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The "No-Brainers" for Physical and Mental Health:
Follow the NEWSTARTS protocol. All aspects important, but to emphasize just a couple - try and reduce stress and get enough sleep. Candida is only present with a weakened immune system.
This starves the Candida by taking away its food source:
- Eat 6 small meals / day
- Avoid processed foods
- Minimize sugar and starches. Includes fruit juices, dried /candied fruits, sodas, and since carbs break down into sugar, also avoid refined carbohydrates and carbs with a high glycemic index (E.g. potatoes). However, do not eat an excessively high protein diet and completely eliminate carbohydrates:
• Protein metabolism produces alkaline ammonia conducive to Candida growth
• Increases undigested proteins escaping the GI tract through a leaky gut - making extra work for immune system
• The beneficial(Candida fighting),intestinal flora need feeding
- 65% high fiber / low starch vegetables. Fresh and steamed vegetables, such as broccoli, celery, radish, asparagus, onions /garlic (very good anti-fungals), ginger root, cabbage.
- 20% high protein foods. E.g. fish, nuts and seeds. Spray with a mix of 15-30 drops GSE in 2 cups water to kill aflatoxins.
- 10% complex carbohydrates. E.g. brown rice, whole grain barley, beans, millet, amaranth, quinoa, and buckwheat.
- 5% fruit. Papaya, pineapple, grapefruit and all types of berries.
Sea vegetable, olive oil, citrus fruit, herbal teas and unsweetened cranberry juice.
- A quality daily green drink. Supplies most needed nutrients in bioavailable food form
- Ensure a sufficiency of vitamins A, B, C, D and E
- Ensure sufficiency of minerals magnesium, iron, sulfur, zinc selenium
Probiotics are beneficial bacteria, which compete with Candida, produce antifungal enzymes that control Candida population, and aid re-colonization of other beneficial bacteria;
How to increase body's probiotic presence
Involves some simple remedies, but to prevent recurrence, you should apply the general recommendations against candidiasis mentioned below.
Specific Remedies for Vaginal Yeast Infection
Experience has shown that the mycelial form of Candida is very difficult to eliminate, especially if has broken through the intestinal wall into the blood stream and on into other body organs. Anti-fungal "tools"are available to help kill Candida, but to prevent its return requires:
1. Restoring your immune system to its full potential
2. Restoring a healthy balance of probiotics in your body. To keep control of pathogenic bacteria and fungi. The ideal ratio is 85% probiotics : 15% pathogenic organisms.
Also, be aware:
- As yeasts die off you may feel ill. Cut back treatments as necessary and then work back up to full dose;
- You need to be patient. Mycelial Candida is very difficult to eliminate
Fungi living within the mucous membranes of the mouth may be eliminated by daily, oral swishing with an anti-fungal solution. MMS, Lugol's iodine, wild oregano oil, grapefruit seed extract, tea tree oil or other anti-fungal, for several minutes just before bed.
Lugol's Solution
- Dose. 8 drops Lugol's solution /day (contains 50mg of iodine/iodide)
Iodine -The Universal Medicine
Virgin Coconut oil
- Rich in lauric, acid, caprylic, and caproic fatty acids. Short- to medium-chained fatty acids that work on breaking down the outer wall of yeast cells.
- Nigerian study successful in treating C. Albicans with virgin coconut oils. University College Hospital, Nigeria.
- Oral Dose: 1-3 Tbsp. coconut oil /day as a therapeutic dose to kill excessive yeast; you will need to start low and build up dose.
Grapefruit Seed Extract (GSE)
• GSE is one of the best non-toxic remedies for Candida
• GSE can simultaneously detoxify the system of other fungi, bacteria and parasites - that often go hand-in-hand with Candida.
• Consume GSE between meals
Powerful antifungal foods. E.g. garlic, cinnamon
Grape seed extract. Although it is antifungal when used alone, when combined with amphotericin B (the drug often used for treating fungal infections, but with severe side-effects ), it has produced a significant growth retardation of Candida with a lower dose of this drug, according to a 2007 "Phytomedicine" study. Dose must be high enough to be effective:
• Typical dose of grape seed extract. 75 -300 mg daily
"The Essential Herb-Drug-Vitamin Interaction Guide," by George T. Grossberg and Barry Fox.
• Grape seed supplementation for up to 12 weeks is considered safe at recommended dosage on package
University of Maryland Medical Center.
• Side effects - can include sore throat, headache. Higher risk for bruising or bleeding if combined with blood-thinning drugs E.g. warfarin, heparin
Wild Oregano Oil
Olive Leaf Extract
Tea tree oil. Can be used EXTERNALLY. E.g. in the mouth or vagina
Kills Candida as effectively as Diflucan (oral "azole"antifungal). Can cure vaginal yeast, oral Candida, Candida rashes and intestinal Candidiasis. Serious cases may need multiple treatments.
Unlike Diflucan, it does not burden liver or kidneys. Excreted in feces
Lufenuron is "loaded" into fatty tissue for 5 days, such that its slow release maintains tissue concentration sufficient to kill Candida. By making holes in its cell walls. About ½of Candida's cell wall is composed of extremely hard chitin, the rest Ergosterol. Crabs, beetles, worms and fungi (including mushrooms), just to name a few species, have hard chitin coats that help protect them from pressure damage, but humans do not naturally have a use for chitin. Lufenuron destroys the chitin, which kills the Candida by allowing the fungus to "bleed out"through holes in its cell walls.
Where to buy and cost? Lufenuron is sold at www.owndoc.com site -currently sold at wholesale prices of $27 for a 3 week course. You will also find treatment details and results at this site, hosted by nutritionist Sarah Vaughter and her husband, John, who holds a Phd in Chemistry and who cleared up his own persistent and serious Candida infection :
Lufenuron as a Candida treatment
Effective ADJUNCT supplements to treatment of Candida infection. In the intestines, these supplements counteract the unpleasant "die-off" Herxheimer reaction by adsorbing (chemically absorbing) toxins produced by Candida and dying Candida (that would otherwise be absorbed by the blood and carried throughout the body) and dead Candida. Enables people to continue treatment rather than give up
• Activated charcoal. Commonly found in air and water filters; suggested dose is 20g up to 35 g for severe cases /day in divided doses on an empty stomach until Candida is controlled
• Liquid Bentonite. A liquid clay
NOTE: Do NOT take required medications within 2 hours of taking Activated Charcoal.
Contrary to popular advice, mushrooms are NOT a problem food for Candida, and some species actually fight it. Such advice does not hold up against scientific scrutiny. Some wild mushrooms picked in Turkey were found to have strong anti-Candida activity. Fungi expert and mycologist for more than 30 years, Paul Stamet, author of MycoMedicinals, says that mmany fungi fight Candida. Mushroom catalogs with a "mycomedicinals"appendix list anti-Candida mushrooms (all, except Schizophyllum, also boost the immune system):
• Ganoderma lucidum (Reishi/Ling Chi)
• Grifola frondosa (Maitake/Hen of the Woods)
• Lentinula edodes (Shiitake)
• Trametes versicolor (Yun Zhi/Turkey Tail)
• Schizophyllum commune (Suehirotake/Split-Gill)
