Candida, the parasitic fungus responsible for oral thrush and yeast infections, often overpopulates in people suffering from stress or depression. The exact relationship between stress, candida and depression is a matter of some debate, but there is no doubt that attempts to relieve stress can strengthen the immune system and help prevent opportunistic infections.

Conventional medicine holds the view that Candida and stress are only tenuously connected. Stress does not, in and of itself, cause Candida infections.

While orthodox medical theory does not support a direct Candida/stress connection, stress does result in conditions that favor Candida infections.

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