Have you been dealing with intense sugar cravings, brain fog, fatigue, digestion issues, and anxiety or depression? It could be candida overgrowth. What is candida and how does one get it? Candida albicans is a specific strain of yeast that lives in the intestinal tract, which can become problematic when it gets out of balance and overgrows. Candida is opportunistic, meaning that it will grow out of balance if your health or constitution has been weakened, typically by using antibiotics. Because non-organic meat contains antibiotics, many of us are consuming them, unwittingly, on a daily or at least weekly basis. Antibiotics kill bacteria—both the good and the bad. So whenever antibiotics are used, we need to repopulate the intestinal flora with good bacteria (probiotics). The good bacteria should outweigh the bad so it doesn’t take over and cause problems. Antibiotics can also thin our mucosal lining, leaving us ill-equipped to wrap up pathogens such as parasites and transport them out of the body.
This can make us vulnerable to all kinds of foreign invaders and yeast overgrowth. So we build the lining of the intestinal tract using a glutamine-based product. Other contributing factors include excessive sugar, coffee, or alcohol consumption, parasitic infections, and chronic stress. What are the symptoms of candida? A white coating on the tongue is typical. However, other symptoms include: How do I know if I have it? Blood, stool, or saliva lab tests can tell if you have candida. But we have found that a free, easy, at-home spit test to be quite accurate over the years (it was also featured on The Dr. Oz Show). It’s as simple as this: For six days in a row, when you wake up in the morning, fill a glass halfway with room-temperature water (before you brush your teeth or eat or drink anything). Next, work up a dime-sized amount of saliva and spit it into the glass. Check it three times over the course of forty-five minutes to see if your saliva sinks to the bottom, stays floating on top, or if it grows legs, little spindly tails that reach down the glass.
If it sinks or grows legs, then you can suspect that yeast is overgrowing in your system. Don’t be freaked out, it happens to so many of us these days, and there is a way to cleanse from it permanently. Does the spit test sound crazy to you? It does to most but we promise it works. An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure! To keep candida at bay, keep refined sugar and alcohol to a minimum, and always supplement with a good multi-strain probiotic when you do consume these foods. Eating fresh garlic, oregano, or drinking Pau D’arco tea can do wonders for the immune system (try our Cleansing Pesto Recipe found in the recipe section). Regularly drinking bone broth or adding a high-quality gelatin powder to your smoothie on occasion can help to strengthen the lining of the intestinal tract. How Do I Cleanse From It? To eliminate candida overgrowth, you must starve it with a special diet, and then kill it with a careful concoction of supplements. Eliminate all yeast, gluten, sugar, white flour, fermented foods and drinks, and most fruit.
Complex carbohydrates such as gluten-free grains, legumes, and root vegetables are allowed, but should be limited. Focus on non-starchy vegetables, clean animal protein, and healthy fats including avocado, butter, and coconut oil. Basically, a pretty boring diet that goes on for six to eight weeks. After working with hundreds of clients and many years of trial and error, we have finally figured out the best concoction for killing candida: But there’s more to the story Because candida can only overgrow in a host with limited resistance, we must figure out which other system in the body has been compromised, be it the immune system (with underlying viruses or heavy metals), an organ or a gland (usually the liver, adrenals, or thyroid) or a combination thereof. Those other systems that are out of balance must also be cleansed and strengthened at the same time, in order for the candidiasis to be completely eliminated. If you are interested in learning more or diving into our life-transforming cleanse, head on over HERE It's a 6-week comprehensive tried-and-tested online candida cleanse and GI repair plan that you can do anytime (and have lifetime access, too)!
The products we provide are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Information and statements made are for educational purposes and are not intended to replace the advice of your health care professional. The Finchley Clinic Ltd does not dispense medical advice, prescribe or diagnose illness.We provide nutritional products that may assist the body in its efforts to nutritionally rebuild and heal itself.For maximum effectiveness, you need to follow the Six Steps to Health as you would with a . You can use a Candida albicans medicine without the six step process but it is more effective if you do the process. What may seem like a short term problem may actually be of a systemic Candida albican infection. The Six Steps are all meant to be performed at the same time. They are split into steps to make them easier to understand. If you feel overwhelmed, try the treatment one step at a time. None of the Candida albicans medicines will work until you remove every one of the causes.
You can completely cure yourself but if the cause is still there, you will get another Candida infection as soon as you stop the treatment. Do not overlook this step! Starve the Candida with the Candida diet. Sugar fuels the growth pattern for Candida. The Candida diet is a low carbohydrate diet that dramatically cuts back on sugar that feeds the Candida. Although carbohydrates are known to be fuel for the body, this is true only in a non-toxic individual. In a person with a systemic Candida albicans infection, excess carbs actually suppress energy. For yeast infections and athlete's foot, there are Candida albicans medicines that can be applied topically and there are Candida albicans medicines that you take internally. The topical creams are usually available without a prescription but most internal medicines require a prescription. If you have a Candida overgrowth, the topical creams will not do any good. You must get a prescription for the pills in order to kill the Candida.
Both types are listed below. Topical Candida Albicans Medicines Lotrimin, Lotrimin AF, Gyne-Lotrimin, Femizole-7, Canesten, MyCelex, Mycelex-7, Agisten, Clotrimaderm, Clotrimazole-Teva Micatin, Monistat, Monistat-Derm, Monistat Vaginal, Daktarin, Gyno-Daktariin, Daktacort, Femizol Nystan, Infestat, Nystalocal, Nystamont, Nystop, Nystex, Mykinac, Nysert, Nystaform, Nilstat, Korostatin, Mycostatin, Mycolog-II, Mytrex, Mykacet, Myco-Triacet II, Flagystatin II The oral Candida albicans medicines are man-made antifungals so they go right to the source. However one drawback of man-made antifungals is that they also attack your liver. If you plan to use one of these Candida albicans medicines make sure to take a natural liver protector like Milk Thistle and have your doctor check your liver enzymes to insure that no damage is being done. Candida albicans medicines are discussed in Chapter 6 in the book "Candida Albicans - The Hidden Disease". When the Candida are growing rampantly, they produce numerous toxins that cause damage to your cells.
The fourth step in the Natural Candida Cure is to repair this damage. Use a powerful free radical scavenger such as Pycnogenol or an Antioxidant Complex to assist in this repair process. You also need to take a high quality multi-vitamin like Whole Food Multivitamin by Dr. Mercola or Synergy Energy by NSI to help repair this damage. The best multi-vitamins are high in anti-oxidant's, made from whole foods and are in capsule or powder form. The heat required to make a tablet can damage the vitamins so that they are of no use to your body. The supplement you choose should have close to 1000% of the B vitamins and Vitamin C. Any supplement that only has 100% of each vitamin is useless and should be avoided. Modern foods are devoid of essential minerals. Taking a mineral supplement helps build up your immune system to fight the Candida. Your body also needs essential fatty acids in order to heal. three types of fatty acids - ALA, DHA and EPA.
conatin only ALA which must be converted in the body to DHA. based sources contain both DHA and EPA. Two good sources of DHA and EPA are fish oil and krill oil. I recommend using krill oil because it also contian an antioxidant called astaxanthin. Vitamin D is another nutrient that is essential to healing. The majority of people today are deficient in Vitamin D. The best way to get Vitmain D is through exposure to the sun. skin uses the rays from the sun to manufacture Vitamin D. Most of us work during the day so we are not able to get adequate sunA fair-skinned Caucasian needs 30 minutes of exposure on half of their body per day in the summer. In the winter, the time needed isThe darker your skin tone, the more exposure you need. The artificial form of Vitamin D added to milk and other foods does not have the same beneficial effects as natural Vitamin D. get adequate sun exposure, then you need to supplement with a naturalI recommend a Vitamin D Spray
A Candida overgrowth also damages your digestion. the food but cannot digest the nutrients you need. people are actually malnourished due to digestion issues. Taking digestive enzymes will help you digest the nutrients you need to heal. The majority of toxins are eliminated from the body through the bowels. These toxins include dead Candida and the toxins that Candida produce. You need to try to have three bowel movements every day during the Natural Candida Cure. Most people do not include enough fiber in their diet to have that many bowel movements in a day. One way to increase your daily fiber intake is to take a fiber supplement. Here are many good sources of fiber to help stimulate bowel movements and carry out colon waste: One great product that combines four of the fibers listed above is Organic Daily Fiber by Garden of Life. Each serving provides 3 grams of soluble and 2 grams of insoluble fiber from organic flax seed, organic pea hull fiber, organic alfalfa and organic barley.
I also recommend that you perform a colon cleanse while doing the Natural Candida Cure. The Candida can cause your bowel movements to be abnormal. That means a lot of the nutrients you eat are not being digested and not all of the toxins are being cleared from the body. A colon cleanse will help your bowel movements returned to normal so that your body can better fight the Candida. It is important that you replace the healthy bacteria found in the colon that is lost through the process of cleansing the colon. This is discussed in more detail in Step 6. I used to recommend that you avoid using anything that stimulates during the Natural Candida Cure. However through further research I have learned that cascara sagrada is a safe and gentle laxative as long as it is used for no more than 7 days at a time. It is imperative that you take probiotics to replace the good bacteria in your intestines. Also stay away from those things that disrupt the balance, such as antibiotics and the other things listed on the causes page.