Candida Albicans

from http://www.candidaalbican.org/

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Improving your calcium absorption can help to accomplish this. Calcium is too large a molecule to be absorbed directly, so vitamin D is required to transport it across the intestinal membrane. However, vitamin D transports little calcium until it's activated fully by your kidneys. Increasing your kidneys' activation of vitamin D can be achieved by balancing your sodium and potassium intake to match the weather to which you're exposed. (For more on vitamin D and your kidneys' role in calcium absorption, see my book Eating Alive II).

Appears that Calcium is needed to reduce Candida Albicans, and vitamin D is needed to increase Calcium

from http://www.lyme.aquahobby.eu/candida.html__
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"It might be a thyroid problem, lack of zinc, magnesium, problems with resistance, lack of vitamin D or many, many others... generally, the healthy immune system should kill candida without problem."

from http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=299830

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"i also found vitamin D supplementation to help a ton. its a deficiency that not a lot of doctors look for, but is incredibly prevalent."

from http://www.candidacurezone.com/candida-albicans-fungus.html

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"Another common root cause of Candida infections is vitamin D deficiency."

Google search for candida "after pregnancy" >300,000 hits

• Pregnancy profoundly depletes vitamin D (unless supplemented), reducing the immune function, allowing infections such as Candida

Candida may interfere with absorption of Magnesium in the gut

Comment from the web March 2015
Need to investigate

See also VitaminDWiki

• Vitamin D and mucosal immune function – July 2010
• Vitamin D and the Magic Mountain: The Anti-Infectious Role of the Vitamin
• Vitamin D: Before, During, and After Pregnancy
• All items in category Women and vitamin D 60 items
• Vaginal Vitamin D reduced vaginal infections - Jan 2014