Candida is yeast overgrowth in the body. It can cause extreme problems for many people. For example, a person may experience several yeast overgrowth-related symptoms.
These symptoms can greatly affect the way that a person feels. What is interesting is that fibromyalgia and candida have many matching underlying causes.
This has led many medical professionals to think that those who have fibromyalgia are at an increased chance of suffering from Candida.
The good news is that through understanding both fibromyalgia and candida, they are going to find that they can make this go away once and for all.
What is Candida?
As stated before, candida is yeast overgrowth in the body. However, what may surprise many people is just how this happens.
In most cases, those who have fibromyalgia and have candida, are going to find that this is due to the number of sugars that they are eating. So, how does sugar affect yeast growth in the body?
When a person takes in too much sugar, they are going to be creating an imbalance of the flora or the friendly bacteria in their digestive tracks. When this happens, the candida yeast starts to grow and takes over.
Then this creates numerous other problems that the person is dealing with, on top of having the various symptoms of fibromyalgia.
Which Sugars are too Blame?
When most people think of sugars, they think of eating a candy bar or maybe drinking sweet tea. However, when it comes to the candida in the body, any type of sugar can cause this to start happening. Refined and concentrated sugars are both going to affect a person.
So, yes, that fruit that you love could also have a damaging effect on the body. Along with those sweet treats that you may love such as candy bars and brownies. All sugars can have this effect on the body.
What Happens When Candida Takes Over?
Several things happen when candida takes over the friendly bacteria in the body. While most people think that what they are experiencing is just something that happens from time to time, it is the yeast in the body that may be responsible for some of these problems.
A few of the issues that may arise include:
- Yeast like infections in the mouth, nose, and vagina
- For women, extreme PMS symptoms that include camping and bloating
- Rashes and acne
- Allergies to foods, molds, and the like
- Increase chemical sensitivity
- Increased sensitivity to odors
- Infections throughout the body like chronic bronchitis, sinusitis, and so forth
What is interesting is that when candida does take over the body, a person will find that they keep craving more and more sugar.
No matter how much sugar they eat, they seem to want more. This is because this yeast thrives off of this sugar, and it makes the body want more of it.
How to Stop the Candida?
So how can you stop this candida from taking over your body? You must do three things:
- Stop feeding the yeast, meaning that you have to stop the intake of sugar
- Kill the yeast
- Then restore balance to the gut by replacing the yeast with friendly bacteria
Stopping the feeding is simple enough, you simply need to stop eating sugar. This can be harder for some than others. But, you will find that it is possible.
Most people who have fibromyalgia also find that you will want to stop intaking alcohol as well since this is full of sugars.
Killing the current yeast that is in the body will require some time. A few recommendations to do this include:
- Taking garlic or eating more garlic
- Consider taking grapefruit seed extract or eating more grapefruit
- Colloidal silver has been shown effective on candida in the mouth
You will need to talk with your doctor about what you can and cannot do to get rid of the sugar that is in the body right now.
Restoring the body to where it needs to be is something that will take even longer. You need to replace the friendly bacteria in your body to ensure that the stomach issues you may have been having before are gone.
Most medical professionals state that you need quality acidophilus and bifidobacterial in the gut. However, there have been some recent debates on the use of probiotics to help grow the friendly bacteria in the body.
Some believe that this helps, while others state that there is too much of this in the body and it can lead to devastating issues.
This is one issue that is best to talk with your doctor about and get his or her opinion. Many people find that eating yogurt can be helpful. However, this needs to be unsweetened to get the full benefit of it.
Fibromyalgia and Yeast Die-Off
One of the elements that many people do not talk about when it comes to fibromyalgia and killing the yeast that is in the body is the die-off symptoms that they may have.
For example, when the yeast starts to die off in the body a person may feel:
- A brain fog
- Sore throat
- Nausea
- Bloating or gas
- Diarrhea or constipation
- Low-grade fever
- Fatigue
- Body itches
- Muscle or joint soreness
They start to feel as though their fibromyalgia is getting worse. However, getting the yeast out of the body is something that you need to do. So, stick with it. And instead, be sure that you are doing things that are going to help you deal with the die-off.
This can be something as simple as spending some time in a hot bath or sauna to help with the pain or something that increases the amount of what you are drinking.
The key is to stop this candida from taking over your body and making your fibromyalgia something even harder to deal with.
