What is Candida or Yeast Infection?

Candida Albicans is an infection of Candida strain, most commonly limited to the skin and  membranes. It is a single cell yeast/fungus- that lives in 100% of the population. I lives on the mucous membranes of your body, your digestive tract, intestinal tract, vagina or the skin. It can live with no negative side effects.  This makes hard to diagnose, understand and treat.

It  is a  saprophytic yeast that can change to a parasitic one. It can grow in your body when the environment becomes favorable and the host's defenses are weakened. Candida yeasts like to grow in where heat and moisture.

Most researchers agrees that candida infections are due to an altered or improper balance of your gut micro flora.  The is commonly a result of

1. Use of antibiotics,

2. High beef, fat sugar and low fiber diets

3. use of birth control pills, cortisone, or immunosuppressant drugs.

This ends up with a drastic imbalance of the mircoecologyin your body. This imbalance allows the candida yeast to grow, and could convert in to a fungal form which produces over 70 neurotoxin, causing irritants to your gut lining so the absorptions of foods because unhealthy.

Candida infections develop in environments that are moist and alkaline in nature, in nutritional and immune deficiencies, diabetes, administration of antibiotics and certain endocrine- metabolic abnormalities. These conditions must be cleared up and resolved in order for the actual treatment to be effective.