After being ingested, its high non-soluble fiber content doesn't get absorbed in the small intestine, passing right through to the large intestine, where it is partially broken down
by normal bacterial flora.
Candida overgrowth and invasion happens when
normal bacterial flora is killed
by: antibiotics, processed foods, diet high in sugars, alcohol and yeast, stress, mercury in vaccinations and silver amalgams, pesticides sprayed on non-organic produce, birth control pills - a woman's natural hormonal pattern has more oscillating levels of progesterone and estrogen which is a less desirable environment for yeast overgrowth.