Gee Or Butter?

Anybody use butter here? I haven't been able to determine if it feeds the candida or not.


I think butter is really healthy for you, as long as it (and all dairy) is organic.

Have you ever heard of X factor butter? Or butter oil?


A candida friendly doctor I saw many years ago encouraged the use of butter as something in it(can't remember what) is good for the digestive tract(healing? Not sure exactly.).


HI Joyce, how are you doing?


I'm doing pretty good, Brett. Still dealing with back issues that I've lately not been addressing as should be but have been able to do some mowing and put a small garden in for my dad(stirred up things a bit but nothing like in the past)...both major improvements over when we moved here and I was sliding down a wall and sitting on the floor in a puddle. How are you doing? Still lobstering?


Joyce, glad to hear you are still improving! I was doing pretty good until my Kombucha tea experiment. It backfired bigtime and I am paying for it.

I'm still lobstering and having a terrible start to the season this year. Adding financial stress on top of everything else.


I used to talk with a gal in Washington that had several strains of KT and loves it. It seemed to me that when I brewed one of her babies that the sweetness with the finished bubble drink was very diminished in comparison to the startup taste. Wasn't very comfortable with working with it, though, and remember being sick enough that I was leary of the sugar and not brewing safely. Did kinda like the taste with decaf and green tea though. Wonder if the reaction you had wasn't so much the sugar but more a cleansing thing...or a cross reaction? So difficult to tell the difference with new things...too many factors to consider overall. I think bitter herbs(oregon grape, goldenseal, dandelion...enjoyed endive, too, for examples) and capsicum were a good thing for me both times of doing the candida shuffle. Garlic, too. ACV and raw honey in rooibos tea and iced this last round of candida were a good choice for me, too.

Has the weather been against you there with your lobstering? The eastern coast has had some brutal rains. Hope things improve for you real soon, Brett; you don't need job stress when physically healing(though you seem to be much better healthwise these days than the last time we talked...good for you!!!). You are quite a gent...wonderful fortitude and strength of character; always wonderful talking with you(and others here, too)! Physicians should tap into this place and learn how they misjudge folks and do themselves a great disservice. Hugs! :-)


Hi Joyce, oh no, the tea fed the yeast big time. I have learned from experience what to look for, mostly I can tell by my skin. I should have used some common sense as well because the tea tasted as sweet as a wine cooler. It even had .5% alcohol which really screwed me up. I don't know how that stuff could be good for anybody with candida. I am not too happy with it.

Yes, the weather here is absolutely miserable. I've never seen so much rain which is really affecting the fishing season. Hopefully, it will end soon.

I'm thinking about moving back to Ohio for six months out of the year to get away from the cold winter and spring months up here. Catch you later.


Hi Brett,
Did you brew the tea yourself or was it purchased bottled? What I brewed went from extremely sweet to more a fizzy slightly vinegar taste but with very, very little of the sweetness noticeable. Not sure how the bottled ones are or if they have anything added to preserve it??? Didn't drink it that long to know if what I brewed could have been a negative for me over the long run. Each of us is unique yet THE basic protocol to wellness doesn't always include the same exact things to be ingested.

Hope the weather improves for you muchly. I don't know how you have made it through some of those rough winters when you were so ill before but maybe Ohio would be a good respite for you(especially with family)...maybe even for one winter. Even with the snow and cold we do get closer to the lake I'd say it sure beats the winters in SW PA we had that included those major lake effect snows.

You take care and keep getting better and better! Hugs to you! :-)


Boy, Joyce, you are so right! About Brett being a gent, and about docs needing to tap in to see what we are really all about before they label us as nut jobs!


Well, I'm not always a gent, especially when the candida is flaring, but I try. Thanks for the compliment!


Butter works fine for me as well.


Hi Brett - butter has always been ok for me. I've had no adverse reactions.


Hey Courtney, thanks. It seems that anything that tastes that good doesn't work for me, but I'm going to give it a try. I am sick of plain vegetables. Do you ever mix a little lemon oil with the butter? It's great! How are you doing anyway?


Brett - I know what you mean. Almost everything that's food feeds my yeast. I have a horrible case of leaky gut that I think just makes everything worse. But I'm hanging in there. I still have flare ups when I eat badly and I'm still spending lots of money rotating candida killers. I've been trying to find ways to not spend so much money on all of this stuff. It's a financial drain.


Courtney, It's so tough trying to figure out what you can and can't eat. I am so sick of it too.

I forget if I asked you about trying cultured vegetables? I hate to think where I would be without them.


I have always used organic butter and have never experienced any problems with it - I read it is okay.


I hope I can, but I'm skeptical. Some people say o.k, some say no.


Hi Brett,
I use ghee from goat in almost everything that requires some sort of cooking oil. My body does well with it with no candida-related symptoms.




Kate, wow, where do you find that? I really like ghee, but it's so expensive and it's always from cows.


Hi Brett,
I just checked and I was wrong. The ghee I use is from cows, not goat. Don't know why I thought it was goat as the picture on the label is clearly a cow.

Last year I had an Ayrvedic evaluation and was told that ghee is good for my body type (vata--long and slender). I've been using ghee ever since and my body's been loving it...more than any oil I've used in the past. I've had no negative reactions as I think there's no lactose in it. It's also much denser than butter.

It is more expensive, but I think the cost balances out as you use less of it than you would butter.

In Seattle where I live, there are many health food co-ops and the like that carry ghee. I buy ghee at Whole Foods.

Here is the ghee I use. http://www.purityfarms.com/




Kate, you've convinced me to give it a try again. I've also used that brand you posted and it is really good.