Re: Steph - suggestions

[Guest guest]

Thankyou Elan, and most certainly more than 2 cents worth LOL. Should

keep me busy for awhile for sure. I agree I need fermented foods but

just don't know how to find them and never was trusting enough of my own

abilities to make my own nor do I usually have the time or energy after

I get done with everything I have to do daily. I will check out all the

links this week. All candida diets that I have ever seen have been

starvation diets. I have an especially hard time digesting due to

excessive stomach and intestinal slime in addition to the severe leaky

gut. Would do most anything to get rid of this chronic slimey sinitus.

Costs me $50. a month in keenex and my spetic tank has to be pumped out

yearly instead of every 3-to 5 years because it won't ferment due to me

gargling in the sink to get rid of the sinus. Doesn't seem to help to

add tons of septic bacteria which I do. It has been costly not to

mention it has ruined my social life, and can't go anywhere for very

long. No fun for sure.

I'll try anything I am pysically and financially able to do.

Steph

[Guest guest]

Elan~Appreciate all the great info!  Fermented foods along with beet kvass have

def. helped my gut heal.  Being constipated all your life is no fun,  and I

really had to work at it,  and it's still a work in progr ess.  I'm very lucky

I haven't developed full-blown candida. 

Many people with candida think they can't do fermented foods,  so thanks again

for all the great  info ;0)

(I left all of your message at the bottom for others to read).

herbladie

----- " elan_spire " <elan_spire@...> wrote:

----- " elan_spire " <elan_spire@...> wrote:

  Hi Steph,

Have you tried Lypo-Spheric (lyposomal) vitamin C available at this link?

http://www.livonlabs.com/

Might it be more accurate to say that what you need is to finds ways to support

your body's innate ability to restore its inner state of homeostasis/balance?

Sometimes I think people get confused with all this 'need to alkalize' stuff. I

mean different parts of our anatomy are naturally meant to be at different pH

levels. For instance our stomachs are meant to be extremely acidic, while our

blood must be maintained within a very narrow margin, around 7.35-7.45 pH.

Is there a particular reason why you feel you need to alkalize?

Steph, are you familiar with the SCD? Aka the Specific Carbohydrate Diet

described at these links?

http://www.scdiet.com/

http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info/

From what I understand, the SCD is supposed to be very helpful for people with

chronic candida.

Oh dear. No wonder you didn't get well. Your body was starving for specific

nutrients you simply weren't ingesting due to such an imbalanced diet.

Have you ever heard of the GAPS diet, aka the Gut and Psychology Syndrome diet,

based on a book designed to help heal peoples' dysfunctional guts, written by

Dr. Natasha -McBride?

Check out the articles at these links for more info:

http://www.keeperofthehome.org/2010/02/the-gaps-diet-what-it-is-and-why-you-migh\

t-consider-doing-it.html

http://kellythekitchenkop.com/2008/09/autism-add-adhd-constipation-candida.html

The reason I suggest Dr. -McBride's protocol is because the foundation

of her approach is about restoring gut health in people whose digestive function

has become severely compromised due to dysbiosis, which it sounds like is a big

aspect of your illness.

The GAPS diet helps address things like food allergies, brain fog, fatigue,

malabsorption of nutrients, and other digestive issues like

constipation/diarrhea by healing the gut. Many people with chronic candida are

said to also benefit.

Again,  getting and staying well is about restoring internal homeostasis.

Overdosing on anything is never going to bring about the sort of inner balance

necessary to achieve and maintain good health.

Personally I feel like most all commercially available probiotics are a waste of

money. You can actually get far, far more, not to mention a much wider spectrum,

of naturally occurring beneficial bacteria by eating home made ferments - for

MUCH less money - than you ever could be swallowing encapsulated probiotics.

Up until very recently around the time when refrigerators were invented, human

beings all over the world have been preserving food for thousands of years using

fermentation techniques.

However these days we're obsessed with sterilizing and pasteurizing and trying

to kill off all kinds of organisms with all manner of chemicals in the form of

things like antibiotics, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and larvacides, to

the point where we've screwed up the balance royally, not just in our earth's

environments, but in our own bodies.

Fermented foods are a cornerstone of both the Specific Carbohydrate and the GAPS

diets linked above, because these foods are a vital key to helping to restore

and recolonize our guts with the kinds of friendly, beneficial flora we need for

proper digestive health.

Our gut is not only one of our first lines of defense in terms of our immune

systems and what's allowed to pass from the outside world into our internal

terrain via our bloodstreams, but its health and ability to function properly is

also vitally important with regard to how well our bodies are able to extract

nourishment from the food we consume.

I'm convinced that chronic dysbiosis/disruption of a healthy balance of gut

flora severely compromises both our immune systems and our ability to assimilate

the nutritive value of what we eat and drink. This sets up a vicious cycle,

because it means the force field in our guts that should be there to protect us

from the outside world is constantly being breached, and that no matter how well

we eat, we can never get enough nourishment from our food to properly heal.

Anyhow, that's just my 2 cents FWIW,

Elan