent of junk food into their diet won’t do any harm. However, the inclusion of that amount of junk food into the Anti-Candida Program will slow results down by feeding the yeast. But provided the junk food amounts to only 5 per cent, or less, of the total diet, this will not be sufficient to allow the yeast colony to grow back to its original size. Unlike the Anti-Allergy Program where even small deviation means a return of full-blown symptoms and resensitisation, breaking the Anti-Candida Program means only a slowing of the healing momentum. At worst, there is a slight exacerbation of symptoms and at best there is no change at all. This can present a trap for the unwary, as lack of reaction to continuous breaking of the Anti-Candida Program can lead them to believe that they can get away with it. Where the folly of breaking the program shows up is six months later when they are still having to remain on if because they are not 100 per cent symptom free, even though they may be feeling better than they were before starting it.

My experience in treating people by way of an anti-allergy or anti-candida program is that they do best it they go for it right from the start and do not break it at all. If you stick to these programs 100 per cent, most allergies and Candida infections are cured in three months. Breaking the program with 5 per cent or less of junk or allergenic food means it’s going to take six to nine months to get well (if you do at all when you break an anti-allergy program). If the whole process goes on this long most people get disheartened, and feel cheated, as they had expected to get better in less time.

It’s important to note that breaking the program does not just mean eating foods that are black listed. It also means skipping meals, eating below optimum quantities, selecting only a few foods on the menu (that is, making the program stricter than it is) and not rotating foods.

Not eating the prescribed unleavened bread gives rise to the same problems as skipped meals. The bread must be eaten whether you like the taste or not. Wheat contains too many important nutrients for it to be left out, notably the minerals selenium and chromium, which are needed to help the hormone insulin keep the levels of glucose in the blood balanced and thus preventing hypoglycaemia.

Not taking your vitamins every day, as prescribed, has the same effect as skipping meals and leaving out essential foods.

It must also be remembered that if a Candida sufferer has allergies as well, and most do, then the rules that apply to breaking the allergy programs apply to the Anti-Candida Program too.

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