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Yeast infections are caused by a type of fungus known as yeast, a single-cell organism found throughout the environment. Most of the time, your body can handle this fungus without any problems.

It turned out, however, that in hungry yeast cells, the ribosomes that crowd on the surface of the mitochondria don't produce anything. They are hibernating.