Does IF Help with Candida Overgrowth?

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Katheresa24

4:38 pm
5 Jan 16
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Hello,

I’m new to the forum, but not new to IF. I’m trying to find out if IF helps with candida overgrowth. Any info and/or feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you,
Kathryn

atcgirl

2:18 pm
11 Jan 16
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I thought I was having an issue with Candida and did a lot of reading, pretty much everything I read suggested that candida fungus thrive in a fasting environment when the body goes into ketosis – I think there was a study where diabetic patients developed candida due to ketoacidosis? I’ve definitely seen no improvement.

Maybe the trick is to follow the fast diet but try to eat regularly enough that you don’t go into ketosis?

Frenske

12:50 pm
30 Mar 16
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3 years ago I had a blood test because of IBS and I wanted to know if there was an underlying allergy. The nutritional specialist found that I had severe candidadas in the blood. He suggested to follow a diet cutting easy carbs completely (and very limited other carbs e.g. oats, brown rice, lentils) for 8 weeks.

The science behind this logic is the candida fungus thrives on sugars. Starving yourself from sugars means starving the candida fungus and it will decrease. Note it is naturally in the body and thus it will never go away completely.

Normally people on 5:2 diet will cut the carbs on the fast day. As long you don’t carb-load on the other days the theory suggests that the candida will decrease.

I would suggest to try to incorperate non-easy carbs on non-fast days e.g. (puy) lentils, porridge made with oats instead of instant porridge, use brown rice or barley (there are nice barley risottos recipes). If you have severe candida perhaps seek advice from a professional rather than from a forum.

Frank_mukasa

11:45 am
5 Apr 16
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The so-called Candida overgrowth has no place in official medicine. Severe Candida infections of mouth and genitalia occurs only in untreated hiv patients, and others with seriously affected immunity and sts in children who are still developing their immunity. Naturopaths do see plenty of Candida in the blood; their is not any scientific basis for this diagnosis. See your real doctor about this.