They don’t say what their treatment actually is – it sounds like some type of supplement with lifestyle advice to avoid Candida. One such example, ZapCandida, claims:įungus is the silent killer that robs you of your life-force, controls how you feel, and even how you think, this website will not only help you understand what fungus, Candida Albicans among others, and its relation to severe skin-issues, it will introduce you to a little known method to heal yourself by reclaiming your Immune system. Of course, fake illnesses require fake treatments, and they are numerous for Candida. There is absolutely no science behind the claim that 90 percent of the population “have a problem with candida” or that Candida causes cancer, or that cancer is actually a fungal infection. Tullio Simoncini, says that cancer is a fungus and actually an advanced form of candida overgrowth. It’s also fascinating that an oncologist in Rome, Dr.
And second, candida overgrowth can be the root cause of literally hundreds of different problems in the body. For example, in a 2009 article in The Huffington Post, Kim Evans claims:įirst, an estimated 90 percent of the population has a problem with candida overgrowth, although most don’t know it. The claims have also spread, unhindered by logic and evidence. Over 25 years later Candida hypersensitivity remains an unproven claim, but popular among “alternative” practitioners. In this book Crook proposed the idea that systemic candidiasis, or Candida hypersensitivity, was responsible for a host of common conditions and non-specific symptoms, such as fatigue, sexual dysfunction, asthma, and psoriasis. The most common manifestations are thrush (a superficial Candida infection in the mouth) and vaginitis, also commonly referred to as a yeast infection.Ĭandida can also rarely cause serious systemic infection, but this is mostly restricted to those with compromised immune systems, such as patients undergoing chemotherapy or with advanced AIDS.Ĭandida became the focus of a fake illness beginning in 1986 with the publication of The Yeast Connection by Dr.
It can, however, become an infection, usually at times of stress or immunocompromise. Candida albicans is a fungus that colonizes about 90% of the population (meaning it is present in the body but not causing an infection or any problems).
One popular fake illness is chronic candidiasis. Those who practice medicine outside the constraints imposed by science (and ethics), however, are not above inventing imaginary diseases and conditions out of whole cloth. It seems that they do try to extend the market for their drugs into milder and milder indications, spreading into the gray zone of evidence, but they don’t get to invent their own diseases. I don’t think the pharmaceutical industry invents new diseases. Further, I found references to RLS in neurology texts going back over 50 years, and there were even older references although not using the same name. In fact the drugs used for RLS are successful Parkinson’s drugs. GSK has been accused of inventing restless leg syndrome (RLS) to sell a failed Parkinson’s drug. Sometimes the accusations are flat-out wrong. Merck, however, was happy to broaden the market for its drug for osteoporosis and argue that patients with osteopenia should be treated also, even though the evidence really did not support this. Osteopenia is not really a disease, or even necessarily a mild version of osteoporosis, although it is a risk factor. For example, osteopenia is a relative decrease in bone density, but not enough to qualify for osteoporosis. The pharmaceutical industry has been accused of generating artificial demand for some of their drugs. This type of “artificial demand” marketing can be very insidious when it occurs with medical products and services. Who knew that my social status could be destroyed by spotty glassware?īetter yet, if you can make people worry about a nonexistent problem, something that they were not previously aware of and don’t understand, they might buy your solution just to relieve their worry. This has risen to the point of inventing problems that do not really exist just to sell a product that addresses the fake problem. Savvy consumers have learned over the years that the primary goal of marketing is to create demand for a product or service. Candida albicans growing in a petri dish.