file.newsgroup.med.59246 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Russell Turpin)
Subject: Re: Great Post! (was: Candida bloom...)
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In article [email protected] (Jon Noring) writes:
> ... Of course, they are working on the theory that candida
> overbloom with penetration into mucus membrane tissue with
> associated "mild" inflammatory response can and does occur
> in a large number of people. If you reject this "yeast
> hypothesis", then I'd guess you'd view this research as one
> more wasteful and quixotic endeavor. Stay tuned.
I do not have enough medical expertise to have much of an opinion
one way or another on hidden candida infections. I can
understand the skepticism of those who see this associated with
various general kinds of symptoms, while there is a lack of solid
demonstration that this happens and causes such general symptoms.
(To understand this skepticism, one only needs to know of past
failures that shared these characteristics with the notion of
hidden candida infection. There have been quite a few, and the
proponents of all thought that the skeptics were overly skeptical.)
On the other hand, I am happy to read that some people are
sufficiently interested in this possibility, spurred by
suggestive clinical experience, to research it further. The
doubters may be surprised. (It has happened before.)
I realize that admitting ignorance in the face of ignorance may
not endear me to those who are so sure they know one way or
another. (And, indeed, perhaps some of them do know -- I am the
one who is currently ignorant.) But I find this the most honest
route, and so I am happy with it.
Russell