Sponsored by Safe Harbor , a Nonprofit Corporation. Bookstore Send this article to a friend The Effects of Candida On Mental Health by William Crook, M.D. author of a million copy bestseller published in the 1980s and The Yeast Connection Handbook, which provides new information for the 21st Century. The Yeast Connection Handbook Yeasts are single-cell living organisms that are neither animal nor vegetable. They live on the surfaces of all living things, including fruits, vegetables, grains and your skin. Yeast itself is nutritious and small amounts of yeast gives bread its good yeasty taste.
Yeast is a kind of fungus.
Mildew, mold, mushrooms, monilia and candida are all names that are used to describe different types of yeast. One family of yeasts, Candida albicans, normally lives on the inner warm creases and crevices of the digestive tract and vagina. When your immune system is strong, candida yeasts cause no problems. Candida yeasts aren't affected by antibiotics so they multiply and raise large families. So you may experience repeated infections.