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From:	struggler (83.227.13.225)
Subject:	Candida questions
Date:	May 18, 2012 at 5:00 am PST

Dr Graham says that candida is naturally occuring in the blood and acts as kind of a last resort to lower blood sugar. Where does this theory/fact orginate from? From what I have read in medical literature, candida occurs naturally in the digestive tract, and it becomes a medical problem if it is allowed to grow freely (because of antibiotics destroying the gut bacteria for example) and gets into the blood. Having ANY candida in the blood is not healhy from what I have read.

What's the source of Doug's fact/theory?

The reason why I'm wondering is because I have a candida infection right now. A regular M.D dignosed me with having yeast infections on my skin and tongue, but I think it's more systemic because of all the other symptoms I suffer.

Anyways I've both tried a ketogenic low-carb diet and a vegan low-fat diet and I feel so much better on the low-carb diet. Most of my symptoms are lessened greatly on the low-carb diet, and the candida infections seem to be stagnant, or only grow slightly. When I tried the low-fat vegan diet I felt like I was constantly drunk, felt like someone had hit me in the head and I couldn't think at all. My yeast infection in my throat got thicker overnight and I feel drunk after only eating a banana. I only tried this diet for 5 days because I felt so crappy on it. Was this detox? Would it have turned around if I had stuck to it longer? It didn't feel at all like the candida die-off symptoms i experienced when I took diflucan and other anti fungals, then I had fatigue and got severe muscle weakness.

If the theory is that sugar causes candida to grow, wouldn't a ketogenic diet be better anyways? Because then you have a very stable lowish blood sugar instead of the small spikes you get with a low-fat vegan diet?

I really want 80/10/10 to work, I hate eating this ketogenic diet. All this meat gives me constipation and hemorrohoids etc. but so far 80/10/10 treating candida just seems very unscientific and dogmatic.

Kind regards

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