Candida Diet Foods

I would like to know how and what foods you ate when you were eating 10 different foods at one meal to mask candida or allergy symptoms. I don't know if I could come up with that many foods being hypoglycemic. Did you eat the same 10 foods for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner? And the next day did you choose different foods?

At the time, I just chose as many different foods as I could think of. There was a lot of repetition of the same food from day to day. I avoided a few foods that I knew were more trouble than others. I didn't have ten different foods at each meal. However, there is a diet where you are supposed to have ten different meats and ten different vegetables at each meal. I'll include that information at the end of this email.

I called an allergy clinic in Denver that does interdermal testing but it sounded like alot of money and they said one would be 70 to 75% better.

I had allergy testing done. I was allergic to everything on their test, especially anything that I had rotated into my diet the week before. So the test wasn't terribly helpful for me. For someone else, it might be quite important.

>Also think I will wait with the EPD shots as would like to know the results on it.

I didn't try those. If you try them, please post if they helped you or not.

>I need to gain weight and have seriously considered eating raw eggs but am afraid of bacteria.

I was told to get very fresh organic eggs, and mix them in orange juice just prior to eating. I don't know if the acid in the orange juice kills off some of the bacteria or not. Do you have adequate stomach acid? I don't know how to advise you on eating raw eggs. You have to have a digestive system that is good enough that a little bacteria isn't going to hurt you.

>What do you think triggers the food allergies? The Candida? The Liver? The Colon? All of the Above?

The yeast shift the immune system from Th1 to Th2. This suggests that the yeast might play a part in susceptibility to allergies. Yeast secrete an enzyme that breaks down the lining of the intestine. This again suggests that yeast might play a part in leaky gut. Yeast change the environment of the intestines such that different bacteria grow there. This also suggests that yeast might have a role in the development of food allergies. However, this is not a 100% proven. We do know that if you give mice antibiotics followed by a supplement of yeast, then their lungs become very reactive to irritants.

Leaky gut puts a strain on the liver. So does the acetylaldehyde that the yeast produce. Part of your reaction to foods will be due to the liver's response. I don't know if you would call this an allergy or not.

Tove came across information on how to do a very mixed diet. She translated the information from her language to English and sent it to me. Then I put it in the forum's updated book. Here is what it says.

A Very Mixed Diet may be helpful if you are always becoming allergic to everything you rotate into your diet. The base of each meal is the same. It consists of a meat pattie, some grains and root vegetables. The meat pattie contains as many different meats as you can find. (rabbit, duck, turkey, chicken, venison, elk, emu, ostrich, pork, buffalo, beef, ). The vegetables are cooked in a broth. The broth is made by boiling bones, skin and cartilage for a couple of hours. Then add as many different acceptable root vegetables as possible to the broth. A typical mixture would contain yuca, celery root, carrots, taro, potato, yams, sweet potato, turnip, and rutabega. (The yuca and celery root should be boiled separately from the other vegetables. Otherwise their taste overwhelms the other vegetables.) Drain all the vegetables. Then whip / smash the vegetables together and freeze into small dailey portions. The leftover water can be used to cook the grains if you wish. The grain mixture contains quinoa, pearl millet, red split lentils, amaranth, buckwheat, rice, oat flakes, barley, corn, chickpeas, water chestnuts, flax and sunflower. If you are highly sensitive to any one ingredient, leave it out of the mixture.