Monday 17 April 2017

Bread Booze And Thrush

Without yeast we would only have unleavened bread and no beer and wine. On the positive side, we would have no irritating candida to put up with.

These strange single celled microorganisms collectively called yeast have been around far longer than humans. Naked to the eye, yeast is a fascinating piece of work. They eat the sugar to create carbon dioxide and alcohol.

Along with a thousand different variety of bacteria they live in our gut and on our skin. They do us no harm unless there is an overgrowth that is usually of our own making.

Without doubt a prolonged course of antibiotics will increase the risk of an outbreak of candida albicans. This manifests itself in the form of white creamy and irritating substance at the back of the throat or the genital area.

Albicans simple means white in Latin and although this version is not the only one it is by far the most common we can suffer from.

Antibiotics whilst having saved the lives of millions for nearly a century has now become a contentious issue. The problem is that it can rid us of the bad bacteria but doesn’t discriminate and so also destroys good bacteria.

Certain bacteria is essential to our digestive system that in turn keeps our immune system healthy. We’re not born with any but from delivery into this world they invade until we reach a peak of around two kilos or more by the time we are adults.

If we ask what is candida then the answer must be our friend and our foe. It just needs to be at a controlled level. Every microorganism in our body is there for a reason even if science is still not sure of the actual purpose.

For many years nobody had a clue as to the point of the appendix. It was thought to be of no use at all. But now the thinking is that it acts as a reservoir of bacteria to be released into the gut to maintain levels of good digestive bacteria.

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