The Yeast Connection and Women’s Health William G. Crook, MD, with Carolyn Dean, MD, and Elizabeth B. Crook

ISBN: 978-0-7570-0058-4 Length: 304 Pages Size: 6 X 9-inch Format: Quality Paperback Category: Health / Nutrition Price: $18.95 US Availability: In Print Click below for: Introduction • Reviews

A growing number of women suffer from chronic health disorders that seem to defy treatment. Their problems, which range from vaginitis to migraines and from multiple sclerosis to depression, interfere with every part of their life. And for too long, there has been no solution.

Finally, hope is at hand in the completely revised and updated The Yeast Connection and Women’s Health. In this book, Drs. William G. Crook and Carolyn Dean show women suffering from a number of debilitating problems how they can take steps to treat existing disorders, and prevent future yeast-related problems. Included is information on diet, prescription and nonprescription antifungals, lifestyle changes, dietary modifications, and nutritional supplements--all presented in easy-to-understand language and with real-life examples. The Yeast Connection and Women’s Health is must reading for every woman who wants to restore vibrant health.

 

The Yeast Connection Cookbook A Guide to Good Nutrition, Better Health and Weight Management William G. Crook, MD, and Marjorie Hurt Jones, RN

ISBN: 978-0-7570-0059-1 Length: 384 Pages Size: 6 X 9-inch Format: Quality Paperback Category: Cooking / Health Price: $15.95 US Availability: In Print

If you have a yeast-related problem, you know how difficult it can be to find practical and helpful information. Now, in The Yeast Connection Cookbook, Dr. William G. Crook and Marjorie Hurt Jones provide the information you need to manage your life and regain your health.

The Yeast Connection Cookbook begins with a discussion of yeast-related disorders and the important role diet plays in their management. It also provides general information on the effects--both positive and negative--that some common foods can have on yeast sufferers, and crucial instructions on detecting the specific foods to which you are particularly sensitive or allergic. The authors then present over 225 recipes--for breads, soups, entrŽes, desserts, and more--that eliminate most common food allergens while providing beneficial complex carbohydrates. Throughout, tips and suggestions guide you in adopting a diet that is both healthful and satisfying.

The Yeast Connection Handbook How Yeasts Can Make You Feel "Sick All Over" and the Steps You Need to Take to Regain Your Health William G. Crook, MD

ISBN: 978-0-7570-0060-7 Length: 288 Pages Size: 6 X 9-inch Format: Quality Paperback Category: Health / Nutrition Price: $15.95 US Availability: In Print

Most people don’t realize how many health disorders can be caused by yeast. Fatigue, headache, depression, digestive problems, PMS, sexual dysfunction, asthma, ADHD, and autism can all be yeast-related. But once you recognize that yeast is the offender, what can you do to regain your health?

The Yeast Connection Handbook is a great resource for anyone who wants to learn about yeast-related problems. The book is comprehensive, not only discussing a wide range of health disorders, but also addressing a wide range of sufferers, including men, women, and children. Most important, this book provides a step-by-step program that effectively relieves health problems through dietary changes, nutritional supplements, medication, and simple lifestyle changes. If you’ve been looking for a solution to your yeast-related problem, The Yeast Connection Handbook provides the information you need to take charge of your health.

Yeast Connection Success Stories A Collection of Stories From People Who Are Winning the Battle Against Devastating Illness William G. Crook, MD

ISBN: 978-0-7570-0062-1 Length: 240 Pages Size: 8.5 x 5.5-inch Format: Quality Paperback Category: Health / Nutrition Price: $14.00 US Availability: In Print

From Dr. William G. Crook, a pioneer in the practice of preventing and treating disease through diet, comes Yeast Connection Success Stories, a compendium of forty testimonials from men, women, teens, and children. Each story recounts an individual’s struggle with yeast-related health problems, including their often-baffling symptoms, as well as their eventual return to health as the result of dietary changes and appropriate medical treatment. Following these stories, ten physicians share their own experiences treating patients with yeast-related disorders. Finally, the author presents an important questionnaire that can help you determine whether your own health issues may be caused by yeast.

If you or someone you love is suffering from this common yet severely undiagnosed problem, Yeast Connection Success Stories not only offers much-needed inspiration, but also guides you toward the road to recovery.

Tired--So Tired! and the Yeast Connection William G. Crook, MD

ISBN-13: 978-0-7570-0063-8 Length: 408 Pages Size: 6 X 9-inch Format: Quality Paperback Category: Health / Nutrition Price: $16.95 US Availability: In Print

Every day, millions of people complain that they are tired. In fact, studies show that fatigue is one of the most common problems for which people seek help from a physician. But tests often fail to provide an explanation of chronic fatigue. Tired--So Tired! explains why so many people experience exhaustion and, more important, presents easy-to-follow steps for boosting energy and regaining health.

After years of research, Dr. William G. Crook discovered that sugar and yeast, along with other foods and chemicals to which people can develop sensitivities, are major dietary culprits, and can cause everything from headaches to chronic fatigue syndrome. He also found a connection between fatigue and certain nutrient deficiencies. With this information in mind, the doctor developed a diet and vitamin plan that can eliminate fatigue and related symptoms. Tired--So Tired! presents the doctor’s treatment program as well as his research on this important subject.

About the Authors

William G. Crook, MD, received his medical education at the University of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Hospital, Vanderbilt, and Johns Hopkins. He is an Emeritus Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics; the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology; and the American Academy of Environmental Medicine. He is also a member of the American Medical Association, and the American Academy of Allergy and Immunology. Dr. Crook is the author of over a dozen books and numerous articles in medical and lay literature. This book is one of a series that deals with the relationship of yeast to many puzzling health disorders.

Carolyn Dean , MD, received her medical degree from Dalhousie Medical School in Nova Scotia, and her degree in naturopathic medicine from the Ontario Naturopathic College. Since 1979, she has practiced integrative medicine using a variety of modalities including acupuncture, nutrition, herbs, homeopathy, acupuncture, and prescription drugs. Dr. Dean is the author of more than a dozen books on health.

Elizabeth Crook is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and Tennessee State University. The daughter of Dr. William G. Crook, she has spent her career helping people and organizations "take charge" and create positive futures for themselves. Currently, she works on behalf of women’s health issues as a consultant to physicians, nurse practitioners, nutritionists, and other health-care professionals.

Marjorie Hurt Jones received her BS in biology from Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois, and her nursing education at the Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. She is a member of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, the International Association of Preventive Medicine, the Nutrition for Optimal Health Association, and the Human Ecology Action League. Because of her own sensitivities to wheat and other grains, Marjorie conducted original research on the subject, and helped develop effective allergy-restricted diets.

Introduction: The Yeast Connection and Women’s Health

If I told you that there is a fungus trapped in your intestines that produces 180 chemical toxins that are capable of shutting down your thyroid, throwing your hormones off balance and causing you to crave sugar and alcohol--all of which would also make you put on weight-- would you believe me?

Chances are you would find all of this hard to believe. If this is true why isn’t this devastating condition and its cascade of consequences making headlines? At the same time, why isn’t every high-tech research lab in the country frantically searching for a cure? Yet this problem faced by millions of women, is kept under wraps, hidden in plain sight.

Many physicians are unaware of the extent of the problem or what to do about it. Many have even told women that their yeast-related problems are ‘‘all in your mind.’’ In reality, the yeast problem is so extensive and so devastating that we have updated this book and included a completely new section on excess weight and the yeast connection.

All of this expands on the life’s work of one extraordinary man. Dr. William Crook, ‘‘Billy’’ as his friends knew him, was an unusually kind and caring physician, exactly the type of physician you’d be delighted to find after shuffling from doctor to doctor in search of answers to your health problems. These may be problems that have plagued you perhaps for years, with no one offering you the solutions you need-- and which are available--as I said above, ‘‘hidden in plain sight.’’

Billy Crook was a humble and unassuming man. He withstood a great deal of professional ridicule and ostracism, which began in 1983 when he published TheYeast Connection, his first book on candida yeast and its potential for widespread destruction in the human body. Conventional medicine did not, and unfortunately still does not, fully understand the phenomenon of yeast overgrowth. However, doctors like Billy Crook persevered and brought hope to thousands of people desperate for answers.

In my years of conventional medical training, Iwas taught only that yeast causes vaginitis or it contributes to a life-threatening blood infection found in patients with advanced cancers or AIDS. Fortunately during my naturopathic training in the early 1980s, I learned more about yeast overgrowth. Thus, from the time I entered practice, I treated yeast in my patients, often with remarkable results.

One day in 1986, I had the honor of being a guest on a Canadian television show, along with Dr. Crook. The 90-minute program was all about yeast. Astonishingly, the station tabulated 80,000 people trying to call in, all clamoring to ask questions. Talk about an unmet need!

After that show, I made sure that the treatment of yeast played an even greater role in my medical practice. By 1991, I had treated more than 2,000 cases and had begun to call yeast overgrowth ‘‘Crook’s Candidiasis.’’

So what is this Crook’s Candidiasis? In the simplest of terms, this condition involves an overgrowth of yeast that has been stimulated by the excessive intake of sugar and the overuse of antibiotics. These two factors cause yeast to invade the GI tract and create leaky gut syndrome as well as a yeast allergy and other widespread adverse reactions. (These terms will be part of your vocabulary by the time you’ve finished this book.)

The insidious increase in yeast-related medical conditions is directly related to the advent of antibiotics some 60 years ago. I’m not saying that antibiotics are a bad thing. However, the pervasive use of antibiotics for viruses, forwhich they are completely ineffective, and in our food supply has caused a condition known as dysbiosis--an imbalance of good and bad flora in the intestines.

Billy Crook was not seeking to have a medical condition named after him, although I believe everyone should use the term‘‘Crook’s Candidiasis’’ as a tribute to his lifelong research, treatment and educational efforts on behalf of sufferers.

It was Dr. Crook’s life’s dream for this condition to be accepted by the medical community, and I’m honored to continue to carry his torch, to help this dream become a reality and to help millions of women with nowhere to turn.

Please enjoy this latest edition of The Yeast Connection and Women’s Health, including the neweye-opening section on weight problems and yeast overgrowth.

This updated book is dedicated to the memory of the remarkable Dr. Billy Crook, and to our readers who have the intelligence and perse- verance to take control of their own well-being and find the solutions they need to bring them back to vibrant health.

Reviews

The Yeast Connection and Women’s Health is a valuable resource that provides a complete guide to understanding the relationship between yeast and human illness. So many women who have been told ‘‘you just have to live with it’’ will now find new direction and hope. This is a book every woman deserves to have in her library.
--James H. Brodsky, M.D., Internal Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center

Dr. Crook’s insight and wisdom have changed the lives of thousands of my patients. I recommend his books to all who have been frustrated with their lack of health and energy and their recurrent illnesses. Now with Dr. Dean’s update you will be informed and empowered to have the health you have been searching for.
--Jesse Lyne Hanley, M.D., Women’s Health Expert and Author of Tired of Being Tired and What the Doctor May Not Tell You About Premenopause

In addition to providing clear, practical advice to women puzzled by their lingering health problems, The Yeast Connection and Women’s Health will hopefully serve as a valuable resource for doctors, nurses and other health professionals.
--Devra Davis, World-renowned Epidemiologist and Author of When Smoke Ran LikeWater (Basic Books, 2002)

“If women want to truly be healthy, they have to take charge of their own health and do their homework. This comprehensive book is the best place to start. The Yeast Connection and Women’s Health is filled with timely information that could, in fact, prove lifesaving. My recommendation: every woman should read this book!”
--Joseph Mercola, M.D., Author of Dr. Mercola’s Total Health Program, The No-Grain Diet, and Director, Mercola.com

“This updated version is a must-read for every woman who has health issues, wants to be prepared for health issues, or just wants to stay in control of her own health. Run, don’t walk, to get your copy of this book. It could save your life.”
--Judith Rajhathy, B.A., D.Ac., R.N.C. P., Author of Free to Fly: A Journey Toward Wellness

“No one has done as much to educate the American people and the medical profession about yeast-related health problems as Dr. William Crook. This important last work provides useful and practical information for women struggling with chronic health problems.”
--Leo Galland, M.D., Author of Power Healing and Director, Center for Integrated Medicine

“Dr. Crook was one of my nutritional heroes. I am constantly amazed at his prophetic insights into yeast-related problems which are too often misdiagnosed and mistreated.”
--Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., C.N.S., Author of The Fat Flush Plan and Before the Change

“Dr. Crook’s advice can restore optimal health!”
--Christiane Northrup, M.D., Author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom

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