my hubbi is from africa , in his childhood they would give the kids, large amounts of crushed garlic, olive oil, honey and black pepper all mixed in a paste. morning and night. One of his cousins woke in the night screaming, and the whole family watched him 'pass' out a whole tapeworm, it was dead, and all intact, and loooooong. so gross. but it seems they were subjected to this treatment periodically to keep them clean. Not sure if i would like it, the idea of the garlic is enough to make my head throb, but it seems to have worked.
He has a much healthier attitude to 'purging' than i do. when he heard about hydrotherapy he wanted to sign up for one a week. lol

luckily we do eat a lot of those spices plus cinnamon, paprika, cardomam pods, cloves etc. plus a lot of different herbs. so maybe that's keeping the candida under some kind of control, we stopped eating any processed foods a while back, cook everything from scratch, i think this is one of the most beneficial things to do in any kind of health crisis.
Take your diet back to basics, eat only a few good ingredients at each meal, and cook it all yourself. Be as organic as you can afford to be. If you cannot afford to be 100% then make sure that those foods you eat a lot of regularly are organic. Especially dairy produce. Cut out aspartame, asculfame, msg (mono sodium glutamate) other sweeteners, hydrogenated fats. just these basics will make a difference, when i cut out aspartame my migraines went from almost weekly to about every 3 months, headaches from daily to weekly. Its been over a decade since i have eaten this stuff. but occassionally i get given some aspartame when visiting people. (we usually try to surrepticiously check the label and ask for water, but this is not always possible, and i hate being impolite, so there are times when i drink a glass of 'mystery juice'. i soon know if it had aspartame in as i will get a headache soon after and a migraine within a few days.
I wonder if these additives have a direct effect on the candida, i know they will add to the damage to the immune system which will impact on the candida, but do they have a direct effect? does anyone know?

live yoghurt is a staple on our dinner table, eaten with almost every meal. i need to have a probiotic to feel ok. But i feel like i need more. i been looking at those little yakult things, but not sure if they are any good, what's hte best probiotic to take to keep the gut flora high.