Low Carbohydrate, High Fats diet helps with candida problem

Tressey Adams

Yesterday at 9:01am

I was recently told, then I read and heard it elsewhere that candida feeds off animal protein. If I can't eat sugar, grains, or carbs due to candida, what's left? I tried high fat, moderate-low protein and had the worst stomach pains and trapped gas ever, even more so than when I ate carbs.

Danny J Albers Since animal protein is pretty much entirely digested in the stomach I have my doubts

Alison Bamford Candida feeds off dead and decaying matter and an over abundance of sugars all provided adequately by the crap nutrient-devoid 'empty calorie' Western diet. It is too much low nutrient-density garbage and not enough nutrition that is the problem.

Was the person who told you that a vegan by any chance....?

I spent well over 30 years trying to KILL Candida, without success, yet within 18 months on a Very LCHF diet with some basic but therapeutic doses of supplements to make up years of deficiency, it had gone.......