If you search the Internet, you will find a lot of information about the Candida diet. Most of them will have one thing in common: They will recommend avoiding fermented foods, because those foods contain molds. Still, some of them will recommend using apple cider vinegar; as part of your diet or as a component of your enema recipes.
That’s a very controversial topic on the Candida diet: the use of apple cider vinegar. I searched the Internet, talked to microbiologists, winemakers, food technology specialists. Now I know how this vinegar is made, how it works, and how candida reacts. The conclusion that I made for myself and that I want to share is that raw apple cider vinegar is an excellent remedy for Candida symptoms.
The main point to pay attention to is also the quality of apple cider vinegar. It should be raw, unfiltered apple cider vinegar, the cloudy one, not the clear one.
It should be cloudy because the clear went through the clarification process, which involves use at a high temperature. This high temperature kills all the good stuff in apple cider vinegar.
Not only apple cider vinegar, being a fermented food helps to cure Candida, sauerkraut is also good. The reason those two foods are good is the fermentation process. They are fermented by lactic acid bacteria, these bacteria are also contained in the vaginal flora and compete with yeasts for the living environment. These foods bring good and friendly bacteria into our body. Both are also rich in digestive enzymes, which help digest the food we eat.
Sauerkraut is fermented cabbage. The lactobacteria ferment all the sugar contained in the cabbage. And the lack of sugars is like scorched earth for Candida: it crashes to death.
Apple cider vinegar also works for the Candida diet – it kills Candida directly. Actually, this vinegar is so good for the treatment of Candida, that sometimes it works too well. And it brings some nasty reactions, known to Candida researchers as the extinction reaction or the Herxheimer reaction, which is a good thing, even if you feel pretty awful.
Apple cider vinegar is used to cure vaginal candidiasis, when used in douching. (I have seen this type of watering can sold in drugstores).
It can be applied on the skin to cure Candida skin and foot symptoms.
For intestinal Candida, the vinegar and water enema is a perfect solution.
And it is widely used as a house cleaning agent – it is perfect for cleaning your house from mold. And molds are yeasts, you know.