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 in your diet, and refined sweet foods.
- 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)(ie most fruits except limited amounts of sour citrus)
- Dried fruits
- Soft drinks/sports drinks/colas etc
- Fruit juice
- Alcohol, bakers and brewer's yeast
- Mushrooms
- Mouldy foods
- White vinegar, pickles
- Dairy products (except kefir and sour yogurt)
- Soy products
- Peanuts and many grains are often contaminated with fungi
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
- Milk kefir
- Water kefir
- Rejuvelac
- Sauerkraut
- Unsweetened natural yogurt
- Coconut oil provides lauric acid, a natural anti-fungal that suppresses candida growth
- 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. 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.