I think you need to try and treat both simultaneously. Treating the adrenals will help restore mucosal immunity. I think this often gets overlooked as people tend to focus on pathogens and go into "kill" mode.

The adrenals and the thyroid are heavily involved in digestion and the immune system and left untreated, will make recovery difficult. You can kill yeast all day long, but if you don't tend to the endocrine system, relapse will be inevitable.

You can support and tonify the adrenals as you fight candida. However, I would stop short of any hormone replacement therapy that is immuno-suppresive.

With regard to diet, I think you should search for a balance, compromise enough to avoid hypoglycemia--try to eat something every three hours. The idea with the candida diet is to avoid spikes in your blood sugar, while keeping it at a healthy level.

Part of treating AF is changing your response to stress. Adaptogens are very helpful with this, as is attention to proper breathing from the diaphragm. Meditation and proper breathing helped me big time. People who are chronically ill tend to breathe from the chest. Simply breathing from the diaphragm will increase intestinal lymph circulation by a factor of 15. Some call the diaphragm the "heart" of the intestines.

Accupuncture and Yoga are viable alternatives if you have trouble meditating.

Other things I found helpful for AF:
1. Sea Salt /Trace Minerals
2. B Complex
3. Vitamin C plus Pantothenic Acid/Pantethine
4. Phosphatidylserine in the evening
5. Theanine/Valerian at night
6. Melatonin at night
7. Licorice Tea
8. Jarrow Adrenal Optimizers (amazing product full of adaptogens)
9. DHEA
10. Fish, Flax, Evening Primrose Oil
11. Multivitamin, Mineral
12. Proline
13. Sunlight
14. Moderate Exercise

It's also important to try not to become isolated. Being chronically ill and isolation seem to go hand in hand. Try and stay connected with friends, laugh every day, and try to do something you enjoy every day, even if you have to force yourself. It will help in the long run.

T.

I spent two and a half months trying to treat Candida but didn't get anywhere with it. Then I started doing home made kefir and homemade kombucha. I know a some people here probably can't tolerate that. What really made a difference is when I started healing from AF. Then my candida started staying in check on it's own.

Dr. James Wilson had a recipe on how to re-balance stomach micro flora using tincture "Body Guard", capsules "Squeaky clean", and acedofilus bacteria. I used it and this approach helped me a lot. I had high indican test.
I have posted this recipe several times. The problem is the site is still down.

Klauss.

Thanks everyone for the advice.

My problem is that I'm so ill now that I can't eat any carbohydrates period. Not even a gram of carbs. I can barely eat any protein for that matter. No more than 10 grams per meal. The rest has to be fat, or serious consequences result.

If I eat more than that I get severe pain in the area of the pancreas, I have trouble speaking, I get severe hypoglycemia 2-3 hours later and my intestines hurt.

I can't even eat lettuce, which is disturbing.

I had a cortisol level test done that confirms all 4 times were low and the conclusions on the results form were that I was in stage 2 of adrenal fatigue and progressing on to stage 3.

I tried taking a vitamin k supplement based on Natto a while ago and I began expelling yeast through my skin, literally. Yeast began oozing out the back of my head. But my hypoglycemia got so severe I had to quit taking it.

Probiotics normalized me enough to make it through most nights without food, but before I would have to wake up and eat all the time. Then in the morning I would be so hypoglycemic I thought I was going to die.

I feel dead. I can't even remember being vital and healthy like I was 10 years ago. I feel like I'm just decaying alive.

I've heard (read) that garlic and oil of Oregano helps Candida and viral.
Recently researching I found info. for this, as often, viral, canadida, herpes are classified as for treating all the same. Through Life Extension.

I recently found a product I want to try. Called Kyolic formula 103. Has the garlic, oregano, olive leaf and something else (?) My last test results showd candada, herpe and Ebstein Barr ( don't know if I spelled this right)

Paulette