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  Parasites
 

Summary

Parasites are organisms that grow, feed and take shelter upon another organism whilst contributing nothing to the survival of the host.

When they inhabit the gastro intestinal tract they produce toxins and siphon off nutrients from the body.

Parasites have been connected with: AIDS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Cancer, Candida.

Causes include: foreign travel, water, kissing pets, eating unwashed fruit or vegetables.

Symptoms include: constipation, diarrhoea, chronic fatigue, flatulence, bloating.

Parasites are in abundance everywhere around us. We cannot avoid being exposed to them. Normally parasitic infection occurs as a result of developing Leaky Gut Syndrome. Our immune system normally protects us against invasive bacteria, fungi, viruses and parasites but these opportunistic invaders wait until our defenses have been weakened to attack.

Parasites are organisms that grow, feed and take shelter upon another organism without contributing to the survival of the host. They inhabit the gastrointestinal tract causing many health problems because they secrete toxins and siphon off nutrients from the body. The parasites that are most often infect humans are: amoebas, giardia, trichina, cryptosporidium and helminths. [1] They will feed off of waste material and toxins within your body or they will feed off you! When our body becomes ineffective at eliminating waste we become poisoned from our own waste and from the toxic substances secreted by the parasites. Fecal matter becomes stuck to the colon walls in both chronic constipation and diarrhoea and the parasites can feed off this.

Parasites are usually connected with: AIDS, Chronic Fatigue, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Cancer, Candida. People with cancer can be afflicted with worms, which lump together to form tumour like masses. Female worms can release 3000 to 200 000 eggs per day [2]. Parasites cause damage to the intestinal lining resulting in Leaky Gut Syndrome.

Causes Of Parasites include:

Foreign travel, water (Giardia is not killed by chlorination and the Center for Disease Control in America reported that Giardia is the most prevalent cause of waterborne disease in America) [3], kissing pets or touching your mouth after handling pets, eating meat or fish that has not been properly cooked, restaurant food handlers, eating fruit or vegetables that have not been washed properly.

Symptoms include:

constipation, diarrhoea, chronic fatigue, flatulence, anal itching, bloating, chronic joint and or muscle pain, allergies, immune dysfunction, skin conditions, anxiety/nervousness.

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[1] Koontz D, Hinze, J et al 1999, "Leaky Gut Syndrome, Origins, Effects and Therapies, The Medical Link Between Dysbiosis and Many Major Ailments' The Herbal Pharm 19, pp 6
[2] http://www.appliedozone.com/parasites.html
[3] Gilbere, G, 2004 I Was Poisoned By My Body "The Odyssey of a Doctor Who Reversed Fibromyalgia, Leaky Gut Syndrome and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity- Naturally." Lucky Press, 89

   
   
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