How Do We Get Candida?

Many of the things we ingest, coupled with health-related conditions, can create an environment in which healthy bacteria cannot survive.Now how do we get rid of candida? Candida vs Healthy Bacteria – The Ongoing Battle Everyone has a great deal of yeast. When we are healthy, Candida lives in our small intestine where it competes with bacteria for room. Normally, the stomach and small intestine are hostile to yeast.

However, when the helpful bacteria that normally feed on Candida albicans have been killed off, an overgrowth of yeast in the intestinal tract can develop rapidly because conditions have suddenly become favorable to their growth.

Why does this happen? Because many of the things we ingest, coupled with health-related conditions, can create an environment in which healthy bacteria cannot survive.

Antibiotic drug use - they destroy bacteria that would normally have a protective, antifungal effect, and the imbalance enables yeast to thrive.
Diabetes
Diet – especially those high in fermentable carbon sources such as mono- or dimeric sugars (sucrose, glucose, and lactose) – plays a key role in encouraging yeast overgrowth.
Heavy metal poisoning
Hormonal changes (puberty, sexual maturity, pregnancy, sterilization, menopause including peri- and post-menopause)
Hormonal fluctuations
Low blood sugar
Prescription drugs such as birth control pills, corticosteroids, and hormone replacement therapy
Stress
Vitamin, mineral, and enzyme deficiencies

Many factors associated with Candida overgrowth are disruptive to the body's endocrine system, causing hormonal abnormalities that, in turn, can be aggravated by antibiotics,  and even by Candida albicans itself.

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