The Unfortunate, and Unexpectedly Negative, Consequences of the Candida Diet
Candida, mold, fungi and yeast use glucose from carbs as their main source of energy. They also eat protein and fat. But fat and protein are about 60% less efficient than metabolizing carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are Candida's favorite fast food. In fact, one of the signs of Candida overgrowth is sugar and carb cravings. So, instinctively, it makes sense to eat a very low-carb or no-carb diet when fighting Candida.
This diet ties in with the massive popularity of keto and other low carb diets. Many health practitioners are recommending to not eat carbs. So it seems logical to stop eating carbs when you have Candida overgrowth. So that you can get rid of Candida by starving it to death.
Consequently, many practitioners and Candida "experts" recommend going on a no or low carb diet to fight Candida. This diet is often touted as the main thing you should do to fight Candida. (There are many ebooks focused on fighting Candida or yeast overgrowth using a low or no carb diet.)
Unfortunately, a Low or No Carbohydrate Diet Will NEVER - NOT EVER - Eliminate Candida.
Symptoms calm down while on the Candida diet. The Candida or mold in your body doesn't get as much to eat. (You don't either.) So they don't produce as much metabolic waste. And it is metabolic waste that causes most Candida symptoms. This is why the low or no carb diet reduces candida symptoms. Candida also doesn't flare up as much when on the diet.
But being on a low or no carb diet is not going to eliminate candida. The diet does not starve Candida to death. Ultimately, being on the diet becomes an exercise in futility. Symptoms may improve while on the diet. But at some point you go back to eating normally. And within a short period of time, your Candida overgrows again. And all your symptoms come back. Worse, being on the Candida diet has negative consequences for your overall health and wellbeing. But first…
Here's why you can never ever starve Candida to death.
- Your liver produces glucose when you don't get carbohydrates in your diet. It does this by converting amino acids to glucose. All cells, especially brain cells, need and want glucose. When you are not eating carbs, your diet is not supplying your brain signals the liver to release glucose. It then tells your liver to produce more glucose to be stored in the liver till needed.
Because of this creation and release of glucose by the liver, Candida will always have glucose to eat. Even if you eat no carbohydrates at all. They won't have as much to eat, but they won't starve. Your liver can produce about half the amount of glucose that you get when eating a normal diet with plenty of carbs. So there is no way a no or very low carb diet is going to starve candida. They will always have glucose to eat. The diet will slow down their growth. It will not kill them.
- Candida and other mold or fungus eat proteins and fats too. Again, this is not as efficient as eating carbs is, but it will certainly prevent them from starving. Fundamentally, you can slow down Candida's growth by eating a no or low carb diet. You can never eliminate them with the diet. And as soon as you go off that diet, back it comes.
Restricting yourself to a very low carb or no carb diet is no fun. You have been told it must be done when fighting Candida. To stop feeding them. Not realizing your body is producing glucose, and the other foods you are eating feed them too. They may not be consuming as much of their favorite food, but they still are eating.
Worse… There are 4 Negative - Health Destroying - Consequences of the Candida Diet
Not only does the low or no carb diet not starve Candida, but it reduces your body's ability to fight Candida because…
The Candida diet causes chronically elevated levels of cortisol.
Here's why this happens…
Blood glucose levels become low when you are not eating carbs. Your brain notices this. It then tells your adrenal glands to release cortisol. This cortisol signals the liver to release glucose. This process occurs just once in a while when your diet includes plenty of carbs. Such as when you go too long between meals. Or when sleeping at night.
However, when you are not eating carbs, the brain must activate this process many more time. Throughout the day and night. As a result, cortisol is being released by your adrenals many times a day. This causes cortisol levels to become chronically elevated.
Chronically elevated cortisol causes 3 of the 4 negative consequences of being on a Candida diet.
- Cortisol turns down the immune system.
Releasing cortisol is part of the stress response. Part of human evolution. It works like this… Danger is approaching and you have to escape or fight. This causes stress. This stress response releases cortisol which tells the liver to release glucose. The glucose supplies quick energy to your muscles so that you can run faster or fight harder.
To focus energy on escaping or fighting, the body turns down the immune system. It is not needed to run or fight. All energy must go towards survival, and not towards supporting your immune response.
Cortisol always down-regulates the immune system. In fact, immuno-suppressant drugs like prednisone are forms of cortisol. (They are 4 to 5 times stronger than the cortisol your body makes.)
The stress response release of cortisol is useful when danger is approaching. But it's definitely not what you want when dealing with Candida or your health in general. Your immune system is needed to fight infections like Candida. It is also needed to detoxify Candida toxins. You need a strong immune system. But the low carb diet will, if eaten long term, decrease immune system function overall. - Long term elevated cortisol levels increases inflammation throughout the body.
And high inflammation has many negative effects in your body. Not eating carbs, or eating low carb, causes elevated cortisol levels. Elevated cortisol levels cause chronic inflammation. Chronic inflammation is not healthy. It leads to more aches and pains. To autoimmune responses, cardiovascular disease, inflamed heart, brain and more. Even cancer is an inflammatory disease. You need to avoid this. - Extreme weight loss can develop on a low or no carb diet.
Cortisol also helps the body replenish the glucose released by the liver. It does this by stimulating the breakdown of muscles, bones and brain to get the amino acids needed to make glucose. The liver then makes glucose from these amino acids.
Cortisol also causes your body to use up stored fat in a process called lipolysis. Unfortunately, not the harmful visceral fat found around internal organs. Visceral fat increases inflammation and estrogen levels. Instead, lipolysis burns up your peripheral and subcutaneous fat. This is fat that is actually good for you. It makes you look good, not gaunt.
Candida eats protein and fat when they do not have as many carbs to eat. Your body is breaking down muscles to get the amino acids needed to make glucose. And is burning up fat to support your cells. It is no wonder that after a long time on the Candida diet, people can become emaciated and weak. - The Candida diet makes cellular metabolism less efficient.
Research has shown that the most efficient source of energy for cells is glucose. (Go to RayPeat.com for more information on this.) When your cells metabolize glucose using oxygen, a high 36 to 38 ATP's of energy is produced by every molecule of glucose. Burning glucose has another benefit. It creates very low ROS free radicals compared to fat metabolism. This causes less damage to cells.
Research has shown that glucose oxidation is by far the best way for cells to produce energy. Metabolizing fat is not as efficient at producing energy. Fermenting glucose even less so. And they both cause more oxidative stress than metabolizing glucose does.
That low carb diet will reduce cellular energy production. Symptoms of Candida overgrowth include excess fatigue. Being on the Candida diet could well make this worse.
What to do? Feed Candida by eating carbs? Or suffer the negative effects of the Candida Diet?
On the one hand, eating carbohydrates does feed Candida what they optimally consume. Not eating carbs reduces the amount of Candida's favorite food. So a low carb diet slows down and reduces Candida overgrowth. But they still have food to eat. They will eat blood sugar produced and released by the liver. They will eat proteins and fats that are plentiful in a low carb diet.
The low carb diet does not actually starve Candida. It will not eliminate Candida.
Even if you could starve Candida to death, or use herbs to do so, your Candida would come back. This is because Candida, being a fungus, produces spores.
Candida spores are protected from herbs and other Candida killers. They don't eat so you can't starve them. Spores stay in your body, and bloom when the environment is right. Such as when you go off the Candida Diet. When they bloom, your Candida comes back. Just like that…
The best the Candida diet can do is to keep Candida reduced while you are on the diet. You are never going to eliminate Candida by being on the Candida diet.
Not eating carbs long term:
- Reduces your immune system's ability to fight Candida and to detox Candida waste.
- It increases inflammation in your body.
- It accelerates muscle and fat wasting.
- It decreases cellular energy production. This is already poor as Candida toxins interfere with cellular metabolism.
The Candida diet is a lot of struggle and deprivation for no long term benefits at all. If you've been on the diet, and have a lot of fatigue, the diet is contributing to that fatigue. If you've been on the diet and have a lot of inflammation, the Candida diet is contributing to your aches and pain. It is contributing to adrenal fatigue. It is contributing to your thyroid being low. it is reducing ability of your immune system to fight Candida, colds, flu or even cancer.
There is no way around it. You can never eliminate Candida overgrowth by being on the low or no carb diet. It will eat other types of food. It will eat the glucose your liver produces. And to repeat... Candida spores are not killed by the diet. They will be there to bloom and turn into Candida once you stop the diet.
But it is true, a normal diet with carbohydrates is feeding Candida its favorite food. So it would seem you are caught between a rock and a hard place.
Fortunately, there is a way out of this…
Where you can cause Candida to "poison" themselves when they eat carbohydrates. Using this solution enables you to have the best of both worlds. You can eat carbs with all the benefits of doing so. While at the same time, eating carbohydrates (and other foods) is poisoning Candida. To the point that they die. In fact, the more carbs you eat, the faster they will die.
Use BMWE to kill Candida, mold and bad bacteria when you eat carbohydrates…
BMWE is a "frequency enhanced water" elixir containing vibrational frequencies of a set instructions. These instructions are picked up by your cells when you take BMWE. A unique technological unit uses proprietary energizing components to energize the elixirs. It amplifies the very subtle energetic frequencies of written instructions. Water in the elixir bottles picks up and holds these frequencies. Just like homeopathy does.
When you take it, the frequencies of its instructions are vibrating in that water. These instructions are picked up by the water in your cells. This works because cells have a gel-like water that responds to frequencies. Over a decade of use of this type of elixirs, with hundreds of thousands of bottles sold, show that they do work in this way.
BMWE blocks the elimination of metabolic waste from Candida, fungi, mold, and bacteria. (BMWE stands for Block Metabolic Waste Elimination.) Its frequencies disrupt the ability of these pathogens to get rid of their waste. As a consequence, this waste builds up and they become more and more poisoned. Eventually they die. We have vast experience with a similar elixir that blocks the release of waste from "non-functional" cells. With outstanding success for well over a decade. We know this process works.
BMWE has other instructions. One set tells your immune system and lymph system to carry Candida to the skin or colon wall. To be pushed out of the body. This way, they are removed from of your body intact, without being broken down. This reduces die-off symptoms.
Another set of instructions kills Candida and mold spores. So that over the course of a year, the Candida or yeast or mold spores throughout your body, all die. It is only when that happens that you will have eliminated Candida. It takes a full year. If you stop before all the spores are killed, Candida will grow back.
Your immune system cannot eliminate Candida or its spores on its own. Herbs, essential oils, chitin, friendly bacteria, anti-fungal medicines and more - none of them kill spores. You won't ever get rid of Candida until you also get rid of its spores.
BMWE works best when 40 to 60% of your diet is carbs. The more carbs the Candida eat, the more waste they produce. The sooner they die. This is also the optimal range for the best cellular metabolism. As you work into eating this many carbs, while reducing Candida and its effects, you will have other benefits.
If you have been on a low carb diet, going back to eating this many carbs will reduce elevated cortisol levels. It will improve your immune system response. It will reduce inflammation throughout your body. It will give you more energy if your energy is low. It will help you gain weight if you have lost too much weight. It will also help you lose weight as your adrenal and thyroid function improve. This increases metabolism which helps with weight loss.
BMWE is the highest rated candida fighter we have. It is a top Candida killer and spore killer. It works to reduce die off toxins. And you avoid the negative effects of being on a candida diet.
Once you are up to the full 2 bottles a month dose, use it for 4 or 5 months, then you can reduce to using 1 bottle a month. Continue on this for at least 8 more months. Stop too soon, and there will still be Candida spores in the body that will then bloom, and the Candida comes back.
Diet tips for better health.
Researchers says that our cells can metabolize either glucose or fat using oxidation. Cell mitochondria cannot oxidize both fats and glucose at the same time. This fact is called the Randle Cycle. Think of the Randle Cycle as a switch that turns on fat metabolism. This happen when more than 30% of the calories reaching cells are from fat. When this happens, cell mitochondria switch from burning glucose to burning fat.
An increase in fat to over 30% of the calories reaching cells happens for a variety of reasons.
The main reason is that your diet has too much fat in it. This could be from any manner of things. Too many fried foods, too large amounts of fat rich animal protein.
Two other factors contributing to a too high fat ratio.
- Candida overgrowth. Candida eat glucose. They can eat so much glucose that the ratio of fat in the blood increases to over 30%. Even though your diet has adequate carbs to keep fat calories under 30%. But when Candida eat some of that glucose, then the amount of fat can increase to over 30%.
- eing overweight. Your body will use some of your extra fat for energy production. So even if your diet is not more than 30% fat, your cells end up getting more than 30% fat.
A consequence of cells metabolizing fat too much of the time can be diabetes.
In fact, this is one of the main causes of diabetes. When cells are in the fat burning mode, they can't use as much of the glucose that is in the blood. So the blood ends up with too high levels of blood sugar as the glucose has no place to go. When this is chronic, diabetes can develop.
To deal with high blood sugar and diabetes, reduce the amount of fat in the diet. This will flip the cells to using glucose oxidation in the mitochondria, not fat. And your cells will then start using up the extra glucose in the blood. To make this happen, reduce the amount of fat down to about 15% of the diet, so as to force glucose metabolism to happen. A diet with 15% fat calories will ensure your fat levels stay less than 30%. Even if you are overweight or have candida overgrowth.
Tips about healthy foods to eat…
Carbohydrates
When fighting Candida, using at least a 1 bottle a month dose of BMWE, 60% of the diet calories being carbs is optimal. This will make sure that your cells do not switch over to metabolizing fat. Especially if you are overweight or diabetic. But gradually work into using this many carbs. Allow your body to adjust. A lesser percentage can work, as low as 40% carbs if you are not overweight. The 60% carbohydrate calories ensures that fat will not be too high.
BMWE works even on a low carb diet. It blocks the release of metabolic waste from fat and protein too. So you don't have to switch to carbs to enhance the effectiveness of BMWE. But eating high carbs will help give you more energy, and make sure you don't get stuck in fat metabolism mode. So that you don't develop chronic elevated cortisol levels.
Using BMWE will give you assurance that you are not promoting the growth of Candida when on a high carb diet. And lets you eat enough food so as not to be hungry. Eating plenty of food helps kill Candida as more metabolic waste is then produced.
Simple carbs can be better than complex carbs if you have poor intestinal flora. Complex carbs take longer to digest. When you have candida overgrowth, there is usually plenty of bad bacteria in your guts. The longer food stays in your intestines, the longer the bad bacteria or Candida can eat that food. And the more toxins they produce.
These toxins can enter your body, poisoning it. Simple carbs like ripe fruit, honey or refined grains, do not stay in the intestines as long as complex carbs. There is not as much time for bad bacteria or Candida to eat them… This is good. Complex carbs like legumes and whole grains stay longer in the intestines. Bacteria and Candida have more time to eat these foods. More toxins are produced. These toxins escape into the body through a leaky gut and further stress the body. Or they cause gas, burping and bloating if they don't escape...
After you have been on BMWE for a couple of months, all carbs should work equally well. This is because BMWE will have killed many of these intestinal bacteria. In addition, its instructions will be preventing them from releasing their toxic waste. But you will still need to avoid any foods you may have sensitivities or allergies to, such as gluten.
Ripe fruits, as they are high in antioxidants, may be the best carbs to eat. But even raw honey and organic cane sugar can produce healthy cell metabolism. Glucose feeds your cells with the least amount of oxidative stress. It produces the most energy too. White rice and potatoes without skins are also high quality simple carbs.
Brown rice is irritating to the intestinal walls. White rice is soothing to the intestinal walls. If your intestinal wall is inflamed, (or if you have digestive issues) white rice is medicinal. It helps sooth the intestinal wall and may absorb toxins too. Refined pastas can be better than whole grain pasta or breads as they also do not irritate the intestinal wall as much. Just be sure long as you are not allergic to them.
Raw veggies and salads can also be irritating to the intestinal walls. But at first, if you have overgrowth of bacteria or Candida in the guts, stick with refined grains or fast digesting foods. Like ripe fruit.
Fats
Keep fat consumption closer to 20% of the diet if you have Candida overgrowth. If you are overweight, or are diabetic, 15% is better.
Cook or bake with saturated fats as they are less damaged by heat. Coconut oil, palm kernel oil, lard and ghee are the best to use.
Olive oil and avocado oil have low levels of polyunsaturated fats. (Polyunsaturated oils are the oils most damaged by heat.) But these two oils are monounsaturated, and are still damaged by heat, though not as much. Use cold pressed olive or avocado oil that has not been heated - for your best health.
Polyunsaturated fatty acids - all seed and vegetable oils - are the most damaged by heat. Use cold pressed versions only, and DO NOT cook or bake with them. Just because an oil has a high smoke temperature does not make it safe. These heated oils clog up your cell walls with poor quality fat. This prevents nutrients, including glucose and oxygen, from entering cells.
Not only does too much fat contribute to diabetes and other metabolic diseases like cancer. Fried or baked polyunsaturated and monounsaturated oils do the same. Avoid processed foods containing vegetable and seed oils that are not expeller pressed. Especially avoid cooked processed foods that have seed and vegetable oils in them.
It is not the carbs in chips, cookies, sauces, cakes and more that cause major health problems. It is vegetable or seed oils that have been fried or baked. If you've been eating these foods, stop. And consider using the Cell Wall Optimization Elixir to help remove these fats from your cell walls. You can still have a small amount of chips, for example. But choose a chip fried in lard, coconut oil or palm oil. Not one that is fried in safflower, sunflower, canola, avocado or olive oil.
Fish oil in high doses can be very anti-inflammatory. But it must be ultra refined to avoid getting too many PCB's and other toxins from them. And it must have powerful antioxidants to prevent the oil from going rancid in the body which would cause worse inflammation. We suggest Omega3Gold. It is an ultra refined fish oil that has especially strong antioxidant protection. It is best used with Fatty Acid Transport Elixir which will help get more fatty acids into your cells by turning on production of fatty acid transport proteins.
Proteins
Both vegetable protein and high quality animal protein are good to eat. Up to 20% of the diet is optimal for protein. Grass fed animal protein and wild caught fish are best, followed by organic protein. Especially small fish like sardines and herring. Salmon is good too. Make sure it is wild caught!
With dairy, make sure it is rbGH-free. Organic is better, Grass fed is better still. Grass fed and raw is the best. Some grass fed and raw hard cheeses are in grocery stores. Organic Valley has a one or two versions. And there are online sources for these such as Dutch Meadow Farms.
Remember to count the fat in animal protein towards your total fat consumption. Do not eat so much fat that you turn on the fat metabolizing switch in your cells.
We hope this information is of use to you. It is very much different than most of what you hear about diet and Candida. If you are reluctant to switch to a normal or high carb diet, it is understandable. So many professionals say the opposite. But there are clear disadvantages to a low carb diet. It reduces your immune system's ability to fight Candida and to detox its waste. It increases inflammation. It reduces energy. It can lead to extreme weight loss.
Using the BMWE elixir works with any kind of diet to help you fight Candida and its spores. It works when you are on a high carb or a low carb diet. Its big advantage is that it will enable you to eat carbs while fighting candida. So you don't have to go on a carb restrictive diet. The more carbs that you eat, the faster that Candida will die. (This goes for fats or protein too.) A diet higher in carbs is better overall.
BMWE works along with other powerful Candida fighters such as CandElim, Alka Super C and CandiClear5. This enables you to attack Candida in several ways if you prefer. Eliminating Candida and its spores is not quick. It takes at least a year to get to the point where all spores are gone. So that it doesn't come back. But eliminating Candida may give you a lifetime of health afterwards. Candida overgrowth significantly contributes to the development of Alzheimer's Disease and dementia. It may even prove to be a major cause of cancer. Best to deal with it sooner than later.