There are a lot of people who don’t believe c.andida is the cause of PFS. There are enough that believe it is / could be the cause that the word has actually been sensored on the board (hence the “.” placed in the word to prevent censorship). I wanted to give a simple explanation to those people as to why I believe can.dida is not the cause of PFS but merely a side effect.
Excess estrogen causes cand.ida overgrowth :
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1360257/
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16400181
The studies above show (and this is fairly well known in the ca.ndida community) that high levels of estrogen cause ca.dida overgrowth. So the root cause of PFS which seems to create excess estrogen in us is creating an environment for ca.ndida to grow, which then brings on even more side effects (increased lethargy, increased brain fog etc…basically the symptoms of ca.ndida). So people go on a ca.ndida protocol / diet and feel immensely better and believe they’re cured when actually they just took care of one of the side effects of our underlying cause which will inevitably come back unless they continue the protocol indefinitely. This could also be an explanation for some of the temporary “recoveries”, the person did something which beat down ca.ndida for a short while and felt way better until it came back.
How you can benefit from this is by helping yourself control can.dida so you can alleviate some of the symptoms (I’ve done this myself and it works but does not cure you or alleviate all symtpoms). The ca.ndida diet and protocol (things like Nystatin and other herbs) can help you cope with PFS but won’t cure it because it is not the root cause of PFS, merely a side effect.