6 Tips To Start Healing From Candida Right Now
Candida is a ruthless fungal pathogen. The trouble is that the early stages of Candida overgrowth often go unnoticed at first, they are dismissed as ‘normal’ issues, such as lowered energy levels, getting sick more often, or bloating after eating.
Unfortunately, chronic low-level pain and discomfort have become so common they’re assumed to be ‘normal.’ Feeling sick and tired in your body is NOT normal! We should be aiming to feel like we’re thriving, not just barely surviving, right?
If you are feeling any low-grade discomfort in your body, this can mean that a storm is brewing in your digestive system, your guts. It’s way better to nip Candida in its early stages (stage 1-2) before it has grown in to a full-blown systemic infection.
Make sure to find out what stage of infection you may be dealing with. Refer to my other post for a more detailed description: 5 Stages of Candida Overgrowth.
Sometimes early stages of Candida overgrowth (Stage 1, or Stage 2 when you only have a few symptoms) can be kept in check using natural remedies such as dietary changes, caprylic oil, probiotics, and diatomaceous earth. To get over an infestation in stages 3-5 (or Stage 2 when more symptoms are present), you will definitely want to use a targeted chitin-layer inhibitor like CCWS Candida Cleanser for a full recovery. Because when Candida’s chitin layer is intact, your immune system simply cannot penetrate the cell walls of the fungus.
Wherever you are on your Candida cleansing journey, and regardless if you are using our cleanse supplements, these 6 tips will strengthen your body and help support your immune system so you can defeat this fungal tyrant once and for all.
6 Tips to Start Healing from Candida
#1 Remove Sugar From Your Diet
The #1 most important thing you can do right now is to use food as your medicine. The first step is to remove sugar-laden Candida feeding foods from your diet to start weakening the fungus. This includes the obvious, sugar, and also C.R.A.P. foods— that’s anything carbonated, refined, artificial, processed. If it comes in a package with an ingredients list with unrecognizable words, don’t eat it: cookies, chips, sweets, pastries, sodas, chocolate, ice cream, you get the idea.
This also includes the not so obvious foods that may look healthy at first, but actually metabolically still breakdown into glucose in the body to further empower Candida. This includes:
- starchy carbohydrates and all grains (and products made from them) including potato, wheat, barley, rye, rice, corn, oats, quinoa. So that’s your pasta, breakfast cereals, bread, rice crackers, protein bars, etc.
- legumes: beans, chickpeas, soy, peanuts
- all fruit and fruit juice (except berries)
- alcohol
- sugar and artificial sweeteners
When you stop eating these foods not only do you stop feeding Candida, you also stop feeding other parasitic organisms in your gut which are adding to the overgrowth problem.
Most people aren’t aware that when treating Candida you are also treating gut dysbiosis, a condition that develops when the gut lacks beneficial bacteria and is overrun by pathogenic bacteria. Cleaning up the diet by removing sugars helps shift your gut flora out of dysbiosis.
Foods to indulge in are:
- Wild caught fish: salmon, cod, anchovies, halibut, trout, seabass, tuna (watch out for farmed salmon, tilapia)
- Organic, pasture raised animal protein: beef, chicken, lamb, turkey, eggs
- Wild game such as bison and venison
- Healthy fats and oils – pastured butter, ghee, coconut oil, avocado and avocado oil, almond oil, olive oil, flaxseed oil, cod liver oil, sesame oil
- Nuts: raw or roasted almond, cashew, walnut, macadamia, pistachio, pecan (no peanuts, and watch for ‘candied’ nuts)
- Seeds: flaxseed, chia, hemp, sunflower, pumpkin, sesame
- Above ground vegetation such as cruciferous vegetables (cabbage, Brussels sprouts, kale, cauliflower, broccoli), asparagus, celery, spinach, radish, zucchini, tomato, pepper, eggplant, lettuce, leafy greens, beet tops, leek, tomato, mushroom, cucumber
- Spices and herbs: ginger, garlic, onion, turmeric, fennel, anis, cumin, paprika, cayenne, cardamom, cinnamon, bay leaf, dill, rosemary, thyme, coriander, cilantro, parsley, basil, black pepper, sea salt
Hang out in the produce section of your grocery store and see what vegetables catch your eye, or head over to your nearest farmers market and get some fresh organic produce. These dietary changes add up to a more effective Candida Cleanse and will help accelerate your overall healing.
Not only do you reduce your toxin load (and having fewer toxins in the system already strengthens your immune system and reduces stress on your detox pathways), these nutrient dense foods will supply your body with the necessary nutrition you need to rebuild.
#2 Drink Bone Broth Everyday
If you have Candida fungus in your body, you’ll inevitably have leaky gut because Candida causes leaky gut. Once it mutates from its yeast form into its deadly fungal form, Candida grows ‘fungal hyphae’ — roots that penetrate through your intestinal lining (and other tissues) causing them to become permeable.
When cleansing from Candida, and long after the cleanse is done, you must focus on repairing your gut lining.
If you do not heal your leaky gut, you are highly susceptible to a reinfection. You become vulnerable to develop a host of conditions which an unaddressed leaky gut can lead to including:
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Depression
- Eczema
- Fibromyalgia
- Food allergies
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Rheumatoid arthritis
And there’s plenty more where that came from…
Dietary protocols such as the GAPS diet, which bone broth is the crux of, are a great place to start healing leaky gut. Bone broth is an unsurpassable natural remedy to heal and seal a leaky gut because of its rich bioavailable nutrient contents. It’s like nature’s most potent liquid multi vitamin including:
- Proteins and amino acids: collagen, gelatin, proline, glycine, arginine, arginine, cysteine and l- glutamine
- Vitamins D, A, K, and B’s
- Minerals and electrolytes : calcium, phosphorous, magnesium, sodium, potassium, sulfate, manganese, zinc, boron, iron
Bone broth is very easy to make, you can even use your chicken dinner leftovers!
#3 Take Probiotics
Bone broth provides the perfect building blocks (specifically collagen, l-glutamine, and glycine,) for gut repair and the beneficial bacteria are the construction workers that do all the heavy lifting.
According to Dr. Natasha Campbell’s research (The GAPS Diet), “Anatomical integrity of our digestive tract, its functionality, ability to adapt and regenerate, ability to defend itself and many other functions are directly dependant on the state of its microscopic housekeepers— our gut flora.”
Basically, very little healing can take place in the gut without probiotics!
And since the gut is already in a state of dysbiosis and lacking beneficial bacteria when there is a Candida overgrowth present, it is absolutely vital to your healing to be repopulating your gut with probiotics. I can’t stress this enough.
Not only do probiotics orchestrate the entire gut lining rejuvenation processes, they are powerful immune modulating critters, 80% of you immune system is actually in your gut! They are our #1 chelators of heavy metals, they are involved in over 20,000 digestive processes in the body alone like helping digest our food and making nutrients such as vitamin B12 and serotonin.
Did you know that up to 95% of your serotonin levels are actually made in your gut! Serotonin is that happy-feel good hormone that supports emotions of joy, and a positive mood and outlook on life. We could always use a boost in serotonin!
Take a powerful probiotic to flood your system with good bacteria. When shopping for a supplement look for a product that contains 7-10 different strains of bacteria such as lactobacillus acidophilus and bifidobacterium lactis, or bacillus subtilis (soil-based probiotic). A high quality probiotic will have a high colony forming unit (CFU) count. The higher you can get to 100 billion the better.
The EM-PRO probiotic we feature in all Candida Cleanser Kit is an extremely powerful formulation including rhodopseudomonas palustris for even more focused competition against Candida. The “EM” class of probiotics are so advanced that we’ll write up a whole article about it here soon.
Another great and inexpensive way to get your daily dose of probiotics is to eat unpasteurized, and preferably homemade, lacto-fermented foods such as raw milk kefir or yogurt, sauerkraut, kimchi, or beet kvass.
#4 Support Your Liver
Too often when cleansing Candida people forget to support the liver, your primary detox organ! As Candida lives and grows in your body it releases dozens of highly toxic metabolic wastes into your body around the clock, and this puts a great deal of stress on your liver and depletes your glutathione levels.
Gliotoxin, the grim reaper of toxins, targets the destruction of your healthy liver cells!
Not only is your liver inundated with toxins already from day to day exposure to residual pesticides on food, chlorine in water, car exhaust in the air, parabens in personal hygiene products, and on and on and on. Now it has to deal with the constant flooding of toxins coming from Candida.
Supporting your liver through this process will make it a much more pleasant one and can even help you mitigate symptoms of die off.
Milk thistle is the #1 liver supporting and regenerating herb. You can find capsules of this herb in most health food stores. Other herbs include: dandelion, turmeric, burdock, and artichoke.
The combination of Alpha lipoic acid, selenium, and silymarin (active ingredient in milk thistle) is the lifesaver for livers, offering powerful liver regenerating properties while replenishing glutathione stores. This precise combination was developed by Dr. Berkson, he called it “triple therapy”. He used it to remedy hepatitis, fatty liver disease, cirrhosis, and elevated liver enzymes.
Eat plenty of cruciferous vegetables, such as cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower to boost your glutathione levels. Glutathione is your master antioxidant which is a critical compound for healthy detox and maintaining robust life long health.
Dr. Mark Hyman calls glutathione “the most important molecule you need to stay healthy and prevent aging, cancer, heart disease, dementia and more, and necessary to treat everything from autism to Alzheimer’s disease.”
#5 Take Detox Supports
Once you begin cleansing Candida, often just from making dietary changes, drinking bone broth, and taking probiotics, you may experience symptoms of Candida ‘die-off.’
These symptoms can include:
- flu like symptoms such as sore throat and excessive mucus
- fatigue
- brain fog and headaches
- skin rashes
- mood swings and emotional outbursts
- nausea
You might feel worse before you feel better, old health issue might momentarily come back or current symptoms of discomfort might become exasperated. This is very common.
One of the reason why die-off happens is because when you begin to kill Candida, it releases even more toxins along with heavy metals which can overwhelm the liver and detox organs. The body can’t keep up and you begin to feel ill. This is similar to what happens when we come down with the common cold and the body is fighting an invader.
To prevent this, or to quickly relieve symptoms of die-off, use detox supports such as our ZEOCO supplement (which is a blend of zeolite clay and activated charcoal), activated charcoal, bentonite clay, or diatomaceous earth.
What these detox powders have in common is that they bind with toxins in the gut and help safety escort them out of the body, thus taking the burden off your liver.
#6 Take Epsom Salt Baths
Epsom salts aren’t actually salts, but magnesium sulfate. Taking a nice relaxing soak in a tub filled with epsom salts is one of the best ways to draw toxins out of your body and get your daily dose of, very much needed, magnesium. Magnesium is involved in over 300 biological functions, its needed by every single cell in your body.
Without it every system in the body begins to fall apart, leading to thyroid problems, metabolism problems, heart problems, muscle problems, gastro-intestinal problems, and much more!
Magnesium deficiency is quite the widespread problem today, an estimated 80% of Americans are deficient. And when cleansing Candida, you must ensure you are getting adequate amounts of magnesium.
If you suffer from constipation, or experience it while cleansing, this is a common cry out for more magnesium by your body. Magnesium is useful in the treatment of constipation, as it relaxes the muscles of your digestive system and increases the water in the intestines which stimulates peristalsis, the wavelike motion of the muscles which move food through your digestive system.
Magnesium is generally poorly absorbed through the digestive tract, making topical application of magnesium one of the best ways to absorb it. Epsom salt baths are a great way to de-stress, draw toxins out of the body, and load up on this super crucial nutrient.
These tips come from our Candida Cleanser Preparation Program where we guide you to properly prepare for taking the CCWS Candida Cleanser— the most advanced anti-Candida formula which prevents Candida from forming a protective layer around itself that your immune system otherwise cannot penetrate.
We’re sharing these tips because we want you to get maximum results and start feeling better ASAP! It’s our passion and our mission as a team. I hope you apply these strategies to your current healing regime, use them to prepare for our Candida Cleanser, or simply add them to your daily practice as a preventative health care plan for life-long thriving health.
You can start healing from Candida NOW!
Where ever you are on your healing journey, I wish you happy healing.
Aga Postawska,
Holistic Health Coach
Community Leader, Candida Cleanser