Diet is a large part of the protocol we are following to bring candida overgrowths in our community members back into balance.
Lifestyle changes (especially something as basic eating habits, which are developed in infancy) can be challenging in the beginning. Thankfully, we have the support of a group while we make some more health conscious choices, and we invite anyone who wants to upgrade their health to take part as well!
After only 3 weeks of following the diet and 100% gum spirits of turpentine Β protocol, the majority of us are feeling better and are reporting really encouraging results in our diet wants vs needs.Β
Note: we are now in our 5th week of the anti-candida protocol, but it takes some time to analyze & report our data, as we have many other duties and responsibilities to tend to in running our sustainable ecovillage. Although we are on week 5 in real time, today we are reporting results from week 1 to 3.
During this protocol, we follow an anti-candida diet for 4 days and take 1 teaspoon of 100% gum spirits of turpentine first thing in the morning, and we take the next 3 days off each week. During the 3 off days, we eat whatever we want and do not take 100% gum spirits of turpentine.
The anti-candida diet largely corresponds to an alkaline diet based in fresh fruits and vegetables. We are having:
- fruit smoothies
- green juice
- wild plants/herbs
- raw fruitsΒ
- cooked fruits
- raw veggies
- cooked veggies
- eggs
- quinoa
- rice
- potatoes
- tea or coffee
We avoid or eliminate:
- meat
- dairy
- processed foods (anything from a package)
- wheat
- non fruit sugars
- dried fruits
- nuts
- oils
- avocados
- seeds
- beans
- alcohol
- soda, energy drinks, and other carbonated beverages
Now let's take a look at what we're actually consuming!
Another note: You can see for yourself the high vibe, ΓΌber dank, delicious, nutritious communal dinners we have every single day, because we share our sustainable feasts right here on Steemit! It's fun & hopefully inspiring to take a peek inside our outdoor kitchen.
Now for more fun, let's analyze some data! Here is a look at our reported diets for ON & OFF days from Week 1:
Looks like we stuck to the protocol pretty well over the first week.
Now let's look at the differences between ON days for Weeks 1 to 3:
Week 3 was a little more relaxed than week 1 while we were supposed to stick to the diet, although only a few people are not following the complete protocol during the on days.
Now let's look at the differences between OFF days for Weeks 1 to 3:
The data shows that from week 1 to 3 we are eating more meat, dairy, and processed foods on our off days, but we are also eating more fruits and veggies even on our off days. This suggests we are adjusting the baseline of our diet and actually prefer plenty of plants when given the freedom to have anything we want.Β
Here is what we are experiencing from following the anti-candida diet:
- Most of the people here @gardenofeden were considered very fit based on height to weight ratio even before we began the protocol. Weight is not something we have been specifically tracking during our experiment, but one individual reports they have lost 10 pounds in only a few weeks!
- Others have reported a noticeable difference in stomach protrusion both after eating and in the morning. One Eden Knight said, "It felt like I was always carrying around a food baby because I was eating so much, but I still felt hungry. Now I'm eating a lot less, I don't crave junk food, and I wake up each morning with my stomach flat again!"
- Everyone agrees that eating excessively healthy during the majority of the week and allowing ourselves to eat whatever we want during the last few days is working very well. Everyone feels better mentally & physically since the cleanse started!
- We have all made positive changes towards our eating habits and are eating much more consciously. Most people report new awarenesses of their own tendencies for healthful vs. not so healthful food choices, consideration for where their habits come from, and an increased desire to choose options that make their bodies feel good.
Despite our starting to slack on the diet in week 3, we are still making progress. Our candida levels have decreased, our die off symptoms have decreased, and our pH levels are slowly rising as well. This is encouraging to know that you can still "cheat" from time to time and see positive results in health! Getting better and better can be fun and rewarding!
We hope this will inspire you to do additional research and work towards the best possible health for yourself!
*This information is not intended to be medical advice; it is just shared research & experience.
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Such good info!
This looks so healthy and rather easy to follow. Thanks for sharing.
You're welcome! It is easy and can be totally fun with the right mindset!
Thank you so much for this, as a person new to the health scene this type of info is fantastic. I have been juicing and detoxing for a month now and I haven't felt this good ever in my life. Depression lifted, energy is great, and my mind is so clear and creative again. God bless you and others for sharing health info. It means alot.
That's awesome to hear, @dimensional-drop! Congrats on investing in your health - life is so much better when you feel good!!! Keep it up!!
I've been on the Anti-Candida and Autoimmune Paleo diet for about 2 months now and it's a pretty crazy way to eat. I've been really strict about it and do eat meat (not eggs cuz I'm allergic). Just started to eat quinoa, rice, potatoes, and nuts again because I wasn't getting enough food! But feeling pretty good. Doing it for my thyroid so that I can hopefully keep the darn thing!
Cool that you have a community setting so you can support each other through the sometimes difficult cravings. I couldn't do it without my husband working on it with me ( :
I would look into iodine and then check out what Anthony William has to say about the thyroid in his first book (white one with xray looking cover).
Looked up Iodine but mixed reviews. It's supposed to be good for the Thyroid but not necessarily good for Hashimotos or Graves
Here: http://www.intothegardenofeden.com/iodine1.html
Every cell in your body has two things; water and iodine (or it is suppose to). People have become so deficient in iodine that they are developing "diseases" that doctors will tell you not to consume it even though your body really needs it. I highly suggest you read more about iodine at the link above and if someone told you that you have Hashimotos or Graves then I would also highly suggest you read Anthony William book on chronic disease. He helped me fix my EBV (Epstein Barr Virus) Which according to modern medicine is just something you have to suffer with after they pump you full of steroids that mess up your body even worse. Even if you don't believe where he gets his information from, everything I have done from his book for myself and my son has worked very well and I was basically dying from mercury poisoning! :-)
I'll totally check it out ( : Thanks
No worries! I love to help people!
hi @jayjayjeffery, my thyroid gland was damaged by radiation treatment after surgery for throat cancer. Yes, you want to do everything you can to keep it if you can.
The Candida Balancing Diet is very natural. It promotes good digestive tract health and improves the immune system.
Common side effects of the loss of the full function of the thyroid gland include feeling cold and a lack of energy.
After my surgery at the University of Alberta Hospital the doctors there now move the thyroid gland to an arm, out of harms way of the radiation.
for more info about the procedure click here > http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/innovative-surgery-at-u-of-a-hospital-sees-cancer-patients-thyroids-moved-into-their-arms-1.3771465
All the best to you.
Woah, what?!?!?! Doctors are just scooting the thyroid out into the arm??? That's so sci-fi!
There are so many more ways to restore full health than radiation.
Yep!!! They think of some pretty far out things at the U of A Hospital. The doctors there are very visionary and "what if" types.
And yes, I wish I knew (and practiced) 15 and 20 years ago what I know and do now, health and diet wise. Health is an asset that is priceless but sadly not always appreciated until you lose it.
What!? That's the craziest thing I ever heard! Into your arm? That's kind of freaky (;
It is kind of Frankenstein-ish, isn't it. I just wish they were doing it 10 years ago. It's not so much fun to be cold all the time and low on energy. All the best to you with a healthy solution to your situation.
It's huge to have moral support through changes like these! Glad to hear your husband is supporting, @jayjayjeffery. You might consider joining our experiment! You can share your experience through our form, and we'll track your results: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSduXMOHbhju--F49_hLjvqAYWjeQld9Yj-6TPTaJzpDnu62qg/viewform
As far as your thyroid health goes, please learn more about iodine! It's supremely important to the body as a whole, but to the thyroid in particular. We're supposed to be consuming this on a regular basis, but it's not readily available from the standard American food supply anymore (and hasn't been for decades). Iodine deficiency can be the basis of a huge range of diseases, including both hypo- AND hyper- thyroidism. We have seen first hand how this required nutrient can make significant differences in health, and we've done tons of research on it. We highly recommend you look into it: http://www.intothegardenofeden.com/iodine1.html
Good on you for going the natural route to heal your body. Anything is possible, and healing is truly limitless!!! YOU CAN DO IT!!!!
I had heard a bit about Iodine. Surprised my doctor didn't bring it up! I'll read your linked article, Thanks!
Wonderful post...we need these informations..we are so much addicted to junk food,processed food that we are least bothered about taking a nutritional diet ...thanks for sharing ..I am following you and resteeming this post..
Thank you, @momi5! Health is wealth~*~
This is so wonderful. I'm in process of learning more about detoxing and getting toxins out of my body since I know my body is in need of that. Your posts are so helpful, so thank you very much for sharing.
Really glad to hear you're finding real value in them, @joalvarez! May you be healthier than ever!
That is what I want to take care of my health naturally and be healthier than ever.
nice post on this page all like your post and so hot
As usual, another great post. (Sitting here drinking my V8, really missed making and drinking my own) I know how hard you folks work and love that all of you are setting an example for how "Man" is supposed to be living/eating.
I am still amazed and a little upset that there are not thousands of "Eco Villages" all over the place .. When will we learn ? I just don't understand why everyone seems to want to eat poison and live like we do ... I just don't get it..
Anyway, keep up the detox and alkaline diet (Very smart) and of course keep spreading the love and posting here !
Much respect and Kudos to ALL of you !!
Read More, Reason More ... JTS
Yes home made is ALWAYS superior to store bought!
Great posts and interesting. Thank you for sharing for all
amazing post @gardenofeden. thank you
very good information of us for health,nice post
please upvote and follow me i really need help growing on steemit..
@rsrb, I'm curious, what did you do to drop from 25 to 11? just wondering so I can avoid going down that road too.
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thanks @gardenofeden, definitely not a road that I want to travel.
I want to eat.
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Thanks!
Great Words to live by!!!!
Bless it be~*~
Are you avoiding meat for other reasons or specifically for the cleanse? I have auto-immune disease and got on the organ meat, bone broth, and gelatin train in the last years. Adding those things to my diet has helped my pain and energy issues in general and pretty much immediately after consumption.
I'm considering this cleanse, and can give up the meat for it - I've been on and off with vegetarian/vegan over the years. I'm just wondering if it is necessary. The only other things I currently eat on your "no" list are seeds and coconut oil.
After losing "half my size" 6 years ago I banished the word "cheat" from my life. I eat great food every day and do things 80-90% correctly as I see it. One thing I fight in my coaching with obese people now is this whole "cheat" concept.
Them - If I eat good all week, can I have fast food on Saturday?
Me: - No. You can have some type of a celebration meal of everything healthy you love. Maybe a clean-sourced hamburger if that is what you really want. You body is starving for nutrition and does not do well when you decide to eat poison for your fun.
Good times in the weight loss biz!
Meat is very hard on the body to digest, especially for certain blood types. @fitinfun the main idea is to eliminate as much as possible to get rid of candida, parasites or anything else that the Gum Spirit will detox from your body. Some of us are morally opposed to eating meat as well.
Trust me - I know! I get bashed by vegans on the regular. The poor dead animals are high on many people's lists of things to care about. I'm Christian, so I pray in thanks ahead of meals. It's a deal from the bible that supposedly protects me from my sins real and imagined.
No matter what, I cannot dispute the results in my own body - I go from in pain and not able to move to 50% improvement within 30 minutes of eating liver or drinking gelatin dissolved in water.
My son is a vegetarian since birth and I went his direction for many years so I would not have to cook two cuisines. He will not eat anything that seems to have a dead animal in it. Those years were my weakest, most obese, and sickest.
I've heard about the turpentine idea and it is on my list to look into. But here in Thailand, I do not have good sources for anything out of the normal that they eat here.
The vegan food near me is deep fried in gross oil for the most part or heavy in soy which destroys me. So I go for the bbq or steamed meat or fish on a stick which seems to be a better choice for the moment. My ability to get up out of bed and walk across a room is my first priority on a daily basis. Saving the chickens who donated their livers to me is not on my list at all.
I was out in Thai farm country for a few months last winter and got to hear the terrorized screaming as the farms nearby killed their livestock each week before market day. I also grew up partly on a working farm where some of the boys took great joy on wringing the necks of chickens or hanging headless turtles from pegs to bleed out. Later, the whole family ate that food and no one said anything about it after saying grace.
Then here in Thailand, I met a teacher who worked in Uzbekistan for a year. She told our writer's group that if she had not eaten horses, she would have died from starvation as that was all they had out on the steppe. Several of the more sensitive souls in the reading group swore that if they ever did go there - they would be going to die since horse meat would never pass their lips. Maybe that's true, but maybe the desire to survive would kick in.
We all come from somewhere different and we do not all have the same needs or priorities in life. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
I certainly understand people that eat animals out of necessity. What is causing your health issues that keeps you so ill? I know a lot about chronic types of illness after being on deaths door for many years with mercury poisoning and perhaps I could share some valuable information with you. What really struck me about eating animals and their products was in regards to the transfer of energy. I have been trying to understand energy more and how it effects us, I was told by someone that if an animal dies scared or upset then we consume that energy when we eat their flesh. This was very intriguing to me and I am looking more into it.
Yes, I have heard that too and some places go out of their way to do "humane killing" if there is such a thing. "Natural" farms that do this were pretty common in California when I was there.
I get the idea of the animal's suffering being transferred and buy into it to some degree. I know from my days of being the kid that cleaned the fish that you can kill them with little suffering or a lot of sufferring depending upon your methods.
The biggest trouble I have is Rheumatoid Arthritis that I've had about 20 years. I took all the various drugs for about 12 years and then got off them all and go as natural as I can now and still be able to function. I'm allergic or sensitive to 80% of regular food and the hunt for calories is a real fight for me.
For example - I can't eat most of the food I see here in Thailand since it almost always has nightshades in it. Thai people say, "What do you mean you can't eat eggplant!" My answer "It burns my lips and throat and then I can't keep eating at all."
I have also gone through a number of detox protocols to get rid of the medical testing garbage I was carrying around and that made a huge difference a few years ago. I do dry skin brushing, eat clay and diatomaceous earth and try hard to avoid toxins as best I can.
It's much easier here in Thailand than in the states. When I first got here - my fingernails grew out pink for about 8 months and the old brown stained nails got cut off. Also -the first lady who cut my hair said it was "dead" when I first got here and now she is pleased with my progress after 18 months.
I'd be glad to hear any detox advice. I'm pretty limited in what I can get but I am willing to try :)
Have you ever tested your pH levels? I would be willing to bet you are very acidic if you are having issues with RA. I would highly suggest you read Anthony William first book. There is a whole chapter on RA in there. Even if you don't believe where his information comes from, I can tell you from experience that everything he suggests has worked wonders for me and my son who both suffered greatly from mercury poisoning. At one point I spent two years eating nothing but white rice and chicken broth because everything else caused an allergic reaction - so I totally understand how it feels to have a limited diet. His book is white with a xray chest on the cover. I don't usually recommend books but in your case I think it would help a ton! Or you can listen to some of his stuff online as well: https://www.hayhouseradio.com/#!/episode/the-truth-about-inflammation-
I will definitely check it out. I'm on pretty much the paleo/aip diet now and in several groups for that diet. The average person comes in puffy and inflamed and if they follow the diet, the puffiness and redness disappears in weeks and their gut shrinks dramatically. One group asks you to take a full body side "before" photo just for that reason. This amazing change happens for so many people. I think just getting them off the coloring and flavors makes a big difference in the beginning.
I've done the test strips in the past and I was good or only slightly acidic. I'm pretty sure I can find them here and will try again. You never know with the huge changes I've had with my food. Thanks for the ideas and I will definitely listen to the podcast, but I'm not buying books! I am trying to reduce my possessions since I travel now. Books are just too much :)