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"THANKS" for your post!

Tom/Isa. 40:8.
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

Yes, the apple juice is essential...I assume it's for the malic acid that works on the calcium deposits. (I don't know how else the apple interacts with the herbs to create the healing, but I'd guess it's more than just the malic acid, and there's likely dozens/hundreds other phytochemicals that come into play).

You could attempt to do it with distilled water, and substitute malic acid powder/capsules...but the body does not respond to isolated extracts of natural substances in the same/favorable way it does to natural substances. Too much malic acid mixed into this combination could cause negative effects; too little could cause 'lack of ANY effect'.

One of the things you might want to try for a test? Take a small amount of apple juice and "chew your juice". Dr. Christopher always said, "drink your solids & chew your liquids" (chew the food into liquids that you can swallow and mix the liquids thoroughly with the saliva). Most folks don't know that the mouth produces 1-2 PINTS of saliva for every meal...and getting that mixed thoroughly with the food really is imperative to our assimilation/digestive. Doc Christopher had patients that were diabetic/hypoglycemic taking high-sugar juices, and he swore it never adversely effected their blood Sugar levels if they 'chewed their juice'...mixing the natural sugars with all the digestive enzymes in the salivary juice, "predigested" the Sugar enough to not throw off their blood sugar. So perhaps "predigesting" the Sugar in the apple juice would prevent a mass 'candida frenzy' (???) If it were me, I'd certainly give it a try!

May I ask, what are you doing besides starving the candida of sugar to attempt to heal the issue? The reason I ask is because I've now coached over 10 people with long-term candida issues...AFTER they experienced the oh-so-typical "I got in under control via a no sugar/carb diet & anti-fungals, but the second I ate any normal amount of natural sugar/carbs, everything was undone, and the candida is back". And while that type of protocol is highly popularized, all it takes is an hour or two reading any Candida Forum to see quite clearly, it's very ineffective in the long run.

Remember: yeast/bacteria/viruses don't cause disease any more than mosquitoes cause a pond to be stagnant. It's BECAUSE the pond is stagnant that the yeast/pathogens multiply rapidly, hence causing symptoms. One can put poisons in the pond water (antifungals) all they want, and make sure the the mosquitoes don't have any food to eat...but the mosquitoes will always return if the pond remains stagnant.

So, along with the 'starvation/poisoning' method, one must do other things to ensure a total healing from candida overgrowth.

---stop ingesting ANY substance that negatively impacts the natural balance of micro-organisms in the digestive tract/body. Of course, this means no Antibiotics , but also no Colloidal Silver - and be very cautious with ANY natural product that claims to kill bacteria & viruses...until you are SURE they don't kill any of the beneficial microorganisms that are very necessary for balance in your digestive tract. The faster you can replenish the NATURAL level of microorganisms in your body, the faster the overgrowth of candida can be healed.

One of the best/most effective ways you can do this is with naturally fermented foods - fresh sauerkraut, kimchee, kefir, yogurt...all of these would be fantastic.

---make sure they have NO 'feeding & breeding grounds'...as in, cleanse the colon thoroughly to remove the rubbery, acidic, toxic, putrefying layers of mucous & mucoid plaque throughout the intestinal tract. This is their MAIN feeding grounds, and the reason why 'any little thing' that can throw them into a point of overgrowth & negative symptoms.

While natural sugar, the sugar from carbs, and foods with active yeast, do indeed, feed the candida...it's virtually impossible to induce anything but a temporary overgrowth in someone with a healthy diet, a cleansed intestinal tract, that's drinking ample fluid and has 3-5 natural bowel movements daily (Dr. Christopher said 5 daily was optimal...1 when you wake, 1 after every meal, & one before bed - exactly like every animal in the wild)

Hence, a very (very!) thorough Colon Cleanse is imperative...and not just for a week or two every few months...a 30 day course with IF#2 is a great place to start. And if you mix whatever antifungal you're taking in with the IF#2 slurry, then the antifungal will be driven into the mucoid plaque and the deep recesses where the candida breed...helping to kill them AND removing their 'feeding & breeding grounds'.

'Hope that gave you lots of good food for healthy thought!

Unyquity