Science says eating just one meal per day can improve your health. Learn more at https://highintensityhealth.com/OMAD ----- LISTEN IN iTUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/high-intensity-health-radio/id910048041?mt=2&i=354037305 9:59 Why Do Some People’s Immune Systems React More Severely? Reasons could be genetics that make us more sensitive, or possibly the hygiene hypothesis, where we have sanitized our environment. Between the ages of 0 to 2, a child’s immune system needs to be challenged as part of its development. Sanitizing their environment and experience puts their immune system at a disadvantage. When they are exposed later in life, their body is not ready for it. 11:25 The Suppression of Our Immune System: We look at what might be suppressing the immune system: processed sugar, smoking, alcohol, heavy metals, environmental toxins or food sensitivities. Food sensitivities cause an inflammatory response that greatly suppresses the immune system. Antibiotic therapy can cause scrappy bacteria, parasites and viruses to adapt into superbugs, becoming antibiotic and other medication resistant. Our immune system can be improved, but some things are beyond our control. 13:58 How does Yeast Overgrowth Present? Yeast likes to live in your sinus cavities and shows as chronic sinus infections, postnasal drip or brain fog. Rashes in the moist areas of our bodies, or recurrent yeast or urinary tract infections can be yeast related. 14:50 How does Parasite Overgrowth Present? Parasites can present similarly to food sensitivities. With parasites and yeast, your immune system is chronically deficient. You will have lots of colds and flu more frequently than normal. Symptoms for parasites include random itchiness and weird rashes on arms and legs, or for things like pinworms, itching of the anus. Parasites are most active during the full moon and least active around the new moon, so cyclical symptoms may be a clue. 16:22 How do Food Sensitivities Present? It is the most common digestive upset, but it can be skin rashes, joint pain or muscle pain. 16:38 Checking for Yeast and Parasites: Dr. Maxim tries to rule out yeast and parasites because it is so often overlooked and so costly to your body’s resources, immune system, and energy levels. 18:00 How Does Yeast, Parasites and Bacteria Get To Be a Problem? We will always have a little yeast, a little bad bacterium, and a few environmental parasites. The question is what you are doing to your body to have it allow these to overgrow. Often clinicians do not call them infections because it is more of an overgrowth. 18:40 Other Yeast Triggers: Yeast triggers include anything that has yeast in it, like wine or baked goods that rise. Another trigger is tropical fruits, which contain far more sugar than North American grown fruit. 20:43 Triggers in our Supplements: Even xylitol and stevia can impact sugar levels. Also protein powders can have added sugars and other ingredients that may be inflammatory. 21:33 Can We Ever Eat Normally Again? If your immune system is healthy and your overgrowth has been balanced, you can probably consume a trigger food every now and then. Health will ebb and flow. 23:58 Minimizing Alcohol Consumption: One of her patients drank a LOT of beer. When he did her 7 day detox, abstaining from alcohol, he lost 15 pounds. After a month, he lost another 15 lbs. Alcohol is empty calories, and then we don’t usually consume it with healthy fats and proteins, so it turns to sugar in our system. It is easy to overconsume alcohol and avoid healthy foods. Alcoholics are malnourished because the alcohol satisfies their appetite. 27:07 Testing for Candida and Parasites: The organic acids urine test for candida, bacterial and other fungal markers is phenomenal. It also shows how your entire body is functioning. Dr. Maxim also does stool testing. Many of her patients, when suspecting parasites, have been to their doctors and had stool tests that almost always come back negative. Dr. Maxim recommends that patients start a parasite and yeast cleanse a week before testing to coax the parasites and yeast out of the far reaches of the body and into the stool.