Call me crazy but I bought a magazine a few days ago that mentions three C's for Candida, Cayenne Pepper is one of all things (Curry too) that says it can reduce the yeast by 41% in two weeks! Who ever heard of Cayenne Pepper for healing? I didn't I always just thought it was for spicing up foods. I also read Oxygen can cure it but I haven't really tried that for too long, it takes away the dark spaces where it thrives and it can't survive any longer (Dark damp spots). Cayenne I can imagine would boost the immune system as it is one of the top herbs I have read about, is heals the gut lining too I read. I am going to have to try it and get back to you. I know at first until I am used to it that it will give me that hot taste in my throat and other little side effects! It is very hot and taking the pill form is the only way I would go. I am all for the diet if it works for you! Very good and thats the way you can cope and feel alright, so be it. I don't think it is the only cure though or a complete cure, it helps alot I am sure but if you cheat again? Won't it just come right back? I read that before. I am going to go with the Cayenne and Good probiotic I bought for a few weeks, I will let you know Bex. Wish me well! We need a cure.
I have heard of cayenne pepper for other things too. It seems it's good stuff. Didn't know that about curry though. I can't have a lot of things because there are usually other stuff mixed in that winds up feeding yeast and causing problems for me. I can't have rice or anything like that.
I tried a probiotic for a few weeks and didn't like the results at all. Though some might say it was "die off", I felt wrong with it. I was concerned something else was also going on with it, as I was feeling toxic and even weeks, decided to stop. I've felt ill with diet too before, when first starting but it was clearly die off. Whereas the probitoics didn't feel right for me somehow. I could be completely mistaken though.
Cayenne on there too! GO FIGURE! I read alot about it today, truly amazing stuff for Yeast and Parasites! I am going to roast those things. I will not chelate until I am done trying to knock levels of yeast and parasites down, it's simply too much for me.
Yep, cayenne was also in the parasite cleanse I did! No wonder it tasted like it did
If you feel more comfortable getting yeast and parasites down more before chelating, go for it. See if it puts you in a better position to handle the chelation too and having a better functioning gut and liver from less yeast and parasites is very beneficial when you are trying to eliminate metals. I remember chelating with a bad yeast situation and I wound up shunting toxins into my gut area after taking a late dose. I wound up redistributing metals into the gut. Under other circumstances, when I went on the candida diet, I had no more issues with chelation and even an accidental missing/late dose did not produce the dire effects it had when I had high yeast levels.
Seriously, the diet enabled me to chelate more safely and effectively. It depends on the person though - for me I had to do something. Someone else may have a stronger immunity to battle yeast. I don't.
The diet does work for me at this point, so I'm sticking with it. No it's not a cure, because it's not really addressing what caused the yeast in the first place and until that is removed - yeast will continue to come back. Though the antibiotics admittedly made the situation far far worse and if I had the time again, I would NEVER have taken them. I regret it bitterly.
I may try antifungals again, but I'm not that keen. Most systemic antifungals are toxic to the liver. And a medicated antifungal I took once caused regular nausea and vomiting. Whether die off or toxicity/allergy? I don't know. I'm wary of these things though. A herbal antifungal worked too well in the beginning and killed off alot of yeast in one go, releasing not only yeast toxins, but also the heavy metals contained. I was seriously seriously poisoned and wasn't aware of the warnings for mercury toxic people to be very careful of antifungal use.
Yeast often contain mercury and can even hold their own weight in mercury. The diet only works by cutting off the overgrowth's extra food supply. Therefore it slowly weakens/sickens and dies and is gradually discarded by the body. Though it will release death toxins, it is not split open the same way antifungals work. They apparently blast or split open yeast cell walls. Should they contain mercury, the mercury is then released into the system and sometimes acutely so. I was VERY ill. I was getting the shakes, fever, chills, metal taste etc. Nothing cured the reaction until I got on DMSA. So I pretty much confirmed the theory.
Plus apparently there has been testing done in mercury toxic patients after antifungal use and found that there was an increase of mercury in the urine following. So it seems it may well be a viable theory.
I don't have that now if I try an antifungal, since I think it was an initial response of perhaps long standing yeast containing mercury that may have been there for sometime. But I'd always advise caution for people with mercury when taking an aggressive approach to candida for this reason.
