Summer is Candida time

In addition to minimizing refined sugars and starches which break down to sugar, there are several beneficial foods that help to combat yeast overgrowth during Candida Time, while contributing to general
good health. They include Young Thai Coconuts as seen above, a source of yeast fighting caprylic acid
and anti-viral and immune boosting monolaurin (lauric acid). It’s an immature coconut whose flesh has a soft, pudding-like texture. People in tropical climates are able to “have their fruit and eat it too”, because of protective foods like the coconut.

Young Thai Coconut
It’s high electrolyte content makes it the perfect beverage for re-hydration. Has fewer calories than most other juices; especially citrus. It contains natural sugars, salts and vitamins; rivaling even the most expensive energy drink. Loaded with potassium - a nutrient necessary for the human body. Although it has natural salts; it is very low in sodium. Because of these unusual life-giving qualities, the coconut has been used for centuries for its medicinal attributes.
-From Thailand-detox.com

Other Things that Prevent Candida Overgrowth
Ramp up mineral-rich greens and veggies. Eat as many as possible raw or lightly steamed, for raw are more cooling and alkalizing. Minerals feed the beneficial flora in our gut gardens so the “weeds”—dysbacteria and yeasts - can’t get the upper hands. It’s all about the terrain, as any good gardener will attest. Include mineral rich sea vegetables like dulse, kelp, arame, hiziki and kombu. Garlic - eat it cooked and raw when possible. Add to dips and salad dressings. Xylitol sugar - a 5-carbon sugar that won’t grow bacteria or yeast; dentists
recommend it because it protects teeth. Purchase from your local health food store or go to http://www.emeraldforestxylitol.com to order.

Chew well, this will insure that your foods are more alkaline-forming also, thanks to the alkalizing, starch splitting enzymes in your saliva! Keep bowels working well with a combination of fiber and water; this favors the beneficial flora because they thrive in a clean, well-oxygenated environment. Get the fruit juices, carbonated and sweetened beverages out! Iced teas or fruit infused waters* are easy to make, lower in calories and higher in protective nutrients like phenols (tea), minerals (herbal teas), vitamins (fruit waters) and essential oils (e.g. limonene in orange, lemon and lime peels). A good multi-floral probiotic with L. Acidophilus, S. cerevisiae and/or S. boulardii and other beneficial flora. *To make fruit infuse waters simply cut a few pieces of fruit and cover with water. Because good old H2O is the “universal solvent,” flavors, fruit sugars and nutrients will infuse into the water. Sun teas, infusions made in glass jars set out in the sunshine for a few hours, will contain more of the essential oils.

Some Products that Fight Candida
Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain of nutritional yeast is well-tolerated by some and fights the Candida albicans strain. Aerobic 07—stabilized oxygen favors beneficial flora that are oxygen-loving by undoing the low-oxygen habitats of the anaerobic flora. Available at http://www.organicannie.com/supplements.htm
Liquid Chlorophyll - potassium rich, alkalizing, promotes the growth of red blood cells which carry oxygen.
Citricidal - grapefruit seed extract (GSE), combats yeast and bacterium. Caprylic acid—actually kills yeasts, fungus and some bacterium.

Wild Plants Can Help Too!
The wild plants common mallow (right), Malva neglecta, and musk mallow, Malva moschata, of the hibiscus family, are tummy soothing and alkalizing, with as much calcium as a glass of milk and as much iron as a 4 ounce steak, in a 1 cup serving (100g). Their healing mucilaginous fiber is said to soothe inflammation from yeast overgrowth. Eat in salads, water sautée with garlic, use as tea, or infuse in Sun Teas and blend into green drinks and smoothies. Common mallow (above) has white, 5 petalled, pink striped flowers (not shown), and it’s fruits look like little gourded Edam cheeses, thus it’s nickname, cheeses. Musk mallow (below) has larger, showier pink flowers and more deeply incised leaves. Photo below provided by
accipiter.hawk-conservancy.org/ images.

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