What is causing the epidemic of insomnia?
While the brain and nervous system are the areas that control the sleep cycle, most people with insomnia have normal nervous systems. The most common cause of insomnia, as observed in clinical practice, is Candida infection and its effect on the liver. The liver has the task of purifying the blood so that toxins (which can be natural substances, the products of metabolism, or unnatural chemicals) are altered to a non-toxic state and then removed from the bloodstream. If it fails in this function, the result is too high a level of unwelcome chemicals in the blood and hence to all the organs, including the brain. The most common example with which we’re all familiar is how tired and mentally non-functional a person can be for a while after eating too large a meal; the liver has the task of processing all food that enters the body, and in this case it is overwhelmed and cannot clear out all the foreign substances contained in the meal. When a person has Candida infection, the first major
