Michael Edwards – Due to the American diet, nearly every person in the United States who is in poor health or suffers from any disease is living with an overabundance of Candida.

Candida is a very opportunistic. Once this fungus takes over, it can spread throughout the body. Candida burrows into the gut lining creating holes in the intestines that allow undigested food particles and other toxins to enter the bloodstream setting off an immune response that causes allergies, inflammation, and autoimmune diseases. This is called leaky gut syndrome.

The good news is that Candida in the gut can be eradicated quickly, restoring the natural and healthy order of gut flora. Most people (even those who feel considerably ill) will see a major reduction in symptoms once this is done. But there’s also bad news. Most people do have a “leaky gut” to a degree. Too much sugar equals too much Candida (and other “bad” pathogens), which equals too much leakiness in the gut.

If you have an overabundance of Candida, you have a leaky gut. The less balance in the gut flora, the more permeable it becomes. It takes months to repair a leaky gut. Once you balance the gut flora and adjust the diet so that the healthiest eco-system can thrive, going off of the healthy diet you’ve maintained can yield seriously painful results. Even though your body may feel like it has completely healed, it still has a leaky gut that lets sugars and whatever else that was just eaten pass through into the bloodstream undigested where there are lots of microbes waiting, lying there, starving, just hoping you’ll slip up again and feed them so they can come roaring back to life.

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