Candida and the power of green superfoods
When I was having my 3-year period with candida (and the onset of interstitial cystitis) it wasn’t a fun time, but I learned a lot. At one point I was invited to go to a workshop where a woman who had healed her own breast cancer spoke about the importance of PH balance. I didn’t know much about it and hadn’t made the connection yet, but I was intrigued and went. It turned out that it was Really fascinating and made sense to me. The pH balance is more important than you thought. I guess you can think of it this way. Pools, if we are not diligent in keeping track of pH readings, will start to grow nasty and nasty bacteria. Our bodies too. If we feed our bodies only acidic foods and thoughts, we will create an acidic environment. Yeast, candida, and even cancer cells change in relation to their environment.
Since I have been battling candida for so long, I decided it would be a good idea to test my PH. I got some pH test strips and tested my urine and to my horror I couldn’t even see a reading! The lowest reading was 5.0 (a healthy body should show a reading around 6.5 – ultimately 7.3). I couldn’t see a reading at all. I took it over and over again. The saliva reading was somewhat better, but I compared mine to others and it was significantly lower and more acidic. This blew me away because I drink juice every day so I thought I had it covered. He obviously didn’t have it covered or else he wouldn’t have been fighting candida for that long. I had already changed my diet, I was taking a good probiotic every day and even using antifungals. I didn’t think there was anything else I could do.
Well, I had heard and read about green superfoods like chlorella, spirulina, barley grass, wheat grass, oat grass and how they raise PH levels, so I decided to experiment. I started out using chlorella and spirulina and then added others and kept track of my PH. It wasn’t long (a few days) before I started to notice that my interstitial cystitis symptoms were fading. I also noticed that my candida symptoms were becoming less and less noticeable!
This was about a year ago and I have continued to do well. So I keep on a regimen of watching my food, taking a probiotic every day (although I forget every once in a while, but it doesn’t seem to matter) and it seems like I hardly ever need the antifungal anymore. I put the green powder in my vegetable juice in the morning and feel like I’m drinking a glass of “green vitality.” Is awesome.
This seems to me to have been the missing link in managing candida and interstitial cystitis.
