The Fungal Theory

Kira1234, You can go to your local "home" store such as Lowes or Menards and purchase a mold test kit.  They are around $10 each.  It comes with a little petri dish and a medium in which the mold would grow.  You basically pour the medium into the dish, let it cure for an hour then remove the lid for an hour and give mold a chance to settle into the dish.  If you have mold, you should see it start to grow in the petri dish within 24-48 hours.  If you discover any mold, you can also send it to a lab to have it analyzed to see which type of mold it is.  I think the lab cost is $30.  (or you can hire a professional mold company.)  I would even do it at your work and present it to the school board.

My daughter had mold in her house.  During this time, she had infertility problems , ovarian cysts, high blood sugar, weight gain and her hands were cracked and bled.  Interestingly, her family went on vacation with us and during that week, her hands cleared up.  Once we figured out the mold problem, they had it remediated and within 3 months, she was pregnant. Her blood sugar is now normal.  I'm convinced it was all mold related. 

hoist123, most molds do not harm us.  There are over 100,000 identified fungi.  Out of those, there are only about 200 that can be pathogenic and even fewer that can cause serious disease so I dont think you need to worry about outdoor molds (except for allergies).  It's the ones that can get indoors and grow that can cause problems, since our homes are (mostly) shut up all the time and air tight, circulating the same air over and over. 

These molds and their mycotoxins are also found in the foods we eat because of the way they store them in silos, etc.  Corn and grains are the two biggies....and guess what most of our diets consist of?  Cereals, breads, pastas and corn.  Dr. Ruth Etzel says corn is universally contaminated.  Corn syrup is found in almost everything nowadays.  They are using it instead of white sugar.  I was amazed when I was trying to cut the sugar out of my diet that practically every label it read, had corn syrup in it.  Even things I wouldn't consider as "sweet" foods, like salad dressings.  The sodas we consume are now sweetened with corn syrup instead of sugar.   This is not to mention that the meat we eat (beef and dairy products) is fed an unnatural diet of grains (corn) as well as antibiotics....another fungal toxin. If corn is universally contaminated and grains aren't far behind, we are being slowly and chronically poisoned by these fungi and their the toxins they give off. 

So whether we believe mold is cancer or not, IMO, it would definitely help our immune systems to not be overtaxed by avoiding these foods.  I supplement as well and that along with changes in my diet have helped me overcome my chronic fatigue for the most part.  Whenever I veer from my plan, I feel it creeping up.

Jackie, I did a search and I think I may have found the post you are talking about....is it the yeast therapy post?

That's very interesting to me....Here's my take....

Yeast, molds and mushrooms are all members of fungi.  In order to survive, fungi must compete...sometimes with other fungi.  One way they compete is to remove all nutrients from a "zone" so there is nothing left for other fungi.  The "sugar" loving fungi  respond to presence of simple sugars with explosive growth, and reproduction, followed by a rapid decline. Once the sugars are gone...they move on.  (Btw...that is why we need to be on a very low carb diet-starve these things so they'll leave or die!!)  Also they compete through a "contact" phenomena called lysis, which is the breaking down of a cell through enzymatic mechanisms, for example.  Another way to compete is to give off poisons (mycotoxins).  These poisons of some fungi either deter, inhibit or are toxic to other fungi. (Some of them are also poison to us!  We've talked about one of them here on this thread, aflatoxin, as being one of the most carcinogenic substances known to humans.)  

Fungal metabolites (mycotoxins) are also toxic to bacteria.  That is what the antibiotic, penicillin is...it is the mycotoxin of the fungus pennicilium.  Antibiotics (anti-life) can be good for killing off bad bacteria in our systems but they also kill off the good bacteria.  This is why over use of antibiotics (at our doctor's office and in the commercial farming industry) has led to fungal overgrowth in our bodies.

We've heard of medicinal mushrooms, right?  Well, I believe those work because they have the components in them to kill bacteria, other fungi, etc. 

Perhaps this is why this baker's yeast is working.  They possess some method that kills other fungi.  

This is simply a hypothesis on my part just based on what I've learned about mycology.  I hope all of it makes sense. 

Sheila, I read the article regarding stem cells.  It's got my brain "ticking" as well.  I had to really focus in on this and study it as stem cells aren't something I'm really familiar with.  I looked into stem cells first than tried to grasp this study. 

Here are my thoughts and questions....

The article states: CSCs (cancer stem cells) have been found to be resistant to conventional chemotherapy and are thought to "lie in wait" in a dormant state within the tumor microenvironment, even when the major bulk of non-CSC tumor cells are killed by the therapy.

What other cells are thought to "lie in wait in a dormant state?"

The article says: a number of labs have harvested and studied CSCs from virtually every major type of cancer. In vitro, CSCs grow as three-dimensional cellular aggregates, called spheroids, ranging up to 300 microns in diameter.... Breast cancer progenitor cells with stem-like properties, an invasive phenotype, and the propensity to form spheroids have recently been isolated for the first time from human breast premalignant lesions.

Breast cancer cells in a spherical form have been isolated for the first time in human's premaligmant lesions?  Could this be "premalignant" because the fungi are in their "yeast" phase?

I posted this link because it best describes in layman terms the life of a fungus and how the "yeast" form is spherical or a spheroid.  There are more scientific articles that describe this feature...just type spheroid fungus in your internet search engine, if anyone wants to see "legitimate sources.".

http://www.fungusfocus.com/html/fungus_general_info.htm

Article: It is possible to monitor CSC division by treatment with PKH26 fluorescent dye prior to transplantation.....Moreover, BCSCs show an enhanced PKH26 dye-retaining capacity, providing an indirect measure of dormancy. PKH26 dye binds irreversibly to cell membranes and it is divided among daughter cells only when a cell undergoes division. The less the cells divide, the less dye is lost. A higher dye content may be a means of identifying quiescent BCSCs.[6]

Not sure how relavant it is but they also use this type of dye (PKH26) to stain and monitor fungal cells. It stains the cell wall and doesn't wash away. (I think they call it "acid fast" when the stain doesn't wash away after it's been applied)

Once CSCs have been triggered to emerge, they respond to external stimuli, proliferate, and recapitulate the original histomorphology of the tumor...many have postulated that CSCs are transformed normal stem cells.... a neoplastic genetic lesion can occur during cell division. Such an occurrence induces a tumor with a phenotype that is frozen in the differentiated state of the original stem cell or progenitor cell that sustained the genetic carcinogenic hit

Yes...Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are "normal stem cells" that have been transformed by a fungus...it now becomes a hybrid stem cell that has the traits of both a human cell and a fungal cell.

Article: The World Health Organization has classified 30 morphologic types of breast cancer on the basis of histology and molecular alterations.

30 morphologic types?  Could this be morphologic because of the fungi? 

They are basically saying that cancer stem cells remain after therapy and lie dormant to return again. If they can find a way to kill the stem cells as well as the regular cells they can keep cancer from returning.....

Fungal cells have the ablility to become resistant to therapy.  I wonder if they find a way to kill the fungus completely, stem cells and all, by maybe rotating antifungal treatments combined with a change to the environment they're living in (ie- our diets), if the "cancer" would completely go away.   Maybe they go dormant then reemerge more virulent because they have morphed. It's kind of a "what doesn't kill them makes them stronger" sort of thing.

thenewme, I believe you missed the "logic" boat on this one.  Let me make this a little simpler so you might understand.

you say: "There are LOTS of substances that can kill  cancer cells, but it's illogical to therefore claim they are equivalent to cancer cells."

No one's claiming the substances that killcancer cells are equivalent to cancer....If I had a runny brown substance coming from my rectum and I took an anti-diarrhetic...and it stopped my "problem".....it would be safe to assume that I had diarrhea!

Antibiotics kill bacteria, right?  They do not kill virus, right?  Therefore, if you have an illness of unknown etiology, say maybe a sore throat....you administer an antibiotic and the illness isn't cured.  Logic would tell you it's probably not bacterial.  Most likely viral....Now if we had an anti-viral medication and we tried that...and the sore throat were cured....it would be logical to say the infection we had would've been a viral one.

Now, if we have an illness of unknown etiology (cancer) and we administer an anti-fungal medication and the cancer goes away...it would be logical to say cancer is a fungus.

Does anyone else get thenewme's point?????

Hi Biven, I've heard a lot of good things about it.  I have also heard people say negative things about it.  I haven't read it so I cant really comment, I just wanted to welcome you here.

"but wait, maybe you can catch a fungus"

Now your thinking digger!