Can a Common Medical Practice Change Candida Deadly?
While this article relates to the use of heparin, it does raise many, many concerns. This article brings to light many of the nasty biochemical aspects of Candida albicans when it becomes a systemic infection. The question that arises is that, although this article looks at life-threatening systemic infection of Candida, could not a GI tract that has an overgrowth of Candida (without systemic infection) allow these same toxins mentioned in the article to leak into the systemic circulation? I am sure most functional medicine practitioners would answer that of course it does. It just seems so difficult for mainstream medicine to accept that there is a continuum of disease states. Overgrowth of Candida is very common and I believe is a key element in many cases of IBS, chronic fatigue, ulcerative colitis and especially Crohn’s disease.