How Candida Albicans May Affect Your Health. By Dr. Mercola. If you're not optimally healthy, could candida be at fault? In this interview, British osteopath and naturopath, Dr. Leon Chaitow, author of . Crook's book, 'The Yeast Connection' . I read his book in 1. I finished my family practice residency and set up my own medical practice. The WholeApproach® Candida Diet provides nutritional support to increase the effectiveness of the WholeApproach® Program of natural anti-fungal products. Try these delicious Candida free diet sample menus and a variety of Candida defense snacks to eliminate your symptoms of Candida overgrowth permanently and lose the. But because I was so brainwashed, I thought the primary focus was to kill the yeast, so I prescribed antifungals and never addressed the diet. No surprise; it never worked. I now had yet another patient, a young child, presenting with chronic diarrhea, signs of autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), along with the classic signs for candida presented in Crook's book. This really opened my eyes and got me started down the path of nutritional medicine. What Is Candida, and How Does It Become a Problem? ![]()
Most everyone watching this has it in their system, and for most, it poses no problem at all. The normal flora of the gut produce biotin. That's in a normal healthy flora. The biotin suppresses the ability of yeast to change into a more aggressive mycelial form, where it can actually put down little rootlets . It can be pain. It can be fatigue. It can be many other things. ![]() ![]() The change in the normal flora seems to be the key to correcting the problem, because they normally keep yeast under control. Yeast is there, but it's not aggressive. Once we lose the functionality of the normal gut flora, the problems accelerate. When your microbial balance is normal, your tongue is typically clean and pink. Other common symptoms suggesting candida has gotten the upper hand include. He spent over a decade studying the biochemical effects of breathing dysfunction, which is also extremely common, and many of them are identical to yeast problems. ![]() It's extremely common in women to have that. Many of the yeast- type problems are compounded . Not pathology, simply dysfunction . Sometimes they're both happening and you're only dealing with one. The ideal is to deal with lifestyle, which would include enhanced breathing patterns and the dietary side. ![]() ![]() The problem is if you only focus on the diet and the obvious yeast overgrowth, and you don't deal with what might be treading into it from what is an extremely common problem, you miss a part of the story. How to Control Candida. In order to control the candida yeast — which is typically part of your normal flora; not necessarily a pathogen but rather an opportunistic . Very frequently, these drugs —antibiotics, steroid hormones and oral contraceptives, for example — will change your internal environment, predisposing candida to grow into an invasive form of infection that can cause serious problems. It can be just better lifestyle, better sleep, more exercise and improved, enhanced diet. Stop feeding the yeast, stop damaging your immune function, and replenish the gut flora as best possible. It keeps us alive. It keeps us healthy. But if we damage it, we pay the price. Only take them if your life depends on it. Also avoid antibiotics in your food. ![]() This means avoiding foods from animals raised in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), as most are routinely fed low- dose antibiotics to counteract poor sanitation and crowded living conditions, and to boost growth. Also avoid unnecessary hormones, such as contraceptives, and sugar. Ideally, your diet should be low in net carbs, high in high- quality fats and moderate in protein. As noted by Chaitow. The diet needs to be as unprocessed as possible . It's fish (not farmed fish if possible) . The avoidance of anything that is going to provoke fermentation. At the beginning, that even covers things like honey in the first month or two of an anti- Candida program. I think it's quite a simple process. It's healthy lifestyle, healthy diet. The program has to be coupled initially by trying to encourage more normal gut flora. We go straight into the prebiotics and probiotics. That needs to be accompanied by change in diet and avoiding antibiotics wherever possible.? It's a relatively benign drug with few side effects. Still, while it may be necessary in extreme cases, Chaitow avoids antifungals unless the condition is not improving at a reasonable rate. Diflucan is a type of antibiotic that may also be prescribed if all else fails. There are issues about cost here, because sometimes, a comprehensive antifungal program becomes somewhat expensive. Some of the food is more expensive if you're buying organic meat rather than the normal processed meat and so on. I think people have to compromise at times. I think using antifungals, unless there's an extreme fungal infection that demands a rapid resolution, and as an economic imperative, I would try to think of it as, not last resort, but certainly second resort. Primary is diet, lifestyle and the associated probiotics. There are many botanical, herbal- type products, which can assist in that process. I'm not sold on always or even 5. I personally don't take any probiotics. I use high- quality fermented vegetables, which contain FAR more viable beneficial organisms than commercial probiotics do. Chaitow also recommends using prebiotic fructo- oligosaccharides (FOS), which help enhance the functionality of normal gut flora and can be taken as a powder. That's completely outside of their culture. It's something that I try to introduce when I can . If you lose your patient because they just find that it's too much, either too expensive, too complicated or too unpleasant, you've not gained anything. It's about simplicity for me. I use the prebiotics . It's extremely rare, but it has been known to occur. A more natural approach to get more prebiotics is simply to eat more high- fiber foods. There are nutritional trackers — chronometer. Try to get above 4. The fiber acts as a magnificent substrate to nourish healthy bacteria, which can actually double every 2. Interestingly, the list of supplements Chaitow recommends against candida is almost identical to the ones known to improve mitochondrial health, which is a clear win- win! These include. No other food source converts to ketones more readily than C8, and ketones are a magnificent, efficient fuel for your body. Caprylic acid is also a potent antifungal, and Chaitow recommends it in lieu of antifungal drugs. It is also very effective in assisting mitochondrial functions. Interestingly, the primary ingredient in this tree bark is beta- lapachone, which is also a very potent catalyst for a molecule called NAD+. This molecule is a receptor for electrons in the electron transport chain in the mitochondria. It also acts as a signaling molecule. It's a sensor for stress and disease. It may actually be the most critical one. Pau d'Arco has the added advantage of being inexpensive, as far as supplements go. It also benefits your mitochondria. I grow about 3. 00 aloe plants in my front yard, and I add two large aloe leaves to my smoothie each day. More Information. If you're not leading a particularly healthy lifestyle and recognize your symptoms in the list above, there's a good chance that candida, which is present in all of us, may have taken up too much real estate. You can also find more information on his website, Leon. Chaitow. com. At the end of the day, candida need not affect you. You always have it, but as long as you care for your gut with a low- net- carb, high- fiber diet, this opportunistic fungus won't cause you any grief.
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