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i am really at a loss here. i read to get rid of yeast you must eliminate ALL sugar and grains, even sweet potatoes, then i read sites that talk about how it is okay to consumer some fruits because the body digests it right away, and that it is best to avoid grains for leaky gut, not just gluten. while reading that non glutinous grains are okay for candida...
i really don't know if taking otc meds caused stomach problems for me, if lyme did, what came first, no idea. my stomach doesn't always hurt but it doesn't feel good either, mostly later in the day
it is emphasized that candida feeds on sugar but doesn't lyme also? yet people still have some sugar i am sure with lyme.
how should i go about doing this? thanks for all your help. i am thinking having some low sugar fruits would be okay, no?
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I did a stepdown diet re the candida. It's hard to get over the sugar craving. So first I eliminated sugar and kept fruit until I was over the sugar craving, which took around 10 days or so, then I eliminated the fruit and went on a noncandida diet.
What's great is once we get over the craving for sugar, we don't crave it anymore.
My candida doc said we could cheat once a week, just for the pleasure of tasting some of our former food. But this only works if it doesn't make you fall off the wagon, so to speak. If it's temptation, then stay with the pure noncandida diet.
Carbs turn into sugar, so it's best not to eat bread on a noncandida diet.
Best to be prepared with noncandida food and snack food that you turn to when hungry, to avoid all the other temptations out there.
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droid1226
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It sucks to hear but eliminating carbs altogether solves a majority of the health problems for a subset of lyme patients. It's worth it to try imo.
I've been experimenting with this for a couple yrs now. It's really hard to eliminate carbohydrates from an already restricted diet, but it's possible.
I notice so many people that are constantly suffering are still eating sugar. That includes fruit. Although strawberries & blueberries might be lesser of two evils because of their high antioxidant rates.
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You can find some great tips and recipes here:
thecandidadiet.com
I've had good results adhering (as best I can) to the diet. I hope that whatever you do.....you start to feel better.
I didn't do the cleanse, by the way. Just stuck to the foods that are "legal."
Best of luck!
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I'm doing the most lazy candida treatment ever: no diet.
The point is not to kill the candida, but make it change its mind. I'm not kidding. You kill it, it gets angry, comes back with double force.
Either Sanum remedies can turn them back to 'nice' (as the same nice candida becomes pathogenic), or recently, I'm using either the Violet Ray (it works quite well) or the Neurophone.
I fight candida for at least 3 decades. Dieting, kllling, will not solve the problem for good. I swear. Either use homeopathics or these electro magnetic devices. Before I used devices, Sanum got always candida under control (I did need a bit of reduction on carbs).
With the violet ray and neurophone, I do zero diet! I just continue eating healthy, that's all.
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how can you know you definitely have candida? should i ask for a stool test? how can you know lyme is causing your symptoms, or other things such as candida, leaky gut, parasites, etc
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- Everyone has candida. It's when it goes out of balance that's the problem. And if you are on antibiotics, it's absolutely vital to be mindful that trying to avoid candida overgrowth must be central to your action plan.
No test for candida is going to help. It's just basic: always a top consideration.
It's not important to know all that as there are a million reasons to have only complex carbohydrates - a variety of colors, textures - from the plant kingdom . . . right out of the earth or off the tree.
and zero simple carbs from the "food" industry. Likely, if it's processed, it's too simple and too high on glycemic index.
Learn more about the glycemic index. There are many vegetables and even non-gluten rices, seeds, grasses that are similar to grains that can work very well.
The effect of working within a good glycemic index balance are well worth it.
When proteins and fats (again, real, not from any processed package - not even protein "bars") are on board with every meal and every snack, along with some plant life, you won't crave simple sugars. Really. But a very wide variety of real food has to be in your life. -
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Keebler, l-glutamine might not be good to take but what about for the gut, 5 mg a day? Is that still not safe?
How can one know if there stomach issues are from intolerance, lyme/co, candida, parasites, OR leaky gut or gastritis, others? Ugh it is so confusing!! I guess trial and error?
You said previously dl phenylalathyine (i know i spelled this off) might not be good for lyme but what about l tyrosine? Why wouldnt it be if it just increases dopamine which someone could be low in and also to help energy?
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