Boroch - The Candida Cure Cookbook: Delicious Recipes to Reset Your Health and Restore Your Vitality

About the Author

ANN BOROCH IS A CERTIFIED nutritional consultant, naturopath, educator, award-winning author, and inspirational speaker. She specializes in allergies, autoimmune diseases, and gastrointestinal and endocrine disorders and is an expert on candida. Her successful practice in Los Angeles, California, has helped thousands of clients achieve optimum health.

Anns passion is to help people realize that the body has an innate intelligence that allows it to heal itselfthe key is to give it the right environment for a long enough period of time to remove inflammation and infection. She firmly believes that with choice and diligence, each of us has the power to overcome any challenge.

Her healing wisdom comes through hard-earned experience: Ann was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at the age of twenty-four. Refusing to accept this devastating verdict, she educated herself about the real factors underlying her condition, created her own self-care program, and has been symptom free for over twenty years. She is now trained in several healing disciplines.

Ann Boroch is the author of the popular books The Candida Cure: Yeast, Fungus, and Your HealthThe 90-Day Program to Beat Candida and Restore Vibrant Health and Healing Multiple Sclerosis: Diet, Detox, and Nutritional Makeover for Total Recovery.

To learn more about Ann Boroch and her work, visit www.annboroch.com
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Acknowledgments

I AM SO GRATEFUL TO MY TEAM, who continues to help me educate, inspire, and empower people to achieve optimal health and thrive. Alison Charbonneau, chef extraordinaire, for your creativity and inspirationwithout you this book would not have become a reality. Bobak Radbin, for your beautiful photography, making each dish look so inviting. Patricia Spadaro, my executive editor, for your creative input and guidance, expert editing and oversight, and your support each step of the way. Janet Chaikin, for your superb editing. Nita Ybarra, for the beautifully designed cover and interior. Nigel Yorwerth, for your invaluable guidance, marketing, and great foreign rights representation. Irene Zaragoza, for being my right arm and loyal supporter and helping me to get it all done. Thank you as well for your beautiful pottery, which can be seen in many of the photos. Thank you, Mom, for being my biggest cheerleader and rock of support. And, especially, to my clients and readers who kept nudging and inspiring me to put out a cookbookthis is for you!

The Healing Power of Your Food

THE CANDIDA CURE COOKBOOK was born out of my passion to help people restore their health and vitality by tackling a condition that is at the core of many health problemscandida, or yeast and fungal, overgrowth. The Candida Cure Cookbook is filled with delicious sugar-free, dairy-free, gluten-free, and yeast-free recipes that avoid foods that create inflammation and feed candida. Although the recipes are designed for those on an anti-candida diet, anyone who wants to eat clean, whole foods, experience more energy, lose weight, and stay energetic and healthy, even as they age, will benefit from this book.

As more and more research is revealing, candida is a key factor in a wide range of health problems, from allergies, irritable bowel syndrome, leaky gut, sinusitis, fatigue, eczema, and endocrine imbalances to anxiety, depression, brain fog, and autoimmune disease. Significantly, candida and its by-products (mycotoxins) can foster the environment for cancer viruses to flourish. Millions are suffering with an overgrowth of yeast in their bodies and dont even know it.

Im dedicated to providing solutions to the growing candida epidemic because Ive experienced firsthand what can happen when candida gets out of control. Discovering this condition in my own body literally saved my life. In the years since, the candida program and diet Ive developed have supported my clients and readers in charting their own road to renewed health. If youve tried different approaches to healing a persistent health issue without success, or if you just cant seem to lose weight or dont have enough energy to get through the day, the candida-cure diet could be the answer for you. Heres a little background on how this book came to be.

At the age of nineteen, I had a severe case of mononucleosis (EpsteinBarr virus). For months, I experienced overwhelming fatigue, disorientation, brain fog, allergies, chest constriction, ear and sinus pain, weight loss, dizziness, and depression. As my condition worsened, I sought more medical treatments. I saw over eight different specialists and took more than twenty different medications. I felt like a human guinea pig. When nothing worked, I began to search for answers on my own and found Dr. William Crooks first book, The Yeast Connection. He was the second doctor, in addition to Dr. Orian Truss, who exposed the link between yeast/candida overgrowth and a variety of health conditions. I cried when I answered the questionnaire in his book because I had 90 percent of the symptoms he listed that are connected with candida. I followed his protocol for an anti-candida diet, avoiding foods that encourage yeast to grow, and took an antifungal powder called Nilstat. Within one year, I was healthy and thriving again.

Unfortunately I didnt understand how important it was, given the severity of my case, to stick to that diet to prevent the yeast from returning even more virulently. My old habit of eating sugars and refined carbohydrates crept back in. On top of that, my stress levels were high, which elevates cortisol and blood sugar, feeding candida. At twenty-four, my world stopped when I experienced a major attack on my neurological system. I couldnt breathe, swallow, or move for seconds and then had uncontrollable spasms and pronounced fatigue. I was quickly diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and told my condition was incurable.

I refused to accept the doctors devastating verdict. Once again I dug up what little research was available at the time and was determined to create my own self-care program. It was a tumultuous four-year journey. During that time, I addressed the real factor that was underlying my condition (candida overgrowth), removed fifteen silver-mercury amalgam fillings, and religiously stuck to a diet to fight candida. I took Nystatin tablets, herbal antifungals, and additional supplementation. And I did my inner work by examining and healing mental and emotional wounds.

I have now been symptom-free for over twenty years. My healing journey ignited in me a passion to educate and inspire others to achieve optimal health in the face of any condition. I decided to get trained in several healing disciplines. As a certified nutritionist and naturopath for the last eighteen years and the author of two books, I have helped thousands regain their health and vitality. Those successes are based on teaching people how to get their bodies back into balance and how to target what creates inflammation and infection, including what we eat and drink. Over time, I developed a program of diet, detoxification, and supplementation aimed at eliminating inflammation and allowing the bodys innate intelligence to do what it does bestheal.

The Candida Cure Cookbook is a companion to my popular book The Candida Cure: Yeast, Fungus, and Your HealthThe 90-Day Program to Beat Candida and Restore Vibrant Health. That book offers additional information on treating candida and can guide you in implementing a 90-day program of detox and diet. After hearing from clients and readers that they wanted more recipes so they could maintain the candida-cure diet, I realized that it was time to create a cookbook. There are many allergy-free cookbooks that cater to those on restricted diets but few that deal specifically with candida. And the recipes my clients had found werent very exciting or tasty. I knew from my own experience that, contrary to what many people think, it is entirely possible to prepare healthy, clean, candida-free food that is mouthwatering too.