You are still working on getting your own personal candida diet right here. She was wondering how many of us drink decaf coffee. She would like to have a couple cups a day, but she uses Stevia and some skim milk. Some of her diets say decaf is fine, others say no coffee, but she assumes they’re talking about regular coffee. Coffee will be her only salvation to stay on this diet, she thinks! She also wants to know what is the most effective thing to do with olive leaf extract.
According to “The Yeast Connection,” coffee is subject to mold contamination. How much is uncertain. If you feel like you can’t live without coffee, you’ll have to experiment for yourself. As I understand it, a cup of coffee kills the good flora and fauna in the intestine and it takes 4-7 hours to regenerate them. If candida sufferers are taking probiotics, coffee is something they can happily do without.
It’s not a matter of caffeine or decaf, it’s the acid in the coffee that feeds the yeast. Go find some wonderful low acid regular coffee, and it’s okay to have them 1-2 cups a day.
Olive leaf extract taken alone has led to viral resistance in most cases in about 8 weeks. More effective results can be obtained by combining olive leaf extract with at least 2 effective antivirals, either government-approved (zerit, epivir, viramune, sustiva, etc.) or unapproved low-cost therapies whose efficacy is supported by a considerable number of individual case reports or studies. Some studies have been done on bitter melon, bitter bush, Artemisia annua, curcumin, monolaurin, coconut oil, sutherlandia, and certain strains of the probiotic L Plantarum.
