10/10/2026
Gastrointestinal candidiasis will progress to invasive candidiasis (leaky gut syndrome)! -- Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) sufferers, please consider...
As the number of infectious invaders within the gut increases, inflammation within the gut wall and tissues occur.
They become irritated, swollen, impaired, and even injured. As a result, the gut wall becomes weakened and increasingly fragile, making it easier to disturb with each additional insult. Eventually, as the insults accumulate, the gut wall can be breached, which allows inappropriate substances to enter the tissues, while fluid and other substances can leak out.
Damage to the gut wall does not happen spontaneously.
Instead, disease-causing yeast readily participate.
Under optimal conditions, when they are well-fed, disease-causing yeast typically remain in their less-aggressive ovoid form.
However…
When their environment is compromised, some disease-causing yeast can transform into a more aggressive, invasive form called a mycelium, with a main body and numerous, extending branches called hyphae or pseudo-hyphae, like a tree-trunk and its branches.
Even though the ovoid form can enter the gut wall and tissues when its survival is at stake, research reveals the mycelial form is much more effective at invading the gut wall; it produces enzymes that digest protein and other components within the gut wall, allowing it to more easily invade into the gut wall to obtain nutrition. (See the references for Chapter 4 at Amazon, “read sample”)
The mycelial form of disease-causing yeast can digest its surrounding tissue, creating tiny “holes” in the gut wall that allow undigested food particles and other inappropriate substances to leak through, a condition called leaky gut syndrome.
In return, the wall and mucous membranes can become irritated, impaired, injured, and even damaged, from microscopic to grossly visible, localized, patchy, or widespread.
Depending on the location and severity, colonization and invasion can cause or exacerbate one or more gastrointestinal problems, including oral thrush, esophagitis, gastritis, duodenitis, ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease, colitis, spastic colon, and proctitis.
In most candidiasis sufferers, their gastrointestinal candidiasis will progress to invasive candidiasis sooner or later. Therefore, a comprehensive approach to diagnosis and treatment is usually required.
MJB M.D.
Attached, original graphic slide: From “Unraveling Candidiasis: The Perplexing Puzzle of Medical Maladies” – Chapter 4: Gastrointestinal Problems, page 97