Candida Overgrowth - What is it?

This blog entry is about candida overgrowth. Specifically what it is and what you can do about it. There are a couple of things that you can do about candida overgrowth. But before we get into the preventative measures I think that it is fair if we talk to the layman out there that don't know what a candida is.

Candida is short for candida albicans. Candida Albicans is the medical term for the fungus that is already present in the human body. This "good" fungus is present to help the body fight off the so-called "bad" fungus that tries to invade and make us sick. The human body is made up of both good and bad fungus. Both of these fungi are needed to keep the body in balance.

During sickness we might take an antibiotic to give our body a fighting chance. This antibiotic not only kills the bad bacteria (or fungus), they also inadvertently kill the good bacteria. With the death of these good and bad bacteria come the onslaught of one of the most common forms of candida - the yeast infection.


Candida Overgrowth - What You Can Do About It!

There are a couple of things that you can do to combat candida overgrowth and restore balance to your body. Chief among them is changing your diet. Changing your diet will restore balance to the body and therefore stop the candida overgrowth.

Candida thrives on high sugar diets, so change your diet to a no processed sugar diet. (Your body can live without processed sugar. It's okay you won't die! LOL!) Doing this starves the candida and gives your body a chance to recover.

Drink plenty of water. Doing this will allow the body to flush out the toxins that are produced by candida.

Avoid alcohol for the time being. Alcohol is made using yeast so it's best to stay away from it until everything goes back to normal. ( ALL ALCOHOL - This includes beer, wine, liquor, etc...)

Bread is the number one food made from yeast, so you have to avoid it also.

If you follow these simple steps, you can control and eventually beat your candida! If you notice, all of this can be done holistically, without the use of drugs and/or medications. These medications are the very thing that got you in this predicament in the first place! As I mentioned above, the medications not only kill the bad fungus, they kill the good also! Leaving your body out of balance,out of whack. This allows the bad fungus to flourish, with nothing to stop them!

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