Today, this condition is widespread, affecting more than 80 million people. Unfortunately, many medical doctors do not effectively treat candidiasis and many people have this condition for years and are never completely free from it. Donna Gates, a nutritional consultant, lecturer and author, created the Body Ecology Diet, a complete dietary system of healing for Candidiasis and any other immune disorder. This system of healing is amazingly successful for many health conditions, but especially for Candida overgrowth. It is actually an infection that can be chronic or severe.
Many people have a low level chronic candida infection.
It bothers them, but their immune system is strong enough to keep it under control. Then something happens, they go through a period of severe stress and the immune system is drastically impaired. Then the chronic infection can become acute. When people with cancer get treated with radiation or chemotherapy, the immune system is bombarded and severely weakened. It is very common for people with cancer to develop an acute case of Candida.