Here is how Candida, as the disease of the intestinal flora deficiency, can be explained in greater details:
“Candida is the most dangerous of all the germs that can take over your intestinal tract after being treated with Antibiotics, Cipro or doxycycline.
It is a member of the vegetable family. It is a cousin to “moulds”. Yeasts are among the oldest living life forms on earth. They are a single celled life form containing no chlorophyll. There are many different types of yeast. Yeasts are common on plant leaves and flowers, on the surfaces of skin and the intestinal tract of animals. The type of yeast that we use to make bread or brew alcoholic beverages is different than Candida. These are thought as food yeasts. Candida is not a food yeast. It is not allowed to be used in the making bread or beer etc. Candida is thought of as pathogenic yeast. Pathogenic means that it can cause disease.
As ”yeast”, Candida is a single cell plant life. It has a large, round, thick spore that is shaped like a chicken egg. It is asexual, which means it does not need a mate to reproduce. It reproduces by “budding” or growing buds. Do you recall seeing buds forming on the branches of trees or plants? Candida looks similar. As it grows it resembles a bunch of grapes. As it spreads it grows more branches, which then “buds” more bunches of “grapes”. This is the way Candida appears in its other form or state, which is “fungal”. Here it looks like lots of little beads strung together by threads. Just like there are safe yeasts, there are safe fungus. Mushrooms are an example of a fungus, which does not produce disease. Eating mushrooms will not cause candida.”
“Candida eats sugars and some fats that way animals do. This is how it feeds. Candida loves the dark, warm and moist environment of the intestines. It attaches itself to the intestinal wall and when it is in the fungal form tries to bury itself deep into your intestinal lining. It grows roots (like a weed) digging into the lining of your intestinal tract looking for food. When it does this it produces infections and illness in your body.
It can get so deep that it is able to break into your blood stream. It rarely can grow in all its budding glory in your blood. This only happens to very ill (usually terminally ill) people. If it breaks through to your blood tiny amounts of it as “spores” ride the waves of the blood stream and eventually “come ashore” onto a gland, organ or tissue. Here it can reproduce and “bud” invading this tissue and causing disease. This becomes a fungal infection in the tissue.”
Source: The Biamonte Center for Clinical Nutrition
