T H E C A N D I D A C U R E Yeast, Fungus & Your Health The 90-Day Program to Beat Candida & Restore Vibrant Health Ann Boroch, CNC Foreword by David Perlmutter, MD Author of The Better Brain Book Quintessential Healing Publishing, Inc. LOS ANGELES Copyright © 2009 Ann Boroch. Revised 2014. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, and information storage and retrieval systems, without the written permission of the publisher. ISBN: 978-0-9773446-1-1 (paperback) ISBN: 978-0-9773446-3-5 (ebook) 10 9 8 7 6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2013936929 Published by Quintessential Healing Publishing, Inc. Website: www.annboroch.com Phone: 818.763.8282 For foreign and translation rights, contact Nigel J. Yorwerth Email: [email protected] Cover design: Geyrhalter Design Website: www.geyrhalter.com Interior design and production: Robert S. Tinnon Design This book is intended to serve only as a resource and educational guide. Neither the author nor the publisher is engaged in rendering professional advice or services to the reader. The ideas, procedures, and suggestions in this book are not intended as a substitute for consulting a physician or a licensed health-care practitioner. All matters regarding health require medical supervision. Women who are pregnant or nursing should not do the 90-day candida-cure program. The author and the publisher shall not be liable or responsible for any loss, injury, or damage allegedly arising from any information or suggestion in this book, nor are they responsible for the reader’s specific health or allergy needs that may require medical supervision or for any adverse reactions to the recipes or products contained in this book. To the late Dr. William G. Crook: As promised, I carry on your mission to help heal millions. C O N T E N T S Foreword Preface Acknowledgments PART ONE THE HIDDEN CAUSE OF MANY ILLNESSES CHAPTER 1 The Candida Epidemic CHAPTER 2 The Digestive System and the Origin of Disease CHAPTER 3 The Candida Solution: A Two-Pronged Strategy CHAPTER 4 Poor Diet: Trash In = Trash Out PART TWO CREATING YOUR 90-DAY PROGRAM TO BEAT CANDIDA CHAPTER 5 The Candida-Cure Diet CHAPTER 6 Recipes CHAPTER 7 Your 90-Day Program CHAPTER 8 I Feel Great—How Do I Maintain? Notes Resources F O R E W O R D At every crossway on the road that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. MAURICE MAETERLINCK Belgian Nobel Laureate Despite Candida albicans’ thirty-year history as a well-defined and well- described clinical entity, the concept that a diverse range of seemingly disparate symptoms could be attributed to systemic overgrowth of this yeast species remains foreign to most medical practitioners. The unfortunate consequence of this naiveté is that countless sufferers of this malady, mostly women, know nothing about the medical and lifestyle interventions that can pave the way to their recovery. The relative obscurity of this disease in mainstream medicine is not the only problem. Many of the time-honored practices of today’s healthcare paradigm, including the excessive use of antibiotics and steroid medications—as well as the neglect of such simple practices as the use of probiotic beneficial bacteria— are actually setting the stage for the development of systemic candidiasis. As a result, those of us who deal with this health condition in the clinical setting are witnessing what now seems almost epidemic. In the pages that follow, Ann Boroch provides the reader with a comprehensive understanding of this disease and its relevance to our health. Her firsthand personal experience coupled with extensive and exhaustive research has produced a text that will surely stand as a fundamental resource in the emerging story of candida as the hidden cause of many illnesses. While The Candida Cure deftly weaves compelling text describing the magnitude of the problem, its causes and cures, the offering that shines most from its pages is summarized in one word—hope. For it is hope that is drained from the countless undiagnosed and inappropriately treated candida patients who stumble helplessly from doctor to doctor. And it is hope restored that is the highest merit of this book. DAVID PERLMUTTER, MD, FACN, ABIHM Naples, Florida November 2008 P R E F A C E Candida. Why write a book about a subject that most people don’t know about? Because my personal journey of beating candida at age nineteen and then conquering multiple sclerosis (MS)—a disease related to candida— at thirty taught me how millions are suffering from this condition yet are in the dark as to why they feel so bad. From as far back as I can remember, I was sick. I had many colds, flus, and sinus and ear infections. Throughout my life I was prescribed over a hundred courses of antibiotics for many different ailments. My diet until the age of eighteen consisted of processed foods filled with sugar, white flour, and trans fats. By the time I was thirteen, I had fifteen silver amalgam fillings from all the sugar I had eaten. At nineteen, my body said no more and it collapsed from the Epstein-Barr virus, known as mononucleosis. Unfortunately, a few months of bed rest didn’t turn my health around. After seeing eight different specialists, taking over thirty prescribed medications, and searching many months for answers on how to get well, I was still sick from head to toe. Serendipitously, as I was hunting for answers in a bookstore one day, Dr. William Crook’s book The Yeast Connection caught my eye. I scanned through the pages and went right to the questionnaire. I began to cry as I read the list of all of my symptoms—disoriented, poor memory, exhausted, upper respiratory infections, gastrointestinal complaints, weight loss, depression, etc. “Could this book be the answer?” I thought to myself. “Is yeast overgrowth—candida—the root of what is wrong with me?” I decided to take the plunge and follow Dr. Crook’s program, which consisted of following a candida diet (no refined sugars, dairy, white flour, or alcohol) and taking an antifungal remedy called Nilstat. One long year later, I regained my health. In that one year, I discovered so much about how diet plays a critical role in getting rid of infection and inflammation, the root of disease. Unfortunately, I did not know that I needed to maintain those healthy habits, and at twenty-four my life came to a grand halt when I was knocked flat with the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. The doctor said, “Well, the great news is that you don’t have cancer; the bad news is that you have multiple sclerosis. We have chemotherapy to experiment with.” Terrified and shocked, I looked at my