The "Other" Candida - Discussion

The proponents of the theory linking these 70 and more symptoms to candida claim that candida releases a variety of toxins, that can attack many different parts of the body, consequently producing a host of different symptoms. This is possible. It is also possible that these symptoms are unrelated, at least in part. Likewise, maybe a host of different bacteria, or viruses, or hormonal imbalance, or toxins, or allergies, or food-sensitivities, or a combination of any of these cause these symptoms without any connection to the actual candida yeast.

Medicine is an empirical science - it is based on experimental data and observational experience; not on hypotheses that have been arbitrarily assumed in order to provide a name to a disjoint goup of (often contradictory!) symptoms. If you have a medical problem, you would want to utilize remedies that have been tested in large studies that assure both their effectiveness and safety. Our tutorial on medical studies describes the meticulous process needed to assure that the medical treatment we get is the best available.

So the question concerning candida and this large aggregate of symptoms is - where's the study (studies) that link these symptoms to candida? The answer is dismaying - there are none! (If you are aware of a qualified study linking candida to these symptoms, please use the "Contact Me" link on our Home Page). So considering candida as the root cause of the many listed symptoms remains an unproven postulate, that is no more plausible than linking these symptoms to many other diverse causes.


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Last Modification - September 18, 2005