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Keeping Your Breath Fresh: Antifungals Can Make A Difference

When it comes to antifungal mouthwash products, it’s important to know what not to use as well as what to use.

If you want excellent oral health, I think it’s a bad idea to use mouthwashes that contain alcohol.

Listerine is a mouthwash that’s very commonly available in Australia and New Zealand.

Alcoholic mouthwashes are not good. Nor is chewing gum. Most gums today contain crappy sugars like high fructose corn syrup. They’re junk.

Also, be careful with pharmaceutical products because many contain drugs in them that have antifungal and antimicrobial properties, but they also destroy beneficial bacteria in the mouth.

If you think about it, there’s stuff going in your mouth all day, so it’s important to

rinse your mouth with fresh water when you’ve eaten and maybe brush your teeth.

It’s even more important to eat a good, fresh, natural healthy diet with fruits and vegetables and good proteins. Remember to avoid things like donuts, pop, and other sugary foods. If you eat unhealthy food, your breath is going to reflect exactly that.

Fresh foods. Fresh breath.

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Crap foods. Crap breath.

You can fresh up your breath and keep it clean in healthy ways.

Oil pulling is a good antifungal approach to the mouth that you can do every morning. Put one or two tablespoons of really good quality of coconut oil in your mouth before breakfast and swish it around 10 to 15 times before spitting it out.

The oil will pull a lot of bacteria and fungal spores from the mouth. If you do that every day for about a week or two, you’ll notice that your tongue is cleaner, and your breath is sweeter.

Apple cider vinegar mixed with a bit of baking soda is another good one because it creates quite a big pH shift in the mouth, which really upsets fungi and bacteria.

They don’t like that much.

Take one to two tablespoons of cider vinegar, a good quality one like Bragg’s, for example, and then add about a quarter of a teaspoon of baking soda.

Mix it together and swish it around in your mouth.

Another option is to mix two drops of tea tree oil into ½ a cup of water. Swish that around your mouth and then spit it out. Do that before bed, but after you’ve cleaned your teeth.

You can also try brushing your tea with a little bit of sea salt or baking soda instead of fluoride-containing toothpaste.

Remember, eating good food is the foundation for good oral health. Good foods for the breath include herbs like basil, oregano, spearmint, and peppermint. These plants help freshen the breath naturally, and they also have antimicrobial properties.

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Snacks That You Can Have On The Candida Diet

We’re going to talk about some great snack ideas for people with Candida.

I’m looking at a Candida website, and the snack ideas include stuff like quinoa, falafel with Tzatziki sauce, all sorts of fancy things. Coconut flour, crackers with grissini. Pumpkin seed nut energy bars or something like this.

Not everyone has the time to make snacks like that. Many people who look at these recipes get quite overwhelmed by the ingredients.

You know the rules with Candida.

You’ve got to avoid sugars. You’ve got to avoid crappy foods, soda drinks, and things like that.

There are a ton of snack ideas, and a lot of them are quite easy.

Generally, snack foods are something that you want to quickly get and eat.

You don’t want to spend an hour making them in the kitchen.

When we think of snacks, we’re thinking of things you can grab quickly and don’t contain a lot of artificial ingredients and sugars.

For that reason, I look at things like avocado, raw unsalted, unroasted nuts.

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We’re talking maybe ten almonds or three Brazil nuts.

We’re talking a small amount of roasted sesame seeds with salt.

A very nice snack that is easy to make.

We’re talking a green apple, cucumber, carrots, and other fresh vegetables.

There are many things in your crisper that you can take out and cut up and use.

As for dips, you can’t go wrong with are guacamole and hummus.

Hummus is easy to make with some tahini sauce, with some chickpeas, a bit of garlic, and a bit of pepper and salt. Raw asparagus is very nice with a bit of hummus dip.

Health food stores are a great place to get healthy crackers like rice cakes and coconut crackers. You just have to look and get a few bags of those and have them in your pantry.

Having healthy crackers, nuts, seeds, vegetables, and cans of fish means that you’re well stocked with Candida diet snacks.

So don’t think that you can’t snack when you’ve got a Candida problem.

You just have to avoid a lot of commercial junk in the supermarket.

Let’s go over that list again.

Nuts, except peanuts. Pecans, walnuts, hazelnuts, Brazils, and almonds are my favorite. Seeds, roasted seeds are quite nice. Puffed millet is another option that can be made into little crackers or cookies. Vegetables. Fresh fruit like green apples and berries.

And remember,if you don’t buy crap, you don’t eat crap.

Simple as that.

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Seven Ways To Put The Brakes On Sugar Cravings

There are at least seven ways to stop craving sugar and carbohydrates.

This is useful information for anyone who wants to lose a bit of weight.

Step number one is to make sure you get enough sleep. Many people don’t get enough sleep due to the internet and being on screen for hours every day. Poor sleeping habits lead to poor eating habits.

When people get tired, they are going to grab something with sugar or caffeine in it. Fatigue drives the demand for sugar. Getting enough sleep will give you the energy you need to get through the day without eating a chocolate bar.

Step number two is to eat breakfast. It’s not mandatory, but I highly recommend that you eat something in the morning. A meal with protein will help stave off sugar and carbohydrate cravings. Having a morning meal is going to help your metabolism cope with the peaks and troughs of energy throughout the day.

Eating three good meals of quality, healthy, fresh foods will make a real difference to your sugar cravings.

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Step number three is to stop panicking when you’re a little bit hungry. You don’t’ need to grab food the first moment you notice hunger. I find that people with anxiety are particularly prone to worrying that it is bad to sit with a little bit of hunger.

Step number four is to eat regularly. You will feel little drops during the day when your blood sugar is dropping. When you’re getting a little bit more tired, and you eat some food, and you pick up. Be aware of that tiny little bit of tiredness that is giving you an indication that it’s time to eat.

Give yourself a good one hour window every day for when you normally would eat. For example, lunch between 12 and 1 and supper between 5 and 6

Try to eat regular meals at regular times.

Step number five is making it hard to grab junk food when you’re hungry. Don’t buy soda pop, chips, and chocolate bars to bring home. If you’ve got carbs and sugar in the house, you’re going to eat it when you’re tired, stressed, or overly hungry.

Make good decisions when you go shopping, not impulse decisions.

Step number six is to make sure you have lots of healthy foods to choose from at home. Some good foods to have on hand are green apples, berries, and avocados. When you’re digestion is working really well, you can eat an even wider variety of fruits.

Step number seven is to make sure you include a balanced selection of foods in your diet. Eat a variety of foods. Make sure you include plenty of protein and plenty of healthy fats in your diet.

You don’t need special diets to maintain good health. You need common sense.

Basic foods, lots of sleep, plenty of water, and low stress will all help you manage your sugar cravings.

If you can control your life, you can control a lot.

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The Candida Diet: Is Their Room For Erythritol?

Can I have erythritol on the Candida diet?”

You can if you like fake stuff. Erythritol is a fake sugar.

I’m not really into fake things. I like real food.

When you’re looking at different kinds of sugars like erythritol, xylitol, sorbitol, mannitol, all those kinds of things are manmade fake sugars.

A lot of people like erythritol like because erythritol is a lot less sweet than sugar. I think it’s about 60 to 70 percent as sweet as raw cane sugar, and it doesn’t get absorbed so much in the body.

Erythritol gets passed out through the urine. Probably a good 80 to 90 percent of it in the small intestine gets absorbed into the bloodstream and then excreted out through the urine.

Only a small percentage of erythritol will go down to the colon. This small percentage is still significant for people with irritable bowel syndrome. My recommendation is that if you have a gut issue, don’t eat erythritol.

Erythritol can also give you a feeling that you haven’t had quite enough sugar to eat because it won’t induce an insulin response.

When you eat sugar, your blood sugar goes up, insulin is produced, and your blood sugar goes down.

When you have erythritol, it doesn’t induce a glycemic response because it’s low on the glycemic index.

You can have it, and it’s sweet, and then you want more, and then you want more, and then you want more.

And often, it’s the junk that you eat associated with these fake sugars that causes the problem because you can’t stop eating!

And we all know what happens to people who can’t stop eating.

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They end up getting sick and fat and tired and end up in chronic health.

Do yourself a favor and try not to become a person who thinks that fake sugars are better than eating things like white sugar or molasses or syrups like that.

In general, I don’t recommend including fake foods in your diet.

While it is true that many people with Candida can tolerate xylitol and mannitol and sorbitol and erythritol, many people can’t.

If developing excellent digestive health, avoid erythritol and any other fake foods. That’s one of the reasons you won’t see me eating chewing gum or eating a lot of supermarket food.

It’s estimated that up to 60 to 70 percent of foods now in the supermarket contain these fake sugars.

Don’t even get me started on the high fructose corn syrup.

Don’t touch that stuff at all.

A lot of foods contain high fructose corn syrup.

Those sorts of sugars mess with your hormones.

I kicked sugar out of my life years ago, and now I prefer bitter and sour foods.

I prefer more natural flavors. When you become a person who likes natural things, you tend to get away from fake things.

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Do Swedish Bitters Help Treat Candida?

I’ve been working with Swedish Bitters for a long time now, probably 30 years. I’ve been taking Swedish bitters since I was a teenager.

Swedish Bitters is a fantastic formula that has been around since the 1540s. That’s a long time for one herbal medicine.

Swedish Bitters are probably the world’s longest known herbal medicine still in use today.

There were no pharmaceutical drugs in 1540, but there were Swedish Bitters, and it worked.

Samuel Hardiman was the person who came up with homeopathy. He also came up with the formula for Swedish Bitters.

Think about the word bitters. It’s got many different herbs in it that have a fantastic effect on the digestive system.

If there’s one medicine you want to take to restore gut function, this is the golden ticket you’ve wanted. But you need to get the right kind of Swedish Bitters.

It’s got myrrh in it; it’s got camphor in it, it’s got many different herbs in it that have a really good effect on killing, on cleansing.

It’s very powerful.

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You need to take care with it. One drop is maybe all you start with, and you can eventually build up to four or five milliliters, so it’s a small amount that you need.

What would you use Swedish Bitters for? You would use it for digestive restoration. You would use it to stimulate a stomach that’s slack and lazy and needs stimulating.

You can use Swedish Bitters to increase pancreatic function.

You would use it to get rid of Candida, parasites, bacteria.

But remember, it’s powerful, and you need to have a lot of respect for Swedish Bitters. For many people who first start taking it, they don’t like it because they get side effects.

You can start with a low dose and gradually build up and use it as a course of treatment for three or four months or more.

I prefer Swedish Bitters to be used in low-dose, long-term, rather than high-dose, short-term.

Swedish Bitters also have a nice effect on the colon itself. There are particular herbs in there that allow proper fermentation of food residues in the colon, contributing to very good levels of beneficial bacteria.

In some sense, Swedish Bitters almost act like prebiotics.

Swedish Bitters allows food to be better digested and absorbed.

Swedish Bitters are good also good for Candida. However, in the early stages when you’re going to treat a Candida infection, it may not be the best thing to use.

You’re better off initially using a product that’s an anti-fungal/anti-microbial. Consider starting with CanXida Remove, a product I developed. It’s a nice product to begin cleaning up the gut.

When you start improving, if you want to finish off the gut and get it to a high level of health, you can add Swedish Bitters to your routine.

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