Diet - candida recovery
Avoid these foods
Get more of these foods
Candida die-off
Avoid these foods
If you suffer from candida, it is important to eliminate all sugar, sweet foods and refined carbohydrates in your diet.
- Pastries, breads, cakes, anything made with flour, sweets/lollies, jams, sweet foods.
- Wheat, potato, corn and products made from them (especially high fructose corn syrup, added to many processed foods.
- Fruits (especially sweet or mouldy fruit). Eliminate most fruits except sour citrus like sour lemons and limes.
- Dried fruits.
- Soft drinks/sports drinks/colas etc.
- Fruit juice.
- Alcohol, bakers and brewer's yeast.
- Avoid sugar alcohols like xylitol, sorbitol and mannitol.
- Mushrooms.
- Mouldy foods.
- White vinegar, pickles.
- Dairy products (except small quantities of sour kefir, sour yogurt, and sharp hard cheese. Lactose is the sugar in milk, and you want to avoid all lactose.
- Soy products.
- Peanuts and many grains, which are often contaminated with fungi or mould.
Get more of these foods
Foods that provide good flora to help re-establish a balance in your intestines include:
- Vegetables - a variety of greens and other vegetables (but avoid sweet vegetables like carrots, beets, sweet potato, corn).
- Protein foods - meat, fish, eggs, poultry, legumes.
- Garlic is an effective anti-fungal food.
- Sharp, sour, home-made milk kefir.
- Sharp, sour, home-made water kefir.
- Sharp, sour, home-made rejuvelac.
- Sauerkraut, home-made and raw.
- Sharp, sour, home-made unsweetened natural yogurt.
- Coconut oil provides lauric acid and capric acid, natural anti-fungals that suppress candida overgrowth.
- From health food shops, you can buy anti-fungal capsules containing olive leaf extract, grapefruit seed extract, or oregano oil.
Candida die-off
For the first few days or weeks of treating a candida infection, you may feel worse. This is known as a Herxheimer reaction. As the yeasts die off they release toxins quicker than your body can eliminate them, causing fatigue, aches, pains and headaches. Drink plenty of water and herbal teas. A chronic candida infection may take months to heal.
If you have a severe sugar addiction, it can take as long as 12-18 months to completely get over the addiction.