And another question...

[charlz_lynn]

Grover and I are planning on starting the candida diet as soon as we get into the new apartment. We'll, i'm sure, pick up a cookbook or two, but if any of you have the time or interest, would you share your favorite recipes? I'd sure love and appreciate it. We're gonna try and make a serious menu and stick to it... plan very carefully, and whatnot, as this is going to be quite difficult for the both of us.

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[sugarmommaless.livejournal.com]

It's a dietary cleanse which is prescribed / recommended for people with yeast-related sensitivities and sugar intolerance. Both of those conditions have mysterious symptoms (digestive issues, food intolerances, mood swings, skin problems, aches and pains, concentration problems, migraines, etc), which are often helped by the cleanse. The cleanse involves, primarily, eating a very-low-carb diet that is high in fiber and high in fresh nutrients (i.e. no processed scary Atkins food, no preservatives, no pickles, etc), taking yeast killing supplements and digestion-healing supplements, and avoiding all foods that have fungal contamination or fungus such as mushrooms, yeast (beer/wine/bread), molds (blue cheese), and no sugars or high carb foods cause they feed yeast.

The whole thing is based on the theory that an overgrowth of the naturally occurring Candida Albicans digestive yeast has taken over one's organs systems (primarily the digestive system, but it can go beyond that if you get really far gone) and is putting down roots and off gassing toxins that create all those nasty symptoms. To get better, you need to kill the yeast and prevent it from regrowing. The sucky thing is that when you kill the yeast, it gives you side effects kind of like withdrawal, so it's a very very challenging thing to do.
But it's totally worth it.

I think most N.Americans can benefit from at least a gentle Candida Cleanse every few years, and some of us (like me) need to get really brutal with it on occasion. I did the cleanse really seriously for about 2.5 years, and it was life changing for me.

TMI?