Re: Cheese Question

[Guest guest]

I

can answer your cheese question; I see someone else answered your yogurt

question.

The

issues with cheese isn’t so much as the lactose content as the mold

content. Cheeses are formed as a result of bacterial and mold action.

Your cheese may not look moldy, but it still contains mold. Since candida

is a fungus, they thrive on molds. Eating cheese while your body is already

struggling to deal with high levels of candida just encourages them to flourish

and spread at the worst, or not die-off in very high numbers. And eating

cheese can put an additional burden on your immune system when it may be

already overwhelmed with the toxins from high candida levels, or with other

stresses.

Since

there is so much individual variation, you may be able to eat a small amount of

cheese once in a while without feeling a significant impact on your candida

levels. Just be aware that this is a trigger food that may be an issue,

so care must be taken, and it is something to cut out completely for a while if

your candida levels don’t seem to be diminishing. Some of us react

more to fruits or high-carb veggies than cheeses, but nevertheless it makes

sense to watch how much and how often you eat cheeses if you are also dealing

with a digestive disorder and dealing with high candida levels.

Kim M.

SCD 6 years

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OK,

as you all know from my gloating, I am thrilled to have cheese

back. But I read that cheese can aggravate candida. I'd like to

know why? Since we eat cheeses that have nearly all the lactose out

of them, is that little bit enough to aggravate candida or is it

something else?

[Guest guest]

Thanks Kim, that makes sense. I guess I'd better lay off most of

the cheese until I'm done with the candida treatment.

The issues with cheese isn't so much as the lactose content as the

mold

content. Cheeses are formed as a result of bacterial and mold action.

Your

cheese may not look moldy, but it still contains mold. Since candida

is a

fungus, they thrive on molds. Eating cheese while your body is

already

struggling to deal with high levels of candida just encourages them

to

flourish and spread at the worst, or not die-off in very high

numbers. And

eating cheese can put an additional burden on your immune system when

it may

be already overwhelmed with the toxins from high candida levels, or

with

other stresses.