Don’t Get Depleted Over the Holidays (or, Candidiasis and Adrenal Fatigue Run Together)

Running yourself ragged is easy this time of year. (Photo: smellyknee)                     .

Does this look like you?

Around the holidays we often stop listening to our bodies. Family cheer comes along with a good dose of stress, overeating, and not much exercise.

For some people, this depletion of our bodies can increase susceptibility to yeast infection (candidiasis), or adrenal fatigue, or both.

Today’s announcement is that we found a strong association between Candidiasis and Adrenal Fatigue. This is a new association that has not been extensively studied by traditional research. In graphical form:
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CureTogether members who report Candidiasis are 4x more likely to report Adrenal Fatigue than members with no Candidiasis. This comes from a study of 750 people sharing data online for the past year.

For details on this finding and how it matches up with other studies, read on…

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Details of the CureTogether Candidiasis-Adrenal Fatigue Finding

Among 167 people reporting Candidiasis in this study, 50 (29.9%) reported also having Adrenal Fatigue, and the remaining 117 specifically reported not having Adrenal Fatigue.

Among 583 people reporting “No Candidiasis” in this study, 40 (6.9%) reported having Adrenal Fatigue, and the remaining 543 people specifically reported not having Adrenal Fatigue.

This 29.9% vs. 6.9% difference represents a statistically significant relative risk of 4.3, with a 99% confidence interval of 2.9 – 6.3.

.The importance of this finding is that using only self-reported data, we have found an association between candidiasis and adrenal fatigue that has not been explored in clinical studies yet. We suggest that further research be done to confirm this suggested association.

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Self-Reported Data at CureTogether

CureTogether has been called “Yelp for health.” It is a collaboration of people from around the world volunteering to solve real problems in chronic conditions.

People self-report and rate symptoms and treatments for over 410 conditions. The top conditions at CureTogether are depression, anxiety, migraine, back pain, and vulvodynia.

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