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The adrenals sit just above the kidneys and most of us have heard that
these are responsible for the "fight or flight" reaction to
stress. Briefly, there is a rapid increase of the glucocorticoids, to
enable the body to cope. It is the failure of this mechanism to work properly,
in the presence of general stress, or the stress of illness, that we are
concerned with in the use of replacement cortisone therapy.
Candida is an endemic, silent destroyer, because wherever the immune system
is compromised, candida will rear it’s ugly head. Candida is a fungus,
which has a relatively innocuous resting state, and a really nasty active
state, where it bores its way into and through tissues in order to reproduce
its evil self.
Depression causes untold misery and destroys lives. Perhaps one in five
people will suffer from it sometime in their lives. Before having a look
at thyroid deficiency and its link to depression, we should learn a bit
about it, and how it is caused and why.
Fluorides are dangerous in general and in particular highly damaging to
the thyroid gland. Experts are concerned that in concentrations as low
as one part per million (1ppm), fluorides damage the thyroid system on
four major levels.