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Date: | Tue, 21 May 2002 03:32:49 -0600 |
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Advice requested if you've had experience with candida cleanses...
I'm trying to get off sugar, I am still very addicted to the sugar in fruit, esp. tropical fruit.
Somebody (in the elimination diet thread) was mentioning candida
symptoms and doing a cleanse to get rid of yeast in the body. I have
yeast overgrowth and I know I've had it for years. I have never been
able to give up sweet things, though, until I started a paleo diet,
because once I was able to eat fat for energy instead of grains,
things just kind of fell into place.
Any way, I amazingly have never gone for an extended period of time
without some kind of sweet food, and I am now ready to do a "yeast
cleanse" meaning to forego fruit for a while. I have had nothing
except meat and vegetables for three days now, and I have to admit I
felt so awful! Is it yeast die off like I have heard?
I am wondering what to expect. the books I have read about Candida
are the Body Ecology Diet and the Yeast Connection and both recommend
eating some grains (not gluten ones). If I am not eating carbs
in grains OR fruit, is it possible to eat enough vegetables to keep me
out of ketosis? Or is being ketogenic what I want? And how long should
I forego the fruit, is there a sign when I will know it has been long
enough? (looking forward to berry season here) Are we talking weeks, months or years? (The B.E.D. hinted that it might be a year without fruit to restore "body ecology")
thanks for input,
Jana
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