How to Lose Your Bad Microbes

There is a lot of information on the web about losing weight, some information on anti-candida diets and almost nothing on how to get rid of other unwanted opportunistic microbes.


Let's review some of the existing antimicrobial diets:

The most popular advice is - get more good bacteria, it will fight your bad bugs - eat your yogurt and miso soup or take probiotics.

More elaborated advice disliked by the readers suggest
that no more than one third of your daily calories should be coming from each of the following - carbohydrates, protein and fats

Yeast loves sugar and simple carbohydrates - one of representative diets focuses on eliminating simple carbs from your food for at least 3 month. Also suggested is to avoid cheeses, alcohol, chocolate, dried fruits, fresh fruits, fermented foods, mushrooms, vinegar, glutenous foods (wheat, rye, oats, barley), all sugars, honeys and syrups (that includes any ‘ose’, like lactose, sucrose etc), and foods that contain yeast or mold (breads, muffins, cakes, baked goods, cheese, dried fruits, melons, peanuts – although nutritional and brewer’s yeasts are not harmful, as they do not colonize in the intestines). Good foods include the non-excluded veggies, meats, nuts and seeds.

There is no universal anti-candida diet, all alternative and non-alternative medicine practitioners have their own views and beliefs on what can or can not be excluded.

Specific Carbohydrate Diet developed over 60 years ago suggests to exclude complex carbs instead of simple carbs. It is not a low carbohydrate diet, see example recipes. The allowed carbohydrates are monosaccharides such as glucose and fructose. Complex carbohydrates such as starch and glycogen, chitin, lactose, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), inulin and galactooligosaccharides (GOS) are not allowed. The diet was thought to work by starving out harmful bacteria and restoring the normal balance.

Another regimen promoted as anti-candida diet is Raw foodism. It promotes consumption of un-cooked, unprocessed and organic foods. On the contrary, anti-bacterial diet (protecting from introducing new bacteria in the system) means you are forbidden to eat or drink anything that was not pasteurized, and thoroughly cooked. Other anti-bacterial recommendations include no or low starch as recommended by Dr. Alan Ebringer.


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Microbes and us

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