Re: The Candida Diet

When I first began the diet, I continued it mostly strictly for 2 years. I slipped occasionally, mostly accidentally. My Sugar cravings, tiredness and need for more than usual food disappeared within a few weeks of starting the diet. I lost a lot of weight during this time. I felt much better when I followed the diet, but whenever I broke it, I felt worse again.

Then I discovered heavy metal poisoning caused by silver fillings. I replaced my fillings and began chelating the mercury out of my body. Within 6 months of the beginning of chelating, I found I could break my diet with only mild reactions. After 12 months things were even better. I now have a much healthier weight which is not as much as before I started. I clearly feel healthier, and I have much more energy than I did when I started.

Now I follow the diet most days, but I will break it occasionally with fruit or bread or rice. I have reactions to them but nothing serious. I occasionally need to do a yeast cleansing when the symptoms become worse. For example, my symptoms have become worse recently because I spent 2 weeks in Egypt. I broke my diet every day, though I did my best to avoid pure sugar. Some yeast symptoms are bothering me now, so I've started a new round of cleansing in which I follow the diet strictly and take xv coconut oil 3 times a day. I will stop this in a couple of weeks and go back to occasionally breaking the diet.

I'm not finished chelating, so I'm mostly concentrating on that. Others have told me that successfully chelating can cause an end to yeast symptoms. I will continue this looser diet until I end my chelating, and then we'll see. (BTW: I don't chelate and yeast cleanse at the same time because I think it will be too much toxin for my liver to handle at the same time.)

I believe that there are many people who are only suffering from candida. For them, this diet will hopefully help them take care of the problem. For others, I usually suggest they look for underlying causes before they begin since, in my experience, any yeast treatment won't work if there's an unaddressed cause.

I would continue the diet strictly until your condition improves to the point where you feel you can break it occasionally (with fruit, for example). If you can't reach that point, and you've been doing the diet for a long time, then it's definitely time to consider underlying causes. You definitely should not continue the diet indefinitely.

On a side note, I think the occasional freshly brewed green tea is fine on the diet, even with the caffeine in it. It certainly doesn't hurt Japanese people (the people with the longest life expectancy in the world), and it doesn't feed the candida.

I wouldn't recommend tofu or any soy product since soy beans (like most beans, except green beans and a couple of others) have carbohydrates in them.

Just my 3 cents worth (3 cents because of inflation). Tweet