Yeast/Fungus/Dysbiosis and SCD diet

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Hi All,

I've have occasionally been following the Yeast/Antifungal thread and

am not certain if anyone has mentioned the SCD diet for control of

yeasties, etc.

I cannot take probiotics, antifungals, etc. It does not matter

whether I take activated charcoal or any of the other toxin binding

products. This has been going on for 25 years, so I've had plenty of

time to experiment. I have severe MCS, IBS, Hg/Thallium/Arsenic

toxicity, and am adrenal insufficient and hypothyroid.

The SCD diet was recommended to me as a means of controlling yeast and

other intestinal beasties because I could not handle any antifungals,

etc. If you follow this diet strictly, there are two die off phases

in the diet. I do not follow it strictly because I had to adjust the

diet according to my food sensitivities, sulphury food intolerance,

etc.. It is not a low carb diet, but it does limit the types of

carbohydrates you are permitted. If you only use it as a guide to

specific carbohydrate foods to avoid (which is what I use it for), it

can be very helpful. For more info. on SCD diet check out

www.pecanbread.com or take a look at the pecan bread yahoo group.

Treating my adrenal insufficiency with HC has improved my yeast issues

as well and hopefully next week I will be adding thyroid meds, so that

may improve my dysbiosis issues even more. I imagine chelation is the

only thing that will permanently take care of my yeast/dysbiosis, but

who knows.

G.

[Guest guest]

Hi G. I mentioned the SCD diet in a recent post but you are the first to comment

on it. I was thinking of trying it at one time and I have the book. But I didn't

have the will power. It's the strictest diet I've seen. NO canned goods, food

HAS TO be prepared EXACTLY as she states or it won't work. If you blow it even a

little you have to start over. She does say that you could try it for only 30

days at which time you will know if it's going to work or not. How are you doing

with it? I've really had it in the back of my mind to someday get the will power

up to try. That's interesting about the HC. I have some from mastersmarketing

and keep thinking about going back on it. How are you doing with the 24 hour

yogurt? I am allergic to casien (according to enterolabs and my gluten test) but

Elaine claims in her book that true milk allergy is rare if it even exists. I

understand she passed away recently. That's to bad. Thanks for sharing. Carol B

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> Hi G. I mentioned the SCD diet in a recent post but you are the

first to comment on it. I was thinking of trying it at one time and I

have the book. But I didn't have the will power. It's the strictest

diet I've seen. NO canned goods, food HAS TO be prepared EXACTLY as

she states or it won't work.

I did SCD for 6 months, in an attempt to get rid of my son's yeast. It

does seem terribly strict, but we adapted to it pretty quickly. Two

bonuses were that grocery shopping was *really fast -- vegetables,

meat, fruit, and you're done -- and cooking was very simple as well.

And another bonus: since you can't have canned goods, we did things

like make our own catsup and applesauce, which tasted much better than

store bought. The nut breads were good too.

As for yeast, it didn't help, although I've read report that it has

been great for some people.

Nell

[Guest guest]

Hi Carol,

This diet was developed for those with inflammatory bowel disease.

(crohns, ulcerative colitis, IBS). It is known to induce remissions

in some of the severest cases. I just use the SCD as a guideline.

You mention it being extremely restrictive. I guess after having MCS

for 25 years and being used to making all meals from scratch, it did

not seem that bad to me. www.pecanbread.com gives detailed info on

the diet not found in Gottschalls book. If your GI/dysbiosis

problems are not that bad you could get away with starting at a

different level of the diet than those with severe IBD.

I don't do well with dairy either, but certain dairies are permitted

on the diet and others not. It has to do with the sugars they

contain. The only yogurt on the market that I could find that met

the diet restrictions was Erivan. It does not contain thickeners,

etc. and no dairy is added after fermentation. The diet encourages

you to make your own yogurt, but I just don't have the energy to take

on one more thing.

Their are all kinds of reasons you may not tolerate dairy: a true

allergy as you suspect, Inability to clear immune complexes from your

system so they build up and you become sensitive-there are several

reasons this may happen, or your plasma cysteine levels are too high

and you have problems with high cysteine foods such as cheese, yogurt

eggs, etc.

No one says you have to adopt every principle of the diet. Just

decreasing the number of prohibitted carbs from the diet has made a

difference for me and hopefully that won't even be necessary once I

detox from all the metals.

Gladioli

> Hi G. I mentioned the SCD diet in a recent post but you are the

first to comment on it. I was thinking of trying it at one time and I

have the book. But I didn't have the will power. It's the strictest

diet I've seen. NO canned goods, food HAS TO be prepared EXACTLY as

she states or it won't work. If you blow it even a little you have to

start over. She does say that you could try it for only 30 days at

which time you will know if it's going to work or not. How are you

doing with it? I've really had it in the back of my mind to someday

get the will power up to try. That's interesting about the HC. I have

some from mastersmarketing and keep thinking about going back on it.

How are you doing with the 24 hour yogurt? I am allergic to casien

(according to enterolabs and my gluten test) but Elaine claims in her

book that true milk allergy is rare if it even exists. I understand

she passed away recently. That's to bad. Thanks for sharing. Carol B

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