Re: Dr. Cranton's triple antifungal strategy

>"You CANNOT eradicate yeast cells:"
Are you sure? Perhaps a sustained aggressive multi antifungal attack can eradicate all the yeast cells in your body (at a certain point in time).

>"they are present in everybody's gut, and it's perfectly normal: they are scavengers, they feed on intestinal dross, undigested food, etc."
I agree

>"Systemic candidiasis is when this yeast start taking the form of rhizomes (threads) that colonize and drill holes in the intestinal walls (leaky gut)."
I agree

>"Nobody knows exactly why this happens."
Maybe nobody knows EXACTLY why this happens, but candida is basically an aggressive opportunitic bug that will take over given the right opportunity and nutrients. The main defense the body has against candida is population of the intestinal lining with healthy bacteria. If these are absent, most commonly after Antibiotics , then candida moves in, especially if it is also provided with lots of its favorite nutrients such as sugar. Not that complicated a concept really. Very difficult to fix though.

>"Systemic Candida is just a symptom"
I don't agree. Systemic candida is a disease.

>"if you treat the symptom with antifungals and don't correct the underlying cause, it will come back."
Very likely. That doesn't mean you shouldn't attempt to eliminate the systemic candida if you can. Preventing it returning is another issue, and a critical one, but it doesn't negate the importance of killing off all existing invasive hyphal growth (if that is possible).