Hi Sean,

Yeah, the first time I went on this diet, I paced the kitchen in tears and was pulling my hair. That's how much of a grip it had on me. But not just candida, but the amount of stored toxins from consuming bad foods like sugar/wheat/gluten products was horrific.

In fact, the symptoms you mention Sean are a strong indication that you are a good candidate for doing the diet. Since usually this is a sign that candida is reducing, toxins are being released back into your system and you are feeling the effects strongly. Strongly enough to where you feel you cannot continue on such a diet. Some say "it doesn't work for me"< simply because they feel so sick after starting it. Yet that is usually a sign it's working. Sadly they often stop soon after starting and abandon it. Yet this is the very thing that could help them feel so much better had they stuck it out. I'm not different from anybody else, but I wanted to feel better.

No, the diet does not just suppress candida. Candida does indeed die off from lack of thriving on bad foods. The immunity also gets a chance to improve. The entire point of getting yeast in balance is restoring immunity. Killing yeast with supplements is a temporary action, but never a solution because if a person continues on the same diet that contributed to yeast overgrowth, they are doing nothing about the foundation. You can indeed cure yeast by diet, but ONLY if the cause of the problem (e.g. mercury/virus) etc has been treated. Then the body can restore function and keep yeast in balance.

The release of toxins after discontinuing such foods was incredible. So not just about reducing candida, the stored toxins erupted forth. I was ill, I stunk, I cried and I had headaches and cravings. The improvements at the end of it was dramatic and worth every bit of intial pain.

So though candida may not have been the root cause, it and other toxins from such foods were suppressing my immunity further, causing me to be suicidal, far more toxic and was not allowing my body to be healthy at all, so doing a diet isn't just for candida, but for the entire body/immunity and makes perfect sense for those reasons alone.

It is not just about finding the root cause, which isn't always easy and maybe a long time in coming, but about building immunity, making ourselves less toxic, reducing excess yeast in the meantime. Regardless of whether we are lucky enough to find, let alone cure the root problem. Either way, being on a healthy diet to my mind is wise regardless!

You do not have to get rid of the root cause to treat candida. Treating candida and a toxic body with the diet is wise in any condition and supportive to a person getting better from whatever the root cause was (be it mercury or somethign else). If a person doesn't know what the root cause is and cannot find the solution to it, the diet should still be helpful.

I'd be surprised if it isn't because it's simply consuming good food and getting rid of foods that make a person more toxic, feed yeast to excess and lower immunity.

Battling it out isn't fun, it isn't easy, but if a person is determined and even desperate, they can do it because the alternative for some of us is far far worse than temporary misery from detoxification, yeast reduction and cravings (which don't last).

If you feed yeast by sugars, and try to kill it off with antifungals and probiotics, you are defeating the purpose and this is not a true anti-candida programme. Most true candida programmes consist of diet, antifungals and probiotics (often in that very order). To feed it and kill it simultaneously is an ongoing process of feeding and die off, feeding and die off. The yeast must be weakened and starved so a person can more readily get rid of it with antifungals. And then implant good bacteria later on.