Anticandida Candida Albicans Causes of infection

Causes of Candida infection and Candidiasis

19 января 2021

In this article, the causes of infection by Candida and other types of parasitic fungi will be discussed. Candidiasis in women and men is an infectious disease of local or general nature caused by fungi of the Candida genus.

So why does the fungal infection occur, and why has it become widespread in the last decade?

№1. Diet with a high content of fast carbohydrates (overt and hidden sugars)

Typically, the main factor for the proliferation of fungi and other pathogenic microorganisms (Syndrome of Excessive Fungal Growth - SEFG, Syndrome of Excessive Bacterial Growth - SEBG) is the wrong type of diet. Given that in recent decades around the world, there's a predominance of a diet high in overt and hidden sugars (fast carbohydrates) – sugary, yeasty, floury, and starchy products, sweet fruits – the number of fungal-related diseases has increased.

Any food with high glycemic and insulin indexes can trigger the growth of fungi, including Candida. There's a misconception that this only applies to artificial sugars, and natural fruit sugars are supposedly fine for an anti-fungal diet. This is a misconception.

Unfortunately, when it comes to sugar, Candida does not differentiate between its sources. Fungi tend to feast on sugar from a banana, chocolate, or a glass of wine equally. Moreover, it should be noted that over the past century, breeding has been involved in producing sweeter varieties of fruits and berries, in which the fructose content can be many times higher than that of the predecessor variety.

Currently, there are dozens of types of so-called «hidden» sugars that manufacturers add to their products to win the hearts, and most importantly, the wallets of consumers with the aim to create an image of their products being healthy. In reality, this is not the case. We emphasize that sugar remains sugar - a molecule or a short chain of molecules that quickly enter metabolism - and not only feed pathogenic microflora, causing fermentation, SEBG, and SEFG but also quickly enter the bloodstream, causing a rapid spike in insulin levels, which in turn leads to insulin resistance and related diseases – diabetes, obesity, hypertension, increased cholesterol, and bad fats in the body, accelerated brain and overall body aging, polycystic ovary syndrome, infertility, osteochondrosis, and many other diseases. Therefore, we believe it is necessary to share with you the names of most hidden sugars found in various products. We recommend that you read the labels of the food you buy and always remember that:

1. Sugar is often added to non-sweet products - both as a preservative and to enhance flavor - after all, such products will be purchased much more eagerly. Since the dawn of time, humans have had a craving for everything sweet - this is how people stored up energy in anticipation of extended periods of hunger.

2. The simpler the composition, the better.

Names of sugars

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❌ Agave nectar,

❌ Barley malt syrup,

❌ Beet sugar,

❌ Brown sugar (also known as palm sugar),

❌ Cane sugar,

❌ Caramel,

❌ Carob syrup,

❌ Coconut sugar,

❌ Confectioner’s sugar,

❌ Corn syrup, corn sweetener,

❌ Date sugar,

❌ Dehydrated / evaporated cane juice,

❌ Dextrin,

❌ Dextrose,

❌ Disaccharide,

❌ Fructose,

❌ Fruit juice concentrate,

❌ Galactose,

❌ Glucose,

❌ Golden syrup, golden sugar,

❌ Grape sugar, grape juice,

❌ High fructose corn syrup (HFCS),

❌ High maltose corn syrup,

❌ Honey,

❌ Icing sugar,

❌ Inverted sugar syrup,

❌ Jaggery,

❌ Lactose,

❌ Maltose (also known as malt sugar),

❌ Maltodextrin, maltol,

❌ Maple syrup, sugar,

❌ Molasses,

❌ Monosaccharide,

❌ Muscovado,

❌ Raw sugar,

❌ Refiner’s sugar,

❌ Rice syrup,

❌ Succharose,

❌ Syrup,

❌ Treacle,

❌ Trehalose,

❌ Xylose.

While fast carbohydrates are the primary category of food to limit, there are several other groups that can contribute to the growth of Candida fungi or cause reactions in those suffering from candidiasis.

These include starchy drinks, alcohol, flour and yeast-containing products, starchy vegetables, some types of nuts, for example, raw peanuts, and dairy products.

№2. Antibiotics, artificial food and chemical additives

The second most common cause of Candidiasis, after a high-sugar diet, is antibiotics.

If you have taken antibiotics during your life, there's a high likelihood that you might suffer from an overgrowth of fungal microorganisms. This also pertains to common broad-spectrum antibiotics that are intended to fight a variety of bacteria.

The problem with antibiotics is that doctors typically prescribe them without adjusting the patient's diet or emphasizing its importance. As a result, antibiotics indiscriminately kill the gut microbiota, which is a key factor in health and longevity. Beneficial microbiota is destroyed, and the harmful one can proliferate even more, especially when an individual continues consuming simple carbohydrates.
It so happens that under favorable conditions for fungi (if a person consumes a high-carb diet during or after a course of antibiotics, or when combined with other factors described below), fungi rapidly replenish their population, outgrowing beneficial bacteria at a faster rate.

«For any irritant, microorganisms respond with rapid proliferation».

All microbiologists are aware of this rule. It also applies when a person takes antibiotics and indulges in simple carbohydrates.
In this scenario, the harmful microbiota, facing a «crisis», overcomes it successfully due to the excess of nutrients. As a result, the microorganisms develop resistance to the antibiotics used, and their population might grow even stronger than before the treatment. On the other hand, the beneficial microbiota will be weakened. Consequently, the body undergoes a chemical assault, and the treatment outcome is negative.

Taking antibiotics, of course, makes sense. But first, it is essential to deplete the fungal microbiota by depriving it of its favorite treat - simple carbohydrates. Then, antibiotics will have their therapeutic effect, killing off harmful microorganisms while minimally affecting the beneficial flora.

For a detailed mechanism on how to cleanse your body with antibiotics and other recommendations, you can read other articles on our website.

№3. Chemical substances in drinking water

Drinking water often contains traces of chlorine – a disinfectant used to kill harmful microorganisms. It is similar to the chlorine used in swimming pools and has many known side effects (toxic, carcinogenic, mutagenic). Among these, aside from water disinfection, is its negative impact on gut microbiota.

Chlorine is an effective disinfectant designed to destroy microorganisms. Therefore, when ingested in unsafe doses, it poisons the body, weakens immunity, and promotes the growth of pathogenic microorganisms.

Nevertheless, public health officials in many countries have concluded that reducing waterborne infections is more crucial and outweighs the risk of chlorine consumption for the public.

This is true to some extent, but it cannot be denied that chlorine's action weakens our immune systems and makes us more susceptible to other infections.

Chlorine is an effective disinfectant designed to kill microorganisms. Therefore, when it enters the intestines, it indiscriminately destroys colonies of beneficial bacteria and pathogenic yeasts.

As a result, this reduced beneficial flora allows microorganisms like «Candida Albicans» to thrive. Consuming chlorine over an extended period can lead to weakened immunity and fungal overgrowth.

Chlorine is also associated with higher incidences of cancer in the colon, bladder, mammary glands, larynx, stomach, intestines, and kidneys. Drinking chlorinated water increases the risk of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases.

In a 1992 study, the relationship between the use of chlorinated drinking water and cancer incidence in Norway was examined. Although the research was not exhaustive, scientists determined that chlorination is «associated with a 20-40% increase in the rate of colorectal cancer».
In another study conducted in the US in 1997, similar results were obtained.

№4. Sedentary Lifestyle

Since ancient times, people believed that if one overindulges in food, drink, sleep, and various excesses, the human body will literally become a dump filled with decaying matter, where harmful microbes will proliferate rapidly.

In ancient medical treatises, it is directly stated that a person becomes akin to a rotting stump on which fungi grow. Indeed, fungi play a major role in human aging.

Modern medicine validates these claims. A sedentary lifestyle slows down metabolism, and combined with overeating, this lifestyle leads to numerous problems such as obesity, diabetes, insulin resistance, increased cholesterol, and hypertension. There is an elevated risk of cancer, autoimmune diseases, along with microbiota imbalance and syndromes of excessive bacterial and fungal growth.
Due to the lack of movement, peristaltic waves slow down, causing food to rot directly in the intestines, inducing excessive mucus production and an overgrowth of fungi. Fecal stones can form as a result.

Pathologists often encounter situations where, during autopsies of overweight individuals, the entire length of the intestine is covered with mucus and fungal deposits, which closely resemble the white coating found on the tongue.

Fungi infect the intestine, making it permeable, and release spores directly into the bloodstream. Thus, microscopic fungal seeds spread throughout the body. In weakened organs, these spores begin to form new fungal colonies. Candida is even found in bile, where it shouldn't be at all. In the bile, a sediment forms, a sticky suspension, from which bile clots later form, leading to gallstone disease.
We recommend familiarizing yourself with our liver and gallbladder cleansing technology to restore the proper function of your body's primary filter.

№5. Inheritance. The lack of a developed sense of disgust as an essential factor for health and survival

If parents are carriers of pathogenic microflora, their child will also be infected. This situation leaves a mark on their further development and health.

Due to insufficient education and a lack of understanding of the protective function of disgust, new microorganisms are CONSTANTLY transmitted from both parents and other outsiders to children. Therefore, children often grow up unhealthy – it's extremely challenging for a weak body and immune system to cope with the constant onslaught of new strains of fungi, viruses, and other pathogenic microorganisms.

In some rare cases, when an aggressive foreign infection invades a weakened body, various mutations can occur in a child's body even at a very early age, manifesting diseases such as arthritis, rheumatism, ischemia, CNS problems, «genetic» heart and vascular issues, eczema, dermatitis, psoriasis, digestive problems, thrush, reflux, OCD, and so on... Many «genetic diseases» arise as a result of toxic damage and infectious contamination.

№6. Corticosteroid Inhalers

People who treat their asthma and bronchitis with corticosteroid inhalers are at an increased risk of developing Candida in the oral cavity and respiratory tract, leading to systemic fungal overgrowth.

№7. Protein-deficient nutrition and weakened immunity

This issue is especially acute for young and elderly people, as well as those accustomed to consuming «empty calories» - food from fast food establishments. A protein deficiency affects the entire body. The immune system weakens. Due to protein starvation, the body may simply lack the resources to resist an aggressive fungal infection. Therefore, a chronic form of fungus can be present even at a young age.

№8. Frequent Stressful Situations

Stress is a factor that weakens the immune system, and it is often overlooked when discussing fungal infections.

There's substantial evidence that stress and Candida are closely linked. As is known, people tend to eat sweets when they're in a bad mood. An increased level of sugar consumption and mental strain directly correlates with an increase in fungal colonies in the body.

The term «stress» can refer to both short-term excessive physical stress and long-term psychological stress.

Stress affects the body in two ways, both of which can lead to an overgrowth of Candida fungi:
One of the body's first reactions to stress is the release of cortisol – a hormone that «deactivates» the immune system. The fungi, so to speak, «seize the moment», and a weakened immune system cannot stop them due to a sudden change in biochemical processes. Thus, stress gives Candida fungi the opportunity to dominate the existing gut flora.

Studies have shown that psychological stress can quickly alter the nature of microbial colonization in the gut. Animal tests have revealed that stress also reduces the diversity of the gut flora. Although the mechanism is not fully understood, emotional stress allows some pathogenic strains to conquer territory more effectively and aggressively than others.

For this reason, doctors recommend taking probiotics to counteract the effects of chronic stress.

№9. Some Hormonal Contraceptives, Unprotected Casual Sexual Contacts

The link between estrogen-based contraceptive pills and an increased risk of fungal diseases is well-known. Estrogen in contraceptive pills stimulates the production of glycogen in the vagina. Glycogen, in turn, is an energy storage and an ideal food source for all types of fungi, which can begin to grow rapidly due to the abundance of nutrients.

A study conducted in Australia in 2001 showed that there is a «very significant association between estrogen use and the occurrence of candidiasis».
Some hormonal contraceptives can lead to even more growth of Candida if taken in combination with antibiotics.
This is because in a healthy woman, excess glycogen in the vagina is metabolized by «good bacteria» and turned into lactic acid. If these bacteria are destroyed by antibiotics, all the glycogen becomes food for fungi and Candida.

Speaking of sexual contacts, it's a significant factor of infection. Unprotected sexual intercourse with an infected partner leads to infection with new strains of fungi and other sexually transmitted microorganisms. This can lead to further growth of fungi in the body.

№10. Diabetes and Insulin Resistance

Diabetics often suffer from recurring yeast infections for two reasons:

The first is that they have a high blood sugar level, which feeds Candida cells. This occurs either due to a lack of insulin in the body, or, conversely, its excess and disruption of its activation conditions.

The second reason is a weakened immune system, which is one of the accompanying factors of diabetes. According to a British study published in 2011, it is related to the fact that the high glucose level in diabetics effectively «blinds» immune system receptors that identify pathogens.

This allows Candida cells to multiply and transform into a pathogenic chitin form.

№11. Mercury Fillings and Heavy Metal Intoxication

There is evidence to suggest that amalgam fillings, containing mercury, can release toxins into the body. This mercury toxicity has been cited as a cause for chronic fatigue, depression, weakened immunity, and memory loss.

In 2006 in New Zealand, 465 patients suffering from mercury toxicity were examined.
As a result, it was found that «removal of mercury-containing amalgam fillings combined with appropriate treatment leads to a significant reduction of symptoms to the level typical of a healthy person».

With more evident proofs emerging, the «Food and Drug Administration» changed its stance on mercury-containing fillings in 2008, updating its website to state: «Dental amalgam fillings contain mercury, which may have a neurotoxic effect on the nervous systems of children and fetuses».

Over the past decade, new research has also emerged indicating a link between the presence of Candida and other types of fungi in people with heavy metal intoxication, especially due to the consumption of seafood.