What Is Candida?
How To Create A Intestinal Balance!

Candida albicans is a form of fungus and yeast bacteria that lives in our bodies naturally.

Under certain conditions, however, this yeast can get out of control and take over in the form of an overgrowth, causing extreme acidity and a plethora of related symptoms.

Typically these yeast begin in our digestive tract and, when out of balance, move into the bloodstream and other organs of the body, severely depleting the immune system and it's protective functions.

Candida overgrow occurs in an acidic environment, thriving on sugar, fats and acid-type foods. Therefore, it is extremely important to maintain acid/alkaline balance for continued health of the entire digestive system.

Chronic problems with digestion and elimination most often indicate an outnumbering of these yeast bacteria over other flora needed for optimal function.

In this situation, detoxification through a specific diet regime is necessary for the proper digestion of food and continued health of the colon.

Do You Have Candida Overgrowth?

• Eat a diet of highly processed foods.
• Have taken large doses of antibiotics, which kills "friendly flora."
• Have an excess of accumulated toxic waste in the colon.
• Are or have taken medical drugs like prednisone or cortisone.
• Are highly sensitive to chemicals, smoke and other pollutants.
• Have chronic low energy and sickness.
• Crave sugar, starches, and alcohol.

(It is also reported to be high in those with cancer, Aids and other life threatening illnesses.)

Maintaining a healthy diet of 80% alkaline-type foods is of utmost importance if you have symptoms or are diagnosed with C. albicans yeast.

There are certain foods that you will need to eliminate from your diet for awhile because they feed this unfriendly overgrowth that will reek havoc in the body over time.

Avoid The Following Foods:

• Any form of sugar or sugar substitutes except for stevia, which does not feed yeast overgrowth.
• Processed foods or starches, like bread products.
• High amounts of acid foods like meat, dairy, legumes or nuts and seeds.
• Foods that are low in enzymes.
• Fats and oils, especially cooked and highly processed. Limit fat intake to only the good fats, like unrefined coconut oil.

Foods To Eat:

4) Seaweeds are a great thing to eat for balancing thyroid conditions that are usually effected by candida.

5) Nutritive herbal teas and cleansing teas are helpful to alkalize and provide liquid nutrition that will help clean and purify the body.

6) Eat small doses of algaes, like blue green algae, marine phyoplankton and/or chlorella. These foods will help detoxify because C. Albicans does not like chlorophyll.

7) It is helpful to consume medicinal mushrooms, like shiitake, coriolus and reishi that help rebuild the immune system. Common mushrooms should be avoided however, as they will increase fungal, yeast activity.

Sunlight and Air

Supplementation

The general rule is to cleanse the body first to clean the slate. Then, it is appropriate to rebuild with superfood tonics and adaptogens that restore the immune system and increase deep life-force energies!

Remember:

"The body has one ability not possessed by any machine, the ability to repair itself!"

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