Welcome to my first Q & A! Please feel free to ask any questions regarding GASTROINTESTINAL HEALTH!
It all starts and ends with digestion. Up to 70% of our imune system lies in our gut. The high amount of unhealthy processed food that people eat these days negatively affects digestive functions. Moreover, poor levels of healthy gut bacteria, lack of enzymes and much more are transmitted from the mother to child. Children are already born “deficient”.
Efficient digestion and absorption of the nutrients we consume is very important to our overall health. Even if we eat the right kinds of foods for our metabolism it is still necessary to properly digest and absorb those foods in order to benefit from their nutritional value.
Candida Diet is great because it can help alleviate some of the health problems that are associated with candida. :’`”:
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Hello Launa! I’m happy you like my blog. You can connect with me on Facebook and/or Twitter – I post there all my blog posts as well. Recently I started distributing my content with StumbleUpon and Delicious. RSS is really simple too, you could give it a try…You can also sign up for my newsletter, although it will take a little time until I’ll have that 100% functional. I hope this will work for you somehow. If you don’t use social media sites then I’ll save your email in my mailing list and I’ll send you out my updates. Let me know. Thanks!
In health,
Raluca S.
Raluca, Thank-you SO much !!! That is pretty much what I figured, well in any event, keeping everything high in fat so I don’t have cravings is working well so far and hopefully will have the added benefit of a little weight loss, at least the 20 lbs that I gained after my colon resection ! :)
JACKIE – you are very welcome! Thank you for posting your question! But please remember that we are ALL so very different as we are in our fingerprints! Yes, many people loose fat by actually eating fat. But many people will actually gain weight by eating fat. When you do your metabolic typing test you might come out as one of the protein types for example and need ample amounts of protein and fat in your diet to stay healthy. But along with this testing you’d find out other vital things like your endocrine type. And the dietary guidelines for your endocrine type might be different than the dietary guidelines dictated by your metabolic type. What do you do then? Your diet tells you to eat fat, but your endocrine type that is to be followed when you need weight control, tells you NOT to eat fat. So then you have to learn how to blend these in and control your weight. Moreover, by knowing your endocrine type you’d also know how to adjust your meals throughout the day. Some people need to eat more in the morning, some more in the evening, snacks types are also different for each person.
This is just an example, but there are so many other factors that play a vital role with weight control: hormonal balance, reactive foods, eating the right foods in the right ratios at the right time.
In health,
Raluca S.
So the food’s that feed yeast are to be avoided, will this have to be ongoing or will I be able to add them back slowly over time?
JACKIE - Until symptoms disappear and you get your body balanced these foods are to be avoided. You will be able to reintroduce some of the foods over time, but with careful obervation. Some people can’t ever enjoy ALL the sweet foods anymore, while others recover pretty well and can reintroduce some in moderation. You will probably stick with the least reactive sweeteners like stevia and xylitol most of the time. And the starches from vegetables like sweet potato… Depends on the individual, your metabolic type and how strong your imbalance is. You’ll have to experiment.
In health,
Raluca S.
I was fascinated by an article on the malasorbtion of selenium being linked to thyroid health from Gluten Free Society!
For a number of years (10?) my grown daughter & I had bouts of tinea versicolor, which didn’t respond to much, but washing all over for several days running with a high selenium shampoo (Selsun Blue) kept it at bay.
When I began using coconut oil on my skin, that helped a bit as well, but I’d still get patches on my trunk or arms.
We both noticed that the tinea is now GONE, after going Gluten Free 2 1/2 years ago; though we haven’t done the S B washes for some time! Today I remembered that article & had a nice ‘ah ha!’ moment as I realized that was one of the many nutrients we didn’t properly absorb!
On internal yeast overgrowth, a GF friend was told by her ND that with leaky gut (caused by years of gluten damage), yeasts come in to ‘clean up’ what is seeping out into the bloodstream through the intestine walls! So she also has a very limited diet right now (in addition to Gluten, Soy & Dairy free) to control the yeast. Unfortuately, she’s also sensitive to coconut, which is a great anti-fungal!
Nadya- thanks for sharing your story!! Everything you said it’s true, many people noticed a big improvement with candidiasis after they went gluten free, even grain free, when they solved their malabsorption problems, replenished the gut with friendly bacteria, but also when they eliminated other huge “blocking factors” like heavy metals, reactive foods and hormonal imbalances. They ALL play a vital role in balancing our body chemistry and you can’t know for sure unless you go through a specific, comprehensive and CUSTOMIZED protocol that fits your unique metabolism. Indeed, there are a few “key problems” that are seen with most people but you won’t know for sure until you do the “detective work”. In your case it might have been the gluten. But in other cases it was the heavy metals.
I was on various anti-candida diets and tons of antifungals for a very…very long time…I felt terrible on all of them. Since they were not designed for my metabolism and because I wasn’t addressing underlying causes like reactive foods, heavy metals, hormones, etc..Since I DO, I finally see improvements and control it. I haven’t taken antifungals in quite some time now.
But it is certain that gut healing can take a long time and persistence of doing the right things and stop doing the wrong things. From my experience I’ve seen that other factors were as important as eliminating blocking factors, like if the person was breastfed or not, if she took long courses of antibiotics and contraceptives or had chronic constipation. Many people fall under thes categories these days. So many people have yeast overgrowth maybe without even knowing it.
In health,
Raluca S.
This is such a complex yet simple problem! Indeed, kombucha is feeding the yeast, as do all other fermented foods. Here are the foods that have to be entirely eliminated when haveing yeast infections flare ups:
SUGAR and SIMPLE CARBOHYDRATES such as found in all sweetened food including the use of honey, molasses, sorghum, maple syrup, sugar, fructose, maltose, dextrose, corn syrup, etc.
YEAST PRODUCTS such as beer, wine, yeast leavened bread, natural B vitamins, brewer’s yeast
FERMENTED and MOLD FOODS such as mushrooms, cheese, vinegar, mustard, catsup, relish and other condiments made with vinegar
This is an issue that is strongly related to gastrointestinal health and also has a strong connection to immune health.
Candida overgrowth is a symptom of a deeper, underlying problem; it’s actually not the problem which needs to be treated! We all have candida in our bodies since we are born, it’s a part of our body ecology and so impossible to fully eliminate it from our bodies. It occurs ONLY due to immune system malfunction and that is the real cause that needs to be addressed. Anti-candida diets and substances are good only to bring temporary relief.
The immune system is highly dependent on the proper biochemical balance
Different metabolisms require different balances of nutrients, foods, and ratios to balance body chemistry and restore function to all aspects of metabolism, including the immune system
Often the so called “anti-candida” diets or any other “one size fits all” diets don’t meet the requirements of the specific biochemical/metabolic individuality.
Eating the wrong foods (even if considered healthy foods, like kombucha and sauerkraut) will undermine the body’s (immune system’s) ability to regain control of candida growth.
It will only be when the health-building process reaches a certain stage that the body will once again take control and candida will no longer be a problem
Bottom line, there are no “good foods” and there are no “bad” foods except as dictated by individual metabolic requirements.
If starch is needed to balance body chemistry and optimize cellular energy production, it will not promote candida overgrowth. Instead, by enhancing immune function, it will serve to limit growth. But, only the (least) amount of starch needed to fulfill individual requirements should be ingested. This is always true but even more important when candida overgrowth is present.
I hope this helps. This is a typical example of why certain “diets” that only promote the healthy foods without considering the body’s metabolism will never work and moreover will create further imbalances.
In health,
Raluca S.
I just discovered I have a yeast issue, not sure how severe yet, but it seemed to be brought out by drinking kombucha.. why would that happen? I did the GAPS diet to try to heal my digestive and gut issues and fermented food and drink were part of the plan, I was going along just fine and then my daily kraut and kombucha seemed to suddenly bring on a yeast issue that keeps co…ming back over and over, no natural remedies seem to work long term so I end up getting the cream to treat. I stopped drinking the kombucha and eating the kraut but it still keeps coming back now.