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Gertrudes
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Thanks Psyche
Gertrudes said:...
So my questions are, are parsnips ok if eaten with moderation? And what about cassava? I have eaten parsnips yesterday and the day before, and am now tinking that maybe that's just food for candida :( I have also bought a lot of cassava that I have not yet eaten. I don't know what I was thinking really, cassava seems to be so starchy...
Trevrizent said:Parsnips (and carrots) and cassava are root vegetables that are very high in starchy sugars! :( In moderation normally, and forbidden during a Candida detox I would think.
Gertrudes said:Trevrizent said:Parsnips (and carrots) and cassava are root vegetables that are very high in starchy sugars! :( In moderation normally, and forbidden during a Candida detox I would think.
So I thought.....what was I thinking of??
3D Student said:Today is my sixth day on the anti candida diet. Before I went on it I had cut out fruit for some weeks. And about a week or two before starting I cut out sweet potatoes, carrots, and winter squash, which I had every meal with other mixed veggies.
I am not having any reactions and seem to be fine. I'm still taking the flax meal and hemp powder, which is about 4 grams of carbs. Also I got a probiotic with 50 billion bacteria, but it has FOS in it. It seems that it wasn't certain whether the FOS would feed candida, and I figured that the many good bacteria in the pill would outweigh it if it did. So I'm wondering if my "ultra shake" and the probiotic are feeding it still, or maybe I didn't have much of a problem?
Psyche said:HifromGrace said:What about (non-gluten) grain preparation, which is called fermenting, [...]
Or is this more of a gluten and/or lectin issue (see below)? Or is this just unrelated to Candida, and only about Detox Diets? [...]
This fermenting is "pre-digesting" that saves trouble for our digestive systems. It is related to "neutralizing" lectins, thus with the detox diet, and not to candida diets.
Happy fermenting :)
For the anti-candida diet, I prefer to stay away from all yeast, except for those which are anti-candida. But you can try including sauerkraut and pickles, if your recipe is sugar free :)
RedFox said:Hi 3D Student
3D Student said:Today is my sixth day on the anti candida diet. Before I went on it I had cut out fruit for some weeks. And about a week or two before starting I cut out sweet potatoes, carrots, and winter squash, which I had every meal with other mixed veggies.
I am not having any reactions and seem to be fine. I'm still taking the flax meal and hemp powder, which is about 4 grams of carbs. Also I got a probiotic with 50 billion bacteria, but it has FOS in it. It seems that it wasn't certain whether the FOS would feed candida, and I figured that the many good bacteria in the pill would outweigh it if it did. So I'm wondering if my "ultra shake" and the probiotic are feeding it still, or maybe I didn't have much of a problem?
My understanding is that if you go on the anti-candida diet, it is only effective if you are also taking something to fight/kill the candida. Starving it won't be enough to get rid of it on its own.
You could go for just probiotics and a high dose (at least 1g per meal if memory serves me) of caprylic acid if you think its nothing serious (if you get die off symptoms from the caprylic acid, you may want to consider something stronger), or go down the nystatin or stronger herbal route (i.e. enteric coated oregano oil - which will kill some good gut bacteria too) to make certain there is nothing left.
In general, you stop nystatin one month after symptoms disappear. But if you have done the detox diet and have no symptoms, then you can do 4 weeks of nystatin.
Psyche said:You can stop when your nystatin finishes. 2 week protocols seems what Dr. Hyman is recommending from his experience. Other practitioners who treat yeast overgrowth had recommended much longer periods (even months). But if you have no significant symptoms, 4 weeks is reasonable.
RedFox said:My understanding is that if you go on the anti-candida diet, it is only effective if you are also taking something to fight/kill the candida. Starving it won't be enough to get rid of it on its own.
Gertrudes said:Initially I thought that I had no symptoms but now, looking back, a very mild tiredness and irritability I felt over the first couple of days which I had attributed to lack of sleep, I am now convinced were candida die off symptoms.
Gertrudes said:Oh great! One week to go and I can eat all the sweet potato I want!
3D Student said:I've actually been thinking already about baking LOL! Maybe that's a symptom too. Meat and a little veggies is ok, but it gets boring after a while. The only sweet thing I'm eating is stevia with my vitamin c.
3D Student said:But I wonder, would you really eat all the sweet potatoes you want? Because if you just killed it off, what would be the use of having it grow back and then have to redo the diet? I was having sweet potatoes and carrots everyday and it doesn't seem like I really had too much of a problem. Perhaps you can do "candida fasts" every few weeks where you don't feed it.