CCSVI, Biofilm & Magnesium

There is a great discussion at our Magenesium FB-group page regarding Biofilm & Magnesium. I took the chance and ask about Dr. Frys “Protozoal Theory” http://www.iadvocatehealth.org/protozoal_infection0.aspx and Dr. Carolyn Dean gave me a brilliant answer/rant, enjoy! (p.s. Carolyn allowed me to share)

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Carolyn Dean

“Warning: Long Post

OK, I read the Protozoal Infection article and I'm not buying it for one second. It's back to the reductionist, we're being attacked by organisms and we have to kill them all with antibiotics scenario that's gotten us into the mess we are all in now.

Added to that, Fry wants people on a low fat diet (to starve the organism--and us along with it). The cell membranes absolutely need good fats in order to be stable and they need good minerals in order to stay stable.

And to say that auto-immune disease is caused by an infectious organism is MISSING the MAJOR point that auto-immune disease happens when the body itself, and everything else in the vicinity, is attacking the body because it is so TOXIC AND OUT OF BALANCE.

Most of that toxicity and being out of balance is from YEAST overgrowth, toxic diet and drugs. And the increase in inflammation is from lack of magnesium and too much calcium. The infectious organisms are simply opportunistic and along for the ride when they are in an inflamed and toxic body.

Scientists who just think in terms of the body being attacked by infectious organisms don't give any consideration to making the body stronger through natural means so that infections don’t occur. Sure, the antibiotics will look like they are helping some people because overload of infections but how many people who try antibiotics for auto-immune disease or protozoa have gotten worse. Is anybody tracking those people.

Not in this article but elsewhere Fry says biofilm contains calcium, iron and magnesium. But for some strange reason he blames magnesium for making protozoa biofilm worse. I don’t think that’s true at all. I’m sure magnesium is found in biofilm because it's there trying to neutralize calcium. Calcium is pro-inflammatory and magnesium is anti-inflammatory. They are antagonistic minerals.

Fry says the following about stopping magnesium "when I take them off their supplements eventually they seem to start getting better." Eventually seeming to start to get better is not a clear statement that if you Stop Magnesium, You're Better. It's rampant speculation that is detrimental to a person's health because it makes people fear magnesium.

Also, nowhere in the article does Fry talk about the yeast overgrowth that most people with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue definitely have. This is another fatal flaw in his theory.”

As I’ve said many times here on MAG and in blogs, articles and books. Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue are a combination of yeast overgrowth and magnesium deficiency. If you begin with treating those, you have a chance of curing those conditions. Unfortunately, yeast toxins and magnesium deficiency, as time goes on, have led to leaky gut, suppressed thyroid, adrenal and sex hormone activity and many of the chronic disease like diabetes, heart disease, arthritis. Why someone would pop up and say “Ah, this is all an infection, we need more antibiotics.” is a reductionist fallacy and utterly missing the much greater point.”