Greetings.
Eric Bakker, New Zealand naturopath.
Author of Candida Crusher.
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I've got a question here from a person in the States who has emailed me and she's asking
the question, "How do I make Candida friendly recipes, Eric?
Tell me a bit more about making foods that aren't going to encourage yeast proliferation
in my body."
I've just had a bit of a look on the internet at several different Candida websites.
I found the typical replies to this sort of question.
Don't drink caffeine.
Don't eat this food.
Don't eat that food.
There's lots of do's and don'ts.
A lot of this is basic common sense.
But as they say, "Common sense isn't very common."
If you want to incorporate foods into your diet that are Candida friendly, it's pretty
simple to make.
It's the same with cooking food.
Very simple to make food that is not going to encourage Candida in your body.
Do I need to cut all caffeine out of my diet?
I don't really believe you do need to cut out all caffeine out of your diet.
Most of the people that I've seen that are fully recovered from Candida, in fact, maintained
one or two cups of coffee or tea per day.
They don't chop all caffeine out of their diet at all.
A lot of people like to have their coffee fix in the morning between getting up and
about lunch time.
I can't see that a negative with Candida at all.
Common sense, folks.
What's common sense?
Sugar.
So that means you're not going to have sundaes.
You're not going to have ice cream.
You're not going to have chocolate cookies, all that sort of stuff.
If you're going to cook, don't put sugar in your food.
How basic is that?
Don't buy sugar.
Don't buy crystalized sugar.
Try to keep away from molasses, syrups, nectars, all these kind of sweet junk that you put
into your food.
That's rule number one.
Rule number two is watch out for yeasty foods.
Moldy cheeses, foods left in the refrigerator overnight, foods that you're suspect about,
throw them out.
If I went to your refrigerator now, I could probably chuck half the food out that's sitting
there that you're probably not going to eat that you may have saved or has been sitting
there in a jar for a long time.
Don't incorporate that kind of food into recipes.
Bin it.
If in doubt, throw it out.
Candida friendly recipes are generally fresh, healthy foods.
Salads, greens, low sugar fruits like berries, like avocado, like a green apple.
These are all fruits that I feel are perfectly safe for people with Candida problems.
It's simple to make food at home that's Candida friendly if you stick with protein foods,
eggs, chicken, fish.
If it's a vegan, it's going to be a little bit more challenging because no doubt you're
going to want to eat a lot more grains or nuts.
These starchy kind of foods that can give you gas and bloating, so you make sure you
take appropriate enzymes when you do that.
Even people who are going into a Candida friendly diet that meat eaters, but not vegans, specifically
need to put enzymes into their diet.
Whenever you're changing your diet, probiotic and enzymes greatly assist digestive recuperative
power.
Candida friendly diet recipes are basic and simple.
I always like people to start with the basic simple approach when they're on Candida diet.
Simple meals.
You know what a simple meal is?
A simple meal could be a piece of chicken and it could be a piece of broccoli.
That's a simple meal.
There are millions of recipes online you can find that are Candida friendly.
Just make sure they don't include any added sugars.
Also be careful initially of the starches that you're going to include into your Candida
regime.
It's not really a good idea to add lots and lots of different things that you haven't
had before.
Lots of kidney beans.
Lots of legumes.
These sorts of things.
Just be careful because you're going to get a lot of bloating and gas again.
Make change slowly to your diet.
If you've been eating a particularly diet for a long time and you want to change the
diet, don't make a radical change within a week.
Bloating, gas, constipation, diarrhea.
These are all common things I hear from people that change too quick when they go into a
Candida approach.
Let's recap on a few things.
How do I make a Candida friendly diet?
Easy.
Make sure that you don't buy any takeaway food.
Keep away from the places like Kentucky Fried Chicken, McDonald's, Wendy's, all these burger
chains.
They're usually all crappy kind of foods.
Avoid that and try to eat at home as much as you can.
If you are going to eat out, make sure that you get food that's free of yeasts and sugars.
Those are the two core things that you need to look for.
Second thing is.
There's plenty of information you'll see on my other YouTube videos on information that
you're looking for in terms of proteins, starches, and fats.
I've done many videos on this.
If you go to the Candida playlist that I've created regarding food and nutrition, you
can learn a lot more about that.
Common sense, simplicity.
Include more garlic into your diet.
Include more woody spices into your diet like cloves, for example.
Cinnamon.
Includes fresh things into your diet.
Ginger, very good to add in there.
In spring and summer, you can add all of the fresh herbs in there.
Oregano, rosemary, thyme, basil.
Put all these into your salads and put these in with your greens when you're making up
your vegetable dishes.
These are all providing an antifungal approach.
Fermented and cultured foods.
My experience over the last 12 months with kefir has not been very good with a lot of
people.
I've noticed many people getting bad tummy problems from incorporating too much kefir
into their diet.
My rule now is not to include kefir into a person's diet who's going into a Candida diet
until their tummy is getting a bit stronger.
Yogurt is cultured.
Kefir is fermented.
It's a different type of food altogether, so be careful.
Sauerkraut is fine for most people if they start very small.
Yogurt tends to be okay with a wide range of people.
They can tolerate that.
I hope you got a bit of information out of this video.
It might be a bit basic for you.
But you know what, basic things work best for people.
Not really complicated things, so just remember that.
Keep away from the sugary foods.
Keep away from the yeasty foods.
Eat at home.
Prepare your own meals.
Try to keep away from things that are out of cans, packets, boxes, all that kind of
food.
It will often contain some kind of a chemical in there to prolong the life of that food.
I'm not a big fan of packaged foods at all.
I hope this was some good information for you.
Thanks for tuning in.