Restoring and Maintaining Normal Levels of Yeast in Your System

The candida diet is a diet that has focuses on improving the health of the gut or intestinal tract. Its goal is to maintain or restore the natural balance of bacteria or yeast in your body, by eating certain types of foods.

Foods to eat

Foods that are recommended on a candida diet are:

• Vegetables that are green
• Meat
• Eggs
• Fish
• Salad
• Walnuts and almonds
• Herbal tea
• Green juice
• Coconut water that is unsweetened

Along with these foods, one needs to take vitamins and a probiotic, get plenty of sleep, avoid stress which all aids or boost the immune system.

Yeast

Candida is a form of yeast and it is a part of the body’s natural makeup. But the body needs to have a healthy ratio of bacteria that is naturally occurring to yeast. When there is too much yeast or candida overgrowth, the microbiome is off and needs to be nurtured back into balance. Too much yeast and one needs an anti-candida diet to restore that balance. This means avoiding:

• Foods with sugar
• Eliminating any foods causing inflammation
• Eating foods with antifungal properties
• Non-starchy vegetables
• Fruit with low sugar
• Non-glutinous grains
• Fermented foods
• Healthy proteins

Antibiotics

Using antibiotics is one of the most common reasons to have an overgrowth of candida or bad bacteria. Antibiotics often kill off the good bacteria that keep your gut system in balance. Using antibiotics creates a very favorable arena for the yeast to get the upper hand in the ecology of the intestinal system. Not to mention that bacteria develop that are resistant to antibiotics due to the factor that years ago doctors were prescribing too many antibiotics.

Symptoms of too much yeast

So, we are talking about two diets here – the candida diet to maintain the natural balance in the intestinal tract and the anti-candida when there is too much yeast. Having too much yeast can cause multiple types of problems with your health. These can include:

• Fatigue
• Brain fog
• Sinus infections
• Mild depression
• Joint pain