Lauren, Empowered Sustenance
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Lauren shares her thoughts on what is wrong with the popular Candida Diet, and eliminating sugar?
What is wrong with The Candida Diet?
Sugar is healthy? What about Candida?
I’m here to tell you that you can and should eat natural sugars, even if you have candida issues.
It sounds like a scary concept. Believe me, I was also hesitant to start incorporating healthy sugars back into my diet after my short and extraordinarily unpleasant stint on The Candida Diet. I am grateful that I escaped harmful candida myths, because now I’m healing my body and addressing the root cause of my candida overgrowth.
So, without further ado, here are the three problems I have with The Candida Diet:
1. The Candida Diet doesn’t address the root cause
First, candida overgrowth results from poor digestion and a leaky gut… not simply the consumption of sugar (although a high sugar, refined food diet can lead to the leaky gut down the road). Candida diets, which allow the consumption of gluten free grains, will not correct a leaky gut and therefore will not permanently address candida overgrowth. In most cases, it requires a grain free diet to heal and seal the gut lining. Why?
Undigested food particles cause injury to the small intestine. This damages the villi and microvilli. Microvilli contain cells that produce the enzyme disaccharidase which breaks down disaccharides. But when the microvilli are damaged, disaccharidase production slows or halts. This leads to impaired digestion of disaccharides, bacterial overgrowth (and candida overgrowth), and an increase in gut-damaging bacterial by-products. It also allows undigested food particles to escape from the intestines into the bloodstream, causing food allergies or sensitivities. The cycle worsens over time (Source and source).
2. Sugar-free may equal systemic candida overgrowth
3. The Candida Diet impairs metabolism and hormone function
Click HERE to read the entire article at EmpoweredSustenance.com
About the Author
Lauren Geersten, NTP is a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner eager to empower others on their journey of holistic wellness. When doctors told her that surgery and medication were the only answers to her chronic health issues, she decided to find different answers and experienced first-hand the healing power of food. Check out her amazing website, here. Also, be sure to follow her on Facebook and Twitter.
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