10/06/2026
Candidiasis – An Ever-Increasing Medical Condition! (An Update and Thoughts to Consider)
(This is an article by Marc J. Bielski, M.D. (author of "Unraveling Candidiasis) and not AI generated or spam.)
More people are developing symptoms and illness from candidiasis every day, especially post-COVID. The sufferers are increasing, not decreasing!
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If the number of mild sufferers was truly appreciated, candidiasis would be immediately classified as an epidemic. Instead, it continues to be ignored, ridiculed, and even maligned.
According to mainstream medicine, candidiasis is an infection with Candida albicans, although they do consider a few other Candida-species organisms to be problematic.
Yet, it’s not “black-or-white” because a variety of disease-causing yeast, mold, bacteria, and parasites consistently collaborate to contribute their harm in causing disease and illness within human beings.
Yet, many mainstream physicians and the pharmaceutical industry will say, “It’s normal to have some fungus living within your blood.”
I’ll counter WHY?
Why are disease-causing yeast considered to be “normal” inhabitants within our blood (and tissues) when their primary purpose is to live on “dead, decaying plant matter and insects as well as on other surfaces and forms of life.”
And how did they get into our blood in the first place?
And if our immune system is doing its job, why are these fungal organisms continuing to exist within our blood and body?
And how is their persistent presence harming our wellness?
With all the patients that I’ve been asked to help during the past few years as a consultant, and my 40+ years of clinical practice, the answers depend on your perspective of wellness.
Major Point: There is a Difference between the Art of Medicine and the Science of Medicine.
An incredibly famous quote is, “I think, therefore, I am.” The medical version for doctors translates; “I think, therefore, I practice.” This emphasizes their confidence in their mental abilities and knowledge. Turning it around, the quote further transforms into “I practice; therefore, I think.”
So, you would believe that every medical decision involves some mental effort.
If this were the case, why do most patients receive treatment like they are traveling along an assembly line?
Why does it seem like people are being treated by a “plumber just fixing their pipes?”
Studies reveal that the average office visit only lasts about six minutes, or shorter. If a patient’s illness has been seen before, most doctors know exactly what to do for it—no arguments, questions, discussions, ifs, ands, or buts. Undeniably, this often precludes freethought from entering the management process.
And with the AI revolution, aimed to produce one or more “magic pill” drugs that treat specific physical issues, this creates a disconnect from human whole-body wellness.
Why?
It negates the art of medicine that addresses the entire person, including their physical body disturbances, and their psychological wellbeing, and why they became sick physically, emotionally, and mentally.
In other words, is our illness just physical?
Or does it have emotional and mental aspects that contribute to our wellness or ill health?
The Infection: Candidiasis involves the colonization with one or more species and strains (variants) of disease-causing yeast.
Typically, in most sufferers it’s a mixed infection, with numerous pathogenic and problematic disease-causing yeast, cooperating to create an internal myco-(fungal)-biome that establishes an environment for many pathogenic microorganisms to synergistically co-create biofilms.
In contrast, the gut is an open environment for anything that’s ingested, including a multitude of infectious invaders, including disease-causing yeast, parasites, pathogenic bacteria, harmful molds, and viruses. These include their blatant and subclinical contributions to cause internal and systemic harm within the body.
Their adverse effects depend on their ability to disrupt the areas they colonize, the metabolites they produce, whether or not they have enzymes that can digest into and through the gut wall (and other epithelial tissues, including the respiratory system and genitourinary system), and more.
In contrast to mainstream medical thinking, an infection with any species and strain (variant) of disease-causing Candida-species organism is also candidiasis. In fact, there are 8 major and 17 less prominent disease-causing yeast, and an infection with any of these microorganisms can cause illness, and other members are being revealed as they rise to prominence; e.g. Candida aureus.
And post-COVID, being a consultant for numerous people with this problem, mixed infections are escalating and ever more prevalent than the simple “candidiasis sufferer” seeking help 30-plus years ago.
From my perspective, most people are suffering with “atypical candidiasis” - to describe the yeast-related illness that is caused by the less prominent disease-causing yeast. People with atypical candidiasis have infections with, as examples, Rhodotorula-species organisms and Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
And compared to someone infected with the major disease-causing yeast, people with atypical candidiasis are not usually as sick, making their infection difficult to detect and understand.
Candidiasis is a Complex, Multi-Systemic Condition: It can adversely affect the nervous, endocrine (hormone), and immune systems and it involves three stages:
1. Gastrointestinal candidiasis occurs when disease-causing yeast colonize the gut interior.
2. Invasive candidiasis starts when the disease-causing yeast invade into the gut wall and colonize it.
3. Systemic candidiasis involves the disease-causing yeast progressing to invade and enter the blood, where they can travel throughout the body and take up residence wherever conditions permit. Disease-causing yeast can also gain access to the lungs and invade into and through the respiratory tissues.
Candidiasis-related Allergies: Simply put, candidiasis is an infection with disease-causing yeast and their allergic consequences, and an abundance of their inflammatory processes.
Some healthcare practitioners accept their allergic contributions, but most only look for antibody-mechanisms related to immunoglobulin E (IgE). Although IgE is accepted as the antibody participating in allergies, about half of all allergies do not involve IgE (or other antibodies).
When allergies are considered, most practitioners typically look for sensitivities and hypersensitivities to foods, environmental substances, or chemicals.
Few physicians consider allergies related to the presence of disease-causing yeast and harmful molds. This oversight ignores most candidiasis sufferers because clinical experience reveals they often have strong allergies to numerous disease-causing yeast and harmful molds. Therefore, it is important to test for these allergies and, when identified, administer desensitization (allergy) immunotherapy, using injections or drops.
The Message: A comprehensive holistic-integrative medical approach to diagnosis and treatment will produce the best long-term health benefits.
Since candidiasis is an infection with one or more species of disease-causing yeast, and no one antifungal medication or herb can kill every species, a layered approach to treatment is often needed. Moreover, in a large percentage of cases, especially people with moderate to severe illness, there are one or more participating infectious allies (harmful parasites, bacteria, molds, and/or viruses) that need to also be revealed and appropriately treated.
In addition, candidiasis is an infection with allergic consequences, including abundant inflammation. Both the infectious and allergic aspects must be addressed. Most candidiasis sufferers have sensitivities and hypersensitivities (allergies) to numerous disease-causing yeast and harmful molds.
As a result, conservative or unsound approaches are virtually guaranteed to provide inadequate health benefits. Therefore, to effectively combat candidiasis, it is essential to see and align all the pieces of the candidiasis puzzle.
MJB M.D.
