ANTICANDIDA STRATEGIES

Your goal is to control the overgrowth of Candida yeast as it is impossible to completely eliminate it. It may take three to six weeks to balance your intestinal tract and reduce both the symptoms and the actual candida overgrowth. You can bring yourself back to a strong immune system by:

• STOP EATING SUGAR! All of it… The average North American consumes 52 teaspoons of sugar daily, mostly in processed foods or bakery items. Avoid all sugar, soft drinks, soybean products and tofu, wine, beer, alcohol, vinegar, all fruit except lemon and lime juice, flour products, nuts and nut butters, as they “feed” the fungus of yeast.
• Choose antibiotic-free turkey and chicken.
• Powerful candida-killing substances; garlic, ginger, Echinacea, pau d’arco, cinnamon, thyme, rosemary. Eat these freely; raw in salads; as a tea; in a supplemental capsule; or in cooking. GreensFirst by Doctors for Nutrition contains 50 mg of cinnamon per serving and contains no sugars or artificial sugars. It contains Stevia which is a natural plant that tastes sweet without interfering with your anti-candida diet and it does not raise the insulin levels so it is OK for diabetics (let your MD know you wish to take this product if you are diabetic).
• Use probiotic supplements with live active culture such as Dr Ohhira’s Probiotics; CDX by Theramedix; or Friendly Bacteria by Blessed Herbs. High quality green drinks contain 2.5 billion friendly bacteria per teaspoon that helps to repopulate the intestinal tract with the proper healthy bacteria, reinculate the intestinal walls, and candida overgrowth will rapidly diminish. The green drink recommended here is GreensFirst by Doctors for Nutrition.
• Other oral anti-candida substances are grapefruit-seed extract, caprylic acid products, Bentonite clay, which absorbs bacteria and diluting tea tree oil (a couple of drops) in a half-cup of water used as a douche. Tea tree oil mixed with water and drunk is an effective anti-fungal agent.
• An ingredient in spirulina called calcium spirulan is effective against a series of fungus, bacteria, and viruses. Twice daily, use a green drink containing spirulina, mixed in water, such as GreensFirst by Doctors for Nutrition.
• Consume 40 grams of fiber daily to keep the inner ecology of your intestines healthy and cleansed. It is always a good idea to cleanse internally on a regular basis. You can use the fiber in the Blessed Herbs Cleansing Kits, starting first with the Whole Body Cleanse and adding the others in if you need them. It is recommended that you do that one first and then do a Colon Cleanse by Blessed Herbs every six months after that. Only repeat the Parasite Kit if you suspect or know that parasites and yeast are a problem. The GreensFirst product by Doctors for Nutrition contains 1950 mg of mixed fibers per serving!
• Avoid MSG (monosodium glutamate), a substance which is added to many prepackaged foods or is used in Asian cooking.
• Acupuncture has shown dramatic results with candida albicans rebalancing.
• Visualization techniques (sit quietly and visualize the candida albicans becoming less plentiful and less active) have been extremely helpful to some women. You must believe in visualization in order for it to work. Some of the Hemi-Sync CD’s sold on this website will help guide you through a visualization, so you know what to do.
• Homeopathic remedies are beneficial for some people, if the treatment is supervised by a qualified homeopathic doctor.
• Locate a nutritionally oriented dentist to remove mercury amalgam tooth fillings. The leak mercury, which is an antibiotic that kills many bacteria, but encourages those that escape its power to develop into superstrains, which then flourish and grow unopposed. This helps to grow candida albicans which is yeast overgrowth.

Diet Help: Plan for General Prevention of All problems:

• Eat a minimum of 10 servings of organic vegetables daily and two ripe whole fruits (bear in mind that you will eliminate the fruits for the 3 – 6 weeks that you are attempting to reduce the candida in your system.) To help you get started, or for a general supplementation try GreensFirst by Doctors for Nutrition, which has 10 servings of vegetables and fruits in every serving.
• Unless you suspect or have a thyroid deficiency, include miso, soy milk, touf, tempeh, soy isolate protein powder, a green drink, sea vegetables, no wheat products, sourdough whole-grain breads, 1 – 2 tablespoons of omega-3’s such as flaxseed oil daily and one tablespoon of extra-virgin olive oil on your salads. For the omega-3’s, a palatable method of obtaining the right amount for those who hate taking supplements, for kids, of for those too sick, try Coromega in the pudding-like teaspoon paks, available here. It gives you the Omega’s from fresh deep-sea fish and will not give you the “fish-burps” or any bad aftertaste.
• Take a high-quality multi-vitamin-mineral-antioxidant supplement daily that contains 200 mcg selenium, 200 mcg chromium picolinate, the full range of carotenoids, and the full range of at least 400 IU vitamin E tocopherols as dietary antioxidants and nutrients to help the cells defend themselves from cancer processes. Greens First by Doctors for Nutrition contains 300 mg of multiple-antioxidants per serving and includes 100 mg of a Resveratrol proprietary blend of mixed ingredients.
• Consume daily, sea vegetables and Celtic sea salt, essential for their easily absorbable iodine and sodium, which support the health of the thyroid gland. In GreensFirst by Doctors for Nutrition, you have many thyroid-enhancing ingredients including: parsley, 15 mg Atlantic Kelp Powder’ and others.
• Include a quality greens drink to support peak performance and accelerated healing, such as the above mentioned GreensFirst.
• Eat organic produce and drink pure water.
• Avoid alcohol consumption
• Drink 8 – 12, 8-ounce glasses of water with 6 tablespoons of fresh lemon or lime juice daily to properly prehydrate. Add 1-2 ounces of Bio-Noni by Tahiti Trader to 2 of your daily glasses of water or drink the Bio-Noni plain. Bio-Noni helps with all women’s complaints, PMS, menopause, hot flashes, irritability, mood swings, night sweats and sleeplessness while ensuring 95% calcium absorption in the bones promoting bone growth, density and strength; and also delivers significant antioxidant protection to boost your immune system and promote good cardio-vascular health, while being naturally anti-aging! It promotes collagen formation in the skin, balances hormones and normalizes estrogens. Among other ingredients, 1 ounce of Bio-Noni contains: 400 mcg folic acid; 50 mcg chromium polynicotinate. Do not use Bio-Noni while pregnant or nursing, but you may continu to use the regular Noni by Tahiti Trader for its other benefits.
• Exercise 3 – 5 times per week with both aerobics and weight-resistance exercises.
• It is always a good idea to practice breathing and meditation exercises; Hatha yoga; Tai Chi; Feldenkrais movements.
• Eat plain white organic yogurt which is very alkalizing, which is shown to discourage microbes, viruses, parasites and yeasts from taking hold.
• Eat a 75% diet of alkalizing foods. Eliminate red meat, refined sugar and hydrogenated foods and oils. Eat moderate amounts of whole grains, and more beans and vegetables that decrease estrogen levels.