would like some proven health advice

[shazeep]

Originally Posted by houston

How do you fix that?

ya, it can be very tough for some people, i guess. Typically someone with a spare tire is overdoing fructose, likely eating lots of hfcs etc. So they have a candida overgrowth which has displaced most of the good gut bacteria, which must be eradicated before the probiotics will re-establish themselves. This describes most Americans pretty well. There are candida cleanses, but they are harsh, and not as effective as a three day fast with a morning chili/lemon flush.

The idea being to break the sugar addiction, and change the habit. If you go right back to several sodas a day, etc, it is pointless, but this doesn't mean you can't have sweets, or even some sugar; but even most of our probiotics--yogurt, kefir, etc--come with a hefty dose of sugar in them. Better to just eat some fermented foods as a habit, apple cider vinegar, etc, after eradicating candida, and even a course of probiotics in capsule form then, with as many different cultures as possible, like at least 8.

And best of luck there, i know it is tough. Fasting seems impossible to someone on a high sugar diet at first, and all said and done this is essentially about one's ability to fast. Seems like you're starving to death, when you quite obviously have a spare tire that you could run a month on
if you drink soda, you might want to get over that habit before you even try to fast. Raw honey helped there.

So, get Mormon tea, go camping in the woods for 3 days, do whatever you need to do to fast for 72 hours. And then a good gut regimen requires a short fast every few days to rest the gut, but honestly those will be easy after the 3 day one. I don't even think of them as fasts now; they are just 2 or 3 meals that i skipped.

[FlamingZword]

Originally Posted by shazeep

ya, it can be very tough for some people, i guess. Typically someone with a spare tire is overdoing fructose, likely eating lots of hfcs etc. So they have a candida overgrowth which has displaced most of the good gut bacteria, which must be eradicated before the probiotics will re-establish themselves. This describes most Americans pretty well. There are candida cleanses, but they are harsh, and not as effective as a three day fast with a morning chili/lemon flush.

The idea being to break the sugar addiction, and change the habit. If you go right back to several sodas a day, etc, it is pointless, but this doesn't mean you can't have sweets, or even some sugar; but even most of our probiotics--yogurt, kefir, etc--come with a hefty dose of sugar in them. Better to just eat some fermented foods as a habit, apple cider vinegar, etc, after eradicating candida, and even a course of probiotics in capsule form then, with as many different cultures as possible, like at least 8.

And best of luck there, i know it is tough. Fasting seems impossible to someone on a high sugar diet at first, and all said and done this is essentially about one's ability to fast. Seems like you're starving to death, when you quite obviously have a spare tire that you could run a month on
if you drink soda, you might want to get over that habit before you even try to fast. Raw honey helped there.

So, get Mormon tea, go camping in the woods for 3 days, do whatever you need to do to fast for 72 hours. And then a good gut regimen requires a short fast every few days to rest the gut, but honestly those will be easy after the 3 day one. I don't even think of them as fasts now; they are just 2 or 3 meals that i skipped.

Finally you are making sense.
I take my hats off to you for the first time ever.

I knew you had some common sense somewhere inside that head of yours.