11. Some Stuff About the Physical including Vitamin D and candida.

You can do a lot about dis-ease in the physical. My friend John down the road encouraged me to go into raw food. Yes, I could eat nothing but raw food for the next five years and (apart from completely losing the will to live which really isn't a good idea right now...) I probably could control Nigel like that.

I could also try the Gerson diet and all sorts of others and I am eating a half to two thirds of raw foods a day, juicing, eating organic and the like. 

The biggest problem for all of us is that Nigels and their ilk eat sugar whether it's as sugar or as carbohydrates. One slice of cake or a load of pizza and no exercise for the day and if there's a Nigel around, it will get pretty much all of it. Cells in any malignant dis-ease have 90 receptors for sugar where normal cells have just the three.

Most people expect me to be taking the chemical weapons offered by the hospital to shoot down my immune system until either Nigel goes dormant (temporarily) or I die from side effects. That is what happens far too often with chemical medicine BTW — there's a term known as 'cured and dead' which means you aren't an unhelpful statistic when you die from a heart attack, liver failure, kidney failure or pneumonia rather than the dis-ease that was being treated.

But eating raw food or having chemicals would not and could not address the other worlds or the polluion that has, somehow, affected my soul. For me, it's the pollution of having been 'the good girl' for far too long. For accepting blame when I should have walked away. For feeling for too long that I was unprotected. And the pollution of a deeply-ingrained, learnt resentment that I didn't even know that I had.

Oh - and vitamin D deficiency. And candida. Both of those are are now being understood to be primary causes of malignancy — and of other serious diseases. So over-eating the sugar (for comfort) and not being out in the sun enough (which we aren't nowadays as we pour over our computers) are nice cultures for developing dis-ease. Those are good physical things to see to. And good things to deal with now.

The UK medical profession barely recognises candida as existing. It's a yeast infection — a fungus in the intestines which is actually designed to eat our bodies when we die. It's fed by sugars and becomes harmful when it gets out of the gut and starts living in the body. There is research to indicate that every cancer cell which has been tested for it contains candida.

A couple of months before I met Nigel I'd been doing a lot of baking and eating a lot more sugary stuff than usual — in fact we had a real sugar fest. So Nigel said "Thanks, Maggy. More please!"

If you want to know if you've got candida overgrowth, try this:

First thing in the morning, before you put anything in your mouth, get a clear glass of water. Better still; leave it by your bed the night before. Work up a bit of saliva, and then spit it into the glass of water.

Check the water every 15 minutes or so for up to one hour. If you have a candida yeast infection, strings (like legs) will travel down into the water from the saliva floating on top, or "cloudy" saliva will sink to the bottom of the glass, or cloudy specks will seem to be suspended in the water. If nothing develops in 30 to 45 minutes, you are probably candida free.