Do I have Candida fungus or not? I want to focus on this topic because many people still write to me, even if there is a book called “The Power of Metabolism” where it is explained that everyone has Candida. Yet, people still ask me if they have Candida or not. The answer is that if you are a human being living on planet Earth, you have Candida in your body, because all humans have Candida in their bodies. Candida albicans is a fungus that naturally lives in all human bodies, including those of Eskimos in the North Pole, people in the Sahara desert, Japanese, Chinese, Americans, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Cubans, and Venezuelans — everyone has Candida. So the issue is not whether you have Candida or not, because we all have it as part of our natural intestinal flora, and, in the case of women, their vaginal flora. The issue is how much, how big the infection is. All human bodies naturally have Candida. So when a person becomes obese, overweight, or has diabetes, the body becomes filled with fungus, meaning the fungus grows excessively. When the Candida fungus reproduces excessively, it creates what is called an overgrowth. This overgrowth of the Candida fungus starts to cause many symptoms because the Candida fungus, like any fermenting fungus, produces 78 different toxins, which are all acids that cause manifestations in the body. They affect the hormonal system, and the nervous system, cause depression, and various other manifestations. Let me tell you the list of 22 symptoms or indicators of Candida fungus, so you can detect how much fungus you have. We’re not talking about whether you have it or not, because if you’re human, you already have it. We’re talking about whether you have too much. Generally, when a person starts to have indicators or symptoms like the ones I’m about to mention, it’s because the fungus has already grown excessively. Anyone who is diabetic is guaranteed to be filled with fungus because diabetics have a lot of glucose. The glucose in the blood, which is the sugar in the blood, is what the fungus consumes. Therefore, by definition, a diabetic is filled with fungus. It’s like weeds — if you fertilize weeds, they grow, and they take over your lawn and house. The fungus is similar — if you give it a lot of glucose, a lot of what it feeds on, it reproduces and regenerates until it invades the entire body.