An anti Candida diet can help people who have too much of a yeast called Candida albicans in their digestive system who suffer from cravings for sweets, mood swings, concentration problems, headaches, and fatigue. This yeast reproduces rapidly when the good bacteria that are normally found in a healthy digestive system are killed off by antibiotics, or when your immune system is weakened. An overgrowth of Candida Albicans causes toxic wastes to enter your bloodstream, and this results in an allergic reaction within the immune system. An anti Candida diet can break this toxic cycle.
This condition is not recognized by mainline physicians except in severe cases like HIV and terminal illnesses. But in cases where one might expect a systemic Candida albicans infection, such as with persistent mouth, vaginal, or nail yeast infections the antibody titers will often show active systemic infections. A yeast free diet can often make great progress against these infections.
The adoption of the Anti Candida Diet can be done in stages. To begin with, a systemic detoxification should be done by fasting or using detox herbs. This will remove toxins and some of the yeast and will help your body be ready to be rid of the Candida yeast. Next, you can actually reduce the population of Candida Albicans in your system by using natural remedies, such as acidophilus, caprylic acid, and colloidal silver. The final stage in adopting an Anti Candida diet is to repopulate your digestive system with beneficial bacteria and yeasts, so that you will experience improved digestion and prevent the Candida from returning to your system.
With the Anti Candida Diet, the foods that are avoided are just as important as the foods that are added. First and foremost, you must avoid added sugars and sugar-sweetened foods including fruit juice, honey, cookies, cakes, candy, soda, and ice cream. You can eat foods that are sweetened with stevia extract, a natural sweetener.
Once you’ve had sugars out of your system for a few days, you’ll find your cravings sharply diminished and can add one or two whole fruits per day. Eliminating white starch foods like white bread, pasta, potatoes, and refined flours. Avoid all trans-fats on the anti Candida diet. Avoid antibiotics and synthetic steroids unless they are used for steroid deficiency.
Increase your intake of omega-3 oils and other essential oils when on the anti Candida diet. These come from oily fish like salmon, mackerel, sardines, and tuna in oil. Flaxseed and borage oils are beneficial either added to foods or in capsule form twice daily (1000 mg per capsule). Avocados, olives, nuts, olive oil, and canola oils are also beneficial.
Acidophilus, bifidus, and other probiotics after breakfast and dinner every day will almost always prevent overgrowth of Candida Albicans in the intestines. If necessary, caprylic acid in capsules of 700 to 1000 mg after breakfast and dinner can be taken if the other measures are insufficient. One or two teaspoons of colloidal silver after breakfast and dinner each day can help yeast antibody levels return to normal.
After one month of following the anti Candida diet, people often report elimination of fatigue and fibromyalgia symptoms and the return to normal antibody levels. Headaches and mood swings are diminished, and digestion is improved. Yeast infections of the mouth, vagina, and digestive system are reduced or eliminated, and energy levels increase.
For some people with longstanding yeast problems in their digestive system, it may take longer than a month on an anti candida diet to see any improvement in symptoms, but it is very important to continue to avoid foods that “feed” the yeast in your body, foods like sugars, wine, and beer. Continuing with the anti candida diet should result in continued improvement in symptoms.
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