Jeffrey McCombs - The Everything Candida Diet Book: Improve your immunity by restoring your bodys natural balance

Avon, Massachusetts

To my wife, Ana Maria, and our little angels,
Ana Sophia and Ethan Kai. Love and laughter are the spices
of our lives that make this journey a wonderful gift.

Candida. Candidiasis. Candida-Related ImmuneComplex. Systemic Candida. Yeast infection. These terms are all used when discussing candida, an organism that is linked to an increasing amount of diseases and health conditions around the world. You may be familiar with these terms, but if not, eventually you will be. Candida can cause, promote, or contribute to almost any disease or health condition that an individual may experience. From cancer to skin rashes, diabetes to depression, obesity to vaginal infections, candida almost always plays a role. Its effect on the body is widespread, yet its presence is seldom recognized.

The majority of people with systemic fungal candida can go decades without any symptoms, while the slow degeneration of the bodys cells and tissues advances. Like most microbes that have existed on this planet for billions of years, candida has developed an amazing ability to adapt instantaneously to all kinds of climates and environments outside of and inside the human body. Yet candidas phantom presence has enabled it to be ignored by modern medicine as a condition worthy of any consideration until its too late. Abandoned by medicine, even in the face of tens of thousands of studies, candida has been investigated by the scientific community worldwide. Holistic practitioners have rallied to help millions of people looking for an answer that only the recognition and treatment of fungal candida can provide.

Many people are shocked to discover that the mysterious conditions that theyve dealt with for years can be so easily explained by candida and its march through their tissues. How can one organism have such a devastating effect on health, yet be unrecognized by the majority of doctors? How can doctors continue to ignore the advances of science in this area while their patients suffer? These questions are not easy to answer.

One possible answer lies with the use of antibiotics. Antibiotics are the class of drugs most prescribed by medical doctors in the world. They are credited with saving millions of lives, they are the backbone of every medical doctors practice, and they are also the most direct and immediate cause of fungal candida. To the medical profession, antibiotics can do no wrong. Unfortunately, the use of antibiotics creates systemic fungal infections, as well as antibiotic-resistant strains of superbugs.

Dr. Orian Truss, Dr. William Crook, and Dr. John Trowbridge are among the medical doctors who have led the way in candida research by writing books and papers on the effects of candida in their patients over the past fifty years. Even so, candida is not completely recognized by medical communities.

This book provides time-proven methods for addressing candida. Through the use of a healthful, whole foodsbased diet and antifungals, youll be able to reset your body and improve your health. Leaving behind the Standard American Diet (SAD), which is so commonly associated with heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and a host of other diseases, youll discover a diet that promotes health, happiness, and longevity. This diet will help reawaken your bodys innate ability to regulate itself, and youll find out which foods provide nourishment and healing. The principles in this book will help you reclaim mastery of your internal landscape. Diet alone wont get you where you need to be, but the diet promoted here can provide a healthful foundation for the rest of your life. A candida diet isnt about restrictions; its about the freedom that you gain from a life without the symptoms, conditions, and illness associated with todays modern lifestyle and the consequences of unchecked antibiotic use.

Even if you arent suffering from a condition related to candida, the application of the principles contained in this book can help you reset your body and improve your health.

Some people dont need an introduction to candida; they have been dealing with its effects for years, or even a lifetime. However, starting with the basics will help you better understand what candida is and, sometimes more important, what it is not. Knowing what candida is, where it comes from, who gets it, and how it affects you is the best way to take control of your health and well-being. With this book, you are about to become more knowledgeable about candida than most medical doctors.

Is it a yeast or a fungus? Friend or foe? A symbiotic companion or pathogenic intruder? A figment of the imagination or a scientifically valid concern? In reality, candida is all of these, depending on whom you are talking to and the environment that it is found in. Candida can help promote health or contribute to its erosion.

Candidas behavior is primarily governed by the health of a persons intestinal tract and the balance of beneficial bacteria within it, which together form the internal ecosystem. Anything that alters this ecosystem determines candidas role in the body.

An organism that lives in and on both men and women, candida is one of the many thousands of species of microbes, or bugs, that call the human body home. Like many of its 100+ trillion cohabitants, candida serves a purpose in the bodys internal ecosystem. But unlike many of its fellows, it has a dual nature, existing as either a yeast or a fungus, depending on its environment.

The yeasty side of candida ferments sugars and breaks down tissues. While it normally exists in this state, candida can convert to its fungal state given the presence of appropriate triggers, such as pH, temperature, sugars, certain compounds, and a lack of bacteria to prevent its growth. Although a weakened immune system is another trigger, it is less instrumental in the initial transformation. However, the use of antibiotics alone can cause all of these triggers to present at once. Other factors like hormones and toxins may cause one trigger to become active, but that alone will not cause the transformation.

Once the transformation has taken place and the fungal monster appears, candida quickly leaves the intestinal tract and enters the bloodstream. The strong presence of immune cells in the blood prevents candida from spending much time there, so it rapidly enters all the tissues of the body, where it starts to secrete enzymes, break down the tissues, and derive nutrients.