Candida Yeast Overgrowth

Candida Yeast Overgrowth

A general sense of unwellness characterized by fatigue, muscle weakness, sleep disorders, anxiety, digestive complaints, vaginal yeast infection, skin complaints such as rashes, hives and itching, tinea, diminished sex drive, frequent headache, sinus complaints, chemical sensitivities, depression, brain-fog, muscle and joint pain and genito-urinary problems are frequently mis-diagnosed or dismissed as being psycho-somatic, caused by stress or simply imaginary, by most conventional medical practitioners. Individuals suffering of any of these often candida generated complaints would be well advised to investigate the links between candida albicans yeast overgrowth referred to as systemic candidiasis and its many symptoms and signs.
Candida albicans yeast, as well as several other strains of candida, is frequently a significant underlying if not causative factor in many of today's most common, chronic health disorders. Candida albicans, a naturally occurring strain of yeast, occupies a place in the normal microbial ecology of the human intestinal environment, as an organism responsible for the neutralization of certain species of harmful gut bacteria. Candida albicans yeast is found in low concentrations in healthy intestinal systems, where it performs its normal, health promoting functions assisting in the maintenance of ideal intestinal flora levels. Candida albicans yeast can however easily proliferate out of control do to the prevalence of health undermining factors so common in our modern world. Candida infection can be successfully treated, but a rational approach to candida treatment must start with a healthy diet and common-sense lifestyle modification.