Doing the traditional "candida" diet will keep your inner biological terrain prime for continued overgrowth and other bacteria, virus etc. Why? Because the traditional candida diet does nothing to rebuild your immune sytem, specifically the gut's immune system. These diets are very acidic and only attempt to relieve the symptoms of candida overgrowth without adressing the underlying problem...toxicity and poor dietary habits. Even the candida diet guru "Billy" Crook is rethinking his approach and taking a serious look at alkalinity's role in the total system.

Candida overgrowth is actually a blessing, a natural occurance in reaction to a failing system that is stagnated. It is an attempt to clean up the mess that is piling up.

The answer isn't to "treat" candida. The answer to the situation is to rebuild the biological terrain to one that supports a healthy immune system and a balanced gut flora. This is done with nutrition (mostly alkaline) and elimination of toxic overload. Toxic overload can include medications, dental Amalgams and metals, pesticide residues on foods, chlorinated and flouridated water, etc. Emotionla stress is alos a big contributing factor to the acidic condition that allows candida to overgrow. All these factors are refered to in Environmental Health as the "total load". Reduce the total load enough through elimination and detoxification, correct nutritional deficiencies through diet and build an alkaline terrain the same way, and your body's innate wisdom will thank you by kicking back in and creating a homeostatic and harmonic health situation.

Hope this makes sense.

Lapis, again, thank you for responding. I understand what you were talking about when it comes to candida and the candida diet as well as my doctor. Did you suffer from the same adrenal problems, etc. at one point? How are you doing now? Do you have any sort of a "testimonial" concerning your recovery and the steps you took? I watch everyting that I eat and drink and am just looking for every advantage I can get to recover my health. I would love to be one of the multitude of success stories on this site that overcome and help other people. Thank you for all of your hard work.

Are these pads good for all toxins regardless of their physical chemical properties or are they better for non-polar or polar contaminants?

thanks