Candida Diet Guidelines: Basic DOs and DONTs for Candida Defense
Most Candida diet guidelines are practical, common sense solutions to your digestive ill health. They show you what foods to eliminate, what foods to substitute and the necessary Candida defense supplements to restore the natural balance of your gastrointestinal tract and immune system.
Also, there will be certain points emphasized, which help you stay on an anti Candida diet with less effort and frustration.
Here’s a bit of background…
As you’ve seen already in the causes of Candida section, Candida Albicans, or intestinal Candida is a naturally occurring yeast in your intestinal tract. However, a number of factors can lead to a strong imbalance of your intestinal flora, hence the sudden Candida overgrowth and its spread into your bloodstream and from there to most organ systems in your body.
As you can imagine, what begins as impaired digestion and chronic acid reflux, soon escalates to wild food cravings, extreme fatigue, skin problems, sudden weight gain – to name just a few of the symptoms of Candida overgrowth.
You must understand that unless you follow these basic Candida diet guidelines, this intestinal yeast overgrowth leads to serious symptoms that make your life miserable. Plus, you fight a constant resistance to losing weight, no matter how little you eat and how much you exercise.
In fact, even if you manage to lose a few pounds, you gain them back shortly, and then more – simply because with a Candida overgrowth the food cravings for all kind of high calorie foods are atrocious and impossible to ignore.
However, following these simple Candida diet guidelines helps you to balance your sugar levels and stop food cravings, lose weight, eliminate headaches, joint and back pain, reduce your blood pressure, cholesterol levels and regain your energy and vitality – all without any medication.
How is this possible?
Well, by eliminating a Candida overgrowth in your body, the immune system is able to function properly for the first time in years, allowing your body to heal itself.
So let’s get down to it.
Candida Defense (Cleanse) Guidelines
An initial Candida cleanse significantly reduces the yeast overgrowth in your body, making it much easier to be dealt with through the subsequent anti Candida diet. Check the available Candida cleanses at your local health store and choose one that is at least seven days long, ideally 14 days.
Candida Diet Guidelines for the Foods to Avoid
Any products containing yeast or yeast extract, monosodium glutamate (MSG)
Foods that create acidity - i.e. all junk food and carbonated drinks
Sugars, or foods converting to sugar, as sugar causes fermentation in your body – here’s the full list of foods that cause Candida
Candida Diet Guidelines for the Foods to Eat
High quality proteins (organic beef, chicken, turkey, eggs, wild fish)
All non-starchy vegetables (cabbage, broccoli, brussel sprouts, peppers, tomatoes, onions, zucchini, turnips, radishes, cucumber, cauliflower, kale, eggplant, asparagus, spinach) – include these for at least 50% of your diet, as they alkalize your body and supply the necessary amount of fiber to help cleanse your colon
Raw garlic is one of the best Candida killers: it's best to eat daily 1-2 cloves of raw garlic, as the health benefits of garlic are notorious.
Candida Defense Supplements
Take Candida defense high-strength probiotics (live yogurt cultures), which bring friendly bacteria back in your digestive tract, restoring its natural balance: Acidophilus, Lactobacillus Probiotics, Bifobacterium Bifidium and Streptococcus Thermophilus are the most common ones
Take Oil of Oregano, a powerful antifungal that kills off Candida overgrowth
Take green algae like Spirulina and Chlorella to restore intestinal balance and give a lift to your immune system
Drink a fiber shake daily with minimum 15-20 grams of fiber to sweep your bowel clear and prevent Candida overgrowth in your intestine - use flax seeds, psyllium, hemp or chia seeds
Final Candida Diet Guidelines
Unfortunately, before you’ll feel better, you’ll feel worse for the first few days on the Candida yeast diet. You will experience what’s commonly known as Candida die-off symptoms - an exaggeration of your existing symptoms of Candida overgrowth or a worsening of your chronic health conditions.
What to do?
First, drink plenty of water to help wash away from your body the toxic metabolic by-products that Candida releases as it dies off. Second, rest assured that your condition WILL improve after a few days and you’ll begin to feel healthier than you’ve felt in years!
Also, when on an anti Candida diet, make sure you eat a substantial breakfast, lunch and dinner to keep your blood sugar levels at a steady level, or else you’ll experience dizziness, even headaches, mood swings or irritability. If this happens even when you eat three good meals daily, simply add a mid-morning and mid-afternoon snack.
As you can see, these basic Candida diet guidelines help you starve off and eliminate Candida overgrowth that is responsible – among other nasty things – for your weight gain and weight loss resistance.