What is Candida – How Candida affects us?

Candida is a single cell fungus that lives in all our mucus membranes. From top of the body in eyes and ears to lungs, bladder, stomach, intestine and vagina, it is everywhere. Like many other friendly organism what Candida does is to recognize and destroy harmful bacteria and toxins from the body.

It is a friendly and useful organism when body is alive and also useful when the body dies. The function of Candida changes when body dies and its main purpose then is to breakdown the body. After the body’s death it releases alcohol and other substances which break down the bodies tissues.

Therefore Candida is an essential part of healthy well being! Then what goes wrong?

Usually Candida lives and grows according to body requirements; however in some cases it overgrows. This overgrowth causes several complications. The numerous health problems it causes affect the entire body from the top of the head to the tips of the toes, the symptoms of Candida overgrowth ranges from migraine to nail fungus and hundreds of other complications in between the head and toes.

Candida overgrowth can be responsible for malfunctioning of various body organs inside the body and outside the body it may affect as skin conditions like eczema and hives etc.
A healthy immune system keeps Candida and other friendly micro-organism in mucus membranes in balance and under control. Anything that reduces body’s immunity can become one of the potential causes of Candida.

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