Black Tea & Candida Diet

Anyone know why black tea in not reccommened on the candida diet?


Probably due to a couple of possible things.

Candida and leaky gut often go hand in hand, and caffeine can further irritate the gut is one reason. Healing leaky gut is a big part of healing candida.

Another reason is that often after one has been kiling off candida for a month or so, the stress of handling all the waste/toxins from that can slow liver function in a BIG way, and that can cause you to get backed up and stop improving, even backslide. I know this both from reading and experience. Most often in candida, it is the phase 2 of the 2 phases of liver function that is compromised. Caffeine will activate phase 1, but if you don't have enough "oomph" in your phase 2 (a very common scenario in candida patients), toxins will back up into your system, as it is phase 2 that helps to prep them for elimination by the bowels, etc.
That is a very rough explanation, but do be cautious. My whole candida regimen got messed up because of insisting on being able to consume caffeine. Try it, and if you start feeling crappy, try taking it away again.



No. I would think that the tannins would be of benefit.


I am using Green Tea. It has less caffeine and, most important, it is just the dry leaves, not fermented as red or black tea... so there is NO YEAST ON IT. I read this is the problem with black tea.