The Cure for Candida
…is sugar. Someday I’m going to take this blog down, put it into a short ebook and sell it but right now I feel like getting this off my chest. Pretty early on in my candida problems after a 1.5x bout of antibiotics, I realized that there was something seriously wrong with the current candida diet paradigm. I only realized this because I was, at the same time, making my own probiotic cultures from store bought probiotics. The anti candida diet is just that-a diet focused on minimizing yeast in the blood and intestines. The reason people have to stay on it for upwards of a year or even two years is because it’s totally worthless at repopulating your own intestinal flora. Our own gut flora grows fastest on sugar as well. If I fed my cultures fiber, like the establishment says you should do when you have candida, they would take forever to grow. A candida overgrowth problem is first and foremost a gut flora undergrowth problem. If you are on a diet that starves you of sugar, then you are on a diet that is also keeping your own gut flora from really flourishing like it should.
The problem probably isn’t that you’re eating sugar, it’s that you’re eating either way too much, the wrong kind, or it’s staying in your blood stream for way too long because you’ve been eating like most everyone else does-that being a combination of fats, carbs and protein, like you normally should-unfortunately, the fat blocks the sugar’s access to the cells it needs to get into, resulting in a blooming of yeast and possible diabetes in the long term.
Here’s what you do: You stay away from all white sugar and refined carbs. You do not, on the other hand, stay away from fruit. You also stay away from fats and anything but the leanest protein. You start by eating a little bit of fruit, then wait. You let it digest completely, wait maybe an hour or two hours. Then you eat a little bit more. You do the same. So on and so forth. There two problems with this though: 1st, your gut flora is not ready to digest it, so it might be uncomfortable or likely will be uncomfortable. You know your gut isn’t ready to digest it because you are in the situation you are in. 2nd, your cells aren’t ready to assimilate such a high proportion of carbohydrate with nothing else. You’re not going to function as well and that’s also going to make you feel uncomfortable. It is for these two reasons that you then have to back off the sugar and go back to a typical ‘anti candida diet’ to get you back to default, giving your body what it currently needs to function properly and healthfully. Then once you’ve done that, you go back to the slow sugar build. And everytime you go back to default, you do so in exact accordance to how much you feel you need-protein and fat that is. After several weeks, you should have an entirely new gut and cells ready to function on a high percentage of carbs.
