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Sugar Addiction: What You Can Do About It

Sugar is a highly addictive substance. Some people put it alongside heroin and even methamphetamine, in terms of its desire and the intense cravings people have for it.

I once read a saying by Jamie Oliver, the English Chef, he said, “If Obama really wanted to improve health care in the US, all he has to do is triple the price of sugar.”

There are many ways you can cut sugar from your diet, but my opinion is that you should slowly chop it out of your diet. There are a few tips I’m going to give you on how to do this.

You need to wean yourself off as much as you can for a minimum of three to six months before you slowly start introducing small amounts of pure sugars. Pure sugars include maple syrup and honey.

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Manuka honey is an excellent option to start. If you get burping, bloating, and gas even on a small amount of this, even a teaspoon a day, then you need to back off and keep working on your digestive system.

You’re probably so used to having a weird gut, and you’re not even aware of how much sugar that you’re consuming. Sugar is highly addictive for the brain.

The brain loves it. Try to observe your habits and watch what you’re regularly buying.

I’ve learned to appreciate the sweet things in life that are non-refined sugar. For example, homegrown berries are a regular part of my diet. I also find homegrown bell peppers to be very sweet. The only sugar I ingest is from my beehive, berries, and vegetables.

I suggest people take 1,000 milligrams of vitamin C in the morning and the evening when trying to break a sugar addiction. I find the buffered vitamin C powder from Thorne Research to be a particularly good product. When you first start, do a teaspoon of vitamin C in the morning. In the second week, you can have a teaspoon in the morning and the evening. This routine will slowly wean you off that craving for that Hershey bar or that three teaspoons of sugar in your coffee every morning.

Sugar is like alcohol. Don’t try to wean yourself from sugar overnight. Give yourself three to six months to do the complete wean.

I also suggest taking a product like CanXida Remove to help clean up your gut while weaning yourself off sugar. Take Remove for at least four to six weeks before reintroducing natural sugars. You don’t want to feed yeast in your gut, so make sure you address any Candida before a trial of Manuka honey.

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The Impact Of Fresh Fruit On Candidiasis

I have yet to meet a patient who has got on top of their Candida by eating large amounts of fresh fruit.

Some people believe that eating a lot of fresh fruit is good for detoxifying the lymph system. Others have the unfounded belief that if they detox, detox, and detox, they’ll eventually get healthy. The truth is that you don’t have to keep on cleansing and detoxing to get healthy.

Generally, if you want to transition from a modern western diet and cleanse your body, you need to go through a significant cleanse. As a first step, you should get read of all the junk, processed food in your pantry. You will want to focus on eating real food, not food from cans and plastic bags.

From here, work towards cutting out alcohol and caffeine. Remember that as you’re changing your diet, you should also be establishing a healthy lifestyle. You need to get more and better quality sleep, manage your stress, and get a healthy amount of exercise. It’s also essential that you have a job that you enjoy and that you deal with any conflicts in your life.

You want to modify your whole life to make your body better able to heal the Candidiasis.

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It doesn’t make sense to be in a job that you hate, be in conflict with your neighbors, and then go and eat ten apples a day.

Eating a large amount of fresh fruit is going to achieve one thing. It’s going to make you go to the toilet quite a bit. It’s going to cause bloating and gas.

In a tiny minority of people, I have seen full recovery from Candida by eating nothing but fruit. But the chances of recovering from Candida by eating a huge amount of fruit is like the chance of winning a lottery. It’s not going to happen for the average person, so I wouldn’t waste my time going there.

Through my years of practice, I have observed that eating sour green apples and heritage apples like cox orange pippin does not stimulate Candida growth in the body. The reason why is that the sugar content of these types of apples is nothing compared to the modern, industrial apples available today.

There are a lot of fruits you can eat when you’ve got Candida. I’ve discovered that pomegranate is perfectly fine. I’ve also discovered that one kiwi fruit per day is perfectly fine for many people. Avocados are also fine, and most berries are fine to eat.

The fruit that you need to strictly avoid is melons, such as watermelon and rock melon. I’ve had patients tell me they are eating rock melon every day. However, you shouldn’t be doing that if you have a bad vaginal yeast infection. You might as well be eating five tablespoons of sugar per day. Watermelon is very high in sugar as well.

Many fruits are also potentially allergenic, especially a problem if you’ve got poor levels of secretory IgA in your gut. You’re going to get gas and bloating. You’re going to get allergies.

If you’ve got a leaky gut and eat lots of fruit, you’re going to get even a bigger problem.

Be very careful about eating lots of fresh fruit when you’ve got Candida.

I suggest doing a comprehensive stool analysis to find out what’s lurking in your gut. I also suggest you look at my 4 R program: remove, replace, re-inoculate, and repair. Follow that method, and you’ll probably be okay to eat some fruit.

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Does Dietary Fat Increase The Risk Of Candida?

Do dietary fat or being overweight increase the risk of Candida? Let’s examine this question in a little bit more detail.

The reason why people get fat in the first place is because of their lifestyle. Usually, they eat the wrong kind of food, they don’t exercise, and they’re highly stressed. Highly stressed people have increased cortisol levels. High cortisol levels reduce insulin sensitivity. Cortisol also suppresses immune function and increases the appetite for high calorie, fatty, sugary and salty foods. Essentially, cortisol pushed the body into survival mode. Fat is locked down on the body, so the body can burn off the fat as energy later.

People who have overweight are generally highly stressed people with crappy jobs, crappy relationships, crappy incomes, and crappy living. However, being overweight fat does not cause Candida. There are many large people who do not have a yeast infection.

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However, being overweight can absolutely causes problems with insulin and increase blood sugar. In some cases, people can end up with Type II diabetes or metabolic syndrome. Obesity can also contribute to non-alcoholic fatty liver syndrome and liver dysfunction. Joint problems, muscle pain, and depressed are also increased in people who are obese. Once you are really large, it can be hard to get motivated to do something about it.

Remember that fat consumption isn’t the leading cause of obesity – it’s usually the processed carbohydrates that contribute the most significantly to weight problems. That’s my take on the issue of whether dietary fat or obesity contribute to Candida.

When it comes to getting healthy, I suggest to all my patients who are overweight that they address the stress in their life. I have found that makes a big difference.

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Can Flecainide help manage Candidiasis?

I’ve been asked before whether flecainide is a useful medication for Candida? Flecainide is used to treat irregular heart beats including conditions like pseudo-ventricular tachycardia.

Having an irregular heartbeat can sometimes increase the risk of blood clots including pulmonary embolism and deep venous thrombosis.

As useful as flecainide may be for cardiac arrhythmias, it doesn’t have any value for the management for Candida.

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If you’re looking for a great line of medications to treat Candida, take a look at CanXida Remove, Restore, and Rebuild. These supplements were created for people with yeast and bacterial problems. We have had great feedback on all three of these products.

CanXida products work best if you also pay attention to your diet, your physical activity, and your level of stress. CanXida Restore contains probiotics that can help create a healthy gut environment.

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I’m Always Sleepy What Could Be The Cause

I’m always sleepy. I’m always tired. Why am I always so tired for? I’m drowsy, I’m tired. I just can’t seem to get the energy that I’m looking for. Common thing that many people complain about.

The very first thing I look at when someone says they’re tired is to look at what they’re eating. I mean if you take a car to your mechanic and you say, “Look, there’s no power.”, the guy’s going to say “What gas are you using? What fuel are you using in the car? Is the fuel delivery system working okay? That’s the first thing we check.”

So in this situation, we checked out the two things in mechanic will want to know. Is there ignition, is there a spark going to the engine and is there fuel?

So, the ignition, what I’m thinking is there enough B vitamins and magnesium and iron there to energize that person? B vitamins, magnesium and iron are very core for energizing people. Are they there? Are they there in the diet?

On the other side, what about the fuel coming in? The gas. Is this person being fueled up on pizzas and Dr Pepper and hash browns from McDonalds. That’s not really a good fuel, is it? Then, of course, they’re probably going to be lacking the spark as well. So no wonder they’re tired.

Those are key things to have in your diet. Good food provides lots of B vitamins, magnesium, zinc, lots of things you need to fire up the energy. With poor diet becomes poor, of course, gasoline and poor ignition, which means that the engine is going to go rrr, rrr, rrr. It’s not going to start. You’re going to be tired. That’s the first thing you check.

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Second thing you check is make sure is the person sleeping all right? Are they’re sleeping at night? Are they’re getting good sleep? Are they waking? Are they having a difficulty falling asleep or they have difficulty remaining asleep? That’s another core question I ask.

The third thing I look at is burnout. Are they adrenally exhausted? Are they burned out? Have they gone through divorce? Has their mom or dad just been killed in a car accident? What’s happened to this person? You don’t know what’s happened. It’s amazing when you ask the question what comes out of someone’s mouth. Sometimes in the clinic, I’ve had a patient come in through that door, sat in that chair, and tell me stuff that would just make your jaw drop and hit the floor. But I’ve heard so many stories before, but sometimes someone will come in and say something and you think, “Wow, how could someone survive that?” But it’s surprising. Burnout, for a lot of people, can really make them tired and really sick and grumpy.

What about hypothyroidism? The person may have a poor thyroid function and that could be really keeping all their cells in their body completely de- energized. Go to the doctor and insist on a thyroid test. You may want to check your basal temperature. Just get a thermometer, pop it under your arm first thing in the morning, and then lie there and have a look. 36.4 is the cutoff. I’m not sure what that is in Fahrenheit. 36.4 Centigrade. If you’re about that or lower consistently when you wake up could be a thyroid problem. You need to be warmer than that.

The other one is anemia, of course. Heavy menstrual cycle. Bleeding. Blood loss. Not enough iron in the diet. Poor iron uptake. No meat in the diet for example, or inability to bind iron and get iron in there. Because with low iron you’re not going to carry oxygen in the blood and have energy. So it needs maybe medically checking out.

Think about the fatigue, how bad it is. Did it coincide with a diet change? Did it coincide with a lifestyle change? Remember always look for that NBWS. Never been well since. When were you last energized and roughly when did it change? What was the change over? What was on the cusp of the change over? That could have been the cause. It could have been two or three heavy menstrual cycles. It could have been changing job where you slid into crappy diet. It needs investigating, that’s what I’m saying.