Archive for ‘Candida Research’

Sugar, Dairy, Artificial Sweeteners and Candida albicans Infections

It amazes me how even despite the 1000′s of testimonials, people still doubt whether dietary sugar, dairy and artificial sweeteners play a role in increasing or eliminating yeast infections.

There are many doctors out there that would swear on their profession that there isn’t a connection, however, there is more than just people’s testimonies to back up the sugar, dairy, artificial sweetener connection.

PubMed U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health published the results of a 1984 controlled study that explored this relationship between sugar and Candida albicans yeast infections.

Some Cancers linked to Candida?

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cancer and candida Dr. T. Simoncini, an oncologist in Rome, Italy has hypothesized that many cancerous tumors are the result of Candidiasis. Simoncini believes that most of the medical world is on the wrong track when it comes to cancer research. While there is some genetic evidence for some types of cancers, he believes that on the whole this attempt to explain the cause of all cancer has failed.

As the doctor researched cancer patients and their lab results he noticed a shocking correlation. In the majority of biopsies taken of cancerous tumors there where Candida cells mixed in with the cancer cells. Also medical records show that cancer patients are often diagnosed with some form of candidiasis as well.

Dr. Simoncini, also correlates his hypothesis to the plant word. It is accepted that all plant tumors are caused by fungus. When a plant is attacked by a fungus it reacts by forming a cellular mass around the fungus. He believes that this is the same with humans. When Candida is able to invade certain tissues, the body reacts by forming tumors.

Not only does the doctor believe he has found the cause of cancer, but he also believes he has found an effective treatment.

Chronic Candida Yeast Infections May Be Hereditary

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candida-linked-genetics-heredity Although there has been some evidence that suggested chronic yeast infections or candidiasis “runs in the family”, there has never been much scientific evidence until recently.

Researchers in the Netherlands and the UK, working independently, have discovered two genetic mutations that seem to cause people to have a higher rate of fungal infection which is usually caused by Candida. The genetic mutations involve missing proteins that basically help the body’s immune system to recognize fungal cells as threats.

In people with the mutations the immune system doesn’t recognize fungal cells as foreign which allows Candida cells to grow unchecked resulting in chronic infection and even system wide infection in severe cases.

This sheds a lot of light

Candida Vaccine In Development

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candida-vaccine Wouldn’t it be great if you could go to your doctor, get a simple vaccine and be Candida free?

Well, researchers are well on their way to making a Candida Vaccine a reality. By identifying certain proteins in the cell walls on Candida albicans they constructed a vaccine that could possibly activate the immune system to respond to these proteins.

Mice were used in the initial study back in 2008 and the vaccine showed promising results when mice were injected with a lethal dose of Candida albicans. Now the long term safety of the vaccine is being assessed.

This may seem wonderful, but

Candida Surrenders to Pumpkin Skin

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pumpkin-fights-candida You may think differently about the great pumpkin after reading this article.

Researchers in South Korea have discovered fungal fighting properties within the skin of pumpkins. During their studies they isolated a protein from the rind called Pr-2. This protein has been effective in killing Candida albicans, which is the most common cause of human infection.