Bone Marrow

If you happen to know anyone with leukemia or another bone marrow disease, you might gently point them in the direction of reducing the Candida in their body. It might help. Also, direct their attention to the B vitamin NADH.

One of the first "cures" I read regarding leukemia was about some young girl who was given taheebo / Pau d'arco. More recently, I've also head of a person being diagnosed with leukemia, but it actually turned out to be a fungal overgrowth and not leukemia at all. So, when I found the following out, it all made sense. Sometimes fugus may be to blame for bone marrow diseases.

Fungus makes a lot of benzoquinolones.

"Fungi are a prolific source of simple benzoquinones which in the main arise by the polyketide route."

These benzoquinones are quite toxic to the bone marrow, especially if your bone marrow is having trouble eliminating them.

This next quote is about benzene poisoning and the enzymes required to eliminate benzenes. If these enzymes are weak (due to genetics, or other toxins or whatever), then you are more likely to acquire bone marrow diseases.

"Thus we hypothesized that the deficient or altered activity of enzymes involved in benzene metabolism such as CYP2E1, MPO, NQO1, and GSTs would significantly affect susceptibility to benzene toxicity."

Specifically, the enzyme in the bone marrow called NQO1 detoxifies the benzoquinolones. NQ01 is NAD(P) H, quinone oxidoreductase 1 , which makes me wonder if the B vitamin NADH would be helpful if the cause of someone's leukemia was fungus. (NADH is a form of niacin, and some doctors thing niacin or niacinamide is very important for leukemia patients.)


I have to disagree about fungus causing leukemia. If that person was dx with leukemia and it was actually a fungus and a bone marrow was done. The Pathologist that read it didn't do a very good job. Fungus shows up on bone marrows slides. The thing that they look at in bone marrows are the cell line. If they are out of wack then leukemia or one of the other bone cancers would be the dx.

If a bone marrow or a flow or cytogenic was not performed then how was the dx made?

Because I help with bone marrows all the time I see the results and what the cell line look like.


The fungus wasn't in the bone marrow, it was in an organ, I think the liver. The article didn't say anything about how the dx of leukemia was made, just that the initial diagnosis was wrong.


The fungal growth is probably do to the chemo the suppress the imumune system. They do watch for fungus. Some times it gets out of control fast after a couple of rounds of chemo. It will attack the liver alot of times.


They mentioned a liver biopsy, but not a bone marrow biopsy. Maybe the person had both. Anyway, the first laboratory disagreed with the second laboratory. One said leukemia, the other said fungus.


Interesting article, but must disagree with part of it. Formalin doesn't dissolve fungal spores. If the bx is taken in the right area, they are easy to see using one of 3 different stains. The nurse could have asked for her CBC to see if her white count was over 20,000. That is the first step to start the dx for leukemia. My white count even when my candida was raging was with in normal limits.

The chemo that nurse had zips the immunesystem and leaves you wide open to any infection. But they could also see if there is a correlation between fungal infections and leukemia. Like H. pylori and stomach cancer.


Environmental exposure to benzenes are a risk factor for development of leukemia and other bone marrow diseases. I don't think it is a well known fact that benzoquinolones can be generated inside the body by fungus. Traditional doctors who treat leukemia certainly don't look for fungus. Yet, it seems logical that fungal overgrowth is another risk factor for these diseases and that if you first clear up the source of these benzoquinolones, the body should have a much better chance at recovery.


I've observed for a while a correlation between my yeast overgrowth and bone mineral problems. I've had alot of joint pain and have more cavities than I think I should. I assume that bone marrow must play a central role in the formation of new bone, so your suggestion that the benzequinolones (bq's) produced by the yeast could play a possible role in some of the ill effects from candida overgrowth is worth exploring. I've blamed poor intestinal absorption for what I assume are demineralized bones, and that may still play an important role, but simply supplementing the deficient minerals hasn't seemed to fully correct the problem. I'm going to look a bit more into the role of bq's in the body... you might be onto something here. - Thanks. .


Thyroid, by suppressing TSH, will increase the remodeling of bones. That means if you have more thyroid and enough material to make bones, you will have stronger bones, because the old bone will be removed, and new bone will take its place. If you don't have the material to make new bones, it means that the old bone will be removed, but not enough new bone can be created. Besides minerals, you need protein to grow bones. Specifically you need the type of protein found in gelatin --- mainly glycine and proline.


I'm always interested in anything that might promote healthy bones. I will definitely look into proline and glycine. I'll probably try to find food sources for these amino acids (?, I think that's what they are) before turning to supplements. Thanks.


"For example, in 1999 Meinolf Karthaus, MD, watched three different children with leukemia suddenly go into remission upon receiving a triple antifungal drug cocktail for their "secondary" fungal infections.(1)"