DIET: This is a good diet for many reasons, not just for combating candida yeast overgrowth.

Without strict adherence to the following diet, no anti-candida drug or treatment will succeed:

(1) Avoid added sugars (including fructose, fruit juices, honey, molasses,, etc.) and all
sugar-sweetened foods and snacks, including cakes, cookies, candies, desserts, sodas,
fruit-juice and ice-cream, unless they are made with sugar-substitutes like stevia extract, which
is a natural sweetener, available at healthfood stores; or saccharin or asesulfame (these
substances may cause problems for some people who are allergic or sensitive to them but, by
and large, they are not as harmful as sugars). If you can cut out sugars for 3 days, their 'spell'
will possibly be broken and you may be able to resist them quite easily, esp. once any thyroid,
chromium and/ or manganese deficiencies, or a high free-insulin level ('Syndrome X'), which can
cause hypoglycemia and sugar cravings, are corrected. 1-2 servings of whole-fruits per day
(except the very sweetest kinds, like grapes, watermelon and mango) are OK.

(2) Avoid white-starch foods, like white bread, cakes, cookies, white pasta, white rice, potatoes
w/o their skins, and all refined flours, etc.. Whole-grain flour, in moderation, is acceptable; also
potatoes with their peels, whole-grain brown or wild rice, whole-grain pasta (usually available in
the deli section of supermarkets), etc.. I see no reason to avoid other yeasts - they could
compete with, help to contain, candida yeast. Nor to avoid dairy products, unless you are
allergic to them. I believe some of the prohibitions bandied around are old wives' tales with no
scientific evidence to support them. Avoiding them puts an unnecessary burden on the patient,
discouraging adherence to any form of anti-candida diet and derailing the whole
treatment-effort.

(3) Increase your intake of saturated fats* and essential oils, especially omega-3 oils, which are
very lacking in the Western World's diet. These include meat, fish and dairy fat, including: Fish
oils, and oily fish, like salmon, mackerel, tuna-in-oil, sardines-in-oil, etc.; Flax-seed and borage
oils. One tablespoon of flax seeds or its oil, or one 1000mg capsule of each of these, twice
daily, should fit the bill. Some of these oils can be used as salad-dressing, or on whole-grain
breads or baked potato, instead of olive or canola oil. Avocadoes, nuts, olives and olive-oil,
canola and other vegetable oils are mostly omega-6 oils, which are also good but not as lacking
in our diets. Avoid trans-fats strictly.

*For all the reasons why I now strongly recommend lots of saturated fats, see the Weston A
Price Foundation website and the work of Sally Fallon, Mary Enig, etc.

(4) Avoid antibiotics and synthetic cortisone-/ steroid-type prescriptions if at all possible. Natural
hydrocortisone, as long as it is prescribed only for a documented free-cortisol deficiency, and its
serum level is kept within its normal range for the time of day at which the blood (or saliva
specimen) was drawn, is fine (and often essential in cases of chronic fatigue syndrome, esp. if
with a chronically low blood pressure).

TREATMENTS:
(1) Acidophilus (or Bifidus, or other ProBiotic), usually 1-2 capsules, or at least 1 million
organisms, after brkfst and after supper daily, indefinitely. This and the above diet are usually
enough to prevent - or prevent the return of a previous - overgrowth of candida yeast in the
blood and intestines. Homeopathic remedies, and some herbs, are also said to be effective. If
stronger treatment is required, i.e. when you have elevated candida antibody titers in your
blood, I recommend:

(2) Caprylic Acid (700-1000 mg caps.) or Undecanoic Acid 50mg capsules (e.g., Formula
SF-722 by Thorne Research), 3 after brkfst and 3 after supper daily (6/day).

(3) Colloidal Silver (<0.01-micron particle-size, 500 ppm), 1-2 teaspoonsful after brkfst and
supper daily (or 1-2 droppersful of a 2000ppm solution, diluted if desired), until the antibody
titers are normal. I have not seen any evidence of 'argyria', a permanent unsightly silver-grey
discoloration of the skin that can follow prolonged intake of large-particle-size colloidal silver (as
in most home-made versions). This substance was used as an antimicrobial agent before we
had antibiotics, and was safe.