https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/01/junk-dna-may-help-yeast-survive-stress image by Steve Gschmeissner
If it wasn’t enough to endure yet another surgery, a month of antibiotics left my already radiated body with yet more yeast.
The good is I made several discoveries.
One, you ever hear of post nasal drip? Well I had this on and off for many years. It came back again during radiation. Little did I know, radiation wipes out your gut flora. Even if you only have radiation to one part of your body.
Killing yeast in your body is no easy task.
My yeast had gotten to the point where I was having night sweats and fevers. As soon as I started Candicin by Genestra my night sweats went away and fever never came back.
Unfortunately, this alone wasn’t strong enough. I then went on to try caprylic acid, MCT, olive leaf, Candibactin by Metagenics at night. After 3 months I had improved a lot but still it kept coming back.
Diet is also another important aspect but not entirely.
After 2 years of trying everything I could find, I received advice from a health food store, they recommended ParaGone instead of focusing on Candida related products, especially after having this issue for so long.
Guess what?! It worked.
For 6 weeks I didn’t change my diet drastically just maintained no gluten, no white processed foods (white rice), and no dairy. I still had honey and some other sweets in small amounts. I took a 2 week course of ParaGone and took a 5 day break before starting another 2 week course. I use garlic supplements and probiotics to maintain the balance now and feeling better than I have in 2 years.
This is what I followed. It helped me get back to basics.
Water
Drinking water should be distilled / or reverse osmosis. I did the for about 2 years. After which I switched to a filter that removed all the usual plus fluoride.
Avoid plastics, especially water bottles.
Filter your bath and shower water. Your skin absorbs more water than you can drink.
Food & Eating
Intermittent fasting aim for 13-16 hours every day. A must!
Mediterranean diet is an overall healthy diet mainly whole fruits and vegetables with very occasional beef, lamb, or dairy (once a month or less). This is perhaps one of the safest diets and has data to prove longevity.
Ketogenic diet I have to mention this diet, ONLY because it is a hot topic. But after 6 months on the Keto Diet my cancer started growing faster. SO take caution, this diet is only for some cancers while and specifically only studied while on treatment. It is not ideal off of treatment and for long term use. Get keto strips to check your body for keytones. The beginning is hard, you will feel terrible. After 2 months your body will become accustomed to keytones and will not show on the strips anymore. By that point you will be able to tell by your sleep and energy levels if you are still in ketosis.
To eat meats or not? If you do stick to: Grass-fed beef or lamb. Very occasionally. Pastured eggs and chicken. Limited. Eat wild fish, salmon is best.
Going Vegan. I recommend mainly sticking to a mediterranean / vegan diet to avoid any unwanted animal byproducts. However, make sure you body can assimilate omega 3’s and other essential nutrients, if your like me my body cannot break down omega 3 from chia seeds or other vegan products so I need to supplement with fish oils or eat fish.
Organic fruits and vegetables only. Pesticides must be avoided as much as possible.
Very low carbohydrates and starches. This includes quinoa, millet, brown rice, beans, spelt bread, potatoes, yams.
Absolutely no dairy. Use organic unsweetened coconut milk, other dairy milks are too high in carbohydrates and additives. Or try making your own almond milk. Just soak almonds overnight in filtered salted water. Rinse, remove skins and place in high speed blender with water.
Soy products must be organic non-GMO. There is a lot of controversy around soy, so just keep things in moderation.
No caffeine. Stick to green tea for a boost, chamomile, peppermint, or ginger.
Aim to keep your urine alkaline 7.0. Use test strips to check your urine first thing in the morning and through out the day. If you are unable to get your body to a consistent alkaline state with food, then start off every day with drinking sauerkraut juice on an empty stomach. The shift will take about 2 months. Remember cancer releases lactic acid and like attracts like. Sauerkraut juices are high in lactic acid and help remove excess acid from the body.
Exercise
15-20 mins of cardio exercise daily – rebounding is best for lymphatic drainage. Whatever exercise you choose you must work up a sweat.
In addition to cardio, aim for 10,000 steps a day or more on top of cardio exercise.
Sleep & Rest
Sleep by 10-11pm and aim for 8 – 10 hours sleep. This is crucial for healing, as the liver works to clean the body from 11 to 3am.
Rest. Outside of exercising the other time should be spent resting.
Take care of yourself as you would a baby.
Detoxification
Keep a high body temperature. You can do this through taking hot baths in filtered water, using an infrared mats or infrared sauna daily.
Remove toxicity. This includes eating clean, stress, people, thoughts/emotions.
Stop any bad habits. Smoking, drinking, working long hours…
Emotional healing. Work on healing past emotions through therapy. Look for practitioners that heal past emotions using tapping or through healing journeys.
Aim for 2 to 3 bowel movements daily. You want to keep things moving. Eating a high fibre diet will help get things moving along with drinking plenty of water. Another aid, is using far infrared heat, this helps stimulate the bowel especially in the morning. I also recommend enemas, to help keep things moving and cleared out. To start do a 10 day enema detox and then maintain 2 times per week. See The Famous Coffee Enema for details.
Spend time in nature gaining negative ions. You can do this by walking barefoot on grass, resting by trees or being on water.
Daily Supplementation Backed by Research
Firstly, always take breaks from your supplements and change them up. If you have had or live with cancer, your cancer will learn them and start to ignore them… rotating your supplements every several months will help avoid this. When ever possible try getting your nutrients from food rather than through supplements.
Vitamin D3 with K2 – 20 mins of sun a day on skin, face and eyelids, if no access to sun use 3000 UI per day. Get a blood test to check your vitamin D levels, if low increase supplementation until they reach the high normal range.
Modified Citrus Pectin, PectaSol-C by ecoNugenics – 15 grams daily. Shown to help combat cancer from spreading pre-and post- surgically and keeps your electrolyte balance and potassium levels up.
Vitamin C – 2000mg with bioflavonoids daily minimum and high-dose vitamin C IVs minimum 50,000mg via vein or if you have a port-line higher doses are more beneficial. A blood test is required before starting. This works to boost your immune system and is cytotoxic to cancer cells. However, the benefit is lost when you stop.
Mushrooms – not all mushrooms are equal, look for high beta-glucans, 30% or more.
Resveratrol – Found on skin of grapes this is shown to combat cancer.
Curcumin – CurQFen – combats inflammation associated with cancer.
CoQ10 – must be ubiquinol form – increases energy and cellular health.
Zinc – minimum 25mg – 50 mg daily immune function and healing.
Vitamin E8 – 400mg cellular health and healing.
Selenium 200mcg as essential as magnesium. Take 2 brazil nuts daily or supplement. Shown to work synergistically with tamoxifen to increase efficacy of the drug.
Probiotic taken before bed and should contain Bacillus Subtilis gut health is your foundation for cellular health. Include fermented foods as sauerkraut in your diet as prebiotic nutrition.
Digestive enzymes – Hypo-Zymase by Physica Energetics with each meal or minimum with dinner. Get this from your naturopath.
Melatonin 15-20 mg time-released an hour before bed – build up from 3mg over time and stick with what you can tolerate, for me 15mg is my maximum more than that and it wakes me up. Shown to inhibit breast cancer cells and works synergistically with tamoxifen.
Magnesium 400 – 600mg daily 10pm essential for health and wellbeing.
Calcium D-Glucarate part of your daily detox regime.
BioResponse DIM/ or I3C– 400mg daily – shown to reduce breast cancer risk and recurrence. If you have low testosterone levels I caution with DIM. This lowers testosterone and increases oestrogen levels. Many are not aware of this!
Alpha-Liopic Acid – Detoxes heavy metals in the body, start with 150 – 300mg and build up over time as part of your detox process.
Inositol hexaphosphate(IP6). Good to increase your immune system. Fast to increase your serum lymphocytes counts. One month of use increased mine by .3.
Note: Do not take vitamin B12, Iron, Glutathione, NAC or any precursorto glutathione unless this is part of your treatment plan. These can drive cancer not every naturopathy or physician knows this so do your research.
Enemas have been around for a long time. They used to be done regularly in the 40s and 50s. There wasn’t a second thought about it. So why did we stop?
I have read about all I can handle on the topic. Considering I have cancer in my body I figured I have absolutely nothing to loose.
I was recommended to do coffee enemas as a daily routine, like brushing your teeth… but listen to your body and see what works for you. I find every 4-7 days works for me, and I am looking into doing enemas other than coffee. I am on a high fibre diet that keeps things moving very well but there are times when doing the enema really helps. At the beginning I wanted to get my system as clear as can be so I started off doing a coffee enema every day for 10 days.
Truthfully, after doing them, I couldn’t see life without them.
The moment I don’t feel well from something I ate, I do an enema. 99% of the time they do the trick and save me from feeling terrible.
My advice to you: Your sick right? Well there is a reason you are sick and you need to clear out your already overloaded system. Especially, if you have undergone surgeries and are on medications.
For as long as you are on medication I would eat a high fibre plant based diet and do enemas.
The enema basically works to purge your bowel and keep things flowing, helping remove toxins stored in your organs. I do not want to develop fatty liver disease from the medication I need to take for the next 10 years, so I do them to help my liver remove the excess. A really helpful tool is intermitted fasting in conjunction with enemas and high fibre diet which helps me have 2-3 bowel movements per day. The fasting and clearing helps give your body time to heal and focus on other things than just processing food.
Your essential EMEMA list:
Coffee enema bag or bucket with silicone tubing
Organic coffee or another substance of your choice
Distilled or reverse osmosis water only (do not use tap water or plain filtered water)
Food grad clay: Bentonite, green or diatomaceous earth to soak up any toxin
A good probiotic – 14 strains with spores, I used this: BioKult
Psyllium husks or high fibre diet
Tiny amount of coconut oil in small cup
Chamomile tea in the winter to help relax the bowel and peppermint tea in the summer
At the start you will want to do this everyday. Choose a time period that works for you. I suggest a minimum of 3 days but 10 to 14 days is ideal. You should aim to do this regularly, like once a week thereafter. It is best to do this in the morning after your first bowel movement and also not to do too much that day, you could feel tired after the enema or energized, but better to take it easy on the days you do them.
Before your morning enema:
Brush your teeth
Drink hot water with lemon
Hopefully have a bowel movement before doing the coffee enema
Drink 1 tsp of clay before doing the enema
Doing your enema:
Boil water 1/2 litre and add with 1 tsp of organic coffeein french press. Let sit for 15 mins or longer.
Add room temperature water to reach about 1 litre. The mixture should end up being body temperature. This is very important for the body to tolerate the enema. You can tell it’s body temperature, if when you put your finger in the mixture you cannot tell the difference, the water neither feels hot or cold.
Prepare and clean the enema bag or stainless steel bucket. If it is your first time using the bag make sure you air out the bag before use. They tend to have a toxic smell. Pour warm water with vinegar through the bag and tube several times to clean.
Place towel on bathroom floor. In small cup add just a little coconut oil to lubricate the tip of the enema tube for easier insertion.
Hang the enema bag/ bucket high enough so the end of the tube can lay on the floor. Making sure the line is locked or closed on the tube, pour coffee into bag or bucket.
Get into the fetal position on the floor (I prefer laying on my left side), place tip of tube into oil and gently insert. The inserted area should face towards your navel.
Release the lock on the tube. You should not feel cold or hot fluid enter your bowel, but neutral.
Let the coffee slowly enter your bowel. The slower the better and the longer you will be able to hold it.
When you feel the urge to go, go.
You ideally want to hold the coffee enema 15 minutes or longer, which is impossible at the beginning, but after a month you will have no problem.
Clean up and shower.
Rinse the enema bag/bucket and tube, with warm water with vinegar.
Note: If you finish the enema and you feel ill do another one.
After the enema:
Take 1 probiotic immediately or add one to your enema
Drink 8oz of green juice or 4-5 cubes of wheatgrass
Have psyllium husks or high fibre diet with 2 litres of water
Drink tea and relax
Important Notes:
Sometimes the urge to release the coffee enema will be so strong you cannot hold it for even 10 seconds. What I suggest is if you have taken in the entire coffee enema and released it too rapidly, then have body temperature water on standby and repeat. This will help your body release more than it might have and you could be left feeling ill, if you don’t release a good amount. If you feel ill after your enema, do another one: it means you didn’t release everything and you end up feeling toxic afterwards.
You can also get back pain after a coffee enema. This could be attributed to your kidney’s. I would drink unsweetened cranberry juice and teas to help flush the kidney’s and avoid using coffee in the enema for sometime. Try chamomile tea instead, it is antibacterial and has a good effect on the bowel. Listen to your body at all times and only do what is absolutely necessary. With everything in life, keep it in moderation.
