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The Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Inflammatory Bowel Disease- Candida Connection!
By Marc J. Bielski, M.D.
From “Unraveling Candidiasis: The Perplexing Puzzle of Medical Maladies” by Dr. Marc Bielski, M.D.
The gastrointestinal tract is the primary location for the mischief and harm of disease-causing yeast and other infectious invaders.
If the information to support their adverse contributions was simple to interpret and understand, the candidiasis-gastrointestinal connection would be commonly accepted and more frequently treated.
Normally, disease-causing Candida-species organisms are present in small numbers within the gastrointestinal tract. When all is well, a healthy population of beneficial bacteria suppresses and inhibits these opportunistic infectious invaders, preventing them from causing harm.
Yet, certain undesirable circumstances can injure or kill the beneficial bacteria (“UC” chapter 2), allowing the disease-causing yeast to colonize their surroundings, alone or by cooperating with other infectious invaders, including harmful parasites, bacteria, molds, and/or viruses.
Undeniably, the situation becomes worse when disease-causing yeast invade into the gut wall, creating leaky gut syndrome with its increased gut wall permeability. To add insult, disease-causing yeast can progress further, entering the tissues and blood vessels, and travel throughout the body.
Regardless of their location, as their population increases, disease-causing yeast directly and indirectly initiate and promote a variety of undesirable reactions, symptoms, and illness. Since their primary residence is within the gut, gastrointestinal disturbances are common, especially IBS and IBD!
Generally, most cases (if not all) of irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease are associated with candidiasis.
When you understand that some species and strains (variants) of disease-causing yeast can invade into and through the gut wall, you might appreciate that the injuries and inflammation that occur within the gut wall tissues are because of their invasive presence.
Does everyone have Candida?
Yes, but not everyone has the species and strains (variants) of disease-causing Candida-species organisms that invade into their gut wall, then colonizes their gut tissues, then enters their blood, and then finds other peripheral areas within the body to colonize and create harm!
Do other infectious invaders participate in creating illness?
Yes, but from my knowledge and clinical experience, the biofilms, metabolites, and toxins that are created by various species and strains of disease-causing yeast create an environment that supports the growth of a multitude of harmful infectious invaders, including parasites, bacteria, and molds (and/or viruses). And their allergic and inflammatory consequences further compromise the gut’s microbiome (environment), escalating their injurious effects.
Consider eradicating your disease-causing yeast first!
Eliminating your disease-causing yeast and re-establishing a healthy, internal gut (and other) microbiome is essential. (Two other major areas to treat include the respiratory tissues and genitourinary tract, and if you read “UC,” you’ll realize these troublemakers can colonize virtually any location within the human body that’s susceptible to their presence.)
Other gastrointestinal problems – Malabsorption and gut ulcers are also closely connected with candidiasis. Even worse, since disease-causing yeast instigate and promote most of their mischief within the gut, gastrointestinal cancers often result from their presence; disturbed gut functioning damages the gut cells, and the impaired immunity that’s associated with chronic candidiasis (“UC” chapter 14) allows abnormal cells to transform into cancerous cells.
So, if you have a chronic or recurring gut malady, you are likely to be a candidiasis sufferer!
To reclaim your health, you must eradicate the disease-causing yeast within your gastrointestinal tract, gut wall and tissues, and your blood.
It is also essential to identify and eliminate your other infectious invaders, including harmful parasites, bacteria, and molds. Since all of them can easily contribute to your gut symptoms and illness, any untreated troublemakers that remain will upset your gastrointestinal microbiome, promoting relapses.
Since candidiasis is an infection with allergic and inflammatory consequences, to decrease inflammation within your gut, you should avoid allergy-inducing foods as well as foods and beverages containing disease-causing yeasts and harmful molds. Since the beneficial bacteria are critical to the health of your gut, they must also be restored. (And in "UC" I explain why a diet and gut-oriented approach alone will never cure your candidiasis. At best, it will suppress your symptoms, but not provide true wellness.)
With a comprehensive holistic-integrative medical anti-candidiasis program (“UC” chapter 18), most candidiasis sufferers can eliminate their disease-causing yeast and other infectious invaders, reestablishing the health and functioning of their gut.
And the take home message…
Irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease, ulcers, lactose intolerance, malabsorption, and halitosis can be corrected when you know what to do and why.
More amazingly, precancerous gut polyps have disappeared in some candidiasis sufferers (“UC” chapter 14).
Also…
With the incidence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease increasing, people who suffer with this metabolic condition are likely to be candidiasis sufferers.
Therefore, an appreciation and understanding of the candidiasis-gastrointestinal connection will eventually enable most gastrointestinal disturbances to be treated and eliminated!
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