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HOW DO I GET RID OF MY CANDIDA OVERGROWTH?

The answer to this question can be found by simply reading everything my site has to offer (especially this page!). You need to be able to make informed decisions about your health in the midst of all the conflicting opinions that are out there. What I can promise you is a complete approach to healing that will absolutely turn your life around for the better, so you can get back to FEELING NORMAL AGAIN!

WHERE TO BEGIN

I always like to begin any new journey in my life with a deep breath. It's amazing what a little oxygen can do for the body. As a matter of fact, I encourage you to take deep breaths on a frequent basis. It generates a sense of calm and relaxation.

I first want you to know that I have taken the liberty of going before you on this recovery. I have made discoveries and mistakes along the way and will share those so that you don't have to make the same ones. I have done my homework so that you don't have to (although it is very satisfying to do your own research). Basically, the good news is that you now have my many, many hours of research and experience that will serve as an excellent resource in the process of a speedy recovery.

Tools you will need

• Find a notebook that you can use to keep a journal. This will be one of the most useful tools you will use. This will be used to track what you eat each day, and which foods give you problems. It can also serve as a journal of your personal testimony to overcoming Candida.
• Post-it notes or some other pad for a grocery list
• Enema Bag (laugh now, but this will be your new best friend)
• Pill holder (container for weekly supplements)
• New bathroom items
• Positive Attitude and Open Mind
• Threelac (the probiotic KING)
• Formula SF722
• Supplements Needed
• Other Lifestyle Changes

I have listed above some of the main tools you will need as you begin to eliminate the horrible toxins that have accumulated in your body. This will definitely not be the entire list of items needed, but will get you off to a great start. So let's begin!

"How Long Will it Take?"

The first question most people have when beginning any recovery program is "How long will it take?" Unfortunately, there is not a true answer for that. The best measurement I have found is that for every year that you have suffered your Candida symptoms (which for me was 5 years), it will most likely take you two months for each of those years (it took me around 10 months to get back to completely normal. However, the last 3-4 of those months was more maintenance than therapy). This however is just an estimate and may become subjective for some people because they don't really know how long they have been suffering. It is usually much longer than you think. I had to backtrack 5 years to when I believe my initial symptoms began. Again, Candida overgrowth does not happen overnight. So what you should do is start by setting your expectations as such. All you need to know is that you CAN and WILL defeat this thing!

What Should I eat?

If you only take away one thing from my website, I would like it to be this. Your diet is actually the main reason your Candida overgrowth continues to flourish. Not only is this the hardest area of our lives to change, it is the one that people are most reluctant to change. I totally understand, after having gone through the strict diet. But I will guarantee, that once you start eating healthy foods and begin to feel a sense of new life, you will never want to go back to eating the sugary mess you were eating before. The only sugars your body was designed to break down are the ones found naturally in fruits and vegetables. Therefore, I want to suggest a product that has literally saved me from my cravings for sugar (which I dont have anymore). It is called STEVIA. Stevia is 250 times as sweet as sugar. It does not contain any harmful ingredients such as aspartame. It can be found and most any nutritional health store or supermarket. Do yourself a favor and give it a try.

As far as the bulk of your diet, I like to use the following ratios:

• 60% Vegetables and some fruit (organic if possible)
• 30% Proteins (organic if possible)
• 10% Oils (cold pressed) and Healthy Fats

Go here to see the complete list of foods as well as a diet plan and advice on how to get going on the right track. You may even want to print out the diet plan.

So how is Candida Overgrowth eliminated?

Here is where most plans fail. You must take an overall approach to attacking, removing, and replacing the Candida to successfully recover from the stubborn organism. I have literally tried numerous different methods and have devised a powerful course of action for you to take. All you have to do is believe in my methods and stick with them. For your convenience, I have also created a sample breakdown of what a successful routine would look like, here. Be prepared to heal yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

STEP ONE
First, I highly suggest you find an allergy or homeopathic specialist in your area for multiple reasons. If you live in or near the Plano, TX area, I would highly suggest you setting up an appointment with a guy named Seshagiri Rao, MD. He is my allergy doctor and he is great. He has treated Candida patients for over 20 years. You will want to get as much testing done as possible in order to check your level of Candida overgrowth. The tests that I had performed were the R.A.S.T. test, the O.A.T.S (Organic Acids Test) by Great Plains Labs, and a complete allergy panel. The RAST test will tell you the level of antibodies that your body has developed against Candida Albicans. Mine happened to be very high. The OATS test will give you a great amount of information about whether or not your Candida infection is active, and also what vitamin or chemical deficiencies you currently have. My Candida infection had been kept in check at the time of this test (because of the Threelac!), but I was also able to discover that I was deficient in key vitamins. Finally, by getting an overall allergy test, you will discover multiple sensitivities that you were probably unaware of including environmental and food allergies. If you suffer from chronic fatigue or lack of energy, I bet you have allergies causing your symptoms. At least this was true for me. Candida overgrowth causes a variety of allergies because of the damage done to the intestinal tract. Candida will actually change form during an overgrowth and are able to burrow deep into your intestinal lining. By doing this, they allow large pieces of undigested food particles to exit where they are not supposed to and your body will recognize these foods as foreign objects. Then, every time you eat this particular food, your body will attack it, setting off an immune response against it. As you can see, a vicious cycle is created by allowing Candida to thrive. It is never too early to start taking Threelac. I would suggest taking it in the meantime while you wait for your appointment and test results to come back. By doing that, you can get a head start with your recovery.

Another good idea is to find a quality Chiropractor who offers multiple services such as acupuncture or biorhythm techniques. To be honest, I feel better after I see my Chiropractor than any other time of the month. I usually go in on a Saturday, and the rest of my day is great! I am so relaxed and full of energy. There are a few reasons why. First, she adjusts my spine so that my body's pathways are open to healing. Next, she will massage the necessary meridians (acupuncture technique) to promote the healing of both my lower back as well as the reducing my stress level. Finally, I head back to a room where I am "debugged" by an electromagnetic system that re-energizes my entire body and removes the negative energy that is keeping me from healing. I cant tell you how much better I feel when I leave that place. The name of the doctor is Dr. Teresa Jones and the business name is "Whole Health Chiropractic", located in Garland, TX. Look her up and I can promise you will thank me for it!

STEP TWO

Begin taking your Threelac. For the first 4 weeks, I would start out with just 1 packet per day. You can also try taking a quality garlic supplement from a nutritional health store, along with the Threelac. Garlic is a very strong anti-fungal. If you feel like you are having a reaction to the garlic, I would discontinue for awhile and only take the Threelac. Beginning with week five, you may want to begin taking 2-3 packets per day. Now that your body is used to the probiotic, it will be able to adjust and take more and more in. At one point, I was taking 10-12 packets in a day, for a one week period. I wanted to experiment and see how much better I felt whenever I took in a large quantity of the probiotic. I dont expect everyone to take this many packets a day, but I do suggest you take in more packets during weeks 5-8 to begin noticing even more benefits. After week eight, you can resume back to taking 1-2 packets per day as a maintenance dose. I have been taking 2 packets per day, since I began my recovery back in April of 2006. I will not go one day without it!

STEP THREE

Time to clean out the fridge. As much as it may pain you to do so, if you want to get better, you must commit to eating healthy. Create a shopping list of organic or natural food items that are suggested on my sensible diet page. Try to be open to eating new foods. Most of the stuff I eat now, I had never really eaten before. I feel so great now, though, that I have no problem sticking with these fresh, energy rich foods. Also, you don't need to worry about getting burnt out on a specific food, because during the course of your treatment, you will be migrating to a "rotation" diet. Here, you will ultimately have to modify the types of food you eat every few days, so that you do not develop an allergic reaction to that food. To make this grocery list easier, I like to create one each week, and therefore I only shop for items one week at a time. This keeps the items fresh and it also gives me more flexibility if I decide I want to try something new.

STEP FOUR

The next step is ultimately where your journey begins. Be sure to keep a journal of your experiences so that you can pass it on to others. Or maybe even to reflect back at a time when you decided to take back control of your life and create a healthier, happier, new YOU! Never lose sight of the fact that you are doing something remarkable by making a decision to regain your health. I know first hand how hard this can be. But believe me, the rewards on the other end will more than make up for what you will have to endure. So before you begin, I want to first say congratulations, good luck, and God Bless!

Ok, I am now ready to help you eradicate this overgrowth that has caused you so much turmoil. First, I want to give you the link to a list of items that I have personally taken during my recovery. As proof of this, I have actually kept each and every bottle of product that I have tried. Here they are.

The first thing you have to remember is that it takes time for your body to eliminate Candida. There are only so many elimination channels, and these channels are already being used for other purposes as well. Think of it like a highway. There can only be so much traffic on the road until there is congestion and gridlocks. So you must be sure to keep your elimination pathways as clear as possible. These are your skin, your lymphatic system, nose and throat, and your colon (bowel). The two most important are your skin and your colon. You will need to sweat at least 5 times per week in a sauna. If you do not have access to a sauna, then look for other ways to sweat in large quantities. Just having a small workout and sweating only a little will not get the job done. You need a good 25-30 minutes of continued sweating to clear out the unwanted Candida. You will need to sweat in this manner for 4-6 months. During this time you should adhere to the diet plan I have outlined for you. Otherwise, you will only be feeding the Candida, and it will become very hard to eliminate it. Now to the product that I have chosen above all others as the "candida killers"! This product just so happened to be the last product I tried. Not to say that the other products did not work, because most of them provided some sort of relief. Only not complete relief, like this one did. The name of the product is Formula SF722, made by Thorne. It is composed of Undecylenic Acid. Take this product for at least 2-3 months straight. Dosage for SF722 is as follows: 4 capsules, 3 to 4 times per day. Try to take these between meals for the full effect. Finally, I will get to the topic that I have debated over and over in my mind as to whether or not to mention it, because to me it is somewhat embarrassing. However, I feel like I would be doing you a huge disservice if I left it out. It is undoubtedly one of the best methods available for internal cleansing. The first time I tried it, I was very uncomfortable. Yet about 30 minutes later, I literally felt like a different human being. Everything was calm. A smile surfaced on my face, that no matter how hard I tried to make it go away, it just wouldnt. This cleansing I am speaking of is called an enema. All I ask of you is to try it one time. You will become a true believer in its healing powers. Many of the ancient practitioners (such as Hippocrates) used enemas as one of their most prized cleansing tools. History tells us that they were used as far back as 2000 B.C. It seems somewhat of a taboo subject these days, since people are not really that educated on its purposes. Therefore, I have put together some literature here to better educate the public on why enemas are so important to maintain our health.

Just remember during all of this to continue taking your Threelac everyday. It is the key to taking back control of your digestive system, immune system, and overall health. Without it, you will only be spinning your wheels and wont be replacing the dying Candida with beneficial bacteria.

Why does it take so long to heal?

I asked myself the same question for about 6 months! Seriously, I thought to myself that this must be some kind of scheme to make you purchase products for a long period of time. I simply did not understand why the body couldn't just recognize the Candida overgrowth and get rid of it in a timely manner with high powered drugs (since drugs are most likely the reason you developed Candida in the first place).

The answer is complex, but will make more sense once I explain. First off, your body did not develop this overgrowth in a day or even in a month. Most likely, your overgrowth has been going on for quite some time. It began way before you started having symptoms. So just know that anything that has been growing for YEARS in any environment, will take time to eliminate. Lets look at a swimming pool, for example. It only takes a few months for algae to begin to grow. Once it does, you had better get rid of it quick or else it becomes almost impossible to get rid of. I also like to think of a Candida overgrowth like cleaning out a basement. Once you take a broom to a dusty old basement and begin to clean, dust will fly and so will many other particles as you are cleaning. After you are done, the dust will settle, and you will have to repeat the process until you have cleaned up enough dust for a friendly environment. That is exactly how it works with Candida. Once you begin to eradicate the organism, you will experience what is referred to as "die off". This simply means that you are killing off Candida and it is either fighting back or dying and releasing its toxins. You must also remember that Candida is a normal part of your intestinal flora (in small quantities). So it's not like it is some foreign organism that your body sees as an invader. That is why it is so important to keep your body in a detoxification mode during therapy. So, back to the basement theory...Once you begin to "stir up" the Candida and try to remove it, there will be less and less overgrowth, until finally your body reaches a state of intestinal and systemic balance. Basically, think of your body as a basement that you have been neglecting, and you must now begin to work away at removing all of the garbage that has collected in it. I hope now you can see that this is a repetitive process that must be applied diligently in order to remove and replace the Candida with beneficial bacteria. And also to remove it from the bloodstream, where it certainly does not belong.

Next, the only way that you are going to be able to "clean out" your body effectively is to eat foods that DO NOT feed the Candida. This is by far the hardest part of therapy. Anytime you try to change someone's eating habits, there is a bit of resistance involved. I would say that it is nearly impossible to eat a "perfect" Candida diet. The secret is trying to keep it as close to perfect as possible. Sure, you may decide to give in at times or slip up and have a beer or a piece of cake; but just know that it will set you back a little. My advice you you is this - take this diet as seriously as possible. Try to see it as something positive, because in the end you will love your body. Trust me. Also, treat your body and the food you put in it the way they were designed to be treated. Your body is a wonderful machine, designed to run on only certain fuels. The food you eat is supposed to be enjoyed and eaten responsibly. I tried to make my diet almost into a "prescription". If your doctor prescribed you a certain medication to take 3 times daily, I bet you would. So try and make this diet more of a medical necessity rather than a pain in the rear. It will make it much easier to handle, because I promise there will come a time when you just want to give up. But please don't! If you need motivation, please contact me directly.

Along with following the diet correctly, you must also be aware of food allergies and how they develop. The basic premise behind food allergies is that your body over time develops antibodies towards foods it sees as harmful. Many researchers believe that it occurs with the foods that people eat most often. I totally agree with that theory. But I also have my own "missing link" theory. And actually, its not a real theory at all. It has been proven. It goes like this...whenever Candida begins to spread and morph into its disease causing form, it will burrow into your intestinal lining and create tiny holes in the process. They must find an environment to survive in, and deep into your intestinal wall is a perfect environment for them. Then, whenever you eat certain foods, the undigested particles escape through these holes and enter into your bloodstream. Your body will recognize this particular food as a foreign object and therefore create an antibody against it and attack it. Then, every time you eat this particular food, your body will attack it! It is my opinion that many of the auto immune disorders that exist today are being caused by this vicious cycle. That is why it takes so long to get rid of Candida. Because even the foods that you are allowed to eat may become an allergy producing food. That is why you have to strengthen your intestinal lining with high quality probiotics such as Threelac. It may also be a good idea to take L-Glutamine on a daily basis for enhanced recovery. This is also why I suggest going on the rotation diet. It will make sure that you space different foods far enough apart so that you do not develop antibodies towards them. So be sure to keep track of which foods give you problems and eliminate those for awhile. You must break the vicious allergy cycle that Candida creates, before you can truly begin to heal.

Finally, the reason it takes so long for most people, is because they do not understand the power of an enema. Lets look back at the example I used earlier of your colon acting like a "septic tank". If you are killing off or removing Candida from your gut, the main elimination pathway is out the ol' pooper. And if you are not cleaning out the dying Candida debris, it will collect in your colon and begin to re-colonize there. I know this because this happened to me until I tried the enema for myself. I probably could have cut my healing time down by a few months had I known about this powerful cleansing method. Please do not be afraid to experiment with this. Once you discover how good it makes you feel, you will not be ashamed to tell others about it. I mean, look at me. I am putting it on my website for the whole world to see. Do you think I care if people make fun of me for it? Of course not. I understand that most people are simply unaware of its benefits. I am the one who, therefore, gets the last laugh!

In closing, during this process, you will need some sort of support. Whether it is emotional, physical, or spiritual, it is inevitable that your character will be tested. My only advice during these times is to pray. Pray for guidance and it will be given to you. Pray for forgiveness and you will be cleansed. I could not imagine how difficult or impossible this journey would have been without help from God. Take each moment as a blessing and try to look at things in a positive light. For our true blessings are too often overlooked. And just remember that the blessings we receive in life are God's gift to us. What we do in return with those blessings are our gifts back to God.

I challenge all of you, regardless of how bad you want to quit, to never give up the fight! I promise you that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Just trust me.