And I'd also hear repeatedly what you noted, tara:
that if one has systemic candida, one is probably on death's door.
There's that kind of either/or perception of yeast/fungal infection in mainstream medicine.
I've come to question it.
Hi Narouz,
It looks to me as though all the things you describe about your own case could, maybe, be related to a gut overgrowth of candida (or possibly something else). Candida (or something) could well be having systemic effects, even if it is based in the gut. That doesn't make it a systemic candida infection, as I understand it.
I'm quite willing to believe that there are fungii (and bacteria and viruses) surfing around our vascular systems. But I don't think this adds up to evidence that severe systemic candida infection is a common source of major trouble for many people in general, or for you in particular. But an occasional one, and serious when it happens.Take this one fact under consideration:
I believe it was haidut who, a few months back here on the forum,
posted about discoveries recently made about fungi being found in the brains of Alzheimers' patients.
They were able to detect the fungi with some sophisticated technology--
can't recall the name of it now.
And in that same article--it was a solid, scientific study--the authors noted that they had also found fungi in the bloodstreams of people: not dying people but people in a condition of some degree of health.
At least if it escaped and the immune system allowed it to proliferate, you'd be dead? As long as the numbers are few, and the immune system is keeping them largely under control, that doesn't count as a systemic infection, does it?But to come back to your point, tara:
I heard from many quarters exactly what you say:
that if fungus escaped the gut into the bloodstream you'd be dead.
I suspect that may not be true now.
The evidence you point to still seems to be explainable by gut overgrowth.
But there is much still to learn, so it could still turn out with further evidence that low-level candida or other fungus in the system is important and something to address, even if it is only when numbers get out of hand that it is more quickly deadly.
Doesn't the nystatin effect add weight to it being a gut-based issue?