wheatgrass and candida diet

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Hi Chef! (and everybody else)

I started cleansing and nutritioning with wheatgrass before I fully

realized that my candida had blossomed once more. Or before I had

consciously decided to do something serious about it. For me, the candida

was there, but just hovering in the background. Keeping me heavy and

tired, but not interfering too much with my life. I looked to the living

foods lifestyle then for some relief of all my nagging ailments. Then my

OBGYN put me on a cream for some scarring problems that were causing me

pain and I noticed that I was even more bloated and moody and unable to

sleep at night. I looked up the cream on the Internet and found that it

was an HRT treatment. Estrogen is one of my biggest candida feeders. Then

I got a very bad lung and sinus infection and had to go on a course of

anti-biotics and the candida moved from the background into the foreground.

I stopped using the HRT and went back to the wheatgrass juice, which I had

stopped taking during the lung infection (just out of laziness) and I was

soon able to sleep again.

I put a hold on the candida diet a few days ago, although I have continued

with the Solray Yeast cleanse and the oil of oregano. My husband is about

to leave town for several months and I decided that going through detox was

something that could wait until he's gone. I'm seriously considering a

wheatgrass juice and broth fast for a few days. (That's the impatient side

of me again) to get the ball rolling. The books all suggest daily enemas

with this kind of fast (to help eliminate the die-off symptoms), so I'll

probably do that as well. I know it's drastic and that Bee recommends we

be more gentle with our bodies, but like some of the others here, I usually

feel best when I don't eat anything at all. That's probably due to the

poor digestion and food allergies. I think that giving an exhausted immune

and digestive system a rest is not a bad idea though I do worry about

further slowing down my metabolism. It's a real dilemma.

Oh, here's a question for Bee: After I begin the candida diet again

(Sunday or Monday), should I immediately begin taking pro-biotics with the

candida cleanses or wait awhile? It seems that the one might kill off the

other, but I'm happy to take some council on the matter.

thanks!

Barbara

At 02:07 PM 6/4/2004, you wrote:

>bbc-

>

>i'm also an impatient saggitarius! i tend to go all out when i try

>something new. i have done the same thing to myself with wheatgrass

>juice. that's actually what made me think of major detox with the c.

>oil on an empty stomach. it felt the same as wheatgrass.

>

>i tried some more with dinner last night (mixed in with my steamed

>veggies & some sea salt) probably less than a tablespoon. i also ate

>salmon & a salad with some goat cheese in it. and no problems, no

>nausea & today appears to have digested just fine.

>

>how long have you been cleansing candida? did you wait to begin

>wheatgrass?

>

>thanks bbc!

>

>

> > >i can relate the problem of getting the runs!

> > >i'm actually suffering from that today.

> > >

> > >no headache the way jeanne described, but i feel like i have a

>cold.

> > >last night i had a scratchy throat, this morning it was still

>there,

> > >with the feelings of getting a cold. i think i have the cold

>symptoms

> > >under control and thank goodness, i'm done working for the week, so

> > >the rest of my busywork can be done mostly from right here at my

>desk

> > >for the next three days (not as much of a drain on the system as

> > >running all over town).

> > >

> > >i bought some garden of life coconut oil today. after researching

>it

> > >further, i wanted to see the difference for myself, after trying

>the

> > >omega nutrition brand for the past week.

> > >

> > >i ate a tablespoon (maybe a little more) when i got home, on an

>empty

> > >stomach. its really good. very coconutty

> > >

> > >within 10 minutes i felt nauseated, very much so. i've been sitting

> > >still, reading here at my desk for the past hour and a half,

>waiting

> > >for it to pass. i finally started to drink some water about 30

> > >minutes ago, that seems to be helping.

> > >

> > >my intuition is that it went directly into my system and either

> > >killed some yeasties (die off?), or else made some toxins release

> > >into my bloodstream. well, even though it wasn't a pleasant

> > >experience, it showed me something about the potency of this oil!

> > >

> > >i have eaten the omega nutrition oil on an empty stomach without

>that

> > >reaction. i think i'll use the omega for cooking, and the garden of

> > >life one for eating raw (maybe with my meals from now on!) just

> > >because it feels so alive and powerful as a raw food.

> > >

> > >i have been wondering about the runs problem, i also can't trace it

> > >to any particular food. but i used to have the battle between

> > >constipation & diarreah. now since on the high saturated fat,

> > >proteins & lots of veggies, i've been pretty good, except for about

> > >once a week runs!

> > >

> > >any input?

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >