Stop Candida

jacalynfreeborn  on October 22nd, 2008

Hydrogen peroxide is not effective against candida. If it were to be inserted into an orifice it would just burn and land you in the E room. If someone has candida, monestat or lotrimin will work if it is not severe.

MadforMAC  on October 23rd, 2008

What? Hydrogen Peroxide is not to be taken internally, read the label. I’ve never heard of doing anything with that to get rid of Candida.

You need to log on to Brenda Watkins site regarding digestive problems, she is an expert. She also has a few books on the subject too.

What you need to do is change your diet from a Candida-feeding diet and also understand that parasites and Candida go hand in hand. Read her instructions.

Also ozone has been proven to be harmful to humans, so I don’ t know where you are getting this information, but its very incorrect.

sapphire_630  on October 24th, 2008

food grade

eat yogurt or take pro biotics
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.

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. cut out sugars for at least 3 days, esp. once any thyroid, chromium and/ or manganese deficiencies, or a high free-insulin level 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.

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

Increase your intake of saturated fats* and essential oils, especially omega-3 oils, — 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. Avoid trans-fats strictly.
Use olive oil for cooking

keepsondancing  on October 25th, 2008

Sapphire gave you excellent advice. You can add organic coconut oil to her list of healthy fats.

I recommend:
Ask your question as a “guest” there. (or register). Several members have been successful with candida and could be very helpful.

Alex F  on October 26th, 2008

(This is a modification of something I wrote a few months ago)

I read alternative therapy books a lot, and from them I’ve learned a few things:
1) Candida is a nasty conditions that causes a lot of problems.
2) Most doctors don’t awknowledge that it exists (and say it’s in your head etc), or they use completely incorrect ways to treat it (ie. antibiotics).
3) It’s really difficult to treat, even with alternative approaches like naturopathy which normally work when conventional therapy fails.

One of my friends came up to me and told me that she had candida, and explained how it was messing her up and that the doctors she’d seen hadn’t really done s**t (or prescribed anything that work). I asked her if she’d tried fixing her diet and not eating sugar. She said she had somewhat, and it helped a little, but it didn’t really make a difference. She also had eaten probiotics, which helped a bit.

I’d recently finished reading a book on oxygen therapies which said candida is exteremely difficult to cure, regardless of what you do, but hydrogen peroxide seemed to actually do the trick very quickly.
They advocated intravenous injection (which is a pain to do), but I thought drinking it might work as well since candida hangs out in the gut. I had some food grade lying around and I’d used it for other stuff, so I figured I had nothing to lose by trying it. Neither of us thought it would work.

(Insert tangent)
Generally, intravenous injections of peroxide are considered to be much more effective and better than drinking peroxide, but at the same time they are more invasive and not as easy to do (I always have a bias towards doing simpler things when I practice medicine on my own), hence we avoided it. In your situation, it might be worth looking in that option. In the literature I read, all the people who had dramatic reversals of chronic incurable candida used intravenous peroxide.
(end tangent)

I checked back with autumn in a few days, and she said that she didnt think it would work, but she started noticing changes after about 3 days, and within 10 most of her symptoms had gone away (in 2 weeks she said she felt like she as 95% of where she had been before, and “wow I can’t believe how much candida messed me up”).
At some point, she lost the peroxide I gave her, and then went for about a week without it, at which point she noticed she got a lot worse (to about 50% of where she had been before she started, and said “I hope I don’t have to use this stuff for the rest of my life.”). We talked about it, and I theorized that the peroxide would probably need longer to completely kill the candida, but it might also be necessary to inject it to get some of the candida hangingou out in the bloodstream outside of the gut (in all the case studies I’d seen where peroxide worked, it was done intravenously, which we did not yet want to do).
A bit later, while still not having peroxide, she came across a drink called kefir (another strong probiotic one), and started using it. She said that it got her to the last push of 99.9%, and that she planned to use that from now on, and has been fine ever since.
Total sucesses with candida are very rare (a lot of these herbal things people suggest might work on one person, but never have consistent success since the condition is hard to treat), but I thought I’d share that example since I’m certain it happened (first hand experience), and I’d advise trying something similar.

Candida normally occurs when you have too many things in your guy that feed the fungus (ie sugar), or your stomach bacteria are supressed and can’t contain the fungus. The latter commonly happens when people are overperscribed antiobiotics (which happens a lot since doctors use antiobiotics zealously). Ie, it’s very common for people to get a candida infection immediately after being treated for pneumonia.

In our approach to treating it, we first killed off most of the candida with peroxide. Then once it was mostly gone, we put a lot of friendly bacteria in to put the balance in the gut back to where it should be. I don’t think doing the latter will work if the Candida population is there in full force to begin with.

As far as hydrogen peroxide goes, the stuff is harmless good for you if a few safety measures are followed:
1) It has to be in a very low concentration (if you drink 30% you will most likely die and it burns skin if you touch it, whereas .05% helps your health a lot).
2) It can’t have toxic additives in it (most peroxide sold does)
3) It needs to be drank away from meals (when you eat the stomach acids and proteins in gut can turn it into OH-, which is bad for you).

The procedure she followed was very simple.
1) Get a little bit of food grade 35% hydrogen peroxide* from me (you can buy it online), and an eyedropper.
*It should be stored in the freezer if not used.
2) Put 1 drop of 35% in a glass of water and drink it on the first day as far away from meals as possible.
2) 2 drops the next day
3) Keep on increasing* until it feels like you’ve done as much as feels comfortable (10 is the absolute max, she settled at 7).
Some people increase at a slower rate, such as 1 drop for a week, then 2 for the next instead of 1 per day.
4) once it feels peroxide has cleaned you out, switch to kefir (you cannot use both at the same time, since peroxide will kill the recently added probiotics)

I’m not an expert on probiotics, but I do know their quality greatly varies from source to source, so you need to make sure you get a good brand. All I can say is that Kefir seems to work well. If you don’t want to deal with this, you can also just keep on using peroxide, or consult a doctor that works with oxygen therapies (and say can give you intravenous injections).

Sometimes when you use peroxide, it will detoxify your system, and cause a lot of crap that was stored in your to come out quickly. This can be unpleasant for a few days (toxic flush syndrome), but once it passes you feel a lot better than you did before.

Everything I said can also be done with ozone, and ozone colonics for instance work really well (as does drinking ozonated water). However, I do not have personal experience with either and both are more expensive than peroxide and more difficult to get access to. Oxygen is really good for getting the body to purge and flush stuff out, and if you follow a peroxide regimen it will most likely get a lot out of your system.

Anyhow, I hope this helps! Candida is very difficult to cure and has a profound effect on people’s lives, but hopefully if you follow this you’ll be able to get better. One of the things which is not appreciated about the condition is that the disease spreads to the bloodstream from the gut (creating things like chronic fatigue), and then enters the brain and starts affecting your mood (ie. making you more depressed and emotional). Autumn said this was the biggest thing she noticed with Candida before and after being cured.
Considering how much it helped my friend, I figure it’s my duty to pass the knowledge on.

*and peroxide is fine to drink if you do it intelligently