Candida Diet Guidelines: Basic DOs and DON’Ts for Candida Defense Plus the Best Natural Candida Cleanse Program
The basic Candida diet guidelines that you'll discover here 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 you must take to restore the natural balance of your gastrointestinal tract and immune system.
Also, there will be certain points emphasized, which will help you stay on an anti Candida diet with less effort and frustration.
But before, there’s a bit of background to be covered.
As you may already have seen 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 very likely 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.
The good news, now.
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 the Candida overgrowth in your body, your immune system becomes able to function properly for the first time in years, allowing your body to heal itself.
So let’s get down to the actual guidelines now.
Basic 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.
If you tried to cure your candida before with little or no results, I highly recommend Linda Allen's step-by-step candida cleanse program as the most effective and clear program from all that I have tried. As a certified nutritionist and a former yeast infection sufferer, she guides you through a comprehensive protocol of holistic strategies so you can cure your Candida overgrowth once and for all.
Regardless of whether you'll go for Linda's program or not, here are some basic...
Candida Diet Guidelines for the Foods to Avoid
Packaged food products containing yeast, vinegar, soya sauce, flavor enhancers like MSG (monosodium glutamate) and preservatives
Foods that create high acidity, like fast foods, fermented cheeses, cold cuts, coffee, colas
Sugars, or foods converting to sugar (cookies, breads, pasta and pastries made with gluten-containing flour, alcohol), as sugar causes fermentation in your body – here’s the full list of foods that cause Candida
Candida Diet Guidelines for the Foods to Favor
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: make sure you eat 1-2 cloves of raw garlic daily
4 Helpful 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 aggravation of your existing symptoms of Candida overgrowth, an initial worsening of your chronic health conditions.
What to do to ease these off?
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.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you for putting together such a wonderful site! Eye-opening info on the different body types... it really helped me understand how to adjust my meals to lose weight without craving sweets and being hungry all day... or crushing after lunch. I've already lost 12 pounds in the last three weeks and I'm thrilled!! Never ever thought it would be so easy!"