The yeast cells release toxic by-products, which can be linked to a wide variety of symptoms including headaches, sinus infection, fatigue, poor concentration, aching joints, thrush, rectal itching, decreased libido, skin complaints such as psoriasis or atopic dermatitis and commonly, a feeling described as brain fog. These symptoms are so broad ranging and can easily be attributed to many other health issues, meaning that Candida overgrowth is often overlooked, unless it progresses to the extremely serious condition of invasive Candidiasis, which is a fungal infection of the blood, most often associated with severely immunocompromised and hospitalised patients and which can result in death
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Microplate reader capable of measuring absorbance at 340 nm
An expanding number of studies have also emphasized that natural compounds serve as valuable sources for new drug development [194-197]
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