DIET: This is a good diet for many reasons, not just for combating candida yeast
overgrowth. Without strict adherence to the following diet, no anti-candida drug or
treatment will succeed: (1) Avoid added sugars (including fructose, fruit juices, honey, molasses,, etc.) and all sugar-sweetened foods and snacs, including caes, cooies, candies, desserts, sodas, fruit-juice and ice-cream, unless they are made with sugar-substitutes lie stevia e!tract, which is a natural sweetener, available at healthfood stores" or saccharin or asesulfame (these substances may cause #roblems for some #eo#le who are allergic or sensitive to them but, by and large, they are not as harmful as sugars). $f you can cut out sugars for % days, their &s#ell& will #ossibly be broen and you may be able to resist them 'uite easily, es#. once any thyroid, chromium and( or manganese deficiencies, or a high free-insulin level (&)yndrome *&), which can cause hy#oglycemia and sugar cravings, are corrected. +-, servings of whole-fruits #er day (e!ce#t the very sweetest inds, lie gra#es, watermelon and mango) are -.. (2) Avoid white-starch foods, lie white bread, caes, cooies, white #asta, white rice, #otatoes w(o their sins, and all refined flours, etc.. Whole-grain flour, in moderation, is acce#table" also #otatoes with their #eels, whole-grain brown or wild rice, whole-grain #asta (usually available in the deli section of su#ermarets), etc.. $ see no reason to avoid other yeasts - they could com#ete with, hel# to contain, candida yeast. /or to avoid dairy #roducts, unless you are allergic to them. $ believe some of the #rohibitions bandied around are old wives& tales with no scientific evidence to su##ort them. Avoiding them #uts an unnecessary burden on the #atient, discouraging adherence to any form of anti-candida diet and derailing the whole treatment-effort. (3) $ncrease your intae of saturated fats0 and essential oils, es#ecially omega-% oils, which are very lacing in the Western World&s diet. These include meat, fish and dairy fat, including: 1ish oils, and oily fish, lie salmon, macerel, tuna-in-oil, sardines-in-oil, etc." 1la!-seed and borage oils. -ne tables#oon of fla! seeds or its oil, or one +222mg ca#sule of each of these, twice daily, should fit the bill. )ome of these oils can be used as salad-dressing, or on whole-grain breads or baed #otato, instead of olive or canola oil. Avocadoes, nuts, olives and olive-oil, canola and other vegetable oils are mostly omega-3 oils, which are also good but not as lacing in our diets. Avoid trans-fats strictly. 01or all the reasons why $ now strongly recommend lots of saturated fats, see the Weston A 4rice 1oundation website and the wor of )ally 1allon, 5ary 6nig, etc. (4) Avoid antibiotics and synthetic cortisone-( steroid-ty#e #rescri#tions if at all #ossible. /atural hydrocortisone, as long as it is #rescribed only for a documented free-cortisol deficiency, and its serum level is e#t within its normal range for the time of day at which the blood (or saliva s#ecimen) was drawn, is fine (and often essential in cases of chronic fatigue syndrome, es#. if with a chronically low blood #ressure). TREATMENTS: (1) Acido#hilus (or 7ifidus, or other 4ro7iotic), usually +-, ca#sules, or at least + million organisms, after brfst and after su##er daily, indefinitely. This and the above diet are usually enough to #revent - or #revent the return of a #revious - overgrowth of candida yeast in the blood and intestines. 8omeo#athic remedies, and some herbs, are also said to be effective. $f stronger treatment is re'uired, i.e. when you have elevated candida antibody titers in your blood, $ recommend: (2) 9a#rylic Acid (:22-+222 mg ca#s.) or ;ndecanoic Acid <2mg ca#sules (e.g., 1ormula )1-:,, by Thorne =esearch), % after brfst and % after su##er daily (3(day). (3) 9olloidal )ilver (>2.2+-micron #article-si?e, <22 ##m), +-, teas#oonsful after brfst and su##er daily (or +-, dro##ersful of a ,222##m solution, diluted if desired), until the antibody titers are normal. $ have not seen any evidence of &argyria&, a #ermanent unsightly silver-grey discoloration of the sin that can follow #rolonged intae of large-#article-si?e colloidal silver (as in most home-made versions). This substance was used as an antimicrobial agent before we had antibiotics, and was safe