Re: Candida Turpentine Cure

Sorry I didn't respond about my diet before but after a night of zero sleep, I crashed for ten hours.

I was interested to read your comments about fruit and particularly about pork fat (proponents of the paleo diet would disagree with you). This is where it gets confusing because everyone seems to have a different take on what the anti-candida should be and many have logic and evidence to back up their different arguments. For my part, I eat what makes me feel good and avoid what disagrees with me. This is why I avoid starches (particularly rice, which comes with every meal in Thailand--it makes me feel sluggish and tired).

I also avoid the super-sweet tropical fruits (bananas, Watermelon etc) but do eat those with enzymes. I usually have a half a papaya with lemon juice for breakfast (eat all the seeds first because they are full of papain) with unsweetened, pro-biotic yogurt to follow. Sometimes I will have a canteloupe or honeydew melon instead.

For lunch I will eat an egg (usually hard-boiled, occasionally fried) and some meat, or sometimes just yogurt again.

For dinner: meat with a huge vegetable smoothie: cauliflower, broccoli or cabbage, and radich or cucumber with herbs like ginger, mint, lemongrass and cilantro and pineapple (enzymes again) all whooshed up with ice. I also eat a lot of onions and garlic.

As I have said, I avoid starch (tubers, beans etc.) because that has been the general consensus on the net and because rice disagrees with me. While I never eat the flesh, I do drink a lot of coconut oil (3 X a day in fact) and I do feel that it helps combat the candida.

As you can see, it's not a super-strict anti-candida diet but neither is it a big mac and snickers fried in oil disaster. Of concern, however, is pork fat. I eat a lot of meat as I have been led to believe that protein and fat are NOT candida foods. Most of the meat cosumed in Thailand is pork and it tends toward fattiness--in fact pork fat is an integral part of many pork dishes here.

Anyway, thanks for your observations so far and I would be interested in your take on my diet. Cheers.